HM:IoH RNG Theorycrafting

Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness
Marriage RNG Theorycrafting
[Updated 11 Jun 2023]

CURRENT STRATS
- Manip for first 7 days:
	3: clear/cloudy
	4: clear/cloudy
	5: clear/cloudy
	6: rain
	7: sun
	8: rain
	9: sun
- On Spring 3:
	> Sell watering can, hammer, and sickle to Chen and buy 27 Turnip seeds
	> Gather all grasses and seaweed
	> Till 9 3x3 plots and plant
	> Ship seaweed
- On Spring 4 and 5, gather grasses and seaweed again, tilling 9 plots and planting again
- Sleep through Spring 6-8, then harvest and ship on Spring 9
- Plant 27 more plots and pray for the right combo of rain and sun
- A marathon-safe strat could be doing a safety save, gathering grasses every day, saving Turnips to eat, and watering crops manually in case of bad weather; this would potentially lose a few Turnips but it would save a massive loss of money

Hypothetical run
- 186500G required for everything
- At 300G per Turnip, that's roughly 622 Turnips, or 69 3x3 plots
- Considering stamina limits, only 3 plots can be tilled per day
- The plowing tutorial gives a free 3 bags of Turnip seeds but they must be used IN the tutorial
- Turnips need at least 2 sun points and 2 rain points in each of the two phases (seed and sprout), so the only "bad" weather is cloudy
- Thus, Turnips could grow in as few as
- Let's say
	> Spring 3: Sell Sickle and Watering Can; buy 14 Turnip seeds; till and plant 3 plots
	> Spring 4: Till and plant 3 plots in the tutorial
	>
- Consider doing all fishing at the beach. This would allow you to catch more large fish, and every fishing day you could also grab the seaweed (+1036G).
- Probably want to get the rucksack upgrade in order to minimize trips to the beach during fishing.
- In theory, an extended manip is possible without any need for perfect movement if you only enter town on Tuesdays, only enter Chen's shop, and manip for no butterflies every time you exit the house (easier said than done).

RNG TESTING
- Advances twice when proceeding from title screen to file select
- Advances once when automatically sleeping after opening CS
- Advances once after the Chen+Charlie arrival CS
- Advances once every time the clock advances 10 min
- Advances twice every time you enter or exit the house

TEST SEEDS
- 01:01:09 (BEST SO FAR)
3 clear
4 clear
5 clear
6 cloud
7 clear
8 clear
9 clear

- 01:01:10

WEATHER CRITERIA
- No cloudy days
- Day 1-4: clear, clear, drizzle, drizzle
- Day 5-10: combination of clear and drizzle

POSSIBLE JULIA EVENT PATHS
- Purple -> Blue 1 -> Yellow 1 (+9000)
- Purple -> Blue 1 -> Yellow 2 (+7500)
- Purple -> Blue 2 -> Yellow 3 (+4000)
- Purple -> Blue 2 -> Yellow 4 -> Orange (not worth it due to requiring animals)