Friendly Neighbors - Relationship Overhaul

Description

Friendly Neighbors expands Dinkum’s resident relationships with more ways to build friendships, interact with villagers, and keep track of the people in your town.

Instead of replacing Dinkum’s existing friendship systems, Friendly Neighbors builds on them. Give residents presents, write them letters, spend time together, have conversations that actually affect your relationship, unlock new dialogue as friendships grow, receive milestone gifts, and track everything from a dedicated Villagers page inside the Pedia.

Give Residents Presents

Once you reach 2 hearts with a resident, you can give them one present per day.

Friendly Neighbors uses Dinkum’s own item acceptance rules rather than inventing an entirely separate gift system.

When choosing a present, Dinkum’s normal item selection window opens. Invalid junk is greyed out and cannot be selected.

Gift reactions:

• +2 friendship for something they like

• +3 friendship for a favourite item

• +5 additional friendship when giving a present on their birthday

• Friendship gains are reduced above 2. 25 hearts to keep progression balanced

• Giving someone food they dislike results in -1 friendship

Disliked food remains selectable, so giving Rayne a steak is still something you can choose to regret.

Resident Milestone Gifts

Residents can send you special one-time gifts as your friendship grows.

At 4 hearts: The resident mails you one of their own clothing items, selected directly from their NPC data.

At 5 hearts: They send you a piece of furniture within an appropriate value range.

Furniture rewards are deterministic, so the same resident gives the same 5-heart furniture reward in every world.

You can receive each milestone reward only once per resident.

Write Letters to Residents

You can write directly to residents for 200 Dinks or 500 Dinks to also include a gift.

Each letter gives:

• +1 friendship

• A personal reply two days later

• Gifts include additional friendship gain in the same way a normal gift would

• 5 letters per day across the entire town

• 1 letter per resident per day

• Send 1 gift per send to residents with 2 hearts or more

Replies do not contain money or rewards. They are simply another way to maintain relationships.

The text you write is never analyzed, judged, or saved by the mod. Because the resident doesn't actually inspect the message's contents, their response is always friendly.

Friendship From Spending Time Together

Dinkum normally gives a friendship reward when a resident initially begins following you.

Friendly Neighbors expands that into an actual time-spent-together system.

While a resident is genuinely accompanying you:

• Gain 1 friendship point per in-game hour, starting at +1 for the first hour after starting

• Maximum of 3 friendship points per resident per day

The timer only progresses while the resident is actually with you.

More Meaningful Conversations

Talking to residents can now occasionally lead to a conversation where your response matters.

Of the first three conversations available during the day, exactly one can become a meaningful question.

The chance increases throughout the multiple conversations:

• First eligible conversation: roughly 1 in 3

• Second: roughly 1 in 2

• Third: guaranteed if one has not already occurred

Your answer can affect the relationship:

• Warm response: +1 friendship

• Flat response: -1 friendship

Once the meaningful conversation has occurred, that resident’s conversational choice for the day is settled. More can occur though they do not impact friendship.

70 New Resident Conversations

Friendly Neighbors adds 70 new conversations to make repeated interactions less predictable.

The dialogue pool includes:

• 10 conversations for each friendship tier

• 20 general conversations without friendship requirements

• 10 longer l