60 Useful and Random Tips Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar

Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar features a variety of interesting farming simulation mechanics, and the series is also known for adding hidden gems and secrets.

There is so much information to take in, and here’s a massive tips and tricks list to help you get started on Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar. Beginners and veterans alike should get something out of this list.

Beginner and Advanced Tips and Tricks for Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar

1. Resources like ores, weeds, stones, and wood respawn at approximately 6 pm. It is weird, but they sometimes don’t spawn in the area where you are when the reset timer hits.
2. Fertilizers can improve the quality of crops every day, especially if your fertilizers are 7-star.
3. Eating food with “none” as buffs typically gives you more stamina recovery.
4. Quality doesn’t matter as much when eating food, so sell high-quality food and craft 0.5-quality food for stamina recovery (Onigiris are my personal favorite for this).
5. Fish Bait Stock is not equippable. Turn it into Fish Bait using the blue windmill first.
6. Keep your medals and recyclables, including rare ones like Bottle of Starry Sands or Treasure Chests. If you need space, Bronze and Silver Medals should be the first to go. Every item has a use, even Fish Bones.
7. Let the pets herd the animals. Plant delicious or fast fodder seeds so your animals naturally gain happiness without tending to them.
8. Always buy those delicious and fast fodder seeds from Felipe.
9. Always donate to Happy Sprites. Keep those quality levels up!
10. When sharing items with Ivy (Foraging Sprite), you don’t have to follow “trends” for bonuses. Just throw them stacks of rocks, wood, and weeds since they are easy to get.
11. Prioritize keeping Wood for tool upgrades in the future. Orichalcum and Ultimate tool upgrades require an insane amount of Ultimate Lumber.
12. It takes 125 Wood or Stones to get one piece of Ultimate Lumber or Ultimate Stone.
13. Get your fishing up early with Finley (Fish Sprite). Several requests need this skill.
14. Avoid making jewelry at windmills at the start; they take too much time to finish.
15. Get your Honey farm active as fast as possible. Honey is just a lot of free and easy money.
16. Oricalchum + Double Jump is the baseline for doing a “one full swoop” for a plot of farm. This is mainly for Sickles and Hoes. If you can’t reach the Oricalchum upgrade, there’s little to no point in upgrading them beforehand. Focus on the Hatchet.
17. The best way to make money is by mining all ore nodes twice a day and selling them. Even if you need them for upgrades and other things, it is best to sell them every bazaar at the start of your playthrough to get the useful upgrades fast.
18. Always keep your windmills running. Each process always increases the value of an item, e.g., pickled goods, honeycombs into honey, and more.
19. When selling at the bazaar, use a stack of 99 stones, weed, or wood to get your Sprite meter up. Once maxed out, that’s when you start selling your valuable items to capitalize on cheer bonuses.
20. Try to buy Rice and Wheat Flour from Felix at the Bazaar. They always have useful recipes that can give you more profits.
21. Most of the secret recipes are locked behind requests.
22. If you have accidentally sold food that you don’t have a recipe for, don’t worry, those are usually sold at stalls or acquired differently. The locked recipes from requests automatically teach you the recipe, so the game is beautifully designed to find all the recipes one way or another.
23. Capitalize on bazaar stall upgrades. Those 80,000+ Gold Price Up Lv. 3 counters are extremely worth it in the long run.
24. Maximum Stamina only goes up to 10 Power Berries.
25. Upgrade your quality from Happy Sprites in bulk to save space. This avoids having as many different star quality items of the same type as possible.
26. If you want to minimize fertilizing your crops, turn them into 5-star seeds using the blue windmill and keep the cycle alive for every crop you want to plant. Always have them in stock so you don’t have to reset to 0.5 quality seeds.
27. Avoid processing things in the windmill that you can buy outright, such as sugar and oil.
28. Avoid using golden milk or eggs in simple recipes that don’t specifically require them. You’ll lose money doing so!
29. Keep some golden crops for a special item craft in the future.
