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 to 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 before being married.

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
	Prismatic Shard	A very rare and powerful substance with unknown origins.	Mining
	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
	Coffee	It smells delicious. This is sure to give you a boost.	The Saloon

Non-Exhaustive List of Exceptions

Willy dislikes all Cooking except for dishes that have Fish in them (except Sashimi, which he also dislikes).
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 and Daffodil.
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, Wine,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.

Name	Description	Source	Ingredients
Duck Feather	It's so colorful.	Animals
Fried Egg	Sunny-side up.	Cooking	Egg (1)
Bread	A crusty baguette.	Cooking	Wheat Flour (1)
Wheat	One of the most widely cultivated grains. Makes a great flour for breads and cakes.	Farming
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

Name	Description	Source
Chanterelle	A tasty mushroom with a fruity smell and slightly peppery flavor.	Foraging - Fall
Cave Carrot	A starchy snack found in caves. It helps miners work longer.	Foraging
Driftwood	A piece of wood from the sea.	Fishing
Wheat Flour	A common cooking ingredient made from crushed wheat seeds.	Pierre's
Oil	All purpose cooking oil.	Pierre's
Void Egg	A jet-black egg with red flecks. It's warm to the touch.	Animals
Vinegar	An aged fermented liquid used in many cooking recipes.	Pierre's
Rice	A basic grain often served under vegetables.	Pierre's
Field Snack	A quick snack to fuel the hungry forager.	Crafting
Geode	A blacksmith can break this open for you.	Mining
Frozen Geode	A blacksmith can break this open for you.	Mining
Magma Geode	A blacksmith can break this open for you.	Mining
Omni Geode	A blacksmith can break this open for you. These geodes contain a wide variety of Minerals.	Mining
Oak Resin	A sticky, fragrant substance derived from oak sap.	Artisan Goods
Pine Tar	A pungent substance derived from pine sap.	Artisan Goods
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 and Abigail like Quartz
Leah likes Driftwood.
Willy likes many types of fish

Universal Hates

All Trash
All Bait

Image	Name	Description	Source
File:Weeds.png	Weeds	A bunch of obnoxious weeds.	Foraging
	Sap	A fluid obtained from trees.	Foraging
	Rusty Spoon	A plain old spoon, probably ten years old. Not very interesting.	Artifacts
	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
	Rusty Cog	A well preserved cog that must have been part of some ancient machine. This could be dwarven technology.	Artifacts
	Carp	A common pond fish.	Fishing
	Seaweed	It can be used in cooking.	Fishing
	Green Algae	It's really slimy.	Fishing
	White Algae	It's super slimy.	Fishing
	Hay	Dried grass used as animal food.	Foraging, Marnie's
	Chewing Stick	Ancient people chewed on these to keep their teeth clean.	Artifacts
	Poppy	In addition to its colorful flower, the Poppy has culinary and medicinal uses. Note: Penny loves Poppy flowers.	Farming
	Copper Ore	A common ore that can be smelted into bars.	Mining
	Iron Ore	A fairly common ore that can be smelted into bars.	Mining
	Sea Urchin	A slow-moving, spiny creature that some consider a delicacy.	Foraging
	Red Mushroom	A spotted mushroom sometimes found in caves.	Foraging
	Bug Meat	It's a juicy wad of bug flesh.	Monsters
	Snail	A wide-ranging mollusk that lives in a spiral shell.	Fishing
	Slime	A shimmering, gelatinous glob with no smell.	Monsters
	Bat Wing	The material is surprisingly delicate.	Monsters
	Oil of Garlic	Drink this and weaker monsters will avoid you.	Crafting
	Strange Bun	What's inside?	Cooking