【Dong-Jin Rice-hime】Complete Guide (DLC Included)

Overview

Friendly Reminder: This guide may contain spoilers.(PS: We tried to keep the spoiler parts as low as possible in this guide. For any options of dialogues, only the recommended choice and the corresponding consequences are pointed out.)

1. Title Screen Introduction

When you first enter the game, you will be directed to the title screen
1. Story mode – Start the main story. To unlock the cultivation mode (the second option from the top), one have to complete the story mode at least ONCE. (Friendly reminder: you can only get white rice-hime in this mode)

2. Cultivation mode – The mode that allows you to cultivate and unlock other variations of rice-himes

3. Continue the game – Load the game progress from the saving slots page

4. Gallery – View the unlocked CG paintings and soundtracks from the game

5. Achievements – View the game achievements. Each achievement contains a special plot that can be accessed by pressing the small icon on the right side (note. To unlock the final CG painting, you need to complete the special plot from the last achievement)

6. Settings – Adjust game settings, including text speed, auto playback speed, sound effects ,and screen windows, etc.

2. Text Window Features

Quick introduction of icons shown at the bottom-right corner (from left to right respectively) –

1. Autoplay – Play the dialogues automatically (Press it a second time will stop the autoplay)

2. Fast-forward – To skip the dialogues (activated by one click, to stop the skipping, just click it again)

3. Save (DOWN arrow) – To save the current game progress (It is recommended to save at any time.
Beware of overwriting the previous savings. A total of 54 saving slots are available)

4. Load (UP arrow)- To load the saved progress from saving slots

5. Settings – Basically the same stuff as the setting option from the title screen

6. Screenshot – To take a screenshot (Note: this button currently does nothing since Steam already had a default screenshot keybinding, which is F12 on your keyboard)

7. Close text box – To close the window on the bottom that displays dialogue. Mostly used on making a clear view for screenshot, you can also close the text box by simply right-clicking with your mouse

3. Water Level Adjustment and Weather Events

Water level matters a lot on rice-hime’s entire growth cycle; an improper adjustments can lead to a decrease on her health, sometimes even worse consequence.

However, both water level requirement and weather changes have a fixed pattern in this game

(That means as long as you follow the pattern, you don’t need to spend any action point on ecological observation on viewing the recommended water level)

Water level adjustment –

Day 1 – Middle
Day 26 – Dry up
Day 46 – Low
Day 56- Dry up
Day 66 – Low
Day 81 – High
Day 101 – Low
Day 111 – High

Every time the water level is adjusted, there will be a small dialogue showing up, telling you if the current water level is ideal for the rice-hime or not (Quite easy to tell by looking at her face)

And now here comes the weather event part. There are 5 kinds of weather events you may encounter. They can do serious damage to the seedling or spike. (However, in cultivation mode, any potential damage can be fully prevented when equipped with wedding Rice-hime or lazy Rice-hime):

1. Cold Wave (Only encountered in story mode) – 6 ~ 11 days.
The only unpreventable event. The health of seedling will reduce 15 points regardless. Be highly aware that if the water level is “dry-up” or “low” (which IS the default level when the game starts) when triggering this event, the seedling has high change of getting frozen, leading to an instant game-over (That happened to me when I first started the game….so when starting the story mode, better adjust the water level ASAP before things get ugly)

2. Raining season (Only encountered in cultivation mode) – Day 11 to 16.
May reduce the weed control level by 20 points.

3. Fungus Disease Outbreak (Only encountered in cultivation mode)

4. Snail Infestation (Only encountered in cultivation mode)

5. Typhoon (A.K.A. Hurricane, only encountered in cultivation mode) – Day 76 to 81. Sometimes this event won’t show up. But if it occurs, there will be dialogues beforehand implying its arrival.
May reduce health of the seedling by 30 points.

4. Story Mode Walkthrough

The story mode should be no-trouble as long as you pay attention during white rice-hime’s tutorial at the beginning of the game. so this part will only go over few details ~

Your rice-hime should be fine as long as the scores of weed control, pest control (or bird control in the later stage) are maintained between 20-25 points

No need to worry about intimacy level since it does not affect the ending in story mode (the good one of course). Focus on keeping the field clean, and there shouldn’t be any problem on reaching the end. If you wanna know more about your rice-hime, it is more action points efficient to use the “chat” (costs 1 action point) function instead of the “hime observation” (which costs 2 action points) one.

