Harvest Moon DS Cute Walkthrough

Harvest Moon DS Cute Tips & FAQs
Version 1.02
By yunakitty livserge331@comcast.net
Well, since nobody else seems to want to cover this game, I guess I will do
it.  Here goes!
I will greatly acknowledge the information from Ushi No Tane.  It is what I
referenced while playing the game myself.  I tried not to plagiarize it here,
I tried to paraphrase things that I learned from the site.  Some stuff I did
figure out or improve myself.
Updates:
7/15/08 Version 1.1 Added info about making friends, getting the kitchen, and
unlocking the hot springs.
7/7/08 Version 1.02  Added info about leveling tools, some marriage info, and
misc tips.
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Table of Contents:
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(You can use Ctrl-F and the codes in parentheses after each entry to jump
right to what you want.)
A. General Tips and Tricks (GTT)
1.  Littering (LTR)
2.  Picking Wild Items for Easy Money (WEM)
3.  Making Easy Money in the Dig Site  (EZM)
4.  Opening the Mines (OPM)
5.  Buying Things (BYT)
6.  Animals and Buildings (AML)
7.  Crops (CRP)
8.  Leveling Up Crops (LVL)
9.  Mining (MNG)
10. Upgrading Tools (UPT)
11. Fishing (FSH)
12. Weather (A Trick for Controlling it.) (WTH)
13. Leveling Up Tools (LVT)
14. Getting a Kitchen so You can Cook!
15. Making Friends (FRD)
16. Unlocking the Hot Springs (HTS)
17. Misc Tips (MSC)
B. Cooking (CKG)
C. Rescuing the 101 Sprites (101S)
D. Bachelors (BCH)
Valley Guys:
Marlin
Rock
Griffin
Gustafa
Carter
Mineral Town Guys:
Gray
Cliff
Trent (Doctor)
Kai
Rick
- After Marriage
E. Festivals (FST)
F. Credits and Notes
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A. General Tips and Tricks (GTT)
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I will avoid spoilers as much as I can, so this should be safe to read even
if you are just starting out.
1. Littering (LTR)
For God's sake, don't litter!  Littering is throwing anything on the ground
outside of your farm.  Yes, even weeds!  Each time you litter, EVERYONE'S
affection for you drops.  So a day of careless weed pulling can undo months
of hard work at making friends.  Just hit Y to put it in your backpack, and
you can throw it in the shipping bin when you get home.  Everything counts
towards your shipping totals, so why not ship even junk?
2. Picking Wild Items for Easy Money (WEM)
Speaking of weed picking, the clearer that the fields around town are, the
more wild stuff that will grow in them.  So if you have some time to kill,
clear out what you can.  This is very helpful at the beginning when you need
money, a lot of weeds (for easily upping your shipped item numbers,) and
branches and small rocks both for strengthening your tools and building up
lumber.  A bag full of colored grasses can bring in a good amount of money.
3. Making Easy Money in the Dig Site  (EZM)
Another way to make money early on is to dig in the front room of the dig
site.  Save your game while inside, then dig around with your hoe.  You can
either remember each spot and then reload and dig them all right up (it's
good memory practice) or reload when you find each one and go right to it,
dig it up, save, and keep on going.  You will save A LOT of energy this way.
The jewelry you find ships for 2000G each, and sells to Van for even more.
Save the other stuff (face packs, lotion, etc) for gifts, since they only
sell for 50G.
4. Opening the Mines (OPM)
"I need ores to upgrade my tools!  Where can I find them?"  is a common
question.  There are four mines in the back of the dig site.  To open the
first one, you need to go to the dig site after 8pm (when no one is there)
with your Hammer equipped (some people say this is not necessary.)  A scene
will happen and the first mine is opened.  This mine has 10 floors, with ore
available by breaking the rocks.  To open the next mine, you have to reach
the bottom and then visit the dig site late at night to break open the next
mine.  More information about mining is available later in the FAQ (search
MNG.)
