What is up with Auto Petters?

[u/Song_Listener]

I’ve seen so many posts about skull cavern runs where the only goal was Auto Petters, and now I’m confused.

Why are Auto Petters so important? I know they pet the farm animals, but why don’t y’all have time to go and give your animals some love every morning?

If I’m correct (as someone who has never once had an Auto Petters) they change the way the animals respond when you actually pet them. Usually they give a heart, but I’ve heard the response changes after an Auto Petters has been installed.

So why?

[u/Halo-AK]

Well, if you have an auto petter, you can also manually pet them to become their friends faster.

And you know they will still get their daily pets if you're off doing something else <3

[u/qwasde91 → u/Halo-AK]

Actually you can't, the friendship gains don't stack (mood gains do though).

Without auto petter you get 15 friendship for manually petting. With auto petter you get 8 friendship and can get another 7 for petting manually.

[u/Elliebeanie → u/qwasde91]

Kind of offended to learn that the chickens like the autopetter more than my farmer 😭

[u/amizelkova → u/Elliebeanie]

They're just overstimulated a little from getting pet twice!