Making friends is fun! It is also an important life skill. In Stardew ValleyJust like in real life, making friends is vital to success. The player can win a ton by befriending the right characters. If the player can find and befriend the right characters, they will find that those characters can give them access to some surprisingly useful perks.
Evelyn is one of the first characters a Stardew Valley player will encounter when entering Pelican Town. She is a friendly old lady who has lived there all her life. She cannot be romanticized because she is already married to George. However, she is a great friend to have as the game progresses. Evelyn can usually be found in her house between the trailer and the Saloon. Players will soon discover that Evelyn is always hopeful and optimistic. She loves gardening, baking cookies and reminiscing about her city’s past. Here is a guide to befriend this beautiful lady.
Gift Guide
Gift giving is the most reliable way to earn friendship points in Stardew Valley. It takes about 30 beloved gifts (closer to 27 if one is given on their birthday) to get a villager from 0 hearts all the way to 10. Evelyn’s birthday is very late in the year, on the 20th winter.
The player can give Evelyn a maximum of two gifts a week (plus one on her birthday). Evelyn can usually be found in her home in the kitchen, at the clinic on the 2nd and 23rd of each season, or at the Community Center (after repair) from 12:10-4:30pm on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Beloved gifts
Of the gifts below, Tulips and beets are by far the best and easiest options. Their seeds are incredibly cheap at 20g, and they only need 6 days to grow in spring (for tulips) or fall (for beets). Tulips are slightly more recommended, as they are readily available in the first season and do not require entry to Calico Desert. Just plant about 30+ of both crops, store them and feed them to Evelyn two days a week until supplies run out. That should earn the 10th Friendship heart without any problem. The other options are not as viable due to high cost or rarity, but are still worth knowing:
- beet
- chocolate cake
- Diamond
- fairy rose
- filling
- Tulip
- All universal loves
nice gifts
Evelyn’s most beloved gift, the daffodil, is a spring forgery. These don’t really stand out just because they are so easy to obtain and effective. However, it makes a good spare gift if the farm has a few lying around in a season that isn’t spring.
Evelyn also likes the following:
- All milk varieties
- All universal likes except for in front of:
- fried eel
- Garlic
- Maki Roll
- sashimi
- spicy eel
- trout soup
Disapproved and hated gifts
It is of course important to know what gifts should be avoided when you try to befriend a villager. This list includes all of Evelyn’s dislikes and hatreds that players should never give her:
- Dislike:
- All universal dislikes except fish and clay
- Quartz
- wild horseradish
- Hate:
- All fish
- All universal hate
- mussel
- Clay
- Coral
- fried eel
- Garlic
- Holly
- Maki Roll
- Salmon Berry
- sashimi
- spice berry
- spicy eel
- trout soup
quests
Quests are set goals in the game that: offer rewards once completed. All Stardew Valley Quests are tracked in the Quest Journal. The player can find the newscast by clicking the exclamation mark icon just below the date/time display in the top right corner of the screen.
Evelyn only has one mission in Stardew Valleyand it happens to be a non-randomized:
- Grandma’s gift: On the 15th of Spring in the 2nd in-game year, Evelyn will mail a letter requesting a Leek. This is an extremely easy quest to complete, as leeks are spring staples, and it’s easy to find a lot of them. The reward is 1 friendship heart and 500g.
Friendship Benefits
There is a good reason why the player should pursue a friendship with Evelyn. If Evelyn’s friendship level is anywhere above 0, she has the chance to send the player the following items in the mail every day. The likelihood of her sending something increases with a higher friendship level.
- Bread: This dish gives 50 energy and 22 health when eaten.
- chocolate cake: This dish gives 150 energy and 56 health when eaten.
- Cookie: This dish gives 90 energy and 40 health when eaten.
At the start of the game, these items are actually extremely valuable. The player is much more limited by energy than anything else in the game at the time, so getting something that gives energy for free is as good as it gets.
At 4+ Friendship Hearts, if the player walks into Evelyn’s house anytime she is there, they will witness a Heart Event where she bakes cookies and gives the player her recipe. This is the only way to get the Cookie recipe. Choosing the “It’s delicious!” choice if she asks what the player thinks of her cookies, she gets 100 free Friendship points.
Finally, when the player earns 7+ hearts with Evelyn, she will send the Rice Pudding recipe in the mail. This is the only way to get this recipe. Rice pudding gives 115 energy and 51 health when eaten.
Stardew Valley is available for Android, iOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox One and Series X|S.
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