Custom Chores doesn't do anything on it's own unless you just want to use the console commands to perform them (which is kind of like a Cheats menu). Paired with Helpful Spouses, and your spouse may perform one or more chore each day (customizable). With Help For Hire you can subscribe to chores, and gold will be deducted each morning to perform chores for you.

Custom Chores is safe to add/remove at any time.

Depending on the chores you want to enable in your game, you'll need to add Custom Chore content packs to your Mods folder. Needs to be used with Helpful Spouses and/or Help for Hire for chores to actually be done in the morning depending on your preference.

BirthdayGift - On an NPCs birthday, your spouse will give you a gift that they like or love.
FeedTheAnimals - Animals in Barns/Coops will be fed.
LoveThePets - Your pet's water bowl will be filled.
MakeBreakfast - Spouse will give you a breakfast item in the morning.
PetTheAnimals - Animals will be loved.
RepairTheFences - Fences will be repaired.
WaterTheCrops - Hoed dirt will be watered.
WaterTheSlimes - Water troughs in slime hutches will be filled.

Each Custom Chore content pack has some level of configurability in it's chore.json file. You can customize the picture that shows up in the Help For Hire UI by replacing the assets/image.png file with your own. Additionally, dialogue for HelpfulSpouses can be found in each chore's i18n file whether to customize or translate.

No configuration is needed for the CustomChores mod itself, but each chore has individual settings available

Birthday Gift

GiftType - "Birthday" Required for spouse to select a Birthday gift as an item if it's an NPCs birthday that day.
EnableUniversal - Default "false" Only applicable to Birthday. Should Universal Likes/Loves be included?
ChanceForLove - Default "0.1" Only applicable to Birthday. The chance that your Spouse gets an item the birthday NPC Loves.

FeedTheAnimals

EnableBarns - Default "true" Should Barn animals be fed?
EnableCoops - Default "true" Should Coop animals be fed?

LoveThePets

FillWaterBowl - Default "true" Pet's water bowl will be filled up.
EnablePetting - Default "true" Pet will be loved for the day.

MakeBreakfast

GiftType - Default "194 195 201 211" These item Ids are for breakfast foods. This can be copied for new chores with different items.

RepairTheFences

EnableFarm - Default "true" Fences placed on the Farm will be repaired.
EnableBuildings - Default "true" Fences placed in Buildings will be repaired.
EnableOutdoors - Default "true" Fences placed Outside will be repaired.

WaterTheCrops

EnableFarm - Default "true" Crops on the Farm will be watered.
EnableBuildings - Default "true" Crops in Buildings will be watered.
EnableGreenhouse - Default "true" Crops in the Greenhouse will be watered.

Check out my other mods

Better Chests - Adds enhanced chest features to the game.
Expanded Storage - Allows Content Pack Creators to add custom storage to the game.
Toolbar Icons - Framework for adding Toolbar Icons that can be used instead of hotkeys or commands.
Helpful Spouses - Has your Spouse perform a random chore every morning.

Feel free to visit me on my Discord server for announcements and early access to beta releases of my mods.

You're also welcome to seek support or submit issues there. You can also find me on the Stardew Valley discord in #making-mods (LeFauxMatt).

Custom Chores

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