Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility Cheats & Tips

I notice in this game that starting out was a lot harder. The game gives you a hoe, a watering can, a tiny house, no money, no animals, and a field full of wood, weeds, and rocks. A crap start. But thats where I come in. I'll help any one that needs help on getting started with this harvest moon.

Start out doing the tutorial in the beginning of the game, and pick the spot of where you want your house. You have these choices:
Hillside Plot- 100 squares of land
Town Plot- 90 squares of land
Seaside Plot- 120 squares of land

They all have their own benefits, the seaside is close to the ocean, and the river fro fishing, and has tons of land for crops. The Hillside is close to the Hot springs, the carpentry, and blacksmith shops, and has a medium size of land. The Town plot is close to the town, and all the stores there, but has a small amount of land. Keep in mind that later in the game, you can buy the other two plots that you didn't choose.

After you've started out the game, is the real challenge. Start by clearing a small area of your land, because it takes up a lot of stamina, just to do a small amount of work. Then till 6 squares straight, right next to each-other, with your hoe. Like so ====== Then plant your two bags of potato, on the very edge of one of the lines, so you get seeds on all 6 spots for the maximum money in the end. Then just water them with your watering can. If you are low on stamina, head far west in the district, till you reach the river, then head north following the river, to caramel falls. Climb the mountain all the way, to a small little pond. Press 'A' and then you take an hour up of your time, and all of your stamina is refreshed. Keep in mind that this only works once per day. use the last bit of stamina, to head up north to the ganache mine district, and talk to the guy smashing the rocks by the blacksmith shop, to get your hammer, and then follow the road up north more, to a little forested area, and talk to the guy hitting the big stump, for the axe. And in that area, pick up all of the little herbs on the ground, and sell them using the shipping bin near by. Use the remainder of your stamina to clear as much of your land as possible, with the weeds first, then the rocks, and leave the trees for last. That should be your first day.

On the second day, just repeat. Water your crops, clear your field. And this time, go in to the Waffle town area, and go to the store called "On the Hook" by the ocean. Don't go in, instead go near the ocean by using the stairs, and it should start a little cutscene with a fisherman called Toby. If not, check within that area, and caramel falls, until the cutscene unfolds. During it, he will hand over to you a fishing pole for you to take. Now just stay there at the ocean, and fish. Once you throw the pole in to the water, just wait for the little symbol above your head to go all berserk, then jerk the controller upward fast to catch the fish. Keep doing that, and sell the fish. And that will give you even more money. Thats another day in itself.

After you have enough money, go to Souffle Farm, where the tutorial took place, and talk to the girl behind the counter. And buy a couple bags of spring mix seeds. And plant them just the way you planted the potato seeds. And water them. After a few day, you'll be able to harvest the crop. And then sell them. Keep going through the process of buying and planting more and more crops till you have tons of money. And during it, go to the Ganache mine district, and go in to the mine to the left of the blacksmiths shop. Head down a bunch of floors, till you get to floor 19. Pick up every mushroom, and toadstool as you can on the way down. And then get to floor 25. Where you will smash every single one of the rocks and minerals in that room, until you are low on stamina. Only pick up the shiny rocks that come out of the rocks, because non shiny ones, are fake. Once you are done, go back up to the top, and head over to the grave yard by the church, for another little cutscene with a girl named Mira. This will unlock refining in the blacksmith, so you can get good money for all those wondefuls that you found in the mine. Go to her and get them all refined, and then sell everything. in the morning, you'll have even more tons of money. Keep going through this, and getting the ores that shine from the mine, to upgrade the tools. Start by upgrading the Hammer, so you can do better in the mine, then upgrade the watering can. Only use iron at first. And keep going through your days like this, till Spring 28.

On that day, you'll be able to go to Brownie ranch, and have a little celebration. The next day, it will be open, and you should go in and talk to Cain in the little store. He will give you the sickle to cut the weeds with a lot less stamina. And you can look in this area, for more herbs near the east area. Also, if you look in the northern most part of the beach in waffle town, you'll find a present. Pick it up, for a small item, that you will sell, and a not to where the next one is. Keep following them, and selling the items inside for good money. There are 5 in all. Once you have a good amount of money, order a coop from the carpentry shop. And buy some feed, and a chicken from the brownie ranch. Use the first egg in the incubator in the coop, and then sell the rest of the eggs. Keep going through the days, and making more and more money through those ways to get you started in the game. Eventually, you will be able to have most silver tools, and big cropped fields, and a nice animal barn full of cows and sheep and horses from Brownie ranch. Hope I've helped.

