Befriend The Sprites in Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral town:
Trying to make friends with the Harvest Sprites? An easy way to make them like you is to give them the herbs on the beach from spring to fall. In located very close to their house (behind the church) and they love them. You'll be playing with the gnomes and having them do your work in no time.

Secrets in Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral town:
Marry the Goddess
Catch all the different species of fish, including the 6 Kings

Ship at least 1 of every shippable item

Collect all 9 of the Goddess Jewels and receive the Goddess' Treasure

Own the Big Bed for your home

Dig up every type of ore from the mines

Be in your 5th year (or later) on the farm

The Goddess has an invisible love-heart and there are a few things you can do to help raise her affection for you. When you do certain tasks 10000, 100000, 1 million, or 1 billion times she'll pop out and congratulate you. You can catch fish, have steps counted on your Pedometer, or ship crops. After that, throw the blue feather in her pond, and if her affection is high enough, you can marry her.

Secret Fishing treasures:
In the summer, use your level 6(cursed) fishing rod at mineral beach and you can catch a pirate treasure(rare)and sell it for 10,000 Gold. In the fall, use your level 6(cursed) fishing rod at mineral beach and you can catch an Ancient fossil(rare) and sell it for 5,000 gold.

Double all profits made in one day:
Starting with Year 5, then every 5 years after that (eg: Y5, Y10, Y15, etc.) visit the Peak of Mother's Hill on Fall 10 between 6PM and midnight to activate a serect event called the Shooting Star Event. Make the wish to double profits (option 3). The day will end. You then have until 5PM to ship as many things as you can. When Zack comes, he'll double your profits for Fall 11. NOTE: Fall 10 MUST be sunny, or the event won't activate.

Carter's Secret Mushroom Plantation:
There is a place where you can get truffles for free behind the church, through the locked door on the right. All you got to do to access it is to be friends with Carter, give him mushrooms once a day for a season or so. During fall, go to the church, if you are good enough friends, carter wont be there and then you would go to the door and find its unlocked, after a short scene, you can pick Truffles and Mushrooms anytime you like! Truffles are worth a lot, take advantage of this plantation.

Weeds as a gift to Popuri:
Instead of giving Popuri gifts that cause money, give her weeds. She excepts them, and it will raise her heart total for you.

White Flower:
Some day in the summer, when you become friends with Ellen (Stu and Elle's grandmother), and enter her home, she will say that Basil should be coming over. He enters and says that she was going to tell him about a rare flower. She says that the flower is the White Flower and that it only grows on a summer's night on a mountain. She then says it would make her happy if she could see it again before she dies. The flower is located at the peak of Mother's Hill.
submitted by Anonymous - July 24, 2006