In aftonsteps/rstardew: rdew

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)

library(rdew)

Introduction

rdew provides data about a number of aspects of the game, such as animals, crops, hats, quests, NPC's, locations, monsters, and more. This is an example analysis using the NPC gift tastes dataset as well as the objects dataset, mean to demonstrate how to join a dataset to the objects dataset to get info about what NPC's like or dislike. A related demonstration of joining a non-object dataset to an object dataset can be found in the Cooking Recipes vignette.

NPC Gift Tastes

npc_gift_tastes contains data about gifts you can give to NPC's, and whether the NPC likes or dislikes that gift. This includes the name of the character, the dialogue_type (liked, loved, etc.), the dialogue the character will say upon receiving the gift, the item_type (liked, loved, etc.), the object_id representing the unique numeric id of the object (or category), the object_name and the category_name. The object_name and category_name have mutually exclusive missingness, as the object_name is provided when the gift taste is for a specific object, whereas the category_name is provided when the gift taste is for a general category. Objects have non-negative object_id values and categories have negative object_id values.

Characters can like, love, hate, or feel neutral about an object. Giving an NPC an object they like or love will increase your relationship (heart values) with that character. Let's take a look!

tibble::glimpse(npc_gift_tastes)

There also exists a set of "universal gift tastes", which apply to all NPC's (unless a gift taste is overruled by the specific tastes in npc_gift_tastes), and are found in universal_gift_tastes.

tibble::glimpse(universal_gift_tastes)

It would be convenient to have the specific tastes in npc_gift_tastes and the universal tastes in universal_gift_tastes combined into one dataset. Fortunately, there is such a dataset! complete_npc_gift_tastes already combines these. You'll also find that it contains an additional column, is_universal_gift, which indicates if the gift taste came from the universal set or not.

tibble::glimpse(complete_npc_gift_tastes)

Let's say you were interested in a specific NPC's 'like' and 'love' tastes. Let's take Abigail, for instance. You could get all of her gift tastes easily by filtering.

abigail_tastes <-
  complete_npc_gift_tastes %>%
  dplyr::filter(npc_name == "Abigail" & 
                  item_type %in% c("liked_items", "loved_items")) %>%
  dplyr::select(npc_name, 
                item_type, 
                object_id,
                object_name, 
                category_name)

abigail_tastes

We can see that Abigail likes certain objects, like Diamonds and Coffee. She also likes certain categories of objects, like flowers and minerals (again, though, these only apply so long as not overriden by other tastes).

It might be useful to find out what objects are in those categories. We can get that by joining this dataset to objects.

abigail_tastes_cat <-
  abigail_tastes %>%
  dplyr::filter(!is.na(category_name)) %>%
  dplyr::left_join(objects, 
                   by = c("object_id" = "category"))

abigail_tastes_cat