After the wedding, some things will change in the game:

-You will have a double bed
-You Husband will work at the same place as he did
-Your Wife will quit her job, and stay around the farm
-Your husband/wife will stay home during showy weather, and rain.
-Your mate's schedule will change.

Here is Alan's recipe (He is the Brownie Ranch County):
1)Toadstool - easily found in the mines
2)Wood fish
3)Green Bell
4)Ostonnaise - ostrich's mayonnaise
5)Carrot cake

That is Alan's Rainbow Recipe!

Here are descriptions of how to get all of the tools.

SICKLE- Talk to Cain at brownie Ranch for the first time
HAMMER- Talk to the big guy hitting stone on the right hand side of the blacksmiths house
FISHING POLE- Talk to Toby. Usually in the morning, go to the beach in town, and he should be there. Other than that, he moves between that spot and the caramel falls.
HOE- Given to you by Craig in the intro to the game
WATERING CAN- Given to you by Craig in the intro to the game
AXE- Talk to Luke in the North most section of Ganache mines

A note:
You should probably do Daren's Rainbow and Ben's Rainbow because they are easier to do.

What you need for Ben's Rainbow Recipe:
1)Gilled Eggplant
2)Char
3)Green herb
4)Plain omelet
5)Good tomato

Good luck finding these things for Ben's Rainbow!

In the game, you can purchase tools from either the Blacksmiths, or the General Store. If you purchase your tools from the Blacksmiths, you must have an ore easily found in mines. It is a lot cheaper to get your tools at the Blacksmiths though. The general store will sell their upgraded tools for nearly double the price of the Blacksmiths.

EDIT::: Just a quick correction. When you buy from the general store, its exactly triple the price from the blacksmiths. But, it does not need the ore. And the one at the blacksmith, does need an ore, and it must be appraised first before use.

Every store in Waffle Town will be closed during festivals. You can see if there is a festival coming up on your calendar, as well it will appear under the day on the top left corner of your screen. Some festivals will sell items there, so you can still shop there for necessities!

<font size=1>Colin can be found on West Gull Island. You will need to have completed Daren's Rainbow in order to get to West Gull Island.

You will need -

- Blue Wonderful (Do not have Mira appraise it.)
- Perfect Spinach
- Saury
- Red Wool Yarn
- Banana</font>

1. After getting both halfs of the quilt (one from the clock tower, and the other from Hamilton) water the flower by the large tree in the Waffle Square.

2. You will need to bring Daren a series of items for that rainbow to appear, they are:

-Carp
-Grilled Yam
-Good herb fish
-Apple
-Common Seashell

Goodluck!

Okay so do this in order:

Daren
Ben
Red
Orange
Purple

Ben lost his badge and I know you would think that red guy could help you?! WRONG! You have to do red then orange its a real drag I know red is the hardiest I've been working on him all month -_-'
but do NOT do purple guy you must do it in this order!

Daren, Ben, red, orange, purple
Then you will unlock the HG tree and goddess but I never got to the end o_0 but my friend Fuzz did
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<font size=1>Edge can be found at the top of Mt.Gelato. You will need to have completed Alan's rainbow in order to reach Mt.Gelato.

You will need -

- Snowflake Flower
- Red Honey
- Tuna
- Perfect Honeydew
- Lapis Lazuli (Have a blue wonderful with one sparkle appraised by Mira.)</font>

Okay so this bugged me my first year in the game I got a cold I walked slow blah blah Then the tailoring shop moved in! I know they ask for a lot but buy the straw hat and any kind of outfit and no more colds!! hope I helped =D <img src="http://i.neoseeker.com/d/icons/bigsmile.gif" border=0 vspace=2 alt="" />

The root blocking the Carmel river district and the Ganache mine district
makes you go around taking a longer amount of time.
How to get the root removed:
Inspect the root from the Carmel river side.
Gill will come and talk to you about it.
After Gill is done talking to you, go to into
Dale's carpentry. A cutscence will occur and
Luke will cut the root.

