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There are many different crops you can grow as well as wild plants you can harvest in Harvest Moon: Back to Nature. The crops and wild plants are different every season and if you still have crops planted they will die when the season changes.
The profit per day is a number I calculated to compare different crops to see which crop is the best investment since they all grow at different rates, sell for different amounts and the seeds cost different amounts too.
- Both Harvest Moon 64 and Back to Nature ( BTN) are very similar in style, game play, and even the characters within each game. Think of 64 as the slightly older brother to BTN. These games were in development right around the same time, which explains why there are so many similarities between the two.
- Harvest Moon: Back to Nature – ANN Black Heart Event (right choice) Harvest Moon: Back to Nature – ELLI Black Heart Event (other options) Harvest Moon: Back to Nature – Power Berry 1; Harvest Moon: Back to Nature – POPURI Black Heart Event (wrong vs right choice) Harvest Moon: Back to Nature – MARY Black Heart Event (right choice).
To calculate the profit per day I took one 3×3 square of land in the videogame and calculated how much gold you could earn by planting the seeds repeatedly if they didn’t grow back or by repeatedly harvesting them if they did grow back. I took the total revenue at the end of the season minus the expense for seeds and then divided it by 30 days.
This number takes into consideration factors such as having extra days at the end of the season where there isn’t enough time for the crop to grow back and the fact that you can’t reach the middle plant of crops that grow back until you cut down the rest at the end of the season in this videogame.
This number also assumes you have a watering can that can water a 3×3 square so you can reach that middle plant.
All the wild plants can be found on the mountain, near the hot springs or in the area around Gotz’s house.
Spring Crops
| Seed Price | Selling Price | Days to Grow | Days to Re-Grow | Profit Per Day | Where to Buy/Find | |
| Turnip | 120g | 60g | 5 | – | 84g | |
| Potato | 150g | 80g | 8 | – | 57g | |
| Cucumber | 200g | 60g | 10 | 5 | 75g | |
| Cabbage | 500g | 250g | 15 | – | 117g | Won’s Shop |
| Strawberry | 150g | 30g | 9 | 2 | 84g | Supermarket* |
| Toy Flower | 300g | – | 12 | – | – | Won’s Shop |
| Moondrop Flowers | 300g | – | 6 | – | – | Won’s Shop^ |
| Grass | 500g | – | 11 | 7 | – | |
| Bamboo Shoot | – | 50g | – | – | 150g | Grows in the wild |
| Blue Grass | – | 100g | – | – | 200g | Grows in the wild |
* The Strawberry seeds become available after you ship 100 turnips, 100 potatoes, 100 cucumbers and 100 cabbages.
^ During the spring if you have at least 15,000 affection with Karen she’ll come by and give you some Moondrop seeds. After they bloom Won will start selling Moondrop seeds.
In terms of profit your best investment during the spring in Harvest Moon: Back to Nature is to go with cabbage seeds. While you can only plant two of them in the same space in one season, they ultimately bring in the most profit per day. If you’re starting off and can’t afford cabbage yet then go with turnips. Cucumber’s might seem like a good investment in this videogame since they grow back but when you do the math they end up earning you less by the end of the season with the same amount of space than turnips.
Every day during the spring you can find 3 bamboo shoots and 2 blue grasses in the wild. In your first year especially you should collect these every day.
Summer Crops
| Seed Price | Selling Price | Days to Grow | Days to Re-Grow | Profit Per Day | Where to Buy/Find | |
| Onion | 150g | 80g | 8 | – | 57g | |
| Tomato | 200g | 60g | 10 | 3 | 107g | |
| Corn | 300g | 100g | 15 | 3 | 153g | |
| Pineapple | 1,000g | 500g | 21 | 5 | 250g | Won’s Shop |
| Pumpkin | 500g | 250g | 15 | – | 117g | Supermarket* |
| Pink Cat Flower | 200g | – | 6 | – | – | Won’s Shop |
| Grass | 500g | – | 11 | 7 | – | |
| Red Grass | – | 100g | – | – | 200g | Grows in the wild |
* The pumpkin seeds become available after you ship 100 onions, 100 tomatos, 100 corn and 100 pineapples.
In terms of making the most profit with your space during the summer in Harvest Moon: Back to Nature you should plant pineapples. Even though they take almost all season to grow and you can only get two harvests out of them their high selling price is enough to make them the best investment in this videogame. If you can’t afford them then your next best bet is to go with corn.
Every day during the summer you can find 2 red grasses growing in the wild.
