Each player gets their pet shortly after starting each save, and mechanic has always been too easy. Players do not need to feed the pet, the water in the pet’s bowl has almost no effect, and the name given upon the first meeting cannot be changed. Luckily, global update 1.6 brought many changes byadding several new petsand related mechanics toStardew Valley, but can you now rename your pet?
Unfortunately, the ability to give your pet a new name is still missing from the basic game functionality. But several tricks will help you get around this limitation.
How To Change Your Pet’s Name in Stardew Valley
This function is not included in the basic functionality, and the developers have not given any information about plans or dates for adding this feature to the game. So, if you tried to change your pet’s name through theShrine of Illusion in Wizard’s Tower, this won’t work. Although Shrine of Illusion allows the player to change their name, in the case of pets, you can change only their style for 500g.
However, not everything is as bad as it might seem. Of course, if you play on a smartphone or console, you’ll have to just accept the inability to change your pet’s name. But if you are playing on a PC, you may solve this problem by editing the game system files:
That’s all, so if you play on a PC, the whole process is unlikely to take more than two minutes. Finally, we will only add that you can change the name of any pet oranimal on your farmin the same way. After all, as of update 1.6,you can keep more than ten pets, and you will likely want to rename some of them.
