STORY OF SEASONS A Wonderful Life Achievements Guide

Hello from our STORY OF SEASONS A Wonderful Life Achievements Guide! Root into your new farm in the peaceful town of Forgotten Valley. Revive the land by growing crops and raising animals, find love among friendly townspeople, and create lasting memories with your own family. Here are all achievements and more in this adventure!

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STORY OF SEASONS A Wonderful Life Achievements Guide

Welcome to our STORY OF SEASONS A Wonderful Life Achievements Guide. A guide aimed to help you earn all the steam achievements for Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life. It is currently a work in progress.

Essential startup tips

• You need to clear 100 board requests. You should check the request board often, and do your best to complete.
• You need to obtain 100 dishes, it is recommended to talk to Jack, Ace and Hart daily for recipes. You also earn recipes from board requests, as well as villagers who can teach you.
• You can only find 1 stone tablet per year, meaning a minimum of 5 ingame years. Be sure to dig to find it before the year is over, as you need 5.
• Recommended to talk & improve your friendship with the whole town. Certain things require friendship, such as marriage & obtaining records. Nina isn’t giftable after Year 1, so focus on these as well.

Feel free to contribute and/or correct anything in the comment section.

Useful info

This will be a list of useful info I come across in the game. Whether it is achievement related or not, I will still list it here.

• If you head North-West of your cabin, up the mountain, & take a left, you will encounter a large tree with a small door. Eat one of the mushrooms, & you will be teleported inside. Jack, Ace and Hart will have recipes to give you, so check in often. There is an achievement for obtaining 100 different dishes.
• Take note: Each season only lasts 10 days, so the years will go by fast.
• Seeds are purchased from Cecilia, Vesta or Matthew. They are usually located on the farm closeby, however you can purchase from them anywhere if you spot them.
• Van opens up his shop in town square every 3rd and 8th of the month at 12PM! You can buy fishing rod, brush etc here.
• Van will sell tool upgrades.
• Save all your fish, pick up flowers, herbs & keep (B+ tier) milk/eggs. These few things make up the gifts for most of the villagers. You can also give more than 1 gift a day per person.
• Getting an animal to 10 hearts takes an extremely long time, so choose an animal to focus on early on. Brush, talk, snuggle and milk/sheer/pick up eggs every day.
• Gary seems to be fairly self-isolated during Chapter 2, but don’t worry, he will be giftable again.
• To get the Amazing Field, you need to mix a Tier 3 hybrid crop. (A combination of two hybrid crops, though not all combinations work). Then talk to Takakura, & it will be added as a new facility to purchase.

Story-Related Wonders

These are achievements earned by playing and/or completing the story

Reached Chapter 1: Beginnings.

• Started Chapter 1 and got the “Nice to Meetcha, Nature Sprites!” wonder.

Reached Chapter 2: Branching.

• Started Chapter 2 and got the “Newfound Family” wonder.

Reached Chapter 3: Blessings.

• Started Chapter 3 and got the “A Happy Family” wonder.

Reached Chapter 4: Blooming.

• Started Chapter 4 and got the “Family Drama” wonder.

Reached Chapter 5: Traversal.

• Started Chapter 5 and got the “A Family Without Worry” wonder.

Reached Chapter 6: Twilight.

• Started Chapter 6 and got the “A Family That Stays Together” wonder.

Reached Chapter 7: Beyond.

• Started Chapter 7 and got the “It Was a Wonderful Life” wonder.

Animal Wonders

There is a total of 4 achievements related to animals.

For the two first ones, it is to have 8 total birds & animals. You do not require a barn upgrade, as the max capacity is already 8.

You can order the cheapest ones, order a breeding session or buy your own male/female pair to breed with eachother to do this. Whichever one fits your budget and/or liking. I recommend making space to breed at least once.

Obtained 8 total animals.

• Obtained a total of 8 animals and got the “A Full Barn is a Happy Barn” wonder.

Obtain 8 total birds.

• Obtained a total of 8 birds and got the “Poultry in Motion” wonder.
• The next achievement requires you to have an animal born on the Farm. Either hire a breeding animal or buy an animal you can breed with. After breeding, wait for the animal to be born.

