Make Friendship More Difficult to Earn

[StardewSweetheart]

I find it a little too easy to gain hearts with NPCs and often end up with everyone at full hearts by end of year one. It doesn't look like there are any mods out there that increase friendship difficulty, so if anyone would be willing to take this on, that would be so cool! Thanks!

[spacechase0]

If you're just looking to make it take longer, it's a pretty simple thing to do. New Game+ actually does this as one of its configurable mechanics.

[StardewSweetheart]

Oh, neat!!! Thank you!

[StardewSweetheart]

Ok, so, there's a learning curve with New Game+ that has me a bit stymied because I'm not great with math lol. What settings would I need to use if I wanted to just make friendship gain harder? Whatever I did made seeds way too cheap and I can't figure out what to do to fix it. Here are my settings:

{ "StockList": true, "GingerIsland": false, "AdditionalProfitMultiplier": 0.4, "RelationshipPenaltyPercentage": 0.5, "ExpCurveExponent": 1.092, "StartingPoints": 25, "GoldPerLeftoverPoint": 500 }

[spacechase0]

Ah, I'm so used to people using GMCM to configure this stuff, since it has explanations built in.

You probably want this:

{
"StockList": false,
"GingerIsland": false,
"AdditionalProfitMultiplier": 1.0,
"RelationshipPenaltyPercentage": 0.5,
"ExpCurveExponent": 1.0,
"StartingPoints": 0,
"GoldPerLeftoverPoint": 0
}

That will disable everything, except only give 50% friendship points. You might still get the Legacy Token, but it won't have any points. You can just throw it away I believe.

[StardewSweetheart]

I did use GMCM but I am really, truly bad at math and percentages so I messed with the sliders, prayed, and hoped for the best and my choices weren't good. 😭 Can I change my settings to those now or do I need to start a new save?

Thank you so much, I am sorry for being dumb

[spacechase0]

New Game+ saves the values you use into the save file upon creation. While it is technically possible to edit the values with a text editor, it's much easier to just start a new save.

[StardewSweetheart]

That makes sense, thank you!!