One major aspect of game play in Harvest Town is the ability to form relationships with characters. Creating relationships and increasing fondness with characters will allow you to progress in the game.
You may learn more about the citizens interacting with them. In order to interact with a citizen (also referred to as NPC), tap on them to talk. If you are inside a store trying to interact with the shopkeeper, tap on the store counter, and you will see the option to interact just underneath "Store".
Interaction
- Talk to them will increase +2 fondness. Taking on villager quests not only raises your affection points with them, but also gives you goods, coins, diamonds, and/or prosperity.
- When a citizen has a white bubble with an exclamation mark above their head, this means that they have a quest for you, or that a completed quest may be delivered to them.
- Once you have reached maximum hearts with a citizen, a message will pop up saying “___ likes you very much!” when giving them gifts. After maximum hearts are reached, you no longer need to give them gifts as this is pointless since your fondness can no further increase.
- Some NPC has a reward for you when reach certain number of hearts. When receiving a relationship reward from a citizen, it may sometimes take a few days for the gift to arrive. Be sure also that you are at the correct amount of hearts by giving them an extra gift as the journal does not always display hearts properly.
- The NPC's as the relationship progresses, will in return, send you gifts per mail and unlock certain events as your progress in their fondness levels.
Fondness
In order to become friends and even romantic partners with the citizens of Harvest Town, you will need to increase your fondness (how much they like you). Fondness is increased by:
- Talking to them on daily base (can see the number of hearts in the dialogue box).
- Completing quests from the bulletin board
- Completing quests from
above NPC - Completing the mail requests
- Gift giving
When you reach the top of NPC fondness he/she will say "[NPC] likes you so much"
Community (interface)
The community interface will display the list of villagers and their relationship progress (the number of hearts ) they have with you. To check the progress of your relationship with each villager, go to the Phone and check the Community tab. Clic on NPC icon to display his/her profile.
- When you meet a new NPC it will be added at the top of the list.
- Reaching unlock "like gifts"; on 5 their story, depending of the NPC, other things will be unlock gained from advancing the stories.
Affinity Quests
- Another way to improve certain NPC's fondness is completing Harvest Town Affinity quest.[1]
- You can check it on the Phone.
- Each task will grant you a certain amount of fondness that will greatly boost your relationship with these NPC's and help you to get to 12 hearts, while also reveling lore for the character.
Gift Giving
Is a quick and effective way to raise a citizen's affection. You can give a gift a NPC items to increase their fondness of you.
In order to give a citizen a gift, select the item you wish to give in your item bar at the bottom of the screen, then go to talk to them. You should see the option "This is for you". Tap that, and your gift will be given.
- You can only give one gift per citizen a day in-game, so choose wisely! Check out the NPC Gift Table to see which items are their favorites to obtain the max amount of fondness. Every citizen has their likes and dislikes, which can be viewed on the individual character pages.
- The quality of the gifted items can also increase the fondness slightly.
- Gifts given on a character's birthday have 2x the normal fondness, so make sure to give a gift for birthdays! As such be on the look out for their birthdays which can be found by looking at the bulletin board or looking at the community tab at the NPC profiles.
- Citizens react differently depending on the present, which results in different levels of increasing fondness and maybe they gift you in return.
There are 4 classes of gifts: favorite, liked, neutral, and disliked[2].
| Favorability | Normal | Silver | Gold | Purple |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Favorite | +85 | +86 | +87 | +90 |
| Liked | +45 | +47 | +48 | +50 |
| Neutral | +2 | +3 | +4 | +4 |
| Dislike | -10 | -13 | -15 | -20 |
Dating
At a certain level of hearts, you will be able to have a romantic dating with the bachelors/bachelorettes. You can unlock different dating scenes of an NPC when the Fondness reaches 3/5/7/9/11 Hearts. At the moment[3], only the beach, bar and aquarium dates are available.
You need to prepare an invitation Letter for the date and will be able to take them out:
The pink one that costs 120 
can be used for the beach and bar dates.
The gold one that costs 180 can be used for the aquarium and the playground.
A chance of getting an invitation letter is by completing tasks from the bulletin board or sometimes you will gain them randomly from making conversation (first time chatting with NPC each day), you can also buy them from the shop or dating with an NPC.
- There is a chance to gain wedding decorations from these dates, however, the chances will be increased in the future when the other date events are available.
- A beach date will grant you an extra addition of +50 fondness available per day as long as you have the invitation letter.
- A bar date will grant you an extra addition of +90 fondness available per day as long as you have an invitation letter.
- An aquarium date will grant you an extra addition of +120 fondness available per day as long as you have an invitation letter.
- The player can date more than once time, at the same place (beach or bar) with the same NPC as long as you have the invitation letter in a game day.
- The player can date more than one NPC as long as you have the invitation letter in a game day.
- Player cannot gain the same decoration multiple times (from dating).
Marriage
- To marry an NPC you have to first reach 12 hearts with him/her and get in total 2,849 diamonds to buy the things needed.
- You can however only currently marry Fay, Lee Yau, and Foxy.[4]
- After that you have to purchase 7 x Love bouquet (each costs 50 ) from the shop. After gifting your bachelor or bachelorette 7 x Love bouquet, you have to gift them a wedding ring which you can buy at the Shop for 1,500 or gain it from the Wishing Tree in the center of the town.
- To complete the wedding you will need the full wedding suit which you can also purchase from the Shop for 999.
References
- ↑ At the version 2.8.5 just: Bill Hanks, Lee Yau, Fay, Andy Reed, Foxy, Duke Evans, Chris Ford, Lulu Lopez, Sherry Allen, Jessie Morris are trough completing their affinity quests
- ↑ Disliked levels are not confirmed.
- ↑ Version 2.8.5
- ↑ Lee Yau, Foxy and Fay can currently be married in the game. However the game designers have said that in future content updates they will be adding more available option.
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