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Beginner Guides Basic Mechanics And Getting Started In The Valley Beginner Guide: Creating a File Advanced Options, Explained Legacy Randomization, Explained How to Play Local Co-Op Multiplayer How Does Co-Op Work? The Pros and Cons of Playing Stardew Valley in Co-Op What does the Player's "Favorite Thing" Do? Your First Week, Day by Day Which Farm Type is Best? All Farm Layouts, Ranked The Beach Farm - A Guide The Four Corners Farm - A Guide The Wilderness Farm - A Guide The Forest Farm - A Guide The Hill-Top Farm - A Guide The Riverland Farm - A Guide The Meadowlands Farm - A Guide A List of Things You Should Do Immediately After Starting How Long is Spring? Common Beginner Mistakes to Avoid A Guide to the Weather Energy, Time, and Exhaustion, Explained Beginner Guide: Where to Buy Seeds How to Check the Date and Current Season How to Get a Pet Tips for New Players A List of Things You Have to Do in Your First Year Surprising Tips for Stardew Valley Most Players Don’t Know The Best Things to Do in Spring The Best Things to Do in Summer The Best Things to Do in Fall How to Make the Most of Winter How to Make the Most of Spring How to Make the Most of Summer How to Make the Most of Fall Tips for Improving Your Farm Layout How to Manually Save Your Game Things You Should Never Spend Money On The Community Center or Joja Mart? JojaMart Vs Community Center - Which Should You Choose? A Complete Guide to the Community Center Route Community Center Fish Tank Bundle Guide 10 Tips for Completing the Community Center A Complete Guide to the Joja Route A Guide to the Remixed Bundles Beginner Guide: Year One How to Upgrade Your Tools How to Refill Your Watering Can How to Upgrade and Renovate Your Farmhouse The Farm Cave: Bats or Mushrooms — Which Is Better? A Complete Guide to Luck Which Professions to Choose for Every Skill A Guide to the Traveling Cart How to Cook Grandpa's Shrine, Explained What are those Wiggling Sticks? How to Get a Horse How to Manage and Upgrade Your Inventory How to Break Big Logs, Boulders, and Meteorites How to Emote How to Drop Items How to Craft a Wooden Chest Full Crafting Guide Here's What the Earthquake on Summer 3 Means How to Get a Glow Ring Beginner Guide: Year Two

Farming Guides Start Here: In-Depth Beginner Farming Guide Professions Guide: FARMING Crops Crop Quality, Explained Where to Sell Your Crops Where to Get Strawberry Seeds How to Make a Scarecrow A Guide to Fertilizer Every Spring Crop, Ranked Every Summer Crop, Ranked The Best Summer Crops Every Fall Crop, Ranked The Best Fall Crops How to Grow Giant Crops How to Find and Grow Every Crop in the Game How to Grow the Rare Seed What are Mixed Seeds for? How to Get the New Seeds in Version 1.6 (Carrot, Powdermelon, Summer Squash, and Broccoli) Guides for Specific Crops How to Get a Sweet Gem Berry Crop Guide: Ancient Fruit Crop Guide: Beets Crop Guide: Broccoli Crop Guide: Carrots Crop Guide: Fairy Rose Crop Guide: Garlic Crop Guide: Melons Crop Guide: Poppies Crop Guide: Powdermelon Crop Guide: Red Cabbage Crop Guide: Summer Squash Crop Guide: Tea Animals Every Animal, Ranked How to Feed Chickens Fence-Building Guide How to Get Sheep How to Get Pigs How to Prevent Wild Animal Attacks How To Get Void Chickens How to Get Blue Chickens How To Get Golden Chickens How To Get Ostriches How to Get Duck Feathers How To Make Ducks Swim In Water Is the Auto Petter Worth it? How to Sell Animals Buildings Building and Using a Coop Building and Using a Barn A Guide to Silos - How to Build One and Use it How to Build and Use a Mill The Complete Guide To Fish Ponds Complete Greenhouse Guide: Layout Tips, Best Crops, and More How To Get Every Obelisk The Slime Hutch How to Build and Use Cabins Unique Ways to Use Your Shed How to Get the Gold Clock Artisan Goods How to Make Sugar How to Make Mead How to Make Beer How to Make Cheese The Best Fruits for Making Wine Raisins: How to Make Them and How to Use Them How To Make Truffle Oil Other Farming Guides Complete Guide to Sprinklers Quality Sprinkler Guide Tips For The Legend Achievement Fruit Tree Guide Oak Tree Guide Mahogany Tree Guide How to Obtain and Use Mossy Seeds A Trick to Growing Infinite Grass Where To Find The Golden Scythe How to Get the Iridium Scythe

