How To Have Kids In Stardew Valley

You can have children if you’ve married your soulmate in Stardew Valley. There are various requirements you must meet before the game even gives you the choice to have more than two children. However, we will tell you how to have kids in Stardew Valley.

Do not be alarmed; Stardew Valley makes parenthood considerably simpler than in real life. Look at the following guide if you want to learn everything there is to know about marriage, pregnancy, and child behavior in-game.

We will cover a lot of ground, including how to have kids in Stardew Valley.

How Do Kids Work In Stardew Valley?

There are a few things to be aware of when raising children in Stardew Valley: 

• You can only have two children, a boy and a girl.
• The gender of the first child will be determined at random, and the next will be the one that you didn’t get with the first.
• They grow gradually, yet they never get past the toddler stage.
• You’ll always have the choice to have kids, and they won’t ever come as a surprise.
• Finally, you can have children regardless of whether you’re in a same-gender or an opposite-gender relationship.

You can adopt if you marry a person of the same gender, but you can only have children if you marry a person of the opposite gender. For the sake of readability, this book will regard both adopting and having a child as “having” children.

Prerequisites For Having Kids

Before the game allows you to add children to your family, you must first fulfill several requirements. The following criteria apply:

• Be wed for a minimum of seven days.
• At least a 10-heart level of relationship with your spouse
• A farmhouse with two upgrades and a nursery room with a crib
• You can remove the crib as part of a renovation, but doing so will make it impossible for you to have kids. If you want to have kids, make sure to keep the crib!

Getting Married

Although it takes some time, getting hitched is rather simple.

You can buy a bouquet at Pierre’s General Store once your friendship with a wedding candidate has grown to eight hearts.

Giving it to your significant other will start a relationship between the two of you and unlock your heart level, enabling you to raise it to ten hearts.

The Old Mariner, who appears on the east end of the Beach when it rains (you must upgrade the damaged bridge using 300 wood if you didn’t previously), will sell you a Mermaid’s Pendant after you have 10 hearts.

He won’t sell it to you unless you renovate your home to include a kitchen – which is the first upgrade in the game.

The wedding will occur three days after giving your significant other the Mermaid’s Pendant. If all the other conditions are satisfied, you’ll have to be hitched for a full week before the possibility of having children becomes available.

Maintaining Your Spouse’s Friendship

Your level of friendship with a spouse will never increase over time, unlike that of the other villagers. Fortunately, keeping it at the level of 10 hearts is not too difficult.

Make sure you talk to them at least once daily, if not more often. When feasible, give them items they will enjoy, and avoid doing anything that may offend them. This should maintain your heart rate at a minimum of 10 hearts, which is needed to have children.

Multiplayer Marriage

Getting married functions somewhat differently if you explore Stardew Valley with a friend in multiplayer mode. You must use the following supplies to make a wedding ring rather than the mermaid pendant:

• 5 Iridium Bars 
• 1 Prismatic Shard

The Wandering Merchant will sell you the Wedding Ring recipe for 500g. There is no player-to-player relationship hierarchy, so you can be married right without first getting to know one another.

Upgrades For Your Farmhouse

The last requirement for children is an upgraded farmhouse. You can get married and install a kitchen with the initial upgrade, but to unlock children, you’ll need to make another upgrade.

The second improvement includes a nursery with two single beds and a cradle.

The initial upgrade costs 450 wood and 10,000 gold. Robin needs three days to complete the task. It will take three days to complete the second improvement and nursery, which requires 50,000 gold and 150 hardwood.

Having/Adopting Children

You’ll be capable of having kids whenever each of these requirements has been satisfied. There is a 5% possibility that your partner will inquire about having children at night.

Saying Yes – If you decide to have children, they would be born or adopted 14 days after your decision. The baby will be in the cot when you awaken on the fourteenth day.

Saying No – There are no repercussions when you say “not now.” If the conditions are still met, your spouse will merely accept your response, go to bed, and perhaps inquire again later.

Various Stages Of Childhood

As kids get older, they go through four “stages.” You can engage with your child(ren) starting in the second stage to advance their friendship.

Stage 1 – Your baby will stay asleep in the crib for the first 14 days after their arrival. When you engage with them, all you’ll get is a notice telling you that they’re dozing off.

Stage 2 – The youngster will go on to the next developmental stage after those 14 days. They’ll be able to stand inside the crib, and then you can playfully communicate with them by throwing them about. You will earn friendship points for this.

Stage 3 – Your child will ultimately begin to leave their crib after another 14 days. They’ll crawl all around your home, playing with the toys. There are 28 days in this time frame or one season.

Stage 4 – The children will never move past this period. They’re toddlers at this point, and they’re running about the home. You can engage them in conversation to deepen your bond.

When your first child reaches the last stage and starts sleeping in a nursery bed, the crib will be free, allowing you to add a second child.

Final Thoughts

Overall, there aren’t any actual advantages to parenthood that directly help you. If you decide against having kids, you won’t generally lose out on any content.

You will be allowed to put caps on your children, although there are no advantages.

Simply choose the headgear from your inventory, then engage with your children in the same manner, you would with your horse or a machine that accepts products.