At the beginning of the story mode, there will be 4 options for you to choose (All options does little or no effect except the last one at the very bottom, so pick whatever you like here)

1. Dialogue – Chit-chatting with Young-Meow, will increases Young-Meow’s intimacy by 1 point.
2. Tour the field – Increases the weed level by 1 point.
3. Adjust the water level – The water level stay the same regardless at the next farming day, so this option does basically nothing.
4. Return home – DO NOT PICK THIS. This can lead to a direct game-over, without any CG painting.

When the next day begins, you might realize that instead of “Day 2”, the time shows “Day 6”. That’s not a glitch: the game simply skips 5 days (Day 1→Day 6→Day 11…..) between every farm work period to make the timeline shorter while still follow the pattern of rice growing cycle in real life (Fun fact: Kaohsiung 145, the actual species model that rice-hime represents, takes approximately 126 days to turn fully mature, which is why the farming ends at day 126 during the in-game timeline).

Between day 6 to day 11. The seedling’s health value will inevitably reduce by 15 points due to the cold wave event. You can select the “Fertilization” option to restorer the seedling’s health value
(Be careful not to apply more than 2 times, unless you want to earn yourself a CG death painting)

There will be few other options between day 11 and day 101. Since these options do not affect the final ending, they will not listed. Will leave the rest for you farmers to enjoy your own experience ~

On day 101. There will be a special event that give out two options to pick:

1. Insisting on building the fence – Reduce favorability by 4 points (This option is more recommended over the another one since health value matters more than favorability does in story mode)

2. Maintaining current status (= not building the fence) – Increase favorability by 2 points. Reduce health value by 15. Reduce weed control score by 6 (The actual amounts in game may vary)
If the seedling’s health (which wouldn’t drop too much unless no water level adjustment was made), weed control, and pest control score was maintained properly (a score between 20-25 should be enough) until day 76, she will grow and turn into spike (the new blonde appearance, green dress, along with straw hat and……two enormous body parts)

You will only get white rice-hime from story mode, which is why there’s no need to worry about favoribility at all.

5. Cultivation Mode Walkthrough [Part One]

Cultivation mode is slightly more challenging than story mode. Each variety of rice-hime has different requirements and routines to aim for.

One of the major differences is that to raise a variety of rice-hime, the favorability needs to reach certain level!

Otherwise, it will be like this

Regardless of how high the intimacy level is, you will only get a Snow White unless the corresponding requirements are met.
(The minimum requirement of intimacy level should be at least 80)

Rice-hime abilities introduction
Each variety of rice-hime come with abilities that benefits the cultivation process

Snow White rice-hime:
Nothing. Yep. Nothing.

Tsundere rice-hime:
Guaranteed success of pests and sparrow control (level always increases by 3)

Slothy rice-hime:
Avoid the loss of natural disasters

Scarlet rice-hime:
Guaranteed success of cleaning weeds (level always increases by 3)

Yandere rice-hime:
Restore health of the farmland by 2 points between every shift

Bride rice-hime:
All rice-himes ‘abilities in one (including those from DLC

Recommended cultivating order: Slothy >Tsundere ->Scarlet ->Yandere ricehime-> Bride

Important Reminder:
****Bride rice-hime CANNOT be cultivated until all other variations of rice-himes are unlocked****

The ability of Slothy rice-hime is to avoid natural disasters, which will come in handy on maintaining the health of Young-Meow and.
So it is highly recommended to aim for her first.
It is almost as easy as it is from the pest, and it is the original value 20. It does not change the weeds from the beginning to the end, so there is no change from the beginning to the end. (Although this is also to see how farmers think about hug, after all, both to develop the degree of difficulty is almost~),
Nurse more trouble is the middle there will be two times to reduce the good vibes. It is more difficult to cultivate,so it is recommended to cultivate Lazy and Chuni first for use their ability to cultivate Nurse ricehime will be more easily.

