Health and Stamina: How to Raise the Maximum
Village in the Shade: how the Lord's Scale raises max health and Fox's Fried Tofu max stamina, how many cursed things each scale takes, and Tagami General Store's prices in Village in the Sunshine mode.
How to Raise the Maximum
Find the right item to raise each maximum.
Both maximums at a glance
| Gauge | At start | Each item | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|
 Health | 3 hearts |  +1 per Lord's Scale | 8 with all five scales |
 Stamina | 1 bar |  +1 per Fox's Fried Tofu | 5 with all four tofu |
In numbers, one heart is 4 health and one stamina bar is 190. Dish recovery amounts use these numbers: restoring 16 health is exactly 4 hearts, and restoring 190 stamina refills exactly one bar.
01 / Stamina
Fox's Fried Tofu
Complete a season's offerings to raise max stamina
On a night out, follow the fox to the Fox Shrine and complete that season's offerings to get one Fox's Fried Tofu.
※ Each one adds a stamina bar: you start with one, and all four take you to five.
The first can come as early as late on Spring 16 of Year 1. Stamina is what runs out first in early farming, and the first tofu doubles what you can do in a day, so it's worth going for first.
See each season's offerings and where the shrine is02 / Health
Lord's Scale
Throw offerings into the waterfall and collect late at night
The Lord's Scale is a heart-shaped scale; each one adds a heart to your maximum health.
※ There are five Lord's Scales in all; with all five you have eight hearts.
Throw in any timeRewards from 0:00 to before 5:00
How it works
Click a picture to enlarge- 1Collect cursed offerings
Dorotabo Seeds picked up at night may grow into cursed crops; cursed fish are caught at night.
Every cursed crop and fish - 2Take it to Konno
Carry a cursed item to Konno and pay to hear what to do with it.
¥ 1,000
Konno - 3Throw them in from the pier
At the Okami Pond waterfall fishing spot, throw the offerings into the water. A postbox-like thing shows how many more you need.
The end of the pier at the Okami Pond waterfall - 4Come back late at night
Once you've thrown in enough, go back to the fishing spot when you wake late at night and the lord appears with your reward.
0:00 to before 5:00
The lord's rewards
Offerings and rewards
Each time counts separatelyLord's Scale1st–5th, one each timeIn all, 35 cursed crops or fish- 1st1
- 2nd3
- 3rd6
- 4th10
- 5th15
- 6th15Rain Whistle
- 7th on15 each time
Carp LanternRed or black, one at random
Even if you have enough during the day, the reward waits for late night.
Before going out at night, raise your max health a little or bring food that restores health, and being chased by the strange things out there is less of a worry.
03 / Shop
Village in the Sunshine mode
In this mode you can also buy Lord's Scales and Fox's Fried Tofu at Tagami General Store.
Tagami General StoreFrom Year 1, Spring 5 at the earliestAfter that, any season, any day
Price of each purchase
The first four cost the same for both| Purchase | Price | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | ¥ 1,500 | Both itemsLord's ScaleFox's Fried Tofu |
| 2nd | ¥ 3,000 | |
| 3rd | ¥ 5,000 | |
| 4th | ¥ 10,000 | |
| 5th | ¥ 20,000 | Lord's Scale onlyThere's no fifth tofu |
Each item is stocked one at a time
The next one appears only after you buy the current one, and each item keeps its own count.
After buying one, close the shop menu and open it again for the next; you can keep buying the same day.
The earliest is Year 1, Spring 5: once your first harvest, the altar offering and the shop tutorial are done, you can buy them that same day. Put the story off and it comes later.
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40 Things to Know at the StartWhich choices you can't undo and what to do first: modes, saving, farming, money and tool upgrades.
31 Tips for Later OnMoney, sprinklers, the greenhouse and more once you're settled in.
Making Money: What to Do Early and Later OnFishing and requests early on; later, flowers into royal jelly, mulberry leaves into silk and crops into drinks, and how to plan the year.
What Village in the Sunshine mode changesHorror, hearts, what the shops sell and what you can't get.Data updated: 2026-11-03