What are everyone’s favorite gifts in Hello Kitty Island Adventure? Like Animal Crossing, Dreamlight Valley, and similar wholesome games, Hello Kitty Island Adventure tasks you with befriending your Sanrio neighbors. To do so, just like with real friends (or so we’ve heard), you must learn their likes and dislikes, and gift them all the items their heart desires.
Learning your friends’ favorite gifts in Hello Kitty Island Adventure can take some time, between the sheer volume of characters and the amount of resources across the sunny island setting. Since we’re your friends, we’re gifting you what you want most, a Hello Kitty Island Adventure gift guide. Below, you’ll find every character’s likes and all Hello Kitty Island Adventure favorite gifts, so you can earn their friendship in the life game and unlock quests fast.
All Hello Kitty Island Adventure gifts
If you’re looking for a specific character, we’ve got gift guides for all Hello Kitty Island Adventure characters:
Character’s favorite gifts check all three of their likes and give the most friendship XP. If you’re short, plenty of items tick one or two of your friends’ wants, and can still help increase your friendship. Remember to give each friend three gifts a day to make the most of your daily cap.
If you really need to increase your friendship with a specific character, you can also give them a Friendship Blossom, allowing you to gift that friend an additional three gifts that day. Similarly, a Friendship Bouquet can be used to reset all characters’ daily gift cap.
Hello Kitty gift guide
- Likes: Fruit, Bakery, Fancy
- Favorite gift: Red Bow Apple Pie
- Baking recipe: Flour, Apple, Magma Bloom
Magma Bloom can only be obtained from Hothead Mountain, but you can unlock this area at any time by swimming to the top right hand corner of the map.
My Melody gift guide
- Likes: Sweet, Pink, Dreamy
- Favorite gift: Pink Clouds Ice Cream
To obtain Sakura, you must first unlock Merry Meadow by completing the Revive the Oasis and Curious Caverns quests upon reaching friendship level 11 with My Melody.
Chococat gift guide
- Likes: Device, Book, Chocolate
- Favorite gift: Interactive History of Chocolate
- Crafting recipe: Mechanism, Blank Book, Spark, three Chocolate Coins
To unlock the recipe for Chococat’s favorite gift, you must reach level three with Tophat, which can only be done after reaching and unlocking Icy Peaks.
Tuxedosam gift guide
The Designer Island Doll is unlocked after by reaching friendship level 16 with My Melody, but you can also obtain one by crafting one of each of the other dolls: Aquatic, Rocky, Tropical, Swampy, and Volcanic.
Badtz-maru gift guide
- Likes: Joke, Tropical, Pizza
- Favorite gift: Ultimate Joke Pizza
The pizza oven is located on Hothead island, and is unlocked by making friends with Retsuko. It requires dough, which can be obtained by giving gifts to Retsuko.
Pochacco gift guide
- Likes: Sports, Healthy, Veggie
- Favorite gift: Pochacco Energy Pop
The Soda machine is located on Gemstone Island, and requires Fizzy Crystals to operate. These are obtained by riding the minecart through Gemstone Mountain, and using a crafting bench to turn Fizzy Ore into crystals.
Keroppi gift guide
- Likes: Critters, Swampy, Wood
- Favorite gift: Critter Totem
- Crafting recipe: Woodblock, three Coconuts, five Mushrooms
The crafting plans for the Critter Totem are obtained by reaching friendship level 10 with Keroppi himself.
Kuromi gift guide
- Likes: Soda, Fall, Spooky
- Favorite gift: Pumpkin Spice Soda
The Soda machine is located on Gemstone Island, and requires Fizzy Crystals to operate. These are obtained by riding the minecart through Gemstone Mountain, and using a crafting bench to turn Fizzy Ore into crystals.
Cinnamoroll gift guide
- Likes: Cozy beverage, Chocolate, Spice
- Favorite gift: Chocolate Chai
- Coffee recipe: Candlenut, Chocolate Coin, Magma Bloom/Cinna Bloom
The espresso machine is located in the Comedy Club, which can only be reached once you have crafted the Snorkel. Another coffee machine is located in the cafe, and can be used once you have reached friendship level 11 with Hangyodon.
Pekkle gift guide
- Likes: Music, Rocky, Relax
- Favorite gift: Mountain Soundtrack
- Crafting recipe: Mechanism, five Feathers, five Shinies
The crafting recipe for the Mountain Soundtrack disc are unlocked by reaching friendship level 8 with Retsuko.
Pompompurin gift guide
- Likes: Dessert, Relax, Dairy
- Favorite gifts: Mama’s Pudding
The dessert machine is located in Pompompurin’s Dessert Boat. All recipes require Cactus Cream, which can be found growing on Cacti just south of the Dessert Boat.
Retsuko gift guide
- Likes: Fire, Music, Metal
- Favorite gift: Volcanic Guitar
The Volcanic Guitar crafting plans are unlocked once you have reached friendship level 4 with Tophat, meaning you need to reach Icy Peaks before you can give Retsuko her favorite gift.
Hangyodon gift guide
- Likes: Aquatic, Fish, Cloth
- Favorite gift: Mermaid Figure
- Crafting recipe: Two Fabric, three Coconuts, five Seashells
The crafting plans for the Mermaid figure are unlocked at friendship level 13 with My Melody.
Other characters
These future characters are spoilers if you haven’t already found them, so we’ve hidden them in their own section. If you don’t want to know who else might be hiding around the island, don’t read on! We’ll also add to this section when more characters are added.
Wish Me Mell gift guide
- Likes: Fire, Flower, Rare
- Favorite gift: Rare candle
- Crafting recipe: Five Beeswax, five Patterned Flowers
Wish Me Mell is unlocked by completing the Curious Caverns and the Curiouser and Curiouser quests having reached friendship level 11 with My Melody.
Tophat gift guide
- Likes: Digital, Fancy, Stars
- Favorite gift: The Future of Everything
- Crafting recipe: Three Little Challenges, three Glitches, three Stars
The crafting plans for The Future of Everything are found in a treasure chest on Cloud Island.
Big Challenges gift guide
- Likes: Volcanic, Resilience, Book
- Favorite gift: The Greatest Challenge
- Crafting recipe: Two Ingots, two Sparks, two Little Challenges
You can unlock the crafting plans for The Greatest Challenge by reaching friendship level four with Lala.
With this Hello Kitty Island Adventure gift guide, you’ll be able to increase the quality of your friendships from new to close in no time! We can’t do all the hard work for you though, as you still need to go round and find those recipes and resources in the relaxing game. You might also be looking for Hello Kitty Island Adventure Tophat Gudetama while you’re out and about, but we have a handy guide for his current location.