5.  Buying Things (BYT)
There are not many shops in Forget Me Not Valley.  Vesta's shop is on her
farm and is open from 4-7pm.  They sell seasonal seeds.  Van opens up shop
upstairs in the inn on days that end in 3 and 8 (3rd, 8th, 13th, etc.)  He
sells miscellaneous items.  There is a shop in the sprite casino (see Easy
Sprites for how to do that.)  They sell special seeds and accessories, as
well as cookbooks.  For all other things, you need to use the phone in your
house.  You can call
Chicken Lil's (poultry and feed)
Yodel Ranch (livestock, feed, and related tools)
Saibara's Blacksmith (upgrading tools, some tools for sale)
Gotz Construction (building new buildings on your farm.)
Supermarket (seeds, cooking staples, rucksacks, basket)
There is also a TV Shopping channel.  To unlock that, buy something from
Karen for 10 days.  They do not have to be in a row, just 10 total days.
Channel 2 will then open.  Mostly, they show silly products that you can't
actually buy (a wallet that steals money from other people?) but once a week,
it will be something good.  Watch the program, and then use your phone to
call and buy it.  It will arrive in 2-3 days.
6.  Animals and Buildings (AML)
In most previous Harvest Moons, your farm would come with barns.  In HMDS,
you have to ask Gotz to make barns, silos, and lumber sheds.  They cost a lot
of money.  Ready the tips in #2 and #3 to get enough.  You will save a lot of
money if you chop and smash your own materials, but that takes time too.
Chickens - To get chickens, you have to build a bird shed and then buy a
chicken from Chicken Lil's.  You can grow your own chickens by hatching the
eggs they lay in the incubator in the bird shed.  Chickens hatched from eggs
will start out with more affection for you than bought chickens. Each shed
holds 4 birds.
Ducks - You have to build a pond on your farm before you can buy these from
Chicken Lil's.  Ducks lay eggs every other day. Other than that, everything
is the same as chickens.
Cows - Buy from Yodel Ranch.  The ones you buy will take 14 days before they
are old enough to be milked.  You can also make them pregnant, and like
chickens, cows born on your farm will start out with more affection.  Baby
cows take 21 days to mature to milking age.
Sheep - Buy from Yodel Ranch.  You can shear them right away.  They aren't
old enough to make pregnant yet, though.  Their wool grows back after 7 days.
They must have a full coat of wool before they can get pregnant.  You can get
6 balls of small wool each time from shearing by using the touch glove and
just rubbing off a little at a time, and repeating.
Animals take a long time to get to like you.  Don't expect fast results like
in previous games.  I worked hard on rescuing the yellow sprites, and I hire
them constantly to love on my animals.  I keep the animals outside in a
fenced in area with grass in all seasons except winter.  The yellow sprite
team, once they get better at their job, will increase your animals' hearts
slowly but surely, much faster than you can do yourself.
Animals don't like to be out in the rain or snow, and definitely not in
storms!  (See the section about weather for avoiding that.)  Chickens and
ducks can feed off anything on the ground, but cows and sheep need full grown
grass to eat.  Make sure they are in a pen that is completely enclosed, and
the duck pond needs to be inside that enclosure for ducks.  Sometimes a wild
dog will show up at night and bark at them, resulting a bad mood the next
day.  Supposedly, training your dog by playing with him with the ball will
prevent this, but I worked on it for the longest time and it didn't make a
difference, so I just take the occasional bad moods in stride.  It's only
resulted in sickness twice, and I keep plenty of medicine on hand.  You can
also reset to the night before the animal gets sick and try again, sometimes
they won't be sick.
The more hearts a chicken or duck has, the larger egg it will lay.  With cows
and sheep, milking and shearing without the touch glove always results in
small product, no matter how much they like you.  And I've been able to get a
large bottle of milk and large wool by rubbing really fast using the touch
gloves on animals with no hearts.  The point of making livestock like you
more is to get them to win their yearly contest, which will increase their
level.  You can then breed that animal to get a leveled up baby, who you can
get the hearts up on and then have her win the contest, and she'll be Level
2.  Repeat as desired.  You can have an animal win the same contest over
again, but you won't get anything for it.  They can only go up one level in
their life.  Bummer.
