NTE Bond Guide: 49 Roles, 240 Gifts And The Level 1-10 Reward Track

Bond (the game's own data table calls it Likeability; the community usually just says affection or relationship system) tracks how close you are to each character in Neverness to Everness. Counted straight from the underlying data: there are exactly 49 roles with a Bond table — but they are NOT all built the same depth.

• 20 main characters (Mint, Baicang, Lacrimosa, Nanally, Chaos, Chiz, Sakiri, Skia, and more) carry the full 10-level Bond track, each level gated behind its own point threshold — this is the group worth feeding gifts every day.
• 29 remaining roles are quest NPCs and organizations — a newsstand owner, a tofu shop clerk, a documentary photographer, even a couple of entries that represent an entire government bureau rather than a person. Their Bond tracks are much shorter, from 0 to 5 levels, and mostly tied to one specific quest or minigame rather than a daily grind.

Verdict: if you can only commit to one group, put your gifting effort into the 20 full-track characters — that's where the gift depth and reward ladder actually live.

The underlying data lists exactly 240 giftable items across 7 categories: Food (101), furniture/figurines (77), flowers (25), special gifts (14), figures (10), big + small posters (12), and 1 lone Visions item. Every gift has a base value anyone receives, but hand it to a character who lists it as a favorite and the point value ALWAYS doubles exactly — GameVika recalculated all 153 favorite-gift assignments in the data and found zero deviations from that 2x rule.

• Food — Base value (generic): 50 · Favorite value (×2): 100
• Small poster — Base value (generic): 100 · Favorite value (×2): 200
• Flower / big poster — Base value (generic): 100-200 · Favorite value (×2): 200-400
• Premium figure — Base value (generic): 200 · Favorite value (×2): 400

Practical takeaway: if you can't remember all 20 characters' favorites, default to figures — even off-favorite, their base value (200) beats a generic food item (50) outright.

Favorite-gift counts aren't even across the roster: Iroi has the most at 11, the 20-character average sits around 7 per person, and the newest character in the data (Taygedo) currently has ZERO favorites assigned — that number should grow as the game updates.

• Mint — Gubicrisp, Super Tonkotsu Ramen, the Asahi Inori - Moonsilver figure (+400)
• Baicang — Puka Chocoa Spicy Challenge, Nekomaru Vegan Ramen, the Gigafluff figure line (+400)
• Lacrimosa — The entire Tomato 100 line — ice cream, juice, milkshake
• Nanally — Cool-lala Spicy Snack, the Kokoro Rider L1 model line (+200 to +400)

A full 240-gift by 20-character matrix is being built into a dedicated GameVika tool and isn't live yet — the four rows above are real, verified numbers meant to show gifting here follows an actual formula, not guesswork.

Beyond the 234 regular gifts (each only giftable while you're holding a copy), the data flags exactly 6 gifts with unlimited uses:

• A Handwritten Letter: worth exactly 2,000 points with ANY of the 20 main characters — the single strongest gift in the entire system — an independent community source confirms this number matches the underlying data exactly.
• Floe Cinema Ticket: worth 400 points with anyone, also unlimited.
• 4 personal-only gifts — each liked by exactly one character, but still unlimited-use and worth exactly 4x their base value: Lacrimosa's Tomato Family Bucket (300→1200), Chaos's Deluxe Ship Model Kit, Iroi's Unknown Mystery Box, and Shinku's Exclusively Colored GK.

Because these 6 never run out, they're the most reliable Bond income you have — no risk of running dry the way regular gifts can.

Gifts aren't the only way to raise Bond. Per the underlying data, cross-checked against independent community sources, there are 3 other routes:

• Bring that character into your active party for story quests.
• Reply to Bond chat messages (marked with a white heart icon) when a character reaches out — each reply pays out a solid chunk of Bond points.
• Invite a character home or out into the city — this feature is locked behind exactly Bond level 4, a number the raw data (UnlockCityAbilityLevelLimit=4) and the community independently agree on.

Daily gift cap: the underlying data confirms a hard limit of 10 gift-sends per day, account-wide (the community reports the same number), with 3 new sends replenishing each day. Bond quests carry their own cap too — a maximum of 3 active at once, 5 total quest slots per character.

19 of the 20 main characters share one identical 10-tier point table — only Taygedo, the newest character, runs a slightly lower table, likely because she just launched.

• 1 — 100
• 2 — 500
• 3 — 1,000
• 4 — 2,000
• 5 — 3,500
• 6 — 5,000
• 7 — 7,000
• 8 — 9,000
• 9 — 12,000
• 10 — 16,000

Each level unlocks its own reward (items and currency; GameVika is still verifying the full contents). Per the community (single source, not yet cross-checked against the data): level 8, called Heartbond, unlocks a special date scene — currently only Mint and Nanally have one, and that count will likely grow with future updates.

With a hard cap of 10 gift-sends a day, maxing all 20 characters at once simply isn't possible — you need an order of operations.

• Prioritize whoever's actually in your main combat team first — you level Bond and get comfortable with their kit in the same sitting, no wasted party-quest slots.
• Spend the two universal gifts (the Letter, the cinema ticket) on characters whose favorites you don't know yet, and save true-favorite gifts for whoever you're keeping long-term.
• To decide who's worth prioritizing on raw combat value, check the Tier List; to track down gifts and materials you're missing, check Items.
• Brand new to the game? Read the Beginner Guide first. Curious why inviting characters home counts toward Bond at all? See City Life — the two systems lock together at exactly Bond level 4.

Verdict: Bond isn't a side feature — 240 gifts and a 10-level reward ladder is a whole system running on an exact formula, and picking the right person plus the right gift is the only way to make 10 daily sends actually count.