Would be great if they grew up and you could assign them farm tasks. Picking crops, petting animals, filling kegs.

by ZookeepergameOld4985

13 Comments

  1. Google_Knows_Already on

    You’re child still looks like a toddler at age 12. I think you should visit a doctor to look at this

  2. ExceedinglyOrdinary on

    Maybe when their Dad is no longer strong enough to carry around 807 coffees, 815 food plates, 981 cakes, 946 beers, and several tools

  3. SunWorshipperApollo on

    It would be so cool if the 1.7 update gave them the ability to grow up, possibly help out around the farm, or even become their own standalone NPC. Imagine if there was a pool of hair options or facial features that randomized how they would look based on the spouse you choose. You could add a section to the map that becomes their own “farm” or create a choice to “retire”, handing the farm off over to them. I feel like that’s a good way for people to end a play through once you get to the later years and have completed everything.

  4. I thought the Increased Combat icon was Haley in the bed. She’s looking a bit old, but that sword says she’s got a few years left before retirement.

  5. Hemingwavvves on

    This is why I can’t play the game past about year 3 – the kids (including jas and Vincent) not aging gives me existential dread

  6. Having kids is known to interfere with FIRE plans. It’s often easiest to wait until they go off to college for retirement.

  7. PookieDoodle264 on

    That’s one flaw in this game. There’s zero indication of time passing. I know it would be a monumental task for developers to have everyone age, or progress. But some small benchmarks would be cool. For instance, when your child turns ten in gaming years you wake up that morning and his crib and plushy toys are replaced by a bed and rock group posters. lol On that note, it would be fun to witness Vincent and Jas get older. Right now they have no real purpose in the game except to be ignored by their parents. Jodi doesn’t acknowledge Vincent and leaves him alone for hours on end. And Marnie thinks it’s perfectly okay to stack all the hay indoors next to the fireplace near Jas’s bed. Another example of why her and Lewis deserve each other.