Here's the start of an FAQ!

Some questions that I see asked rather often! super duper WIP, I'm just writing down what came to my head as I typed and what I see in the future! Feedback is very welcome :3

(Some sections are minimized by default for spoilers, click the header to show the section.)

Also i really really hate fandom wiki so i'll be trying to link to one of the wiki mirrors along with any links to the wiki :') Please at least install ad-block if you're using that site.

The beginning:

How do I make money quickly?

There is unfortunately no way to cheese money like there is in some other farming games like Rune Factory 5. :(

Dishes do NOT sell for more than crops, so don't cook things before selling them.

General Tips:
  • Explore your farm thouroughly and activate all of the monolites for easily getting to gathering spots each day. There’s 2 near the fields right after you leave your house, 2 at the Hilltop, 2 at the Waterside Biome, and 4 in the southern area near the Old Well monolite.
  • Get the Kitchen expansion ASAP, the Wild Leafs and Little Mushrooms you can get from gathering spots on your farm can be made into Stir Fry, which is a great and easy to get healer and stamina booster through the game, especially the beginning.
  • Try to stick to berry juice rather than veggie juice early game, since you can get berries for free. It heals only 100hp less which is fine earlier on.
  • Juice doesn't fill up your belly any, so you can use it to heal as much as you need. It also doesn't cause you to pause to eat it, which is great in boss battles.
  • Fish aren't huge money makers like in some games, but if you have some extra stamina at the end of the day it's worth it to fish a bit at the farm.
  • The time limit before you faint is actually 2am, but the game switches to "Early Hours" on the clock after midnight. If you faint inside of your house you won't get charged anything, so feel free to pass out on the floor as often as you'd like!
  • There is nothing missable in the entire game, so don't worry about getting locked out of anything permanently.
What're the best crops for each season in the early game?

This heavily depends on where you are in the game, as in later game sections you can make more money via processing crops than selling them plain. For crops on the base farm with no processors, the best are:

Spring: Cucumble, Strawbuddy, Tingle Radish
Summer: Seatide Garlic, Morrocorn
Autumn: Lantern Pumpkin, Royal Eggplant, Morrocorn
Winter: Chilly Plant, Argene Cabbage

Note that the crops in italics can be harvested multiple times, so if you can't harvest the full length, they aren't as profitable or may not be worth planting at all.

Also, remember to always buy crops from the town that match their season (Spring - Nemea, Summer - Shatolla, Authmn - Lethe, Winter - Argene). Even though Lethe stocks some for each season, they're cheaper if you buy them from the other towns.

You can view the growth time and profit per crop on the wiki here (mirror)

Okay, how do I actually make money other than selling crops?

Sidequests! Once you hit chapter 3 a bunch of side quests become available. They can be a little lengthy, but you usually can get a couple thousand grilla plus some free seeds for each quest.

There are also dish delivery quests in each town, which can give some decent money for each item delivered.

Oh no! Things are happening but I want to take my time and farm!

That's completely fine! Literally everything in the storyline can just wait if you want, barring a couple of really short sections that you'll lose party members for less than an in-game day's worth of time.

:) Don't worry about the children that are kidnapped by thieves or the meteor that's about to hit the earth in two days or the monster that's currently eating your friend, they'll be fine while you harvest some carrops! (note that my silly examples don't happen in the game I just picked some dramatic sounding jrpg-like events, no spoilers here)

How do I get rid of the big rocks on my farm?

Complete chapter 3-C

Can I move trees?

You cannot move trees, but you can remove them permanently by using the hammer.

Will trees die during Quietus?

Nope! Even while they're still saplings, they'll be fine through quietus.

You can also plant them out of season, they'll only start to produce fruit once it becomes the correct season for it though.

How do I move the fermenting barrel/other processors?

You can use the hammer on these to return them into your inventory, unharmed! You have to hit them 3 times.

[General later game tips, like the exp and jp rings]

Chapter 3

(I'll be referring to the separate "3-A, 3-B, 3-C" as "subchapters")

I'm having trouble with [Dungeon name here]

The enemies in each subchapter's dungeon are typically weak to the elements used by the charaters you get in that subchapter, so if you're having trouble and aren't using them, or their jobs, try switching to that!

For the dungeons between towns, it is a completely valid strategy to just run past all of the enemies if you need to. Though of course if you have to do this, you may not be high enough level to take on the rest of the dungeons. You can at least access the town to buy from the store and start some sidequest though!

General tip:

Make sure you have a 3k grilla/money when first starting the story for 3-C.

