Friendship
The Social tab in your menu shows your current relationship with each villager.
Heart Meter
Each person shows a row of 10 achievable hearts indicating the strength of your relationship with them. If you're married, your spouse's row will show 12 achievable hearts instead, though it is actually possible to reach 13 hearts with your spouse.
The hearts will fill up or decrease over time as you talk to people and gift them. Each heart represents 250 friendship points. Speaking to a villager once a day gives 20 points, while ignoring them for a day will depreciate 2 points, so don't ignore your friends! If you reach 10 hearts with a non-marriage candidate or 8 hearts with a bachelor/bachelorette to whom you have not given a bouquet, the row of hearts will no longer decay even if you do not speak to them ever again.
You can give each villager up to 2 gifts (recommended once on a different day) in a week, as indicated by the check-boxes to the right of their entry in the social tab for maximum effect. Birthdays are an exception where you can gift a villager on their birthday regardless of having already gifted them twice in one week. After marriage, your spouse can now be given ONE gift every single day. Each villager has their own individual likes/dislikes. The more they like a gift, the more friendship points you will get, in other words, a quicker filling of the row of hearts; A loved gift is worth 80 points and a liked gift is worth 45. Be careful, as gifting the villagers something they hate can also cause loss of friendship points and eventually loss of heart(s) if the player keeps it up.
Successfully completing a quest will increase the villager friendship points by 150.
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. The "Secret Santa" event at the Feast of the Winter Star is another opportunity to multiply friendship points. Gifts given there are worth 5x their normal value.
The player can reach 10 hearts (best friend status) with every villager prior to marriage, and giving bouquets to multiple villagers doesn't render any negative repercussions. Therefore, it is possible for players to encounter all or most of the unique events with each villager before being married.
Hitting a villager with a rock from a slingshot will cause a loss of friendship points. No one likes being shot at, after all.
If a villager is within 7 tiles of your character when you rummage through the trash cans, they may become disgusted. When this happens, you will lose 25 friendship points with that villager. The only exception is Linus who doesn't react negatively. However, if you rummage through a villager's in-house garbage can with the villager anywhere in the house, he/she will react negatively.
The following lists the effect of giving each type of gift on friendship points:
| Gift Level | Amount | Santa (5x) | Birthday (8x) |
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| Best | 80 | 400 | 640 |
| Good | 45 | 225 | 360 |
| Neutral | 20 | 100 | 160 |
| Bad | -20 | -100 | -160 |
| Worst | -40 | -200 | -320 |
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.
Festivals
Certain festivals can increase or reduce friendship points with villagers
- see also: Festivals
Flower Dance increases friendship points with your dance partner.
Result of Luau increases or decreases friendship points with all villagers.
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
- Caroline, Jas, Sam, and Sebastian dislike Mayonnaise.
- Elliott dislikes Limestone and Tigerseye and hates Poppies.
- Emily dislikes Pine Tar and Sashimi.
- Evelyn and Kent dislike Sashimi
- George dislikes all flowers.
- Harvey loves Coffee.
- Jas, Sebastian, and Vincent dislike Jelly.
- Jas and Vincent hate Coffee, as well as all Artisan Goods.
- Jodi dislikes Daffodil.
- Krobus dislikes all Cooking.
- Leah dislikes all Pancakes and Gems, except for Diamonds which she likes.
- Maru dislikes Maple Syrup and is neutral towards Cranberries and Daffodil.
- Maru, Sam, and Shane dislike Pickles.
- Penny dislikes Pale Ale and Wine.
- Pierre dislikes all Gems, and hates Apples.
- Sebastian dislikes Pale Ale, Wine, Omelet, Dandelion, Cheese and Daffodil.
- Willy dislikes all Cooking except for dishes that have Fish in them (except Sashimi, which he also dislikes).
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 Furniture
- All Monster Loot (Except for the wizard Who loves Solar Essence and Void Essence.)
- 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 and Dwarf loves Omni Geodes.
- Sebastian and Abigail like Quartz
- Leah likes Driftwood.
- Willy likes many types of fish
- Robin likes Hardwood.
Universal Hates
| 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 |
