The only way you can romance a character in Stardew Valley is by giving them gifts. The more gifts you give someone, the more friendship points you will get with them.
Relationships in Stardew Valley are defined by hearts, which visually show your total friendship points. You can have any number of hearts from 0 to 10 with most normal NPCs and can even get as high as 14 with your spouse.
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Haley is one of the romanceable characters in Stardew Valley, and giving her the right gifts will make the romance process much easier. Since you can only give two gifts per week, you should be careful what you give.
Unfortunately, Haley doesn’t like or love a lot of gifts/items in Stardew Valley. Still, the best item that you can give her, which you will easily produce if you like farming, is Sunflower.
Table of Contents
- How Friendship Works and Why You Should Give Gifts
- What Gifts Does Haley Like and Love in Stardew Valley
- Best Gift to Give Haley
How Friendship Works and Why You Should Give Gifts
To befriend NPCs in Stardew Valley, you will have to give them gifts.
Some will love some items, while others will hate them. Depending on their reaction, you will get different friendship points.
The normal limit of friendship hearts with villagers in Stardew Valley is 10 hearts. However, with Haley, as a bachelorette, the limit is 14 hearts, which increases once you marry her.
To get hearts with Haley, you will need to start getting friendship points with her.
Each heart in Stardew Valley is worth 250 friendship points, which will start slowly disappearing as time passes.
The best way to befriend someone is to give them gifts they love. This will increase your relationship with them by 80 friendship points.
If you don’t have those items, you can also give them liked items, which will increase the relationship by 45 friendship points.
As long as you don’t give them disliked or hated items, you will only improve your relationship with NPCs by giving gifts. Since you only lose 2 points a day with them, the liked gifts will usually be enough.
What Gifts Does Haley Like and Love in Stardew Valley
Some items in Stardew Valley are universally loved by all NPCs, including Haley.
These gifts are the Golden Pumpkin, Magic Rock Candy, Pearl, and Rabbit’s Foot. The Prismatic Shard is also a universally loved gift, but Penny hates it.
Here is a list of the gifts that Haley likes and loves in Stardew Valley, excluding the universally loved items, and how to get them:
| GIFT | SOURCE | OPINION |
|---|---|---|
| Coconut | Foraging – Desert | Love |
| Fruit Salad | Cooking – TV, 7 Fall, Year 2 | Love |
| Pink Cake | Cooking – TV, 21 Summer, Year 2 | Love |
| Sunflower | Farming – Summer, Fall | Love |
| Daffodil | Foraging – Spring | Like |
Best Gift to Give Haley
The most obvious choices for gifts for Haley in Stardew Valley are Sunflowers and Daffodils. Both are extremely easy to get, and you can use them to marry Haley in less than 3 seasons.
Due to the gifts that she likes and loves, Haley is probably the easiest character to romance in Stardew Valley.
Daffodils are extremely easy to get since you can just forage them at the start of the game in abundance.
Just look around for the only forageable yellow flowers, and you will easily get a lot of friendship points with Haley in Spring.
Once Summer comes, you can buy Sunflower Seeds from JojaMart (not Pierre’s, since his price is higher) and grow enough to give her twice a week every week until you marry her.
The seeds at JojaMart cost 125 g, while their price at Pierre’s is 200 g.
Sunflower Seeds are one of the only things that are cheaper at JojaMart, so it might be a good idea to profit before they close down due to your Community Center improvements.
That’s everything you need to know about what gifts Haley likes in Stardew Valley!
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