#rf leo

[floraagato]

genuinely fascinating implication about runefa dwarves

[lilaroxa]

RF1: Year 1 - Fall 26

To my knowledge, RF1 is the only game where people stop working when it rains.

I was raised on a farm, so rainy "rest" days make sense because that was the best weather to do so when your work was mainly outside.

But Leo? Wouldn't it be better to work in the rain?

And Neumann, I understand that maybe you don't get as many customers in the rain, but Felicity showed up to work, so you should too! Camus is going to scoop up all your clients!

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[some-11-year-old]

My Rune Factory 1 experience so far

I go to the totally not dwarf smithy and tell him “please fix my hammer” and he goes “cool come back in two days” and I go “cool cool.” I come back in two days and it’s raining. Apparently he doesn’t work when it rains Sir your forge is indoors How Does The Rain Hinder Your Ability To Work. It’s fine I’ll come back tomorrow. It’s tomorrow. It’s a holiday. Nobody works holidays. I am half a month into the game running the ugliest, most hideously asymmetrical farm I have ever had the displeasure of working on because axes don’t smash stumps and hammers don’t cut rocks and I have to keep lugging around all the seeds I bought last week because mister smithy said, nah bro the pitter patter of the rain outside messes with my work I can’t do it. No bro, your incompetence is the reason I have to expertly plot a course and spelunky through my own farm just to water my strawberries I just want my hammer

[lilaroxa]

RF1: Year 1 - Spring 25 [Watering Can Hostage Situation: Day 4]

Today was supposed to be when Raguna got his watering can back. However, due to the rainy day, Leo's watering can upgrade progress was also pushed back a day.

Oddly enough, I was surprised to see Leo working on a Holiday. Isn't he usually closed? But maybe that's his secret. He's "closed" to the public on Holidays, but once you get 3FP or higher with him, you can talk to him during normal business hours on sunny Holidays.

However, since today was a Holiday, this really threw a wrench in Raguna's rhythm. Unlike Leo, all the other shops are closed. This means Raguna couldn't build any more new barns that day.

For the first time in my playthrough, I felt like I had hit a wall. Which, in farming sims like Rune Factory, isn't the end of the world. Raguna can always take a rest day. But, it was a unique moment for me on stream to feel this sense of "uh...now what?".

In the end, it ended up being another "resource day", chopping wood and mining for future monster hut barns.

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[lilaroxa]

RF1: Year 1 - Summer 27 [Watering Can Hostage Situation Day 7]

FREEDOM!!

It took Leo almost double the time to prepare my watering can due to 2 rainy days and 1 festival.

And it couldn't have come at a better time! Raguna's house is also 2 days away from being fully upgraded and he was running out of monsters to tame! (I had in mind that Raguna would "collect" as many monsters as he could for Tabatha's marriage requirements rather than tame the easiest monsters).

Although 7 in-game days may not seem like a lot, each day averaged around 30 minutes, meaning the extra 3 days were 1.5 hours of [useful] "filler".

I think the temperature blanket also does a great job of showing how focused I was at this time of feeling "stuck":

Compared to how much of the game I had experienced, these 7 days stand out a lot! I'm excited to see that, once I finish the blanket, it'll look like just a small hiccup in time.

So of course, once Raguna grabbed his watering can, he didn't risk upgrading any of his other tools (again, with a house upgrade just around the corner, upgrading his own tools would be a great way to gain XP).

He made his way through Clemens Cave. However, once he arrived at the boss chamber's door, it was edging close to midnight and his RP was completely drained.

Better to fight the boss overprepared than underprepared! So, Raguna spent the night (I can't imagine he slept well in all that heat) in Clemens Cave.

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[lilaroxa]

RF1: Year 1 - Summer 22 + 23 [Watering Can Hostage Situation: Day 1 + 2]

This is the biggest Rune Factory blunder I have ever taken. So much so that I'm combining Summer 22 and Summer 23 into one post.

Learn from my mistake: DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR WATERING CAN WITH LEO WHEN YOU'RE ABOUT TO TAKE ON CLEMENS CAVE!! (This also applies to Mt. Gigant, but luckily, Leo had no more upgrades for me.)

The timing was just too perfect. I had decided to finish upgrading my house before going into Clemens Cave. I thought, well, if I upgrade it now, at least my house will have 1 - 2 days into the upgrade as I start making my way into Mt. Gigant.

But those extra days chopping wood meant that my previous Leo upgrade (quality sickle), had finished. Still riding the high of upgrading my house, I thought I'd do the same for one of my tools. Clemens Cave had made it extremely obvious that I needed a better watering pot. I had somehow never discovered the watering hole in the northeast corner of the cave (blocked by a firewall). So, my Clemens Cave prep required Raguna to leave the cave at least once to refill his watering pot.

Looking back, I know it's because the seal-inducing "Uncle" Ants guard the entrance and I was so tired of getting sealed by them that I neglected that corner of the map entirely.

I had gotten so used to my little Clemens field areas that I forgot about the numerous firewalls past the poison fields. I didn't realize how much I set back my game progress until I was halfway through the cave, cycling through my tools and asking myself "Where did I put my watering can???"

"Ya want me to forge a tinplate waterin’? It’ll take 3 pieces of Silver, 1800g and 4 days. ‘Tis that okay?"

4 days...that's doable! We have lots of other things we can work on in the meantime!

First, I tried using water magic on the fire:

No dice.

Rune Factory is determined to make Raguna a farmer AND a fighter. A farmer who fights just as much with his tools as he does with his weapons and magic.

For the rest of the day (and Summer 23), Raguna went back to chopping wood, building monster barns, and befriending monsters.

Funnily enough, as he plowed the rest of the 100 square requirement in Clemens Cave, he realized that he was still using a Cheap Hoe and that perhaps that would have been a better tool for Leo's commission.

Summer 22

Summer 23

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Note: I'm marking these rows as "Clemens Cave", because, in a more positive light, Raguna wouldn't have gone on the adventures he did if it weren't for the underlying reason that he was just killing time before he could explore Clemens Cave again. When looking at the completed blanket, I wanted to be able to easily identify when this moment happened in Raguna's journey.

Though, I do have to give credit where it's due. I was only able to come up with this idea after bouncing off a few ideas with one of my Twitch community members. So, thanks for that!!

If I were to choose more faithful representations of each day, I'd mark Summer 22 as Clemens and Summer 23 as Toros, since he spent a lot of time collecting wood and befriending monsters in the caves on their respective days.