Stardew Valley Emily Guide: Schedule, Gifts, and Tailoring

Emily is a Pelican Town marriage candidate who lives at 2 Willow Lane and works most evenings at the Stardrop Saloon starting at 4:00 PM. Rapidly increasing her friendship requires gifting Cloth or Amethyst twice per week, which unlocks personal tailoring and unique spouse quests.

Gifting and Relationship Mechanics

Maximizing relationship points with Emily relies on delivering preferred items during weekly interactions or leveraging birthday multipliers. While standard loved gifts yield +80 friendship points, presenting a loved item on her Spring 27 birthday applies an 8x multiplier for a total of 80 x 8 = 640 points. Presenting Stardrop Tea on her birthday contributes an additional +750 points without consuming a weekly gifting slot, allowing a maximum single day gain of 640 + 750 = 1,390 points.

To verify daily conversation status or overall relationship progress, open the main game menu by pressing Escape or E on PC, select the social tab marked by the red heart icon, and look for a green checkmark next to her portrait.

Daily Schedule and Map Locations

Tracking Emily throughout the week involves visiting key landmarks around Pelican Town based on weather, season, and time of day. Her home address is 2 Willow Lane, located directly south of the town square. Her Friday location changes entirely once you restore the Community Center and reopen the Crafts Room, so check the season and weather before setting out. 

Quests, Special Orders, and Tailoring

Emily offers several distinct quests that grant relationship points, unique equipment, and access to domestic crafting machinery.

Saying Hello Quest

• Appears on the bulletin board outside Pierre’s General Store after completing the initial Introductions story quest.
• Requires speaking to 28 Pelican Town residents to complete.
• Completion awards +100 friendship points with every town resident simultaneously.
• Open the quest journal by pressing the F key on PC, or by clicking the yellow exclamation point icon beneath the date display, to track active progress.

Rock Rejuvenation Special Order

• Accepts from the wooden special orders board outside Mayor Lewis’s Manor starting Fall 2 of Year 1.
• Requires collecting 1x Ruby, 1x Topaz, 1x Emerald, 1x Jade, 1x Amethyst, and 1x Aquamarine.
• All minerals must be mined from nodes or obtained from geodes after accepting the quest. Pre-existing gems taken from storage chests will not trigger the task counter.
• Run floors 80 to 120 of the standard Mines or Skull Cavern to harvest the required gems.
• Deliver all six gems directly to the donation box inside Emily’s bedroom on the right side of 2 Willow Lane.
• Check the farmhouse mailbox the following morning to receive a personal Sewing Machine.

Personal Tailoring Mechanics

• Unlocks during a cutscene on the first sunny morning after placing at least 1 unit of Cloth into player inventory.
• Access the tailoring interface by interacting with the Sewing Machine.
• Place Cloth into the bottom-left feed slot.
• Place a coloring item, mineral, or catalyst into the spool slot located above the power button. For example, inserting Radioactive Ore creates a radioactive turtleneck sweater.

Marriage and Errand for Your Wife Quest

• Purchase a Bouquet from Pierre’s General Store for 200g at eight hearts.
• Purchase a Mermaid Pendant from the Old Mariner on rainy days at the beach for 5,000g at 10 hearts. Requires buying the first farmhouse upgrade from Robin for 10,000g plus 450 Wood, and repairing the tide-pool beach bridge for 300 Wood.
• At 14 hearts after marriage, exit the farmhouse on a sunny morning between 6:00 AM and 8:20 AM to initiate the Errand for Your Wife quest.
• Collect 200 pieces of Fiber by cutting weeds with a Scythe on Mine floors 21 to 29 or floor 81.
• Deliver the 200 Fiber directly to Emily.
• Wait exactly 3 days, then enter the farmhouse between 8:00 PM and midnight to receive Emily’s Magic Boots, which provide +4 Defense and +4 Immunity.

Technical Bugs, Seed Manipulation, and Exploits

Specific technical errors, coordinate fixes, and item duplicate rules impact quest execution and item acquisition.

Saying Hello Script Bug Fix

• The quest engine measures state changes from unspoken to spoken rather than active dialogue events.
• Talking to an NPC on Day 1 before accepting the quest from the Pierre bulletin board sets their spoken state to true, preventing the quest engine from counting them on Day 1.
• Fix this error by walking directly to Pierre’s General Store at 6:00 AM on Day 1 to accept the quest before interacting with any residents.
• Exclude non-resident and magical entities from search routes, including the Wizard, Krobus, Dwarf, Sandy, Leo, and Kent during Year 1.
• On PC, isolate missing residents when stuck at 27/28 greetings by closing the game, navigating to %AppData%/Stardew Valley/Saves, opening the character save file in a text editor, and searching the friendship XML tags for database character names.

Desert Festival Seed Manipulation

During the Calico Desert Festival on Spring 15 to 17, entering the Outfit Services booth assigns a seeded custom outfit. The engine checks the player’s equipped shirt ID upon entry. If the equipped shirt matches the shirt of the scheduled outfit, the duplicate prevention script skips that configuration and rolls the next outfit. Wear an item from an undesired outfit before entering to force a reroll, but avoid entering completely undressed, which defaults output to the Clown outfit.

Specific seeds on Nintendo Switch guarantee rare cosmetics when configured correctly.

Switch Update 1.6 Multiplayer Soft-Lock Workaround

On Nintendo Switch Update 1.6, divorcing Emily on a multiplayer farm breaks her Desert Festival schedule. At 8:20 AM, she spawns near the kitchen and clips through exterior walls until walking completely out of bounds at 9:00 AM. Interacting with her empty festival booth causes a permanent soft-lock.

• Travel to the Wizard’s Tower and interact with his construction book.
• Choose to instantly demolish the cabin or house belonging to the divorced player.
• Demolishing the cabin via the Wizard’s instantaneous service forces her spawn coordinates back to 2 Willow Lane immediately, bypassing Robin’s multi-day construction delay.
• Allow her to successfully walk to the Calico Desert bus the next morning, after which the host can safely rebuild the cabin.

Lost Item Restoration and Chair Collision Exploit

If the personal Sewing Machine or Magic Boots are destroyed or lost, they can be repurchased from a secret vendor.

• Travel to the northwest corner of Cindersap Forest to locate the Secret Woods entrance.
• Break the blocking log using a Steel Axe.
• If lacking a Steel Axe, place a Chair or Bench on the forest side of the log directly adjacent to its collision box, sit on the chair, and jump off on the interior side to bypass collision limits.
• Approach the secret Crow merchant located behind the fallen stone column to repurchase lost unique items for 10,000g each.