Upfront herd cost only.
Animal routine, budget, and weather planning
Harvest Moon GBC Animal Planner
Put cows, chickens, feed reserves, medicine, and dairy upgrades on one board so you can decide when to buy in, when to wait, and how much cash your animal loop really needs before it starts paying you back.
Interactive tool
Starter Loadout Planner
Mix animals, supplies, and dairy upgrades, then see the total gold wall and the indoor-care reserve your herd will want.
Feed, medicine, and potion picks.
Brushes, milkers, and dairy machines.
The full shopping trip if you buy it all now.
Season Reserve Snapshot
- Indoor-care days
- 0
- Feed servings to cover
- 0
- Daily cow tasks
- 0
- Daily egg pickups
- 0
Feed servings are a simple planning target for indoor days, not a claim about how many shop purchases that turns into.
Return Snapshot
- Herd resale floor
- 0G
- Herd resale ceiling
- 0G
- Peak capital jump
- 0G
- Gap to 30,000G maker
- 0G
Gold planning
Profit & Return Benchmarks
Animal profit is less about one perfect daily number and more about knowing your resale floor, your cow upside, and when a 30,000G dairy machine stops being reckless.
Season pressure
Seasonal Reserve Hints
If you are deciding how much backup feed to park at the farm, summer and winter are the seasons that force the hardest indoor-care decisions.
Shop lineup
Animal Shop Staples
Buy animals when your gold plan is clean, then use supplies to protect that investment instead of scrambling after the weather changes.
Style choice
Pick Your Pet Mood
Dog and cat do not have to change your opening plan. Pick the one that makes the whole farm feel more like yours.
Route memory
Barn Route Snapshot
The fastest animal mornings usually come from a tight coop, barn, and silo loop that finishes before you leave for fieldwork.
Morning loop
Start at the coop, cross to the barn, then cut past the silo before you commit the rest of the day to crops or town errands.
Why it matters
A shorter animal path is the difference between a comfortable routine and the feeling that every rainy day is stealing your whole morning.
Use the planner for
Matching herd size to seasonal reserve pressure before you lock too much of your money into one purchase window.
Upgrade order
Dairy Gear Priorities
Cheap tools sharpen the daily loop first. The 30,000G machines are the long-game payoff once your milk routine already feels stable.