7. Crops (CRP)
Crops will only grow in certain seasons.  They will usually tell you when you
equip the bag, and stores only sell what is in season.
Spring:
Turnips - 5 days
Potatoes - 8 days
Cucumbers - 10 days, harvest again in 2 days
Strawberries - 8 days, harvest again in 2 days
Cabbage - 15 days (sold at Sprite Casino Shop)
Summer:
Onions - 8 days
Pumpkins - 15 days
Corn - 15 days, harvest again in 3 days
Tomatoes - 10 days, harvest again in 3 days
Pineapple - 21 days, harvest again in 5 days (sold at Sprite Casino Shop)
Fall:
Carrots - 8 days
Spinach - 6 days
Eggplant - 10 days, harvest again in 3 days
Yams - 6 days, harvest again in 2 days
Bell Pepper - 8 days, harvest again in 2 days (sold at Sprite Casino Shop)
A little tip is that you can plant the day before a season starts (ie plant
Summer crops on the last day of Spring) and it will work out fine.
You have to hoe an area up to 3x3 (you can leave spots undone if you want
gaps in the crops, especially good for regrow crops.)  Crops are either one
time harvest or they regrow.  If they are one time harvest, that's it, you
pick them and if you want to grow more you have to plant more.  Crops that
regrow will stay there after you pick them, and the ripe crops will reappear
in less time than it took the whole plant to grow.
Crops grow at different rates in different areas.  The figures above are for
regular fields like your farm.  Crops grow one day faster near the mine and
near the Sprite Station.  Crops grow super fast underneath the waterfall
(read Mining section for how to get into there.) All the other fields are
slow growth fields, so it will take slightly longer for crops to ripen (so
why grow stuff there?)
You can also grow fruit trees and mushrooms.  Fruit trees are easy enough.
You have to dig a 2x2 plot with nothing around it to get in the way, and then
plant seeds.  The trees will grow in about 40 days, and they make fruit every
other day in their season.  (Bananas, Oranges, and Peaches grow in summer,
and Grapes and Apples grow in Fall.)  You start out with a peach tree on your
farm.
Mushrooms have to grow in the mushroom house.  It costs a bit of money to
build, and it isn't a big money maker for the time you put in, so only do
this if you really want to.  You have to put a piece of wood lumber on one of
the pallets in the mushroom house.  Then, stand in front of it and sow seeds.
Water the log each day.  It takes over a season to grow just one.  The longer
you wait to pick it, the bigger it will get.  There are three types of
mushrooms, toadstool, matsutake, and shiitake.  You have to buy shiitake
seeds from Vesta, but the other two can be picked around the valley in fall,
and put into the seed maker to make seeds.
8.  Leveling Up Crops (LVL)
The seeds you buy from the stores are Level 1. If you sow more than one bag
of those seeds right on top of another, there is a chance that some of the
crops will be Level 2 crops.  You can sow more than 2 bags of seeds to
increase the odds, but generally 2 bags is enough (you'll get about 3 Level
2's out of 9 total crops.) To further level up crops, you need to upgrade
your house first.  That will open up the "Maker Barn" in Gotz's shop.  Have
that made, then get a piece of Adamantite (found in 3rd mine, see Mining -
MNG) and ask Gray to make a seed maker for you.  Once it's finished, you can
throw those Level 2 crops into it.  One crop will make one bag of seeds, so
in order to get to level 3, you need to put at least 2 Level 2 crops in.
Then you will get at least 2 bags of Level 2 seeds, which you can sow on top
of each other.  That will result in some of the crops being Level 3, and you
repeat this process.  Leveled up crops sell for a LOT more (just one Level 10
turnip sells for about 2000G!)
To level up fruit trees, it's the same process, except that you need to
remember that there is only one "crop" to this planting, so you need to sow
more than two bags to really ensure the tree will be leveled up.  Then put
the leveled up fruits in the seed maker, and plant a new tree with several
bags.  This process obviously takes a while.  The same goes for mushrooms.
