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In
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature
all animals have a hidden affection score. The maximum amount of
affection points any animal can have is 255 and for every 25 points
they'll go up a heart level. You can see the heart level for each of
your animals in the start menu.
Only the first action you take each day in this videogame
will raise their affection levels. That means, for example, that if you
brush your animal once its affection will go up. If you continue to
brush that animal several more times that day you're wasting your time
because it has no effect at that point on their affection levels.
The new affection points you get from say brushing or
talking to your animals don't get added to the total until the start of
the next day.
The only exception to these rules is if you attack your
animal with a tool such as the axe. This will immediately lower its
affection and you can repeatedly attack them and repeatedly lower their
affection level without having to wait until the start of the next day.
You will begin
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature with the dog and it starts out with 10 affection points. The following activities affect your dog's affection points.
| Activity |
Affection Points Per Day |
| Picking him up and putting him down |
+2 Affection |
| Whistling at him and having him respond |
+2 Affection |
| Ignoring him completely all day |
-1 Affection |
| Leaving him outside in the rain, snow, a hurricane or a blizzard overnight |
-5 Affection |
| Attacking your dog with a tool |
-10 Affection |
Your dog also has a second hidden Intelligence stat in
this videogame that starts at 0 and can never decrease. When he becomes
an adult you will be able to purchase a ball that you can use to play
with your dog. If you throw the ball, the dog barks, gets the ball and
returns it to you its intelligence will go up by 3 points. Your dog's
intelligence can only go up by 3 points per day no matter how many times
you throw the ball. The higher your dog's intelligence the better he
will do at the
Dog Race Festival.
You never have to feed your dog in
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature.
It takes a minimum of 60 days to get your dog's heart level to 10.
It also takes a minimum of 85 days to get your dog to maximum intelligence.
During the spring of your first year in
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature you can visit
Yodel Ranch
and receive a horse. The horse starts out with 10 affection points. The
following activites affect your horse's affection points.
| Activity |
Affection Points Per Day |
| Whistling at him and having him respond |
+2 Affection |
| Brushing him |
+2 Affection |
| Not brushing, riding or whistling at him for a whole day |
-1 Affection |
| Attacking him twice |
-1 Affection |
| Attacking him an additional time after having already attacked him twice |
-1 Affection |
| Having a wild dog bark at him twice |
-1 Affection |
| Having a wild dog bark at him an additional time after already being barked at twice |
-1 Affection |
| Leaving him outside in the rain, snow, a hurricane or a blizzard overnight |
-5 Affection |
Talking to your horse will have no effect on its affection levels in
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature.
Your horse also has a hidden stamina stat in this
videogame. His stamina starts at 0 and can never decrease. When your
horse becomes an adult you will be able to ride him. Every time you jump
up onto your horse his stamina will go up by 3 points. His stamina will
only increase once per day no matter how many times you jump onto him.
The higher your horse's stamina is the better it will do in the
Horse Race Festival.
You never have to feed your horse. You can also use your
horse as a mobile shipping bin when it becomes an adult by throwing
items into the bags on the sides of its saddle. These items will get
shipped with everything else. The idea is I guess that your horse takes
the items to the shipping bin for you.
If your horse doesn't have a total of 8 hearts by the end of the first year
Barley will come and take it away.
It takes a minimum of 60 days to get your horse's heart level to 10.
It also takes a minimum of 85 days to get your horse to maximum stamina.
You can buy chickens from the
Poultry Farm for 1,500g each. Chickens start out with 10 affection points and the following activities affect their affection levels:
| Activity |
Affection Points Per Day |
| Feed them |
+10 Affection |
| Attacking a chicken with a tool |
-10 Affection |
| Being barked at by a wild dog |
-10 Affection |
| Forgetting to feed a chicken |
-20 Affection |
| Leaving them outside in the rain, snow, a hurricane or a blizzard overnight |
-120 Affection |
It takes a minimum of 24 days to get a chicken's heart level to 10.
You can buy food for your chickens in this videogame at the
Poultry farm.
One unit of chicken feed costs 10g. You can also throw corn into your
windmill to have one unit of corn converted into 10 units of chicken
feed. If you leave your chickens outside then you don't have to feed
them. You can also put the chicken feed in any of the chicken stalls as
long as you put as many units of food as you have chickens. For example
if you have two chickens you can put the feed in stalls 2 and 5, it
doesn't matter.
After you purchase one chicken in
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature
there's no need to ever purchase another. You can put an egg in the
incubator and after 3 days it will hatch. After another 9 days the chick
will mature into an adult chicken.
