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Sister trope of [[Level Grinding]] and [[Money Grinding]].
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* The ''[[Harvest Moon (Video Game)|Harvest Moon]]'' series has this both literally and figuratively in where you must collect and farm various resources to go forward in the games.
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** Berries come in handy, too, particularly since a Pokémon can use it, rather than forcing you to spend a turn using a Full Heal or other status-healing item. The Lum Berry in particular is useful since it can cure any status problem. Unfortunately, this berry takes several days to grow.
* Happens a lot in things like ''[[Farmville]]'' and ''[[Mafia Wars]]'', you need to repeatedly do jobs to get the loot items needed to do the new jobs. Gets ridiculous towards later goals.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise)|Sonic the Hedgehog]] [[Sonic Adventure (Video Game)|Adventure]] 1 & [[Sonic Adventure 2 (Video Game)|2]]'' required you to constantly play through old levels to get rings to use as money to buy equipment and items to improve your Chao. Though the Chao themselves were in no way necessary to advance in the game, they were necessary for [[Hundred
* Happens all the time in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'', especially if you want all the weapons, upgrades, items, and equipment, you need to grind through side games and levels to afford the bolts for everything, lest you want to keep going through [[New Game
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' has numerous examples of this over its long history.
** One of the earlier examples is the best equipment in ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]''--not just the infamous [[Randomly Drops|Pink Tails]] and Adamant Armor combo, but also gear like Crystal Rings, Ribbons, Wyvern Lances, and Dragon Whiskers, all found from rare drops from enemies ranging from semi-rare to ludicrously rare. Also added to this are the Golden and Silver Apples and Soma Drops, [[Rare Candy|consumable items that permanently boost HP and MP]]. the [[Video Game Remake|DS version]] added ''even more'' ludicrously rare tail/armor combos, as well as Rainbow Pudding, necessary for [[That One Sidequest]]. Basically, if you are interested in [[Hundred
** In ''[[Final Fantasy V (Video Game)|Final Fantasy V]]'', enemies in [[That One Level|the Pyramid of Moore]] can be farmed for Elixirs, and enemies in the Phoenix Tower can be farmed for the best Dancer equipment and Ribbons.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'' gives us the [[Summon Magic|Ragnarok Esper]]'s special ability, Metamorphosis, which transforms an enemy into an item and is a good source for more rare equipment, like Safety Bits and Ribbons. The downside is that in order to take advantage of this, the player is going to spend a ''very'' long time farming on the Veldt.
** Much like ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' has enemies that can, if killed using the weak Morph command, be turned into items. Most notable in this regard are the [[Bonus Dungeon|Sunken Gelnika]] enemies, the majority of which turn into valuable [[Rare Candy|Rare Candies]] that permanently boost stats.
** Enemies in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'' can be turned into Cards, which can subsequently be [[Item Crafting|refined]] into spells that can be junctioned to your characters' stats to boost them and add effects to their attacks and attributes while handily avoiding the [[Level Scaling]] penalties--it's a [[Min
** The items you can use to [[Item Crafting|upgrade and modify your weapons and armor]] and upgrade your [[Summon Magic|Aeons' stats and abilities]] in ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]'' you can generally only get by [[Video Game Stealing|stealing]] from or bribing particular monsters, in addition to the standards drops and whatnot--particularly, Level 3 Keyspheres. If the player didn't take the opportunity to steal a bunch of them from a boss, they're going to spend quite some time in {{spoiler|Zanarkand Ruins}} looking for the monsters that rarely drop them.
** Most obvious is ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'', in which the only way to get usable amounts of money is to sell loot from monsters. There's also this Bazaar thing, which allows the player to unlock certain maybe rare, maybe valuable items. The best items might require multiples of items only available via the Bazaar, making the full recipe be something like [[Twenty Bear Asses|21 Bear Behinds]], 39 [[Twenty Bear Asses|Ursus Buttocks]], 9 [[Luck
*** ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics a 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics a 2]]'' uses the Bazaar system for all equipment, but gives no no control over what items you're getting, so it only kind of counts.
** ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'' is similar to ''XII'' in that all money comes from [[Vendor Trash]], and you need certain specific items for [[Item Crafting]]--most notably, the catalysts that transform weapons into their ultimate forms. Either you pay ''millions'' of gil for a single one of them, or you farm the [[Boss in Mook Clothing|terrifying turtle monsters]], whose rare drop is the catalyst.
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