Harvest Moon Speedrun Wiki

Heads up: This page assumes you have some experience routing HM:AWL. It is incomplete, and not a good place to start running the game.

Why is this Nami guide incomplete?

The route outlined below is hypothetical. It depends on major RNG manipulation.

Nami (or Gustafa/Cody/Patrick) would need to be in a good location nearly every day from Spring 1 to Summer 1. Currently I don’t know of a practical way to do this. If a method were discovered, we could cut the current WR in half, down to about 25:52. Small improvements over the current WR are also possible. But cutting it in half would be so much more impressive!

The game appears to be input-deterministic, so a TAS could do it. Once the first TAS solution is found, someone could write scripts in Dolphin-Lua to try and brute-force a “sweet spot” for human runners to aim for.

(Other suggestions welcome!)

Hypothetical route

• SP 1
  • Get record
  • Let out cow
  • conversation and vinyl record +6 = 6
• (at some point trigger Get To Work +10)
• SP 2 through 10 (+38 = 54)
  • avg convo and interactions +4
  • (need an extra +2 somewhere)
  • (default 5.82 friend interactions per point)
• SU 1
  • late blue feather
  • get second vinyl record
  • trigger Forgot To Pay +20
  • conversation and record +6 = 80
  • propose

Conversation

• +2 second interaction in bar
• +2 “Not that there’s anything wrong with that”, in hotel
• +2 second interaction, often “I can’t believe I stayed here the whole year”, outdoors, yurt, Vesta’s storehouse

Bonus Points

• Interactions and friendship with Gustafa, Cody, and Patrick
  • Friendships get added together and must be 150 to 209
    • default is 165
  • Interactions get added together and converts at 6.4 per point at 150, 5.82 at 165, and down to 4.6 per point at 209.

Gifts

• Loved Item +2
  • Trick Blue, Gemsoil
  • Silver Coin
  • Skull Fossil (can be dug up in year 1)
  • Human Statue (can be dug up in year 1)
  • Horse Statue
  • Sugar Ore, Hop Ore
  • all records
• Favorite Food +2
  • Curry, Stew, Veggie Pasta, Gratin, Red-Hot Pie
• No other item in the game gives any points.

Heart Events

• Get To Work @20
  • default
    • -10
  • alt
    • +10
    • 53 sec
    • she warps to N 154, E 168
      • possible she walks toward wherever she was previously
    • you warp to N 205, E 129
• Forgot to Pay @40 (Muffy and Nami are both in bar main area)
  • Can I sit here?
    • Ask why Nami’s here
      • Nod in Nami’s direction +5
        • I’ll pay
          • (lose 256 G)
        • Ha ha ha
          • (no effect)
      • Hmm…
        • (same as Tell why I’m here)
    • Tell why I’m here
      • Sure +5
      • Not really +5
      • I don’t keep track +20
        • +20
        • 40 sec
        • She warps to exiting the hotel
        • You warp to exiting the bar
  • Let’s drink together
    • (ends)
• She’s Gone @60 (be inside my house when 8am strikes)
  • Okay
    • (zero)
  • I’ll look for her
    • +5
    • 96 sec
    • time warps to 11am
    • she warps to exiting hotel
    • you warp to front of hotel
• Find a Job @80 (Nami is in her room but not asleep)
  • Sure
    • +10
    • 40 sec
    • she warps to her room
    • you warp to exiting hotel
  • Not a good idea
    • -10

Time cost per point

• convenient interactions with friends
  • 11.6s/pt Cody, Gustafa (doesn’t include travel time)
    • 0.86 pts takes 10s
• 16s/pt Wake up conversation
  • 4 pts takes 55s, 0:36g
• 19s/pt Bar conversation
  • 4 pts takes 75s, 0:60g
• 35s/pt Digging
  • 270s to get 4 gifts (8 pts)
  • about 4 s per gift giving animation
• Total time estimate = 335+300+4+73+10+93+15+768 = 1598s (goal is 1552s, half of current record)
  • intro = 335s (JP version)
  • all sleeps = 300s
    • 7.5s x (4 x 10 (would be 41, but activities will burn at least 8 game hours I think))
  • get first vinyl record = 4s?
  • blue feather event = 73s?
  • get blue feather and second vinyl record = 10s?
  • heart events = 93s
    • 53s, Get to Work
    • 40s, Forgot to Pay
  • proposal event = 15s?
  • 9 trips = 768s
    • 192s, 3 wakeups
    • 456s, 6 bar trips
    • 120s, 12 friend encounters

Schedule

• TODO
  • map the sweet spots I can hit on SP 1 when Nami is walking into or out of bar/hotel
  • start making a probability chain of hitting more sweet spots on later days
  • after finding a complete chain for Nami, start on her friends