Chickens lay eggs when they have at least 1 heart or 25
affection points. If you fail to feed a chicken then it won't lay eggs
for the next two days.
If your chicken wins the
Chicken Festival then they will start to lay gold eggs. You can also get
Saibara to make you the
Mayonnaise Maker.
You can put eggs into the Mayonnaise Maker to get small, medium, large
or gold mayonnaise based on how high your chicken's heart level is. The
higher your chicken's heart level, the better mayonnaise you will get.
Gold eggs get made into gold mayonnaise.
| Chicken Products |
Selling Price |
| Egg |
50g |
| Gold Egg |
150g |
| |
|
| Small Mayonnaise |
100g |
| Medium Mayonnaise |
150g |
| Large Mayonnaise |
200g |
| Gold Mayonnaise |
300g |
You can buy a cow for 6,000g at
Yodel Ranch. Cows start out with 10 Affection points and the following activities affect their affection levels:
| Activity |
Affection Points Per Day |
| Talking to your cow |
+3 Affection |
| Letting your cow eat grass outside |
+2 Affection |
| Feeding your cow fodder inside the barn |
+1 Affection |
| Leaving your cow outside with no mature grass to eat |
-9 Affection |
| Failing to feed your cow fodder when it's inside the barn |
-10 Affection |
| Attacking a cow with a tool |
-10 Affection |
| Having a wild dog bark at your cow |
-10 Affection |
| Leaving them outside in the rain, snow, a hurricane or a blizzard overnight |
-120 Affection |
Brushing or milking your cows has no effect on their affection levels for some strange reason in
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature.
It takes a minimum of 48 days to get your cow's heart level to 10 but
this requires constant perfect weather and a field with enough grass. 60
days is a much more reasonable minimum amount of time to reach the
maximum heart level.
A pregnant cow in this videogame takes 21 days to give
birth to a calf. The calf takes 15 days to grow into an immature cow and
then another 14 days to mature into an adult cow. Because it takes so
long and because pregnant cows give less milk I recommend just buying
all your cows. You won't have to buy the pregnancy potion or loose the
milk while the cow is pregnant.
You can place the fodder in any of the feeding bins in
the barn as long as there are as many units of fodder as there are cows.
If you fail to feed your cow it won't give milk for two days.
If your cow wins the
Cow Festival it will start to give gold milk. You can also have
Saibara make you the
Cheese Maker which will take your cow's milk and turn it into cheese which sells for more.
| Cow Products |
Selling Price |
| Small Milk |
100g |
| Medium Milk |
150g |
| Large Milk |
200g |
| Gold Milk |
300g |
| |
|
| Small Cheese |
300g |
| Medium Cheese |
400g |
| Large Cheese |
500g |
| Gold Cheese |
600g |
You can buy a sheep for 4,000g at
Yodel Ranch. Sheep start out with 10 Affection points and the following activities affect their affection levels:
| Activity |
Affection Points Per Day |
| Talking to your sheep |
+3 Affection |
| Letting your sheep eat grass outside |
+2 Affection |
| Feeding your sheep fodder inside the barn |
+1 Affection |
| Attacking a sheep with a tool |
-1 Affection |
| Having a wild dog bark at your sheep |
-1 Affection |
| Leaving your sheep outside with no mature grass to eat |
-9 Affection |
| Failing to feed your sheep fodder when it's inside the barn |
-10 Affection |
| Leaving them outside in the rain, snow, a hurricane or a blizzard overnight |
-120 Affection |
Brushing your sheep and cutting their wool has no effect on their affection levels in
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature
oddly enough. It takes a minimum of 48 days for your sheep to reach a
heart level of 10 but this again requires perfect weather and a field
with enough grass. A minimum of 60 days to reach the maximum heart level
is a much more likely amount of time.
If you give your sheep the pregnancy potion in this
videogame it will take 21 days for a new sheep to be born. Lambs then
take a total of 15 days to mature into adult sheep that can have their
wool cut.
It takes 7 days for a sheep to regrow its wool after it
has been cut and if you fail to feed your sheep you'll set this back by
one day. You again can put the fodder in any of the bins as long as
there are as many units of fodder as you have sheep.
If your sheep wins the
Sheep Festival it will start to give gold wool. You can also get
Saibara to make you a
Yarn Maker where you can make yarn out of your sheep's wool which sells for a lot more.
| Sheep Products |
Selling Price |
| Small Wool |
100g |
| Medium Wool |
400g |
| Large Wool |
500g |
| Gold Wool |
600g |
| |
|
| Small Yarn |
300g |
| Medium Yarn |
700g |
| Large Yarn |
800g |
| Gold Yarn |
1000g |
