A Bow for Besties

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"A Bow for Besties" is an 'Around the Island' quest which unlocks the ability to create your own Hello Kitty Red Bow! In order to unlock the quest, the player must have reached friendship level 25 ( Best Friends) with Hello Kitty and has completed the "A Place to Art" quest.

Quest Description

"Dress up with your new bestie."

Quest Information

The player will meet Hello Kitty who's excited to be best friends with the player! She'll tell the player that she has a special surprise for them and gifts the player the Instructions for the Hello Kitty Red Bow. The player must then create the Hello Kitty Red Bow at the Creation Station.

Image	Name	Tags	Rarity	Materials
	Hello Kitty Red Bow		Uncommon	Ribbon (5) Red Penstemum (5) Red Dandelily (5) Red Tulias (5) Red Bellbutton (5) Red Dye (5)

After creating the Hello Kitty Red Bow at the Creation Station, the player must then speak to Hello Kitty again, who will tell the player that she wants to take a photo together! After taking a photo with the Camera, Hello Kitty will explain to the player that they can unlock some special instructions to create a Hello Kitty Style Bow once they complete the "Fashionuls" quest.

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How to Get Red Flowers

The flowers needed for the quest are all flowers from Merry Meadow. By default, the player gets 1 of the 4 flower types as their Meadow's wildflower, which grows in its default colors when they plant Seeds. The other 3 types of Meadow flowers must be obtained as seed packets from opening Mystery Seed Capsules.

Once you obtain any color of a flower as a seed or seedling, you can obtain more of that color by planting, watering, and fertilizing it. Fertilizer gives a 10% chance of making a new seed or plant in any empty flower plot around it. Watering makes a flower bloom faster. Non-patterned plucked blooms can be turned into seed packets at the Seed Dispenser in order to plant more of the flower.

The Dandelily and Tulias can come in red by default, so red ones of those types can be obtained simply by planting Seeds (if one is the Meadow wildflower) or by opening more Mystery Seed Capsules (if not the Meadow wildflower).

The Bellbutton and Penstemum cannot come in red by default. The color needs to be transferred into their species by crossbreeding with red & patterned flowers. (Refer to the "Primary Transfers" section of the Flowers page for full details.)

A flower can get a pattern with the application of Fertilizer. The chance of a pattern appearing is 1% with every application. Application of Fertilizer to a non-patterned █ red Dandelily or Tulias has the chance to turn it into a █ red & █ white ombre Dandelily or Tulias.

Red Tulias █	+	Fertilizer	=	1% chance: Red & White Ombre Tulias █ █
Red Dandelily █	+	Fertilizer	=	1% chance: Red & White Ombre Dandelily █ █

With a red & patterned flower, crossbreeding can be done as shown in the table below.

Example Results of Crossbreeding for Red Flowers

Parents			→	4 Possible Offspring
red & patterned flower (Red & White Ombre Tulias) █ █	+	any color Penstemum (Sky Penstemum) █	=	1-2% chance: combination of parents (Red Penstemum) █	1-2% chance: clone of patterned flower (Red & White Ombre Tulias) █ █
				most likely: solid clone of patterned flower (Red Tulias) █	most likely: clone of other flower (Sky Penstemum) █

The most basic setup for breeding flowers together is side-by-side pairs, as shown below. The additional flower one space away from the pair allows for 3 additional breeding opportunities. While shown in a row format, this setup also works if arranged in a column.

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Any space with an asterisk (*) is where a possible red penstemum can appear if the space is an empty flower plot. This setup can also be extended by chaining pairs of flowers together.

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Tips for Crossbreeding

1. Always keep the parent flowers plucked and fertilized. Fertilizer does more than give patterns. Fertilization boosts the chances for offspring to appear and also boosts the chance of crossbreeding successfully. (Fertilization is not required for breeding in the Greenhouse, but it is required for patterns there.)
2. Always remove any newly produced seeds/plants by troweling them up so that they do not interfere with the desired parents crossbreeding.
3. Keep 2 empty plots between any other flower pairs to prevent the pairs from interfering with each other. Any flowers that are touching or have 1 empty plot between them can crossbreed.