Maybe they have morning sickness, maybe they have mood swings, etc. Or have the player (if they chose to be a girl) start to show and have your spouse ask you how you’re feeling. Make stages where you can see your spouse begin to show, and give them more dialogue telling the player how they are feeling during pregnancy. Allow the character to see their spouse when the baby question is asked, seeing a black screen with a message pop-up makes it feel empty.Ģ. So this is what I want to suggest and I'm not sure how hard this would be to implement but I'll try my best to keep it simple.ġ. There are big problems with this in my opinion, and I think there can be so many small things to solve it. The other villagers don't even know you had/have a child, and your child never appears at any events. He will never grow up past this point and you will be forever stuck, never seeing your child grow from this point on.
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The best part about this is getting to finally see your kid walk after such a long time, it can be fairly gratifying, but once again there is no new form of interaction. They remain crawling until they reach their final stage: Toddler. At this point you can start earning friendship points, which at the moment doesn’t do anything either unfortunately. You and your spouse basically can’t do anything with your child, and it feels like a part of the game that was never fully completed.
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This will make them teleport into their bed and instantly be asleep. If you are not out of the farmhouse by 6 PM, your baby never gets put to bed unless you leave the house and go back in. Nor do they ever interact with your child at all. And your spouse never mentions anything about him being out of the crib now. Unfortunately this is a downgrade from the previous stage because all you can do now with them is click on them once per day and see a heart above their head, you can no longer play with them. Finally they can start crawling around for 28 days.
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Then you have some small amount of interaction with them which is exciting and funny, but they stay in the crib for another 14 days. You then cannot interact with your baby for another 14 days. All of the sudden it mentions that your spouse gave birth in the night, you name them on a black screen, and a baby appears in your crib in the back room. However it starts to break immersion and falls a little flat when you just get a dark screen asking you: "Do you want to have a child". And it's very tastefully done as well considering it can be a mature topic to put in a game like this. And eventually you can even have children which is awesome and continues this immersive experience. It makes the game super interesting and exciting, everything marriage wise is pretty great and well set up. Marriage and children is such a unique and beautiful concept in a game such as Stardew Valley. I wanted to post a suggestion that I think would be a massive addition to the game to make some parts more fulfilling and interesting.