Time-restricted Peach Boy Quest and Peach Fan Collection Mission

(Above are some depictions of the popular folk hero, Momotaro or Peach Boy)

(Above, Peach Boy Decoration Reward and Japanese Garden Decoration from current Sale on Harvest Moon FDC Farm)

A new 11 day Quest has been released at the same time as the new Thanksgiving Farm Beauty Contest.  The Thanksgiving Base, which can be purchased for 3000 Coins in the Market, is tied to the traditional Peach Boy Quest as you will receive one of the materials required to build it by completing the first eight steps of this Quest.

As usual, there is a Collections Mission in conjunction with the traditional quest sequence of 16 parts. Access to the Island is required to complete the second half of the Peach Boy Quest.

At the end of  Peach Boy 8, you will receive a Peach Boy Decoration for your original Seaside Farm. At the end of Peach Boy 16, you will receive a Peach Boy's Ship Decoration for your Island Farm.

A separate post has been published that deals in depth with the Thanksgiving Farm Beauty Contest.

With the Thanksgiving Base is a little Quest called Harvest Time that is designed to introduce the Thanksgiving Base.

Harvest Time
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Felicia:  Autumn is here and the leaves have already changed to a beautiful yellow and red colour.  This is the time to appreciate the harvest!  Let's prepare some space on our farm to show our appreciation of the harvest time!

Harvest 5 Oranges
  Skip for 5 RC

Prepare 20 bowls of Stock
  Skip for 20 RC
  Each requires 2 Beef and 2 Salt

Place a Thanksgiving Base on your Farm

Rewards: 1000 Coins, 100 XP

Felicia:  This looks great on the farm!  I look forward to completing it!

Note to Farmers
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Peach Fan Collections Mission
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Collect Peach Fans
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Collect 70 Yellow Fans from Rice
Collect 50 Blue Fans from Peacock
Collect 30 Orange Fans from Cheese Burger
Collect 10 Pink Fans from Adzuki Tree

Reward: Millet Bush


The Millet Bush is a Collectable which means it will not be available in the Market during this Quest.
As the traditional quest requires that you place the Millet Bush as early as Peach Boy 6, it may be best to focus first on completing the Collections Mission.  Otherwise, you will be obliged to pay 10 RC to skip the task of placing it if you wish to move forward in the Quest at that point.

Early Strategies for Mission
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There is no 7need to rush to complete the Peach Boy Quest sequence as you do have 11 days, but if you are an impatient individual (as I am sometimes), there are ways to expedite certain tasks.  For example, Peach Boy 1 asks that you harvest 40 Clovers.  If you have more than one Beehive, do not harvest the Clover until it has been pollinated but make certain afterwards that you leave 20 Honey untouched at the hives as you will need to collect 20 Honey in Peach Boy 4.  Another task requires that you collect 8 Nectar so if you have some on your Farm, delay its collection.

Another situation where you may wish to delay your own actions is when you reach the second half of the Quest sequence which will include various Island tasks.  One of these near the end is to tend flowers in the Botanic Garden 6 times.  If you leave your Garden untended from the point when you reach Peach Boy 13 or so,  you will be able to perform the task without delay when you reach Peach Boy 15.

One annoyance for me personally is the new Collectable that has been the Reward for the Collections Missions recently.  Collectables cannot be speeded and you must wait four hours to collect the Millet from the Millet Bush.  Peach Boy 6 requires that you place the Millet Bush as one of the tasks.  You can skip the task for 10 RC but in Peach Boy 7, the very next step in the sequence, you will need a total of 24 Millet to complete a Recipe task.  Each of the Millet Dumplings that you must make requires 2 Millet and you must produce a total of 12.  I find this rather exacting as the very next task after placement of the Millet Bush.  To pay RC for the ingredients, you would have to spend a total of 24 RC.  It therefore becomes a waiting game at this point unless you are willing to invest a considerable amount of RC in the task.

If you have access to the Island, you will need to transport a total of 60 Peacock Feathers as one of the tasks.  This cannot be done in advance as it is a task in itself.  You can start the transport early however as long as you remember not to collect the items!  Dividing the items between zeppelins will save time.

