To progress in Whats up Kitty Island Journey, you’ll must rank up your friendship ranges with each character inhabiting the island by giving them items. Doing so will unlock tons of issues — like upgrades to crafting stations, recipes for sure gadgets, and even different characters — so be sure to present characters each day.
That can assist you determine what to present the varied characters, we’ve compiled a listing for you, damaged up by the perfect present to provide them and a very good early-game possibility once you don’t have a ton of sources. Word that as of this writing, some characters have completely different “finest” items for them on the Nintendo Swap model of the sport. (An replace aligning the gifting level system throughout platforms will come to the Swap on Could 22.)
We additionally checklist all of the later unlockable characters underneath a lower for spoiler causes. A few of these characters have proven up in trailers and whatnot for the sport, however we don’t wish to dampen any of the surprises for you.
Beneath, we clarify the finest items for the varied Whats up Kitty Island Journey characters and easy methods to make them (or get their recipes).
Badtz-maru’s finest items

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Favourite present: Final Joke Pizza (dough + pineapple + tofu on the pizza oven)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Quattro Formaggi Pizza (dough + moon cheese + coral milk within the pizza oven)
Good early-game present: Pineapple Pizza (dough + pineapple)
Badtz-maru is among the beginning characters at Seaside Resort, most frequently hanging out at his comedian ebook stand on the docks.

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Favourite present: Interactive Historical past of Chocolate (a crafting desk recipe unlocked from friendship stage three with TOPHAT)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Interactive Historical past of Chocolate
Good early-game present: Clean E book
Chococat is among the beginning characters at Seaside Resort. He normally hangs out across the crafting desk.
Cinnamoroll’s finest items

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Favourite present: Chocolate Chai (candlenut+ chocolate coin + magma bloom/cinna bloom within the espresso machine)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Spicy Pumpkin Latte (candlenut + cinna bloom + pumpkin within the espresso machine)
Good early-game present: Spicy Pizza (dough + cinna bloom/magma bloom within the pizza oven)
Present reward: Sweet Clouds
Cinnamoroll roams across the island, dashing off to numerous areas to make deliveries.

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Favourite present: Mermaid Determine (crafting desk recipe unlocked through friendship stage 13 with My Melody)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Mermaid Determine
Good early-game present: Uncommon-tagged aquatic fish (Sandy Puffler, Galaxy Grouper, Briny Clamfish)
Hangyodon is barely accessible when you unlock swimming and diving.
Whats up Kitty’s finest items

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Favourite present: Purple Bow Apple Pie (flour + apple + magma bloom within the oven)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): The Way forward for Every thing (crafting desk recipe present in a chest on Cloud Island, requires friendship stage two with Lala)
Good early-game present: Strawberry Shortcake (flour + strawberry within the oven)
Whats up Kitty is among the beginning characters at Seaside Resort, most frequently discovered at her cafe.

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Favourite present: Critter Totem (crafting desk recipe unlocked through friendship rank 10 with Keroppi)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Swampy Music Field (crafting desk recipe present in a treasure chest close to the Nature Protect)
Good early-game present: Bush Fiend critter (caught from night to nighttime within the Spooky Swamp hedge maze)
Keroppi lives within the Spooky Swamp, although you’ll be able to typically discover him hanging out at Badtz-maru’s comedian store.

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Favourite present: Pumpkin Spice Soda (fizzy crystal + pumpkin + cinna bloom within the soda machine)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Spicy Pumpkin Latte (candlenut + cinna bloom + pumpkin within the espresso machine)
Good early-game present: Pumpkin Pie (flour + pumpkin within the oven)
Kuromi lives in Spooky Swamp and she or he’s most frequently present in her potion hut.

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Favourite present: Pink Clouds Ice Cream (cactus cream + sweet cloud + sakura within the dessert machine)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Starry Skies Shake (cactus cream + snowcicle + starfruit within the dessert machine) or Quattro Formaggi Pizza (dough + moon cheese + coral milk within the pizza oven)
Good early-game present: Pink Latte (candlenut + strawberry/sakura within the espresso machine)
My Melody is among the beginning characters at Seaside Resort, generally discovered at her furnishings store.

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Favourite present: Mountain Soundtrack (crafting desk recipe unlocked through friendship stage eight with Retsuko)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Mountain Soundtrack
Good early-game present: Calming Crystal (discovered within the Crystal Caves)
Pekkle may be discovered at Gemstone Mountain, in entrance of the dance corridor.

