Rune Factory 5 Unlockables on Nintendo Switch

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Unlocking the Seasonal Headdress requires a bit of work. First, you’ll need to collect star seeds by destroying fallen stars the day after a star-fall event. Then, you’ll need to grow a star seed in each season, to harvest the associated crop. Each of the four seasonal star-fall crops will reward you with a corresponding headdress if you throw the crop into the Pharos Woodlands Pond.

Once you have the Spring Headdress, Summer Headdress, Autumn Headdress, and Winter Headdress, you can craft them together into the Seasonal Headdress.

As you fight with different weapons, you will unlock their associated skills to improve your talent with that weapon/fighting style. Taking damage and encountering status effects likewise level up your defense and resistances.

Farming skills work in a similar way; your skills increase as you perform the activity in question.

Performing various activities, such as sleeping, walking, eating, etc. also have associated skills that level up. Pretty much every action you perform can be upgraded simply by doing it.

To upgrade your magic skills, you’ll need to raise Lucas’s friendship to 5. This will unlock the ability to upgrade your spells at Studio Palmo.

Leading a party levels up Leadership, shipping items levels up Bartering, and catching enemies levels up Catching.

At Rigbarth’s Outpost, you can speak with Saint Eliza to take a license test for various skills that unlocks your ability to use that skill, although you’ll still need to then obtain the tools needed to do it. The skills unlocked this way are:

• Cooking License – unlocks Cooking Table to allow you to cook food
• Pro Cooking License – unlocks advanced recipes
• Forging License – unlocks the Forge to allow you to craft weapons
• Chemistry License – unlocks the Chemistry Table to allow you to craft medicine
• Crafting License – unlocks the Crafting Table to allow you to craft accessories and gear

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