Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town (FoMT) Deep Dive about Farm Tools
Hey guys, it's me, IvanPlaysGames. Today I will teach you how to upgrade your farm tools including your fishing rod. This guide will cover 5 chapters as follows:
1. Overview
2. Upgrading your Tools
3. Cursed, Blessed, and Mythic Tools
4. Upgradeable Tools and its Abilities
5. Tips for Upgrading your Tools
Overview
Upgrading your tools increases their strength, area of effect, or giving new abilities allowing you to arrange and manage your farm much more efficiently, consuming less time in the long run.
The Player has 6 upgradeable tools which are:
1. Hoe
Used to till farm land to plant crops, till land in mines, and remove seed that are already planted
2. Sickle
Used to cut off crops, grass, and weeds off your farm (each grass you cut gives 1 animal fodder for cow or sheep)
3. Axe
Used to chop branches and tree stumps
4. Hammer
Used to smash stones in your farm, stones in mines, boulders, and tilled farm land
5. Watering Can
Used to water crops in your farm
6. Fishing Rod
Used to catch fish and other resource. You can obtain this tool by entering Zack's House in Mineral Beach with an empty tool slot in your rucksack.
Upgrading your Tools
Upgrading your tools require 3 resources: Tool skill, money, and ores. All tool levels except level 6 can be upgraded by bringing the tool you want to upgrade and the required ore to Saibara the Blacksmitth.
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Cursed, Blessed, and Mythic Tools
1. Cursed Tools
Cursed tools are the level 6 tools. The player can obtain the cursed tools for hoe, sickle, axe, hammer, watering can, and fishing rod. These tools will be added but not replace your level 5 tools in your inventory. Cursed tools can only be obtained after you have all your tools upgraded to level 5. These tools can be obtained by digging land in lake mine. Lake mine can be accessed in Winter Season or by Teleport Stone
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| Spring Mine Entrance Source: gamerzenith.com |
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| Lake Mine Entrance Source: gamerzenith.com |
Cursed fishing rod : Floor 29
Cursed hoe : Floor 39
Cursed axe : Floor 49
Cursed hammer : Floor 59
Cursed watering can : Floor 69
Cursed sickle : Floor 79
Cursed tools however cannot be unequipped unless you ask Carter in the church at confessional times to remove the curse. These tools also drain a lot of your energy, making you pass out just after a few uses. There is a way to remove the curse of these tools permanently by blessing them.
2. Blessed Tools
Blessed tools are the level 6 tools, they are just as strong as the cursed tools but without the negative side effects I've mentioned earlier. Here are the ways to bless your cursed tools.
Cursed hoe or watering can : Ask Carter to remove the curse 10 times, this will cost you 10.000 G .:
Cursed axe or fishing rod : Use the tool 255 times, you can do this during festivals or heart events cause you can use your tools without draining your energy.
Cursed hammer or sickle : Equip the tool for 10 days in a row.
3. Mythic Tools
Mythic tools are the level 7 tools, they are the most powerful tool levels in the game. You need mythic stones to upgrade your blessed tools to this level. Mythic stones can only be obtained after you have all your cursed tools blessed. They can be found by breaking stones in the spring mine at floor 60 and below. They are more common at floors that contain the goddess gems such as floor 60, 102, 123, 152, 155, 171, 190, 202, and 222.
Upgradeable Tools and its Abilities
Hoe
Level 1 : Till 1 tile of land in your farm per use
Level 2 : Till 2 tiles of land in your farm per use
Level 3 : Till 3 tiles of land in your farm per use
Level 4 : Till 4 tiles of land in your farm per use
Level 5 : Till 6 tiles of land in your farm per use
Level 6 : Till 3x12 tiles of land in your farm per use
Level 7 : Till 5x18 tiles of land in your farm per use
Regardless of which level of your hoe, you can only till 1 tile of land per use in mines. The area of effect for hoe applies in front of the player, for example 5x18 here means 5 tiles horizontally and 18 tiles vertically in front of the player
Sickle
Level 1 : Swipes 1 tile of crop/grass/weed in your farm per use
Level 2 : Swipes 1x3 tiles of crops/grasses/weeds in your farm per use
Level 3 : Swipes 2x3 tiles of crops/grasses/weeds in your farm per use
Level 4 : Swipes 3x3 tiles of crops/grasses/weeds in your farm per use
Level 5 : Swipes 5x5 tiles of crops/grasses/weeds in your farm per use
Level 6 : Swipes 7x7 tiles of crops/grasses/weeds in your farm per use
Level 7 : Swipes 9x9 tiles of crops/grasses/weeds in your farm per use
The area of effect for sickle applies around the player where the player position is the center of radius.
