Gifting to your villagers is a complicated affair in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, especially if you want to reach best friend status. You’ll need to know which present is the best to give to what villager, so use our gift guide to ensure you don’t end up in the doghouse.
Sending gifts to villagers in Animal Crossing can be a pain, especially when you’re unsure of what it is that they love.
Each villager has a set of items that they will be overjoyed to receive in the game, scoring you points to raise your friendship as a result.
Nintendo (via Twitter: @triforcemeg)Villagers love wearing clothes you gift them.
Animal Crossing gift tips: points system
Before we get started with the Animal Crossing gift guide, there is actually a point system when it comes to friendship in the game. Each character starts with 25 points automatically, and will eventually ask to move when that level hits zero.
If you want to maintain a good relationship with your favorites, you need to make sure that never happens – and that’s where gifting plays a part. Here’s how the point system breaks down:
Furniture: 3 points
Favorite Clothing Style: 2 points
Garbage: -2 points
Umbrellas: 2 points (non-frog villagers only, they get 1 point)
Flowers, fish, and insects: 2 points
Tools and music: 2 points
Wrapped gift: 1 point
Nintendo (via Twitter: @triforcemeg)They’ll often gift you something in return if they like your present.
Animal Crossing clothing types
Giving them furniture that costs over 10,000 Bells is a surefire way of raising the stat, and you’ll earn an additional point if you wrap the gift. The same can’t be said for other items like clothing, though – this is where you need to be a bit more selective in what you hand out, with each villager preferring one of the available types:
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Active: Sporty stuff like the sports cap, ski goggles, ladder shades, and wrestler uniform.
Colorful: Multicolored attire like the egg party dress, flashy cardigan, and pharaoh’s outfit.
Cool: Hip-themed clothing such as the collarless shirt, mage’s hat, and meme shirt.
Cute: Charming pieces like the heart shades, flower sweater, zen hair clip, and dolly shirt work wonders.
Elegant: Fancy-looking apparel such as the tiara, butterfly shades, and tailcoat.
Gorgeous: Beautiful things, for example, the Labelle sunglasses, gown coat, and flashy hairpin.
Simple: Plain attire like the Oval Glasses, Straw Hat, and Tee Dress.
You can’t give villagers gifts until you’ve raised their friendship level, either, and you can only do so once per day. So make sure you talk to them as much as you can to lay the foundations for a blossoming connection.
Each character also likes specific colors, so you’ll need to make sure you match those up to the style.
Animal Crossing Gift Guide: Best gifts for villagers
NintendoAlfonso is a fan of Simple clothing in red and blue.
All of the best gifts to give to your villagers, including their favorite clothing styles and colors can be found below:
Alligators
Villager
Clothing type
Colors
Alfonso
Simple
Red, blue
Alli
Gorgeous, Elegant
Yellow, brown
Boots
Gorgeous, Active
Colorful, purple
Del
Cool, Simple
Blue, white
Drago
Elegant, Gorgeous
Orange, red
Gayle
Cute
Pink, white
Sly
Cool, Simple
Brown, green
Anteaters
Villager
Clothing type
Colors
Anabelle
Cute, Simple
Green, blue
Annalisa
Elegant, Gorgeous
Red, pink
Antonio
Simple
Light blue, blue
Cyrano
Cool, Active
Yellow, beige
Olaf
Elegant, Gorgeous
Red, black
Pango
Elegant, Cool
Orange, purple
Snooty
Simple
Green, yellow
Bears
Villager
Clothing type
Colors
Beardo
Elegant
Brown, blue
Charlise
Active, Cute
Red, orange
Chow
Cool, Gorgeous
Black, white
Curt
Cool
Blue, white
Grizzly
Cool, Simple
Red, black
Groucho
Cool, Simple
Black, gray
Ike
Cool
Green, blue
Klaus
Simple
Gray, white
Megan
Cute, Simple
Yellow, light blue
Nate
Simple
White, green
Paula
Cute, Active
Orange, green
Pinky
Cute, Simple
Red, pink
Teddy
Simple
Yellow, orange
Tutu
Cute, Simple
Pink, red
Ursula
Simple, Cute
Red, orange
Birds
Villager
Clothing type
Colors
Admiral
Cool
Black, blue
Anchovy
Simple
Colorful, orange
Jacob
Simple
Green, red
Jacques
Cool, Simple
Green, black
Jay
Active
Blue, light blue
Jitters
Active
Yellow, orange
Lucha
Active, Cool
Black, gray
Midge
Cute, Simple
Pink
Peck
Simple, Active
Beige, red
Piper
Elegant, Gorgeous
Black, white
Robin
Elegant, Cool
Light blue, purple
Sparro
Active, Simple
Green, gray
Twiggy
Simple, Cute
Pink, blue
Bulls
Villager
Clothing type
Colors
Angus
Cool
Red, black
Coach
Active
Blue, red
Rodeo
Simple, Cool
Black, red
Stu
Simple
Brown, beige
T-Bone
Cool, Simple
Blue, black
Vic
Cool, Active
Light blue, blue
NintendoJacques should be gifted cool or simple clothes, and he loves the colors black and green
So, there you have it. Our Animal Crossing Gift Guide. This will help you out immensely on your quest to making friends (or enemies!) with your villagers.
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