How do I learn what gifts are best for each person?

[jack shite]

I don't want to cheat and look at a list of town residents and what gifts they like the most. I would prefer to learn it through ingame clues. For example, Pam is obviously an alcoholic, so giving her a beer will garner the best reaction. For everyone else, I don't see such obvious clues.

[Mackenzie]

If avoiding spoilers and the wiki is your goal here, I suggest experimenting. Look for items that most if not all villagers at the very least 'like'. Finding their love gift(s) can be an eventual goal while you're still gifting them acceptably.

[Pockyninja]

Some of it comes from just talking to them or being friends with someone who is friends with that person and them telling you about it. For a minor spoiler Abigale told me her father hates corn. That aside it is trial and error.

[jack shite]

Originally posted by Mackenzie:

If avoiding spoilers and the wiki is your goal here, I suggest experimenting. Look for items that most if not all villagers at the very least 'like'. Finding their love gift(s) can be an eventual goal while you're still gifting them acceptably.

So if the only way to learn is through experimentation then I am just going to cheat. Too many people and too many possible items to experiment with, especially since there's not enough time in a day to do everything else.

[Tim Timsen]

Originally posted by jack ♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by Mackenzie:

If avoiding spoilers and the wiki is your goal here, I suggest experimenting. Look for items that most if not all villagers at the very least 'like'. Finding their love gift(s) can be an eventual goal while you're still gifting them acceptably.

So if the only way to learn is through experimentation then I am just going to cheat. Too many people and too many possible items to experiment with, especially since there's not enough time in a day to do everything else.

All of them (with the exception of 1 or 2) like diamonds. Obviously.

[nirnrooty]

I use the stardew valley wiki! I keep it open while im playing.

[Bouncer]

Originally posted by jack ♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by Mackenzie:

If avoiding spoilers and the wiki is your goal here, I suggest experimenting. Look for items that most if not all villagers at the very least 'like'. Finding their love gift(s) can be an eventual goal while you're still gifting them acceptably.

So if the only way to learn is through experimentation then I am just going to cheat. Too many people and too many possible items to experiment with, especially since there's not enough time in a day to do everything else.

From what little I checked on the site everybody has about 3-6 things they love and a fairly big list of stuff they like, often with the same kind of theme to them.

And often talking to folks can teach you much. Family members and friends can outright say what someone else loves/hates, but they also drop hints pretty often (eg. Willy at the fall fair wonders if Lewis gave him a low score because he doesn't like fish. Turns out Lewis is indeed not very interested in any fish you give them. At least, according to the wiki)

[hairyharryz]

I love it when the entire town tells you everyone hates Rock/Clay. The most useful bit of information ever.

[Lurlex]

Here's my TLDR answer -- about your reluctance regarding reading information online -- you need to get over it. There are games out there, and this is one of them, where you can't get away with doing no research and trying to play it with pure organic purity. You might have fun, sure, but you're not going to thrive in the game in the way you would if you spent a few minutes educating yourself (not hours, just minutes). Your gameplay is so much richer in Stardew Valley if you actually have the faintest idea of WTF you're doing (just look at the abundance of "OMG I MADE A PERMANENT MISTAKE AND NOW MY SAVE FILE IS RUINED" threads to see evidence of that), and I'd wager your "give up I'm bored point" will come a whole lot later if you have enough solid data upon which to build real goals on.

Longer answer: for a game like this, I don't think looking at a wiki can be considered "cheating." There's just waaayyyyy too much information to be absorbed, and like others have said, the only possible way to obtain all of it organically through gameplay would be to engage in trial-and-error across dozens (possibly hundreds) of possible experiments with each and every character.

In short -- not humanly, practically possible, unless you're retired and obsessive compulsive.

This is the kind of game that's meant to be an information-sharing sort of thing, there's no shame in it. There really *ARE* games out there that you just can't play and accomplish all of your goals by diving in head-first with no reading. It's okay. Look up the wiki. No Game God will come to claim your soul for abandoning your purity -- I promise.

I, for one, reference a wiki every time I encounter a new item (it only takes a few seconds each time, I'm not sitting there for hours studying and memorizing the thing, which is also impossible), and it's still too much information to retain without constantly having it as a reference. It doesn't remove from the challenge at all -- knowing what's possible to accomplish actually increases challenge, for me, because it drives the point home that I'm a long way from those lofty goals. If you just play while knowing nothing, you wouldn't even realize that half the stuff that's possible is even possible.

[Hammertone]

Rabbits foot are the best gift in the games. loved by everyone, well..... except penny. That means no more hassle with xx love xx as a gift, repeat 30x. However, obtain it in a sizable number is quite the hassle themself