Early into Stardew Valley, Gunther from the Museum will come to you with a request. He tells you that the Museum is missing relating to actual artifacts and asks you to donate any uncommon objects you discover to him. The Museum capabilities much like one within the Animal Crossing video games, the place it’s worthwhile to donate one among every merchandise to finish the gathering. Finishing your entire assortment will earn you a Stardrop, which completely will increase your max power.
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 may learn any misplaced books you discover, and a big show space, the place new donations go. To donate an merchandise, converse with Gunther and he’ll allow you to place any new donations wherever you need, with the choice to maneuver them later.
Gunther can even give rewards at sure milestones, together with when you donate a complete variety of sure objects, and particular person paths for each Artifacts and Minerals. A lot of the rewards are good bonuses, however unimportant, with three exceptions. At 60 objects you get the important thing to the sewers, at 95 objects 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 lots of alternative ways to accumulate the objects for donation, which change relying on which of the 2 classes they belong to. There are 95 objects 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 may 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 Hearth Quartz–can be discovered within the mines and the Skull 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, may be opened on the Blacksmith at the price of 25G every. Whereas the primary three varieties of geodes can solely comprise sure minerals, the Omni Geode has the prospect to comprise any of them, making it one of the simplest ways to seek out them. Some Minerals may also be present in fishing treasure chests, however because of the randomness of these, it is an inefficient technique 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, may be dropped by monsters contained in the mines and Cranium Cavern. Others solely have an opportunity to look if you use your hoe on artifact spots, that are spots that seem within the grime round city that appear to be three wiggling worms protruding of the bottom. Others can seem in Artifact Troves, which may be bought from the Desert Dealer for five Omni Geodes. Artifacts seem in fishing treasure chests often as nicely, though not all of them can.
Try the Stardew Valley Wiki pages for Minerals and Artifacts for precise possibilities of every particular person merchandise.
On the subject of finishing the Museum, it is best to let your self discover many of the Artifacts and Minerals naturally. When you get the bulk donated, across the 80 mark, you can begin to deal with the objects you’re lacking and farming for these particularly. Nearly all of these things solely have a slight probability to look, so even in case you are looking for them, it largely comes all the way down to probability.
