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Life in Selphia is not all about beating up monsters and farming until nightfall. No, Rune Factory 4 is full of interesting characters that you can get to know, become friends with, take on adventures, and even date in some cases.

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One feature of the game is the ability to give gifts to people. Walk up to someone and hand them whatever lovingly crafted, newly harvested, or craftily looted item you have in your hands. They might love it... but they may also hate it. Getting to know the tastes of your neighbors is the least you could do.

Updated on June 14, 2023: To make friends with the characters you meet in Rune Factory 4, you'll want to give them gifts that they love. Here, we've outlined the best gifts for the bachelors, bachelorettes, and other NPCs.

Gift Guide

Rune Factory 4 Special road with characters and a building behind

The following tables detail the tastes of the residents of Selphia, as well as some recurring visitors that you may recognize from past Rune Factory games.

The system is pretty basic: you will gain more friendship points if you give someone a gift they like or love, and you'll lose points for disliked gifts.

You can only give an individual resident a gift once per day.

Don't worry if you are stuck at friendship level three with Doug — it's nothing to do with gifts.

He is simply locked at a maximum of three until you reach the second act of the game.

If an item does not show up, the resident will be neutral towards it.

Bachelors Gifts

Doug, Vishnal, and Kiel from Rune Factory 4 Special

Resident

Loved

Liked

Disliked

Arthur

Golden Turnip, Golden Tyrant Turnip, Salmon Onigiri, Turnip Heaven

All spectacle items, all varieties of Turnip, Can, Rare Can

Grilled S. Flounder, Scrap Metal

Doug

Tempura Bowl

Baked Onigiri, Bamboo Rice, Egg Bowl, Milk Porridge, Omelet Rice, Onigiri, Rice, Rice Porridge, Risotto, Salmon Onigiri

Butter Roll, French Toast, Jam Roll, Raisin Bread, Steamed Bread

Dylas

Glitter Snapper, Lover Sashimi, Lover Snapper, Milk Porridge, Sunsquid Sashimi, Tuna

Carrot, Any Fish, Milk and milk-based dishes, any other sashimi dishes

Sweet dishes such as Cake, Flan, and Honey

Kiel

Boss drops such as Ambrosia's Thorns and Lightning Mane, Chocolate Cake, Stew

Sweet dishes such as Cake, Flan, and Honey

Sashimi dishes

Leon

Grilled Lamp Squid, Salted R. Trout

Charm Blue, Blue Lamp Grass, all fish dishes made with the Frying Pan, Poison Trout, Lamp Squid, Rainbow Trout

Milk and milk-based dishes

Vishnal

Any curry dish (not curry spice)

All vegetables except Turnips, Croquette, Steamed Gyoza, Meat Dumpling, Fried Rice, Flan, Ice Cream, Chinese Manju

Turnips, Pickle Mix, Rock

Bachelorettes Gifts

Margaret, Clorica, and Dolce from Rune Factory 4 Special

Resident

Loved

Liked

Disliked

Amber

Emery Flower, Gold Juice, Mixed Smoothie

Any flowers or fruit, any juice dishes, Honey

Any fish, Ironleaf

Clorica

Stone items, Orichalcum, Platinum, Diamond, Apple Pie, Red Core, Blue Core

Apples and other apple dishes, sweet dishes such as Cake, Flan, and Honey, Gold, Silver, any Jewellery

Grapes and grape-based dishes

Dolce

All cake items, Flan, Apple Pie

All other sweet items and dessert dishes, Moondrop Grass, Medicine, Relax Tea, Sewing Material

All vegetables and juice dishes

Forte

Cake, Chocolate Cake, Union Stew, Omelet Rice

Eggs and egg dishes, any flowers, any sweets and dessert dishes, any dishes made in the Pot

Any curry dish

Margaret

Any golden crops, Golden Juice, Pineapple Juice, Pink Melon, Prelude to Love

All other sweet items and dessert dishes including jam dishes and fruit, Shrimp, Mushroom

Any Squid or Sunsquid-based dishes

Xiao Pai

Big White Crystal, Emery Flower

Boiled Gyoza, Chinese Manju, Fried Rice, Gyoza, Toyherb

Salad, Sandwich, Tomato, Tomato Juice

Gifts For Other Residents

Giving a gift to Illuminata in Rune Factory 4 Special

Resident

Loved

Liked

Disliked

Bado

Egg Bowl, Tempura Bowl

Onigiri, Salmon Onigiri, Scrap Metal

Bronze, Cheese Fondue

Barrett

Any Salmon-based dishes, Skipjack Sashimi

Iron

Blossom

Risotto

Dried Sardines, Milk Porridge, Relax Tea, any vegetables including vegetable juice

Any medicine items

Illuminata

Relax Tea, Relax Tea Leaves

Any dessert dishes, Toyherb, any Bread dishes

Pickles

Jones

Fried Rice

Flan, Grilled S. Flounder, Salted Masu Trout Tempura, Udon, and Miso dishes, Moondrop Flower

Devil Blood, Tomato Juice

Lin Fa

Milk Porridge

Milk and milk-based dishes, Onigiri dishes, Rice, Rice Porridge, Meat Dumpling, Chinese Manju, Bamboo Rice, Tempura Bowl

Udon-based dishes

Nancy

Stew

Cheese and cheese-based dishes, Omelet and Omelet Rice, Flan dishes, Risotto, Rice, Seafood Doria, Gratin, Moondrop Flower

Lamp Squid, Rainbow Trout, Object X

Porcoline

Bamboo Shoot, Cabbage, Mushroom, Pumpkin

Any dishes

Any medicine items

Raven

Any pendant accessories

Crystals, flowers, metals, and jewels

Fish Bones, Skull

Volkanon

Relax Tea

Sweet items such as Honey, Sweet Potato

Lumber, Material Stone

Ventuswill

Pancaked, golden vegetables

Honey, Mushroom, any vegetables other than golden vegetables

Items that drop from Dragon bosses, Skill Seals

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