Stardew Valley’s world is inhabited by many NPCs living their merry lives. You can see a lot about their daily routines and habits. These NPCs can be made friends by the player by giving gifts and helping with their requests.
Due to such high detail in each NPC’s life, they have likes and dislikes of items that you, as the player, offer them in the form of gifts.
How Do Clint’s Likings Work in Stardew Valley?
Clint, a Pelican resident, works as a blacksmith there. Clint, unlike most NPCs who seem friendly and jolly isn’t very forthcoming.
He is actually very detached and avoids any contact with other villagers. Clint isn’t married, but he secretly loves Emily. He tends to be very nervous around her.
Clint can befriend the player just like other NPCs in Stardew Valley. Your friendship can be enhanced by giving gifts.
Let’s look at what kind of gifts Clint even appreciates and result in an increase in the player’s friendship with him.
Items Clint Loves
These are the best items to give and have the most positive effect on the player’s friendship with Clint:
- Amethyst
- Aquamarine
- Artichoke dip
- Emerald
- Fiddlehead Risotto
- Bar of gold
- Iridium bars
- Jade
- Omni Geode
- Ruby
- Topaz
- Prism shard
- Rabbit’s foot
Items Clint Likes
These are items Clint likes. They will be happy to receive these items.
Giving Clint items other than these can result in Clint becoming upset or will show an unfavorable reaction to the player’s friendship.
- All Mayonnaise
- Apricots and apples
- Beer
- Bok Choy
- Cheese
- Cherry
- Chocolate cake
- Chowder
- Coffee and cookies
- Cloth
- Copper bars
- Corn
- Earth crystal
- Egg plant
- Fire Quartz
- Frozen tear
- Glazed yams
- Ice cream
- Iron bar
- Jelly
- (BlackBerry, Blueberry, salmonberry)
- Kale
- Omelette
- Pale ale
- Parsnip
- Pickled(corn, parsnip, tomato)
- Pizza
- Salad
- Sashimi
- Spaghetti
- Tomato
- Trout soup
- Wild honey
- Wine
Neutral items:
These items will not affect your friendship.
- Blackberry, blueberry
- Bread
- Cactus fruit
- Coconut
- Common mushroom
- Coral
- Cranberry
- Dandelion
- Eggs (chicken, duck or both)
- Fried egg
- Gold ore
- Grape
- Hops
- Hot pepper
- Leek
- Milk
- Refined quartz
- Snow yam
- Spice berry
- Strawberry
- Wild plum
- Daffodils
Items Clint Dislikes
This items being given to Clint will result in a non favorable reaction and a decrement in the player’s friendship with him.
- Acorn
- All flowers
- Celestine
- Clay
- Crocus
- Esperite
- Field snack
- Geode
- Hardwood
- Hematite
- Helvite
- Herring
- Iron ore
- Jagoite
- Mudstone
- Oyster
- Pine Tar
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Salmonberry
- Spring onion
- Stone
- Sunflower
- Sweet pea
- Thunder egg
- Tulip
- Wild Horseradish
Items Clint hates:
Clint’s upset reactions to these situations are last but not least. These reactions deal a heavy blow to the player’s friendship. These should be avoided at any cost.
- Bat wings
- Carp
- Copper ore
- Glass shards
- Green algae
- Iron ore
- Joja cola
- Poppy
- Rusty spoon
- Rusty spur
- Sea urchin
- Seaweed
- Slime
- Snail
- Stone
- Algae white
Conclusion:
Clint is a Stardew Valley NPC that has the most potential. Clint can be a good friend if you invest in him.
His recipes and crafting materials that he sends to players with letters are the reason why this is the case.
As long as the player’s friendship level is above zero, there is a chance for Clint to send a letter with either a copper bar, an iron bar, or a gold bar.
These materials are very useful in crafting early games.
Clint is worth every word that has been said so far.
You should now be able to identify what you need to do to improve your Clint friendship.
Avoid expressing your dislikes and make sure to give him his favorite things. It will be well worth it.