Fishing Guides Professions Guide: FISHING Fishing Basics How to Fish How to Sell Fish When, Where, and How to Catch Every Fish Every Type of Lure and Bait How to Put Bait on a Fishing Rod A Complete Guide to Obtaining and Using Challenge Bait How to Get and Use a Magnet How to Craft Wild Bait Everything You Need to Know About Crab Pots How to Put Bait in a Crab Pot All About Treasure Chests The Best Fish And Where To Catch Them Fishing Pro Tips Spring Fishing Guide The Best Fishing Spots Advanced Fishing Guides The Best Fish for Fish Ponds How to Make Caviar Legendary Fish Locations Tips for the Master Angler Achievement Everything to Know About Sturgeon How to Get Squid Ink The Beach Farm Layout Has a Secret Fishing Spot How a Fish Frenzy Works How to Get New Bobber Styles Making Sashimi Where to Catch Each Jelly Complete Fish Tank Guide Where To Catch Certain Fish Where To Catch: Albacore Where To Catch: Bream Where To Catch: Bullhead Where to Catch: Catfish Where to Catch: Chub Where to Catch: Crabs Where To Catch: Eel Where To Catch: Largemouth Bass Where to Catch: Lava Eel Where To Catch: Lingcod Where to Catch: Midnight Carp Where To Catch: Pufferfish Where to Catch: Rainbow Trout Where To Catch: Red Snapper Where to Catch: Sandfish Where to Catch: Shad Where to Catch: Shrimp Where to Catch: Squid Where To Catch: Sunfish Where To Catch: Super Cucumber Where to Catch: Tuna Where to Catch: Void Salmon Where to Catch: Walleye Where To Catch: Woodskip The Legendary Fish Where to Catch: Glacierfish Where to Catch: Legend Where to Catch: Mutant Carp

Mining Guides Professions Guide: MINING Mining Basics Everything You Need To Know About The Mines Tips To Make The Most Of Mining How to Unlock Skull Cavern Skull Cavern Tips Advanced Mining Guides Panning Guide Pro Tips for Farming Iridium How To Get Cinder Shards And What They're For How to Enable the Dangerous Version of the Mines A Guide to Staircases Tips for Making it to Level 100 in Skull Cavern Where to Find Specific Minerals and Gems Amethyst Aquamarine Bixite Emerald Fairy Stone Fire Quartz Fluorapatite Frozen Tear Jade Jamborite Opal Ruby Tigerseye Topaz

Combat Guides Professions Guide: COMBAT Combat Basics Understanding Weapon Stats All Weapon Types, Explained Slingshots - A Complete Guide Monster Slaying Tips How to Sell Weapons, Shoes, and Rings A Complete Guide to the Adventurer's Guild Every Buff/Nerf, Explained Advanced Combat Guides Advanced Combat Tips How to Make and Use Monster Musk A Complete Guide to Weapon Forging and Enchantments A Guide to Completing the Monster Eradication Goals How to Kill Mummies

