Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Cheats

Unlockable Basic Tools
When you walk to the end of the pier, Sabrina will give you a Fishing Rod.
Bianca will give you an axe.
When you reach Lv 2 with your hoe, Rosetta will give you a Sickle.
Leo will give you a hammer when you plow 50 squares in Carmite Cave.
To tame monsters, you need to create a Monster Hut and find the Friendship Glove. Speak to Tabatha to obtain the Friendship Glove. (Monsters when tamed will work on the farm and give you ranch products or fight with you as allies.)

Hint: Brush, Sheers & Basket

To obtain a Brush, some Sheers, and a Basket, do the following. You’ll need a sheep, first off, which can be acquired at Toros Cave. After getting one, head into town the following day (granted it’s not a holiday). Go to Neumann’s Shop and talk to Neumann for the Basket. Once done talking to him, talk to Felicity. She will compliment you on catching an animal and give you the Brush. After you obtain that, head to Calum’s Shop. Talk to him and he will notice you’ve obtained an animal as well, and hand over the Sheers.

Hint: Avoid Tornadoes

To avoid devastation by tornadoes during the summer months, make sure to save your game each day before going to bed. Then, if a tornado does come, you can simply reset your game and try again.

Hint: Friendship Glove

To acquire the Friendship Glove, head to Carmite Cave. Then, exit the cave, talk to Tabatha, and you will receive the glove from her.

Hint: Free Doctor Checkup

If you want a free checkup by a doctor, simply wait until a festival rolls around. When it does, find Edward the doctor. Talk to him and he’ll offer a completely free checkup.

Hint: Extra Cash From Crops

If you want to make more money off of your crops, try the following. Keep in mind you must have the Seed Maker item (which you can buy from Ivan) and at least one crop.

Simply place the crop into the Seed Maker to receive the seed from that crop. Then put them in your shipping box or sell them in town. This makes you more money because, for instance, while a single radish will sell for 60 gold, a radish seed fetches 100 gold. Unfortunately, this won’t work for all crops, so see which ones it will and won’t work for.

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An example of crops that sell for more as seeds than crops are Radishes, Cucumbers, and Potatoes. Amongst the crops that sell for less as seeds than the actual crop are Strawberries and Cabbage.

Easy Win Egg Festival
Buy a small egg from Neumann before the day of the Egg Festival. The festival is held on 23 Spring in your first year. Give the egg as an entry to Jasper at the Festival to win $5000 and an Empty Bottle. Although you dont have a Cockadoodle of your own at this point, the egg you buy will still win the contest.
Be sure to have other monsters on your farm with 3 or 4 FP first
or this trick will not work. If your monsters only have zero FP, you may not win the contest.

Hint: Empty Bottle Locations

To find two empty bottles in the game, do the following. First, go into Mist’s house, go to the cabinet within the house, and press A to find the first of the two empty bottles. Then, go to Jasper’s house and go into the basement, search the boxes near the stairs, and you’ll find another empty bottle by pressing A. (You can also find a Wine Bottle in Jasper’s basement by searching the boxes on the far right side).

Hint: Win Laras Heart

To win Lara’s heart, try giving her a strawberry everyday.

Hint: More Easy Cash

To make some quick gold, try the following. Just keep in mind that it’s initially a little pricey to do, so try to have at least 2,000 gold before attempting this.

First, purchase strawberry seeds from Jean (about two backs should be enough). Also, buy Greenifier from Edward. Plant the seeds in Carmite Cave in an easily accessible area, and use the Greenifier to level up the crops. When they ripen, you’ll have two level two strawberries.

Sell one and make seeds with the other. Use your profits from the ones you sold to buy more Greenifier. Within one season, you should have more than 20,000 gold from this alone if you regularly continue the process. Within a year, you should have enough money to get an upgraded house from Neumann.

If you want to supplement your earnings, take your fishing rod into the second pool of water on the floor with the Chirori. This pool has Needlefish and Jamasquid, and they are both catchable without a rod upgrade and quite rare and worth some money.

Hint: Cancelling Item Use

If you accidentally use an item (or whatever) that you didn’t want to use, the action can actually be cancelled. Simply head to the inventory menu before the action ends (whether it be eating, performing, whatever), and the item use will be cancelled.

Hint: Mining Money

With this little tip on making money, you can make over 200,000 gold or so easily in only one day! First thing youll need is access to the second or third cave. Then, you will need a good hammer, preferably level three, although lower levels can still work. Just go mine away at the two caves for gems and valuable ores such as silver. In the third cave, for instance, I got a ruby that was worth a base price of 700 gold. But, since the ruby was a level 19, the selling price of the ruby was multiplied by 19, which was the level of it. Thats 13,300 gold in one gem!

Even lower level gems you get will fetch good prices. In the second cave you can get sapphires and silver, both worth a good amount per ore and gem. And after multiplying their base price by their level, you get tons of money!