Had an animal be born on the farm.

• Had an animal born on the farm and got the “A Little Fluff” wonder.

For the last animal related achievement, you require to have max friendship points. If you open your bag, and go to the animals section, you can see their status.

Tip: Talk to your animal every day, milk it/pick up eggs & make sure it is in good health. Additionally, you can purchase a brush to groom your animals every day!

Maxed out your first animal or bird’s LP.

• Maxed out an animal/bird’s LP and got the “My First Best Friend” wonder.

Crops

There are 4 achievements related to crops.

All of these are for discovering 5 & 20 rare crops, as well as all strange crops.

Your regular stock of crops are bought from Cecilia, Matthew or Vesta, on the farm next to yours.

The key to finding the rare & the strange crops are Vinnie. He’s a huge plant that moves into Takakura’s house.

You can talk to Vinnie as many times as you want per day, and it will improve his friendship with him. Eventually as it grows, he will give you the option to MIX crops (to create rare & strange crops).

He drops subtle hints about what you can mix together for various crops. I will make a table of what to combine for the various crops as I discover them. It is a good idea to get at least one of each crop/flower incase. Seems as though “Trick Blue Flower” is the most important flower (& maybe the only one) required.

Rare Crops

Discovered 5 rare crops.

• Discovered 5 rare crops and got the “Heck, That’s a Hybrid!” wonder.

Discovered 20 rare crops.

• Discovered 20 rare crops and got the “Encyclopedia Hybridtannica” wonder.

Strange Crops

Discovered 10 strange crops.

• Discovered 10 strange crops and got the “The Fortunate Farmer” wonder.

Discovered all strange crops

• Discovered all strange crops and got the “The Capable Cultivator” wonder.

Tools

There is 1 achievement related to tools.

You will have to obtain all the blessed tools, however, there are some prerequisites you will need to meet.

Van sells all the upgrades from your standard tools all the way up to gold. This is important to note, as your tools need to be gold in order to be allowed to be upgraded to a blessed tool.

For each upgrade to be available, you need certain progress in the story, as well as to have used them a set amount of time.

Hoe, sickle & watering can

These 3 share the same combined stat.

• Copper Tools: Requires the 3 tools to have a total usage of 2000 times. The upgrade costs 1000G per tool in the shop, & will be available once the prerequisite is met.
• Silver Tools: Requires the 3 tools to have a total usage of 2000 times. The upgrade costs 10,000G per tool in the shop, & will be available once the prerequisite is met.
• Gold Tools: Requires the 3 tools to have a total usage of 4000 times. The upgrade costs 50,000G per tool in the shop, & will be available once the prerequisite is met.

Once you have Gold Tools, you will be able to get the Blessed tools.

• For the Blessed Hoe, you will need to have maximum friendship with Vesta & a Gold Hoe. Vesta will post a request on the board, requesting a rare hybrid crop. You get a rare hybrid crop by combining 2 hybrid crops.
• For the Blessed Sickle, you will need to have maximum friendship with Pui, have given him 2000G (100×20) & a Gold Sickle. He will request a gold object from the digging site, so it is a good idea to set one aside.
• For the Blessed Watering Can you will need to have maximum friendship with Romana & a Golden Watering Can. She will request a Melosweet Icecream. You will need a hybrid of melon/sweet potato to make it.

Milker & Clipper

These 2 share the same combined stat.

• Copper Tools: Requires the 2 tools to have a total usage of 25 times. The upgrade costs 1000G per tool in the shop, & will be available once the prerequisite is met.
• Silver: Requires the 2 tools to have a total usage of 250 times. The upgrade costs 10,000G per tool in the shop, & will be available once the prerequisite is met.
• Golden Tools: Requires the 2 tools to have a total usage of 500 times. The upgrade costs 50,000G per tool in the shop, & will be available once the prerequisite is met.

Once you have Gold Tools, you will be able to get the Blessed tools.

