Garden Witch Life Gifting & Friendship Guide

While there’s no romance in Garden Witch Life, your relationships with NPCs do matter. Forging strong friendships on Moonflower Island is the key to unlocking certain recipes and growing your potential.

If you’re curious about how friendship works in Garden Witch Life, we’ve got you covered. Our guide will look at how to build friendships and which gifts you should give to each new friend to foster a stronger connection.

**This guide is in progress. Updated 9/16/2024**

How Friendship Works in Garden Witch Life

The primary way to build your friendship with NPCs is through gifting. NPCs don’t really have daily conversations you can engage in, and their dialogue can get a bit repetitive if you try to chat. Instead, find out what they like and give them a gift once per day to increase your friendship level.

Increasing friendship with merchants often adds more items to their shop. That’s especially true for Lily, the beekeeper slash workworker. You’ll need to gain her trust before you can learn to craft an Apiary and other homes for your new animal friends.

To view your current friendship level with a character, open up your journal. Click on the journal tab, then the “characters” entry. Select the specific person you’re looking for, and you’ll see a bar that shows your current friendship level.

TIP: The progress line indicated here isn’t how long you have to go to the next friendship level. It shows how much total friendship you can build with them in the game, and how much you’ve progressed towards the full goal.

You’ll also see some notes that may help you figure out what that character would like to get as a gift. For instance, we know Tin likes hanging out in her Lavender garden. Might she enjoy Lavender as a gift? (Yes, she would!)

Garden Witch Life Gifting Guide

Gifting can be a little intimidating in Garden Witch Life because giving someone a gift they really dislike can actually harm your friendship! You can lose points for giving Gemmi, well, basically anything.

If you’re an NPC people pleaser who’d prefer to know which gifts to give, here’s a guide to help!

Aurel

Aurel owns the General Store, and you can typically find them there during open hours. You’ll earn 10 friendship points for gifting Aurel basically any flower, but here are some specific gifting tips.

Gemmi

Gemmi is the teenage son of Rud the Magnificent IV. He typically wanders around the center of town, then up to the Medical Spa and back. He’s moody and a bit hard to please, and I lost plenty of friendship with him before finding anything he liked.

Lily

Lily is pretty anxious and unsure of herself, but she’s actually one of the easier characters to befriend. That’s mainly because she has so many liked gifts that are easy to come by early on!

Lyra

The shy librarian Lyra mostly stays in the library in the Tree of Knowledge. She’s shy but generally friendly, though she has plenty of gifts she doesn’t like.

Luam

Luam owns the spa, which is shut down when you first arrive in town. Even so, they’re pretty easygoing and just follow the vibes.

May

Baker and cactus friend May is pretty easy to please and accepts most gifts with at least a small smile. She’s usually wandering around somewhere in her bakery.

Nira

Local doctor Nira is always too busy for most things, including gifts she doesn’t like. Nira can usually be found in her office in the Medical Spa.

Rud the Magnificent IV

Rud loves money and things that seem valuable to him. He doesn’t hate many gifts, but he doesn’t see much value in most of the things you’ve got to give early on – except, weirdly, Crystal Wheat. You can find him wandering around the center of town.

Tin

Tin works at the forge as a freelance blacksmith. She loves learning about the artifacts you find during your adventures.

We’ll keep testing out gifts and adding to this guide, so check back soon!

Looking for more tips on building relationships in cozy games? Check out our romance guide for Fields of Mistria.

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