There are other items that need to be transported to the Island for use in other tasks.  You will need 20 Lilies to make Lily Baskets and these can be transported in advance.  You will need to transport
two of the ingredients for one of the tasks in the last part of Peach Boy from the Island to your Seaside Farm.  You will need 6 Wooden Aroma Bottles and 6 Lily Essential Oils.  The actual task occurs in the Beauty Shop.  Crafting 6 Wooden Aroma Bottles is one of the tasks in an earlier part of the Quest sequence but if you have some of these bottles in your Island Barn,  you can transport 6 of them to the Seaside Farm well in advance.  Crafting the Lily Essential Oil is NOT a task, so you can make that whenever you wish and transport that in advance as well.  Each Lily Aroma Bottle will require 1 Wooden Aroma Bottle, 1 Lily Essential Oil and 1 Distilled Water.  You can obtain Distilled Water by request from your Neighbours, so make certain that you have 6 before you reach this task.

As always, substantial amounts of Power will be needed to prepare all the Recipes required in tasks in the Quest sequence.  Making certain that you have as many of the ingredients in advance as possible will help tremendously, especially when those ingredients are themselves cooked dishes.

I always advise players to keep as many of the 'basic' cooked dishes in their barns as possible.  Among these are Cake Flour, Soft Dough, Condensed Milk and Honey Syrup, all needed in the course of the Peach Boy Quest.  Sweet Dumplings is an ingredient in two different Recipes required for this Quest.  Each Sweet Dumpling is made from 1 Soft Dough and 3 Sweet Potatoes, so make certain that you have this Crop in your Barn.

You will need a total of 4 Coral Slice to make 4 Goose Feather Earrings in the Beauty Shop.  Coral Slice is a bonus item obtained from Coral.  You can pay 1 RC for it but it is better if you have processed sufficient Coral to have 4 of these Slices.  The chance of obtaining it from any piece of Coral you process always is random.

There are two different tasks that require that you request a special item from your Neighbours.  One occurs in the first half of the Quest sequence and the other in the second, so if you do not have access to the Island yet, you only need to worry about the first request.  As I wrote earlier, I am an impatient player, so if I need to request a total of 20 items from my Neighbours, I try to make certain that I can ask 80 or 100 for it!  That way, I do not have to wait too long to move forward to the next group of tasks.  I therefore usually do not make requests the day before a time-restricted Quest is set to begin.
This strategy is rather extreme admittedly and you do have 11 days to complete the sequence.

Peach Boy Quest
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Peach Boy 1
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Darryl:  Hey, look over there!  Felicia is talking to the postman.  I wonder if we got any deliveries.  Let's find out after we finish our current tasks!

Harvest 40 Clover
  Skip for 20 RC
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Harvest 6 Cherries
  Skip for 6 RC

Produce 40 Bottle of Milk
  Skip for 20 RC

Reward: 1000 Coins, 160 XP, 1 Rope Coil for Thanksgiving Base

Purchase Thanksgiving Base in the Market for 3000 Coins.

Darryl:  That should do it.  Now, where is Felicia again?

Peach Boy 2
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Darryl:  it's for me!  Felicia's Japanese friend sent me a story book.  I wonder what the story's about.  But before we start, lets have some breakfast, shall we?

Produce 8 jars of Cherry Jam
  Skip for 8 RC

Prepare 8 Apple Milkshakes
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Milk and 1 Apple Juice

Prepare 6 Light Muffins
  Skip for 6 RC
  Each requires 1 Cake Flour and 2 Cherry Jam

Reward: 1000 Coins, 160 XP, 1 Rope Coil

Darryl:  I'm full now, so let's start with the book.

Peach Boy 3
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Darryl:  The book is called Peach Boy.  Don't you think it will be a girly story?  Maybe this was meant for Felicia and not me, but Grandma says I should read it to be polite.  Maybe after I feed the animals.

