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Fire Emblem: Three Houses (FE3H)
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This is a guide to Free Time in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Read here to find out about what to do with Free Time in FE3H, the various activities, their benefits and drawbacks, and how to use your Free Time wisely!
What Is Free Time?
Weekend for Different Actions
At the start of every month, you are assigned a mission that will happen at the end of said month. Every weekend, which is labelled in red, you have free days which you can choose what to do with your time. You can only pick one of four options each weekend: Explore, hold a Seminar, Rest and Battle.
Exploration Activities
Explore Garreg Mach Monestary
| Garreg Mach Activities | ||
|---|---|---|
| Side Quests | Find Items | Talk to Students |
| Access Special Shops | Share a Meal | Cook With a Student |
| Choir Practice | Training Tournaments | Faculty Training |
| Tea Time | Greenhouse | Fishing |
Explore allows you to wander Garreg Mach, use its facilities, and interact with the students and staff. This is will be your most frequent action because this is where you can raise the Support level of your units, increase their Motivation for Lectures, and plant crops for useful plants.
The number of activities you can is decided by your Activity Points. This is decided by your Professor Level. The more activity points you have, the more activities you can do to improve your units.
Accept Quests
Side quests can only be accepted while Exploring. You can see all available side quests in the Bulletin Boards around the monastery or on the Map as scrolls with an exclamation mark (!) on your map.
Some quests require you to simply run around the monastery, while others require you to participate in a battle another day. These quests give various rewards that are shown once you accept them.
Find Items
If you wander around the monastery, you'll find blue auras you can interact with. These are items scattered around Garreg Mach.
They can either be Lost Items from characters, consummables, materials for cooking, bait, tea, or texts to raise professor experience. Either way, they're all worth keeping an eye out for and it doesn't hurt to pick them up.
Talk to Your Students and Allies
Every month, students will have something new to say about the goings-on of Garreg Mach. Sometimes, you can reply to them, and choosing the correct reply will increase their support with you.
However, they only come up with new things to say every month, so exploring more than once will not give them any new dialogue.
Accessing Special Shops
Aside from the shops you can access before a battle, namely the Item Shop, Blacksmith, Armory, and Battalion Guild, there are four stores that you can only access through exploration.
Completing the Clearing the Way sidequest in Chapter 5 unlocks the Southern Merchant and Eastern Merchant.
In Part 2, complete the sidequests The Secret Shop in Chapter 15 and Taking Care of Business in Chapter 16 to unlock Anna's Secret Shop and the Dark Merchant, respectively.
Share a Meal With Your Students
Sharing a meal with two other characters in the Dining Hall allows you to build a bond between the three of you. This is first unlocked by doing Sylvain's quest Share A Bite. available in Chapter 1: Three Houses.
The first meal in an exploration is free. Any meals after this cost ingredients from your own inventory. Each student has their own likes and dislikes, so their motivation will increase depending on the dish.
There are also Dining Hall events which give bonuses when dining with certain students. These events will be marked on the calendar with a fork and knife icon.
Cooking Together
For one activitiy point, you and one of your allies can cook a meal in the Dining Hall. You can unlock this after completing the head chef's quest Creative Cuisines in Chapter 2: Familiar Scenery.
Cooking a meal with a character in the dining hall increases their bond with you. The dish you will cook can also give your army bonus stat/s for the month.
Choir Practice
In the Cathedral, you can get two students to join in choir practice with you. First you will need to complete A Passion For Music, a sidequest that first appears in Chapter 2: Familiar Scenery.
Afterwards, you will be able to get two students to join you for choir practice once per exploration. This will increase the Support and Faith rank for everyone involved. Byleth will also increase their Authority skill.
Training Tournaments
Starting from Chapter 4, every month, you can assign a unit to participate in a tournament by talking to the Tournament Organizer in the Training Field. At the bottom of the Calendar, you can check the tournament and its reward.
If your student wins, you get the reward listed and some Gold. However if your student loses, you cannot retry the tournament until another exploration.
