Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Brush, Sheers & Basket

To obtain a Brush, some Sheers, and a Basket, do the following. You’ll need a sheep, first off, which can be acquired at Toros Cave. After getting one, head into town the following day (granted it’s not a holiday). Go to Neumann’s Shop and talk to Neumann for the Basket. Once done talking to him, talk to Felicity. She will compliment you on catching an animal and give you the Brush. After you obtain that, head to Calum’s Shop. Talk to him and he will notice you’ve obtained an animal as well, and hand over the Sheers.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Avoid Tornadoes

To avoid devastation by tornadoes during the summer months, make sure to save your game each day before going to bed. Then, if a tornado does come, you can simply reset your game and try again.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Friendship Glove

To acquire the Friendship Glove, head to Carmite Cave. Then, exit the cave, talk to Tabatha, and you will receive the glove from her.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Free Doctor Checkup

If you want a free checkup by a doctor, simply wait until a festival rolls around. When it does, find Edward the doctor. Talk to him and he’ll offer a completely free checkup.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Extra Cash From Crops

If you want to make more money off of your crops, try the following. Keep in mind you must have the Seed Maker item (which you can buy from Ivan) and at least one crop.

Simply place the crop into the Seed Maker to receive the seed from that crop. Then put them in your shipping box or sell them in town. This makes you more money because, for instance, while a single radish will sell for 60 gold, a radish seed fetches 100 gold. Unfortunately, this won’t work for all crops, so see which ones it will and won’t work for.

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An example of crops that sell for more as seeds than crops are Radishes, Cucumbers, and Potatoes. Amongst the crops that sell for less as seeds than the actual crop are Strawberries and Cabbage.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Easy Win Egg Festival
Buy a small egg from Neumann before the day of the Egg Festival. The festival is held on 23 Spring in your first year. Give the egg as an entry to Jasper at the Festival to win $5000 and an Empty Bottle. Although you don't have a Cockadoodle of your own at this point, the egg you buy will still win the contest.

Be sure to have other monsters on your farm with 3 or 4 FP first or this trick will not work. If your monsters only have zero FP, you may not win the contest.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Empty Bottle Locations

To find two empty bottles in the game, do the following. First, go into Mist’s house, go to the cabinet within the house, and press A to find the first of the two empty bottles. Then, go to Jasper’s house and go into the basement, search the boxes near the stairs, and you’ll find another empty bottle by pressing A. (You can also find a Wine Bottle in Jasper’s basement by searching the boxes on the far right side).

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Win Lara's Heart

To win Lara’s heart, try giving her a strawberry everyday.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: More Easy Cash

To make some quick gold, try the following. Just keep in mind that it’s initially a little pricey to do, so try to have at least 2,000 gold before attempting this.

First, purchase strawberry seeds from Jean (about two backs should be enough). Also, buy Greenifier from Edward. Plant the seeds in Carmite Cave in an easily accessible area, and use the Greenifier to level up the crops. When they ripen, you’ll have two level two strawberries.

Sell one and make seeds with the other. Use your profits from the ones you sold to buy more Greenifier. Within one season, you should have more than 20,000 gold from this alone if you regularly continue the process. Within a year, you should have enough money to get an upgraded house from Neumann.

If you want to supplement your earnings, take your fishing rod into the second pool of water on the floor with the Chirori. This pool has Needlefish and Jamasquid, and they are both catchable without a rod upgrade and quite rare and worth some money.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Cancelling Item Use

If you accidentally use an item (or whatever) that you didn’t want to use, the action can actually be cancelled. Simply head to the inventory menu before the action ends (whether it be eating, performing, whatever), and the item use will be cancelled.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Mining Money

With this little tip on making money, you can make over 200,000 gold or so easily in only one day! First thing you'll need is access to the second or third cave. Then, you will need a good hammer, preferably level three, although lower levels can still work. Just go mine away at the two caves for gems and valuable ores such as silver. In the third cave, for instance, I got a ruby that was worth a base price of 700 gold. But, since the ruby was a level 19, the selling price of the ruby was multiplied by 19, which was the level of it. That's 13,300 gold in one gem!

Even lower level gems you get will fetch good prices. In the second cave you can get sapphires and silver, both worth a good amount per ore and gem. And after multiplying their base price by their level, you get tons of money!

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Easy WiFi Money

Please keep in mind that this won't work unless you're connected via WiFi and have at least one friend registered on the game. If you do, simply have you and your friend take one item (the larger the price of the item the better) and keep sending it to one another over WiFi. Each time its sent, its value will increase by one gold piece, adding to the base sale value. The same method can be used to get really good weapons, since a cheap weapon will have its base value increased as well, making it more valuable.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Clearing the Field

In order to clear your field without any in-game time elapsing, try the following. When first starting the game, you will talk to someone named Mist and be asked to follow her to the farm. Enter the farm as requested, but don't talk to Mist again. Instead, clear your field and plow a 3x3 spot for some turnip seeds. Then talk to Mist. You will have plowed your field and prepared it without any in-game time elapsing.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Raising Friendship

During festivals or other events (excluding any normal holidays that occur during the week), you can get your friendship level raised with those around you rather easily. The only condition is that you must have talked to that person prior to the festival or event. Simply go and find that person and talk to that person once to raise the friendship level you share with that character by a single point. You can do this with all available characters, but keep in mind you can only raise your friendship level one point per character per event.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Cave Mining & Farming

Once you've reached the third cave, grab your watering can, hammer and sword. Go west in the first room, then head northeast in the second, and use your watering can to go through the fire wall in the room. Beyond it, you'll reach a small cavern.

There's a generator that creates Beetles in the room. When you mine rocks here, you have twice the likelihood of getting a rare item like a Fire Crystal or Diamond. Many of them are high levels, and you can earn serious cash mining here in a single trip. It's also a great place to grow crops, because there's a pond in the cavern.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Extra Bottle

Whenever you get your mail and it tells you there's a treasure hunt the following day, take place in it. Enter the park above town, and speak to the Mayor. He'll give you a hint on where to find the item you seek - a bottle. After you acquire it, give it to the Mayor. He'll ask you what you want for your prize. You can get some gold or wood, or keep the bottle yourself!

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hint: Friends With Emment

If you want to become friends with Emment, try the following. Head to Jasper's Manor and go right up to the wall in front of the door. Go down some stairs and into the basement, and then head to the far end (near the stairs). There's an item there called a Roullabouti. Take this item to Emment and he will become your friend.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Data Exploit: First Day Money Farming
Collect all bamboo shoots on your field and then use the Mysterious Shell at the Beach to connect to another player's game either through a DS to DS or Wi-Fi connection.

A bamboo shoot is worth 130g. Each time an item is traded to another player, it gains a level.

For example, a Level 10 Bamboo Shoot is worth 1300g. Bamboo shoots are good because they are the most valuable item you can obtain on your own field on 1 Spring, the first day of gameplay.

Sell the upgraded item either at the Clinic or Pub and then buy the Small Kitchen and Small Fridge from Ivan for 1000g each on 1 Spring. Otherwise, you have to wait until 1 Summer to do this! This is a trick that allows two players with virtually no items and no money to make money on the first day.