In this event, every option shapes the personality of rice-hime. The most ideal option for cultivating each rice-hime is as below:

Chatting – Increases intimacy level by 5
Doing farm works – Increases pests and weed control level (Best option when cultivating Bride)
Playing with her – Increases vivacity (for Tsundere and Scarlet)
Storytelling – Reduce the vivacity (for cultivating Slothy and Yandere)

Chatting – Increases favorability by 5
Doing farm works – Increases the value of pests and weed control level (for Bride)
Exercising – Increases vivacity value (for Tsundere and Scarlet)
Resting – Reduces vivacityy value ( for Slothy and Yandere)
Rice-hime varieties development walkthrough:

The main requiLazy ricehime just
Reduce the vivac value
To do so, when this event is trigger (borrow the phone or not), select YES
Will reduce the lively degree
And then chat should appear this option (whether to spray pesticides)
Choose
give up(second one)
Will increase the favorability of 3 points
(It is because no matter what you select,the twice election will come out after few days)
After a few days,the farmland will have a great amount of pests
Here on the proposed election
Monitor spray(the first one)
(Good vibes decreased by 3 points. Nurse increased by 10. But if you choose to give up the health value and weed value ,the lose will be greater than the profit!)
After that, there will be a question
1. Which one do you like? A cat or a dog?
select
Cat (first one)
(Lower vovacity value by 3)
2.to the seedlings to see cartoons or horror film
select
cartoon
(Although it will increase the Chuni value, it will not affect the development. Select the horror film will increase the Nurse.Has been added in front of 10 points behind the development may be affected)
To the back of the spike.Auto trigger event option
Choose
Let her take care
(Increase the favorability of 5 points)After the smooth development. Can be successful to raise a Lazy ricehime~
Gave for reference (because it is the first so the results with the Raiders value is not the same)
This is the edge to write Raiders while playing the value(although because of some time to play directly to sleep and then skip the foul level of the Bride ricehime)
Chuni value and Nurs value should be the same.

Proud of the lively points of high points
In addition,the busy farmer also want to chat, will give out to the first option (borrow the phone or not)
This time election
Refuse(second one)
(Will increase the lively degree)
And then the chat should appear this option (whether to spray pesticides)
Choose here
give up(the second one)
Will increase the favorability of 3 points
(It is because no matter what you select,the twice election will come out after few days)
After,chat will appear a question
1.The question is which one do you like? a cat or a dog
select dog(the second one)
(Increase the lively degree of 3 points)
2.to the seedlings to see cartoons or horror film
Choose horror film
(Increase the point of Nurse.You will know the reason why don’t choose horror film in next step)
There will be automatically triggered after the event will increase the Chuni value of the seedlings, but the farmers do not need to tight
It will appear to continue to lie or not in the option
select frank
The question of whether to give her a snack?
Choose
Immediately to her to eat
(Princess develop plans start)
After the smooth development.Can be successful to raise Proud ricehime~

6. Cultivation Mode Walkthrough [Part Two]

↓ Proud (Tsundere) Rice-Hime ↓

(her real name is too long. I directly referred to in the Chuni rice-hime)
Chuni rice-hime’s lively point high
In addition, the busy farmer also have to chat, will come out the first option (borrow the phone or not)
Choose
Refuse(second one)
(Will increase the lively degree)
And then the chat should appear this option (whether to spray pesticides)
Choose
give up(second one)
Will increase the favorability of 3 points
(it is because no matter what you choose,the twice election will come out after few days)
After,the chat will appear the question
1. The question is which one do you like,a cat or a dog?
selected
dog(the second one)
(Increase the lively degree of 3 points)
2. to the seedlings to see cartoons or horror film
select cartoon(the second one)
(Increase in Chuni value)
There will be a trigger event after that it will increase in Chuni value
It will appear to continue to lie or not in the option
select Continue to deceive(the first one)
The question of whether to give her a snack?
Choose here
eat after the work!（the first one）
(Will increase the removal of pests and weeds)
And then because of an event so that the spike in the Chuni value increased to 999.
After the smooth development. Can be successful in raising the Chuni rice-hime ~
Give you farmer numerical reference

