Friend

SPOILERS!!!This article may contain story-related spoilers.Read at your own risk.

Sasquatch can **befriend** many humans from various locations around the map. The possible friends and their progress are listed in the Friends Book. You need to make 6 friends to win the Mayor Election. There are 55 or 56 possible friends in total (Goon Jr is unavailable if he was arrested in the end of Storyline chapter 3). Friends’ costumes and names can be customized after reaching full friendship.

## Making friends

To hang out with a friend, call them. You can use the quick dial option from the Friends Book. The friends will stop their work and will wait for you on the street near their job. The services they normally offer become unavailable until they return. However, you can call them even at night, after they went home - in that case they instantly appear near their work place. Once you called a friend in the Friends Book, you can also speed dial them in the main Phone Number Book.

Some friends initially decline to hang out, saying they need to know you better. You need to impress them with activities related to them. For example, you need to become Mayor to make three Mayor’s advisors your friends.

Talk to the friend to start. If you decline to hang out, they’ll return to the usual location. You can also call them while they are waiting to cancel the meeting.

If you've triggered Ranger Danger while the friend is waiting for you, you can leave the area and return, the friend will still be there. If you've triggered ranger danger while already hanging out, the friend heads home, without any additional penalty. Ranger Danger is triggered if your vehicle hits a friend who is waiting for you, or who is going home after hanging out; however, it is not triggered for friends with which you are currently hanging out.

You can have up to 3 friends following you - that is sometimes required for a dance party and a photo (see below). If you try to pick up a fourth one, they will say that the crowd is too large, and go back to the place where they are usually found. Having multiple friends in a party helps you to fulfill their requirements simultaneously, but the downside is that you have to use slower vehicles like Taxi to move them, instead of a Super Car or a Sport Bike.

Unlike Taxi Service passengers, friends follow you on foot, including across area borders. However, if you run too far away from your friend and then go to another area, your friend will be left behind. The same happens if you quick travel using the map. They’ll return to their original location, declining to meet again for the rest of the day. Note that you can use the bus to quickly reach the Ski Mountain with your friends.

To transport your friends between the Island and the mainland, you can use the Ferry or a boat, Motor Boat has 3 passenger seats, enough for a full party.

### Interaction

Press hand popup on your friend to interact with them. Their action wheel contains three options:

* Home - send the friend home and finish hanging out. There is no penalty for that.
* Talk - talk to the friend to learn what they want.
* Hand - handshake (does nothing) or give the friend an item to eat.

### Preventing starvation

Your friends start with zero hunger level. You can feed them; to do that, open their handshake interface and put an item in their hand. Any food will do. You can feed them Dog Poop, or Bagged Dog Poop (frequently found in dumpsters and in the Spaghetti Hotline fridge), and it fills one hunger point. They will eat a Receipt, but that doesn’t fill hunger.

The friends say that they are starving at 0 hunger level, and that they are a bit hungry at 1 or 2 hunger level. It is not necessary to feed them to full hunger level.

When at zero hunger level, friends don’t tell what they want to do when talked to. However, they tell the next activity after finishing the previous. At the minimum, you need to feed them once in the beginning to learn the first activity.

If their next activity is eating a certain food, they will tell even if hungry.

While they say that they can go home if too hungry, that doesn’t happen; so you only need to feed them to check for the next activity task. Also, their hunger level falls pretty quickly, so feeding them full may be wasteful.

## Enjoyable activities

The friend may ask to do some activity they enjoy. If you fulfill their requirements, a yellow circle will fill above their head.

The enjoyment circle never decreases. If the activity is interrupted for any reason, the circle keeps filling from the same level when it is restarted. You even can continue filling it the next day.

After it’s full, talk to the friend; you will earn some friendship; their enjoyment will reset to zero.

Then they’ll ask for another activity, or, after 1-3 activities per day, they’ll say they are exhausted and will go home. You can’t hang out with them again the same day; if you call them, they’ll offer to meet some time later. You can continue activities with other friends you have in your party.

It takes between 3 and 7 activities to reach full friendship. The number is random for each friend.

You can re-randomize activity by exiting the game before going across area borders, which saves the game. If you do go to another area, the task is fixed, and if you fail it, it will be the same task the next time you go out with this friend, until you complete it. However, this task is reset 11 in-game days later. So, if you want to change the hard or glitched task, don't call that friend for 10 days in a row.

