Gifts

Giving gifts to the residents of Stardew Valley can increase (or decrease!) your relationship with them. In this Stardew Valley gift guide, learn about universal gifts and how much each type of gift increases or decreases your heart level with someone.

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• Jump To Universal Neutrals
• Jump To Universal Dislikes
• Jump To Universal Hates

How to Give a Gift

To raise your friendship level with villagers in Stardew Valley, you will need to give them gifts, as well as help out in quests and respond appropriately in conversations with them. You can give any individual villager two gifts per week, plus a third on their birthday. The gift received for their birthday has a boosted effect on the gift's friendship rating, so choose wisely.

To gift an item, put it on the bar on your screen and then interact with a villager. You'll know you're about to gift something because a wrapped gift icon will appear on the screen.

In the NPC menu, you can click on every villager in the game and see which gifts they love, like, or hate based on what you've already given them. The number of relationship points you'll get from each gift will vary according to how much someone loves or hates what you've given them.

If you give someone something they love or like, the item's quality will further increase the number of friendship points you get.

If you're looking for gift preferences for a specific person, be sure to check out their individual pages.

Universal Gifts

Universal gifts are gifts that have the same effect on everybody. There are five categories of Universals:

• Universal Loves
• Universal Likes
• Universal Neutrals
• Universal Dislikes
• Universal Hates

Most villagers have at least one exception to these lists (for example, while Prismatic Shard is a Universal Love, Haley hates it, so it gives a big boost for every villager (except Haley) where gifting it will have a big negative effect. Below, you can see a guide for each Universal category. Be sure to check the specific NPCs page for a full breakdown of each character.

Universal Loves

These items give 80 relationship points, but are usually difficult to get. If your preferred villager has any Loves as exceptions, it is probably easier to find these.

• Golden Pumpkin
• Prismatic Shard
• Magic Rock Candy
• Rabbit's Foot
• Pearl

Universal Likes

Liked gifts give you 45 relationship points, and are significantly easier to get your hands on than Universal Loves.

• All Artisan Goods
  • Except for Oil (disliked) and Void Mayonnaise (hated)
• All Cooking
  • Except for Fried Egg and Bread (neutral) and Strange Bun and Seafoam Pudding (hated)
• All Flowers
  • Excluding Poppy, which is hate
• All Foraged Minerals
  • Except Quartz which varies by villager
• All Fruit Tree Fruits
  • Banana and Mango vary by an NPCs preference for non-Fruit-Tree fruit
• All Gems
  • Excluding Prismatic Shard, which is loved!
• All Vegetables, including Fiddlehead Fern
  • Except Hops, Tea Leaves, and Wheat (neutral) and Unmilled Rice (disliked)
• Life Elixir
• Maple Syrup

Universal Neutrals

Villagers don't feel strongly about these gifts, and they only grant 20 relationship points.

• Bread
• Clam
• Coral
• Duck Feather
• Fried Egg
• Hops
• Nautilus Shell
• Rainbow Shell
• Roe
• Squid Ink
• Sweet Gem Berry
• Tea Leaves
• Truffle
• Wheat
• Wool

Universal Dislikes

Villagers don't like these gifts. Giving them will cost you 20 relationship points, meaning you'll lose friendship progress!

• All Building Materials: Battery Packs, Clay, Fiber, Hardwood, Stone, and Wood
• All Bombs
• All Crafted Floors and Paths
• All Fences
• All Fertilizer
• All Fish
  • Excluding Clams (neutral) and Carp and Snails (hated)
• All Geode Minerals
• All Geodes
• All Seeds, including Fruit Tree Saplings, Tea Saplings, Acorns, Maple Seeds, and Pine Cones
• All Sprinklers
• All Tackle
• Misc. Mined/Metal Goods: Bone Fragment, Cinder Shard, Coal, Copper Bars, Gold Bars, Gold Ore, Iridium Bars, Iridium Ore, Iron Bars, and Refined Quartz
• Cave Carrot
• Driftwood
• Field Snack
• Jack-O-Lantern
• Oak Resin
• Oil
• Pine Tar
• Rice
• Solar Essence
• Spring Onion
• Tea Set
• Unmilled Rice
• Vinegar
• Void Egg
• Void Essence
• Wheat Flour

Universal Hates

These gifts reduce your relationship by 40 points, so you should avoid giving them to villagers. When given a hated gift, villagers usually respond with a hate dialogue bubble.

• All Artifacts
• All Bait
• All Monster Loot
  • Except Solar Essence and Void Essence (disliked)
• All Trash
  • Except Driftwood, which is disliked
• Artifact Trove
• Bug Steak
• Carp
• Copper Ore
• Crab Pot
• Dragon Tooth
• Drum Block
• Energy Tonic
• Error Item
• Explosive Ammo
• Fairy Dust
• Flute Block
• Grass Starter
• Green Algae
• Hay
• Iron Ore
• Journal Scrap
• Monster Musk
• Muscle Remedy
• Oil of Garlic
• Poppy
• Radioactive Bar
• Radioactive Ore
• Rain Totem
• Red Mushroom
• Sap
• Sea Urchin
• Seafoam Pudding
• Seaweed
• Secret Note
• Slime Egg (any color)
• Snail
• Strange Bun
• Sugar
• Torch
• Treasure Chest
• Void Mayonnaise
• Warp Totem: Beach
• Warp Totem: Desert
• Warp Totem: Farm
• Warp Totem: Island
• Warp Totem: Mountains
• White Algae

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