Friendship 101

Friendship 101

Type	Book
Location	Mayor's Manor; Bookseller
Sell Price	3000g

Friendship 101 speeds up the slowest part of life in Pelican Town. Reading it adds a tenth to every point of friendship a farmer earns, from conversation, from gifts, from festivals and from completing errands on the board. Losses are untouched, so neglecting someone costs exactly what it always did, and the book is purely a gain. The Prize Machine in the Mayor's Manor hands it out as one of its earlier rewards, which is the cheap route, and the Bookseller stocks it from the third year for anyone who missed it. For a save aimed at hearts, heart events and a wedding, this is the quiet accelerator.

The in-game description reads: You become friends with people a little faster.

Overview

Friendship in the valley is measured in points that accumulate into hearts, and almost everything worth having on the social side waits behind a heart count. Recipes arrive in the post from villagers who like the farmer enough to share them. Heart events, the little scenes that fill in who these people are, unlock at fixed thresholds. Marriage needs a candidate taken to ten hearts and a Mermaid's Pendant in hand. A tenth more on every point does not sound dramatic, but across a year of daily chats and two gifts a week it pulls a whole heart forward on several villagers at once.

The Prize Machine is the route most players meet first. It stands in Lewis' house beside the Town Ledger and runs on Prize Tickets, which come from finishing quests and Special Orders. The machine works through a fixed list of prizes in order, showing the next three, and each claim moves the queue along by one. Friendship 101 sits early enough in that list to be reachable in a first or second year, which makes it one of the few powers available to a farm that has not yet made serious money.

For anyone who spent their tickets elsewhere, the stall above JojaMart adds the book to its pool in the third year, appearing on roughly one table in ten and at a price that only a settled farm shrugs at. The Bookseller only stays for a single day at a time, twice a season, so a farmer waiting on this one keeps an eye on the calendar.

The first reading takes the power and the copy with it, and the bonus then shows on the Special Items and Powers tab. Later copies pay out a small amount of experience in every skill, which is a reasonable return on a Prize Ticket. On a farm with more than one player the boost is personal, and a couple working on the same villagers each need to read their own copy before they both see the faster progress.

Notes

Timing is worth thinking about. The power multiplies points earned after it is read, so reading it in the first Spring is worth far more than reading it in the fourth year, when most of the town is already at full hearts. Farmers who know it is in the Prize Machine often spend their early tickets working towards it for exactly that reason.

Penny loves the gift, Elliott likes it, and Alex dislikes it. As a colourant it reads red in the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house on 2 Willow Lane, and pink through the spool of the Sewing Machine with a dyeable garment in the feed.

All Books

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Image	Price
Animal Catalogue		2000g
Bait And Bobber		500g
Book Of Stars		2500g
Book of Mysteries		3000g
Combat Quarterly		500g
Dwarvish Safety Manual		1000g
Friendship 101		3000g
Horse: The Book		1000g
Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Thick		500g
Jewels Of The Sea		800g
Mapping Cave Systems		4000g
Mining Monthly		500g
Monster Compendium		2000g
Ol' Slitherlegs		1000g
Price Catalogue		1000g
Queen Of Sauce Cookbook		10000g
Raccoon Journal		1000g
Stardew Valley Almanac		500g
The Alleyway Buffet		3000g
The Art O' Crabbing		1000g
The Diamond Hunter		1000g
Treasure Appraisal Guide		500g
Way Of The Wind pt. 1		5000g
Way Of The Wind pt. 2		10000g
Woodcutter's Weekly		500g
Woody's Secret		500g