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Crop Planner & Stage Guide

Planning and comparison

Open the crop planner and stage guide to compare every seed, check name-initial unlocks, calculate season profit, and browse every day-stage in both palettes.

Open Crop Planner & Stage Guide Read crop rotation guide

Spring

Turnip

Best 6-tile season profit: 1,680G

Summer

Tomato

Regrow king at 7,720G

Fall

Eggplant

Uppercase-name unlock winner

Winter

Broccoli

Top profit at 9,400G

Crop	Growth	Seed	Sell	Special
Turnip	4 nights	120G	60G	Fast spring loop
Tomato	8+2	200G	120G	Best summer regrow
Eggplant / Peanut	4 or 6 nights	150G / 200G	60G / 80G	Name-initial split
Broccoli	8+2	500G	150G	Best winter season

Seed pricesQuick cost checks for every season

Unlock rulesUppercase, lowercase, or symbol names

Stage explorer62 day-by-day growth stages

Day and night artFull sprite sheets for every crop

Livestock Guide

Budget, weather, and routine

Build your first animal setup with real shop prices, resale floors, practical weather pressure, and a clean upgrade path from eggs and milk to long-term dairy machines.

Open Animal Planner See return benchmarks

Chicken

Start Cost: 500G
Produce: Egg
Resale Floor: 500G

Cow

Start Cost: 5,000G
Produce: Milk
Resale Peak: 12,000G

Season Buffer

Spring: 3 wet days
Summer: 7 wet days
Winter: 11 snow days

Season Feed Reserve

If you only keep one big buffer all year, make it for summer. Winter is steadier, but the snow-heavy indoor loop means your backup stock disappears much faster than it does in spring or fall.

Spring Plan around 3 rainy days.

Summer Plan around 7 rainy days.

Fall Plan around 3 rainy days.

Winter Plan around 11 snowy days.

Build a full animal loadout

Year-end checklist, shipped-items mode switch, and finish-line gaps

Ranch Master Tracker

Track every Ranch Master condition on one board, swap between the common 4,500 shipped-items goal and a stricter 5,000-item buffer, and see which gap still deserves the next real push before Winter 30.

Open Ranch Master Tracker Check finish-line gaps

Ranch Master tracker board for Harvest Moon GBC. — The whole endgame board stays readable once animals, house, land, shipping, and cash all share the same page.

Checklist 9 tracked checks

Everything that usually slips through the cracks when winter starts getting crowded.

Shipment switch 4,500 or 5,000

Pick the common guide goal or the stricter safety buffer without changing pages.

Late checklist Cows, house, cash, berries

One glance is enough to see whether the save is really safe or only feels close.

All 10 berries, year gates, farm map, and cave targets

Power Berry Locations

Open a saved checklist for every Power Berry, see the exact farm markers and cave block targets, and keep your stamina route narrow instead of digging up the whole ranch.

Open Power Berry Locations View farm and cave maps

Power Berry farm markers for Harvest Moon GBC in English. — Farm markers, cave targets, and year gates stay together so each berry pass has a clear stop point.

Year 1 5 reachable berries

Four farm spots plus the cave sprite gift can raise max stamina early.

Expansion 2 farm berries

Wait until the extra land opens before spending stamina on those markers.

Pick Ax route 3 cave berries

Use the cave target image when the late cave route is ready.

Player meals, pantry stock, and the clean day-to-night food handoff

Player Food Guide

Compare every player food and drink, split pantry bundles from instant rescue buys, and build a clean food run that matches whether you need cheap stock, a night backup, or one fast refill.

Open Player Food Guide Build a pantry bag

Food lineup from Harvest Moon GBC showing player meals and drinks in English. — One page is enough to tell you what to store, what to use immediately, and what still works after dark.

Starter buy 100G to 200G stacks

Meat Dumpling and Rice Ball are the cleanest day-side pantry starts when crop money is still tight.

Night fallback Green Tea or Orange Juice

Use Green Tea for stock and Orange Juice for the biggest same-night refill when the Restaurant is already closed.

Bag builder See the full gold split

Price a mixed Restaurant and Juice Bar run before you leave the farm instead of guessing in town.

Town counters, seasonal shelves, and trip math

Town Shop Guide

Check every store, service stop, and late-night drink counter in one place, then build a shopping basket that tells you exactly how much gold the trip will cost.

