HM:StH NG+ Cake Contest Notes

Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
NG+ Cake Contest Notes
[Updated 5 Sep 2020]

FILE PREP
- 1 weed
- 10 Golden Eggs
- 1 Golden Milk

NOTES
- Katie starts walking toward the door to the cafe at 10am, so the door will be unlocked 50s after that. This is roughly 44s after the door closes behind her (depending on how far away she is when she starts walking).
- If going for the fastest time, reset if more than two rainy non-Mondays. Otherwise, you may save your 10th interaction for Spring 30.
- You must make sure not to gift Katie outside on the day of the 4th interaction. This is because after the cutscene in which you give Katie the recipe, she receives +7 for every Golden Egg/Milk instead of +6, and this gift route gets her to exactly 120 (required for book cutscene) by exploiting this fact.

SPRING
- Spring 2: At the lake, weed intro Katie, then gift her a Golden Egg.
- Spring 3: Gift intro Gina with a Golden Egg outside Ronald's with Golden Egg, then gift/talk Katie at the Lake.
- Gift/talk Katie everyday except Monday, skipping any rainy day. After the third interaction, wait outside the cafe until noon, then enter to trigger the first custcene.
- Get the recipe from the bookcase upon returning home that night.
- The next time you would gift Katie, don't gift her outside; rather, wait until noon to enter the cafe and trigger the recipe cutscene, then gift/talk Katie inside the cafe.
- If you got 0 rainy non-Mondays up to the 12th, sleep twice so that your 10th gift is Spring 14. Sleep once if 1 rainy non-Monday. If 2, your 10th interaction will naturally land on Spring 14.
- On the day of your 10th interaction with Katie, go to the Villa after gifting her to trigger the book cutscene, then head back to the cafe to give Katie the book at noon. You will first trigger a failed cake cutscene, then enter and exit again for the book gifting cutscene. Then, wait at the Goddess Pond until she appears for the Moondrop Dew cutscene (9pm).
- The next non-Monday, wait until noon, then enter the cafe to trigger the second failed cutscene, responding "No" to Katie's question. Exit and re-enter to trigger the completed cake cutscene.
- Sleep for a week, then exit your house to finish the ending.