Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Monster Capture and Care Walkthrough

Written by: Hollan • Edited by: Michael Hartman
Published Aug 30, 2009 • Related Guides: Nintendo | HP | Harvest Moon

There are no farm animals in this Harvest Moon. Now who wants some Buffamoo milk? Hm, well, maybe not after all - but this Rune Factory walkthrough will help you get where you need to go with your monsters.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon doesn't have the traditional boring farm animals for you to take care of which are found in other Harvest Moon games. No! Instead, you can befriend and enslave monsters from the surrounding caves. It's a nice system once you get it set up.

Monster Huts

Like other Harvest Moon games in which you have to build barns, In order to get monsters in Rune Factory you must build monster huts. You can do this by talking to Camus at his shop and he will build them for you, if you have enough wood and money. You also need to either grow grass or buy it as feed from Camus. Buying it is cheaper unless you have all of your monster huts built.

You can have a total of four monster huts and four basements. Each floor holds four monsters each.

Each hut requires 100 pieces of wood and 1,000 G.

Capturing Monsters

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In order to have monsters in Rune Factory, you have to capture them first. Hey, it's easier than buying farm animals, like in most Harvest Moon games. To capture a monster you need the monster glove from Tabatha. Once you have it just equip it in a cave like you would a weapon and walk up to the monster you want to befriend. They may fight you at first and cause some damage, but once you pet their heads they calm down and you are given the choice to either release them back to their world or send them to your monster huts.

You cannot capture bosses.

Monster Care

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This is much like caring for farm animals in other Harvest Moon games. In order to care for monsters in Rune Factory, you must pet them and feed them daily. Beyond that it is up to you. Petting them increases their friend points which makes them like you more. This is good because it will increase the amount of produce they supply or make them better workers.

Like all buildings in Rune Factory, time stops when you are inside your monster huts, so you don't have to worry about wasting any.

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