Friendship
The Social tab in your menu shows your current relationship with each villager.
Heart Meter
Each person shows a row of 10 hearts indicating your relationship with them. If you're married, your spouse will have 12 hearts instead.
The hearts will fill up or decrease over time as you talk to people and gift them. You can give each person up to 2 gifts per week, as indicated by the checkboxes to the right of their entry in the social tab. Each heart represents 250 friendship points. Speaking to a villager gives 20 points once per day, while ignoring them for a day gives -2 points, so don't ignore your friends!
Each villager has their own individual likes/dislikes. The more they like a gift, the more invisible points you will get towards filling in a heart; A loved gift is worth 80 points and a liked gift is worth 45. Be careful, as gifting someone something they hate can also cause hearts to go down.
Successfully completing a quest that states it will make the villager happy is worth 150 friendship points immediately on turn-in.
Giving a villager a loved gift on their birthday nets you 640 friendship points (8x the value of a loved gift on a normal day) - it pays to keep some prismatic shards or rabbit's feet around for those hard to please types. Even a liked Birthday gift will net you 360 friendship points, so keeping an eye on the calendar helps. It is important to note that the Birthday gift does NOT count toward the weekly limit of two gifts. This means that you can give that person three gifts that week. You have to give the two normal weekly gifts first, though.
You can also reach 10 heart (best friend status) with every villager prior marriage and giving bouquets to multiple villagers doesn't render any repercussions. It's a favourite strategy for some players as they are able to see all or most cutscenes with each villager prior marriage.
Heart Events
If you are using mods that allow you to increase your affinity towards players, it is possible to view heart events out of order. If you do not want to view heart events out of order, don't increase your affinity for one person by more than 2 hearts without first encountering a heart event.
Gifts
Below are lists of items that are universally loved or hated. Note that there are some exceptions and that individual villager tastes override any universal tastes.
- See also: List of Best Gifts by Villager
Universal Loves
This is a list of items that every villager absolutely loves to receive as a gift. These items are guaranteed to give the most points (80) towards your relationship, but may be difficult to obtain.
| Image | Name | Description | Source |
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Prismatic Shard | A very rare and powerful substance with unknown origins. | Mining |
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Rabbit's Foot | Some say it's lucky. | Animals |
Exceptions
- Haley hates Prismatic Shard.
- Penny hates Rabbit's Foot.
Universal Likes
Though worth less friendship points than a loved gift, liked gifts (45 points) are much easier to fulfil. As there are many ways to go about procuring such gifts, their open-ended nature lends itself to 'one gift to woo them all.'
- All Gems except Quartz ((A sub-group of Minerals))
- All Cooking (Except universally neutral foods, which are Fried Eggs, Bread, Wheat, and Hops)
- All Artisan Goods (Except for Pine Tar and Oak Resin, which are universally disliked)
- All Fruit Tree Fruits
- All Vegetables
- All Flowers
| Image | Name | Description | Source |
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Coffee | It smells delicious. This is sure to give you a boost. | The Saloon |
Non-Exhaustive List of Exceptions
- Willy dislikes Salad, Sashimi, and Pizza.
- Elliott dislikes Limestone and Tigerseye and hates Poppies.
- Vincent and Jas hate Coffee, as well as all Artisan Goods.
- Caroline, Jas, Sam, and Sebastian dislike Mayonnaise.
- Maru dislikes Maple Syrup and is neutral towards Cranberries.
- Jas, Vincent, and Sebastian dislike Jelly.
- Leah dislikes all Pancakes and Gems, except for Diamonds which she likes.
- Pierre dislikes all Gems, and hates Apples.
- Penny dislikes Pale Ale and Wine.
- Sebastian dislikes Pale Ale,Omelet, Dandelion and Daffodil.
- Emily dislikes Pine Tar and Sashimi.
- Krobus dislikes all Cooking.
- Kent and Evelyn dislikes Sashimi
- Maru, Shane, and Sam dislike Pickles.
