Maru is an NPC and one of the twelve marriage candidates who lives in Stardew Valley.
Maru grew up with a carpenter and a scientist for parents, Maru acquired a passion for creating gadgets at a young age. When she isn’t in her room, fiddling with tools and machinery, she sometimes does odd jobs at the local clinic. Friendly, outgoing, and ambitious, Maru would be quite a lucky match for a lowly newcomer such as yourself… Can you win her heart, or will she slip through your fingers and disappear from your life forever?[1]
Family
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(Mother) |
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(Father) |
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(Maternal Half-Brother) |
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Gifts
Quotes
Love
"Is that...? Oh wow, (Name)! This is spectacular!
Battery Pack, Cauliflower, Diamond, Gold Bar, Miner's Treat, Pepper Poppers, Rhubarb Pie, Strawberry.
Like
"This is a super gift! Thank you!"
Amethyst, Apple, Apricot, Aquamarine, Artichoke Dip, Beer, Blue Jazz, Cheese, Cherry, Chocolate Cake, Chowder, Cloth, Coffee, Cookie, Copper Bar, Corn, Crocus, Duck Mayonnaise, Earth Crystal, Eggplant, Emerald, Fairy Rose, Frozen Tear, Green Bean, Ice Cream, Iron Bar, Jade, Jelly (Blackberry, Blueberry, Cranberries, Grape), Juice(Tomato),Kale, Mayonnaise, Oak Resin, Omelet, Pale Ale, Parsnip, Pine Tar, Pomegranate, Potato, Pumpkin, Quartz, Ruby, Salad, Sashimi, Spaghetti, Summer Spangle, Sunflower, Sweet Pea, Tomato, Topaz, Trout Soup, Tulip, Wine (Blackberry, Blueberry, Cranberry, Orange, Strawberry).
Neutral
"Thanks."
All Milk, Baguette, Blueberry, Cactus Fruit, Chanterelle, Clam, Coconut, Coral, Daffodil, Dandelion, Eggs (Chicken and Duck), Fried Egg, Grape, Hazelnut, Hops, Hot Pepper, Melon, Nautilus Shell, Purple Mushroom, Rainbow Shell, Spice Berry, Starfruit, Wild Horseradish, Wild Plum,Leek.
Dislike
"Oh... That's for me? I'll just put it over here..."
Blackberry, Cave Carrot, Celestine, Cherry Bomb, Chub, Clay, Common Mushroom, Crayfish, Crystal Fruit, Fiber, Field Snack, Frozen Geode, Geode, Hardwood, Herring, Iridium Bar, Iridium Ore, Jamborite, Lemon Stone, Malachite, Maple Syrup, Nekoite, Orpiment, Oyster, Refined Quartz, Salmonberry, Sardine, Solar Essence, Spring Onion, Sunfish,Thunder Egg,Shane.
Hate
"Yuck! You thought I would like this?"
Bat Wing, Copper Ore, Dwarf Scroll III, Green Algae, Holly, Joja Cola, Pickled(Corn, Tomato), Poppy, Red Mushroom, Rusty Cog, Rusty Spoon, Rusty Spur, Sea Urchin, Snail, Snow Yam, Stone, Truffle, Wild Honey
Heart Events
Two Hearts
(Known times:Saturday after 9PM, Sunday sometimes after 1PM, Wednesday after 10AM, Friday after 12PM, Monday before 12PM, other days/times are unknown)
As you walk into their house, you find Maru and Demetrius in their lab. Maru asks you to watch a beaker as she has to go do something. While you're watching the beaker, Demetrius starts talking to you about his special little girl Maru. Demetrius states that he doesn't want anything getting in the way of Maru's future "If you know what I mean." When Maru returns, Demetrius tells Maru that he was telling you about the tests.
"Right, (character name)?"
- "(Say nothing)" +10 friendship points. Both Demetrius and Maru go back to their work.
- "Actually, your dad was being weird." -100 friendship points. Maru will ask Demetrius what (character name) is talking about. Demetrius will tell the truth and apologize for his behaviour.
