It's been a little bit since I posted an update, but I wanted to assure you all that I'm now in testing for my next version update. Here are various changes that are coming:

• A new required version of NPC Exclusions - 1.3.0 - to keep the NPC from participating in events such as movie theatre viewings that would make no sense.
• Additional dialogue, sprites, and portraits have been added.
• A 2-heart event has been added in Island West.
• After viewing this 2 heart event, the following will become available:
  Giving leftover golden walnuts to the parrot (an unlimited number per day) to boost friendship, as long as Ginger Island upgrades are complete.
  2 new configuration options: the ability to ignore boots as "treasure" in Volcano Dungeon, and the ability to include Ostrich Eggs as treasure that Dungeon Buddy will alert about.
• Dungeon Buddy will now follow you in dungeons. There is some more work I'd like to do on the sprite and logic, but for now, I'm implementing this as-is. This feature can be turned off in the config.
• Disposition logic fix that sometimes resulted in the display name appearing as "DungeonBuddy" rather than the unique name given by the farmer.
• Added the start of schedule logic which will be expanded on in future updates so the NPC will no longer simply stand still.
• You can now specify the gender of the parrot by praising them. Unfortunately, there is no option for nonbinary due to limited support inside the Stardew Valley code.