• For the Blessed Milker, you will need to have maximum friendship with Tei & a Golden Milker. He will put up a request for cow butter of SS quality.
• For the Blessed Clipper, you will need to have maximum friendship with Kate & a Golden Clipper. She will request a Strawberry Shortcake.

Fishing Rod

This tool does not combine any stats with any other tool.

• Copper Rod: Requires you to have caught 50 fish. The upgrade costs 1000G & will be available once the prerequisite is met.
• Silver Rod: Requires you to have caught 200 fish. The upgrade costs 10,000G & will be available once the prerequisite is met.
• Gold Rod: Requires you to have caught 50 fish. The upgrade costs 50,000G & will be available once the prerequisite is met.

Once you have Gold Rod, you will be able to get the Blessed Rod.

• For the Blessed Fishing Rod, you will need to have maximum friendship with Gary & a Golden Rod. He will put up a request for a rare (any huge) fish.

Obtained all blessed tools.

• Obtained all Blessed Tools and got the “Pan-paka-PAAAN!” wonder.

Fishing

There are 5 achievements related to fishing.

There’s a total of 15 regular fish and 3 rare fish, for a total of 18 various fish. You need to catch every single one, to earn the wonder “Fish Fear Me”. You also need to fish a golden axe.

The Golden Axe is obtained by fishing in the Goddess Pond in the Forest, with a Blessed Fishing Rod.

Fished up the golden axe

• Fished up the golden axe and got the “True of Heart” wonder.

More info will come later, with hopefully how to catch every single fish. Feel free to let me know when/where/how you caught fish. Thank you.

Table with All the Fish

The 3 special “fish” or “items” require the Blessed Rod though.

Once all fish are caught, you will have gotten these two achievements/wonders:

• Obtained 5 fish Obtained 5 fish and got the “So-fish-ticated” wonder.

• Obtained all fish. Obtained all fish and got the “Fish Fear Me” wonder.

• Obtained the Blade of Legend Obtained the Blade of Legend and got the “The Chosen One” wonder.

• Obtained the message in a bottle. Obtained the message in a bottle and got the “I’ll Never Tell” wonder.

Cooking

There are a total of 2 achievements related to cooking

There are a few things to note. You will need to get more recipes in order to be able to obtain 100 unique dishes. There are 123 total recipes, so this should not be an issue.

Some prerequisites should be to:

• Talk to either Jack, Ace or Hart every day, for recipes.
• Accept board requests. You will learn recipes from there.
• Talk to towns people, specifically the ones in the inn can be a good idea for more recipes. I think they will typically give recipes once you become better friends.

Interact with the kitchen in your home to start cooking, then go by recipe. I recommend using a google excel sheet, or any sort of notepad to keep track of which dishes you made. Makes it super clean.

Once you progress in Chapters, your house gets upgraded, which also means your kitchen gets upgraded, in order to be able to make more types of dishes.

Obtained 10 dishes.

• Obtained 10 different dishes and got the “Faintly Appetizing” wonder.

Obtained 100 dishes

• Obtained 100 different dishes and got the “Captain of the Cookbook” wonder.

Archaeology

There are a total of 2 achievements related to archeology.

You need to discover 2 golden treasures and obtain 5 tablets.

To get started on the digging, you’ll have to talk to Carter to help out. I am not sure when that is available exactly, but I went around 10AM on 10th of spring, and he asked if I wanted to help out digging. I can assume you wanna be early enough so that they are still digging.

If you can see a visible item in the gravespot, keep digging until it is out. If you don’t see any, you can dig at any spot and there might appear a treasure. You seem to be able to find a treasure at the same place several times a day (possibly unlimited).

The stone tablets are discovered at random once per ingame year. You need 5, so you should make sure you’re getting one at least every ingame year.

The golden treasures are small glimmers of gold in the ground. You will need to find 2 unique objects. In year 2, I found Golden Fork, and in year 3, I found Golden Comb.

Obtained 2 gold treasures

• Discovered 2 golden treasures and got the “As Good as Gold” wonder.

Obtained 5 tablets.

• Discovered 5 tablets and got the “Once Upon a Curry” wonder.