Cutscene video: https://youtu.be/SzhCffB01_g
Four Hearts
Harvey's Clinic Tuesday/Thursday After 8AM
Maru will be working on samples (which she seems to hate doing) As you walk in you surprise her and she drops her vial.. she asks what she should do:
- "Just scoop it off the floor, he won't know the difference." -50 friendship points. She will argue that of course Harvey will be able to tell the difference. Harvey comes in after hearing the breaking glass, and Maru tells him it was an accident. He is thankful for her telling the truth, since she is a big help around the clinic. It ends with Harvey asking if the player is ok, since they're looking a little pale
- "Tell Harvey it's my fault." -20 friendship points. She agrees and tells Harvey once he comes in from hearing glass break he is disappointed she blamed someone else and it ends Harvey saying it'll put them back in red for a month.
- "Tell Harvey it was an accident." +50 friendship points. She agrees and tells Harvey once he comes in from hearing glass break he is thankful for her telling the truth since she is a big help around the clinic, in the end Harvey asks if the player is ok, since they're looking a bit pale.
Cutscene video: https://youtu.be/Rc8bRfqeRRY
Six Hearts
Mountain, 9pm - 11:40pm, sunny weather
Maru is looking through the telescope and is surprised to see you walking past. She offers you to look through the telescope and asks what you see. You have the option to say,"A cold, dark abyss" -30 friendship points, or "A beautiful planet" +30 friendship points. She mentions that she has something to tell you but thinks about it and changes her mind and decides to show you a binary star system instead. Your character feels as if Maru showed you something special.
Cutscene video: https://youtu.be/Kg70Px_lZl4
Eight Hearts
Her House. Maru will show you what it is she's been working on, and accidentally shock you in the process of testing it. You have the choice of responses which may affect her affection for you.
- "It's okay, it doesn't even hurt." +30 friendship points.
- "You'd better be. This hurts like crazy!" -50 friendship points.
Cutscene video: https://youtu.be/oRa5ksfInbg
Ten Hearts
Carpenter's Shop, 9am - 4pm, any weather
You go into her house and she says that her project is finished. Now she takes you into her workshop (trapdoor) to show you a robot she built to help her parents.
Demetris follows you and gets scared by the robot Maru activated. The robot wants his freedom so they let her go. Maru will ask you what you think which may affect her affection for you.
- "I'm so impressed with your inventions." +50 friendship points.
- "I'm disappointed... you should have made that robot your slave." -50 friendship points.
- "MarILDA's just a piece of machinery designed to act human." +50 friendship points.
- "I was just kidding. MarILDA deserves her freedom." +50 friendship points.
- "I would've put her to work on the farm." -50 friendship points.
- "So is your Dad okay with 'us' now?" no change in friendship points.
- "(Just stare at Maru and say nothing)" no change in friendship points.
Cutscene video: https://youtu.be/8-9RsCqCGA4
Marriage
When you give Maru the Mermaid Pendant she accepts, and says the ceremony will be in three days ( she will sort out everything). Immediately after you go to sleep on the second day, a cutscene happens in which Lewis declares you married (this cutscene apparently uses up no time at all)
You appear back Home after the marriage cutscene with Maru standing on the porch,she says she watered all the crops and put water in your pet's bowl. A smaller version of her old room has been installed in your house attached to your bedroom.
