HM:StH NG+ Treasure Hunt I Notes (Chicken spam)

Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
NG+ Treasure Hunt I Notes (Chicken spam)
[Updated 24 Jan 2025]

ROUTING THOUGHTS
- Not sure if sleeping to Summer rainy season with the dog is feasible. At the very least you'd have to take extra trips to buy spare Animal Medicines.
- You could trigger the Sacred Land early, then let the dog die, but then that's still a second trip up to the Villa if you then plant in Summer rainy season.
- If you're taking multiple trips anyway, you might as well use Spring rainy season, but just do an extra day of watering. This allows just one Animal Medicine (possibly zero) and also saves time on sleeping.
- In fact, the chicken couldn't survive until Summer either (although you could use a pre-incubated egg instead).
- Actually, scratch all that, because the crops won't grow as quickly in Spring anyway, so you have to use Summer. That means you may as well spam on Spring 3, trigger all the cutscenes (including Sacred Land), then sleep to Summer rainy season for the standard TH route.
- My only question would be, will you get the weird cutscene where Gwen saves the dog? Ideally you just want it to die as quick as possible (especially in the case of All Endings).

FILE PREP
- 5 power berries
- Hoe in slot 1
- Seeds: 9 potato, 8 tomato, 6 corn, and 9 breadfruit (in inventory following hoe)
- Full watering can in slot 6
- Animal Medicine in last slot
- 1 chicken (outside)
- Dog with 255 affection

NOTES
- Spring 2: Sleep
- Spring 3:
	> Reset if rain
	> Do chicken escape
	> Can consider doing Lyla first if you're worried about missing her
	> Spam Gina outside Ronald's (19)
	> Spam Lyla at her garden (20)
	> Spam Louis at the Carpenter's area (14)
	> Spam Parsley at the Carpenter's area or at the Lake, wherever he is (19)
	> Spam Woody at the Carpenter's area (20)
	> Spam Tim outside Ronald's (62)
	> Spam Martha outside the Villa (15)
	> Spam Gwen at the Carpenter's area when she walks outside (19)
	> Spam Bob at his pasture (19)
	> LEAVE THE CHICKEN AT BOB'S PASTURE!!!
- Spring 4: CS1
- Spring 5: CS2
- Spring 6:
	> GD1 will trigger
	> Heal the dog
	> Enter Villa area for Sacred Land CS
	> Rather than planting right away, head home and sleep until Summer 19
- Summer 19: Exit for animal death
- Summer 20:
	> Reset if rain
	> Head to Sacred Land and plant+water
	> Sleep through the rainy season (reset if you miss any rain)
- Summer 27: Head to the Sacred Land and skip the cutscene, then:
	> Sleep 7 days and exit the house for the bloom cutscene
	> Sleep 2 days and exit the house for the potato cutscene
	> Sleep 1 day and go to the Carpenter's area to complete the ending

SACRED LAND PATTERNS

Heart = tomato (T)
Square = corn (C)
Music note = breadfruit (B)
Star = potato (P)

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| T | C | C | C | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | B | B | B | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | B | T | B | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | B | B | B | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | C | C | C | T |
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(cost: 770G)

6 corn, 5 tomato, 6 potato, 8 breadfruit

 ___________________
| P | C | C | C | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | P | B | P | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | B | P | B | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | P | B | P | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | C | C | C | P |
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(cost: 700)

6 corn, 6 tomato, 9 potato, 4 breadfruit

 ___________________
| T | T | B | C | C |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | T | B | C | C |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | B | B | B | B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | P | B | T | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | P | B | T | T |
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(cost: 800)

4 corn, 8 tomato, 4 potato, 9 breadfruit

 ___________________
| B | T | B | T | B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | B | T | B | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | T | X | P | X |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | C | P | C | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | P | C | P | C |
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(cost: 650)

5 corn, 6 tomato, 6 potato, 5 breadfruit