Harvest 40 Cucumbers
  Skip for 20 RC

Collect 40 bottles of Buffalo Milk
  Skip for 10 RC

Produce 40 Buffalo Milk Cheese
  Skip for 20 RC

Reward: 1000 Coins, 170 XP, 1 Rope Coil

Darryl:  let's start with the story now!

Peach Boy 4
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'There was an elderly couple living in the forest.  One day, when Granny went to the river to wash their clothes, she saw a huge peach floating on the river.'  Speaking of peach makes me thirsty!

Produce 12 glasses of Apple Juice
  Skip for 6 RC

Collect 20 jars of Honey
  Skip for 10 RC

Prepare 8 Orange Smoothies
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Condensed Milk and 1 Orange Jam

Reward: 1000 Coins, 170 XP, 1 Rope Coil

Darryl:  Granny works hard to bring the Peach back home!

Special Reward: Special Mission Gift Box containing Farm Aids

Peach Boy V
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Darryl;  'The couple couldn't believe their luck.  They went to cut the peach open and found a baby boy inside!  Granny had wanted a boy for so long that she felt blessed!

Collect 50 Duck Eggs
  Skip for 25 RC

Produce 8 Jars of Nectar
  Skip for 8 RC

Harvest 50 Cane
  Skip for 25 RC

Rewards: 1000 Coins, 180 XP, 1 Rope Coil

Darryl:  'They named the boy 'Peach Boy'.'

Peach Boy VI
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Darryl:  Peach Boy grew up strong.  When he was 14 years old, he decided to go to Demnn's Island to save people from the demons who often came to take away their gold and silver.

Place the Millet Bush on your farm
  Reward from Collections Mission
  Skip for 10 RC

Produce 50 Wheat Flour
  Skip for 25 RC

Prepare 12 Coconut Milk
  Skip for 12 RC
  Each requires 1 Coconut and 2 Sugar

Reward: 1000 Coins, 180 XP, 1 Rope Coil

Darryl:  'Every one was afraid of the demons.'  Me too!

Peach Boy 7
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Darryl:  'The couple knew they couldn't stop him, so Granny packed some millet dumplings and Grandpa gave him a sword for his journey.'    I think he will also need some Sandals, right?

Ask for 20 Straw Sandals from Neighbours
  Skip for 10 RC

Prepare 12 Tong Yip Dough
  Skip for 12 RC
  Each Tong Yip Dough requires 1 Wheat Flour and 1 Duck Egg

Prepare 12 Millet Dumplings
  Skip for 12 RC
  Each Millet Dumpling requires 2 Millet and 2 Tong Yip Dough

  N.B.  The Millet Bush produces a random number of Millet every 4 Hours

Reward: 1000 Coins, 190 XP, 1 Rope Coil

Darryl:  'Peach Boy then started on his journey.'

Peach Boy 8
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Darryl:  'When Peach Boy was climbing the mountain pass, a dog came out and said, ;If you give me one dumpling, I will follow you!'  All this talk of dumplings is making me hungry!

Harvest 8 Jasmine
  Skip for 8 RC

Prepare 8 Jasmine Coconut
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Coconut and 1 Jasmine

Prepare 8 Dumplings in Coconut Cream
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Sweet Dumplings and 1 Jasmine Coconut
  Each Sweet Dumplings requires 1 Soft Dough and 3 Sweet Potato

Reward: 1000 Coins, 190 XP, 1 Rope Coil

Darryl:  He now has a traveling companion, like me and Mary the Cow!

Special Reward:  Peach Boy Decoration for original Seaside Farm
The Peach Boy Decoration is worth 2 Charm Points and has a footprint of 2 as well.

You now should have a total of 8 Rope Coils, the first material needed to complete the Thanksgiving Base.

To complete  the second part of the Quest, you will need access to the Island.

Peach Boy 9
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Darryl:  'After a few days, they met with a starving monkey who asked if he could get a bit of dumpling too.  He promised to follow them in return.'

Harvest 12 Peaches
  Skip for 12 RC

Produce 50 Sugar
  Skip for 12  RC

Prepare 12 Peach Confiture
  Skip for 12 RC
  Each requires 2 Peach and 4 Sugar

Reward: 1000 Coins, 200 XP

Darryl:  ''The trio continued their journey and before long, a pheasant asked for a dumpling before joining the group.'