At the beginning of the game, you start off with practically no G(currency) at all. Here are some of my tips to get quite a bit of money quickly so you can get to work on your farm:

1. Fishing is a good way to get quite a bit on money. I suggest it be one of the first tools you upgrade. You can make about 1000-2000G a day just from fishing!

2. Selling items you find on the ground can also help you out too! Usually in the Praline Forest, there are many herbs to sell. Also, once you get your hammer, selling various ores and stuff from the mines can help out too!

3. Once you start off, plant crops and as much as you can. Try to level up your watering can too, and upgrading it to copper/silver. After awhile, use fertilizer to make crops best quality, then ship. (2000-4000G with small amount of crops. 6000-8000G with lots of crops, 10,000-16,000G with fertilized crops / per every few days)

LASTLY, if you are running low on Stamina at the beginning of the game, it is a GOOD idea to go to the Hot spring and go in it. Your stamina will replenish, and you will be able to do more things.

Below is a general summary of what you can find on various floors of the mine:

2-9: Mushrooms, toadstools
10, 20: Nothing but tombs
11-19: Rare ores, mushrooms, toadstools
7, 18: Water spouts
25: A large amount of rare ores and jewels
30: Power Berry, King Fish

In Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, gases may appear after breaking a rock. Here are the effects:

Greenish-Yellow: Heals some Stamina.
Red: Loses some Stamina
Black: Darkens the area around you
Purple: Confuses you, and makes you go in different directions when you move.
Blue: Makes you not be able to move for a few seconds
White: Changes the speed of your running.

1. Go in to the mine with the least amount of items possible, so that when you have 3 diamonds, and you can only hold 1, you wont be crying about it. Only bring like a hammer and some energy items.

2. Ores are found in rocks, and Wondefuls are found in minerals. The color of the mineral, corresponds to the color of the wonderful.

3. Never pick up non sparkling ores or wonderfuls, they are fake and come out to be glass or junk ore once appraised, and just take up space in your rucksack.

4. No sparkle- Glass or Junk ore
One sparkles- amber or iron/gold/silver/copper(Amber is just an example of one of many wonderful minerals of that sparkle)
Two Sparkles- Peridot(Peridot is just one example of one of many Wondeful minerals of that type of sparkle)
Three Sparkles- Diamond(Diamond is just one example of one of many rare wonderfuls of that type of sparkle)

5. Floors 1-9, Iron/copper
Floors 11-19, Silver/some wonderfuls
Floors 20-29, Gold/Many wonderfuls

6. Special Floors
Floor 19-Many Many mushrooms on this floor
Floor 25-Many Many minerals
Floor 7- Many Many Geysers
Floor 30- Last level, and holder of a Power berry, and a pond where you can get 2 types of very rare fish in.

When you are in the Ganache Mine, it is a good idea to pick up as many mushrooms as you can, especially if you are going to be looking for ores. You will lose stamina quickly when using your hammer (if Iron or regular). Mushrooms will heal you quite a bit. A ton of mushrooms can be found on floor 19. Do NOT eat the toadstools, and try to get in the area of yellow-green gases which can also heal your stamina!

You will not be able to upgrade tools just with ores, you must have Mira (located in the Blacksmith's) to refine the ores first for you. Some of the time, you will get, "Scrap Iron" which is useless, and doesn't sell for much. The rest of the time you will get what was in your tool (i.e. iron ore to iron).

If you plant a lot of crops near each other, and pick them up quickly, you will noticed that the time doesn't go on. This can be very useful if you have festivals to attend early in the morning.

There are 5 Power Berries that you can obtain in this game:
1) Is your Fishing Rod reaches level 3
2) Reach Level 30 in Ganache Mine, there will be a sparkle in the floor, press the A button
3) Hoe/till 1,000 squares of land
4) Reach 10 hearts with an animal
and last but not least....
5) In the center of the Goddess Pond/spring.
Good Luck!!

After marriage, about 2 seasons after, your wife (or yourself) will become pregnant. Your husband (or yourself) will rush the woman to the clinique, where Jin will tell you you're pregnant (or your wife).

In Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, many things have a quality to them. These qualities are Decent, Good, Perfect, and Shining. Decent is the lowest Quality, while Shining is the best! The better quality that item is, the more it will sell for!

