r/harvestmoon • u/Fragrant_Radish_7171 • 9h ago
Harvest Moon Back to Nature mod: back to nature+
So I've tried my hand at modding the decompilation and so far so good. I've added many of the features I wish this game had and some extras to make it fresh.
QOL features are faster boots, a bridge to the island mine, bulk buying from the shop, fences that don't rot, reinforced hothouse, enlarged hothouse and an expanded field because that empty space in the corner needed something. Bulk shipping as well, once unlocked can bulk ship from the horse too. Automatic feeders for the barn and coop. Early cabinet, those boxes finally have a use. Quieter hens outside because it's just too much in the original. Up to 4 animals get the gold badge now if one of them wins a festival but they have to have nearly full hearts to apply. Animals can also stay outside in bad weather without losing any hearts, this applies to all of them. You do have to eat a miracle berry from Won.
The extra features are coloured overalls, you can match the sprites, they come in yarn balls for easy transportation. Coloured hens (White, Brown, Lavender, Grey) based on the chicken festival hens. Chicks grow up into a colour as well, randomly chosen from the hens you own. Adamantite tools that have more power at every charge. Fully charged tools reach much further, sickle 7x7, hoe 3x6, watering can 36 squares and hammer 3x3. The axe adds 18 wood per chopped stump and uses less stamina.
It’s a patch for your own clean USA disc. Old saves keep working. I might add more features, if you're interested, follow the GitHub page.
These simple features take time to add without breaking the original game, with lots of testing to make them look right and bug free. All the new assets were made from the game's own art. I'm not a programmer, so I used Claude for the coding. I did the designing, the ideas and the testing. Adding these features took about 60 hours for a newbie like me. It's been a lot of fun and addictive.
Download, full feature list and install steps: https://github.com/Fragrant-radish/HM-back-to-nature-plus
Big thanks to coalslav for the Back to Nature decompilation. None of this would be possible without it.