NPC Favor

In the dairy year

Spring favours are a harvest or a fence when you can spare the machine. Winter is standing: who will talk, who will hire, who remembers that you showed up.

The dairy year is not only dirt and milk. It is a parish.

The feel

Neighbours walk roads, sleep, work, and chat. They have needs and personalities. Relationship runs from hostile to best friend. Favours pay in money and in standing. Gifts exist once you are known. Rain sends them home.

Their ground can touch yours. Neglect next door is a difficulty dial, not a jump scare you cannot turn down.

How it works

NPCs spawn at buildings around the map (shops, stations, production points, farms) as visible people with walk and idle animations. They follow the road network, not through fences.

They are driven by four needs: energy, social, hunger, and work satisfaction. A tired neighbour goes home. A lonely one looks for a chat. A restless worker heads to the fields early.

Five personalities (hardworking, lazy, social, grumpy, generous) change wake times, work habits, and conversation tone. NPCs also form opinions of each other. Compatible pairs drift toward friendship. Incompatible pairs drift toward rivalry.

Rain and storms interrupt field work. They comment on the weather. Seasons shift wake times and work hours.

Talking

Walk up and press E. The dialog has five actions:

Button	What it does	When
Talk	A conversation topic. +1 relationship, once per day	Always
Ask about work	What they are doing right now	Always
Ask for favor	Check progress or request a new one	Relationship 25+
Give gift	Spend $500 for a standing boost	Relationship 30+
Relationship info	Level, benefits, next unlock, favour stats	Always

Favours are real jobs: harvest, haul, fix a fence, deliver seed. Completing them pays money and relationship.

Standing

Friendship is 0 to 100, in seven tiers:

Level	Range	What unlocks
Hostile	0–9	Nothing
Unfriendly	10–24	Basic talk
Neutral	25–39	Favours, 5% discount
Acquaintance	40–59	Borrow equipment, 10% discount
Friend	60–74	They may offer help, 15% discount
Close Friend	75–89	Gifts and shared resources, 18% discount
Best Friend	90–100	Full benefits, 20% discount

Positions, relationships, active favours, personality, and needs save with the farm. Ten languages. Settings let you turn the system off, cap how many neighbours spawn, set work hours and favour frequency, and hide names.

On the Farm Tablet the NPC Favor app shows town reputation (0–100, Respected / Neutral / Poor), active favours with hours remaining, and every relationship sorted by score (Friend / Neutral / Cold) with their role.

Type npcHelp in the console for the command list.

How you use it

• Help when asked, if the year has room.
• Walk up and talk. The line changes with time of day and standing.
• Tune how many neighbours and how often favours appear.
• Turn the dial down if you want a quieter valley.

The outs

Worker Costs and Pro Staff are other people-chapters. Seasonal Crop Stress can add an agronomist with soil-sample and irrigation favours. Workplace Triggers can build standing with the NPC you work for. Soil can notice neighbour ground when that bridge is live. None of them replace this parish.

What you need

This mod alone is a living map. The rest of the suite does not require it.