You need to put down a lot of bags to make sure they level up.
9.  Mining (MNG)
In the back of the dig site, there are four mines to open.  To open the
first, have your hammer equipped and visit the dig site after 8pm when no one
is there.  To open the second mine, get to the bottom (10th floor) of the
first mine, then visit the dig site again after 8pm.  To open the third mine,
get to the bottom of the second mine (255th floor) then visit the dig site
after 8pm.  To open the fourth and final mine, you have to meet Keria on
floor 255 of the 3rd mine, and then get to the bottom of the 3rd mine (999th
floor) and then visit the dig site late at night.
Inside the mines, on each floor there is a set of stairs going all the way
back up to the surface.  There are also holes that you can't see in the floor
that will drop you a random amount of floors (the number varies in each
mine.) You lose one point of Stamina or Fatigue for every floor you drop, so
keep a close eye on your health (the Truth Bangle from the Sprite Casino
helps a lot.) Also, you can dig around with your hoe to find a set of stairs
going down just one floor (good for when you want to get to a specific
floor.)
A great trick in the mines is to start out in a room by saving in File 1.
Run around, dig, and smash rocks to see what's there.  Then, you can reload
from File 1 and go straight to where the hole is, only hit the rocks that had
stuff you wanted in them, etc.  Before you drop to the next floor, save in
File 2.  Drop down.  If it's where you want to be, save in File 1 and repeat
the pattern.  If you don't like where you landed (ie if you were on the 95th
floor and wanted to go to the 100th, but fell all the way to the 104th) just
reload File 2 and you'll be back right before you fell.  Try falling again
and you'll almost always land somewhere different.
In all mines black grass can be dug up from the ground with your hoe.
There are evil animals in the mines.  Watch out for them!  They will hurt you
if you touch them.  Hit them with any tool to hurt them back. Bugs will fly
back and forth in a straight line.  Birds and livestock will come running at
you and follow you around, trying to hit you.
What's in the mines:
1st mine (10 floors)
Basic ores for upgrading your tools can be found by busting the rocks with
your hammer.  The deeper you go, the better the ores get.  From worst to
best, they are Junk Ore, Copper, Silver, Gold, and Mystrile.  There is only
one Evil animal in this mine, on the 10th floor (an evil chick.)  The holes in
this mine only drop 1 floor at a time.
2nd mine (255 floors)
This one is more interesting.  Jewels are found in the rocks here, similar to
the winter mines in previous HM games.  Most of them aren't worth much (less
than 100g) but others are worth a lot. Peridot, Fluorite, Agate, Amethyst,
Topaz, Ruby, Emerald, Moonstone, Sandstones and Diamonds are the non-valuable
ones.  Once you get further down, past Floor 100, Alexandrite will appear on
floors ending in "10" and Pink Diamonds will appear randomly.  They are worth
a whopping 10000G each, so don't forget to bust some rocks every now and then
on your way to the bottom.  Just remember to use the save and reload trick I
mentioned before to save a lot of stamina.
At the very bottom of the mine there is a sword.  You can only pick up the
sword if you have all six tools (Hoe, Hammer, Axe, Sickle, Watering Can, and
Fishing Pole) upgraded to Mystrile level.  Quite a feat.  So use those tools
whenever you've got spare time and energy.  You can check how leveled up they
are by going to your Earnings menu (the white square on the left side of the
bottom screen) and then clicking on your face.
This hammer will open up the Super Growth field behind the waterfall.  Have
it equipped and press A (not Y!) in front of the rock.
There are evil birds and bugs in this mine.  They get worse the lower you go.
You can drop up to 10 floors at a time in this mine.
3rd Mine (999 floors)
You can find all the ores in this mine, as well as Adamantite (for makers),
Orihalcum, and all of the Season Suns (Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter) used
in your basement to grow crops out of season.
Something extra in this mine is the cursed tools and cursed accessories.
