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Use Calendar memos for confirmed birthdays, complete high-value NPC tasks first, preserve progression materials, and rely only on verified gift interactions such as Kasia’s Cake.

What gifts are confirmed in Doloc Town

The publicly verified Doloc Town character gifts information confirms birthday planning, Kasia's Cake interaction, and the achievement for giving junk to Lank. It does not yet support a trustworthy all-character table of loved, liked, neutral, and disliked gifts. Use the confirmed interactions below and mark every unverified preference as To be confirmed rather than sacrificing rare materials to a guessed list.

Character progression is closely connected to quests. Kasia, the Mayor, Lank, Gerald, Mody, Mira, and Guild requests can provide equipment, recipes, storage, transport, or regional access. Complete the current request before treating random gifting as the fastest relationship route, because those task rewards also improve the systems that produce future gift materials.

Doloc Town birthdays and Calendar planning

Once the Calendar is available, highlight a date and press R to add a memo. Full-release guidance uses memos for seasonal fish and villager birthdays, allowing the same calendar to coordinate crops, fishing, tasks, and gifts. Add the reminder when a birthday is learned instead of relying on memory.

Prepare the gift before starting the birthday route. Keep it in a labeled storage box away from materials waiting for the Cargo Drone or a processing machine. On the day, recheck the Calendar and the character's current location before leaving the farm so travel does not consume the entire interaction window.

The exact birthday calendar and full preference list remain To be confirmed from reliable version 1.0 sources. The safe method is therefore to record birthdays inside the game and use only an item whose reaction you have personally confirmed or whose special interaction is documented below.

Kasia and the Cake interaction

Kasia provides early farming guidance and is connected to resin collection and later crop progress. Steam achievement guidance records a special Kasia's Cake loop: after the related tutorial task, Kasia gives the player a named cake. Giving that cake back to Kasia causes her to provide another one, allowing the interaction to repeat.

This loop is associated with the Blooming Friendship achievement. If the cake is eaten or lost, the achievement guide suggests giving Kasia a gift she likes to obtain another cake. The source confirms that Kasia has preferences, but it does not provide a complete verified preference table, so no specific replacement item is asserted here.

Keep Kasia's Cake in a dedicated gift or quest box until the interaction is finished. Do not place it with ordinary cooked food, market goods, or route supplies. A named story item can have more progression value than its recovery or sale value.

Lank, junk, and storage rewards

Lank is found in East Doloc near the River Valley entrance during the early route. His lost-Pickaxe task leads to practical storage support, including boxes and a Storage Shelf that can hold six Cardboard Boxes. For a new farm, completing this task line is more valuable than testing random gifts because the reward improves every crafting and inventory loop.

The I Have Plenty achievement requires giving a piece of junk to Lank. This proves the achievement interaction, but it does not prove junk is a high-affection or “loved” gift. Give one ordinary replaceable junk item for the achievement and do not convert that condition into a general preference claim.

Keep common junk separate from mechanical scraps that later gain repair or crafting uses. Check the current item description before gifting the last copy. The achievement needs a qualifying junk item, not the most valuable salvage in storage.

Priority characters and confirmed interactions

Character or systemConfirmed interactionWhat to reserveWhat is not confirmed
KasiaFarm tutorial, resin support, Kasia's Cake loopThe named cake and current tutorial materialsComplete loved-gift list
MayorRiver blockage, port, and station objectivesRepair and infrastructure materialsObjective deliveries as birthday preferences
LankLost Pickaxe, boxes, Storage Shelf, junk achievementTask item and one replaceable junk itemJunk as a high-affection gift
GeraldBuilding and animal-shelter tasksWood, Stone, Copper Ingot when requestedBuilding materials as universal gifts
ModyEngineering Hangar and Toolbox taskCurrent engineering request itemsToolbox reward as a preference clue
MiraOutpost tasks and route supportRequested supplies and purchase budgetShop purchases as personal gifts
Guild BoardPublic commissions for Goldcoin and itemsCommon crops or resources requested by the boardBoard delivery as personal friendship progress

These are relationship-adjacent progression rewards, but a task item is not automatically a liked gift; keep quest deliveries and personal preferences labeled separately.

Safe gifting route

  1. Open the Calendar and add memos for every birthday you personally confirm.
  2. Check active character tasks and the Guild Board before choosing gifts.
  3. Reserve building, station, research, cooking, and seed materials in labeled boxes.
  4. Complete high-value task lines such as Lank's storage route and Mody's Toolbox route.
  5. Use Kasia's Cake only for its documented loop and one replaceable junk item for Lank's achievement.
  6. Record a character's in-game reaction before treating any ordinary item as a confirmed preference.
  7. Recheck preferences after major patches before expanding the page into a full gift table.

This route protects progression while the public preference data remains incomplete. It also combines conversations, requests, shopping, and gifting into one trip rather than using an entire day on uncertain reactions.

What remains to be confirmed

A complete version 1.0 birthday calendar, every character's fixed location schedule, and a reliable loved/liked/disliked gift database remain To be confirmed. They are intentionally omitted rather than inferred from task materials or achievements. Until those sources are verified, use Calendar memos, documented special interactions, active requests, and your own recorded reactions as the dependable character route.

SOURCES & VERIFICATION

How this guide was checked

Only confirmed birthday, quest, storage, and gift interactions from the supplied research were published; speculative preference tables were excluded.

Reviewed by the Doloc Town Wiki editorial team for version 1.0 · Last evidence review: 2026-08-17 · Read the editorial policy

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