Harvest Festival, Fall

There are two Harvest Festivals within the Kingdom. One occurs during the Summer, and is meant for food. The one for the Fall is for drinks.

The Festival occurs during Fall 25, and everyone in town brings a drink to share. They're not exactly judged, however, they do bring in massive Friendship Points and Affection Points if you bring someone's favorite.

As it is a drinking festival, you can bring alcohol and get FP from Crop, as even if he doesn't drink during the day, he'll partake in the festival. Depending on the year, Horror may not partake in drinking, but will still attend.

If you bring the special spider wine Muffet makes or one of Grillby's special Ice Cream Floats: +50 FP with all, +100 AP to either Muffet or Grillby, depending.

The ice cream float will be eaten by all, while the spider wine differs. Crop will drink it nonetheless, while Horror will decline either the first or second year (depending on how far into their heart events you are), but accept the years after.

If you bring wine from fruits of that season (grapes, etc): +25 FP, +50 AP with romance partners.

If you bring wine from fruits of other seasons, except for Hops: +15 FP, +25 AP

Hops will gain +50 across the board, either a glitch considering Muffet's least favorite is Hops and you will get a horror quote from Grillby, or since it's most common it's just to even things out.

The festival starts in town at 9 AM. Once you enter the Mayor happily congratulates everyone for a long and wonderful year. You can go around and talk to everyone for a while.

Muffet will complain that there's not enough spider food there. Grillby will nod and greet you, but as he's technically at work he doesn't have time to chat.

You can speak with other townsfolk (more will be added here).

Crop will be enthusiastic as it's the one day he lets himself drink a lot. He doesn't particularly care for drinking but enjoys a cold drink in the afternoon, which also changes once he gets married to Horror as he cuts back significantly on the drinking.

Horror reveals that he finds a lot of drinks distasteful, that he much prefers sweet ice cream floats that Grillby makes.

There is a secret to the right of the map. If you go far enough, you'll end up close to the ocean (but unable to access it as the game will ask if you are ready to end the day). There you'll find the mysterious Veg, Crop's brother, speaking with Sugar, Horror's brother.

What they talk of varies considering how close you are to their brothers, the village as whole, and whether you choose to interrupt them. (More will be added here as is discovered).

Finally the festival begins. Everyone surrounds the town square with buffet tables lined with food and mostly drinks. Once more the Mayor congratulates everyone on a great year, and then Crop takes up the cheer, thanking his friends and family for their support in his marriage.

The Festival, you'll learn later, was started by Crop's great-great-grandfather, who found that his citizens were falling into a great depression due to a failing harvest that year. He took up various fruits he and his family had saved and turned them to drink, and instead of focusing on what was not, he instead encouraged everyone and told them how proud he was of their progress, no matter how little, they had made.

At the end, all sprites raise a glass, and CHEERS! appears in balloon-like font on top. You return to your farm at the end, along with whatever drink you had informed Grillby to be your favorite. (Secret surprise: Should you gift the same drink you get from the Harvest Festival to anyone, they'll act surprised and say 'but that's your Harvest gift!'. They do not react to anything else this way, even if you give them an apple the next day from getting an apple from the previous Harvest Festival. The NPCs know!)