Friendship

Friendship is how the players relationship with Characters is measured.

Completing quests, doing activities that expend energy while hanging out, having Daily Discussions, serving meals in Chez Remy, or giving characters gifts will increase Friendship level.

Each character can be leveled up to Friendship Level 10. Every Friendship level awards a prize - either Star Coins or a unique Motif, Clothing, or Furniture item that cannot be obtained in any other way.

Tip: When trying to level up the characters, go into the Menu>Collections>Characters. There will be a list of all characters there. If you put your cursor over a character, in the bottom right-hand corner will be a list of their three "favorite things of the day". Giving one or more of these items to the character will produce extra friendship stars so they will level up faster! (The items can consist of anything that comes from anywhere in the game, so it is possible that a character's current favorite item(s) of the day may be something(s) you do not have access to/cannot make yet.)

Hanging Out

In order to Hang Out with a Villager, you must first reach Friendship Level 2 and select a Role. While Hanging Out, the character will follow you around the Village, including into any Character Houses or Locations. Characters will not follow the Player to other Realms. They will not sit down or leave in the middle of Hanging Out to follow their regular schedule of eating in Chez Remy, sleeping, or browsing Scrooge's Store - however, as soon as you stop Hanging Out or restart the game, they may resume their regular schedule.

Bonus Resources

Main article: Bonuses: Villager Companion Role Benefits

Increasing friendship level and hanging out can greatly increase the resources when Fishing, Gardening, Digging, Foraging, and Mining.

Hanging out with a Villager with a role has a chance to provide extra resources. Assigning additional Villagers to the same role will increase the bonus resource chance for all characters with that role.

This hang out bonus is also tied to the Friendship level of the both the "hang out" Villager and all other Villagers with the same role.

The bonus chance of a resource when gathering while hanging out with a Villager with the matching role is:

Bonus Chance = Base Chance + Active Friend Level + Inactive Friend Level

• Base Chance: 20% for Gardening, and 25% for all other roles.
• Active Friend Level: 3.5% per friendship level of the Villager hanging out, up to 35% at level 10 friendship
• Inactive Friend Level: 1% per friendship level of all friends not hanging out, up to 10% each friend at level 10 friendship

This means bonus resources will be generated 100% of the time while hanging out if there are 5 Villagers assigned that same role (6 if the role is Gardening).

Friendship Sources

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Item gift values seem to be assigned based on their classification on the Collection menu, not their Cooking classification - this distinction matters primarily for Seafood and Seaweed.

Icon	Activity	Friendship Reward Value
	Daily Discussion	500
	Digging	20 per hole dug 40 if Digging Role
	Fishing - Failure	4 20 if Fishing Role
	Fishing - Success	150 300 if Fishing Role
	Foraging	30 per Harvest action 60 if Foraging Role
	Harvesting Crops	15 per Harvest action 30 if Gardening Role
	Mining	150 per Rock Spot mined to completion 300 if Mining Role
	Planting	15 per seed
	Removing Night Thorns	50
	Removing Obstacles	50
	Selfie with Villager Companion while Hanging Out	10 (limit 1x per day)
	Watering Crops	20 per crop watered
	Watering Dried Flowers	20 per flower watered
	Gift: Seeds	10
	Gift:  Crafting Materials Gift:  Refined Materials	25
	Gift:  Fruit Gift:  Spices & Herbs Gift:  Grains Gift:  Vegetables	50
	Gift:  Fish (Items obtained via Fishing, including some Seafood and Seaweed)	150
	Gift:  Seafood (Foraged Seafood)	200
	Gift:  Chez Remy's Pantry Ingredients	200
	Gift: Flowers	400
	Gift: Minerals	600
	Gift: Enchantments i.e. Purified Night Shard	1,000
	Gift: Favorite Thing of the Day Bonus	1,500 (in addition to value of item)
	Quests
	Gift: Meals	Unknown - potentially formula based on energy, cost values of ingredients, and whether number of ingredients matches star value of recipe. Common values seem to range from 200 to 530, highest known possible value meal is 900.
	Serve: Chez Remy Meal	Unknown - estimated above 3500, seems to scale based on value of meal. Added in addition to value of meal.