Axe
Level 1 : Chop 1 branch per use
Level 2 : Chop tree stump with 6 uses
Level 3 : Chop tree stump with 3 uses
Level 4 : Chop tree stump with 2 uses
Level 5 : Chop tree stump with 1 use
Level 6 : Chop all branches and tree stump within an area per use
Level 7 : Chop all branches and tree stumps within an area whilst consuming 50% less energy per use
Hammer
Level 1 : Smash 1 stone per use
Level 2 : Smash large stone with 3 uses
Level 3 : Smash large stone with 2 uses and large boulder with 6 uses
Level 4 : Smash large stone with 1 use and large boulder with 3 uses
Level 5 : Smash large stone with 1 use and large boulder with 2 uses
Level 6 : Smash all stones, large stones, large boulders, and giant boulders within a screen
Level 7 : Smash all stones, large stones, large boulders, and giant boulders within an area
Watering Can
Level 1 : Water 1 tile of crop per use
Level 2 : Water 1x3 tiles of crops per use
Level 3 : Water 2x3 tiles of crops per use
Level 4 : Water 3x3 tiles of crops per use
Level 5 : Water 3x5 tiles of crops per use
Level 6 : Water 6x13 tiles of crops per use
Level 7 : Water 12x21 tiles of crops per use
The area of effect for watering can applies in front of the player, for example 12x21 here means 12 tiles vertically and 21 tiles horizontally in front of the player.
Fishing Rod
Level 1 : Catch a small fish
Level 2 : Catch a small or medium fish
Level 3 : Catch a medium fish
Level 4 : Catch a medium or large fish
Level 5 : Catch a large fish
Level 6 : Catch a king fish, pirate treasure, or ancient fossil
Level 7 : Catch a small, medium, large, king fish, pirate treasure, or ancient fossil with increased chance of success
The player can catch any fish size from small up to the max size according to the tool level as long as the player charge up at the correct time by holding the B button.
Tips for Upgrading your Tools
Increasing Tool Skills
You can use your tools at any place and outside of their inteded purposes such as using watering can to water your crops. My tip is to got inside Spring Mine and use your tools untill you are exhausted (this is shown by your charachter's face turning blue) then enter the hot spring for 2-3 in game hours to regain energy. Do this again and again untill you increase your tool skill quickly.
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| Inside of Spring Mine |
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| Player in Hot Spring |
Reducing Cost
You can jump levels when it comes to upgrading your tools. For example, you can upgrade your watering can from level 1 straight to level 5 which only costs you 5.000 G instead of 5.000 G plus the cost for level 2-4 which adds up to additional 6.000 G per tool. You need enough tool skill to upgrade to level 5 (Mystrile) however.
Mining Tips
Some of these higher level ores and the cursed tools require you to dig deep into the mine which takes energy by tilling lands to find stairs going down and breaking stones to clear up ways and obtaining these ores. You need high energy capacity by obtaining power berries and high energy recovery items such as bodigizer, turbojolt, bodigizer XL, turbojolt XL, or elli leaves to help you out.
You have 2 save slots and it is important to use them all to help you save energy and achieving your goal during your mining sessions. There are 2 ways to use these save slots to your advantage.
1. Save slots to locate stairs going down
You can locate the stairs going down by digging lands on each floor in the mine. The stair going down can be found at any tile except the tile in the 1 tile radius surrounding the stair going to the surface and the tiles on the borders of the mine. Make sure to save the game before trying to locate the stair going down and then after you locate the stair, load the game so you can find the stair while consuming less energy. Before you enter the stair going down, save the game so you can reload and have better luck in case the floor after that does not have a stair going down, ore, or the cursed tool you are looking for.
2. Save slots to delay a dialogue box
You can go down floors after floor 0 without consuming energy at all. You need 2 save slots for this method, follow these steps in order
- At floor 0, locate the stair going down and reveal it.
- Interact with the stair going down and it will you give two options "yes" or "no" to go down a floor. Choose no and the player will be pushed back a pixel from the stair. When this happens, don't move and save the game in slot 1 or 2, this will be used as your "setup" save file.
- Take the stair going down and go down a floor, then save the game in slot 1 or 2 other than your "setup" save file. This will be used as your "mining" save file.
- To go down a floor again without consuming your energy, load the "setup' save file. Now you must press the run button towards the stair going down and the menu button at the same time. You know you did it right if you see the player in the running state but the game is paused in the menu interface and you didn't see the dialogue box to go down a stair yet.
- Whilst on the menu interface, load your your "mining" save file and if you did the previous steps right, you will be given a dialogue box to go down a stairs, say yes and you will go down a stair without digging a stair going down.
- Save your game in the "mining" save file and repeat the previous 2 steps.
- Do this repeatedly untill you reached your desired floor.
References
Spring Mine : https://harvestmoon.fandom.com/wiki/Spring_Mine_(FoMT)
Lake Mine : https://harvestmoon.fandom.com/wiki/Lake_Mine_(FoMT)
Mining Guide by GamerZenith : https://gamerzenith.com/guides/mining-guide-hmfomt/
Dialogue Box Delay : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3wOvZkZCJI&t=765s
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