Quick Reference

So you've been accepted to the group, but there's so much to do, you're not sure where to start! Here are some of the most common things you'll need to know, plus links for where to find them to read more.

Simply expand the below sections or use the table of contents to find the info needed.

UPGRADES!

There are lots of things to upgrade for each of your characters, between homes and jobs, so here are the basics!

Home upgrades

Basic home: 2 pet slots, plus your starter
Medium home: 1,000 PD -- 4 pet slots, plus your starter
Large home: 3,000 PD -- 6 pet slots, plus your starter
Family home: 5,000 PD -- unlocks marriage and/or children! Same pet slots as above. Unlocks 4th Utility Slot
Mansion: 10,000 PD -- 8 pet slots, plus your starter

Vacation homes

All upgrades, along with the basic vacation home, are 100k PD

1st Mark: starts here -- unlocks Extra Pet Slot
2nd Mark: Paradox and UBs can be used for Work and as Mounts
3rd Mark: 5th Utility slot
4th Mark: +1 work pokemon slot to all jobs
5th Mark: needs all other makrs -- Decadent Hedonist title + Golden Statue Collectible + 1 Rare Crafted Item of choice

Job Upgrades

Farms, ranches, and businesses all cost the same amount to upgrade, but they have different features that come with each upgrade, and different property upgrades that can be purchased separately. These differences will be discussed shortly. The size upgrades, however, are the following:

Medium job: 1,000 PD
Large job: 3,000 PD
Extra large job: 5,000 PD
Luxury/Gigantic/Expansive job: 10,000 PD

Work submissions:

The form to fill out for each job can be found on their respective pages. Please be sure to list every pokemon or bonus being used/featured, including brews and 4th gardenmon!

Farming, Ranching, Businesses

Farms

Basic: 6 plots, 2 farm pokemon
Medium: 10 plots, 4 farm pokemon
Large: 15 plots, 5 farm pokemon
Extra large: 20 plots, 6 farm pokemon
Gigantic: 30 plots, 7 farm pokemon

Farm properties

Greenhouse: 10,000 PD (grow out of season crops, plot number = half of current farm plot amount, rounded down. Ex: large farm with 15 plots has greenhouse with 7 plots)
Grand compost bin: event or library point prize (makes one plant grow gigantic or gold crop for 1 crop slot at a time, and must be used throughout growth stages. Shuckle cannot convert G. crops.)

Farm Pokemon

Shuckle: 1,000 PD (berries, coffee beans, flowers, and herbs can be converted into perfumes, powders, juices, or wine)
- Basic farm can have 1 shuckle max, large gains acces to 2 max, and gigantic has access to 3 max
All other helpers listed on farm page: 3,000 PD
- Please list species (always starts at first stage), gender, and name of your new helper at time of purchase!

Ranches

Basic: 4 pokemon
Medium: 6 pokemon
Large: 9 pokemon
Extra large: 12 pokemon
Expansive: 15 pokemon

Ranch Properties

Ranch Purchases

Livestock: 1,000 PD (all livestock and their produces are listed on the ranch page!)
Makers: 5,000 PD (2 of the same produce of any size can be refined into a new product. Ex: 1 small milk and 1 large milk combine to make 1 cheese)
- Only one is needed for full benefit, but ranchers may buy up to 3 makers for rp purposes if they want more. Must be featured in submission to work. Design is up to the member! Mor info on makers can be found on the ranch page!
Luxury toolkit: event or library point prize (a fully evolved ranch mon will produce a higher, rare version of their produce. Only one ranch mon can have this used on them per work sumbission.

Businesses

Basic: 5 customer max + 1 Business Assistant
Medium: 10 customer max + 2 Business Assistants
Large: 15 customer max + 3 Business Assistants
Extra large: 20 customer max + 5 Business Assistants
Luxury: 30 customer max + 7 Business Assistants

Each level of upgraded business earns better registers from submissions.

A Tip Jar comes with all businesses. You will earn an extra coin roll for every customer featured. Only residents and children owned by other members count. NPCs do not earn coin rolls. Children must be 14 years of age or older to earn the bonus without parent supervision (child-based businesses like lessons, daycare etc are exempt from this rule). A max of 10 coin rolls per submission can be earned via tip jar bonuses.

