Sky: Children of the Light Friend Constellation and Limit Guide

The friend constellation in Sky: Children of the Light displays a maximum of 72 players at one time: up to 22 favorite friends and 50 standard friends. If your total roster exceeds 72, the game does not delete your surplus friendships. Instead, additional friends move into a hidden overflow pool and rotate into view as currently displayed players log off, after you collect daily light, or when you reload the Home space.

Constellation Display Limits and Overflow Behavior

The Home stone circle renders friendships across two separate visual categories. Understanding these caps helps prevent the misconception that missing friends have unfriended or blocked you.

Friends who shift into the hidden overflow maintain all unlocked friendship tree nodes, custom nicknames, and chat permissions. They automatically rotate into the 50 standard slots when currently visible friends log off, or when you refresh your Home instance by entering a realm doorway, stepping through the Return Shrine, or restarting the game.

Favoriting Friends to Protect Priority Slots

Tapping the star icon next to a companion's name in their friendship tree places them into your 22-slot favorite tier. Favorited friends are permanently anchored to your primary constellation pages, ensuring they never get pushed into the hidden overflow pool regardless of how many standard friends you add.

Because favorite capacity is restricted to 22 players, reserve these slots for consistent daily light exchangers and regular exploration partners:

• Assign active partners: Star players who reliably send daily light or trade hearts to guarantee they remain accessible every day.
• Demote inactive players: If a favorited companion stops playing, tap their star icon again to return them to the standard pool. This immediately frees a priority slot for an active player without removing the friendship.

Adding Friends: Invite Links vs. In-Game Candles

Expanding your friend roster can be done directly in the realm or through generated invite links. Each method has distinct currency and communication trade-offs.

• Direct Candle Adds: Offering a white candle to another player in-game creates an immediate friend connection. However, text chat remains locked behind higher tiers on the friendship tree, requiring you to spend additional candles to unlock basic communication.
• Friend Invite Links: Generating an invite link from the settings menu and sending it through an external messaging platform adds the player for free once accepted. This method completely bypasses the initial candle requirement and automatically unlocks text chat without extra currency investment.

For long-term candle economy, invite links are the superior choice when adding acquaintances outside of spontaneous exploration.

Managing Inactive Friends with the Block Feature

Sky: Children of the Light does not provide an outright "delete friend" option. To clear inactive, unwanted, or non-gifting players from occupying your 50 standard constellation slots, use the block feature:

1. Open the friend's node from your constellation or in person.
2. Select the block icon to move the player off your active constellation.
3. The blocked player is transferred to the blocked list in your settings menu, which immediately frees a visible slot for a hidden overflow friend to appear.

Blocking is completely reversible. If you later unblock a companion through your settings, their star returns to your constellation with all previously purchased friendship nodes intact. To the blocked player, your avatar appears as an unlit grey silhouette, and they cannot view your online status or warp to your location.

How to Cycle and Light Overflow Friends Daily

Sending light to companions costs no candles and gradually awards partial Heart pieces. If your standard friend list exceeds 50 players, use this routine to reach friends currently hidden by the display cap:

1. Send visible light: Open the constellation at Home and send light to every available favorite and standard star showing an unlit candle prompt.
2. Collect incoming gifts: Tap every glowing star to collect your incoming daily light, clearing the active notification state on those slots.
3. Trigger an instance refresh: Walk into any realm portal and immediately return through the Return Shrine, or fully exit and restart the application.
4. Light the new wave: Reopen your standard constellation. Fresh companions from the overflow pool will rotate into the vacated slots, allowing you to send light to the remainder of your roster.