Early into Stardew Valley, Gunther from the Museum will come to you with a request. He tells you that the Museum is missing on the subject of actual artifacts and asks you to donate any uncommon gadgets you discover to him. The Museum capabilities much like one within the Animal Crossing video games, the place it is advisable donate one among every merchandise to finish the gathering. Finishing the whole assortment will earn you a Stardrop, which completely will increase your max vitality.
How the museum works
The Museum is open from 8am to 6pm, besides throughout city festivals. It’s positioned within the southeast nook of city, subsequent to the Blacksmith. Inside is a big assortment of books, which is the place you possibly can learn any misplaced books you discover, and a big show space, the place new donations go. To donate an merchandise, communicate with Gunther and he’ll allow you to place any new donations wherever you need, with the choice to maneuver them later.
Gunther will even give rewards at sure milestones, together with when you donate a complete variety of sure gadgets, and particular person paths for each Artifacts and Minerals. Many of the rewards are good bonuses, however unimportant, with three exceptions. At 60 gadgets you get the important thing to the sewers, at 95 gadgets you get a Stardrop, and when you donate all 4 Dwarvish Scrolls, you get the Dwarvish Translation Information, which lets you talk with Dwarves.
Artifacts and Minerals
There are a lot of alternative ways to accumulate the gadgets for donation, which change relying on which of the 2 classes they belong to. There are 95 gadgets complete: 53 Minerals and 42 Artifacts.
Minerals are sometimes discovered by way of mining, though there are a few different methods to acquire them. Gems will be discovered of their corresponding nodes–an Emerald node offers an Emerald, for instance, and the generic Gem Node, offers a random gem. The 4 foraged minerals–Quartz, Earth Crystal, Frozen Tear, and Fireplace Quartz–can be discovered within the mines and the Cranium Cavern.
The final and largest group are the Geode Minerals, that are obtained from cracking open geodes. Geodes, which seem as primary Geodes, Frozen Geodes, Lava Geodes, and Omni Geodes, will be opened on the Blacksmith at the price of 25G every. Whereas the primary three forms of geodes can solely include sure minerals, the Omni Geode has the possibility to include any of them, making it the easiest way to search out them. Some Minerals may also be present in fishing treasure chests, however as a result of randomness of these, it is an inefficient strategy to discover them.
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Artifacts are a bit more durable to reliably seek for. A few of them, just like the Dwarf Scrolls, will be dropped by monsters contained in the mines and Cranium Cavern. Others solely have an opportunity to seem while you use your hoe on artifact spots, that are spots that seem within the filth round city that seem like three wiggling worms protruding of the bottom. Others can seem in Artifact Troves, which will be bought from the Desert Dealer for five Omni Geodes. Artifacts seem in fishing treasure chests sometimes as properly, though not all of them can.
Try the Stardew Valley Wiki pages for Minerals and Artifacts for precise chances of every particular person merchandise.
With regards to finishing the Museum, it is best to let your self discover a lot of the Artifacts and Minerals naturally. When you get the bulk donated, across the 80 mark, you can begin to deal with the gadgets you might be lacking and farming for these particularly. Nearly all of this stuff solely have a slight likelihood to seem, so even if you’re looking for them, it largely comes all the way down to likelihood.