When you equip these, you can't take them off until you call the church and
have them blessed.  You can have them simply removed for 1000G, or have the
cursed lifted entirely for 100000G.  This will turn them into blessed
versions.  The cursed tools can be found by digging in the dirt on floors 24,
35, 48, 52, 68, 71, 87, 99, 106, 118, 124, 135, 142, 153, 162, 178, 185, and
197.  Find the cursed accessories by digging in the ground on floors 324,
335, 348, 352, 368, 371, 387, 399, 406, 418, 424, 435, 442, 453, 462, 478,
485, 497, 724, 735, 748, 752, 768, 771, 787, 799, 806, 818, 824, 853, 862,
878, 885, and 897.  They include Time Ring (makes time go twice as fast when
cursed, and slow down when blessed), the Witch Earrings (which deplete
Stamina and Fatigue when cursed, but restore them gradually when blessed.)
and the Speed boots (which slow you down when cursed, but make you run twice
as fast when blessed.)
You can also find Mythic Stones in the mines.  You have to have found all 6
cursed tools and have them blessed before the Mythic Stones will even show
up!  You can sell them for 20000G if you wish, or use them to upgrade your
tools to the final stage.  You can only find one per visit, so once you have
one, you can get out of the mine and upgrade your tool, then come back
another day.  They are on floors that end in 0 up to the 250th floor, then on
floors than end in 5 from 255-995, and also on Floor 999.
Keria, the sleeping princess, is on the 255th floor of this mine.  She has a
sign that says what gifts she wants.  Bring them to her to increase her
friendship.
There are evil birds and bugs in this mine, and you might run into evil sheep
and cows on the very bottom floors.
You can drop up to 100 floors at a time in this mine.
4th Mine
There are 65535 floors!  You can fall up to 300 floors at a time. The Colored
Wonderful Stones can be found in this mine.  There are nine colors, with a
different color on each of the floors that end in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70,
80, and 90. If you collect all the colors, the Goddess will grant you a wish.
10.  Upgrading Tools (UPT)
Each time you use a tool, you increase the experience on it.  Go into your
farm data page (where you can see how much money you have) and click on your
own face.  Scroll down at it will show you how far along each tool is.  Once
you have enough experience, the ore you want to upgrade it with, and money
(anywhere from 1000 to 5000G, going up each level) you can call Gray at the
blacksmith and have him upgrade it for you.  It will take time until you get
it back, so keep this in mind when upgrading tools you need on a day to day
basis - ie the watering can.  Make other arrangements (hint hint, sprites) to
have your crops watered while it's in the shop.
11.  Fishing (FSH)
The biggest question everyone has is "Where is the fishing pole?"  You have
to go into Galen and Nina's house with nothing equipped in your tool spot.
Galen will give you the pole if he's in there.  If not, keep visiting until
you catch him in there.  You can only catch small fish with the pole as it
is, but as you upgrade it, you can charge it just like other tools and catch
larger fish.  The good thing about the fishing pole is that it still only
uses 2 Stamina each use no matter how much you charge it.
12.  Weather (A Trick for Controlling it.) (WTH)
Always save right before you go to bed.  In the morning, the first thing you
should do is check channel 1 for the weather.  If it is not what you want,
reload to the night before, go to sleep again, and check it again.  This
totally resets the weather that's coming up.  You can use this to avoid
hurricanes and snowstorms, to make it rain if you need it to for an event, or
to avoid rain altogether so that you can keep your animals outside
constantly.  Just remember that you're working on the next day's weather.  So
if you want it to rain on a Monday, you need to save before bed on SATURDAY,
not Sunday.  When you wake up Sunday morning, check the weather report (which
is for Monday) and if it's not raining, just reload that Saturday and try
again.  Sometimes it takes a while (I've had to reload 10 times once) but it
will happen.  Keep in mind that it will always be sunny on festival days, so
don't waste time trying to make it rain then!  If it's taking an abnormally
long time for you to get the weather you want, check the calendar and make
sure there's not a holiday on that day.
