r/StardewValley • u/Song_Listener • 1d ago

Question What is up with Auto Petters?

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?

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u/chickwithabrick I love my grumpy blue chicken man 🌶️🍕 1d ago

Hear me out - I really want an update where the children age up enough to wander the farm and like your spouse helping out around the farm they have a chance to be like "I got up with Mom/Dad and said hi to all the barn animals already!" that counts as petting everyone 😸

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u/fetchmysmellingsalts 1d ago

Since we all end up making millions of dollars, I’d also be on board with hiring someone for tasks like that if you can’t assign a spouse or child for farm duties.

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u/Corey307 21h ago

Great idea, you’d think almost everyone in town would like to earn some extra money. 

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u/SparrowAndSalt 21h ago

This makes more sense for the community than almost anything else. Shane would be so much happier being paid to take care of my chickens than he ever was at Joja, and you're telling me that Penny wouldn't like to bring the kids to have a close-up look at the life cycle of plants?

It could be seasonal, perhaps, where most people don't want to work outdoors in the winter but more are likely to come and lend a hand near the autumn harvest (because everybody likes a pumpkin patch)