Junimos

Junimo
Information
Birthday	N/A
Lives In	Community Center
Address	Community Center
Marriage	No
Loved Gifts	N/A

“	“We are the Junimos... Keepers of the forest.”

Junimos are forest spirits that have taken up residence in the broken down Community Center.

The Player can complete Bundles for the Junimos by collecting and offering various items found in the Valley. When a bundle is completed, a Junimo will come and collect it, then stash it away in the hut in the main room of the Community Center. Completing a bundle will reward the player with an item. Completing all bundles in a room will reward the player with an improvement to the valley, and a star toward Community Center completion. After placing a star, a Junimo will follow the player around until the player leaves the community center. After all stars have been placed, the Community Center will be repaired, and the Junimos will return to the forest.

During the night after all bundles in a room of the Community Center are completed, the player will see a cutscene in which the Junimos make the indicated improvement to the town. Completing a bundle on the day a couple is due for birth or adoption may prevent the cutscene from triggering.

If the player buys a JojaMart membership, the Community Center will be turned into a Joja Warehouse and the Junimos will no longer live there.

Junimo Hut

Main article: Junimo Hut

Players can purchase a Junimo Hut from the Wizard after completing the Goblin Problem Quest. Once placed, Junimos will live in the hut on the player's farm. They'll automatically harvest any ripe crops within range of the hut and store them inside, where they can be gathered by the player at any time.

Junimo Alphabet

The Junimo alphabet consists of a simple substitution cipher. The font can be found in the game's data files, under Content\LooseSprites\font_bold.xnb. The English translation is shown below.

The Junimo Alphabet

Gallery

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  They call themselves the 'Junimos'

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  Junimo taking a bundle to the hut

Secrets

• The player can collect a decorative Junimo Plush by interacting with a bush north of the playground in Pelican Town on the 28th of any season at 12:00pm.
• On the title screen, clicking any of the leaves ten times will cause three Junimos to appear and wave.
• Secret Note #14 leads the player to find a Stone Junimo statue.

Trivia

The Player can hit Junimos with a Slingshot or Master Slingshot, but they will not show a hate bubble. The ammo will hit the Junimo and a bursting animation will appear.

Controversies

Since Junimos provide unpaid labor to the player in exchange for an initial lump-sum payment to a third party, many have argued that the usage of Junimos constitutes a form of modern-day slavery.

Defenders of the Junimo economy contend that Junimos are grateful to the player for restoring Stardew Valley and that they are even happy to work for the player; however, Junimo rights advocates point out the remarkable similarity of these claims to historic Transatlantic slave trade apology.

Junimos' status as native spirits subjugated to the will of a human interloper also invites comparisons to the colonial practices of the British Empire and other European powers.