#40 Master Walkthrough Year 2 Spring 1-3 [Harvest Moon: Back to Nature] [LONGPLAY]

Timestamp: Spring 1 (0:04), Spring 2 (16:10), Spring 3 (36:28)

Welcome to Spring! Back to cheerful music, sunny day and lots of farm work.
Here's the farming plan for this season. I will need to unlock strawberry as quickly as possible. This means I need to ship 101 cucumber, turnip, and potato. Cucumber took the longest to grow (10 days), so Spring 10 is the fastest to ship 101 of each. Then I will be able to purchase and plant Strawberry in Spring 11, which in turn will be ready at Spring 19.

I had to plant 80 cucumber, 101 potato and 57 turnip to get strawberry unlocked, and on top of that I will also need some for my own cooking needs. Turnip is 5 days so we can plant 7 plots (total 63 at Spring 5), and then replant the second batch for cooking. Potato is 8 days, so I do the first batch for the 101 shipment (this means 12 plot, total 108 at Spring 8), and then plant second batch for cooking which will be ready at Spring 16. Cucumber is regrowable but it took 10 days for first harvest, so I will need 10 plots (total 80). Note that we can't pick the middle for cucumber so it's 8 per plot. The regrow cucumber will be available at Spring 15. The good news is, we have already shipped 101 cabbage so I just planted 3 plots for cooking. It is a hefty amount for watering, but I think it's still better than the sweet potato madness 2 seasons ago lol.

I got lucky with the rain at Spring 2, which freed up my time from watering, so I can ship 71 fish from my pond which brings the shipped total to 201. Therefore we have unlocked the pre-requisite for Sea Bream, which I will catch in the next video. Also, I have started flirting with the other 4 girls (bad example, kids. Stay with your wife lol). I want to get all girls on red heart, as part of completing the game. I also started storing moondrop flowers to shower Elli on her birthday at Spring 16.

Oh, and Dude (the horse) has grown into a Big Dude. Barley wanted to take it back (wtf sir?) but Dude prefers to stay with me. So we can start riding him around the farm which can cut some walking time.

Stay safe from COVID-19! Wash your hands often and stay at home for now.
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This walkthrough follows the one-year merciless plan outlined by SkyRender in his legendary guide (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/446412-harvest-moon-back-to-nature/faqs/26294).

Emulator used: ePSXe 2.05
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