### Eating food

#### A type of food

Friends may ask to eat a type of food. You need to feed them 3 suitable items to fill the circle. This also fills their hunger meter, preventing starvation.

List of types of food:

* Meat: anything from the meat fridge in the Supermarket, or the campground counterparts
* Seafood: any freshwater or saltwater Fish, or Canned Tuna and Canned Sardines from the Supermarket
* Fruit: anything from the fruit stalls in the Supermarket
* Vegetable: anything from the vegetable stalls in the Supermarket
* Food which smells terrible: any food made stinky in a trash container, or just Dog Poop

Friends may also ask for “a drink or two” - that means two drinks of any kind, including the caffeinated ones.

#### Specific food

Friends may ask for 3-5 items of a specific food, including fish.

Note that some foods may have similar or identical names, like Avocado (whole) and Avocado (half), and only one of them satisfies the request.

Note that sometimes it may be a rare food like Halloween Candy - if you don’t have any stored since last Halloween, you’ll need to visit Jack and activate Halloween for a day. You also can get some from the bowl in Jack’s cave.

They also may request an unobtainable item called simply Fish - in that case it’s highly recommended to reset the task immediately by exiting the game, or you’ll have to wait 10 days for that task to be replaced.

### Visiting areas and seeing objects

Friends may ask you to visit certain areas. You just need to stay in that area and the circle will slowly fill.

Friends may also ask to go see certain objects, animals, or vehicles. You need to bring them near those objects. Sometimes friends may ask to see several different objects. They don’t need to see these objects simultaneously, you can visit those places one by one.

#### List of objects

When friends ask to see a certain object, animal, or vehicle, or to have it in the photo, that’s where you can find them.

Most of the objects they want to see are the same as in the Camera Club photo requests.

* Igloo (at the lower level of the Ski Mountain)
* Park Map Board (near the Ranger Station; at the entrance areas of the Golf Course, the Race Track, and the Ski Mountain)
* Bucket of golf balls (at the Driving Range)
* Gigantic burger (on top of the Diner)
* Waterfall (Campground campsites C/D)
* Pile of wood logs (the rightmost area of the Sawmill)
* Apple tree (at the RV Park or the Dirt Racetrack)
* Deer head mounted on the wall (inside the Ranger Station, or the Summit Hut)
* Sign with the number 300 on it (at the Driving Range)
* Bee hive (at the Lake; in Town, in the forest to the northeast; at the Race Track secret cache area)
* Hot springs (Hot Springs area at the middle level of the Ski Mountain)
* Poster of a trash can (inside the Raccoon Shop)
* Outhouse (many places, including the Campground and the Golf Course)
* Campfire (randomly at the Campground, RV Park; near RV Dude at the Island; an unlit campfire will work too)
* Tent (randomly at the campsites, or on the Island near RV Dude)
* Picnic table (in many areas, including the Campground, and near the Diner)
* Beach Ball (Island northern beach)
* Payphone (Ranger Station; Diner; Lodge; Dirt Racetrack; Island Shop)

Sometimes they ask to see some type of Mushrooms. These are random, so you have to find them. Some of the possible mushrooms are:

* Oyster mushroom
* Chicken of the woods mushroom
* Angel wing mushroom
* Honey mushroom
* Fairy ring mushroom
* Prince mushroom
* Puffball mushroom

List of animals:

* Raccoon (inside its shop near the Sasquatch House)
* Bear (at the Sasquatch House, at the Sawmill, or at the Lake)
* Fox (in the Fox Shop in the Port, or in the Golf Course)
* Duck (for example, Construction Duck near the Sasquatch House, or Rich Uncle Duck at the Island)
* Dog (following you after being adopted; if not yet adopted, see the article)

For vehicles, you can use your own vehicle or go to a place where such vehicles spawn. See their corresponding articles.

### Swimming and scuba diving

Friends may ask to go swimming. You need to enter the water with them and stay until the circle is filled.

Friends may also ask to go Scuba Diving. Obviously, you need to have Scuba Diving Gear for that. Just stay underwater until their enjoyment circle is filled. You can’t talk underwater, so go to the shore to talk to them and receive the friendship progress. If you run out of oxygen, you can exit the water and dive again, the progress will continue from the same point. The progress is kept even if you black out and the Scuba Duck rescue you.

Friends may ask just to swim or scuba dive anywhere, or they may request a certain location.