The vivacity value of the Nurse needs to be “low”
While keeping the seedling health, don’t forget to click the chatting option whenever possible until seeing the first event of options (borrow the phone or not)
Choose
accept(first one)
(Will reduce the vivacity value)
If clicking the chatting options more enough, the second even of options will be triggered (whether to spray pesticides)
Choose here
Stick to spray(first one)
(Reduces the favorability of 5 points and increases yandere value by 10 points)
After a few days there will be an incident: the farmland is found to be full of pests
select “insist to spray”
(Favorability decreases by 3 points.Yandere value increases by 10 points)
1. Same question from previous walkthrough: Which one do you like, a cat or a dog?
select cat(the first one)
2.Let the seedling watch cartoons or horror film
select
Horror film(first one)
(Increases yandere value)
When the yandere value reaches a certain value, an event will automatically be triggered
Choose to compliment her（first one）
(Yandere value rises to 30 points)
Starting from here, you can notice that there’s something….unusual with seedling’s eyes
To the back of the spike. Auto trigger event option
Choose
Insist on asking her to leave（first one）
(Value of yandere will rise to 50 points)
At this point a series of events will automatically be triggered. Value of yandere will rise to 260 points. And will eventually rise to 999 points
Keep the usual development going until day 126, and here’s your nurse (yandere) rice-hime~
Reference of Nurse (yandere) rice-hime

When all the other varieties of rice-himes are all unlocked, you will be able to
Bride rice-hime’s vivacity value needs to be maintained approximately at 50 points
The value of health should be high, as well as the favorability
(Mainly health value and favorability)
To avoid affect vivacity, “Rice-hime observation” is preferred over “chatting” when working on favorability.
(Vivacity doesn’t need to be exactly 50, a range within 10 points is also acceptable)
During leisure day events, the options “chatting” (first one) or “doing farm work”（second one）are highly recommended

After the smooth development. Can be successful to raise the Bride rice-hime ~ ~
Gave for reference (since this is the first try, the results with the guide value is not the same)
Here’s another example (the value is high because I used bride rice-hime in this turn)

7. CG collection

The number behind each CG below follows the order of first page on the left> upper right> lower left> right lower row> second page ….. in the appreciation room
(Due to the spoiler concern, there won’t be any CG painting posted in this part)

CG1
-At daytime / dusk to make the seedlings in the right / wrong water level. A total of 24 changes
CG2
-At daytime / Dusk let the seedlings remove the pests. A total of 6 changes
CG3
-At daytime / Dusk Make the seedlings correct / over fertilized. A total of 6 changes
CG4
-Nurture pattern spike personality in general auto trigger event
CG5
-At daytime / Dusk expelled sparrows reached the top of the highest probability of occurrence. A total of 2 changes
CG6
-At daytime / dusk observation of rice mother. A total of 2 changes
CG7
– Shiny Spike
Select “let her take care of you” (first one) when seeing the following options
CG8
-At daytime / dusk observation of rice-hime. 2 pieces total
CG9
-White rice-hime painting
CG10
-Lazy rice-hime painting
CG11
-Proud (tsundere) rice-hime painting
CG12
-Chuni rice-hime painting
CG13
-Nurse (yandere) rice-hime painting
CG14
-Bride rice-hime painting
CG15
-Complete the special plot for the achievement “Dong-Jin Rice-hime”
CG16
-the first picture of the silence of the sparring
CG17
-finish Chuni rice-hime line. A total of 2 changes
CG18
-finish Proud rice-hime A total of three changes
CG19
– Seedling drowned to death
CG20
– Seedling dried to death
CG21
– Seedling eaten by pests
CG22
– Seedling over-fertilized
CG23
– Seedling frozen to death
CG24
– Seedling blown away by typhoon
CG25
– Seedling starved to death
CG26
– Spike drowned
CG27
– Spike dried to death
CG28
– Spike starved to death
CG29
– Spike eaten by sparrows
CG30
– Spike over-fertilized

8. Intimacy Level of Cherry Shrimp

In the cultivation mode, besides the intimacy level of rice-hime, it is also possible to increase the intimacy level of Cherry Shrimp
When the intimacy level of Cherry Shrimp reaches 15, there will be a special event required to unlock a hidden story on the achievement page.