Peach Boy 10
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Darryl:  'They traveled day and night in the cold across the land and sea.  When they arrived at the demon's castle, they found that the gate was locked tight.'  I wonder if they got cold while traveling.

Ask for 20 Haori from your Neighbours
  Skip for 10 RC

Harvest 8 Sakura
  Skip for 8 RC

Prepare 8 Sakura Tea
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Sakura and 2 Honey

Reward: 1000 Coins, 200 XP

Darryl: 'The dog shouted to open the gate!  The pheasant flew up above while the monkey climbed the wall and they opened the gate from inside!'

Peach Boy 11
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Darryl:  'Finally, the demons stepped out from the castle.  Demons are big and mean but they're weak of heart!'

Harvest 8 Bamboo Shoots
  Skip for 8 RC
  This is an Island Task

Prepare 8 Sakura Cakes
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 2 Sakura and 3 Cake Flour

Produce 60 Camel Hair
  Skip for 15 RC
  This is an Island Task.

Reward: 1000 Coins, 210 XP

Darryl:  I'm getting so excited, I wonder what will happen next!

Peach Boy 12
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Darryl:  'Peach Boy and the others defeated all of them, and left the King of the Demons alone.  Peach Boy locked the King's head in his powerful arm and the King shouted: ;'I give up!  We'll never bother people again!'

Prepare 8 Adzuki Paste
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Adzuki and 1 Honey Syrup

Prepare 8 Layered Mochi
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Sweet Dumplings and 1 Sakura

Transport 60 Peacock Feathers to the Island
  Skip for 15 RC
  This is an Island Task
  Divide your Peacock Feathers between Zeppelins to move them faster.  Transporting 10 Peacock Feathers takes 40 minutes.  Divide the task between 6 Zeppelins if you have them.

Reward: 1000 Coins, 210 XP

Darryl: 'They defeated the demons and got back all the treasure.'

Special Reward: Island Mission Box containing Farm Aids

Peach Boy 13
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Darryl:  'Peach Boy told the dog, monkey and pheasant that they were free to go now but they said that they wanted to stay with him.  So Peach Boy asked them to go back home with him.'

Harvest 60 Lilies
  Skip for 15 RC

Produce 30 Lily Bouquets
  Skip for 15 RC

Craft 4 Goose Feather Earrings
  Skip for 4 RC
  Each requires 1 Coral Slice, 2 Goose Feathers and 1 Earrings.  Coral Slice is a bonus item when Coral is processed in the Seafood House.  Earrings can be requested from Neighbours.  You will obtain credit from the task when you first begin to craft the items, not when they are completed.

Reward: 1000 Coins, 220 XP

Darryl:  So what will they do now?  Go home?

Peach Boy 14
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Darryl:  'Peach Boy went back to his village with a lot of treasure and new friends.  The elderly couple were so happy that he was safe and gave all the treasure back to the people!'

Prepare 6 Sakura Mochi
  Skip for 6 RC
  Each requires 1 Adzuki Paste and 1 Layered Mochi

Prepare 6 Tong Yip
  Skip for 6 RC
   Each Tong Yip requires 2 Tong Yip Dough and 2 Jasmine Nectar
  Each Jasmine Nectar requires 1 Jasmine and 1 Nectar

Produce 60 Peacock Hats
  Skip for 15 RC
  This is an Island Task

Reward: 1000 Coins, 220 XP

Darryl:  'Every one cheered while the cherry trees were blooming...'

Peach Boy 15
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Darryl:  I guess this is more my kind of story than Felicia's.  Oh, I almost forgot about my work because I was so engrossed in the story.  Let's finish up before Grandma realises.

Produce 6 Wooden Aroma Bottles
  Skip for 6 RC
  This is an Island Task
  Each requires 2 Wool Yarn and 1 Cedar Wood and uses 1 Power

Prepare 8 Peach Buns
  Skip for 8 RC
  Each requires 1 Millet Dumpling and 1 Peach Confiture

Tend flowers in the Botanic Garden 6 times
  Skip for 6 RC
  This is an Island Task

Reward 1000 Coins, 230 XP

Darryl:  Just in time before Grandma came to check!