Fall Crops
| Seed Price | Selling Price | Days to Grow | Days to Re-Grow | Profit Per Day | Where to Buy/Find | |
| Carrot | 300g | 120g | 8 | – | 78g | Supermarket |
| Eggplant | 120g | 80g | 10 | 3 | 148g | |
| Sweet Potato | 300g | 120g | 6 | 3 | 282g | Supermarket |
| Green Pepper | 150g | 40g | 8 | 2 | 252g | Won’s Shop |
| Spinach | 200g | 80g | 6 | – | 87g | Supermarket* |
| Magic Red Flower | 600g | – | 10 | – | – | Won’s Shop |
| Grass | 500g | – | 11 | 7 | – | |
| Apples | – | 50g | – | – | 150g | The tree on your farm |
| Green Grass | – | 100g | – | – | 200g | Grows in the wild |
| Wild Grapes | – | 50g | – | – | 100g | Grows in the wild |
| Mushroom | – | 70g | – | – | 280g | Grows in the wild |
| Poisonous Mushroom | – | 100g | – | – | 100g | Grows in the wild |
| Truffle | – | 500g | – | – | 500g | Grows in the wild |
* The spinach seeds become available after you ship 100 carrots, 100 eggplants, 100 sweet potatoes and 100 green peppers.
On rare ocassions a red coloured Red Magic Flower (they’re usually blue hence the confusion) will grow and this can be sold for 200g.
By far your best investment in the fall of Harvest Moon: Back to Nature is to grow sweet potatoes. These aren’t too expensive either so you should easily be able to plant a lot.
Every day during the fall in this videogame you can find 3 apples by the tree on your farm, and in the wild you can find 2 green grasses, 4 mushrooms, 1 poisonous mushroom, 2 wild grapes and 1 truffle.
Make sure you grab that truffle every day and you’ll get 15,000g by the end of the season.
Hothouse Only
| Seed Price | Selling Price | Days to Grow | Days to Re-Grow | Profit Per Day | Where to Buy | |
| Orange Cup Fruit | 1,000g | 60g | 8 | – | -46g | Won’s Shop |
Orange Cup Fruits don’t seem like a good way to make money at all in Harvest Moon: Back to Nature. You probably only want to grow these to give as gifts.
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Other notes
If you plant at least one 3 x 3 square of any flowers bees will come to your farm and make a hive in your apple tree. From then on you’ll be able to collect a jar of honey from the hive every day which sells for 50g. Give a jar to Louis and he’ll tell you the bees are of a rare species and the honey you collect will then sell for 60g.
If you plant 90+ of any kind of flower Anna will come to your farm and ask your permission to pick all of them. She’ll take all your flowers but give you a power berry.
In Harvest Moon: Back to Nature there are a ton of characters that you can befriend. Like the girls in this video game they all have their own likes, dislikes, birthdays personalities and schedules. If you become really good friends with a character they’ll tell you their favorite recipe. Recipes you cook add to your farm percentage. By becoming really good friends with these characters you’ll also be able to enter the locked rooms in their houses.
Anna
BarleyBasil
Cliff
Doctor Tim
Doug
Duke
Ellen
Gotz
Gray
Greg
Harris
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Kano
Lillia
Louis
Manna
May
Mayor Thomas
Pastor Carter
Rick
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Saibara
Sasha
Stu
Won
Zack
Character’s Affection Levels
The villagers affection levels in Harvest Moon: Back to Nature work much like the girls however the numbers are all much lower.
All characters start out with 50 affection and can have a maximum of 255 affection in this videogame. There unfortunately isn’t really any way to check their affection levels though.
Every night there’s a very low percent chance that a character’s affection might randomly go down 1 point. As long as you try to talk to people at least somewhat often then this should never be a problem.
As long as you speak to a character once or give them a gift their affection will go up by 1 at the start of the next day in the game.
You can give multiple gifts to a character in the same day and increase your affection with them. You don’t get quite as nice an amount of affection from multiple gifts as you do with the girls though.
