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Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (RFGoA)

Spring Village Walkthrough

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Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma - Spring Village

Spring Village is the first village in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma. Read on for a complete step-by-step walkthrough for all main quests you will encounter in Spring Village!

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Prologue Main Quests

All Prologue Main Quests
Rise and Shine Morning Chores
The Dance of Bonds and Save Statues -

Rise and Shine

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Explore House
Go Outside. After exploring the interior of the house and familiarizing yourself with the controls, head outside.
2 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk to Iroha
Talk to Iroha. Iroha will give you the Bamboo Broom and start the next quest.

Morning Chores

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Sweep Leaves
Sweep Leaves. Sweep the leaves by walking up to them and interacting with them.
2 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk to Iroha
Talk to Iroha. After sweeping the 5 Leaf Piles, talk to Iroha again to receive the Plum Branch and proceed.

The Dance of Bonds and Save Statues

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Use Dance of Bonds
Use Dance of Bonds at the save statue. With the Plum Branch equipped, head back inside and use Dance of Bonds in front of the save statue.
2 Talk to Iroha. After saving your game, talk to Iroha again to proceed.

Spring Village Main Quests

All Spring Village Main Quests
Something on Suzu's Mind Finding the Weird Animal
Time to Rest After the Disaster
Village Chief The State of the Village
Clearing Debris Placing Fields
Planting Seeds Reaping What You've Sown
Ship 'Til You Drop Creating Tiles
Let's Review Time to Rest
The Missing Carpenter Can't Fight on an Empty Stomach
Searching for Takumi Using a Bow
The Business of Being Chief Building a Home 1
Building a Home 2 Time to Rest
Ulalaka's Summons Finding Help
Ulalaka's Woes 1 Ulalaka's Woes 2
Blacksmith Brouhaha 1 Blacksmith Brouhaha 2
Lessons with a Superstar Amazing Decorations
Amazing Buildings Checking on Takumi
Guardian's Grove Lumber Hut Repairing the Dragon Shrine
Searching for Azuma's Gods -

Something's on Suzu's Mind

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk to Suzu
Talk to Suzu. Walk further down the road and talk to Suzu to begin the quest.

Finding the Weird Animal

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk to Suzu again Talk to Suzu. Talk to Suzu again to learn more clues about the Weird Animal.
2 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Follow Suzu
Talk to Suzu again. Follow Suzu behind the shrine, and talk to her again.
3 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk to Suzu once more
Talk to Suzu once more. Follow Suzu again, this time towards the village, as she follows the trail of the Weird Animal.

Time to Rest

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Go to the Dragon Shrine and sleep. Head back home by walking or Fast Traveling to the save statue. Interact with your Futon to end the day.

After the Disaster

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Revive Trees
Revive trees with the Drum Dance. Equip the Drum Dance, then walk up to the dead trees. Using the Drum Dance in front of the dead trees will bring them back to life.
2 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Revive Sacred Tree
Use Dance of Bonds on the sacred tree. After reviving 6 Dead Trees, head to the Sacred Tree and use the Dance of Bonds.

Village Chief

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk to Sakaki
Talk to Sakaki. After reviving the Trees and receiving the blessing from Ulalaka, talk to Sakaki, and receive the Terra Tiller from Woolby.

The State of the Village

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk to Ulalaka
Head to the development zone. Once there, speak with Ulalaka to progress the quest.

Clearing Debris

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Destroy Debris
Destroy debris with the Terra Tiller. After speaking with Ulalaka, equip the Terra Tiller to begin clearing the Debris from the field.

Placing Fields

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Place Fields
Place Field tiles. Once enough debris have been removed, start placing Field Tiles. These will serve as your main farmland, where you can plant and grow crops!

Planting Seeds

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Plant turnip seeds Plant turnip seeds. Select the seeds Woolby provided, and then plant them on the field tiles.
2 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Water the fields
Water the fields. After planting the turnips, interact with them again to water them.

Reaping What You've Sown

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Harvest turnips
Use Drum Dance, then harvest turnips. Equip the Sacred Drum and head towards the pre-planted field. Once near, perform the Drum Dance to speed up crop growth, and harvest the turnips.

Ship 'Til You Drop

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Ship Crops
Put Turnips in the shipping shed. After harvesting your turnips, head to the Shipping shed and move the turnips from your inventory to the Shed.

Creating Tiles

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Ship Crops
Call Woolby and create field tiles. Open Woolby's menu and craft additional Field tiles. Woolby will provide enough materials to allow you to craft Field Tiles 6 times.

Let's Review

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Place Field Tiles
Place Field Tiles. Place the 6 newly obtained Field Tiles anywhere.
1.1 Plant turnip seeds. After placing the tiles, plant and water the turnips.

Time to Rest

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Head to the Dragon Shrine and sleep. Return to the house via walking or fast travel to end the day.

The Missing Carpenter

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk to Sakaki
Talk to Sakaki. Talk to Sakaki to receive the Cheap Hammer and Common Hatchet.

