How do you get them to work for you and have you had an earthquake yet if so go to the back of the forest area and throw your ax in then the harvest Goddess will cime and say is this your golden ax you reply no and she will give you the ax for being honest.

same thing happened to me! they did it with my hoe, too. i think it is a bug.

It happens when you give them it and its finished after you gave a sprite 30 mushrooms or whatever it was. At this point you get the visit from the harvest goddess and then all the guy does is moan about how he never gets to talk to her. Dont go and see the harvest goddess till you get the tools back. I'd advise you not to give them mushrooms till you get the upgrades, then the goddess wont come. I think.

give you're spites mushrooms until they tell you "we'll also try to help you!!"

when they say i will give them back in 12 hrs. it means 12 REAL hrs. and you gameboy is turned off!

make sure the timer is on (fast mode, so you only have to wait for 6hrs. than 12hrs) turn off your gb and sleep for 6hrs. when you woke up your golden tools will be there.

if you're using a gbc rom. try to use continue instead of load state.