Tutorial

NPCs each have different items they like or dislike, love or hate.
You can gift items once a week.
- During a birthday week, if you gift an item before their birthday, then you can also give them a birthday present (confirmed by @Airyspaw).
Gifts will either increase or reduce your popularity with the character, depending on how they feel about the gift.
- Increases in your popularity will reflect in the Town Reputation (basically, the sum of your popularity with all of the NPCs).
You can gift many different items in the game. A good place to start is with resources, and items you can make at a crafting station.

Patch 19 Disclaimer

These tables have been completed with data taken directly from Patch 19 (1.0.3) game files and are accurate per current game code.

There is still one discrepancy:

Frita's liked list still includes Decorative Paffti Statue, a furniture item that cannot be gifted to NPCs. Devs have been alerted that this issue persisted.
Tulok's loved list includes Tzoru Calming Potion, which is not an obtainable item in the current patch. Devs have been alerted.

All other NPC discrepancies have been corrected by Patch 19, though, and any NPCs formerly on the warning list can now be used to work toward the "Besties" Steam Achievement.

Once gifting tables have been fixed this disclaimer will be removed.

Honorable Mentions

We wikifolk would like to offer thanks to:

Our own veteran members who began the original data fetching project and spreadsheet that were used for the information that was previously included in this page.
Player aaa for a truly unprecedented amount of datamining assistance and printing that helped @Katima turn a 30+ hour data transfer project into a few hour project.
Dev Exkajer for providing spreadsheet gifting data to assist us.
All of the players on Discord who provided data verification in the wiki discussion area via screenshots and live play reports.

Character Gifts

Note: One of Frita's loved gifts in the game data is a Paffti Decorative Statue, which is a furniture item that can't be gifted to NPCs. This bug has persisted into patch 19 but Devs are aware and this note will be removed when Frita's gifting is 100% obtainable.

Horace

Malbi

Miruta

Omari

Patrice

Rebecca

Rogost

Siemibor

Tesha

Tulok

Note: One of Tulok's loved gifts is 'Tzoru Calming Potion' which is an unobtainable item. This has been reported to the devs, the note will be removed when it is corrected.