The year at a glance
These are the festivals documented for the current build. Some events listed elsewhere are not yet implemented, and those are deliberately left out.
| Season | Day | Festival |
|---|---|---|
| Spring | 17 | Spring Festival |
| Spring | 24 | Cooking Contest |
| Summer | 5 | Beach Day |
| Summer | 18 | Crop Festival |
| Summer | 28 | Shooting Star Festival |
| Fall | 10 | Harvest Festival |
| Fall | 28 | Halloween Festival |
| Winter | 10 | Animal Festival |
| Winter | 24 | Gift Festival |
| Winter | 28 | New Year’s Eve |
Two that need preparation in advance
The Harvest Festival on Fall 10 includes a Queen Berry gathering competition that starts on Fall 7 — if you arrive on the day with nothing gathered, you have already missed it. The Animal Festival on Winter 10 asks you to enter one large and one small animal, with animal cosmetics and decor as prizes, so it rewards a barn you have actually been petting.
Planning around the dates
A nine-day crop planted on Spring 8 finishes on Spring 17 — the Spring Festival. A regrowing crop bought after roughly day 14 rarely repays its 300t. And the two Winter festivals four days apart make late winter a poor time to start a deep mine push.
Birthdays matter more than festivals
A neutral gift on a character’s birthday is worth +23 heart points, more than a loved gift on any ordinary day. Festivals are fixed and public; birthdays are the calendar entries actually worth writing down as you learn them.
Primary sources
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