Business Properties

Market cart: 2,500 PD (+1 register per submission, permanently)
Lucky cat statuette: 2,500 PD (Gain a Gigantic Coin Roll when featured in work submission. Design is up for your interpretation)
Assistant promotion: 1,000 PD (promotes a business assistant so they earn Large Coin Rolls)
VIP board: 1,500 PD (1 promoted assistant earns a Gigantic Coin Roll per submission. Please note which featured assistant will be the VIP)
Billboard: event or library point reward (earns 1 Diamond register per submission)

Business Assistants

Purchased outright: 2,000 PD + written assistant application
Transferred from pet slot or hatched from egg: 1,000 PD + written assistant application

The written business assistant application, and more information about business pokemon, can be found on the businesses page.

POKEMON!

There are many ways to get Pokemon in Harvest Lunatone! Here are the common ways, and links to more information about them.

Fossil Pokemon

Fossils can be found in the mines, and they only take the submission of a note to the group to be revived into their living forms! Galarian fossil pokemon require both fossil to be revived. Fossil pokemon always start at base form. Fossil pokemon cannot breed, but eggs of these pokemon are sometimes found in random egg prizes.

Fossil Pokemon can be Starter Pokemon without needing to use an item!

Hatching

Hatching pokemon from eggs is free, most of the time (exceptions listed below). Two submissions- one depicting a character caring for the egg, and the other showing the pokemon hatching free- are required in order to hatch a pokemon. These should be linked in the note requesting to add the hatched pokemon to a slot. Special eggs may only require one submission, but this will be noted at time of aquisition.

Hatching into pet, ranch, and farm slots is free.
Hatching into a Utility Slot requires 3,000PD for the training.
Hatching into a business or mount slot costs the training fee associated with those slots.
- Business mon aquired via egg hatching cost 1,000 PD. Hatching into a mount slot costs 2,000 PD.

More information can be found on the Hatching section of the Your Pokemon page

Catching

Catching a pokemon from the mines or trails requires the member to reach a certain point on those journeys to unlock the pokemon desired. Then, a 2,000 PD cost for a pokeball (can be purchased in bulk as well), and a submission of the character interacting with the pokemon can be linked in a note, alongside the name and gender of the pokemon. Pokemon are caught at their first stage.

Pokemon can be captured anywhere in Raccolto once unlocked.
Mine pokemon are arranged by type, and dual type pokemon must have the mine level of both mines explored before they can be caught.
Alolan pokemon are split between Clamperl Cove and Snowfall Inlet. Galarian pokemon are on Cin City, and Paldean pokemon are on Astray Isle. The trails each have a special area for capturing pokemon, but this is not required as an exploration point for either capture or trail progress.
Paradox and Hisuian pokemon are found in the Space-Time Catacombs at the end of the mines.
Ultra Beasts are caught using a Safari Ball after being interacted with in two separate pieces.

The Safari Zone has a rotating list of pokemon available to be caught each month, as well as one Gigantamax den and one Mega pokemon available each month.

Safari pokemon must be caught with a safari ball, which costs 3,000 PD. Only one safari trip may be made per month for these pokemon.
Gigantamax and Mega pokemon require a collab of at least 2 people. Only one attempt at each can be made each month. More information on these captures can be found on the Safari Zone page

Requirements for submissions used for capturing pokemon found in the above locations can be found on those pages!

Purchasing

Pokemon can be purchased for Utility slots, mount slots, and job slots.

Gardenmon Slots

All Slots cost 3000PD. The 4th Slot is earned by upgrading your character's home to Family size, the 5th slot is earned by aquiring the 3rd Mark for Vacation Homes. Slots must be purchased in order. The slots and their benefits are as follows:

All job and home upgrades cost 250 PD less. Please mention this bonus in upgrade notes. Additional properties and purchases do not apply.
Pokemon earn 2 hearts per submission they are featured in.
+1 pet slot
All work submissions earn double produce.
Eggs hatch in 1 submission.

Mount Pokemon

Mounts may be purchased for 4,000 PD, or hatched into a slot for 2,000 PD.

Mounts come at their first stage. In the note to purchase or hatch the pokemon, please list the name, gender, and species. Fossil mounts must be revived in a note, and will also cost the 2,000 PD training fee.

