Quick-start
Week 1 Route Checklist
Keep the field small enough to water reliably, use caves as a refill station, and start tracking the 64-tilled route early without burning every morning to 0 stamina.
One-time choice
Naming Screen: Avoid Crop Gates
If you want maximum seed choice, start your name with a symbol. Uppercase vs lowercase can change late-season seed shelves.
Pick your profile
What this prevents
- Buying the “wrong” Fall/Winter special seeds for your route.
- Restarting a save just to access a crop you built your plan around.
- Confusing shop shelves that look different from someone else’s run.
Daily budget
Stamina Planner
Stamina decides whether your day stays flexible or collapses by noon. Use caves and hot springs as the refill engine, then expand the field only when watering stays stable.
Budget calculator
Enter a rough day plan to see whether it ends in an early sleep.
Daily stamina rules
Base stamina: 100 Tool cost: 2 stamina per use Rule 1: Hands > tools for pickups. Rule 2: Caves are your refill station. Rule 3: Expand fields only when watering stays stable.
Permanent stamina
Power Berry Tracker (With Year Gates)
Power Berries are the long-term stamina scaling item. Some are locked behind land expansion or the Pick Axe route, so the fastest fix is often “wait for the right year,” not “till every tile.”
Checklist
Stored locally in your browser.
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Why timing matters
- Year 1: focus on the reachable berries and stabilizing your farm loop.
- Year 2: land expansion berries appear once the extra space exists.
- Year 4+: Pick Axe route berries stop you from wasting whole days searching too early.
Early money
Money Cheatsheets
Use crops for rhythm, animals for scaling, and caves for stamina-friendly side income. These tables keep you from shipping low-value items when you need to save for tools and upgrades.
Shipping prices (quick sanity checks)
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For deeper planning, use the Town Shops and Animal Planner pages for full price boards.
Season picks
- Spring: Turnips (fast) or Potatoes (steady) keep the first season readable.
- Summer: Tomato regrow loops carry the season.
- Fall/Winter: Your name profile decides which special seed shelves you can buy.
Don’t lose runs
Save + Hardware + Emulator Checklist
Harvest Moon GBC uses a battery-backed setup. On real hardware, a dying battery can wipe saves. On emulators, RTC and SRAM-flush settings decide whether your file survives a reboot.
ROM + battery reality
Emulator checklist
Tool suite
More Harvest Moon GBC Tools
When you hit a specific bottleneck, jump into the matching tool page instead of rereading everything.