Equipment The Best Boots The Best Rings How to Obtain the Infinity Weapons The Best Weapons How to Get the Iridium Band Item Guide: Tent Kit How to Get a Bone Sword How to Get Mermaid Boots (+5 DEF, +8 Immunity) How to Get Cinderclown Shoes (+6 DEF, +5 Immunity) How to Get Meowmere (Lvl 4, 20 DMG, +4 Speed, +2 Weight, explodes enemies into rainbow sparkles) Dark Sword vs Obsidian Edge - Which is Better? How to Get a Savage Ring How to Get a Forest Sword Item Guide: Glowstone Rings How to Get the Burglar's Ring (and What it Does)

Foraging Guides Professions Guide: FORAGING Foraging Basics Tips to Make the Most of Foraging The Best Forageables Where to Find Every Forageable Item Where to Find Daffodils Where to Find Leeks Where to Find Crystal Fruit Where to Get Winter Roots Where to Get Morels How to Get Red Mushrooms Snow Yams - A Guide How to Get Cave Carrots Where to Find Moss How to Get (and Use) a Mushroom Log Where to Find Grapes Advanced Foraging Guides How To Find Rainbow Shells And What They're Used For How to Get Fiddlehead Ferns Where To Find Dragon Teeth And What They're For Where to Find Purple Mushrooms How to Get Mystic Syrup How to Set Up a Tree Farm Where to Get a Nautilus Shell

Being Social How The Friendship Point System Works Befriending The Villagers A List of Villagers You Should Befriend Early All Universally-Loved Gifts and Where to Find Them How to Get Stardrop Tea Friendship Guide: Caroline - The Tea Enthusiast Friendship Guide: Clint - The Blacksmith Friendship Guide: Demetrius - The Researcher Friendship Guide: Evelyn - The Grandmother Friendship Guide: George - The Grandfather Friendship Guide: Gus - The Chef Friendship Guide: Jas - The Girl Friendship Guide: Jodi - The Mom Friendship Guide: Leo - The Islander Friendship Guide: Lewis - The Mayor Friendship Guide: Linus - The Forager Friendship Guide: Marnie - The Rancher Friendship Guide: Pam - The Bus Driver Friendship Guide: Pierre - The Shopkeeper Gift Guide: Rasmodius - The Wizard Friendship Guide: Robin - The Carpenter Friendship Guide: Sandy - The Mysterious Desert Shopkeeper Gift Guide: Vincent - The Boy Friendship Guide: Willy - The Angler Gift Guide: Krobus - The Shadow Person Friendship Guide: Kent - The Soldier Friendship Guide: The Dwarf Romancing The Marriage Candidates How To Romance Every Character How to Get Married How to Break Up How to Get Divorced The Honeymoon Period, Explained The Marriage Candidates Marriage Guide: Abigail - The Nonconformist Marriage Guide: Alex - The Jock Marriage Guide: Emily - The Free Spirit Marriage Guide: Haley - The Beauty Queen Marriage Guide: Harvey - The Doctor Marriage Guide: Leah - The Artist Marriage Guide: Maru - The Genius Inventor Marriage Guide: Penny - The Girl Next Door Marriage Guide: Elliott - The Romantic Marriage Guide: Sam - The Skater Marriage Guide: Sebastian - The Bad Boy Marriage Guide: Shane - The Male Tsundere

Making Money "Profit Margin" Explained The Most Profitable Crops The Most Profitable Artisan Goods Money Making Guide: Year One How to Make Big Money Aside from Growing Crops Advanced Money Making Guide How To Get The Statue Of Endless Fortune Items You Should Never Sell