13.  Leveling up Tools (LVT)
For the main 6 tools, (hoe, sickle, watering can, fishing pole, hammer, and
axe) your normal daily use will add experience to your tools.  Go into your
Farm Data screen, then tap on your own face to see your progress.  You can
also just use the tool over and over, not in its appropriate way (ie, cast
the fishing line out, and draw it back in immediately without catching
anything will level it up just as well as catching a fish.)  As you reach
each level (Copper, Silver, Gold, Mystrile) you can send the tool to the shop
with the appropriate ore and have it improved.  You will be able to hold down
the A button to charge the tools to whatever level you have them at, then let
go to get an improved result.
To get the tools beyond that, you first have to venture into the 3rd mine (see
the mining section) and find the cursed tools.  These will do the same thing
as blessed tools, but they use up a lot of stamina and fatigue! Get them
blessed by calling Carter and paying 100000G.  Once all the tools are
blessed, you will be able to find Mythic Stones in the 4th mine to level them
up to the final level.  Mythic tools use up a lot less Stamina on their full
charge than regular tools.
For all tools except the Fishing Pole, using the tool regular uses 2 Stamina
with each use.  Using it charged to the 2nd level uses 4 Stamina.  The 3rd, 5
Stamina.  4th, 7 Stamina.  5th, 9 Stamina. 6th, 10 Stamina.  If your Stamina is
gone, all charge levels build 2 Fatigue.  When using tools in bad weather,
you will build a Fatigue point in addition to the Stamina consumed with each
use.  (And yes, once you've eaten away your stamina, you will also get that
extra Fatigue point each time, for 3 on each use.)  The Fishing Pole is the
same when it comes to bad weather, but all charge levels only use 2 Stamina.
Axe:
1st Level - chops sticks only
2nd Level (copper) - will chop stumps in 6 fully charged hits
3rd Level (silver) - will chop stumps in 3 fully charged hits
4th Level (gold) - will chop stumps in 2 fully charged hits
5th Level (mystrile) - will chop stumps in 1 fully charged hits
6th Level (cursed/blessed) - all wood in that area
7th Level (Mythic) - all wood in that area
Hammer:
1st Level - smashes small stones only
2nd Level (copper) - will smash big stone in 3 fully charged hits
3rd Level (silver) - will smash big stone in 2 fully charged hits/boulder in 6
4th Level (gold) - will smash big stone in 1 fully charged hits/boulder in 3
5th Level (mystrile) - smash big stone in 1 fully charged hit/boulder in 2
6th Level (cursed/blessed) - all rocks in 9x9 area
7th Level (Mythic) - all rocks in the entire area
Fishing Pole:
1st Level - Small & Medium Fish
2nd Level (copper) - Small & Medium Fish
3rd Level (silver) - Small & Medium Fish
4th Level (gold) - Small, Medium & Large Fish
5th Level (mystrile) - Small, Medium & Large Fish
6th Level (cursed/blessed) - S, M & L Fish, rare items, fish kings
7th Level (Mythic) - S, M & L Fish, rare items, fish kings
Watering Can:
1st Level - waters 1 square
2nd Level (copper) - waters 3 squares
3rd Level (silver) - waters 2x3 squares
4th Level (gold) - waters 3x3 square
5th Level (mystrile) - waters 3x5 square
6th Level (cursed/blessed) - waters 6x12 square
7th Level (Mythic) - waters 12x21 square
Hoe:
1st Level - tills 1 square
2nd Level (copper) - 2 squares in a line in front of you
3rd Level (silver) - 3 squares in a line
4th Level (gold) - 4 squares in a line
5th Level (mystrile) - 6 squares in a line
6th Level (cursed/blessed) - 3x12 square in front of you
7th Level (Mythic) - 5x18 square
Sickle:
1st Level - cuts 1 square
2nd Level (copper) - cuts 3 squares perpendicular to you
3rd Level (silver) - cuts 2x3
4th Level (gold) - cuts 3x3
5th Level (mystrile) - cuts 5x5
6th Level (cursed/blessed) - cuts 9x9
7th Level (Mythic) - cuts 15x15
The milker and shears can be leveled up as well.  At Level 0, the milker will
just give you one bottle of milk.  At Level 1, you will get two bottles of
milk each time you milk a cow, and so on.  Leveling up the milker and shears
takes a long time.  Even after 13 seasons of milking one cow every day and
shearing one sheep 6 times each week, they were both only halfway to Level 1.
