
This mod adds a lore and early game friendly way of caring for your animals and crops by hiring staff to do tasks for you. Staff require a daily salary and small fees per action completed, but can be scheduled for specific days if you wish so they can fit within your budget.
Staff are also NPCs with custom dialogue, warm/cold sprites, and lore- but do not have friendship values.

Go to the bulletin board in town where townsfolk sometimes request items. In the upper left, you will now see a new button: "Farm Hiring".

Clicking Farm Hiring allows you to place a hiring ad, after which your new staff member will arrive in 1-9 days.

On the day they finally arrive to your farm, you will receive a notice toast shortly after waking up.

wefwef, the farm name of champions.

Rimu - Native of Varu Archipelago, a foreigner with a big heart and best intentions.
In his culture it is rude to smile at your boss or elders, so don't take it personally!

- Arrives at 7am, leaves at 8pm. Will do all tasks unless specified not to:
- Open animal building doors at 7:30 am. (If not winter or bad weather.)
- Close all animal building doors at 6:30 pm. (Animals go back inside 5:00-5:30 pm.)
- Pet all animals, and brush them if brushable.
- Fill pet water bowls. (Will not pet pets- you must enjoy that yourself.)
- Picks up eggs from all species, rabbit wool and feet, duck feathers. Stores them in your designated containers by you, via buying token items and placing them in storage you want the tender to use as a deposit.
Animal tender (if trained to) can also milk and shear.

Remi - Given for adoption at birth, recently discovered Penny is her sister and moved to Pellican Town to make up for lost time.

- Arrives at 7am, leaves at 8pm. Will do all tasks unless specified not to:
- Water non-empty plots. (Does not till new plots on their own.)
- Plant seeds from your 'seed bin'. Use the Seed Token (place it in your bin(s)) to designate what container to plant seeds from.
- Will fertilize non-empty plots similar to seeding, place a Fertilizer Token in the container you want them to fertilize from.
- Acts as a farm wide scarecrow. (Should, at least. Let me know if not working.)
Crop Tender does not harvest, they only tend the crops.

Used for all management of your staff. Craft with 15 wood in your inventory- available from the start of the game.

Place the item! Now you can right click it to get your menu. :)



- Currently working with others to expand dialogue/story for the characters.
- Interactions between Remi/Penny (Sorry if you're married to Penny right now and they don't talk much. LOL)
- Relationship/heart events/make mariable. If you are already married, Remi and Remu marry each other and have a family.
- Traveling to Varu (expansion, separate mod.)
- Bug fixes as reported. Supporting custom farm animals if they don't have the right tags for automatic support. Please actually use the comments feature if you have a real issue or suggestion, or ping me on SD discord. Pure Winter

Localized for: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazillian Portuguese, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese, Turkish
- Compatible with custom farms and stardew valley expanded.
- Compatible with time skipping, but animals can get left outside if they didn't go in on their own.
- Compatible with farm animal mods using vanilla tag logic, includes config to add custom item ID for collection. ('Incompatible' just means they wont be tended, not that it actually breaks anything!)
- Compatible with Generic Mod Config Menu.

- It is safe to remove this mod any time. If you placed items/learned recipes from this mod it will bloop into error items you can delete.
-Won't harm plots outside of the player's main farm, but staff wont attend to those areas. Untested.

SMAPI, Content Patcher, Generic Mod Config Menu (Optional)


::Credits::
Mod, Spritework
Pure Winter
"I edited my spritesheet design over Dana and Sam from the base game!"
(Credit where credit is due, I modified Sam and Dana the mysterious base game files sprite sheet not 'in' the game, to make these characters more quickly and accurately to the art style of the game.)
Dialogue
PW, PunishedSol
Portraits
Poltergeister & Jaz
Font
Eliot Truelove
Mod Info Headers
kdau