updated 05/15/2022 – fan-made and completed as I play the game
Rune Factory 5
- Published: XSEED Games / Marvelous USA, Inc
- Developed: Marvelous Inc
- Platform Played: Nintendo Switch
- Price: $59.99
- Rated: T (Teen)
- Genre: Adventure/Action, Role-Playing
- Released: March 22, 2022
I LOVE Rune Factory games! A perfect mix of farming, relationship building, town upgrading, monster taming, monster fighting, and story all with RPG elements. YAY!! Here I have started a guide of sorts that will cover various elements of the game all completed as I play it myself.
Contents
- Chemistry Recipes
- Crafting Recipes
- Forge Recipes
- Farming Tools
- Cooking Recipes (coming soon)
- Character Likes/Dislikes
- Wanted Monster Locations
- Starfall Crops
- Creeper Screenshots
Chemistry Recipes
Crafting Recipes
**Ongoing. Pictures coming soon**
Armor
Shields
Accessories
Headgear
Footwear
Forge Recipes
* Denotes silly item
Short Swords
Long Swords
Fists
Hammers
Axes
Spears
Dual Blades
Staves
Farming Tools
Cheap
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Platinum (Legendary)
Cooking Recipes
Simple
Knife
Frying Pan
Oven
Pot
Steamer
Game Character Likes/Dislikes
**Ongoing**
(*) denotes special characters. Doug and Margaret are unique visitors from Rune Factory 4 save data.
Wanted Monster Locations
In order to catch the monster, you have to use your Seal after whittling down its health (ZL button)
Orc Archer
Slime
Fairy
Big Muck
Chipsqueak
Ignis
Garmr
Emperor Penguin
Silver Wolf
Mamadoodle
Malm Cat
Blood Panther
Ignis
Elementalist
Guardian
Hell Ghost
Mermaid, Little Dragon, and Ice Griffin
These 3 monsters become available after completing the main list. The rewards and locations are random and change daily. You are allowed to undertake each 1x a day.
Monster Taming
- Use your Seal Spell (ZL button) to catch the monster and then feed it items until it gets the heart with flowers.
- If it gets a heart with a skull after, then keep trying similar items until it becomes a heart with flowers
- If you get all skulls and no hearts at all, you likely have no space in the barn. Either build a new one, an additional room, or clear a monster
- Every monster has favorite items, but generally, you can use anything provided your level is high enough
- Monster’s favorite items are usually items they drop
- You can only use specific items on Boss monsters which is usually the items they drop themselves plus other particular items according to other guides.
Starfall Crops
The day after a meteor shower (totally random event denoted by the day’s icon) somewhere in the world (Phoros Woodlands, Kelve Volcanic Region, Lake Yumina, Gadeus Grasslands, etc) there will be a meteor crashed into the ground. Apparently, they are in certain locations, but it’s still random. My first one was in Phoros Woodlands in the desert.
You smash it with your hammer and get Starfall Seeds. The seed is huge and takes up a 2×2 area. Depending on what season you plant it in, you’ll get a particular crop. It takes several days before it can be harvested (I ended up using growth formulae because I’m impatient).
Mine was planted in the summer so I got Starfall Corn.
You can save it to cook with (or maybe enter the Harvest Festival with) or sell it for lots of moolas.
Creeper Screenshots
There’s a Badge you can use to sneak into everyone’s homes when they’re sleeping for “investigative purposes”. I found it both creepy and hilarious, so here are the screenshots for each character.
Note: Doug, Margaret, and Radea stay at the Hotel and have no option to choose to investigate. Every character DOES say something in an aside the first time you approach them in their beds.
