Basic Information

Here is some basic information about the game:

  • You can only play as a boy.
  • There are 7 days in a week: Monday - Sunday.
  • There are 4 seasons: spring, summer, fall, and winter. Each season lasts for 30 days.
  • Every store is closed on weekends & festival days.
  • If it's raining or snowing, everyone in the game will be inside their place of residence, regardless of the day.
  • Rain and snow can destroy fence pieces, which will attract wild dogs at night. Break them with your hammer and put in a new fence piece from your wood bin. If you want to get rid of your fence pieces, throw them in the pond at your ranch.
  • Hurricanes can randomly occur during the summer. If this happens, you will be locked inside your house and you cannot leave to do any farm chores. The hurricane may also destroy some of your crops.
  • Time stops when you are inside any building.
  • Nights last forever. It will only become morning when you go to bed.
  • You will always wake up at 6:00 am everyday and automatically eat breakfast.
  • You will automatically eat lunch at 12:00 pm, no matter where you are. You will not stop to eat if you are fishing or riding the horse.
  • Anything put in the shipping bin after 5:00 pm will not count and you will not get paid for it.
  • Flowers, cake, weeds, stones, lumber, and fodder cannot be shipped or sold to the Peddler.
  • There is no rucksack. You can only carry one item at a time and hold two tools.
  • The game ends on summer 30th of year 3.

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