Stardew Valley Relationships & Animals

2025年10月18日

Stardew Valley

Introducing relationships, bundles, and building your animal setup efficiently.

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Relationship Points — Just Focus on Who You Like

Raising friendship levels is nice and all, but honestly, you don’t need to overthink it early on.
When someone likes you enough, they’ll occasionally send you gifts in the mail — but don’t expect anything super rare or valuable at this stage.

So yeah, just focus on the characters you actually like, not on who gives the “best rewards.”

Here’s how friendship works in simple terms:

Talking to someone every day gives a small boost.
Gifting them (up to twice per week, and only once per day) gives a bigger boost.
At 2 hearts, you can enter their room or cottage.
If you ignore someone for too long, their friendship slowly decreases over time.

Hitting 2 hearts lets you enter their room, which really makes you feel like you’re getting closer. It’s a small thing, but it definitely makes the game feel more alive.

By late spring, you should start building your animal setup.

Try Raising Chickens Around Late Spring

By late spring, it’s a good time to start trying out livestock — especially chickens.
Raising animals gives you a steady income with very low running costs, which makes it a great investment early on.
Around this point, your farm will start expanding quickly, and both money and energy will disappear fast. Having a “self-sustaining income source” really helps keep things stable.

To start raising animals, you’ll need two basic buildings:

Silo
Stores hay for your animals. Without it, you’ll have to buy hay constantly, which defeats the whole “low-cost profit” idea.
The silo costs 100G, 100 stone, 10 clay, and 5 copper bars to build.
Coop
Let’s you raise chickens. It costs 4,000G, 300 woods, and 100 stones, and can hold up to four chickens.

You can ask Robin (at the Carpenter’s Shop in the north) to build both of these structures.
And don’t forget — chickens themselves cost 800G each, and you can buy them from Marnie in the southwest area of the map.

How to Take Care of Your Chickens

Here’s how animal care basically works:

Stardew Valley, Coop, Chickens, Take care

Cut the grass on your farm with a scythe — the hay will automatically be stored in your silo.
Inside the coop, you can use the hay dispenser to pull hay out of storage. Place it in the feeding trough (the long wooden rack inside the coop) so your chickens always have something to eat.
If they run out of hay, they’ll stop laying eggs, so don’t let that happen!
You can open the small door on the side of the coop to let your chickens outside. They’ll eat grass on their own, which helps you save on stored hay.
Once a day, you can click on each chicken to pet it. This raises their friendship level — the higher it gets, the better-quality eggs they’ll lay.

Everything quickly becomes part of your daily routine, so you’ll get used to it in no time.

Note: Newly purchased chickens won’t lay eggs right away.
If you make sure, they always have food and wait about three days, they’ll start laying one egg per day in the coop. So just be patient for a little while!

Boost Egg Profits with the Mayonnaise Machine

Once you reach Farming Level 2, you can craft a Mayonnaise Machine, which greatly increases the profitability of your eggs.

You’ll need:

15 wood
15 stone
1 Earth Crystal
1 Copper Bar

The Earth Crystal can be found directly in the mines or by breaking geodes at the blacksmith. So, to get your livestock going, it’s worth spending a little time exploring the dungeon.

Back to the Mayonnaise Machine:

Insert an egg, and it’ll turn it into mayonnaise.
A regular egg sells for 50G, but mayonnaise sells for 190G — almost four times more!

Processing is fairly quick, so making four mayonnaises in a day is totally doable.
That’s 760G per day with no energy cost and no running costs, giving your early farm a very reliable source of income.

In short, it’s an extremely useful way to boost your profits from livestock.

Bundles — Do Them When You Feel Like It

After the Community Center event and the follow-up scene at the Wizard’s Tower, you’ll unlock Bundles.
They’re basically little collections where you turn in specific seasonal foraging or crafting items in exchange for rewards.

That said… you really don’t need to stress about them early on.

Even if you complete a whole early-game set, your reward might be something like “10 packs of Wild Seeds” — which sounds nice, but isn’t actually that exciting in practice.
Finishing a Bundle unlocks new ones, but yeah… you can take your time with it.

Honestly, it’s better to think of Bundles as something you do with your leftover items — or as a fun side project once your farm is running smoothly.
Don’t feel pressured to complete them right away.