You know that screen when you go to sleep and it tallys up your days earnings? This is where these unlockables are held.

Make 2000g- Red Harvest Sprite on Screen

Make 5000g- Red, Blue, and Yellow Harvest Sprite on screen

Make 10,000g- All five colors of Harvest Sprites, and the word "Congratulations" are flashed on the screen in many colors.

Having trouble finding the crazy common fish saury? Being led to different places every time you find out something new? Having trouble with the final ingredient in Collins rainbow? Then you've come to the right place. I finally found a place where common saury appear all the time, in fall and winter. I have been searching myself for some time, till all of a sudden my bro comes over to tell me something. He found the Saury. i questioned him and found things out.

The Saury is found in the little patch of ocean right in front of the seaside house, with just a regular cast. You may not get it immediately, but it is there. By the third time I tried, I had a Saury. That is one f'in annoying fish for a lot of people.

In the beginning you have an option of having your house on the hilltop, near the sea, and by the town. I'd recommend having it on the hilltop, because you are close to the mines, brownie ranch, souffle farm, and the hot spring where you can recover your stamina. You do have the option of having houses built on all of the other land plots later on in the game though.

<font size=1>Wild animals can be adopted once they reach 6 hearts of affection for you. At 4 hearts the wild animal will give you a gift. Once they reach 6 hearts, you will then be given the option to adopt it. Once you adopt an animal, you can not get rid of it. If you turn down an offer to adopt an animal, you will not get a second chance. So choose wisely!

Puppies

Both puppies like milk and will give you char as a gift when you reach 4 hearts.

- Brown puppy Town Square
- White puppy Beach Area

Dogs

Both dogs like milk. The white dog will give you a salmon and the black and white dog will give you a catfish on reaching 4 hearts.

- White dog - Toucan Island and
- Black and white dog - Brownie Ranch

Cats

The cats all like milk or any fish and will all give you a saury on reaching 4 hearts.

- Orange cat - Lake Area
- Black cat - Toucan Island
- White cat - Beach Area

Rabbits

Both rabbits like carrots and give a verryberry as a gift on reaching 4 hearts.

- White rabbit - Brownie Ranch
- Patched rabbit - Mt. Gelato

Weasels

Both weasels like any fish and give a ponata root as a gift on reaching 4 hearts.

- Brown weasel - Hill Area
- White weasel - Mt.Gelato

Monkey

The monkey likes fruit and will give you yarn as a gift on reaching 4 hearts.

- Monkey - Hill Area

Raccoon

The raccoon likes fruit and will give you an apple as a gift on reaching 4 hearts.

- Raccoon - Hill Area

Squirrel

The squirrel likes chestnuts and will give you a blueberry as a gift on reaching 4 hearts.

- Squirrel - East Gull Island

Boar

The boar likes mushrooms and will give you a mushroom as a gift on reaching 4 hearts.

- Boar - Brownie Ranch

Penguin

The penguin likes any fish and will give you a pearl as a gift on reaching 4 hearts.

- Penguin - East Gull Island

Turtle

The turtle likes any fish and will give you a seashell as a gift on reaching 4 hearts.

- Turtle - River Area

Panda

The panda likes bamboo shoots and will give you a bamboo shoot as a gift on reaching 4 hearts.

- Panda - Toucan Island

Bear Cub

The bear cub likes honey and will give you a salmon as a gift on reaching 4 hearts.

- Bear cub - Mt.Gelato

Bear

The bear likes honey. She is half way up Mt.Gelato and prevents you from passing to reach the Harvest Goddess Spring. On reaching 2 to 3 hearts she will let you pass in order to reach the Goddess Pond. She will also let you meet her bear cub.

- Bear - Mt.Gelato</font>

*bleep* thanksgiving in the game bugs me <img src="http://i.neoseeker.com/d/icons/a_tongue.gif" border=0 vspace=2 alt="" /> its on winter 10th if your married you find out if you go into your house before 12:00P.M. Your husband/wife will give you a cake and something randome IDK gill gave me a shortcake and lavender. If not it might be the talk in town or whatever i dident find out til today in my game <img src="http://i.neoseeker.com/d/icons/a_tongue.gif" border=0 vspace=2 alt="" /> so hope that helps cuz I know someone posted a thread about how they missed it and they really should have stuck that on the cal