Harvest Moon DS 101 Sprites FAQ

Harvest Moon DS 101 Sprite FAQ

Note: If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the chat rather than reading the whole FAQ. This is mainly intended for people to learn more about the run, rather than to answer any specific questions.

Q: How long is this run?
A: 25-30 hours.

Q: Do you sleep during runs?
A: No, I do it all in one sitting, taking short breaks every 10-15 hours to eat / stretch.

Q: What are the times listed on your splits?
A: A segmented practice run I did. It took ~32 hours, but new glitches / better RNG means ~25-hour runs are possible. (But 28-30 hours is a more reasonable estimate due to the amount of RNG in the run)

Q: What glitches do you use in this run?
A: Infinite money, fast Touch Glove Shearing, fast Milker leveling, and horse milking (infinite, fast shipments).

Q: Can you explain those in more detail?
A: The infinite money glitch is done by hiring the Fishing Team on the Beach in Winter. There's a chance they'll earn you between 500 million - 1 billion G in a day. Fast Touch Glove Shearing just means you're able to shear a sheep with the touch glove, let the timer run out, then shear it again and still have it count towards the 700 Touch Glove Shears Sprite. You can do all 700 shears in one day, taking around 2-3 hours instead of 7-8. If you use your Milker on the air, you're able to get it to level 99 in roughly ~15 real-life minutes. This means you can get 100 milk per cow per day. However, you can milk your horse if you brush it and quickly switch to the milker. There's no daily cap for milking the horse, so you can get the 100k Shipped Milk Sprite in roughly ~45 minutes instead of 2-3 hours.

Q: How much RNG is in this run?
A: There aren't many individual RNG points, but pretty much all the RNG points in the run can take a few minutes or a few hours. You need to make ~7k medals from the Casino, which is done by betting 10 medals and going for the double-or-nothing. This can take ~1 minute if you win the double-or-nothing 10x in a row, but the odds of that happening are very slim. It usually takes 10-20 minutes, but sometimes longer. You also need the infinite money glitch to trigger, which can take virtually no time, but you might have to save scum for it which can take as long as 30 minutes. You also need to get 4 specific Cursed Tools of the 6 available, which can take ~5 minutes per tool, or up to 2-3 hours per tool. We recently discovered you can find a floor with a cursed tool, save before digging it up, then reload and the tool will be different. This makes it a lot better, usually taking less than 45 minutes total now.

Q: What are some smaller RNG points in the run?
A: Having rain water your crops can save ~5 minutes total, cow herding can take 5-15 minutes, and having cows walk towards you during the Touch Glove Milking process can save a slight amount of time. I'm sure there's other things, they're just not coming to mind because of how minor they are.

Q: What is "Cow Herding"?
A: I buy 20 cows in the run which are all crammed into the entrance of the farm, and you have to divide them evenly into 5 barns. The issue is that cows' hitboxes will be counted as one if they're close enough to each other, meaning you can't push one cow out of the group. This also means cows can chain together along a wall, meaning you can't push any of them and you're forced to wait.

Q: What's the worst part of this run?
A: There's no real "worst" part, it comes down to preference. You need to Touch Glove Milk your cows 700 times, which takes about 5-6 hours alone. This is spread out over the whole run, so it's not 5-6 hours of straight cow milking, it's just ~9 minutes at the start of each day for 35 days. You also need to use the Hotsprings a total of 700 times, each for 1 in-game hour at a time. This takes ~8 hours, and you're not able to do anything else, making it my least favorite part of the run.