What about hunting?

[Captain Blud]

I know this game is pretty non violent, but I still think an optional hunting mini game would be awesome. There are so many different animal sprites, it would be super cool to craft traps or a bow an arrow. Or for the people that are sensitive about this, maybe just traps that you can catch an animal, have a chance at getting an item from them, and then releasing them back into the wild.

[Flablo]

Technically, you can "hunt" and trap animals, but only... seafood.

Butchering animals was once planned, but then scrapped, just because it would be cruel for the setting Stardew Valley has. Which is a little bit contradictory in a moral-philosophical sense, since you can kill other living beings in the game.

I'm pretty sure, that can be changed with mods (the hunting part). I don't know if there are any existing mods for this purpose though.

[The Y'All Of Us]

Take your slingshot with you and try to hone your reflexes whenever you see a squirrel/rabbit/bird around town.

10/10 makes slingshot actually fun to have.

[Captain Blud]

Originally posted by Rufus:

Technically, you can "hunt" and trap animals, but only... seafood.

Butchering animals was once planned, but then scrapped, just because it would be cruel for the setting Stardew Valley has. Which is a little bit contradictory in a moral-philosophical sense, since you can kill other living beings in the game.

I'm pretty sure, that can be changed with mods (the hunting part). I don't know if there are any existing mods for this purpose though.

Sure, I can totally see some people having a problem with it. Personally, in real life I never hunt, tried it once, felt miserable after I capped a squirrel.. I'm a softie. Regardless, we don't need a Red Dead type skinning animals and leaving bloody corpses behind, just an optional hunting minigame. Maybe even catch em in a trap and get a feather or fur or something and you can watch them run happily back to the forest. I would say have an Oregon Trail type of hunting, but we kind of have that in the Prairie King arcade game.

Edit: PS Charlotte-BoyFace, the slingshot is rubbish. LoL they really need to update that cuz currently it is basically useless.

[Rio]

Fish lives don't matter. Mammal lives, reptile, avian, etc do. Its speciesism and thats just wrong.

We evolved from fish, we never evolved from birds, so isn't killing fish the greater crime?

[SilentCaay]

Live trapping would be nice as an alternative to raising animals. Trap some birds for eggs, rabbits for wool and rabbit's feet, Sandy for milk, etc.