30. All characters like gifts. As long as you avoid their dislikes, you are good.
31. You can earn more hearts by gifting liked items, but the rewards increase even further if you discover their favorite items, such as Freya’s Citrus Perfume. Gift wrapping also makes them like it more.
32. If you keep talking to the characters non-stop, you can uncover dialogues where they mention what they like or dislike, which are also highlighted in blue.
33. Process those incredibly long crafts like lumber, stones, seeds, or jewelry the day before a storm. Since Sherene announces it the day before, you can prepare. Wind levels increase to level 3, which enables the windmill to operate more efficiently.
34. Always keep Windscreen Kits in storage. A total of 18 Windscreen Kits keeps your three farm plots, maxed honey farm, and maxed mushroom logs safe.
35. When you unlock the cellar, it becomes the best farming plot for growing seeds that regrow after harvesting, such as Red Bell Peppers, Eggplants, Broccoli, and more. Since you can control the weather, they have fewer time constraints.
36. When entering animal shows, focus on your chickens and cows first. Animals that win awards produce prismatic-quality products. Since these animals give you more products, they will give you more profits with those 7-star milks and eggs.
37. You can add additional recipe items to enhance the star quality of a recipe, especially when trying to achieve a specific star rating for a request.
38. You can buy the 0.5 ores and gems from Lloyd to help upgrade the tools quicker, but mostly for hard special crafts like Sun Stones in the endgame.
39. Fodder and Chicken Feed bins inside the barn aren’t separate storage. They are stored directly in your main and only storage.
40. For some reason, you can only give the horse a treat early in the morning, before your horse goes outside.
41. The Green Wonderstone should be your main priority to improve windmill efficiency since it doubles your slots.
42. Normal flowers (those foraged instead of grown and harvested crops) only give normal honeycombs when used at the bee farm.
43. Growing flowers is faster than growing crops, so if you are near the next season, you can always plant flowers.
44. Rare mutated crops, like a heart-shaped watermelon or a three-forked carrot, give an extra 0.5 quality when turned into seeds.
45. You can chop down fully-matured trees at the end of the season. You can place them back again, so you don’t have to regrow trees.
46. You can fertilize trees. Keep them at 5-star or more as much as possible.
47. Digging for treasure is the best way to farm medals.
48. There’s a consistent but random medal spawn behind Cafe Madeleine.
49. Going from a 5-star quality item to a 7-star quality item skyrockets the price. For reference, a 0.5 Orichalcum sells for 5,000G. Its 5-star version sells for 8,000G while its 7-star version sells for 15,000G. Start winning those animal and crop shows! Also, level up those Happy Sprites’ quality, especially Ivy!
50. The max level for the Happy Sprites is level 50. They also give you a memento when you reach the max level.
51. Sprinklers are available, but only when you reach the special items.
52. Sprinklers water in the morning and again at 4 pm. If you harvested something, the sprinklers will not water the same area even if you replanted something on the same day. It’ll only water them the next day, for some weird reason.
53. It is best to stick to two or three key recipes for making money, preferably ones that utilize milk and eggs efficiently.
54. Pay attention to the wind strength. If there’s one arrow or more, you can reach the top of the mountain to farm the rare ores on it. If there are two arrows, you can reach the cliff where the Happy Sprites live. There are a few ores here, too.
55. Item rewards through your mail don’t expire. You don’t have to pick them up immediately.
56. Kagetsu roams the mountains late at night.
57. You unlock the Divination feature from Kagetsu when she gets four hearts (friendship level). This gives you a random buff that lasts for a long time.
58. Sadly, your spouse doesn’t tend to your animals or crops.
59. There’s a rare Little Wolf pet for 50,000G that can show up in Ramon’s pet stall. Save a pet dog slot! So far, I’m still waiting to see if there’s a rare cat pet, but after 3 years, there’s still nothing.
60. Your animals or pets don’t “die” when you stop feeding them, but they do lose happiness. Don’t think about not feeding them!

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