List of water bodies:

* Lake. Can be done in the campground Lake, or in other fresh water bodies which are deep enough for Scuba Diving, like the lakes at the Driving Range at the Golf Course, near the Race Track podium, at the lower level of the Ski Mountain, or in the forest along the West Highway.
* Sewers
* Ocean (can be done at the Marina or around the Island, or at the Northern Ocean)
* Hot Springs (only swimming)

### Riding a vehicle

Friends may ask to drive them around in a vehicle. Sometimes the ask for any vehicle, and sometimes for a certain vehicle (car, bike, or boat). It’s not necessary to use your owned vehicle, you can steal one instead. Enter the vehicle with the friend and drive. The progress does not increase if you stand still.

### Games and competitions

Friends may ask to participate in certain events. Note that these events may be inaccessible late in the day, and you’ll have no choice but to send the friend home.

When choosing an event, choose those where the friend may join you. They are denoted by the friend’s face on top of the window (see the picture).

Your friend’s enjoyment grows gradually while the event goes on. If your friend is kicked out of the event early, like in the Snowbrawl, their enjoyment level will be filled a bit more on the podium screen. It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose.

List of events:

* Golfing
* Racing
* Skiing: there’s a special event called “Ski with Friends”. You can also go to the upper levels and enter one of the ski slopes, but they are not long enough for full satisfaction.
* Snowball Fights
* Monster Truck Madness
* Motocross event
* Boat Racing
* Surfing

#### Gallery

Snowballing with a friend. Note the friend’s face on top.Skiing with friends - a special event.Surfing with a friend.
### New custom outfit

Friends may ask for a new custom outfit. You need to go to the Clothing Store and change at least one item in their outfit. Sometimes a friend will ask for an outfit with a specific item in it.

List of specific items:

* Sailor Hat

### Dance parties

Friends may ask to throw a dance party.

Sometimes friends ask for a party with at least 4 dancers (Sasquatch himself and the Dog counting), so you’ll need to call at least one other friend. Alternatively, you can go to the Apartment with your dog, ask the rental agent to take a look at the apartments, then go near the radio in apartment 1. The rental agent will dance as well.

Sometimes the friend asks to dance with specific other friends.

To transport them all, you need a vehicle with multiple passenger seats, like a Taxi, a Pickup Truck, a 4x4, or a Motor Boat.

Move them to a location with a Television or a Radio. Tune the radio to the dance station (slider should be on the second tick), or turn the TV to the music channel (number 8).

Locations:

* Ranger Station (television)
* Construction Duck workshop (radio)
* RV Park (radio)
* Sasquatch House (radio and television, if bought)
* Apartment 1, if rented (radio)
* Port Admin building tower (radio, after you are promoted in Crane Operator job)

### Photos

Friends may ask to take a photo of themselves, them with you, or with one or two other friends.

Friends may request the photo to be taken in a certain location, or with a certain object or vehicle in the frame. (See the list of objects in the section above.) Make sure you have some film roll for the camera, or buy more in the Camera Club.

You need to collect the requested friends (a Taxi, a 4x4, a Pickup Truck, or a Motor Boat will be useful), transport them to the location, and take a photo. Sometimes they want Sasquatch himself to be in the photo with other friends, though they may not say that initially. So it’s better to always use the timer to be in the photo yourself.

If no location is specified, it is possible to take a photo without calling one of the friends, by just bringing the remaining ones to the last friend’s location.

## After you are friends

When the friendship progress is full, you become friends. Friends will say they’ll vote for you. You can still hang out like before. For each enjoyable activity, they’ll reward you a Sack of Coins of various size (from 25 to 100 coins, as has been observed).

After completing Chapter 4, they will no longer fear you if you're not wearing a disguise around them.

### Custom outfit

Now you can change the custom outfit for your friend at any time in the Clothing Store. The services cost 50 coins, plus the cost of any new items you add. You do not need to repurchase the items you added previously.

### Custom name

You can also rename your friend in the Town Hall level B1 for 1000 coins. The name is changed in dialogues, the Phone Number Book, the Friends Book, and the Gameshow channel on the Television.

If you try to give your friend an offensive name, they’ll ask for 1 million coins. After several questions to confirm your intent, you can pay the friend for the renaming.

This sometimes may prevent you from giving your friend back their original name. For example, “Arcade Associate” is considered offensive because it contains “Ass”.

## Trivia

* Friends are allowed to enter the hard hat area in the Sawmill and the restricted area in the Port without the required uniform as long as Sasquatch wears that uniform.

## References

1. ↑ Need to lose money quick? Rename a friend! on Reddit