HM:StH Any% Fishy Story Notes (Chicken spam, cow route)

Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
Any% Fishy Story Notes (Chicken spam, cow route)
[Updated 20 May 2024]

This route is far from perfect, but due to having to sleep until so late in the year, the routing is a complete clusterf***. The main sticking point is the cutscene in the Carpenter's area that can only be triggered on a non-rainy Tue/Thu. Due to the way all the days line up, this forces us to spam Joe and Kurt on separate days. On top of that, Kurt's birthday location is at the Villa, which means we can't avoid triggering the third Goddess Dress cutscene, and triggering it while holding the chicken loses the chicken. So we have to waste at least ~30s (more if you count loading zones) to take two trips up there, one to clear the cutscene, the other to spam Kurt. The optimal strategy would be instead to only use GD1 to get to Winter, then just YOLO the entire Winter mild season, but this is not an appealing option given how much luck there already is in this ending.

TEST: See what happens if you have an animal die while GD1 is queued up. This would look something like having an extra chicken but leaving it in the coop while sleeping through Fall and into Winter. Then when you exit the farm for GD1, animal death could (would?) take priority, lowering Gina's affection back out of the GD1 window. But as long as having GD1 queued up would still force good weather (despite animal death allowing rain), then you'd be able to use GD1's effects without actually triggering it. The only issue would be that you'd lose a day, and the following day wouldn't have its weather controlled.

Animal death strats are definitely slower. Switch back to single-egg strats. Just have to YOLO Winter 11 and 12.

Minerals: Blue Rock (90G), Copper Ore (40G), Iron Ore (60G), Limestone (40G), Moonlight Stone (100G), Pontata Root (80G), Rare Metal (180G)
- Lyla: Limestone
- Louis: Moonlight Stone, Rare Metal, Iron Ore, Copper Ore, Pontata Root, Medicinal Herb (30G)
- Carpenter: Blue Rock, Rare Metal, Copper Ore, Iron Ore, Limestone

- NOTE: You need 10 (green) Herbs for Kurt's request; gather them whenever you have the opportunity (as indicated)
- Goddess Questions: NEGATIVE
- Sleep until Summer 11
- Summer 11:
	> Fill watering can and till 7 tiles (save minerals for backup)
	> Check Carpenter's area+lake for Herbs, intro Katie, and forage all BBs plus another +10G (VB/MD)
	> Sell berries at Ronald's and buy an egg
	> Buy 7 corn seeds at Lyla's (sell MD if necessary)
	> Head home, plant+water, incubate egg, and sleep
- Water everyday and harvest on Summer 18, 22, and 26
- Can instead do the planting on Summer 10 if it's not raining and you don't want to risk rain on Summer 11 (then just shift harvests by 1 day)
- Intro Gina on any non-rainy Wed/Sat before the final harvest (check for Herbs on that day as well)
- Summer 29:
	> Check Carpenter's area+lake for Herbs and forage backup berries if necessary
	> Talk+gift Gina outside Ronald's
	> Sell all corn+berries at Ronald's
	> Buy a cow
	> Head home, put cow out to pasture, hatch egg and put chicken out, and sleep until Winter 5
- Winter 5:
	> Do chicken escape
	> Head to the lake and spam Joe 42 times
	> Exit and re-enter the lake area to get the fishing rod (use Goddess spring to exit), then catch 4 fish (prefer medium)
	> Exit and re-enter the lake area for the second CS
	> Exit and re-enter the lake area for the third CS
	> Gather Herbs and head home
	> Put the chicken back out and sleep until Winter 10
- Winter 10:
	> Head straight to Villa area and enter to clear GD3, then head home again
	> Do chicken escape
	> Spam Kurt at the Villa 29 times
	> Take chicken to the Brownie Farm and leave it there
	> Sell cow and chicken
	> Consider going back to the Villa to grab any Herbs that you saw
	> Buy S.F. Rod from Louis
	> Head home and sleep
- Unfortunately, you have to YOLO the weather on both Winter 11 and Winter 12; reset if rain
- Winter 11:
	> Head straight to the lake and catch 6 Fish L (gather Herbs on the way)
	> Make sure you have caught at least 4 fish (8 total, counting the 4 from earlier) by nightfall
	> Exit and re-enter the lake area after nightfall for the next CS
	> Finish catching the 6 Fish L after the CS if you need to
	> Grab any extra Herbs then head home
- Winter 12: Head to the Carpenter's area to trigger the next cutscene, gather Herbs, then head home and sleep
- Winter 13:
	> Exit the house for Kurt's request
	> Gather any Herbs you still need (for 10 total)
	> Give Kurt the 10 Herbs
	> Head home and sleep 3 times
- Winter 16:
	> Exit the house for Kurt's rod
	> Head to the lake and catch the Silver Fish after dark
- Sleep a week and finish the ending