Straight answers
How many friendship points is one heart?
One heart is 250 points. A regular villager tops out at 10 hearts, which is 2,500 points. A marriage candidate is locked at 8 hearts (2,000 points) until you give a Bouquet, and a spouse reaches 14 hearts (3,500 points) and gives a Stardrop at 12.5 hearts (3,125 points).
Can I still give a birthday gift after two gifts this week?
Yes. A birthday gift always goes through, even after the two weekly gifts. If you give it before you reach the cap, it counts as one of the two gifts.
What is the most friendship a single gift can give?
960 points: an iridium-quality Loved gift on that villager's birthday. Love is 80, the birthday multiplier is 8, and iridium multiplies a Loved or Liked gift by 1.5. That is just short of four hearts. Reading Friendship 101 (1.1) takes it to 1,056.
Does friendship decay, and how fast?
Friendship decays every day until it reaches the cap for that villager. A spouse loses 20 a day and the decay never stops. Without a Bouquet, a marriage candidate loses 2 a day and stops at 8 hearts. A villager who cannot be married loses 2 a day and stops at 10 hearts. With a bouquet the loss is 10 a day until the meter reaches 10 hearts, and then it stops. Talking once a day is +20.
Gift finder: Pick a villager and an item to get the points for that gift, with quality, birthday, Friendship 101 and spouse rules applied.
Daily and weekly gifts
You can give each villager one gift a day, up to two gifts a week. The week starts on Sunday. After two gifts in a week, that villager gains another 10 friendship on Sunday morning.
A birthday gift is still accepted after the two weekly gifts. You can give a spouse one gift every day. Friendship gain or loss from a spouse's gift is halved.
These rules are for Stardew Valley 1.6.x.
Talking to a villager once a day gives 20 friendship. A marriage candidate's hearts pause at 8 until a bouquet. A bouquet can go to more than one candidate.
Points
Birthday multiplies those points by 8. The Feast of the Winter Star secret gift multiplies them by 5. Silver, gold, and iridium multiply a loved or liked gift by 1.1, 1.25, and 1.5. Quality does not change a neutral, disliked, or hated gift.
Stardrop Tea gives 250 friendship with any villager. It does not count toward daily or weekly gift limits, and multiple teas can go to one villager in a day. On a birthday, or when that villager is your Winter Star recipient, it gives 750. It does not count as a loved gift for Qi's Kindness.
| Taste | Normal day | Birthday |
|---|---|---|
| Love | +80 | +640 |
| Like | +45 | +360 |
| Neutral | +20 | +160 |
| Dislike | -20 | -160 |
| Hate | -40 | -320 |
When the shared gift rules do not apply
Four cases work differently from the shared list. Check these before you spend an item on a gift.
| Item or case | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prismatic Shard | Loved by every villager: +80. Haley hates it: -40. |
| Rabbit's Foot | Loved by every villager: +80. Penny hates it: -40. |
| Stardrop Tea | 250 points, and it does not count toward the weekly gift limit. On a birthday or at the Feast of the Winter Star it is 750. |
| Spouse gifts | One gift every day, and every gain or loss from that gift is halved. |
Exceptions on these five
Haley hates Prismatic Shard. Penny hates Rabbit's Foot. Penny loves Poppy. Penny dislikes Red Mushroom. Leah dislikes Seaweed and likes Driftwood. Abigail dislikes Sugar and loves Pufferfish and Pumpkin. Sebastian is neutral toward fish, likes Flounder, loves Sashimi and Void Egg, and hates Mead and Piña Colada. Penny loves Sandfish and all books.
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