In some tournaments, you can get Certification Seals. So if your army has units that can get certified, it's recommended that you do these.
Faculty Training/Advanced Drills
Faculty Training, and later in Part 2, Advanced Drills, allow you to improve one of Byleth's skills at the cost of one activity point. Each character offers different skill trainings, related to their expertise.
They will always offer the same set of skills, regardless of their current class. For example, if you recruit Hanneman and make him a Grappler, he will still offer classes in Bow, Reason, and Riding.
You can access this by talking to the character during exploration, where it will show up as an option. You can only do this with a character once per Exploration, but you can do it with multiple characters.
Tea Time
Tea time allows you invite a unit and play a dialogue minigame with them to increase their Support. First, you must complete the quest Tea for Two that appears in Chapter 4: The Goddess' Rite of Rebirth.
Once you invite them, you select a tea. Then there will be three rounds where you must choose one of three conversation topics the other would be interested in.
You can get either a Perfect or Nice grade. Either way, you will increase the Charm and Support with of Byleth and the character you chose.
Using the Greenhouse
After you finish Dedue's quest Green Thumb Beginnings in Chapter 1, you gain access to the Greenhouse, where you can allows plant seeds that you can harvest in your next exploration. This does not cost an Activity Point.
The higher your professor level. the more seeds you can plant, and the better cultivation options you can do to increase your yield. You should do this every exploration to increase your Professor Level and create useful items.
Fishing
To unlock the fishing pond, complete Flayn's quest Fresh Catch in Chapter 1: Three Houses. You can start fishing by talking to man by the fish stall and selecting your bait. This will take you to the fishing minigame.
This does not cost an Activity Point, but you do consume bait to fish. Fishing gets you fish that can be used for meals or for selling. It also is a way to raise professor experience without using activity points.
Fishing Guide
Abyss (DLC)
If you purchased the Expansion Pass and completed the Side Story, you will unlock the Abyss for the Main Story. To enter it, talk to the Shady Merchant to the left of your room.
Aside from new content like units and Side Quests, you can use Renown to unlock new facilities. These will let you trade Renown for weapons, items, and Support levels between units; check growth rates; and unlock new lore.
Free Time Battles
You can choose to spend a weekend participating in battles. The amount of battles you can join is limited by your battle points, which can be increased by increasing your professor level.
Regular Battles
Regular battles are generated encounters that put you up against generic enemies in maps found in other missions. A regular battle costs one battle point and usually offers a randomized reward.
The battles will either start with Battle in the..., meaning you fight bandits, or Monsters in the..., which means you have to fight monsters. The ending will be the location.
Endless Battles (Normal Difficulty)
In normal difficulty, there is a variation of this that has a lower recommended level and no battle point costs. You can repeat this battle as many times as you want to level up your units.
Rare Monster Sightings
These are special battles that you can only do on the weekend. They happen in the same maps as Regular Battles, but you have to fight two armies: bandits and monsters.
This has higher level enemies than the Regular Battles and are a good chance to get some experience, as well as loot items from the monster.
Quest Battles
Quest battles are battles that appear when you accept quests from exploration. They usually have multiple rewards because you will also receive items from the battle.
Paralogues
Paralogues are unique quest battles that you can only see if you have certain units in your house. They reveal more about a character or the bond between two characters.
Usually, they have unique rewards like Hero Relics, items, or Battalions relevant to that character's background.
Seminars
Additional Skills Training
You can choose to have someone hold a seminar during one of your free days. In Part 1, you can have any of the professors, including your character, to hold a seminar to increase the skills of all those interested in attending.
Each character gives specific seminars that are related to two of their strengths, and only those with prior interest to the skills will attend.
Attendees will gain +50 Motivation from attending, as well as a substantial amount of Skill EXP from the seminar. If the seminar is given by another character, Byleth will attend it and get the corresponding skill bonuses.
Resting
Passively Increase Motivation
The last Free Time option is Rest. Doing this raises all your students' motivation and adds more uses to the Sword of the Creator. If you choose to Skip
to a date on the calendar, all free days will automatically default to Rest.
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