Van’s Shop (SoSFoMT)

Once purchased, the Record Player and music records will be added to your house.

Because Marvelous/XSEED does not use Natsume’s localized names, all Van’s Records use the XSEED translations of the original Bokujou Monogatari series titles.

Record title references:

• Outset of Seasons — Harvest Moon (SNES)
• Flower Bud Village — Harvest Moon 64 (N64)
• Moonlit Girl — Harvest Moon for Girl (PS1)
• Sugar Village — Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland (PS2)
• A Wonderful Season — Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (GameCube)

Five additional records can be obtained through Huang’s Apple Game. Another five records are rewards from the Harvest Goddess’s Rock-Paper-Scissors game, which is broadcast on television in the Town Villa.

To collect all of the Harvest Goddess records, you must win the game multiple times. Since this can be difficult and requires many consecutive victories, a more practical alternative is to purchase All BGM.

On the morning after meeting certain requirements, you will receive a letter from the Harvest Goddess containing Van’s Favorite as a gift.

Van’s Favorite will be sent to your mailbox when the VanFav counter reaches 10. This counter increases each time you make a transaction at a shop and close the shopping menu, regardless of how many items you purchase in that transaction.

Once the counter reaches 10, Van’s Favorite will be sent to your mailbox the following day.

Things that can increase the VanFav counter include:

• Shopping at stores.
• Upgrading tools at the Forge.
• Purchasing trees.
• Wrapping gifts with wrapping paper.
• Upgrading your backpack.
• Using the services of Saibara or Gotts.

On the other hand, selling items to Huang or having Huang visit your house will not increase the VanFav counter.

How to Determine Your VanFav Count

If you want to know your current VanFav count, you can use the following method:

1. Save the game.
2. Buy one inexpensive item, such as chicken feed or Angora Rabbit Feed from PoPoultry.
3. Return home and go to sleep.
4. Check your mailbox the next morning.

If Van’s Favorite does not appear:

1. Load the previous save file.
2. Make two separate transactions at a shop.
3. Return home and go to sleep.
4. Check your mailbox again.

Repeat the process while increasing the number of transactions until Van’s Favorite appears. This allows you to estimate how many transactions are needed to reach a VanFav value of 10.

Once you know the required number, load the save file and make the necessary transactions before going to sleep so that Van’s Favorite is delivered the following day.

After receiving Van’s Favorite, you can repeat the same process by making 10 transactions to receive the next reward.

Using Van’s Favorite

In addition to being a reward, Van’s Favorite can also be given to Van to unlock access to his secret inventory.

After receiving the item, Van will offer various special items that are not available in his normal inventory. The items offered are random and are influenced by the amount of money you have.

Van will randomly offer special items based on the amount of money the player has. If you decline to purchase an offered item, Van will not offer that item a second time.

1. Van’s Favorite

Van’s Favorite can be purchased again from Van for 100,000 G.

2. Quiz Book

After purchasing the Quiz Book, take it to the Library and examine the far-left bookshelf on the first floor while holding the book.

You will be given a series of questions that must be answered one at a time. If you answer incorrectly, the quiz will end and you must start over from the beginning.

There are 100 questions that test your knowledge of various aspects of the game, ranging from festivals and characters to fish and other small details.

3. All BGM

All BGM is not an item that can be stored in your backpack. Once purchased, all music records for the Record Player will be unlocked immediately.

Because some records can only be obtained by winning the Harvest Goddess’s Rock-Paper-Scissors game multiple times, All BGM is the most practical way to complete the entire music collection in the game.

4. Mystery Flower

Mystery Flower is a flower that can also be obtained as a reward from Huang’s Apple Swap Game.

Giving 10 Mystery Flowers to the Harvest Goddess will produce a Goddess Present, which can then be sold to Huang for 1,000,000 G.

5. Remote Control

The Remote Control allows you to select episodes of programs broadcast on the Entertainment channel.

This item is useful if you miss a particular episode, such as an episode of Tasty Time, because you can access previously missed episodes again.

6. All Letters

Take All Letters to the far-left bookshelf on the first floor of the Library to unlock a list of all letters that can be received through your mailbox.

7. All Books

All Books unlocks all information books in one place, so you do not have to search for them individually.

8. Master Shopper Award

The Master Shopper Award is a special card that gives you access to all shops in the game regardless of their operating hours or opening days.

However, this item does not bypass seasonal restrictions. For example, you still cannot purchase Tomato Seeds during Spring or buy pets that are unavailable during the current season.

Even so, the card still allows you to access shops that are closed on that particular day, including purchasing pets from Van without having to wait for the 15th of the current season.