Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland Any% Cake Contest Notes (Katie Route) [Updated 18 Feb 2021]

NOTES

• You need +140G to start the first day. Different items must be sold in different shops. These include:

  Ronald: Blueberry (30G), Very Berry (10G) Louis: Copper Ore (40G), Iron Ore (60G), Moonlight Stone (100G), Pontata Root (80G), Rare Metal (180G) Lyla: Moondrop (10G), Herb (10G), Limestone (40G) Woody: Blue Rock (90G), Copper Ore (40G), Iron Ore (60G), Limestone (40G), Rare Metal (180G) Alternatively, do part-time work. Brush/talk every horse = +150G. Optimally you will buy and plant/water the corn on Spring 2 while waiting for noon (cafe opens).

SPRING

• Goddess questions: NEGATIVE
• Spring 2:

  Fill watering can and till the whole first plot. If you get minerals totaling 140G or more, sell them; otherwise, keep for weed intro. Sell as necessary or do part-time work, then buy 8 corn seeds. Head to the Lake, and weed intro+gift Katie (pocket the weed, don't toss). Don't forage for gifts. Enter cafe at noon for CS1 Head home, get the recipe in the bookcase before sleeping

• Water everyday and gift Katie everyday except Monday. Don't forage, but just pickup+gift each time, gift+talking Katie until 11 interactions.
• On a Wed or Sat, weed intro Gina on your way to Katie, then toss the weed.
• Harvest 5 times: Spring 12, 16, 20, 24, 28. Reset if any crop loss during rainy season (Spring 17-21).
• DON'T FORGET THE RECIPE (you can grab it any day until Spring 30)
• Sleep until Spring 30
• Spring 30:

  Sell corn at Ronald's Head to Lake and talk to Katie (no gift) Wait and enter cafe at noon to give Katie the recipe (CS2) Head up to Villa, and enter to trigger CS4 Buy cow and chicken at Brownie Farm Buy Milker at the Tool Shop Head back to the cafe by 5pm and enter to trigger CS6 Wait at Goddess Pond for Moondrop Dew CS Back at the farm, put cow out to pasture, and put chicken in front of your house before sleeping Sleep until Fall 8 (risky route) or Fall 23 (safe route; costs ~40s) and skip Gina cutscene

FALL

• Mondays are Fall 11, Fall 18, Fall 25, Winter 2, and Winter 9, so don't try to go to the cafe to finish the ending on those days
• Check cow and chicken for golden egg/milk every day it is sunny
• Skip Katie cutscene on Fall 9/24
• Once you have obtained both, head to cafe on a non-Monday, give her both, then enter cafe at noon; this will trigger a failed cake cutscene, so exit/re-enter once more to get the successful cake cutscene
• Head home, sleep a week, then exit to complete the ending (if animal death, skip cutscene and sleep once more to finish)