HM:StH NG+ Bluebird Notes (Chicken spam)

Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
NG+ Bluebird Notes (Chicken spam)
[Updated 22 Jan 2025]

In order to avoid chicken death, it may be fastest to a) reset for no rain on Spring 3-6, and b) return the chicken to the farm after spamming, rather than having the cutscene send it to the coop (where it will inevitably die). Then you'd just have to get relatively lucky with weather from Spring 8 to Spring 14. Probably only amounts to a few seconds though, due to the extra two loading zones.

I tested birthday strats, i.e., sleeping until Fall 2 to get a quicker spam (27 spams instead of 80), but it turned out to be slower (about 50s slower).

FILE PREP
- 1 chicken (outside)
- Flute

NOTES
- Spring 2: Sleep until Spring 6
- Spring 6:
	> Reset if rain
	> Do CoTF
	> Spam Louis 80 times
	> Wait until 2pm and trigger CS2+3 at the lake
	> Head home and sleep
- Spring 7: Flute mini-game
- Spring 14 or later: Trigger final CS at the lake
- Skip chicken death as necessary

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Horse route theorycrafting (slower)

FILE PREP
- Chicken (outside)
- Horse (YOLO)
- Animal Medicine

NOTES (YOLO)
- Spring 2: Sleep until Spring 6 (reset for any rain)
- Spring 6:
	> Heal horse in barn
	> Take horse out and leave near loading zone
	> Do chicken escape and spam Louis 79 times
	> Could spam an additional 6 times to protect against chicken+horse death
	> Could buy another Animal Medicine today, but have to check the timecost
	> Get the horse, ride to the lake and trigger CS1
	> Sleep 1 week (reset for any rain)
- Spring 13:
	> Ride the horse to the lake and trigger CS2+3
	> Ride home and sleep until Spring 21
- Spring 21:
	> Exit the house for the flute mini-game
	> Sleep a week
- Spring 28
	> Ride the horse to the lake for the final CS

IDEAS
- Could possibly do a super YOLO horse route, but it doesn't seem worth it
- The horse saves time on the return trip on cutscene days, and on the trip to the lake for the final CS
- Horse time losses:
	> Taking out of the barn
	> Re-entering the farm area after spamming
	> Buying extra Animal Medicine: 7.5s
	> Loads to and from Bob if extra AM: ~11s
	> Extra sleeping through rainy season (7 days)
- You can always buy another Animal Medicine on cutscene days, but it probably costs ~18-20s, AND the horse will be slower if too much rain anyway
- It also loses time to re-entering the farm area after spamming, as you'd normally ditch the chicken with the cutscene
- Probably saves enough time if you're willing to YOLO anyway