Oxbow and affection

[Frida]

When the affection is 100%, does it mean marriage, or must do something else?

[*Morri*]

You still have to ask them. Choose the romance option, like you did when you were flirting. One of the rather long dialog options is a proposal.
If the affection is lower than 100%, they'll refuse.

[Dutchgamer1982]

flinting each day with each single lady.. is a nice early game way to lvl your diplomacy skill

[Frida]

That happent! Thanks. I have one follow-up question. What to do with the spouse form, there is nothing in it besides skills

[*Morri*]

Originally posted by Zelda:

That happent! Thanks. I have one follow-up question. What to do with the spouse form, there is nothing in it besides skills

I don't understand the question. Do you mean you can't flirt anymore once you marry? That is normal. You can still ask your spouse how their day was and buy them gifts.

[Frida]

There is the 1. Let me take a closer look at you. A form will appear. Hes mood is -40% how can i help with this? And will he find a job himself or will he just have to be guided like a child, and how? Then Romance: do I always have to buy him gifts, how many a year? Is he the kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ paid man? I think we need to urgently try to have a child because he can leave me at any time. I know this isn't Sims4, but I don't think this kind of marriage is a true love union. I hope for more discussions and chats in the union. I'm already worried even though we've only been married for 1 day

[*Morri*]

All villagers have mood to indicate how happy they are. 0 is default, 100 is the max, and when it drops to -100 they are so unhappy they will leave your village.
Their mood drops when they don't have access to a house, food, water or firewood.
It will go up beyond the default if they have a well insulated house, some decorations in the house, if they have a family, if they have a job they are skilled at and also some seasonal events affect it.

If your spouse is at -40, it means they are missing something of the basic necessities and are slowly dropping in mood. Do you get a warning about lack of food, water or firewood in the left upper corner?

I suggest you take a look at the knowledge tab ingame, as a lot of the mechanics are explained there.

Now for spouses (and your child), there's an extra indicator called affection. This is not related to their mood, but is how much love they have for you. This is what you initially had to bring to 100% before proposing. This will also slowly drop over time, and can be brought back up by giving them gifts (the ones you can buy from the exotic gift merchant) or if you play on the Valley map, by doing their quests if you get one. If their affection drops too low they will have fallen completely out of love with you and will leave you. If you have a young child with them, they'll take the child with them.

[Frida]

OK :-) :-) I start new game and without spouse, A spouse is more problematic to take care of, as from several enemies :-)

[WeelieTired]

Mood is mostly about the quality of your house. So you should build the best kind of house you can, best options of walls and roofs, insulate it, and decorate it.
Also, your spouse needs a job assigned, and it needs to be one they are well suited for. Those QA & A before you even hire them into your village give you insight to what their best profession is. Assigning them that gives mood boosts. same for all villagers. Assigning Not that gives mood -minuses.
Decorating inside the houses takes buying a lot of bonus schematics & building the items, but you can get to 100 mood for the top 2 house types.
Since this is the same for Every villager, it should not be an obstacle complicating marriage.
In fact, getting married and then having a child give both partners a big ++ to mood, so...
Being you're looking at day one, it might be you're not having the patience to assign the job and so you're still seeing day 1 bad mood. Assign best job, wait 1 day, and the mood should be climbing... Meanwhile you decor the house a bit, and mood should be +50+
My wife is at 78% and I've only put the straw fans in the ceiling and the cheapest rugs on the floor. All Limestone insulated stone walls, of course.