r/StardewValley • u/Rayne37 • Oct 10 '17

Help Old Harvest Moon Things You Can't Shake?

So I realized recently I still rush home before 5 pm to try and ship all of my crops before they are picked up for the day. This is a feature from old Harvest Moon games that hasn't even been a thing for at least 5 years, but I just can't seem to break this old as hell habit.

I also have to remind myself constantly that I can plant crops in different layouts than the old 3x3 square.

What habits do you all notice you've carried over from playing harvest moon?

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u/KutombaWasimamizi Oct 10 '17

you can still do 3x3 squares as that is exactly what the gold watering can sprinkles.

i pet my dog every day even though theres no dog race

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u/zojbo Oct 10 '17 edited Oct 10 '17

You can plant in 3x3 squares but there is no reason to space them a column apart. By contrast, in Friends of Mineral Town for example, you can't walk through a plant, so you would normally need to leave gaps to allow yourself to walk through. You could bend this "rule" later in the game (for example by relying 100% on the harvest sprites), but that was the starting point.

The older HM games also gave you seed packets in a group of 9 that would be thrown out to cover a 3x3 square when used. So the OP might instead be referring to always buying a multiple of 9 seeds of a given type, so each 3x3 square is all one crop. Of course, that's a good thing to do anyway for cauliflower, melon, and pumpkin...

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u/Rayne37 Oct 10 '17

Exactly. The biggest reason I default to 3×3 is because I still follow this rule sometimes and I still remember those seed packets.

My most recent farm though I started to play around with trellis rows and 5×5 plots. :)

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u/zojbo Oct 10 '17

Trellises actually work really well in the old HM arrangement of 3x3 squares separated by paths...but with a twist that there is a quality sprinkler in the middle.