Abandoned House

Abandoned House

Type	Location
Address	Cindersap Forest
Open Hours	All Day
Residents	Hat Mouse

The Abandoned House is a collapsing cottage in the south of Cindersap Forest, marked on the in-game map as the Ruined House. A mouse moves into it and opens a hat shop, and the shop stays shut until the farmer earns a first achievement. From then on it grows: every achievement earned adds another hat to the counter. The hats are purely cosmetic, which is the point, because the shop works as the game's trophy cabinet. A farmer walking in late in a save finds a wall of headgear that reads back like a record of everything they have done.

Area

The ruin sits south of the forest pond, past Leah's Cottage and down towards the bottom edge of the map. It is a small building with a hole in the roof, and it looks like scenery for the first stretch of a save, because until the first achievement lands there is nothing inside to find.

Once the shop is open, the door stays unlocked at every hour, so this is one of the few shops a farmer can raid at two in the morning on the way back from the Mines.

Shops

Stock works unlike any other shop in the valley. Each hat is tied to one specific achievement, and it appears on the counter the moment that achievement is earned. The Good Ol' Cap arrives with the first fifteen thousand gold earned, the Sombrero waits for ten million, and the Elegant Turban only appears once every other achievement is done.

Prices sort the hats by how hard they were to earn. The common ones cost a thousand gold, which is pocket change by the time most of them unlock. The showpieces are deliberately expensive: the Legend and Perfection hats run into tens of thousands, and the Elegant Turban is the dearest thing the mouse sells. The Goblin Mask for shipping every item and the Bowler Hat for a first million both sit in the ten thousand bracket.

Festival prizes restock here too. The Straw Hat from winning the egg hunt at the Egg Festival and the Sailor's Cap from the fishing competition at the Festival of Ice both appear in the shop once it has opened, which means a hat lost or sold is not gone forever.

Residents

The Hat Mouse is the only occupant, and it never accepts gifts or builds friendship. It announces itself by post the day after the first achievement, in the broken English that has made it one of the valley's best-loved minor characters:

"Hi. Me sell hats. Okay, poke? Come to old old old haus, poke. Bring coines. -hat mouse"

Reading the letter is a courtesy rather than a requirement. The shop opens on the achievement, so a farmer who never checks the post can still walk in and buy.

Notes

Hats bought here can be put on a cat or a dog as well as worn, so the shop doubles as a wardrobe for pets.

The shop also works as a progress check for completion-minded farmers. The counter grows one line at a time, so the length of the list is a rough measure of how many achievements a save has banked, read off a shop menu instead of a stats screen.

Conflicting prices circulate for the early hats, because the shop once sold everything at a flat thousand gold. The current prices run from a thousand up to fifty thousand depending on the achievement behind the hat.

All Shops

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Image	Open Hours
Abandoned House		All Day
Adventurer's Guild		2:00pm to 2:00am
Blacksmith		9:00am to 4:00pm
Bookseller		-
Carpenter's Shop		9:00am to 5:00pm
Casino		9:00am to 11:50pm
Desert Trader		Always
Fish Shop		9am to 5pm
Giant Stump		-
Harvey's Clinic		9:00am to 3:00pm
Ice Cream Stand		1pm to 5pm during Summer
Island Trader		Always
JojaMart		9:00am to 11:00pm
Marnie's Ranch		9:00am to 4:00pm; (Building open 9am to 6pm)
Oasis		9:00am to 11:50pm
Pierre's General Store		Shop: 9am to 5pm; Building: 9am to 9pm
Qi's Walnut Room		Always
The Stardrop Saloon		12:00pm to 12:00am
Traveling Cart		6:00am to 8:00pm Friday and Sunday; 5:00pm to 2:00am during Night Market; 12:00pm to 2:00am during Desert Festival
Volcano Dungeon	-	-
Wizard's Tower		6:00am to 11:00pm