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This Sun Haven Lost Toy guide will explain what to do with the lost toy and how to complete the quest attached to it. This quest isn’t like others as it doesn’t outline what to do nor is it given to you by an NPC which has left some players confused. Sun Haven is a popular release from 2023 that continues to get updates over on Steam to improve or tweak the gameplay.

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Sun Haven Lost Toy Walkthrough

The Losty Toy is a quest that you can complete at any time as it starts when you find the trigger item. This is found outside the Sun Haven mine, you can pick up a Lost Toy that looks like a dinosaur. This gets added to your inventory with a description that clearly states that the toy should be returned to its owner.

The game doesn’t tell you the owner though, and the quest never gets tracked like a regular one so you have to find the owner on your own.

If you’d rather not deduce who it is yourself I can send you in the right direction. The toy belongs to Emma and can be returned to her in exchange for a reward. You can get XP, coins, or tokens as your reward upon returning the lost toy.

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This Sun Haven Golden Pomegranate guide will detail how to find the golden item which spawns at random throughout the map after a certain point. Sun Haven is a popular release from 2023 that continues to get updates over on Steam to improve or tweak the gameplay.

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Sun Haven Golden Pomegranate

The first step to finding a Golden Pomegranate is to level up the correct skill. It requires you to get the Scavenger Hunt skill to its maximum level of 3. At this point, you’ll have the best chance of finding a spawned Golden Pomegranate. You can get them from Level 1 but it is less likely you’ll find one so Level 3 is recommended.

There are 24 set spots for the pomegranate to spawn in, at level 3 you’ll have three of them spawn in. Once you find one, the other two will disappear until the next day. As you can see, getting one of these is not an easy ask.

The 24 locations are as follows:

• Outside Jun’s house at the tree
• Behind Kitty’s house and beside the bridge
• Outside the farm and beside the purple guy bathing
• 3x West Leafy Forest
• Under the clock bridge next to the hospital
• Beside the hospital entrance
• In Catherine’s Garden
• Outside the library to the right of the fountain
• At the dragon fountain
• To the left of the Town Hall entrance
• 2x East Forest (one where the ground remains snowy, another where it’s an autumn brown)

There are some other ways to get a Golden Pomegranate like the Withergate Spinning Wheel, from Golden Trees produced by golden tree seeds. There is also one other way.

Pigs. Pigs in your barn can produce this item as a “golden product” after unlocking the Golden Heart skill. You can have a maximum of 17 pigs, assuming you want no other animals, which would guarantee you at least 1 or 2 Golden Pomegranates a day.

There’s more than one way to get some Golden Pomegranate but the scavenging method is your most likely route to success, unless you want to stock your entire farm up with just pigs…

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This Song of the Prairie gift guide will focus on what to gift each character as you aim to increase their friendship level or romance them. I will also touch on preferred dating spots in case you happen to take someone out on a date. Song of the Prairie has released on Steam after a period in early access with most players leaving positive reviews.

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Song of the Prairie Gift Walkthrough

Abby

Likes:

• Fish
• Pumpkin
• Yellow Tunip

Preferred dating spot: Mushroom House

Amy

Loves:

• Crystal Stone
• White Lycoris Radiata

Likes:

• Any Flower
• Cherry Drink

Becky

Loves:

• Diamond

Likes:

• Orange Tulip
• Jade
• Opal
• Ruby
• Sapphire

Carow

Loves:

• Tear of Goddess

Likes:

• Blue Lycoris Radiata
• Nectar Drink

Dislikes:

• Cactus Pulp

Du

Likes:

• Green Rose
• Eggs

Dislikes:

• Carrot

Preferred Dating Spot: Spring Lake

Freya

Likes:

• Red Rose
• White Rose
• Purple Rose
• Golden Sweet Fruits Soup
• Sweet Fruits Soup

Dislikes:

• Sweetberry Cake

Preferred Dating Spot: Spring Lake

Hart

Likes:

• Cheese
• Eggs
• Milk
• White Rose

Dislikes: Boiled Artichokes

Hassur

Loves:

• Golden Watermelon

Likes:

• Fruit
• Yellow Rose

Huan

Loves:

• Five Star Specialty Clear Broth Noodles

Likes

• Clear Broth Noodles
• White Orchids

Preferred Dating Spot: Garden

Jin

Likes:

• Champagne Rose
• Shining Cactus Pulp

Dislikes:

• Top quality Gold Ore

Preferred Dating Spot: Sleeping Hill

JiYue

Loves:

• Steamed Pork with Rice Flour

Likes:

• Fruit Drinks
• Green Peony

Preferred Dating Spot: Mushroom House

Kroc

Loves:

• Golden Hamburger

Likes:

• Fruit Drinks
• Red Lycoris Radiata

Dislikes:

• Potato

Preferred Dating Spot: Sleeping Hill

Linde

Likes:

• Fish
• Night Blue Starfish
• Rain-Listening Shell
• Sweet Fish Soup
• Red Rose

Preferred Dating Spot: Garden

Liv

Loves:

• Ghost Pepper Chilli Sauce
• Golden Pepper

Likes:

• Pepper
• Red Orchid

Dislikes:

• Tear of Goddess

Preferred Dating Spot: Spring Lake

Lori

Loves:

• Sweetberry Cake

Likes:

• Fruit
• Pink Rose

Dislikes

• Lemon Drink

Preferred Dating Spot: Garden

Maud

Loves:

• Golden Sunflowers

Likes:

• Sunflowers
• Yellow Peonies

Dislikes:

• Milk

MoSu

Likes:

• Any prepared Dish
• Blue Rose

Pauline

Likes:

• Milk
• Orange Peony

Dislikes:

• Pineapple

Preferred Dating spot: Meadow of Memories

Poer

Loves:

• Golden Durian
• Lumbers ancient God Wood

Likes:

• Diamond
• Durian
• Purple Orchid

Preferred Dating Spot: Meadow of Memories

Rhode

Loves:

• Diamond
• Rhode’s Birthday Gift Bag

Likes:

• Purple Peony
• Jade
• Opal
• Ruby
• Sapphire

Preferred Dating Spot: Sleeping Hill

Sakona

Loves:

• Diamond

Likes:

• Orange Lycoris Radiata

Preferred Dating Spot: Sleeping Hill

Tegx

Loves:

• Green Rose

Likes:

• Pineapple Grilled Fish

Tuyaa

Loves:

• Ruby

Likes:

• Pepper
• Red Peony
• Tomato

Wallis

Likes:

• White Peony

Dislikes:

• Radish Stew

Preferred Dating Spot: Mushroom House

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This Song of the Prairie romance guide will detail how to date the character of your choice. Romance mechanics are vital to life sims/farming sims so it’s one of the things you’ll need to focus on eventually. Song of the Prairie has released on Steam after a period in early access with most players leaving positive reviews.

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Song of the Prairie Romance Walkthrough

Bachelors & Bachelorettes

There’s an extensive list of characters who are open to dating:

• Du
• Huan
• Jin
• Kroc
• Linde (only dates women)
• Poer
• Rhode
• Abby
• Becky
• Freya
• Jiyue
• Liv
• Lori
• Pauline
• Sakona
• Wallis

All of these characters except Linde will date you no matter what your character’s chosen gender is so there’s no limits based on what your MC pick is.

Romancing

To even get a date you’ll first have to build up your relationship with your chosen lover. The game has six different stages for relationships stretching from stranger to Best Friend/Lover. You can fill this by doing the usual stuff, interacting with characters, giving them gifts, completing missions, all of this will fill up your Friendship Points.

Once you’ve reached the friend stage, which requires 1500 FP you can ask the character on a date. They’ll accept presuming the next day isn’t an event day and you’ll be told to meet at the Goddess Statue at 10, if you arrive at 10 they usually spawn in by 10:30 and your date commences.

You get to choose where to go for a date which is important as each character has their own favoured date spots. Each spot has 5 activities available to you that can earn FP. After 3 activities you can use a prompt to end the date.

You can end the date any time by walking out but waiting until you’ve done 3 activities will five you post-date prompts like an offer to go out to eat which is another thing that can boost your FP.

Love

After successfully dating someone it’s time to take things to the next level, once you reach Best Friend status you’ll be sent a letter teaching you how to craft Lover’s Gaze. Lover’s Gaze is a gifted item that confesses your feelings to another character.

If you’re advanced enough in their story and have a good enough friendship level they will accept and you’ll become lovers instead of Best Friends.

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The government has a long history of using tracking technology to ascertain our whereabouts, our habits, and even our preferences. From cellphones and cars to snow plows and garbage trucks, governments seemingly want to track anything that moves—or moos.

The USDA recently finalized a rule—set to go into effect in a few months—that will require all cattle and bison being moved across state lines to be tagged with radio-frequency identification (RFID) ear tags. RFID technology uses radio frequency waves to transmit and collect data by way of a system of electronic tags and scanners. The technology is best viewed as a type of electronic or remote barcode, in which scanners can read an RFID chip anywhere from a few meters away to around 100 meters away. In some ways analogous to a shorter-range GPS system, RFID can track geographic location and also operate as a system of data collection and storage.