Items and Machines Machinery and Boon Statues Anvil Bait Maker Casks (and the Farmhouse Cellar) Crystalariums Dehydrator Fish Smoker The Fridge (and Mini-Fridges) Furnaces Heavy Furnace Kegs Lightning Rods Mini-Forge Preserves Jars Preserves Jars vs Kegs - Which is Better? Oil Makers Seed Makers Recycling Machines Statue of Blessings Statue of the Dwarf King Tappers Goods and Resources How to Get a Rabbit's Foot Every Crafting Material And Where To Get Them How to Farm Clay How to Get Hardwood Cultivating Honey How to Get Oak Resin How To Make Maple Syrup How To Get Earth Crystals How to Make Refined Quartz How To Get Cloth How To Find And Use Bone Fragments How to Farm Coal How to Get Battery Packs How to Make Silver Quality Wine How to Smelt Copper Bars How to Get Geodes How to Get Sap

Trinkets and Special Consumables Where to Find All the Stardrops Where to Find a Prismatic Shard All Trinkets, Ranked How to Get the Fairy Box Crafting and Using Warp Totems Item Guide: Treasure Totems Item Guide: Fairy Dust Item Guide: Mystery Boxes and Golden Mystery Boxes Item Guide: Golden Animal Crackers Item Guide: Butterfly Powder How to Get the Special Charm

Other Items How To Get A Dinosaur Egg How to Get Golden Pumpkin and What It Does The Best Food Recipes The Best Food for Restoring Health The Best Foods for Buffing Speed

Secret Notes Guide Where To Find Secret Note #20 How To Get Dwarf Scroll 4 Where to Find All of the Rarecrows The Best Hats And How To Get Them The Coolest Clothing Items and How to Make Them The Rarest Items in the Game How to Rotate Furniture How to Get the Stone Owl Item Guide: Campfires How to Craft Cherry Bombs How to Make and Use Text Signs Item Guide: Fireworks How to Get the Horse Flute (and What it Does) How to Get the Key to the Town How to Get a Maki Roll How to Make Chocolate Cake How to Get Strange Buns

Quest Guides Quests and More Quest Guide: Introductions Quest Guide: Rat Problem Where to Find Linus' Blackberry Basket How to Feed the Sand Dragon His Last Meal Where to Find the Mayor's Lucky Purple Shorts Where to Find Robin's Lost Axe What Old Master Cannoli Wants Quest Guide: Goblin Problem Tips for Helping the Trash Bear Quest Guide: A Winter Mystery Quest Guide: Jodi's Request Quest Guide: Crop Research Quest Guide: The Mysterious Qi Quest Guide: The Staff of Power Quest Guide: The Giant Stump Quest Guide: The Dark Talisman How to Access the Witch's Hut

Special Orders and Raccoon Requests All the Special Orders and Their Rewards Special Order Walkthrough: Gus' Famous Omelet Special Order Walkthrough: Community Cleanup Special Order Walkthrough: Rock Rejuvenation Where to Find Ectoplasm Where To Find Prismatic Jelly How to Meet and Help the Raccoons Raccoon Shop Guide Tips for Completing Raccoon Requests

Life In The Valley General Guides A Complete Guide to Mastery Points What is Green Rain? Where to Find the Bookseller All About the Prize Machine and Prize Tickets Decorative Plants Guide All Secret Furniture Locations Stardew Valley's Mysterious Guardian Deity Yoba Explained

How-To Guides How to Use Split Screen Mode How to Get Hay How to Sew Every Pants Recipe How to Dye Clothes How to Get a Mannequin and Put Clothes on It How to Make Coffee How To Have Kids How to Dismiss Children How to Find all the Secret Statues How to Decorate Your House Where to Get All of the Catalogues Where to Get the Trash Catalogue How to Change Your Name How to Change Your Appearance How to Marry Another Player in Multiplayer Mode How to Beat Junimo Kart How to Get Every Book of Power How to Access the Mayor's Basement How to Get All the Different Pets All About Pet Bowls How to Get Skill Books How to Take Full Screenshots of Your Farm How to Get Cat Ears How to Get the Tea Set