Universal Neutral
This is a list of items that will elicit a neutral response from the villagers. There are some exceptions.
| Image | Name | Description | Source | Ingredients |
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Duck Feather | It's so colorful. | Animals | |
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Fried Egg | Sunny-side up. | Cooking |
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Bread | A crusty baguette. | Cooking |
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Wheat | One of the most widely cultivated grains. Makes a great flour for breads and cakes. | Farming | |
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Hops | A bitter, tangy flower used to flavor beer. | Farming |
Exceptions
- Leah hates Bread.
- Elliott loves Duck Feathers.
Universal Dislikes
- All Fishes
- All Crafting
- All Minerals including Quartz (Except for Gems which are universal likes)
- All Building Materials
- All Fertilizer
- All Tackle
- All Furniture
- All Monster Loot
- All Seeds
| Image | Name | Description | Source |
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Chanterelle | A tasty mushroom with a fruity smell and slightly peppery flavor. | Foraging - Fall |
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Cave Carrot | A starchy snack found in caves. It helps miners work longer. | Foraging |
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Driftwood | A piece of wood from the sea. | Fishing |
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Wheat Flour | A common cooking ingredient made from crushed wheat seeds. | Pierre's |
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Oil | All purpose cooking oil. | Pierre's |
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Void Egg | A jet-black egg with red flecks. It's warm to the touch. | Animals |
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Vinegar | An aged fermented liquid used in many cooking recipes. | Pierre's |
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Rice | A basic grain often served under vegetables. | Pierre's |
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Field Snack | A quick snack to fuel the hungry forager. | Crafting |
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Geode | A blacksmith can break this open for you. | Mining |
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Frozen Geode | A blacksmith can break this open for you. | Mining |
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Magma Geode | A blacksmith can break this open for you. | Mining |
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Omni Geode | A blacksmith can break this open for you. These geodes contain a wide variety of Minerals. | Mining |
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Oak Resin | A sticky, fragrant substance derived from oak sap. | Artisan Goods |
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Pine Tar | A pungent substance derived from pine sap. | Artisan Goods |
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Salmonberry | A spring-time berry with the flavor of the forest. | Foraging |
Non-Exhaustive List of Exceptions
- Sebastian loves Void Eggs.
- Wizard loves Solar Essence and Void Essence.
- Jodi, Linus, Shane, Leah, Pam, Robin, and Demetrius like Salmonberries.
- Clint loves Omni Geodes.
- Sebastian likes Quartz
Universal Hates
- All Trash
- All Bait
| Image | Name | Description | Source |
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| File:Weeds.png | Weeds | A bunch of obnoxious weeds. | Foraging |
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Sap | A fluid obtained from trees. | Foraging |
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Rusty Spoon | A plain old spoon, probably ten years old. Not very interesting. | Artifacts |
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Rusty Spur | An old spur that was once attached to a cowboy's boot. People must have been raising animals in this area for many generations. | Artifacts |
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Rusty Cog | A well preserved cog that must have been part of some ancient machine. This could be dwarven technology. | Artifacts |
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Carp | A common pond fish. | Fishing |
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Seaweed | It can be used in cooking. | Fishing |
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Green Algae | It's really slimy. | Fishing |
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White Algae | It's super slimy. | Fishing |
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Hay | Dried grass used as animal food. | Foraging, Marnie's |
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Chewing Stick | Ancient people chewed on these to keep their teeth clean. | Artifacts |
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Poppy | In addition to its colorful flower, the Poppy has culinary and medicinal uses. Note: Penny loves Poppy flowers. | Farming |
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Copper Ore | A common ore that can be smelted into bars. | Mining |
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Iron Ore | A fairly common ore that can be smelted into bars. | Mining |
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Sea Urchin | A slow-moving, spiny creature that some consider a delicacy. | Foraging |
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Red Mushroom | A spotted mushroom sometimes found in caves. | Foraging |
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Bug Meat | It's a juicy wad of bug flesh. | Monsters |
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Snail | A wide-ranging mollusk that lives in a spiral shell. | Fishing |
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Slime | A shimmering, gelatinous glob with no smell. | Monsters |
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Bat Wing | The material is surprisingly delicate. | Monsters |
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Oil of Garlic | Drink this and weaker monsters will avoid you. | Crafting |
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Strange Bun | What's inside? | Cooking |
