Maru

Maru
Information
Birthday	Summer 10
Lives in	Pelican Town
Address	Carpenter's Shop
Family	Robin (Mother) Demetrius (Father) Sebastian (Maternal Half-Brother)
Friends	Harvey Penny
Marriage	Yes
Favorite Gifts
Favorite Gift(s)	Battery Pack Cauliflower Cheese Diamond Gold Bar Iridium Bar Miner's Treat Pepper Poppers Rhubarb Pie Strawberry

Maru is an NPC and is one of the twelve marriage candidates which live in Stardew Valley.

Maru grew up with a carpenter and a scientist for parents and she 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?

Family

	Robin (Mother)

	Demetrius (Father)

	Sebastian (Maternal Half-Brother)

Gifts

Love

"Is that...? Oh wow, [Player Name]! This is spectacular! Battery Pack, Cauliflower, Diamond, Gold Bar, Iridium 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, Cookies, Copper Bar, Corn, Crocus, Duck Mayonnaise, Earth Crystal, Eggplant, Emerald, Fairy Rose, Frozen Tear, Green Bean, Ice Cream, Iron Bar, Jade, Jelly (Blackberry, Blueberry, Cranberry, 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, Bread, 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, Mussel, Nekoite, Orpiment, Oyster, Refined Quartz, Salmonberry, Sardine, Solar Essence, Spring Onion, Sunfish, Thunder Egg.

Hate

"Yuck! You thought I would like this?" Bat Wing, Copper Ore, Dwarf Scroll III, Green Algae, Holly, Iron Ore, Joja Cola, Preserves Jar (Corn, Tomato), Poppy, Red Mushroom, Rusty Cog, Rusty Spoon, Rusty Spur, Sea Urchin, Snail, Snow Yam, Stone, Truffle, Wild Honey, Shane

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, [Player Name]?"

• "(Say nothing)" - +10 friendship points. Both Demetrius and Maru go back to their work.

• "Actually, your dad was being weird." - -100 friendship points with Demetrius. Maru will ask Demetrius what [Player 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 9am

Maru will be working on samples (which she seems to be tired of), and as the player enters the clinic, her concentration will break, surprising her and causing her to drop a vial. She panics and asks the player 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 with 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

"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

In her House. Maru will show you what she's been working on, and accidentally electrically shock you in the process of testing it. You can respond to her apology

• "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.

Demetrius 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 gift Maru the Mermaid Pendant she accepts, and says the ceremony will be in three days (and she will sort out everything). Immediately after you go to sleep on the second day, a cutscene happens in which Lewis declares you two married (this cutscene 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
8:30 PM	Comes back home

Monday

Time	Place
4:30 PM	On the bench below the saloon.

Tuesday

Time	Place
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
10:30 AM	Leaves her room and stays inside the house
04:40 PM	Goes to her bedroom

Thursday

Time	Place
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
3:00 PM	Sitting on bench to the right of the Community Center.
6:00 PM	Heads home.

Saturday

Time	Place
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
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
3:30 PM	Arrives at bench near Saloon

Tuesday

Time	Place
9:00 AM	Working in the clinic
4:30 PM	Leaves clinic to walk home
6:10 PM	Arrives home

Wednesday

Time	Place
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
6:10 PM	Arrives home

Friday

Time	Place
2:40 PM	Lake East of Her House Near Island Bridge

Saturday

Time	Place
9:00 AM	Inside her house

Rainy Days

Time	Place
12:30PM	Leaves her room

Last Day of Summer (Sunday)

Time	Place
10:00AM	Leaves her room
01:40PM	Leaves house

|---Fall---|

Sunday

Time	Place
8:30PM	back home

Monday

Time	Place
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
unknown	unknown

Wednesday

Time	Place
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
???-4:40	Clinic
6:20	Arrives Home
6:20 onwards	Stays at home

Friday

Time	Place
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
All Day	Home

|---Winter---|

Sunday

Time	Place
8:10 PM	Arrives Home

Monday

Time	Place
4:00PM	Sitting on the bench in front of the Saloon.

Tuesday

Time	Place
9:20 AM	Goes into Harvey's clinic.
5:00 PM	Leaves Clinic

Wednesday

Time	Place
3:30 PM	Sitting next to the Comunity center.

Thursday

Time	Place
??? - 4:40 PM	Clinic

Friday

Time	Place
5:00 PM	Bench by Community Center

Saturday

Time	Place
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).
• Maru and Demetrius are the only brown skinned pre-made villagers currently ingame.

Gallery

Gif from Dev Update #12

Maru's Portrait from Dev Update #24 (January, 2015)

Current Avatar of Maru

Maru Freaking out

Maru working in the clinic