How the first gift given in a day affects a character’s affection levels
| Type of Gift | Average day, not wrapped | Average day, wrapped | Birthday, not wrapped | Birthday, wrapped |
| Hated | -9 | -7 | -45 | -43 |
| Disliked | -3 | -1 | -15 | -13 |
| Neutral | +1 | +3 | +5 | +7 |
| Liked | +3 | +5 | +15 | +17 |
| Loved | +9 | +11 | +45 | +47 |
| Jewelry | +3 | +5 | +15 | +17 |
How additional gifts given in a day affect a character’s affection levels
| Type of Gift | Average day, not wrapped | Average day, wrapped | Birthday, not wrapped | Birthday, wrapped |
| Hated | -9 | -10 | -45 | -50 |
| Disliked | -3 | -4 | -15 | -20 |
| Neutral | 0 | -1 | 0 | -5 |
| Liked | 1 | 0 | +5 | 0 |
| Loved | 3 | 2 | +15 | +40 |
| Jewelry | 1 | 0 | +5 | 0 |
Events
There are also a ton of events in Harvest Moon: Back to Nature with these characters that will happen depending on certain conditions. Like the events with the girls however nobody on the Internet seems to know how to trigger most of these events so you’re just going to have to play the videogame and hope for the best.
The Harvest Sprites
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You can find the Harvest Sprites in the small hut behind the church. You can ask the sprites to work on your farm doing things such as watering crops, taking care of your animals or harvesting crops. For the record I have never hired the Harvest Sprites to do any work in any of my play-throughs of this videogame.
If you speak to them twice you can get them to work on your farm. During the spring all they talk about is a tea party and you’ll have to speak to them 5 times to get them to do any work for you.
The Harvest Sprites have heart levels that go up every 25 affection points. They also lose 2 affection every time you make them work.
They also have a hidden skill level for various jobs that starts out at 0 for each job. As you get them to do work for you this skill level will go up by one point and they’ll eventually get less terrible at doing the work. The maximum skill level for each job is 255 points.
The harvest sprites in this game all like and dislike the same things and they gain affection at the same rate as the villagers. They all have different birthdays which are listed below.
Chef
Fall 14
Nappy
Winter 22
Hoggy
Fall 10
Timid
Summer 16
Aqua
Spring 26
Staid
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Spring 15Bold
Spring 4
Probably the easiest way to get the harvest sprites to like you is to just buy a ton of flour at the supermarket and give it to them.
| Loves |
| Apple Jam, Apple Pie, Bodigizer, Bodigizer XL, Bread, Butter, Cake, Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Cookie, Cookie, Flour, Fruit Juice, Grape Jam, Honey, Hot Milk, Jewelry, Mixed Juice, Omelet, Pizza, Pumpkin Pudding, Raisin Bread, Relaxation Tea, Relaxation Tea Leaves, Strawberry Jam, Strawberry Milk, Sweet Potato (dish), Turbojolt XL, Wild Grape, Wine and Yarn Ball |
| Likes |
| Apple, Blue Grass, Blue Magic Red Flower, Boiled Egg, Carrot, Cheese, Cheese Fondue, Cheesecake, Chocolate, Egg, Fruit Latte, Gold Egg, Grape Juice, Ice Cream, Jam Bun, Mayonnaise, Milk, Mixed Latte, Moondrop Flower, Mushroom Rice, Oil, Orange Cup Fruit, Pineapple, Pink Cat Flower, Pumpkin, Red Grass, Red Magic Red Flower, Rice Omelet, Spinach, Stew, Strawberry, SUGDW Apple, Tomato Juice, Toy Flower, Truffle, Turbojolt, Turnip, Vegetable Juice and Wool |
| Neutral |
| Bamboo Rice, Bamboo Shoot, Bandage, Cabbage, Chicken Feed, Corn, Cucumber, Curry, Dinner Roll, Eggplant, Fish Food, Fodder, Fried Rice, Fries, Green Pepper, Grilled Fish, Ketchup, Ketchup Recipe, Lumber, Miso Soup, Mushroom, Onion, Popcorn, Potato, Rice Ball, Roasted Potatoes, Salad, Sandwich, Small Fish, Spa-Boiled Egg, Stir Fry, Sweet Potato, Tempura, Tomato, Truffle Rice, Veggie Latte, Veggie Pancake and Winter Lumber |
| Dislikes |
| Chirashi Sushi, Curry Noodles, Curry Powder, Fried Noodles, Greens, Happy Eggplant, Large Fish, Medium Fish, Noodles, Pickled Turnips, Pickles, Sashimi, Scrambled Eggs, Sushi and Tempura Noodles |
| Hates |
| Adamantite, Branch, Copper Ore, Dead Weeds, Food Fiasco, Fries Recipe, Garbage, Gold Ore, Green Grass, Mystrile, Orichalc, Poisonous Mushroom, Silver Ore, Stone, Weeds, Winter Branch and Winter Stone |