Abigail 99% useless after marriage

[Croak]

3/7 she goes to town to stretch her legs, 4/7 she just wanders around the house. I've been married to her for half a year, and I think she watered my crops once. She definitely wasn't this useless pre-1.1, anyone else having similar problems?

[Seraphita]

Um. All other marriage npcs do the exact same thing... They are not there to be useful. Plus if you need her to water your crops, you seriously need sprinklers fast. You should not even rely on your partner for that. But yeah, don't expect too much from them, they exist to be pretty.

[Croak]

Originally posted by Zero:

Um. All other marriage npcs do the exact same thing... They are not there to be useful. Plus if you need her to water your crops, you seriously need sprinklers fast. You should not even rely on your partner for that. But yeah, don't expect too much from them, they exist to be pretty.

I had roughly 30 hours of married Stardew game play before the patch with Abigail, and she watered my crops, fed my animals, or fixed my fences at least 3/7 days every week.

And I'm too lazy to set up sprinklers. My greenhouse is full of ancient fruit and after turning it to wine its ~1mil a month. I'm set, its just annoying.

[Seraphita]

Yeah, I already have ancient fruit set as well but still. If you don't have sprinklers and you think your wife should do the watering work for you, you're not doing this right. You might as well just give up on farming other than greenhouse, make that million every month and relax. :)

At this point, I just got iridium sprinklers set on floor tile on my field and nothing will ever move them. Only thing I do is plant and "watch". It's not exactly efforts. They don't need maintenance.

[꧁ logAnmalONE ꧂]

Go for her sister perhaps??

[Vroomi]

Originally posted by Logan-Malone:

Go for her sister perhaps??

Abigail doesn't have a sister.

[꧁ logAnmalONE ꧂]

Originally posted by Kɾყȥყɯҽҽɳ~:

Originally posted by Logan-Malone:

Go for her sister perhaps??

Abigail doesn't have a sister.

Divorce her perhaps?

[Snow]

I belive that I have noticed the spouse helping out less post 1.1 patch, but I agree that it is not something you should be relying on.

Originally posted by Zero:

But yeah, don't expect too much from them, they exist to be pretty.

Sums it up very well.

[Rafein]

You still giving her gits to keep her happy?

She only does things if you keep her happy

[Shrub]

the more you keep them happy the more they suppose to do, but they dont do much. I married shane and he often cooks and gives me pizza which is great I can just give it back to him in the morning as he loves pizza but no spouse really does anything

Originally posted by Zero:

they exist to be pretty.

and give children once in a while which ya both neglect