Moonlight, Harvest, and Gathering: Aniimo harvest festival walkthrough

At a glance

• Where: in your Homeland and at the Home Shop, with a Limited-Time Event Zone for the festival venue.
• How it starts: Fannie wishes you a happy Harvest Moon Festival and delivers a fresh batch of work orders.
• Prerequisites: progress in The World Inside the RV, since everything happens in your Homeland.
• Sections: Harvest Under the Moon · Clear the Plot · Gathering Together · Harvest in Progress · Festival Lights · A Grand Feast, with waiting stages in between.
• Characters: Fannie, Jojo, Yama.
• Rewards: Moonray Wheat and Credits at every stage, with materials, Bud Tickets, Voxel Coins and a Wonder Egg at the end.

1. Harvest Under the Moon

Fannie tells you about Astra’s Harvest Moon Festival: a recent holiday that mixes the autumn traditions of many territories from the home planet — feasts, fairs, fireworks — with the custom of gathering to watch the moon. Since Astra’s holidays usually boil down to store promotions, she suggests something better: hosting the gathering in your Homeland, with other Pathfinders and the Aniimo.

She starts by restocking the Home Shop with seasonal seeds: Moondew Radish and Waxing Moon Pepper, brought back from Idyll a few years ago, which only bear fruit during the festival. Fannie mentions a rumor: a mutated variety is said to yield fruit as round and bright as a full moon, though she has never seen one.

Step by step

1. Receive the fresh batch of work orders Fannie delivers.
2. Check the restocked Home Shop: you get the recipe notes for Moondew Radish, Waxing Moon Pepper, Roasted Waxing Moon Pepper and Moondew Radish Slices, plus 100 Moonray Wheat.
3. Buy Moondew Radish Seeds and Waxing Moon Pepper Seeds.

2. Clear the Plot

Fannie comes back with two helpers: Yama, GoGoHomes’ furniture designer, and Jojo, who coordinates the gathering’s construction. The venue only opened recently and is cluttered: it has to be cleared before anything can be built. Fannie heads back to Astra to finish her proposal and leaves you with Jojo.

Step by step

1. Wait for the stage to open, then answer Fannie’s call.
2. Meet Fannie at the agreed-upon location and get introduced to Yama and Jojo.
3. Clear debris off the festival grounds, then talk to Jojo.

Stage rewards: 100 Moonray Wheat, 50,000 Credits, 1,000 Wood Blocks, 500 Mineral Sand.

3. Gathering Together

Jojo has tweaked his layout without being happy with it: he went through all the old festival traditions, but something is still missing. You suggest drawing on local customs — meaning the Aniimo. An Emberpup answers that what it likes most is everyone celebrating together, in the thick of it: Jojo adds tables and chairs to create a dining area shared by people and Aniimo.

Step by step

1. Wait for the stage to open, then talk to Jojo.
2. Ask the Emberpup what it wants, then go back and inform Jojo.
3. Place “Harvest Gathering: Get-Together” in the Limited-Time Event Zone.

Stage rewards: 200 Moonray Wheat, 100,000 Credits, 1,000 Bud Tickets.

4. Harvest in Progress

The Emberpup’s input helped, so Jojo wants another Aniimo’s opinion. The Celestis asks for exactly what you’d expect: Starines, piled into mountains, and even Starines raining from the sky. Jojo turns that into an idea: putting the harvest on display around the venue, for a sense of abundance you would never see in Astra.

Step by step

1. Wait for the stage to open, then keep discussing the arrangements with Jojo.
2. Ask the Celestis what it wants, then go back and inform Jojo.
3. Place “Harvest Gathering: Bright Blooms” in the Limited-Time Event Zone.

Stage rewards: 300 Moonray Wheat, 150,000 Credits, 30 Plant Growth Tonics, 15 Energizing Work Meals.

5. Festival Lights

That leaves the lighting. The Sparki has an obvious answer: fire. So Jojo installs lights and fences so the party can run late into the night — and he fully intends to file fireworks under the same heading.

Step by step

1. Wait for the stage to open, then keep talking with Jojo.
2. Ask the Sparki what it wants, then go back and inform Jojo.
3. Place “Harvest Gathering: Festive Lights” in the Limited-Time Event Zone.

Stage rewards: 400 Moonray Wheat, 200,000 Credits, 200 Voxel Coins.

6. A Grand Feast

The venue is ready: all that’s missing is the food. Jojo has prepared a basic menu and leaves the ingredients to you. He then adds holiday dishes and seasonal specialties made with Moondew Radish and Waxing Moon Pepper. Fannie comes back to see the result: it looks far more convincing than Astra’s commercial events, and Jojo is already planning to use it in promo shots. The chapter ends on a countdown while you wait for the Harvest Gathering to open.

Step by step

1. Wait for the stage to open, then discuss the preparations with Jojo.
2. Give him the Tanghulu, the Maple Apple Jam and the Lavender Cookies.
3. Let Jojo review the festival checklist, then give him the Umbral Pickles, the Umbral Hot Pot and the Harvest Platter.
4. Talk to Jojo, then wait for the Harvest Gathering to begin.

Stage rewards: 600 Moonray Wheat, 300,000 Credits, 1 Wonder Egg.

Characters you meet

• Fannie: the inventor behind GoGoHomes, who starts the gathering project and supplies the seasonal seeds.
• Jojo: coordinator of the Harvest Gathering, in charge of building the venue.
• Yama: GoGoHomes’ furniture designer, already met in the previous chapter.

What’s next?

The first Homeland chapter, The World Inside the RV, explains every facility used here. For the rest of the journal, head to Story and quests or our Homeland beginner’s guide.

Read next

• Aniimo story summary Story and quests

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Harvest Moon Festival?

An Astra holiday, a recent one according to Fannie: it brings together the autumn traditions of many territories from the home planet, with feasts, fairs, fireworks and moon watching.

Which seasonal seeds do you need to buy?

Moondew Radish and Waxing Moon Pepper, sold in the Home Shop once Fannie restocks it. According to her, they only grow and bear fruit during the festival.

Why does the quest ask you to wait?

The chapter is split into stages. Between each one, a section asks you to wait for the next stage to open and to come back to Jojo a few days later.