Direct answer: Perfect Copper Ore is the practical loved gift to plan for March. Use Copper Ore as the easier repeat option, donate new collection items before gifting them, and save the strongest gift for the birthday bonus when possible.
March at a glance
| Detail | Answer |
|---|---|
| Birthday | Spring 16 |
| Occupation | Blacksmith |
| Where to look | The Blacksmith shop and town routes |
| Romanceable | Yes — one of the 12 listed candidates |
| Best practical loved gift | Perfect Copper Ore |
| Easy repeat gift | Copper Ore |
Gift preferences
| Reaction tier | Practical examples | Editorial note |
|---|---|---|
| Loved | Dragon-Forged Bracelet; Gold Ingot; Meteorite; Mistril Ingot; Perfect Copper Ore; Perfect Gold Ore; Perfect Iron Ore; Perfect Mistril Ore; Perfect Silver Ore; Sushi Platter | Save scarce gifts for the birthday bonus or a planned relationship push. |
| Liked | Beer; Chocolate; Chocolate Cake; Coffee; Copper Ingot; Copper Ore; Gold Ore; Grilled Eel Rice Bowl; Hot Chocolate; Iron Ingot; Iron Ore; Mistril Ore; Mocha; Perch Risotto; Red Snapper Sushi; Sea Bream Rice; Sesame Tuna Bowl; Silver Ingot; Silver Ore; Spicy Crab Sushi | Use a replaceable liked gift for the regular weekly route. |
| Disliked | Flowers, forageables, most artifacts, and other universal mismatches | Perfect ores, Meteorite, and Dragon-Forged Bracelet are exceptions among material or artifact gifts. |
| Hated | Redhead Worm | Redhead Worm is the character-specific hard avoid. |
Where to get the easy gift
Donate your first Perfect Copper Ore if you still need the museum entry, then keep later drops in a gift chest. Regular Copper Ore is easy to replace, but avoid handing over ore earmarked for an immediate tool upgrade. The gift hub compares the same approach across every candidate.
Schedule summary
Check the forge first on work days, then the inn or town gathering spots in the evening. Weather, festivals, heart events, and story days can override a normal route, so use this as a first check rather than an hour-by-hour promise.
Heart events and dating
March’s chain starts at the Blacksmith but the eight-heart confession is mine-gated and consumes an entire in-game day. If the scene is missing, friendship is usually not the problem—mine progress is.
Dating and marriage requirements
Choose the Romantic answer in the eight-heart scene to set March’s status to Dating. At ten hearts, give him an Engagement Ring to begin the summit proposal.
Warning: open March’s heart-event names, mine requirement, and proposal reward
| Hearts | Event | Trigger or location | Important detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Surprise Me | Blacksmith | March challenges your commitment to Mistria |
| 4 | Many Hands Make Light Work | Forge | Help with the town’s blacksmithing backlog |
| 6 | Shield of the Realm | Read March’s letter; enter the Forge | Commission sequence |
| 8 | Confession | Progress past mine floor 60; leave the farmhouse next day | Full-day scene; Romantic or Best Friend choice |
| 10 | Proposal | Dating status, Engagement Ring | Summit scene and Mistrian Shield keepsake |
The Shooting Star Festival date requires four hearts on Summer 28. The Harvest Festival dance is on Fall 10; at four hearts you can invite March, while higher relationship progress can change who asks.
After marriage, his household set includes the shield, desk, comfy chair, and a working forge. Wedding planning offers flower-color, cake, and reception-meal choices over the engagement days.
Related character guides
- Compare every romance candidate
- Choose repeatable gifts
- Understand dating routes
- Prepare for marriage
- Read the Hayden guide
A practical weekly gift route
Mine Copper Ore in the Upper Mines and keep a small gift stack separate from the ore reserved for tool upgrades. Donate the first Perfect Copper Ore if its museum entry is empty; later perfect pieces are ideal for March's birthday or a focused relationship week.
Check March during forge business, ore processing, or an evening town stop so the relationship route never becomes a separate commute. Coffee or ordinary spare material handles most weeks; reserve Perfect Ore and stronger gifts for Spring 16 only after the museum and the next equipment upgrade are safe.
How this list was checked
March's blacksmith role, birthday, forge schedule, quests, and heart-event sequence are checked against his wiki.gg profile. Ore, ingot, meal, and hard-avoid reactions are compared with mistria.info, then weighed against tool-upgrade needs so the practical recommendation does not encourage wasting scarce metal.