SDV pet peeves

Hi everyone! If you're looking for a place to share your Stardew Valley pet peeves, you've found the right spot! It can be anything from marketers on the forums to Marnie and her seemingly more important microwave! This whole idea is for a laugh and not meant to offend anyone… Have fun! :laugh: :heart:
 

Ereo

Helper
My pet peeve is that there are only 8 friendship hearts with the bachelors and bachelorette. It should be 10 hearts like anyone else, and then unlock a further 2 hearts for dating.
Why can I be better friends with people I can’t date?
It looks so unsymmetrical.
 

Lew Zealand

Helper
Robin and Clint raising prices after Year 1. Which totally makes sense as the Farmer has been flooding the market with Crops and Artisan Goods and Forage and Minerals, so inflation should be bonkers. But apparently it only hits wood and stone, not Ancient Fruit Wine somehow.
The Henchman should at least be a friendship candidate and of course IMO should be more but that's just a me thing.
 

Lew Zealand

Helper
omg this has been said so many times but i cannot stand my spouse being pretty much soulless after marriage!! it annoys me so bad because they may as well be a statue at that point
It's the empty after-marriage spousal interaction that pushed me to write more to fill that gap. However I find talking to Emily at the "right" times in the day to be pretty interactive. There are a few "hot" times to get different dialog throughout the day from Emily (and I assume all other spouses):

6am - 11am: morning dialog, sometimes with a gift
11am - maybe 1pm: late morning dialog
maybe 7pm - 9:50pm: evening dialog

I try to find Emily every day during those hot times to get all the daily dialog and you know what? Just putting the effort into finding her (especially in our huge, cluttered house with many hiding places) kinda makes getting all the dialog it's own minigame. And when I miss the dialog because reasons, I'm disappointed kinda like IRL. It makes game marriage more interactive.

And it feels more alive. IMO it works to keep married life a bit more interesting.
 

DOBITEUS

Planter
omg this has been said so many times but i cannot stand my spouse being pretty much soulless after marriage!! it annoys me so bad because they may as well be a statue at that point
Yeah, I feel that way with Leah on my PC save. But on mobile my wife is Penny, and because she's most of the time outside working, spending time with her friends or herself; and I'm basically out all day, it works for me; I have things to do, Penny has things to do, two birds, one stone.
Of course a relationship it's more complex IRL, but for a game I can't be that picky... except for the lack of bathrooms :dwarf: (I think a shower could be nice as a way to recover some energy)
 

FilthyGorilla

Local Legend
That there isn’t much closure to a lot of the villagers dreams when we marry them.
They all sort of just go along with the ‘family farm life’ and never mention their previous dreams or just say that they decided they weren’t right for them when we never see them really try the dream out properly.

I also sometimes find it a bit annoying how there’s pretty much always a strictly best choice for making money/getting friendship/finding something/etc. instead of letting everything be moderate balanced. It just leads to it being efficient vs aesthetic/fun which also creates an unnecessary divide within the player base when there really doesn’t need to be
 

BeBop268170

Rancher
I'll be jamming to some masterful bop like "It's A Big World Outside", "Nocturne Of Ice", or some others, but then I'll be on my way to Ginger Island and the music changes to the very mid, imo, Ginger Island theme music.
 

Maher

Farmer
I'll be jamming to some masterful bop like "It's A Big World Outside", "Nocturne Of Ice", or some others, but then I'll be on my way to Ginger Island and the music changes to the very mid, imo, Ginger Island theme music.
Well, if you liked "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid it's great. So yeah, what you said.
 

Magically Clueless

Administrator
Staff member
It's the empty after-marriage spousal interaction that pushed me to write more to fill that gap. However I find talking to Emily at the "right" times in the day to be pretty interactive. There are a few "hot" times to get different dialog throughout the day from Emily (and I assume all other spouses):

6am - 11am: morning dialog, sometimes with a gift
11am - maybe 1pm: late morning dialog
maybe 7pm - 9:50pm: evening dialog

I try to find Emily every day during those hot times to get all the daily dialog and you know what? Just putting the effort into finding her (especially in our huge, cluttered house with many hiding places) kinda makes getting all the dialog it's own minigame. And when I miss the dialog because reasons, I'm disappointed kinda like IRL. It makes game marriage more interactive.

And it feels more alive. IMO it works to keep married life a bit more interesting.
the "spouses don't do anything after marriage" sentiment makes me REALLY sad because i feel a lot against it, but your post had me realize maybe there's a lot of people that don't realize you can talk to your spouse 3 different times a day, so if they only like, talk to them in the morning or talk to them before bed they miss out on soooooooooooooooo much dialogue. that being said, i get dialogue isn't enough for many people, but i dunno, i really love it personally

i feel like a broken record in defending spouses but i personally love them so. pensive emoji

i'm not sure i have any particular peeves in the game. it is true that every time i want to buy seeds it's magically on a wednesday lol
 

Lew Zealand

Helper
When I accidentally use the return scepter and not the tool I intended to use

This once happened during a great skull cavern run.... never again
OMG this happens WAYYY too often! Even though SDV is clearly a Return Sceptre speedrun sim game, it does need to removed from the hotbar when in Skull Cavern or the Volcano. Farmer Bobbi has a very itchy Return Sceptre trigger finger so it's for her own good that someone takes away the lovey stick of infinite power and yoinking home. Even if the taking is self-imposed and OK only moved to the second inventory row.

The last time Bobbi scheaowwwwnnnnned back to the front door at 7:30pm, Emily yelped in surprise from the kitchen at the clatter of Bobbi falling on her butt outside the front door as she was expecting to be downing Cheez while fighting off those flying green knee-biters. Emms thought she'd lost track of time and forgot to go to bed but no it was merely her all-thumbs wife again. Shouldn't she be used to this by now? Apparently not as there was a stern talking-to and a bit of Bobbi sitting in the corner pondering scaring 5 years out of the life of someone she's supposed to care about.

Scaring… caring… they're practically the same word, right?!?



That was not the right answer. However Farmer Bobbi happens to quite like Emily's annoyed face (OK all the other ones too) so sometimes just can't resist the urge to push her wife's buttons.
 
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Quirinea

Farmer
OMG this happens WAYYY too often! Even though SDV is clearly a Return Sceptre speedrun sim game, it does need to removed from the hotbar when in Skull Cavern or the Volcano. Farmer Bobbi has a very itchy Return Sceptre trigger finger so it's for her own good that someone takes away the lovey stick of infinite power and yoinking home. Even if the taking is self-imposed and OK only moved to the second inventory row.

The last time Bobbi scheaowwwwnnnnned back to the front door at 7:30pm, Emily yelped in surprise from the kitchen at the clatter of Bobbi falling on her butt outside the front door as she was expecting to be downing Cheez while fighting off those flying green knee-biters. Emms thought she'd lost track of time and forgot to go to bed but no it was merely her all-thumbs wife again. Shouldn't she be used to this by now? Apparently not as there was a stern talking-to and a bit of Bobbi sitting in the corner pondering scaring 5 years out of the life of someone she's supposed to care about.

Scaring… caring… they're practically the same word, right?!?



That was not the right answer. However Farmer Bobbi happens to quite like Emily's annoyed face (OK all the other ones too) so sometimes just can't resist the urge to push her wife's buttons.
The first thing I do for all dungeons is to make a chest near entrance (for VD I put it at the lava lake after I've cleaned it once). All unnecessary things there before entering. To save space and avoid losing valuables if my character gets knocked out. Losing return scepter and an enchanted weapon is'nt fun.
 
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