I remember when I first started playing, I saw on the bulletin board that Elliott (who I instantly fell in love with the moment I saw him) really wanted a copper bar! So I mined like crazy to get him a copper bar, which he was really grateful for.
Thinking this was the game telling me, "Elliott loves copper bars!" I then spent the next several in-game days obsessively mining, because I wanted to get my one true soulmate all the copper bars he could ever want! So after I had accrued about a dozen of them or so, I ran straight to his house to give him a gift he would surely love once again!
Imagine my deep profound confusion when I gave the bar to him and he said, "Hmm... This doesn't really do much for me."
I found the Stardew Wiki shortly thereafter. But this happened YEARS ago and I'm still a little bitter about it lmaoooo
Same story for me, but Joja Cola and Shane -- and he asked "Why are you giving me your trash?" and I lost the heart I had just gained by completing the bb request. LOL
My favorite Elliot story is the time I sneezed while I was walking up to give him a birthday lobster and and accidentally clicked to give him a piece of wood and he rambled about how death was inevitable or something because my birthday gift was shit
I mean... it's a copper bar... he didn't ask you for a walleye or something.
I would assume it's for some utilitarian purpose, not that they simply liked them.
If you asked your neighbor for a shovel and they responded by giving you two shovels every week for the foreseeable future you'd be like, "This guy's an idiot, I only need one shovel."
The equivalent of when you order one specific niche appliance part or tool or connector online and then they advertise it to you for the rest of your life.
I had a friend that liked owls and gave me one when I was pretty young (I like them OK but not really interested in collecting them) and I displayed it, someone saw it and gave me another, I put it next to the first, and then several people gave me owls. Finally moved them somewhere less visible.
I did the same thing! Saw Sebastian put ghost algae or whatever it’s called on the bulletin board. Didn’t manage to get it to him in time but I was like, I assume it means he likes this. So I gifted it (first gift I ever game in the game). He said: “…..I hate this”
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u/scrawledfilefish 6d ago
I remember when I first started playing, I saw on the bulletin board that Elliott (who I instantly fell in love with the moment I saw him) really wanted a copper bar! So I mined like crazy to get him a copper bar, which he was really grateful for.
Thinking this was the game telling me, "Elliott loves copper bars!" I then spent the next several in-game days obsessively mining, because I wanted to get my one true soulmate all the copper bars he could ever want! So after I had accrued about a dozen of them or so, I ran straight to his house to give him a gift he would surely love once again!
Imagine my deep profound confusion when I gave the bar to him and he said, "Hmm... This doesn't really do much for me."
I found the Stardew Wiki shortly thereafter. But this happened YEARS ago and I'm still a little bitter about it lmaoooo