Peach Boy 16
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Darryl:  I wish I could go on a journey like Peach Boy but I think there is also a lot of adventure on the farm.  Since I really enjoyed this book, maybe I should start reading more from now on!

Collect 20 Bamboo Baskets
  Skip for 10 RC
  This is an Island Task

Produce 20 Lily Baskets
  Skip for 10 RC
  This is an Island Task

Craft 6 Lily Aroma Bottles
  Skip for 6 RC

  Ingredients needed for these must be transported from the Island.  You will need 6 Wooden Aroma Bottles and 6 Lily Essential Oils.  The actual task occurs in the Beauty Shop.  Crafting 6 Wooden Aroma Bottles is one of the tasks in an earlier part of the Quest sequence but if you have some of these bottles in your Island Barn,  you can transport 6 of them to the Seaside Farm well in advance.  Crafting the Lily Essential Oil is NOT a task, so you can make that whenever you wish and transport that in advance as well.  Each Lily Aroma Bottle will require 1 Wooden Aroma Bottle, 1 Lily Essential Oil and 1 Distilled Water.  You can obtain Distilled Water by request from your Neighbours, so make certain that you have 6 before you reach this task.

Reward: 1000 Coins, 230 XP

Darryl:  Thank you for listening to my story and see you next time!

Final Reward: Peach Boy's Ship Decoration

Gallery Registration
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Do not forget to register the special Items.  There is a Collection to be registered as well

Peach Boy Collection:
  Includes Millet Bush, Peach Boy Decoration and Peach Boy's Ship Decoration
  5 Medals, 1 RC, 88 Green Mystrons

Millet Bush: 3 Medals, 2500 Coins

Peach Boy: 2 Medals, 10 Green Mystrons

Peach Boy's Ship: 5 Medals, 30 Green Mystrons

The Origins of the Peach Boy Quest
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'Peach Boy' or Momotaro is a very popular folktale from Okayama Province in Japan.  It follows a theme that is known throughout the world wherein a young lad is found by an old childless couple floating on the sea, river or lake and once grown,  goes off to save his people.  Typically, along the journey, he acquires useful animal companions who come to his aid at a critical moment.  The name of the hero, Momotaro literally means 'Peach Son' as Momo is the word for Peach and Taro is the word for elder son.

Momotaro was sent from heaven in a giant peach and launched upon the waters to be discovered by a childless couple.  The old woman was washing clothes when she spied the enormous peach floating upon the water.  She and her husband opened it in order to eat it and found the boy inside.

When he reaches the age of 15, he determines to save the land from some demons who inhabit an island.  It is thought that the Island where the demons lived was Megijima Island because of its many manmade caves.

In some versions of the tale, the boy resembles the heroes of many Western folktales and fairytales in that, rather than being a hardworking, diligent lad, he sleeps most of the day and is considered feckless until he goes off to meet the challenge of the Demons who plunder the land.  Similar heroes are found, for example, in such stories as the tale of the Princess on the Glass Hill where the hero is the youngest son who, while his brothers are hard at work each day,  sleeps in the ashes next to the fireplace but ultimately is the only one who can reach the top of the hill to win the Princess.

I love these old tales myself and always am happy when Family Farm Seaside decides to incorporate one into a Quest.  Curiously enough, one of the first stories I ever wrote was called 'The Apricot Pit' and followed some of the same themes but the 'hero' in my tale was a girl rather than a boy.  I wrote it when I was eight years old, bored during school sports, dying to be in a different time and place.   While idly tracing designs in the dirt with my shoe, I unearthed a dried apricot pit.  Splitting it open, I was fascinated by the almond-shaped seed at its centre.  The seed actually smelled like almonds as well and I later discovered that it is used both in sweet biscuits and liqueurs.  In any case, I began to invent a tale wherein the pit contained not a seed but a girl...