Locations and Places How to Unlock Every Region How The Lost And Found Box Works Location Guide: The Blacksmith Location Guide: The Casino Location Guide: The Quarry Location Guide: The Secret Woods Location Guide: The Sewers Krobus' Shop - A Guide Location Guide: The Spa Tips for Completing the Museum Collection Prehistoric Scapula Location Guide All Artifact Locations The Hat Mouse Hidden Areas Guide: Cindersap Forest

Events and Festivals Event Guide: The Egg Hunt (Spring 13) Event Guide: Desert Festival (Spring 15, 16, and 17) Event Guide: The Flower Dance (Spring 24) Event Guide: The Luau (Summer 11) Event Guide: Trout Derby (Summer 20 and 21) Event Guide: The Stardew Valley Fair and Winning The Grange Display (Fall 16) The Wheel Trick, Explained How to Win the Grange Display Contest Every Time How to Get More Star Tokens Event Guide: Spirit's Eve (Fall 27) Event Guide: The Festival of Ice (Winter 8) Event Guide: SquidFest (Winter 12 and 13) Event Guide: The Night Market (Winter 15, 16, 17) Mermaid Show Puzzle Solution Event Guide: The Feast of The Winter Star (Winter 25)

Secrets, Mysteries, and Fan Theories Every SDV Mystery That's Still Unsolved in 2023 The Mystery Of Abigail's Father, Explained All About The Crop Fairy 'A Train is Passing Through Stardew Valley' Explained The Strange Capsule Stardew Valley's Ancient Doll, Explained The Leah's Statue Conspiracy, Explained The Secret of Fall 26 The Mysterious Witch, Explained Stardew Valley's Sea Monster, Explained Is Gunther a Ghost? The "You Are Dead" Theory, Explained Some Stardew Valley Easter Eggs to Find Mr. Qi Lore, Explained How the Meteorite Event Works

Ginger Island Basics and Unlocking the Island How to Get to Ginger Island A Complete Guide to Ginger Island's Parrots All Golden Walnut Locations Golden Coconut Guide Location Guide: The Ginger Island Resort How to Unlock the Island Trader How to Unlock Pirate Cove Where to Find the Volcano Shop Important Tasks And Farming On The Island Stardew Valley: Guide to Ginger Island Farming How to Get Pineapple Seeds How to Grow Bananas How to Beat the Volcano Dungeon Gem Bird Walkthrough What to Grow for the Gourmand Frog Where to Find all the Ginger Island Fossils How to Answer Professor Snail's Questions How to Solve the Ginger Island Mermaid Puzzle The Pirate's Wife Quest Walkthrough Where to Find Fizz A Guide to the Golden Joja Parrot Field Office Completion Guide

Qi Challenges Qi Challenges, Ranked Easiest to Hardest How to Finish Every Qi Challenge All of the Qi Items, Ranked Every Way to Find Qi Gems Qi Challenge Walkthrough: The Extended Family

Post-Game, Mods, and More Post-Game Guides Missing Bundle Completion Guide Everything You Need to Know About the Movie Theater Community Upgrade Guide How to Achieve True Perfection A Guide to the Wizard's Tower and Shrines Tips for Completionists

Achievement and Trophy Guides Trophy/Achievement Guide: Polyculture Trophy/Achievement Guide: Protector of the Valley Trophy/Achievement Guide: Infinite Power Trophy/Achievement Guide: Danger in the Deep Trophy/Achievement Guide: Two Thumbs Up Trophy/Achievement Guide: A Distant Shore Trophy/Achievement Guide: Well-Read Trophy/Achievement Guide: Unforgettable Soup How to Get Every Achievement/Trophy

Player-Made Challenges The "No Bin" Challenge, Explained The Best Player-Made Challenges Challenge Runs for Veteran Players The Most Challenging Achievements 11 Stardew Valley Recipes You Can Make In Real Life