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Favourite present: Pochacco Power Pop (fizzy crystal + spinip + tofu within the soda machine)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Pochacco Power Pop
Good early-game present: Tofu bread (flour + tofu within the oven)
Present reward: Strawberries
Pochacco is among the beginning characters who may be discovered round Seaside Resort.
Pompompurin’s finest items

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Favourite present: Mama’s Pudding (cactus cream + banana + coral milk within the dessert machine)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Starry Skies Shake (cactus cream + snowcicle + starfruit within the dessert machine)
Good early-game present: Dessert Pizza (dough + sweet cloud/sugarkelp/swampmallow within the pizza oven)
Pompompurin hangs out at Gemstone Mountain, in or round his dessert boat.

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Favourite present: Volcanic Guitar (crafting desk recipe unlocked through friendship stage 4 with TOPHAT)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Sounds of Metal (crafting desk recipe present in a chest within the lava caves)
Good early-game present: Ingots, however extra ideally a Volcano Soundtrack (crafting desk recipe present in a lava caves treasure chest)
Retsuko is usually at Mount Hothead, lamenting her misplaced baggage. When you assist her out, she’ll transfer to hold across the sizzling springs.
Tuxedo Sam’s finest items

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Favourite present: Designer Island Doll (crafting desk recipe unlocked through friendship rank 16 with My Melody)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): The Way forward for Every thing (crafting desk recipe present in a chest on Cloud Island, requires friendship stage two with Lala)
Good early-game present: Any tropical fish with the “uncommon” tag (coastal clamfish, tropical sunfish, and summer time sole)
Tuxedo Sam is among the beginning characters, practically at all times present in his clothes store.
The characters beneath unlock through sure story quests. Spoilers will likely be beneath the picture.

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Greatest items for characters unlocked through quests (spoiler)
Want me mell’s finest items

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Favourite present: Any uncommon candle (creation station recipe unlocked through friendship stage 10 with Want me mell)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Uncommon candle
Good early present: Any rare-tagged fish (lavatory clamfish, burning perch, cavern clamfish, and so forth.)
To unlock Want me mell, you’ll must hit friendship rank 11 with My Melody and full the “Dessert-ed Boat,” “Parched,” and “Revive the Oasis” quests. After this, the questline “Curious Caverns” will unlock, ultimately main you to her.
My Candy Piano’s finest items

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Favourite present: Colourful Lamb Plush (crafting desk recipe unlocked through friendship rank 10 with My Candy Piano)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Quattro Formaggi Pizza (dough + moon cheese + coral milk within the pizza oven)
Good early present: Critter Totem (crafting desk recipe unlocked through friendship stage 10 with Keroppi)
To unlock My Candy Piano, you’ll want to succeed in friendship rank 15 with My Melody and full the hunt sequence that begins with “A Good friend Certainly.”
Massive Challenges’ finest items

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Favourite present: The Biggest Problem (crafting desk recipe unlocked through friendship rank 4 with Lala)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): The Way forward for Every thing (crafting desk recipe present in a chest on Cloud Island, requires friendship stage two with Lala)
Good early present: Meditations on Resilience (crafting desk recipe unlocked through friendship rank two with Massive Challenges)
Present reward: Little Challenges
To unlock Massive Challenges, you’ll want to finish the story quests that lead as much as Icy Peak, which functionally includes “fixing” all of the island’s areas and incomes their respective Star Fragments.

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Favourite present: The Way forward for Every thing (crafting desk recipe present in a chest on Cloud Island, requires friendship stage two with Lala)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): The Way forward for Every thing
Good early-game present: Candied Banana Espresso (candlenut + sweet cloud + banana within the espresso machine)
TOPHAT will begin exhibiting up as a buddy when you clear Massive Problem’s storyline above.

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Favourite present: Quattro Formaggi Pizza (dough + moon cheese + coral milk within the pizza oven)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Quattro Formaggi Pizza
Good early-game present: Almond Pound Cake (flour + sweet cloud + toasted almond within the oven)
Whereas Lala will present up in snippets of the story earlier than you actually meet them, you’ll be able to solely begin gifting them when you unlock Cloud Island — which occurs after saving Massive Challenges, hitting rank 17 friendship with Whats up Kitty, finishing her given quests, after which finishing the “Stargazing” quest.

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Favourite present: Starry Skies Shake (cactus cream + snowcicle + starfruit within the dessert machine)
Greatest present for elevating friendship (Nintendo Swap solely): Starry Skies Shake
Good early-game present: Almond Pound Cake (flour + sweet cloud + toasted almond within the oven)
Kiki unlocks through the identical technique as Lala above.
Usahana’s finest items (iOS solely)

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Favourite present: Rainbow Dango (rainbow beam + 3 mochi)
Good early-game present: Colorpillar critter
Usahana is a personality locked to the Apple Arcade model of Whats up Kitty Island Journey for now, however she is going to come to the opposite variations at a later, unannounced date. Since I play the Steam model of the sport, Usahana’s info is compiled with assist from the Whats up Kitty Island Journey Wiki.