But, there is a trick.  Just using the tool in the air gives it experience.
So, you can use it over and over again.  About 17 times moves it just a
fraction of an inch.  So this will still take a while.  It took me 4 days of
doing it nonstop from sunup to sundown to go from halfway to Level 1 to just
at Level 2. Equip any stamina/fatigue saving equipment you might have, and go
at it.  I was attempting this when I was already rich from leveling up crops,
so I just bought a bunch of Turbojolt XL from Van and just chugged them when
I needed to.  This also works indoors, so you can keep time from passing.  If
you aren't rich, then you can do this in conjunction with fulfilling the Hot
Springs requirements for saving two purple Sprites, Violetto (rest 200 times
for at least an hour at a time in the Circus Grounds Hot Springs) and Carey
(rest 200 times for at least an hour at a time in the Goddess Pond Hot
Springs.)  Use the tool until your Stamina is spent, then rest in the Goddess
Hot Springs, or use it until your Fatigue is almost full, and rest in the
Circus Hot Springs.  I personally prefer building up Fatigue, since it only
adds 2 each time, and the milker uses 4 Stamina each time.  It's just more
cost effective to build up Fatigue and reduce it!  But it's up to you!
14.  Getting a Kitchen So You Can Cook!  (KTC)
Step 1:  Unlock the Shopping Sprite Channel 2.  You can do this by buying
items from Karen's shop for 10 days.  They don't have to be in a row, you
just have to buy at least one item on at least 10 different days.
Step 2:  Buy the Clock and the Table from Channel 2.  Channel 2 plays a silly
program about "Sprite Items" on most days, but keep watching and eventually
there will be something you can actually buy.  (You'll know it's something
good if the beginning says "It's exciting, it's surprising" instead of
"Shocking, dismaying."  There is not a certain day that buyable items are
shown.  The day will move if you forget to watch or buy something the day
after it was shown.  A new item will appear one week after you purchased the
last item. It's not a huge deal, but keep that in mind.  Once you've seen
something you want to buy, use the phone in your house to call them.  Say you
want to buy it, and the Mayor will deliver it 2-3 days later.
Step 3:  Upgrade your house.  Call Gotz (he is open 11am-5pm, all days but
Saturday and holidays) and buy the house upgrade.  It's pretty expensive, so
start saving now.
Step 4:  Keep watching the Shopping Channel.  Eventually, they will sell a
Kitchen, and then the utensils to use in it.
15.  Making Friends (FRD)
Honestly, the only two people in town you should care about befriending are
Daryl, Nina, and Flora.  They are the only two that will give you anything
worthwhile once you are friends.  But, if you just want to be friendly, more
power to you.
Loved Item/Liked Item/So-So Item/Disliked Item/Hated Item
First-gift FP scale: +9 / +3 / +1 / -3 / -9
Extra-gift FP scale: +3 / +1 / 0 / -3 / -9
This means that if you give a person an item that they really love, and it
raises their FP by 9, giving them another of the same item on the same day
will only raise it by 3 more each time.
If you give them an item that they like and it raises the FP by 3, giving
them more on the same day will raise the FP by 1 each time.
If you give them a so-so gift, it will raise the FP by 1, and more of those
gifts on the same day will not change the FP.
If you give them a gift they dislike, it will lower the FP by 3, and more of
that gift on the same day will also lower the FP by 3.
If you give them a gift they hate, it will lower the FP by 9, and more of
that gift on the same day will also lower the FP by 9.
They also work with each other.  Say you give a person a hated gift and their
FP drops by 9.  If you then give them a gift they love on the same day, it
will only raise the FP by 3, because the game considers it an extra gift.
You can see everyone's FP for you by using the Love Bangle from the Sprite
Shop.
So, for making friends with Flora and Nina, both like for you to show them
your pets (will give +1 FP an unlimited number of times in a row.)  If you
want to actually give them gifts, both Nina and Flora conveniently love