Open Town Shop Guide Build a shopping trip

Town shop montage from Harvest Moon GBC. — Everything important in town fits on one board once you stop treating each counter like a separate guide.

Day route 6 daytime counters

Seeds, tools, animals, food, church services, and carpenter work all fit the same safe town window.

Night route Juice Bar stays late

The evening counter matters when your fieldwork runs long and the rest of town is already done.

Money checks Animals to house pushes

Compare a first cow, a chicken opening, or a full carpenter bill without leaving the same page.

Slow and Fast offline waits, tool return windows, and no more day-speed mixups

Timer Converter

Convert the Harvest Sprite Timer into real time, compare Slow and Fast side by side, and lock in clean waits for the Super Sickle, the Super Hoe, or any shorter offline nudge you want to schedule safely.

Open Timer Converter Check 12h and 24h returns

Slow and Fast timer board for Harvest Moon GBC in English. — The timer only becomes easy once both modes live on the same board.

Slow 1h every 15m

Safer when you want a smaller push and tighter control over the calendar.

Fast 2h every 15m

The clean answer when you already know the target and just want the wait to end.

Tool anchors 12h and 24h

The two preset waits that make the whole timer system easy to remember.

Tool Shop timing, budget races, and real player-side upgrade order

Tool Upgrade Planner

Compare the Brush, Milker, Sprinkler, Saddlebags, dairy machines, and the Super Hammer race on one board so you can tell which purchase actually deserves the next payday.

Open Tool Upgrade Planner Compare big spends

Tool upgrade track for Harvest Moon GBC. — One clean chart is enough to show where the cheap comfort buys stop and the full dairy grind really begins.

Early routine Brush + Milker: 2,600G

The real cow-side toolkit still lands below the first Deluxe house push.

Crop comfort Sprinkler: 2,000G

Great once the unlock is live, but still a comfort buy rather than a rescue button.

Late dairy Makers: 30,000G each

The cheese and butter finish line is where a casual tool list turns into a serious ranch commitment.

Forecast board, reserve math, and season pacing

Weather Planner

Check how each season leans, see where Game Boy Color summer gets wetter than the classic profile, and decide how much indoor-care reserve your farm really wants before the weather starts crowding your route.

Open Weather Planner Calculate reserve target

TV weather prompt in Harvest Moon GBC. — The TV forecast gives you tomorrow's first clue before you ever step outside.

Spring About 3 rainy days.

Summer About 7 rainy days on Game Boy Color.

Fall About 3 rainy days.

Winter About 11 snowy days.

Full ranch layout, saved zones, and season planning

Farm Map Planner

Lay out crop lanes, cleanup pushes, animal loops, and utility corners on the full farm map, then save the whole plan in your browser for the next session.

Open Farm Map Planner Build a season layout

Full ranch map from Harvest Moon GBC. — The full ranch view shows where crop space, cleanup, and animal traffic start fighting for the same morning.

South Field Shelf Best wide crop strip

Long, readable rows with enough room to scale into a serious season plan.

East Water Strip Easy refill access

A compact field that stays close to water while you expand the east side.

Southwest Cleanup Pocket Strong early sweep

Brush and stone turn into useful material stock once you commit a route to it.

House ladder, material bundles, and carpenter timing

House Upgrade Planner

Compare Deluxe and Ultra Deluxe side by side, count the Material bundles you still need, and decide whether the next big spend belongs at home or on the animal side of the ranch.

Open House Upgrade Planner Build an upgrade plan

Carpenter menu in Harvest Moon GBC. — The carpenter menu lays out the entire house ladder in one glance.

Deluxe 2,500G + 100 Materials

The faster and friendlier first jump, plus the Super Hammer.

Ultra Deluxe 5,000G + 300 Materials

The full late-game push when house comfort starts competing with cows and makers.

Base to top 11,500G from zero stock

That total includes all upgrade fees and every Material bundle if you buy them outright.

Wood House, Deluxe, and Ultra Deluxe interiors

Player House Interior Guide

Compare all three house interiors, see what each daily house check is for, and decide when the final upgrade is worth delaying cows, makers, or town spending.

Open Player House Interior Guide Review daily house checks