I started another post about this, but it will no longer let me edit the original post, so, here we go again. The original post is: Likes / Dislikes [Possible Spoilers]. This post compiles some of the findings in the other post. Please feel free to add any comments and I'll try to keep it updated this time. This is a list for fellow OCD people or people with a desire for lists.
Below is a list of all the villager likes & dislikes Some might even list how they may or may not affect villagers in certain tasks.
Villager Likes / Dislikes
Colors
Actions
- dancing - won't party with GC if a dislike
- exploring
- lifting
- playing
- resting
- running - Runs everywhere if a like, children walk if a dislike
- sleeping
- swimming
- work - Good for farming / building if a like (opposite for dislike)
Foods
- bananas
- berries - will quite often run from the berry bush.
- coconuts
- crab meat
- fish
- fruit
- papaya
- turnips - if a dislike, won't usually harvest crops
- whale meat
Creatures
- ants
- bees
- birds
- butterflies
- crowds (if a dislike, won't celebrate or party)
- fish (applies below as well)
- flies
- monkeys
- snakes
Other
- bushes - runs from berry bush often
- caves - adults will not go into cave even if dropped if a dislike
- drift wood
- drums
- flowers (if a dislike, won't enjoy the garden, but will honor the dead, temple, etc)
- herbs - learns healing quicker
- jokes
- laundry
- medicine
- rocks
- rough wood
- sand
- sunlight
- surprises
- the dark
- the ocean
- wind
This is just a list of all the actions people have found that the villagers will do.
Villager Actions
- Admiring the treasure
- Adding more berries to berry bush (GC)
- Arguing
- Bored
- Building small hut
- Burying the dead
- Caring for baby
- Celebrating
- Chasing butterflies
- Chatting
- Chiseling
- Cleaning up the beach
- Clearing rocks
- Complaining
- Confused
- Curious about the cactus
- Curious about the creek
- Curious about the field
- Curious about the rock
- Curious about the ruins
- Dancing
- Decomposing
- Digging
- Drinking well water
- Eating
- Embracing
- Enjoying the garden
- Enjoying the lagoon
- Enjoying magic fruit
- Examining hut
- Exercising
- Foraging
- Fishing
- Fixing hut
- Frustrated by the dirty well
- Going indoors
- Going swimming
- Going to school
- Going to village center
- Harvesting crops
- Healing someone
- Honoring the dead
- Honoring the Idol
- Honoring the temple
- Hunting a strange fish!
- Laundry
- Making party (GC)
- Medatating
- Nature is calling!
- Not feeling well
- Nothing
- Picking a mushroom
- Planting crops
- Praising
- Rain dancing
- Relaxing
- Researching
- Restore the crops (GC)
- Restoring the ruins
- Running away
- Sees something unusual...
- Shaking head
- Strolling
- Studying fruitless plant
- Studying medical cactus
- Studying rare rose
- Studying strange lily
- Studying strange plant
- Teaching
- Telling a joke
- Telling a story
- Thinking
- Trying to Push Boulder
- Trying to water strange patch
- Unblocking the Cave (GC)
- Uncovering the well
- Unsure what to do
- Waiting for someone
- Watering crops
- Watering the field
- Worried about food
- Worried about housing
Feel free to comment on how the likes & dislikes seem to affect your villagers, or even add any you may find. Also, please post any other actions you may find.