9. Rice-hime Death Compilation

There is a total of 12 death CG paintings in this game. These events come from either seedling or spike period

Ways to Die (Seedling Period):
1. Drowned – Low health while the water level is too high (pest or weed control score can not be too low, or it may lead to other results)
2. Dried – Low health while the water level is too low (pest or weed control score can not be too low, or it may lead to other results)
3. Eaten by pests – Low health while the pest removal value is too low (also choose not to use pesticide when you are given with the option)
4. Blown away by typhoon (hurricane) – low health while encountering typhoon event (Don’t equip bride rice-hime or lazy rice-hime, or the event can’t be triggered)
5. Over-Fertilized – Just keep using fertilizer
6. Frozen – In the beginning of the story mode, set the water level to “dry” and then wait for it
7. Starved – Low health while the weed control score is too low (also choose not to use herbicide when you are given the option)

Ways to Die (Spike Period):
1. Drowned – Low health while the water level is too high (pest or weed control score can not be too low, or it may lead to other results)
2. Dried – Low health while the water level is too low (pest or weed control score can not be too low, or it may lead to other results)
3. Eaten by sparrows – Low health while the bird control score is too low
4. Over-Fertilized – Just keep using fertilizer
5. Starved – Low health while the weed control score is too low

Although there are plenty ways to die, they actually all lead to the same consequence … …
Tons of ways to get evicted by the father… …

This overall walk-through may still be flawed and incomplete, so feel free to point out any question or error in the comment section.

10. Achievement Guide

“Can I succeed?” The challenge of a new rice farmer!
How to unlock: Complete the first chapter.

Can’t even take care of the farmland……This ain’t gonna end well…..
How to unlock: Trigger any rice-hime death event for once

First rice-hime secured! Let’s keep this going!
How to unlock: Complete story mode (once)

Unafraid of the Cold and Heat
That’s the spirit of a hardworking farmer!
How to unlock: Complete cultivation mode (once)

Am I too dedicated or just got nothing else to do? No matter what, the weeds shall be terminated!
How to unlock: Reach the maximum weed level

Is it even possible for these two to not quarrel?
How to unlock: Obtain Scarlet rice-hime and Tsundere rice-hime from cultication mode

These two get along quite well……kinda surprised for a bit?
How to unlock: Obtain Slothy rice-hime and Yandere rice-hime from cultivation mode

As long as there is love, even a rice-hime can be the right one!……sounds like a decent concept for the next season?
How to unlock: Obtain Bride rice-hime from cultivation mode

Both hands are covered in red, only for the CG paintings……
How to unlock: Collect all rice-hime death CG paintings

Which came first: the mankind or the rice?
How to unlock: Obtain every rice-hime from cultivation mode

Don’t call me pervert! Call me ecological observer!
How to unlock: Complete observation on every rice-hime (collect all CG fragments by hime observation, can only be done on Young-Meow and sprikle, the fragments are random every time, so may need to take a few tries)

True expert of rice-hime!
How to unlock: Complete all other achievements from above

11. DLC Cultivation Mode Guide

A new value that drops every week, and every time the farm works are successful (successful farm works=when the pests, weeds or sparrows removal value increases by 3 without any rice-hime’s support)

Not much of a issue since you can always track it in status report without spending any physical point, plus you can restore the value by going to church and pray. If the sacred value drops to 0, there will be something horrible awaits~

The church option is the highlighted one in the image below
And you will be directed to this scene
You can choose three times here, I recommend you to pray (second one) 2 time, and chat 1 time (first one)

Maid Rice-hime: Nothing
Nun Rice-hime: Restore the sacred value daily

Leisure Day Options:

Seedling: Doing Farm Works
Rice: Doing Farm Works

Seedling: Storytelling
Rice: Resting

I recommend to nurture nun rice-hime first, since maid rice-hime has no ability (I swear I’m not saying that she’s useless or something)

