The shortest reliable answer is to use each villager's current preference table instead of assuming one universal favorite. The community wiki says villagers have separate Loved, Liked, Disliked, and Hated lists, and it explicitly notes that the game has no item liked or loved by everyone.
Quick answer: use a person-first gift route
Pick the villager first, open that villager's current gift page, then choose an item you can replace easily. March and Celine are useful examples because their verified lists point to very different item categories.
- March: community tables list ores, ingots, coffee, and several prepared foods among his liked or loved choices.
- Celine: community tables list many flowers among her liked or loved choices.
- Unknown: an item not present in a current table should not be advertised as safe without an in-game check.
What the sources actually establish
Official sources establish that Fields of Mistria is the current game and that relationships are part of its life-sim loop. The exhaustive preference tables used here are community-maintained, not an official developer promise.
A low-risk gifting checklist
- Check the villager-specific page rather than a universal-gift list.
- Confirm the item name and category in the current game language.
- Prefer replaceable forage, shop, or mine items over rare artifacts when testing.
- After an update, recheck the linked table before repeating a stockpiled route.
Version-sensitive and unknown
Exact reactions, newly added villagers, and newly added items may move after an update. This MVP does not claim a complete 1.0 database and does not invent friendship-point values. Use the current wiki table or an in-game reaction for the final decision.