Cutscene video: https://youtu.be/rmE3blqy_lQ
Daily Routine
|---Spring---|
Sunday
Time | Place |
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8:30 PM | Comes back home |
Monday
Time | Place |
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4:30 PM |
On the bench below the saloon. |
Tuesday
Time | Place |
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8:00 AM | Leaves her house and heads towards the clinic. |
8:50 AM | Enters the clinic. |
4:40 PM | Leaves the clinic to walk to home |
6:10 PM | Arrives home |
10:10 PM | Enters her bedroom |
Wednesday
Time | Place |
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10:30 AM | Leaves her room and stays inside the house |
04:40 PM | Goes to her bedroom |
Thursday
Time |
Place |
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9:40 AM | Enters the clinic |
4:40 PM | Leaves the clinic to walk to house |
6:10 PM | Arrives home |
10:10 PM | Enters her bedroom |
Friday
Time | Place |
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3:00 PM | Sitting on bench to the right of the Community Center. |
6:00 PM | Heads home. |
Saturday
Time | Place |
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3:20 PM | Sitting on bench to the right of the Community Center. |
6:50 PM | Arrives home |
7:10 PM | Enters bedroom |
|---Summer---|
Sunday
Time | Place |
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03:30 PM | Arrives at bench south of Saloon |
6:30 PM | Leaves bench south of Saloon to home |
8:00 PM | Arrives home |
Monday
Time | Place |
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3:30 PM | Arrives at bench near Saloon |
Tuesday
Time | Place |
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9:00 AM | Working in the clinic |
4:30 PM | Leaves clinic to walk home |
6:10 PM | Arrives home |
Wednesday
Time | Place |
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11:00 AM | Working in the clinic |
3:00 PM | Lake East of Her House Near Island Bridge |
7:30 PM | Telescope |
Thursday
Time | Place |
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6:10 PM | Arrives home |
Friday
Time | Place |
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2:40 PM | Lake East of Her House Near Island Bridge |
Saturday
Time | Place |
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9:00 AM | Inside her house |
Rainy Days
Time | Place |
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12:30PM | Leaves her room |
Last Day of Summer (Sunday)
Time | Place |
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10:00AM | Leaves her room |
01:40PM | Leaves house |
|---Fall---|
Sunday
Time | Place |
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8:30PM | back home |
Monday
Time | Place |
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1:20 PM (seen) | Home (lab) |
1:30 PM |
Leaves home |
3:30 PM | Arrives at bench near Saloon |
6:30 PM | Leaves bench |
8:30 PM | Arrives home |
Tuesday
Time | Place |
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unknown | unknown |
Wednesday
Time | Place |
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10:20-2:00 PM |
Home (lab) |
2:00 PM | Leaves home to go to area right of Community Center |
2:30 PM |
Arrives at stone bench right of Community Center |
Thursday
Time |
Place |
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???-4:40 | Clinic |
6:20 | Arrives Home |
6:20 onwards | Stays at home |
Friday
Time | Place |
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9:00am-12:30am | At home in her room |
12:30am-2:30pm | At home in the entry of the house |
2:30pm-4:30pm | At home in the lab |
4:30pm-??? | At home in her room |
Saturday
Time | Place |
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All Day | Home |
|---Winter---|
Sunday
Time | Place |
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8:10 PM | Arrives Home |
Monday
Time | Place |
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4:00PM | Sitting on the bench in front of the Saloon. |
Tuesday
Time | Place |
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9:20 AM |
Goes into Harvey's clinic. |
5:00 PM | Leaves Clinic |
Wednesday
Time | Place |
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3:30 PM | Sitting next to the Comunity center. |
Thursday
Time |
Place |
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unknown | unknown |
Friday
Time | Place |
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5:00 PM | Bench by Community Center |
Saturday
Time | Place |
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09:00 | bedroom |
Dialogue
First Meeting
“Oh! Aren’t you the one who just moved in? I’m Maru. I’ve been looking forward to meeting you!” … “You know, with a small town like this, a new face can really alter the community dynamic. It’s exciting!”
Regular
"When it rains I have a good excuse to work on my gadgets all day."
"It must be kind of boring for you, though."
"Hey, have any interesting farm stories to tell me?" "Guess not."
"I get so sleepy when it's cold..."
"My hair gets so frizzy in this dry weather. *sigh*
Questions
"I've decided I'm going to build a robot someday."
- That should be very easy for you. Response: "Really? Are you sure you're not just trying to flatter me?"
- You should be more realistic. Response: "You don't think I could do it?"
- It sounds challenging. Response: "You're right, but I love a challenge!"
Festivals
Egg Festival
- "I always look forward to these gatherings...it makes the valley feel like a real community."
Luau
- "Whatever Linus is roasting smells awfully good..." *slurp*
Dance of the Moonlight Jellies
- "It's kind of cold, actually. I guess fall is right around the corner."
Festival of Ice
- "I'm not very creative when it comes to snowmen."
Trivia
- Maru's name seems to be originated from a japanese word 丸 maru (circle).
Gallery
References
Villagers | |
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Bachelors | Alex • Elliott • Harvey • Sam •Shane • Sebastian |
Bachelorettes | Abigail • Emily • Haley • Leah • Maru • Penny |
Other | Bouncer • Caroline • Clint • Demetrius • Dwarf • Evelyn • George • Gil • Governor |
Gunther • Gus • Jas • Jodi • Kent • Krobus • Lewis • Linus • Marlon • Marnie | |
Morris • Mr. Qi • Pam • Pierre • Rasmodius • Robin • Sandy • Vincent • Willy |