Do chicken and other animal's hearts go down if you only feed them and not pet them?

[Noitatiox]

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[MistaTricksta]

Probably. The TV and Marhnie sometimes directly/indirectly mention that Farm animals like to be massaged every day.

[M0thim]

but be carefull about how you interpret the post above

[turbogreenbean]

From the stardew valley wiki:

"Each half-heart is equivalent to 100 points of friendship, making the maximum value of Friendship 1000.
Actions that affect friendship are as follows:

- Petting (+15, or +30 if player has Shepherd or Coopmaster and animal is of relevant type)

- Milking or Shearing (+5, No penalty for not being milked or sheared)

- Eating Grass Outside (+8)


- Not Fed (-20 Calculated day-end)

- Trapped outside overnight (-20 Calculated day-end)

- Not Petted/Talked to (-5 to -10, Calculated day-end by the formula: (10 - (CurrentFriendship / 200))) This means they will lose less friendship, if they are already high friendship."


Aka: yeah you have to pet them if you dont want to lose hearts with your animals.

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Animals

[MistaTricksta]

What about our personal cat/dog?

[Morg-Pyro]

Originally posted by kittycorn427:

What about our personal cat/dog?

he even gave the link to the wiki. READ IT!!!

[Dgo]

Based on the wiki data I think the best bet to avoid daily petting would be:

First pet them unconditionally till they get 5 hearts and after that have a big grass area where they are allowed be fed. So they would autoregulate their own hearts. And I kinda can confirm it bc I did this and the animals that get out of their buildings and are close to grass are still 5 hearts, and the others that don't are 4,5 after like 26 days that Spring started. This won't work on Winter though which ironically was the season that I pet them everyday. I'll keep testing though.

[MistaTricksta]

Originally posted by morg-fire:

Originally posted by kittycorn427:

What about our personal cat/dog?

he even gave the link to the wiki. READ IT!!!

oof ya got me xD