Can't Fight on an Empty Stomach

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Talk to Iroha
Head for the Abandoned Shrine. Head towards the Abandoned Shrine, where you will be stopped by Iroha.
1.1 Make Onigiri. After receiving the Onigiri recipe and Steamed Rice, prepare the dish to finish the quest.

Searching for Takumi

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Spring Highlands
Head to the Abandoned Shrine. Continue forward and enter the Spring Highlands, towards the Abandoned Shrine.
2 Abandoned Shrine
Explore the Abandoned Shrine. Once inside, explore the place by collecting resources and opening chests you can find scattered about.
2.1 Monster Barrier Defeat the monsters. After reaching a certain point inside the Shrine, you will experience a Monster Barrier, which can only be cleared by defeating all enemes present.
2.2 Defeat Monsters for EXP. Continue looting and defeating monsters in the area to gain useful items and level up your character. Don't forget to learn weapon skills while you're at it!
3 Mezuki Boss Defeat Mezuki. When you're ready, head to the quest marker, where you will face off against the first boss, Mezuki.

Using a Bow

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Equip the bow. After finding Takumi, multiple dialogues will ensue, which will end in you receiving the Bow. Equip it to progress the quest.
1.1 Hit the target with the bow. Attack the dummy using the bow to finish the Bow weapon tutorial.

The Business of Being Chief

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Accept an ema plaque request. Interact with the Ema Plaque, and accept the request from Sakaki.

Building a Home 1

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk to Takumi
Talk to Takumi. Speak with Takumi to learn how to build Houses.

Building a Home 2

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Ask Takumi about building a house
Ask Takumi about building a house. Speak with Takumi again and build the Humble House.
2 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Place the house
Place the house. Place the Humble House anywhere within the Dev Zone.
3 Turn in ema plaque request. Return to the ema plaque to finish the quest.

Time to Rest

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Head to the Dragon Shrine and sleep. Return to the house via walking or fast travel to end the day.

Ulalaka's Summons

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk to Ulalaka
Talk to Ulalaka. Follow the quest marker and talk to Ulalaka. She will introduce Villager Jobs and how to assign Villagers to tasks.

Finding Help

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Ask Villagers to do work
Ask villagers to do work for you. After learning Villager Jobs from Ulalaka, assign villagers to help out with chores you wish to be automated.

Ulalaka's Woes 1

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk with Ulalaka
Talk with Ulalaka. Talk to Ulalaka in front of the Shipping Shed to learn more about Villager Expenses.

Ulalaka's Woes 2

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Ulalaka
Listen to Ulalaka's request. Talk to Ulalaka and select Do you have any requests? from the dialogue choices.
2 Complete Ulalaka's request. Complete Ulalaka's request, or immediately submit the request for completion if you have already placed 20 fields in the Dev Zone.

Blacksmith Brouhaha 1

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Strange Red Oni
Defeat the strange red oni. Follow the quest marker and head for Spring Highlands again. Once you spot the red oni, attack it until it reaches low hp where a cutscene will ensue.
2 Return to Spring Village. After saving the Blighted Villager, head back to the Village to finish the quest.

Blacksmith Brouhaha 2

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Build a blacksmith
Build a blacksmith. Talk to Takumi and build a Blacksmith. Building a Blacksmith requires 40 Lumber, 20 Material Stone, and 1 Iron. Make sure to place it in the Dev Zone once built.
2 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Assign Kihachi
Have Kihachi run the blacksmith. After placing the Blacksmith, assign Kihachi to run the blacksmith and complete the quest.

Lessons with a Superstar

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Get to know Suzu
Get to know Suzu better. Increase Suzu's affinity by talking to her. Choosing any of the options will increase your Bond Level with Suzu to 1.

Amazing Decorations

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Place a scarecrow. Place a scarecrow decoration anywhere in the Dev Zone.
2 Place a torii gate. Place a torii gate decoration anywhere in the Dev Zone.

Amazing Buildings

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Place 5 buildings in the dev zone. Talk to Takumi and build any 5 buildings. Place them within the Dev Zone to complete the quest.

Checking on Takumi

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Talk to Takumi
Talk to Takumi. Talk to Takumi to inquire about fixing the shrine.
2 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Form a party
Form a party. After speaking with Takumi, the game will teach you to create a party.

Guardian's Grove Lumber Hunt

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Cross the bridge to Guardian's Grove. Follow the quest marker heading towards Guardian's Grove.
2 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Guardian
Explore the Guardian's Grove. Explore the area, collecting materials, and opening crates you find along the way.
3 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Defeat the Cursed Tree
Defeat the Cursed Tree. Together with your party, attack and defeat the Cursed Tree.

Repairing the Dragon Shrine

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Ask Takumi to fix the Dragon Shrine
Ask Takumi to fix the Dragon Shrine. Return to the village and talk to Takumi to inquire about fixing the shrine again.

Searching for Azuma's Gods

Step-by-Step Guide
1 Fly to Summer Village. With Woolby regaining his powers, fly and choose to land on Summer Village.

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