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As in all Harvest Moon games, you cannot purchase poultry or livestock unless you have built an appropriate shelter for them. In the DS game, buildings can be fashioned of a number of different materials ranging from Fodder, to Wood, to Stone, to Golden Lumber. The price will vary according to the material chosen. The strongest buildings are the most expensive, as one might imagine. Gotz is the builder here as well as in Mineral Town. Ring him on the telephone to order any upgrades to your house or new buildings. There is a section in this guide that gives all prices for building construction and upgrades. Your choice of material for any building will determine its durability and strength. If you are familiar with the old nursery tale of the 'Three Little Pigs', you will be well aware of the dangers of building a house from straw. Grass is no better! A building made of grass will collapse during a storm and may even collapse in fine weather. Lumber is stronger than Grass but Stone is better than both. Unfortunately, you may not be able to afford to order Stone buildings at the beginning of your life in Forget-Me-Not Valley. If you can afford it, I would recommend that you choose to build with Wood rather than Grass, and then demolish the buildings and construct stronger buildings from Stone later in the game. As in Magical Melody, you can choose where to locate any building that you order from Gotz. This game differs in this respect from FoMT/MFoMT where the location of your Chicken Coop and Barn automatically are chosen for you. As in Magical Melody, you can demolish a building if you decide you would rather relocate it to another spot. The difference here is that you cannot build on any field apart from your own field, although you can plant crops and trees on any field in the Valley. As in other Harvest Moon games, you can collect your own materials or purchase them from Gotz. If you gather your own materials, the cost of building will be far less. It does take a great deal of time and energy to collect sufficient materials to build anything, however. Unlike other Harvest Moon games, you will not have a place to store your materials at the start of the game. Although your rucksack is substantially larger than the rucksacks in FoMT/MFoMT and you can store up to 99 of any item in a single slot, you may wish to order storage buildings from Gotz. You can order a Silo for Fodder, as well as Sheds for your Wood, Stone and Golden Lumber. In Harvest Moon DS you actually must convert raw material into building material before it can be used. Cutting grass with your Scythe, as in FoMT/MFoMT and other HM games, creates Fodder or Grass. Chopping branches or stumps with your Axe creates Wood for building. Smashing rocks or boulders with your Hammer creates Stone for building. Construction for any building begins the day after you make your order. When purchased from Gotz, each piece of Wood Lumber costs 50G, each piece of Material Stone costs 200G and each piece of Golden Lumber costs 100,000G. You therefore can save quite a lot of money if you provide the materials yourself. Incidentally, you will not be able to expand your House for the first time until you have the Round Table from the Shopping Network. In order to expand your house a second time, you need to have ordered the Refrigerator from the Shopping Channel.