Spread across the four seasons in Stardew Valley, there are a total of 34 birthdays to remember. Why remember them? Because giving a loved gift to a villager on their birthday will provide a huge boost in friendship, meaning you can earn hearts much quicker.
Remembering the birthdays of friends is a pretty basic requirement of friendship, but with so many to remember it can be hard to keep track. While you can check the board outside Pierre’s General Store at any time, it’s still easy to miss a day while going about your daily farm life.
Universally loved gifts in Stardew Valley
Before getting into each villager and their respective preferred gifts, it’s worth remembering that there are some universally loved gifts that will elicit a happy response from almost every villager. These gifts are:
- Golden Pumpkin
- Magic Rock Candy
- Pearl
- Prismatic Shard
- Rabbit’s Foot
The exceptions are:
- Haley hates Prismatic Shard
- Penny hates Rabbit’s Foot
It’s also worth remember that Stardrop Tea is also a universally loved gift, but giving this comes with an additional perk. If given on a birthday, you’re guaranteed to get you three hearts of friendship with the recipient. On top of this, you can also give an additional gift on top of the Stardrop Tea.
All villager birthdays in Stardew Valley
The listed gifts here are up to date as of update 1.6, when some loved gifts were added or removed.
Spring
| Date | Villager | Loved gifts (other than universal loves) |
| Spring 4 | Kent | Fiddlehead Risotto Roasted Hazelnuts |
| Spring 7 | Lewis | Autumn’s Bounty Glazed Yams Green Tea Hot Pepper Vegetable Medley |
| Spring 10 | Vincent | Cranberry Candy Ginger Ale Grape Pink Cake Snail |
| Spring 14 | Haley | Coconut Fruit Salad Pink Cake Sunflower |
| Spring 18 | Pam | Beer Cactus Fruit Glazed Yams Mead Pale Ale Parsnip Parsnip Soup Pina Colada |
| Spring 20 | Shane | Beer Hot Pepper Pepper Poppers Pizza |
| Spring 26 | Pierre | Fried Calamari Price Catalogue |
| Spring 27 | Emily | Any gemstone Cloth Survival Burger Wool |
Summer
| Date | Villager | Loved gifts (other than universal loves) |
| Summer 4 | Jas | Fairy Box Fairy Rose Pink Cake Plum Pudding |
| Summer 8 | Gus | Diamond Escargot Fish Taco Orange Tropical Curry |
| Summer 10 | Maru | Battery Pack Cauliflower Cheese Cauliflower Diamond Gold Bar Iridium Bar Miner’s Treat Pepper Poppers Radioactive Bar Rhubarb Pie Strawberry |
| Summer 13 | Alex | Complete Breakfast Salmon Dinner Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Thick |
| Summer 17 | Sam | Cactus Fruit Maple Bar Pizza Tigerseye |
| Summer 19 | Demetrius | Bean Hotpot Ice Cream Rice Pudding Strawberry |
| Summer 22 | Dwarf | Any gemstone Lava Eel Omni Geode Lemon Stone |
| Summer 24 | Willy | Catfish Diamond Iridium Bar Jewels of the Sea Mead Octopus Pumpkin Sea Cucumber Sturgeon The Art O’ Crabbing |
| Summer 26 | Leo | Duck Feather Mango Ostrich Egg Poi Parrot Egg |
Fall
| Date | Villager | Loved gifts (other than universal loves) |
| Fall 2 | Penny | Diamond Emerald Melon Poppy Poppyseed Muffin Red Plate Roots Platter Sandfish Tom Kha Soup |
| Fall 5 | Elliott | Crab Cakes Duck Feather Lobster Pomegranate Squid Ink Tom Kha Soup |
| Fall 11 | Jodi | Chocolate Cake Crispy Bass Diamond Eggplant Parmesan Fried Eel Pancakes Rhubarb Pie Vegetable Medley |
| Fall 13 | Abigail | Amethyst Banana Pudding Blackberry Cobbler Chocolate Cake Monster Compendium Pufferfish Pumpkin Spicy Eel |
| Fall 15 | Sandy | Crocus Daffodil Mango Sticky Rice Sweet Pea |
| Fall 18 | Marnie | Diamond Farmer’s Lunch Pink Cake Pumpkin Pie |
| Fall 21 | Robin | Goat Cheese Peach Spaghetti Woody’s Secret |
| Fall 24 | George | Fried Mushroom Leek |
Winter
| Date | Villager | Loved gifts (other than universal loves) |
| Winter 1 | Krobus | Diamond Iridium Bar Monster Compendium Monster Musk Pumpkin Void Egg Void Mayonnaise Wild Horseradish |
| Winter 3 | Linus | Blueberry Tart Cactus Fruit Coconut Dish O’ The Sea The Alleyway Buffet Yam |
| Winter 7 | Caroline | Fish Taco Green Tea Summer Spangle Tropical Curry |
| Winter 10 | Sebastian | Frog Egg Frozen Tear Obsidian Pumpkin Soup Sashimi Void Egg |
| Winter 14 | Harvey | Coffee Pickles Super Meal Truffle Oil Wine |
| Winter 17 | Wizard | Book of Mysteries Purple Mushroom Solar Essence Super Cucumber Void Essence |
| Winter 20 | Evelyn | Beet Chocolate Cake Diamond Fairy Rose Stuffing Tulip Raisins |
| Winter 23 | Leah | Goat Cheese Poppyseed Muffin Salad Stir Fry Truffle Vegetable Medley Wine |
| Winter 26 | Clint | Any gemstone Artichoke Dip Fiddlehead Risotto Gold Bar Iridium Bar Omni Geode |