Chapter 4+

Okay so most of this part of the game just turned into one section in my brain! I'll have toggles for spoilers on some sections/questions once I have them down here.

Where can I get Nitro Pinapples?

Astrum Helix Research Facility. There is a specific spot that is good for farming seeds, I'll try to locate the instructions and link them here. I believe someone in the discord server made a video for it even.

Where can I get Promised Fruit Saplings?

Also Astrum Helix Research Facility

Endgame/Karenoid

The final boss keeps murdering me, what do I do?

Juice.

The best strategy is a certain setup of jobs and party members to increase your magic defence the most, i'll locate that info later.

I can't find the last Conellu Doll?

Here's the page on the wiki that has the locations of every doll. Good luck, you will need it. (mirror)

Is the game glitched? I CANNOT find it.

As far as people can tell there is not a glitch for the Conellu doll count. Soooo many people have this issue if you're suffering from missing conellu doll disease you are not alone.

While looking at a guide, be sure to double check everywhere. YES even if you are 100% sure you already got that one. Did you get both of the ones on the farm? What about the ones in the towns? Did you finish Karenoid yet? People often miss one in Castle of Illusions I think?

How do I unlock all of the statues upstairs/get them gold?

Credits to VertVentus, I'm essentially copy/pasting their information posted on Reddit and discord for this!

Statues

  • Monster Statue - Defeat every type of FEAR
  • Mayor Statue - Complete all 39 sidequests
  • Proshades / Sword Statue - All 126 weapon upgrades
  • Sahagin Statue - All Rare Fish turned in
  • Ein/Protagonist Statue - Final Boss clear
  • Aria Statue - Clear all 60 floors of Karenoid
  • Conellu Statue - Find all 40 Conellu Dolls
  • Woolum & Cluffowl Statue - All ingredients in Encyclopedia
  • Faeries Statue - All items crafted at the crating table*
  • Totokaku Statue - All Recipes made in the Encyclopedia

(For the statues that are earned by filling out the Encyclopedia, you do not need to have both normal and HQ items filled out, just one or the other.)

*Just because you got (Renewed) Orbs from character stories for 64/64 entries under Encyclopedia > Crafting does not mean you have 64/64 recipes at the Crafting Table.

Orb Recipe Locations

  1. Aero Orb Recipe = Njord Steppe. Treasure chest.
  2. Fire Orb Recipe = Higan Canyon, III Cypress Crossing. Treasure chest (Bomb).
  3. Poison Orb Recipe = Heaven's Egg, V Wet Footprints. Behind the blue vine to the north, get the blue potion from the wind in the southeast corner.
  4. Water Orb Recipe = Coral Shrine, V Echo of the Bulla. Southeast triple FEAR after draining the water.
  5. Earth Orb Recipe = Silent Cave. In the western room with pitfalls, fall from the north pitfall.
  6. Ice Orb Recipe = Divine Seaslight Cave, V Chilled Confinement. Elevated ice path east of the Monolite.
  7. Philosopher's Orb Recipe = Castle of Illusion, V Solistitial Steps. Southeast room, Summer > Winter > Spring > Autumn.
  8. Thunder Orb Recipe = Castle of Illusion, V Solistitial Steps. Southwest room.
  9. Renewed Water Orb Recipe = Panthalassa Junction. Chest behind the right FEAR.
  10. Renewed Earth Orb Recipe = Hidden Cave (Totokaku Lv. 3). Below Argene.
  11. Renewed Fire Orb Recipe = Western Upland (Airship). Go around clockwise.
  12. Renewed Poison Orb Recipe = Heaven's Egg, V Wet Footprints. Repair Kit Lv 2.
  13. Renewed Thunder Orb Recipe = Phantasmagoria, III Dream Terminus.. Northern Repair Kit Lv 2.
  14. Renewed Ice Orb Recipe = Astrum Helix Research Fac., V Where Paradise Hatches. Top Level > Level 11 Repair Kit Lv 2 > fall to Level 6.
  15. Renewed Philospher's Orb Recipe = Teleport Maze behind the level 2 repair in Orbital Cradle - V Empireo, Solution in this Reddit post with credit to PinkMage or Here if that link is ever broken
  16. Renewed Aero Orb Recipe = Njord Steppe. Bomb Lv 2.

Major super duper thank you to everyone who has worked on the wiki, datamined the game, or given out advice on the r/harvestella discord server! That's where most of this information came from, and I'll add credits to any charts or links that I provide on this page. A lot of people have done a lot of cool things for this game!