In the context of livestock, a quick scan of an RFID tag can pull up information like a cow's date of birth, weight, vaccine records, ownership history, what farms it has been to, and what movements it has made. The USDA is justifying its RFID mandate on public health grounds, claiming that it can help trace and eradicate potential disease outbreaks among livestock, such as mad cow disease or hoof-and-mouth disease. 

While plausible at first blush, it is far from clear that the mandate will accomplish its intended objective, and it is very clear that it will disproportionately hurt small and independent ranchers and cattle farmers.

For one thing, most ranchers already want to be able to identify their cattle and have used physical metal tags for years to do so. Electronic RFID tags are twice as expensive as traditional metal tags and also require an upfront investment in scanners and software, making the switch cost-prohibitive for many small farms. Farmers also complain that electronic tags are harder to identify visually from a distance, which matters during cattle drives and other large and quick-paced movements of livestock. Most farmers that use electronic tags therefore also still tag their animals with traditional physical tags, necessitating a double-investment in two types of tags.

There's also the issue of tag retention. "I've talked to many people who have used these RFID tags and their cows have lost 50 percent after five years," Ken Fox, a South Dakota cow farmer and chair of R-CALF USA's Animal Identification Committee, told Wisconsin State Farmer. "By year nine or ten only 14 percent of the tags were left; and our beef cows can be with us for 15 to 20 years, so that's a serious concern." Fox also notes that the RFID scanners often need to be replaced every four or five years.

Fox points out that not all livestock operations are created equal. For dairy farmers who keep their livestock penned up, frequent replacing of tags is more logistically feasible, if still expensive. But for cattle ranchers, tag replacement can be entirely impracticable. "That just doesn't work when we've got cattle on 10,000 or 30,000 acres of range land and we handle those cattle maybe twice a year," said Fox. "If they lose those tags, how are we going to know who those cattle are?" Amish farmers have also opposed electronic tagging on moral grounds given their opposition to technology.

Large cattle operations can afford to double-tag their livestock with physical and electronic tags, and in fact, many have already done so voluntarily—which means the mandate's burden will fall heaviest on small and medium-sized farms and ranches. The USDA rule also favors large cattle operations more directly, including allowing them to use so-called "group identification" for livestock herds of a certain size and continuity.

"The new rule also provides for large-scale cattle operations to use one ID per group of a certain size, instead of one ID per animal," writes Remington Kesten in a blog post for David's Pasture, a small-scale cattle operation in Missouri. "This means that the smaller farms will actually incur more cost per animal once the mandate takes effect, than the big players will." 

Worse yet, this group identification actually undercuts the USDA's entire disease-traceability rationale for mandated electronic tagging. "This intentional loophole also reduces the traceability for large farms and exporters, contradicting the USDA's primary reason for mandating RFID Ear Tags in the first place," notes Kesten.

The rule also fails on its own terms. While supporters point to the 2003 mad cow disease outbreak in Washington state as an example of a situation where electronic tagging could have allowed for quicker identification of where the disease originated, it's worth noting that the government was still able to track the original diseased cow back to its birthplace farm in Canada within 13 days.

It's also worth recognizing that livestock disease outbreaks are exceedingly rare in the United States. An article in Lancaster Farming, which takes a generally favorable bent toward the USDA mandate, notes that hoof-and-mouth disease was last found in America in 1929. Farmers such as Fox have also highlighted the successful combatting of brucellosis in the United States, which was accomplished without electronic tagging. 

If anything, it is large-scale commercial farms that are most responsible for disease outbreaks. "There is no data in over a decade showing that food borne illnesses have resulted from disease on small farms," writes Kesten. "All major disease outbreaks in recent years have occurred on large farms." In other words, small and independent ranchers are bearing the brunt of a new rule in the name of fixing a problem that they have nothing to do with.

Finally, the USDA rule creates significant data privacy concerns. RFID tags cannot distinguish between scanners—which are portable and easily carried in hand—so potentially anyone with a scanner could access the data contained in each tag. Ominously, the USDA rule opts to use the term electronic identification tags instead of the RFID acronym, although for now RFID tags are the only technology approved by the USDA for livestock tagging. 

This flexible language means that USDA is explicitly leaving the door open to even more comprehensive tracking technology. This could come in the form of "active" RFID tags (instead of "passive" ones as currently contemplated) that have a greater range of readability or even GPS tracking of cows via satellites.

One small beacon of hope for American ranchers is that Congress appears to finally be waking up to the USDA's overreach. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) recently introduced legislation that would prohibit the USDA from implementing any rule that mandates electronic tagging technology for cattle and bison.

The USDA is attempting to find a solution for a problem that has already been largely addressed through current practices. 

Fox puts it more colorfully: "Someone told me this story—NASA spent millions trying to develop a pen that could work in sub-zero temperatures and zero gravity. The Russians just used a pencil."

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