Hayden gifts in Fields of Mistria
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Fields of Mistria: Hayden gift guide, and how to get each item

The farmer next door

Of all the villagers in Fields of Mistria, Hayden is perhaps the most realistically suited to a love affair with your ch🤡aracter. He owns the farm next door (you can combine acreage!), and, other than his bizarr☂e relationship with a chicken, he has few faults.

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Of course at this point in Early Access, you can’t actually get very far with romancing Hayden, or anyone for that matter. However, you can give yourself a head start and get him to the current maximum heart level of four, pre🅺paring yourself to woo him when the time comes. 

Hayden’s loved gifts in Fields of Mistria

Hayden's reaction to a loved gift in Fields of Mistria
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As you might expect, Hayden loves to receive farm produce. Clearly, his animals aren’t performing as well as he’d like, as he’s always happy to take what your animals provide. 

Golden Animal Products will only drop from your animals once you reach a relationship of at least 8 hearts with them. You can possibly get them by giving 100 Shiny Beads to the Chicken Statue on Swee🌄twater Farm, though. Which is lucky, because Hayden is very closeꦑ by if this happens. 

GiftHow to get
Golden ButterMade at the Mill using 2 Golden Milk
Golden CheeseMade at the Mill using 2 Golden Milk
Golden Duck EggDropped from female ducks with at least 8 hearts
Golden Duck MayonnaiseMade at the Mill using 2 Golden Duck Eggs
Golden EggDropped from female chickens with at least 8 hearts
Pumpkin PieChance to appear for purchase from Balor’s Wagon or the
Sleeping Dragon Inn, or made using the following recipe:
1 Pumpkin
1 Flour
1 Sugar
1 Milk
1 Egg
Vegetable QuicheChance to appear for purchase from Balor’s Wagon or the
Sleeping Dragon Inn, or made using the following recipe:
1 Egg
1 Milk
1 Flour
1 Potato
1 Wild Leek
Stone HorseUncommon Artifact, has a chance to appear in any Dig Spot
around Mistria or in the Mines

Hayden’s liked gifts in Fields of Mistria

Hayden's reaction to getting a liked gift in Fields of Mistria
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Again, H🏅ayden is happy to take any animal produce off of your hands, but the key to his heart also appears to be through his stomach,🅷 as a lot of his liked gifts are meals and he has a soft spot for fruit pies and vegetarian dishes.

All of these dishes (as well as those Hayden loves) can possi🥀bly be found at the Sleeping Dragon Inn, Balor’s Wagon, or at Darcy’s Stall in the Saturday Market. 

GiftHow to get
ButterMade at the Mill using 2 Milk
CheeseMade at the Mill using 2 Milk
Duck EggDropped by female ducks
Duck MayonnaiseMade at the Mill using 2 Duck Eggs
EggDropped by female chickens
MayonnaiseMade at the Mill using 2 Eggs
MilkDropped by female cows
Tea with LemonMade using the following recipe:
1 Lemon
1 Sugar
1 Tea
CoffeeCan be found in Copper Treasure Chests
Has a chance to appear at Balor’s Wagon
Purchased at the Spring Festival
Sold at Darcy’s Stall at the Saturday Market
Apple PieMade using the following recipe:
1 Apple
1 Flour
1 Sugar
Coconut Cream PieMade using the following recipe:
1 Coconut
1 Milk
1 Sugar
1 Butter
1 Flour
Crystal Berry PieMade using the following recipe:
1 Crystal Berries
1 Flour
1 Egg
1 Sugar
Lemon PieMade using the following recipe:
1 Lemon
1 Egg
1 Sugar
1 Flour
Wild Berry PieMade using the following recipe:
6 Wild Berries
1 Sugar
1 Flour
Sweet Potato PieMade using the following recipe:
1 Sweet Potato
1 Sugar
1 Flour
Vegetable Pot PieMade using the following recipe:
1 Potato
1 Parsnip
1 Carrot
1 Peas
1 Flour
QuicheMade using the following recipe:
1 Egg
1 Milk
1 Flour
Pumpkin StewMade using the following recipe:
1 Pumpkin
1 Onion
1 Milk
1 Rosemary
Mushroom Steak DinnerMade using the following recipe:
1 Oyster Mushroom
1 Butter
1 Cauliflower
1 Beet
1 Tide Lettuce
Loaded Baked PotatoMade using the following recipe:
1 Potato
1 Butter
1 Cheese
1 Wild Leek

What not to give Hayden in Fields of Mistria

Hayden's reaction to a disliked gift in Fields of Mistria
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If you’re looking to befriend or woo Hayden, it’s a safe🤡 bet not to give him any of the following items:

  • Junk items, such as Hay, Sod, Clay, or Peat
  • Any bugs (although he will ask if you meant to give them to Henrietta)
  • Any Fish or dishes made with them (Fish are friends, not food!)

Hayden also par𒆙ticularly hates receiving a Sushi Platter. Apparently, this one in particular is worse than any of the other fish dishes you could possibly give him. 


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