To nurture Nun rice-hime, your sacred value needs be high (30-50) while the vivacity value needs to be low (10-30)
I recommend setting a time (such as once per 2 or 3 weeks) to pray for restoring sacred value, just spend 3 times (to do there) on praying (second one) when in the church
In addition, don’t forget to click “chatting” when nurturing, at certain point you will be given the first set of options (lend her the phone or not)
Choose “Accept (First One)” as this will reduce the vivacity value
Keep chatting and you should see this option (cat or dog)
Choose “Cat (First One)”, which will reduce the vivacity value
After few days, you will see these options
Choose “Forgive her”(First One), the second one is not recommended since it only reduces favorability while the first one won’t.
After few days (again), you will see these options.
The first option “Take it easy on her” will increase favorability, but will also reduce pests removal value at the same time. On the other hand, the second option will reduce the favorability.
You will see this option someday
Choose “Explain Normally”, will increase favorability, and choose second one will reduce favorability.
After few days (again and again), you will see these options
Choose “Comfort her (Second One)”, will increase favorability, and choose first one will reduce favorability.
When the sacred value reaches maximum, you can start chatting with Magi (the blonde nun girl at the church), and you will see these options when her favorability (which increases by 1 point after every chat) reaches 15

The first one “Had deliberately killed rice-hime before” (First One) will increase the sacred value.

The second one “Had dirty thoughts about rice-himes before” will reduce the sacred value.

The third one “I’m playing this game in pirate version” will……(friendly reminder: before selecting this one, better be sure to save the game first)

At this point you can start focusing on farm works, just keep each score at 20-30 and the sacred nun rice-hime shall be yours.

To nurture maid rice-hime, the favorability has to be low (5-20)
I recommend not to select “chatting” or “rice-hime observation”, here’s the picture for showing which options are these two (the ones that got crossed out)
After few days, you can see this option after a short story
You have to choose “Cold perfunctory (Second One)”
If you choose first one you may fail to get maid rice-hime, and don’t forget to select “doing farm works” “sometime”, because you only need to keep the point at 20-30.
Keep doing these and you can see second option after a short story (again)
Select “Thank her in understatement (Second One)”
After few days you will see this option (Seedling gives you a notepad)
The option “Accept” (first one), will increase favorability while the other one will reduce it
During spike period, you will see this option as she makes you a…chocolate (well…that’s what she said)
Choose “Try explaining to her (Second One)”
After few day (again), you will be another few options
Choose “Tell her the truth (Second One)” as she makes you another……“chocolate”
I highly suggest to NOT choose the first one (if you are really curious…please save the game first before doing so)
After that, just keep the usual development (don’t select “chatting” or “rice-hime observation”) and here’s your maid rice-hime~ (There may be better strategy on cultivating her, if you found out, please don’t hesitate to share it in the comment section)
Maid Rice-hime doesn’t come with any ability. However, she does have 3 switchable costumes, you can pick any style you prefer when selecting rice-himes at the barn.
Curious about what these 3 costumes look like? You got it.

12. DLC CG Collection

Please keep in mind that all the actual paintings will not be shown due to spoiler concern. Thank you for your understanding, let’s get started.

CG31
-“Delicious” Chocolate
CG32
-Air girl’s smile
CG33
-Spike doing farm works under sunset
CG34
-Maid rice-hime introduced
CG35
-Nun rice-hime introduced
CG36
-Nun ricehime and chuni rice-hime battle
CG37
-Introducing the maid rice-hime
CG38
-Magi’s special move during the battle with the rice-hime squad
CG39
-Shrimp’s special move during the battle with the rice-hime squad
CG40
-Air girl’s special move during the battle the rice-hime squad
CG41
-Air Girl, shrimp, magi and rice-hime photo
CG42
-Meteor strike
CG43
-Magi’s face of doom

13. DLC Achievements Guide

Who needs a flashlight when you got a rice-hime with self-geerated holy light of around her?
Unlocking Requiremen: Unlock nun rice-hime in cultivation mode

We got a new rice-hime sibling? Ok….So where is she exactly?
Unlocking Requirement: Unlock maid rice-hime in cultivation mode

Light and dark showdown! Who’s gonna win?
Unlocking Requirement: Unlock nun rice-hime and chuni rice-hime in cultivation mode

The protagonist vanished mysteriously, what happened……?
Unlocking Requirement: All rice-himes obtained in cultivation mode, Magi’s favorability reaches the maximum