Mods and More How to Install Mods How to Update SMAPI Stardew Valley Mods Every Player Needs The Highest-Rated Stardew Valley Mods on Nexus The Most Downloaded Mods The Best Mods for Co-Op 17 Mods That Generally Make the Game Better Mods that Take the Game to the Next Level The Best Mods that Change Everything Mods to Make You Faster Mods That Add Marriage Candidates This Mod is a Huge Boost for Joja Playthroughs The Best Hair Mods Stardew Valley Bot Helps Players Know Villager Preferences Save Anywhere Mod Cooking Mechanic Overhaul Mod Stardew Valley Mod Turns Animals into Pokemon Stardew Valley Mod Gives Creatures a Studio Ghibli Theme Fast Animation Mod Speeds Up the Game's More Tedious Sections This Mod Makes Skull Cavern a Breeze Characters Mods Worth a Try Best Expansion Mods to Install This Mod Adds More Dialogue A Mod That Makes Fishing Way Easier Stardew Valley Expanded Everything You Should Know Before Starting The Stardew Valley Expanded Mod SVE: Farm Layout Guide SVE: New Recipes SVE: Important New Areas SVE: Claire Romance Guide SVE: Lance Romance Guide SVE: Magnus (The Wizard) Romance Guide SVE: Sophia Romance Guide SVE: Victor Romance Guide SVE: Bear Shop Guide SVE: New Fish Locations

Willy, the seasoned fisherman with a kind heart, Willy is a key early contact in Stardew Valley. He provides your initial fishing rod, imparts fishing wisdom, and is your go-to source for fishing supplies.

Building a friendship with Willy is straightforward and offers valuable rewards. Prioritize connecting with villagers; take time away from farming to fish with Willy and show your appreciation with thoughtful gifts. He particularly values rare aquatic treasures!

Updated January 4, 2025, by Demaris Oxman: Willy, while a quirky character, is one of the easiest NPCs to befriend due to his extensive list of favored gifts, expanded by the 1.6 update. Many new books related to fishing are now considered Loved or Liked gifts. This updated guide covers befriending Willy in the latest game version.

Gift Guide

Willy's Shop Friendship in Stardew Valley thrives on generosity. Give Willy gifts at his shop (most weekdays), while he's fishing (Saturdays), or at the Stardrop Saloon/beach/river (evenings).

Remember Willy's birthday is Summer 24; gifts on this day provide an 8x friendship boost.

Loved Gifts (80 friendship points)

These top-tier gifts significantly improve your relationship. Some, like rare fish, require effort, but pumpkins and mead are readily obtainable. Willy also appreciates books about fishing and valuable crafting materials.

Fish: Catfish, Octopus, Sea Cucumber, Sturgeon
Books: Jewels Of The Sea, The Art O' Crabbing
Mead (Honey in a Keg)
Gold Bar (Gold Ore in the Furnace)
Iridium Bar (Iridium Ore in the Furnace)
Diamond (Mines)
Pumpkin (Fall crop)
All universally loved gifts

Liked Gifts (45 friendship points)

These are viable alternatives if Loved gifts are scarce. Willy enjoys most seafood dishes; cook your catch and share the bounty!

Cooked fish dishes (excluding Dish O' the Sea, Sashimi, and Maki Roll – neutral)
Fish: Lingcod, Tiger Trout
Quartz
Bait And Bobber

Disliked & Hated Gifts

Avoid these to prevent friendship loss. Hated gifts are worse than disliked, but it's best to steer clear of all the following:

Foraged goods
Non-seafood cooked dishes
Life Elixir
Universally disliked gifts (except fish – neutral, unless specifically listed above)
Universally hated gifts

Quests

Help Wanted Board Willy sometimes posts requests on the "Help Wanted" board outside Pierre's, asking for items or fishing challenges. Completing these earns gold and 150 friendship points.

He also sends two letters with fishing challenges:

Catch A Squid (Winter 2, Year 1): Rewards gold and 1 friendship heart.
Catch A Lingcod (Winter 13, Year 2): Rewards more gold and another friendship heart.