Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town Questions

I am having trouble. What is a dish? Where you get it? Every years the Major ask me to bring a dish and I am clueless about it.
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<BR>When people gave you the recipe, what do you do with it? how do you make it? It says all about this pot thingy and I dont see it anywhere.
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<BR>It's true that on da 30th floor, there will be a pink diamond? because I went to the 30th floor, and brought lots of medicine (incase I get tired). But I can't seem to find it. It waste 10,000g of mine for the medicine. So please tell me if it's true or false because I dont to waste my gold and time finding somethin that is not even there!
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<BR>I heard that if you gave the sprites food, they'll grant you a wish but it never did! I make it to 4 heart.
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<BR>I also heard that if you want to marry Ann it won't work (even if it's a pink/orange heart) Why?
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<BR>I know that you already have answer for the 225th floor but I don't get you, so can you please explain it again?
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<BR>I'm sorry that I have alot of questions, but this is my first time playing and I am cluless.
<BR>PLEASE ANSWER ALL THE ABOVE
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<BR>Thanks you

Date of Question: Nov 9th 2004 | Question ID: 14445

ok 1st question: a dish is something you get when you cook. to make a dish you have to have the kitchen. you can buy it on the shopping network after you upgrade you house. then you have to buy all the utensils.

2nd question: recipes from townspeople are used in the kitchen. you get the ingredients and use them with the utensils that the people say and you will get the food they say. you will only need to enter the recipe once then your book will have it.

3rd question: yes there are pink diamonds on the 30th floor of the winter mine but they are rare even then so it may take a bit to get them.

4th question: no the harvest sprites dont grant you a wish. but they do help you on your farm. if they like you 3 hearts they will help you. they water your crops feed and brush your animals(except the horse) and they can harvest your crops as well but only one task at a time for a period of 1 day 3 days or 7 days. whichever you choose.

5th question: that is wrong i have married Ann myself and have a son. it maybe true if cliff is still there but i didnt figure out that he could help with the grape job so he left town because he went broke. Mwahaha.

6th question: im guessing that your talking about the world renowned save and reload version. what you do is go into the mine save it then start digging around find the stairs reload the file and the stairs will be in the same place. then go down and save to the second file. dig around again and reload the second file then when you get down save to the first again. and so on and so forth. you do this until you find a dead end floor if you do then reload the opposite file and go back to where you found the stairs. the floor below will have changed and you try again.

Hope I helped. Ask me some more questions if you need I'll try to start a post in the forums.