Pet Bowl
| Pet Bowl | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Building |
| Cost | 5,000g |
| Materials | Hardwood (25) |
| Size | 2x2 |
The Pet Bowl is the small square of ground that belongs to a pet, and every cat or dog on the farm needs one of its own. The first one is a gift: it stands on the farm from the opening day, and it stays there whether or not the offered pet is adopted. Extra bowls are bought from Robin for gold and hardwood, and they matter more than they look, because a pet without a bowl loses friendship every night and never gets let out of the farmhouse. Filling a bowl with water is also the quietest way to keep a pet fond of its owner, since the goodwill arrives the next morning without the pet needing to be found and petted.
Construction
Robin stocks the Pet Bowl at the Carpenter's Shop for 5,000g with 25 Hardwood. Hardwood is the only real hurdle, which places the second bowl somewhere after the first decent axe rather than in the opening weeks. It takes up a tiny two-by-two patch, so finding room is never the problem.
An extra pet does not have to wait for its bowl. Marnie's Ranch will hand over another cat or dog regardless, but the bill falls due overnight: for every night a pet has no bowl to call its own, it wakes up ten friendship points poorer. Pets in that position also refuse to leave the farmhouse, so they stop appearing outdoors entirely.
Use
Water is the whole mechanic. Pouring a watering can into the bowl adds six friendship points, credited the following morning. It is not quite free goodwill, because rain cancels it: if the next morning is wet, the filled bowl pays nothing. On dry stretches it stacks neatly with the morning pat, which is worth twice as much again.
Friendship is what the bowl is really buying. A pet kept happy long enough reaches the top of its friendship range, and from then on the first pat of each day carries a chance of the pet digging up a present. That friendship level is also the signal to go and collect another pet from the ranch, which is where the second bowl comes in.
A bowl can be moved. Robin's build menu picks it up and sets it down elsewhere, which is useful once paths and flooring are laid out, because flooring can be run straight across all four tiles. The bowl still draws on top of the flooring rather than under it, so the join is visible.
Notes
The bowl comes in wood, stone and hay versions, and all three shift their look slightly with the season. The wooden one is the default, and a Paint Bucket will change the colour of any of them, so a bowl can be matched to the farmhouse or to a path.
Because the free bowl never leaves, a farm that turned down the original pet still has a spare standing ready for the first cat or dog adopted later, which saves 5,000g on the first adoption.
All Buildings
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Barn | 
|
- |
| Cabin | 
|
100g |
| Coop | 
|
- |
| Farmhouse | 
|
- |
| Fish Pond | 
|
5,000g |
| Gold Clock | 
|
10,000,000g |
| Greenhouse | 
|
35,000g |
| Junimo Hut | 
|
20,000g |
| Mill | 
|
2,500g |
| Pet Bowl | 
|
5,000g |
| Shed | 
|
- |
| Silo | 
|
100g |
| Slime Hutch | 
|
10,000g |
| Stable | 
|
10,000g |
| Well | 
|
1,000g |
| Witch's Hut | 
|
- |