Hi all, first post here. I found out about this game about a month ago, and have been obsessed with it ever since. So I married Elliott, and got to 13 hearts with him by only two or three days after he moved in. I did this by gifting him gold pomegranates (which he loves). He then gave me a Stardrop. After that I still interacted with him every day, but only occasionally gave gifts. A week or so later I found that he was back at only 11 hearts. I didn't give gifts to anyone else during that time, with the exception of Clint (not an eligible bachelor) on Feast of the Winter Star Day (I was his Secret Santa). It's not really a big deal, but I wonder what I did or didn't do to cause his stars to drop? Does he expect to get a gift from me every day of our wedded life?? P.S. When I proposed to him he was sitting in the library reading a book, and he didn't even bother to get up
Yeah, that seems to happen sometimes. As far as I've been able to tell, it's just something that happens at random, probably as some sort of bug. I've gone plenty of time only giving my husband gifts sporadically without issue, and also had the hearts drop during times I'd been gifting him plenty (including on his birthday, which had just passed at the time), so that's definitely not the reason for it. I generally just keep an eye on my hearts and prepare to throw all the loved gifts at him if the need arises (I'm kind of a sap who likes throwing flowers and loved gifts at him anyway ), and it's worked so far -- as long as you get the hearts back up fairly quickly, they won't have a chance to dip below 10 and lead to a grouchy spouse. Still weird and kinda frustrating though :/ (And if we're talking about funny proposal stories... I gave him the mermaid pendant when he was just about to buy a soda at the Saloon and promptly learned that he has one of those repeated location-based dialogues when in front of the machine. I had to sit there for a little bit before he finally shut up about Joja Cola and started talking about the wedding )
Thanks for the reply; I guess it's back to gifting daily pomegranates then. I hope I don't run out before he gets back up to 13 hearts. I only have so many saved from the fall tree crop, though I occasionally get one from the bat cave... I think there should be a special cutscene played when there's a proposal, as that's such an important event.
Just happened to me too. Shane went from 13 hearts to 11 at the beginning of year 3. Good thing I have lots of hot peppers, both stockpiled and planted in my greenhouse. (At least the heart drop fit well with what's going on in my game - it's early spring and we just had our first baby at the beginning of last winter. Busy season plus young child equals stress placed on relationship.)
Spouses are fairly high maintenance in this game, they do expect gifts on a fairly regular basis. I just try to give them a gift everyday to avoid losing hearts.
There appears to be a random roll involved each day on top of things you do: others you've gifted, hugs and gifts to him/her you've given, etc. I've found that sometimes I can do nothing which is potentially offputting, and still the one I've married loses hearts--which on other occasions, I can gift someone else, and nothing happens to the heart level. For what it's worth, I just suggest laying in a good stock of something they enjoy, and giving them one when the hearts decrease.
I've read that if you don't talk to them or give them a gift each day(both as an AND and as an OR) that it will go down, and I've read that if you go to sleep after midnight it goes down. The midnight thing would make sense to me, as when I noticed my wife's drop it was the day after passing out in a mine(albeit I had just gotten married so I didn't know the 2 gifts per week limit was removed, so i hadn't gifted her in a few days, so that could have been part of it).
After getting Elliott back up to 13/12, I haven't gifted him in over a week, and the hearts haven't dropped. I have (only) talked to him each day. I think I've gone to bed before midnight every night since the hearts came back up, but not positive. *shrug* I'm still stockpiling pomegranates and duck feathers just in case...
I'd say if you got Elliot, it isn't a bad idea to plant a pomegranite tree in your greenhouse (you can plant them on the tile, just make sure nothing is touching the surrounding squares). That way pretty much one month later bam, you now have a daily pomegranite for all your Elliot needs all year round. On my save every so often my spouse will dip in hearts, but usually since I have a lot of gifts it bounces back and has never gone anywhere major.
Already done But as I'm on year five I'm about ready to retire this save, or at least put it on hold until the next update.
