Is there a certain amount of days for 1 heart?

Lydia3.3

Greenhorn
I’m just wondering how many days, roughly, it takes to up one heart with a villager? If you’re giving two gifts a week, and talking every day, roughly how many in-game days?
 
Lots of factors here (but not exhaustive):
- Whether or not you have things that boosts friendship (Friendship 101 Book, Statue of Blessings buff)
- Whether or not you have "neglected" them (Not talk to them, etc.)
- Whether or not you are spoused to them - Influences how often you can gift items
- Gift quality (Iridium, Gold, Silver, Normal)
- Gift reaction (Loved, Liked, Neutral, Dislike, Hated)
- Special occasion (Birthday, Feast of the Winter Star)
- Spoiler item that gives a crazy boost (Stardrop Tea)

In theory, you can max out a person's heart in one day haha.
 

Lew Zealand

Helper
I like to use an achievable early game rule of thumb of:

Talk each day
2 :silverstar: liked Gifts each week (on average)
:goldstar: liked Gift saved for their Birthday

So what does that get us? There are 250 Friendship points per :heart:.

20 points per Talk =140 each week
45 * 1.1 :silverstar: points per Gift, plus the 2-gift bonus of 10 points = 110 each week
45 * 1.25 :goldstar: * 8 Bday points for the Birthday Gift = 450 once a year

This means you make a total of 250 points each week just talking with 2 modest Gifts, exactly what you need for one :heart:. And a good liked Birthday Gift gets you almost 2 whole :heart: that day. So over a half year, you can take any Villager up to 8 :heart: and those with Birthdays in that half year just about to 10 :heart:!

Bonuses:

Loved :goldstar: Gift for Birthday = 800 points, or 3 :heart:!
Loved :iristar: Gift for Birthday = 960 points or almost 4 :heart:!
Delivery requests from the Board are 150 points, 60% of a :heart:
Cutscene choices can award (and subtract or do nothing to) :heart: depending on what you say
Some Events like making a good Luau Soup also get you community :heart: with everyone
The Feast of the Winter Star Gift gets a 5x Multiplier, so a liked Gift gets 280 :goldstar: or 248 :silverstar: points, another :heart:.
 
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