There are flying, ground, and surf mounts. A list of the mounts is available on the Your Pokemon page.

Job Pokemon

Ranch pokemon cost 1,000 PD, and more info on them is found on the Ranching page.

Business assistants can be purchased outright for 2,000 PD, but must still have an assistant application form submitted describing how they will work in the business. That form can be found on the Businesses page. If hatched or switched into the slot the fee is 1,000PD

Farm pokemon can be purchased for 3,000 PD, except for Shuckle, which may be purchased for 1,000 PD. The list of farm pokemon and their produce may be found on the Farming page.

EARNING!

General Art and Writing Earnings

The following is how mods calculate earnings for all artwork submitted to the group. This info and more can be found here!

Visual Submissions

**Pokemon the same as characters**

Per Picture (First character):

Sketch: 50
Line Art: 100
Flat Color: 200
Shading: 300

For any additional character:

Sketch: 10
Line Art: 20
Flat Color: 50
Shading: 100

Per Picture (Background):

Sketch background: 100
Line background: 150
Color background: 250
Shaded background: 350

Written Submissions

These include anything from poetry to biographical essays to short stories, to novels. RP logs and written collaborations are also welcome and counted this way.

Please include your word count in the submission form.

3 PD for every 4 words.
1. - For example: write 200 words, get 150 PD. Write 40 words, get 30 PD.

Special

Full Collaborations: *

Each member will receive the total PD earned for the artwork. Up to 4 members may collaborate on a visual artwork. Shared work is the important part of this type of collab.

Examples

One members creates the background, while the other creates all characters
One sketches, one lines, one colors, etc...

Open Collabs/Plug and Play:*

For collabs where one person creates the background and their own characters and everyone else adds their own characters.

You will only gain the PD for what you specifically contributed to the collaboration. This type is collab is still for up to 4 total characters.

*All collaborations must advise who completed what portion of the submission in the form

RP logs (excluding Chat Event):

Calculated like regular writing. Each Participant earns a random prize per prize threshold met (threshold is 250 words per participant. Example, 500 for 2 people, 750 words for 3 people etc.), listed below.

Prizes: 300 extra PD, Potato, Mystery Potion, Harvest Sprite Slipper

Hosting a Chat RP Event:

500 PD per Hour

Animations:

All individual and not copy pasted frames will earn their respective PD as described in the Visual Submission list. Example: You have 10 frames, all of them feature 1 character, 4 of which feature heavily copy pasted elements will earn the PD for 6 characters.

Animation Bonus:

500 PD

Event Bonus:

300 PD

To earn the event bonus, artwork should meet the current event's requirements. Artwork below the requirement can still be submitted to the event gallery, however.

Comics:
All panels will earn PD based on what the individual panels show. A comic with 5 panels where 3 have backgrounds and all panels show 2 characters, will earn PD for 3 backgrounds and 10 characters for example.

Comic Bonus:

300 PD

Spamming counts for 3+ images submitted where the character/s are moving around the same or similar scene. Artwork will be treated as a comic.

Background Guidelines

Transparent backgrounds, or backgrounds that are a single color or gradient do not count for PD.
Non Scene Backgrounds: Pattern or Shapes that do not resemble a scene as described below. Will earn 100 PD.
Simple Scene: No distinction of foreground, midground or background, the scene is all on one plane. There are few environment elements (clouds, trees, chairs, cameos, Pokémon, etc.).
Semi-Detailed Scene: Has the distinction of at least two planes. At least 4+ environment elements (clouds, trees, chairs, cameos, Pokémon, etc.).

Job Board

Each month, a Job Board post goes up for each of the professions (ranchers, farmers, and business owners). Members may choose 1 resident each month to do 1 of the prompts for a job that character has. Each piece earns a Community Points in addition to the PD from that artwork, the Points can be turned in for items as they accumulate. Job board information can be found here or on the #job-board channel in discord under Mechanics!

Library Prompt

Each month, the Library has a prompt for members to write a piece about one of their characters with a certain theme. Each character a member has can submit an entry. Characters will earn Community Points in their inventory, as well as the PD from the piece, and those points can be spent on items as they accumulate! More information can be found here or in the #library-prompts channel on discord!

Work Pieces

TO BE ADDED SOON

More information will be added in the future!

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