Changes

Each villager has a friendship score represented by a ten-heart meter (for a normal villager) or twelve-heart meter (for your [[marriage|spouse]]):

Each villager has a friendship score represented by a ten-heart meter (for a normal villager) or twelve-heart meter (for your [[marriage|spouse]]):

: {{hearts|7}}

: {{hearts|7}}

Each heart is 250 friendship points. You can view your relationships on the social tab of the game menu.

Each heart is 250 friendship points. You can view all heart meters on the social tab of the game menu.

You can increase friendship points by:

You can increase friendship points by:

* rummaging through a trash can when they're nearby (-25, except [[Linus]] who doesn't mind).

* rummaging through a trash can when they're nearby (-25, except [[Linus]] who doesn't mind).

When a villager's heart meter is full, it will no longer decay over time even if you never talk to them. (If the NPC is romanceable but you haven't given them a bouquet, the heart meter is considered full at 8 hearts.) It may still decrease by other means (e.g. giving them a bad gift).

You receive (or deduct) friendship points as normal on a festival day, based upon any contact with a villager that happens outside of the festival itself. However, talking to a villager during a festival yields no friendship points, although it may reveal interesting information. You may, however, talk with a villager once outside the festival, and talk again during the festival, if the festival schedule and place permit it. But if attending the festival means you have no possibility of talking to a villager, you will still lose two friendship points.

When a villager's heart meter is at least 2 hearts, you may enter their room.

You may enter a villager's bedroom when that heart meter reads at least 2 hearts. This level improves access to the villager for talking and gifting.

You receive (or deduct) friendship points as normal on a festival day, based upon any contact with a villager that happens outside of the festival itself. However, talking to a villager during a festival yields no friendship points. You may, however, talk with a villager once outside the festival, and talk again during the festival, if the festival schedule and place permit it. But if attending the festival means you have no possibility of talking to a villager, you will still lose two friendship points.

Each villager's heart meter is full at 10 hearts. When full, the meter does not decay over time, even if you never talk to the villager. Neither does the meter increase when you do talk or give a liked or loved gift to the villager. It can still decrease by other means, such as giving an unsuitable gift or rummaging in trash.

 

With marriage candidates, the meter pauses at 8 hearts and acts like it's full. It will stay that way forever unless you give a [[bouquet]] to indicate your romantic interest. If you do so, that meter is unlocked again and operates as before until ten hearts is reached and it again registers as full. It is possible to give a bouquet to any and all marriage candidates, and raise all their friendship levels to 10 hearts, without penalty in your relationships with other romantic partners, so long as you have not yet proposed.

 

When you propose marriage, the heart meters of all other marriage candidates with 8 hearts or more lock once again and behave as full. In three days, when you then marry, your spouse's meter unlocks once again. The social tab displays a 12-heart meter, but the friendship level does not actually lock as full until you reach the equivalent of 13 hearts.

===Gifts===

===Gifts===