Alex Starsand Island: Gifts, Schedule & Romance

Alex is the island’s carpenter and the person behind most furniture blueprints you will buy. She is one of the eight romanceable women, and one of the pickiest gift-wise: only Diamond (and the Luna Rabbit, per the data export) register as Loved.

Quick facts

Daily routine

Most of her day goes into drafting designs at Lex Woodworks. Afternoons she gathers wood in the forest or inspects the wooden tower; evenings she pets the animals in the square. She stays indoors on rainy days. Use the Social app on the in-game phone (Locate / Follow) to pin her on the map; routes change with season and weather.

Gifts Alex loves, likes and hates

You can give each NPC one gift per day. The lists below come from the game’s data export cross-checked against two independent player-tested guides: items marked confirmed appear at the same tier in at least two sources; the rest are listed only in the data export. All of this was verified during Early Access (patches 0.3–0.7) and is being re-checked for 1.0 — if something has changed, use the contact page.

Gift theme: Diamond — the only Loved gift confirmed by two sources. Liked items are wide (Honey, Premium Wood, Crispy Noodles, hydrangeas, Celeste Berry), so rely on Liked gifts plus the sugar painting.

Loved (+15 affection)

Confirmed: Diamond. Data export only: Luna Rabbit.

Liked (+10)

Confirmed: Softwood, Premium Wood, Honey, Crispy Noodles, Latiao, Star Orange Tea, Crispy Rice, Blue Sleep Lily, Moonflower, Pasture Grass, Wheat, Cucumber, Moondew Shroom, Grilled Chicken Wings, Red-Hot Medley, Chilled Twilight Salad, Hot Dry Noodles, Berry Daifuku, Light Blue Hydrangea, Blue Hydrangea, Dragon Fruit, Celeste Berry. The data export lists 587 Liked items in total (most common crops, cooked dishes and flowers).

Disliked (no gain; some sources report a loss)

Confirmed: Sand Dollar, Premium Wood Plank, Softwood Plank, Copper Sheet, Gold Ore, Iron Ingot. Also in the data export (391 items total): Bug Bait, Veggie Bait, Meat Bait, Whitefish Eggs, Flathead Catfish Eggs, Grass Carp Eggs, Crucian Carp Eggs, Orangespine Unicornfish Egg, Butterflyfish Eggs, Long-barbelled Dragonfish (King) Fish Egg…

Hated (no gain; some sources report a loss)

Confirmed: Pickled Water Spinach, Glazed Cicada, Mutton. Also in the data export (85 items total): Immortal Bell Pepper Seeds, Immortal Pepper Seeds, Pepper, Pepper Seeds, Pickled Pepper, Bell Pepper, Bell Pepper Seeds, Pickled Water Caltrop, Pickled Winter Canola, Pickled Tomato…

Sugar painting

After a 2-heart photo together you can take the picture to the sugar-painting stall in town (100 gold) and hand Alex a “Sugar Painting – Alex”. Every NPC has a unique reaction to their own painting; reported affection gains range from 0 to +30 depending on the character. See the gifts guide for the full rundown.

Romance with Alex

Alex can be romanced by a player character of either gender. Affection runs on a five-heart scale (roughly 90 / 220 / 370 points for hearts 1–3, with 500 / 750 reported by players for hearts 4–5). Conversation (about 5 points a day), gifts, bulletin-board requests (15–30) and returning lost items (20) raise it. At three hearts you can enter her room (with a weekly blueprint chest) and, in 1.0, receive a Relationship Story; at five hearts a voiced invitation scene plays and the Move In option appears — the game has no wedding or children system, so cohabitation is the final step. Dating activities (picnic, arcade, kite-flying) were extended to all 14 romanceable NPCs in 1.0. Full mechanics: romance & marriage guide.

Related guides

• All characters & NPCs
• Gifts guide (universal gifts, every NPC)
• Romance & marriage guide
• Beginner guide
• Codes status

Last reviewed: August 23, 2026 — sources: in-game data export (Early Access), two independent player-tested gift guides, official Steam announcements (voice cast Feb 7, 2026; 1.0 countdown Aug 16, 2026).