Records

There are a total of 14 records in the game

You only need 7 of these to get the achievement.

• The record “Sleeping Spirits” is earned from the butler, Sebastian. You must have max friendship, then talk to him, and he will give it as a gift.
• The record “Joyful Autumn” is earned from Mukumuku. They only show up during Winter, so be fast at gifting them crops/flowers/fish. You can give up to 6 total gifts a day, so I typically gave 3 of either fish, crops or flowers. You will find Mukumuku in the forest with the earth sprites. They will present it to you when the friendship is close to max.
• The record “One Sunny Day” is earned from Chris after you befriended her. Talk to her after you have full friendship level with her.
• The record “Cafe Jazz” is earned from Gavin.Talk to Gavin after you maxed your friendship with him to get it.
• Once befriended, Van will have a record you can purchase for 100,000G.
• The record “Another Valley, Together” is earned by repeatedly talking to the ceramic pot over & over again in the earth sprites home. At first it will not seem like anything is happening, but the voiceline changes, and eventually you get the record.

Obtained 7 total records

• Obtained a total of 7 records and got the “Record Keeper” wonder.

Money, money, money, must be funny…

Song by ABBA for reference.

There are a total of 3 achievements related to earning money

It is to make a total of 500,000G, so this means you do not have to compile 500,000G at once. You are free to spend your money however you’d like.

So far the best way I’ve found to earn money is to buy sheep. They are a fairy fast return on your money. The prices for wool are as following:

• Wool: 3000
• Quality Wool: 4500
• Golden Wool: 6000

My personal strategy is to fill up my barn with sheep now, and save up for the upgrade to get another 6-8 sheep to maximize money earning! I’m not aware of how good the other animals in the barn can be, but for now this is my strategy.

I earned 500 000G+ by the time I hit Spring 8 in Year 3.

With an upgraded barn, with 14 sheep inside, I earn around 50 000-60 000G every 5 days. I get majority quality wool and a few golden wool usually. You can easily swap out a few sheep (have ~10-12) if you need any of the other animals!

Some more tips:

• Get more farm animals, & tend to them. Cows drop 4 milk up to twice a day, which is ~800 gold if shipped away.
• Sell various items by opening up your shop stand in the marketplace
• Plant a lot of crops to ship them off
• Fishing gives a smaller profit & can be done anytime. You can often get typically between 50 and 100 per fish, depending on size.

Made 10,000G

• Obtained a total of 10,000G and got the “Tiny Wallet” wonder.

Made 100,000G

• Obtained a total of 100,000G and got the “Big Wallet” wonder.

Made 500,000G

• Obtained a total of 500,000G and got the “Stuffed Wallet” wonder.

Achievement Cleanup

For those achievements that didn’t necessarily fit in a seperate category, all gathered in one place

It is recommended to check the board every day. There might be a new request, with usually a fairly generous time to complete them. The most ideal way is to do them as soon as you start the game, however no one says you cannot simply skip days to complete them faster in the end.

Cleared 10 requests.

• Cleared 10 requests and got the “Hero in Training” wonder.

Cleared 100 requests.

• Cleared 100 requests and got the “Charismatic Superhero” wonder.

For the mirror achievement, only one look per day counts. Check the mirror three seperate days.

Looked in the mirror 3 times.

• Looked in the mirror 3 times and got the “Fashion-Forward Farmer” wonder.

For the 10 additional facilities, I cannot confirm exactly which facilities they are, however you have a catalog where you can purchase more, & there is a research laboratory which hints at being able to have your own seed machine. So you can assume that the laboratory will play a huge role in this achievement, which might be more obtainable as you progress through the story and/or deepen the relationship with the scientist.

Got 10 additional facilities.

• Obtained 10 additional facilities and got the “Super-Duper Awesome Farm” wonder.

SPOILER ALERT:

-Nina sadly passes away in Chapter 2. Gary will move to a new home, & you will find the tombstone outside.

Cleaned the grave for the first time.

• Cleaned the grave once and got the “My Fair Ladybug” wonder.