HM:StH Any% Cake Contest Notes (Katie Route)

Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
Any% Cake Contest Notes (Katie Route)
[Updated 18 Feb 2021]

NOTES
- You need +140G to start the first day. Different items must be sold in different shops. These include:
	> Ronald: Blueberry (30G), Very Berry (10G)
	> Louis: Copper Ore (40G), Iron Ore (60G), Moonlight Stone (100G), Pontata Root (80G), Rare Metal (180G)
	> Lyla: Moondrop (10G), Herb (10G), Limestone (40G)
	> Woody: Blue Rock (90G), Copper Ore (40G), Iron Ore (60G), Limestone (40G), Rare Metal (180G)
	> Alternatively, do part-time work. Brush/talk every horse = +150G.
	> Optimally you will buy and plant/water the corn on Spring 2 while waiting for noon (cafe opens).

SPRING
- Goddess questions: NEGATIVE
- Spring 2:
	> Fill watering can and till the whole first plot. If you get minerals totaling 140G or more, sell them; otherwise, keep for weed intro.
	> Sell as necessary or do part-time work, then buy 8 corn seeds.
	> Head to the Lake, and weed intro+gift Katie (pocket the weed, don't toss). Don't forage for gifts.
	> Enter cafe at noon for CS1
	> Head home, get the recipe in the bookcase before sleeping
- Water everyday and gift Katie everyday except Monday. Don't forage, but just pickup+gift each time, gift+talking Katie until 11 interactions.
- On a Wed or Sat, weed intro Gina on your way to Katie, then toss the weed.
- Harvest 5 times: Spring 12, 16, 20, 24, 28. Reset if any crop loss during rainy season (Spring 17-21).
- DON'T FORGET THE RECIPE (you can grab it any day until Spring 30)
- Sleep until Spring 30
- Spring 30:
	> Sell corn at Ronald's
	> Head to Lake and talk to Katie (no gift)
	> Wait and enter cafe at noon to give Katie the recipe (CS2)
	> Head up to Villa, and enter to trigger CS4
	> Buy cow and chicken at Brownie Farm
	> Buy Milker at the Tool Shop
	> Head back to the cafe by 5pm and enter to trigger CS6
	> Wait at Goddess Pond for Moondrop Dew CS
	> Back at the farm, put cow out to pasture, and put chicken in front of your house before sleeping
	> Sleep until Fall 8 (risky route) or Fall 23 (safe route; costs ~40s) and skip Gina cutscene

FALL
- Mondays are Fall 11, Fall 18, Fall 25, Winter 2, and Winter 9, so don't try to go to the cafe to finish the ending on those days
- Check cow and chicken for golden egg/milk every day it is sunny
- Skip Katie cutscene on Fall 9/24
- Once you have obtained both, head to cafe on a non-Monday, give her both, then enter cafe at noon; this will trigger a failed cake cutscene, so exit/re-enter once more to get the successful cake cutscene
- Head home, sleep a week, then exit to complete the ending (if animal death, skip cutscene and sleep once more to finish)