HM:StH NG+ Azure Swallowtail Notes (Chicken spam, horse+weather YOLO)

Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
NG+ Azure Swallowtail Notes (Chicken spam, horse+weather YOLO)
[Updated 4 Feb 2025]

Because you are using the horse, you can't use Lyla's birthday (have to use her farm cutscene to keep the horse alive until you plant the Blue Mist in Summer), but I think this could be faster with the right luck.

However, because you would have to put the horse in the barn after planting and take him back out again (to avoid affection loss from leaving him in the rain), I'm not even sure if this is faster. Birthday strats without horse may legitimately be the fastest route.

The other issue is the final stretch of sleep (Fall 1-7) where you are likely to get rain. That alone probably kills this route as a viable option, unfortunately.

FILE PREP
- Hoe in slot 1
- Full watering can in slot 2
- Animal Medicine in last slot
- 1 gift for Kurt
- 1 chicken (mature, outside)
- Horse (max affection)

NOTES
- Spring 2: Sleep
- Spring 3:
	> Reset if rainy
	> Do CoTF and spam Kurt 4 times
	> Bring chicken back to the farm; put it RIGHT NEXT to the farm exit
- Spring 4:
	> Reset if rainy
	> Gift+talk Kurt
	> Go back to the farm and do CoTF
	> Spam Lyla 46 times
	> Enter carpenter's area for CS1
	> Consider putting the horse out here (heal if sick) and riding it to the Flower Shop)
	> Enter Flower Shop for CS2
	> Sleep until Summer 14
	> If you don't put the horse out earlier, you have to put it out before sleep spam
- Summer 14: Exit house for chicken death
- Summer 15: Exit house for CS3
- Summer 18:
	> Exit house for CS4
	> Plant+water Blue Mist (ride the horse there)
	> Put the horse back in the barn (don't feed) and sleep
- In the extreme case, reset for perfect weather (rain on Summer 19-26)
- Sleep through rainy season
- Summer 27:
	> Heal the horse and put him back out
	> Go to Goddess pond for bloom CS
- Summer 30: Go to Goddess pond for butterfly CS
- Fall 7 or later: Go to Goddess pond to finish ending