Divorce speedrun?

[Antinous]

I'd like to know if there is an ideal minmax way to speedrun relationships/kids/divorce/doves for all marriage candidates (and if that changes if you also make the rule that you can't give them universally loved gifts, that you can only have one boyfriend/girlfriend at a time, and that you must do CC not joja)

My thoughts were to make most money by doing skull cavern runs due to the amount of prismatic shards required for doves, start with shane or haley bc of their early birthday. But I'd need to rush community center for witch's hut access, so would it be worth ignoring them until I can get the community center done? And if I do that, is it worth doing ginger island for the key of the town so it's easier to run into future paramours?

And, to my knowledge, having kids is RNG, but I don't know for sure. Is there a way to strongly encourage my future exes to have kids?

Thanks all

 

[Confused]

I don't know if there is a way to hurry up having kids in Stardew. I've seen people speed run similar things before lol. I think your best bet is getting as high a level as you can with your spouse and spam sleeping.

Kids info For your kid having, soon to be dove, needs a link to the wiki on stardew kids.

 

[Cuddlebug]

I would recommend the same, having Upgrade 2 including nursery, high hearts with your spouse, good luck and at least being married more than 7 days. It's also helpful going to sleep before your spouse does. The earliest time I got the Baby question was a season after marriage. But what you can't speed up is the growing up time. It takes two and a half seasons incl. pregnancy before your can have the second child. And your spouse must ask again...

Btw, marriage and children are an achievement you only get once per game I think, so there's no need imho for having children with every spouse and only one prismatic Shard will be necessary for the Witch's Hut (deleting the spouses memory only costs a bit of gold). So that may be a way to speed up things a bit.

Having the key of the town might be helpful, but often the villagers go to bed after locking their houses, so you can't interact with them anymore when you enter later.

Hope this was a bit helpful

 

[Antinous]

I don't know if there is a way to hurry up having kids in Stardew. I've seen people speed run similar things before lol. I think your best bet is getting as high a level as you can with your spouse and spam sleeping.

Kids info For your kid having, soon to be dove, needs a link to the wiki on stardew kids.

Yeah, it looks like it's just a flat 5% chance. I might have to do math on relationship decay/look at other people's challenge runs. I think spam sleeping is probably not optimal to begin with since I think I will probably be completing the CC while married to Spouse #1. Afterwards, not sure, because I think I ideally always want to have my next prospect lined up for immediate bouquet gifting before I dove and divorce with the current spouse.

 

[Antinous]

Btw, marriage and children are an achievement you only get once per game I think, so there's no need imho for having children with every spouse and only one prismatic Shard will be necessary for the Witch's Hut (deleting the spouses memory only costs a bit of gold). So that may be a way to speed up things a bit.

I know I don't NEED to have kids with every spouse but the premise of this is to have kids, dove them, and then divorce each potential spouse. I want everyone to have a dove child and divorce.

 

[Cuddlebug]

I know I don't NEED to have kids with every spouse but the premise of this is to have kids, dove them, and then divorce each potential spouse. I want everyone to have a dove child and divorce.

Alright, then you have to be patient, I think, getting the question with every spouse can take a bit of time. Maybe just have one child per marriage?

 

[Antinous]

Alright, then you have to be patient, I think, getting the question with every spouse can take a bit of time. Maybe just have one child per marriage?

Yeah that's fine, I don't mind it taking a while and it being down to RNG, I just didn't know if there was an RNG manipulation way to speed it up that I wasn't aware of.