HM:StH Any% Cake Contest Notes (Stolen Milker YOLO)

Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
Any% Cake Contest Notes (Stolen Milker YOLO)
[Updated 20 Jan 2026]

**Upon timing and reconsidering, I don't think this is even faster. Fall mild YOLO could be implemented in the standard route anyway, even without milker steal, and I think the setup for milker steal by itself is too slow to save adequate time on crops alone.

- With first-try Golden Egg/Milk, I'm pretty sure this is faster, but not sure otherwise
- I think doing Moondrop Dew is slightly faster if you're doing the town load storage, because it warps you home (skipping 3 loading zones) and also advances the clock a little bit, getting you to 5am sooner
- Full YOLO would delay planting corn slightly to take full advantage of the rainy season (risking more crop loss), but a slightly safer version could just plant crops immediately to mitigate some of the risk (last harvest on Spring 20)
- While we're at it, full YOLO wouldn't even sleep until Fall dry season, since you'd want first try Golden Egg/Milk
- You'd want to spam Gina on a Wed or Sat if possible, to save on loading zones (would save 6 loads, but may not be worth it if you have to sleep more)

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- Goddess Questions: NEGATIVE
- Spring 2: Sleep until Spring 4
- Spring 4:
	> Fill watering can
	> Till 7 tiles (keep 1 mineral in case you don't find a weed; can save for backup money later as well)
	> Head to lake, gathering a weed (if no mineral), a VB/MD (gift for Katie), and any forageables for money along the way (need +160G)
	> Weed intro+gift Katie, then head to town
	> Ronald: Sell as needed and buy an egg
	> Flower Shop: Sell as needed and buy 7 corn seeds
	> Head back to cafe and trigger CS1
	> Plant+water all seeds, incubate egg, and sleep
	> GET RECIPE!!!
- Water everyday and harvest on 14, 18, 22 (12, 16, 20 if you didn't delay planting for safety)
- If you lost 1 crop, you're short 100G; if two lost, you're short 220G
- Spring 24:
	> Hatch egg and do chicken escape
	> Spam Gina 49 times outside Ronald's
	> Put the chicken back on the farm
	> Head to lake and gather backup berries if crop loss (4BB if 1 lost, 5BB+7VB if 2 lost, assuming no mineral)
	> Make sure to gather 1 extra forageable that you're not selling (could save the original weed/mineral for this, actually)
	> Enter cafe for CS2, then head back to town
	> Ronald: Sell all corn (and backup berries if needed)
	> Bob: Buy cow
	> Enter Villa for CS4
	> Head back to cafe and enter by 5pm, then head straight home (no Moondrop Dew)
	> Back at farm, put the cow out to pasture
	> Get into "chicken escape" position, take out your remaining item, and execute load storage at ~4:57pm (figure out a timer setup)
	> Sleep until Fall 2
- Fall 2:
	> DON'T CHECK THE CHICKEN (will trigger load storage early)
	> Head to the Brownie Farm, start PTW, then trigger the stored load to do PTW escape
	> Enter the farm, and under ideal circumstances, you would then get first-try Golden Egg and Golden Milk right here
	> Assuming you get them, head to the lake, give both to Katie, and enter/exit/re-enter the cafe until you get the last CS, then head home
	> Sleep a week and exit to finish the ending