Aerinite

Aerinite

Type	Mineral
Location	Frozen Geode; Omni Geode
Sell Price	125g

Aerinite is a geode mineral that only comes out of Frozen Geodes and Omni Geodes. Its main value is as a museum piece, since each new mineral donated to Gunther moves the collection towards its next reward. Spare pieces are usually sold, or turned into a cyan dye and a Shirt at the Sewing Machine. Its price sits in the middle of what a Frozen Geode can hold, so it is a welcome find rather than a goal. As a gift it suits only the Wizard, and almost everyone else in town dislikes it.

The in-game description reads: These crystals are curiously light.

Location

Aerinite comes only from cracking geodes. A Frozen Geode gives the best odds, at roughly one chance in thirty per geode. An Omni Geode can hold it as well. Omni Geodes share their loot between the contents of every geode type, though, so each one is far less likely to give Aerinite.

Frozen Geodes drop from rocks on floors 41 to 79 of The Mines. Rocks on the Farm also drop them in Winter. They turn up in Fishing Treasure Chests, and a full Ice Pip Fish Pond can produce them. At the Desert Festival, Sebastian sells them for Calico Eggs when he runs a booth.

Clint at the Blacksmith opens a geode for 25g. A Geode Crusher opens them for free once Clint's Cave Patrol special order has unlocked its recipe. The odds stay the same on lucky and unlucky days, so a geode can be cracked on any day.

Prices

Aerinite sells for a little more than Esperite, its Frozen Geode neighbour, but for half the price of a Fairy Stone. The Gemologist profession at Mining level 10 adds thirty percent to the price of every gem and mineral, Aerinite included.

A Crystalarium can copy Aerinite, but each copy takes about three and a half days. That earns under 40g a day. An Amethyst in the same machine earns over 100g a day, because it finishes in less than a day. A Crystalarium is better used on a gem than on Aerinite.

Uses

Donating the first Aerinite to Gunther at the museum adds it to the mineral collection. Mineral donations unlock rewards at set totals. Early milestones give furniture such as the Standing Geode and the Singing Stone. Forty-one minerals bring the Crystal Chair, and fifty bring a free Crystalarium.

Putting Aerinite and Cloth in the Sewing Machine makes a Shirt. Placed in the spool with a dyeable clothing item instead, it dyes that item cyan. It also fits the blue dye pot at Emily and Haley's house.

Gifts

The Wizard likes Aerinite. Spare pieces are a cheap way to build friendship with him once the museum has its copy.

Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy dislike Aerinite. Jas, Leo and Vincent share that view, and so do the older villagers Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam. The Dwarf, Krobus and Sandy dislike it as well, as do the bachelors and bachelorettes Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam, Sebastian and Shane.

Notes

Frozen Geodes are the efficient way to hunt for Aerinite. Cracking a stack of them at Clint after a trip through the middle floors of The Mines fills in many museum slots at once.

All Geode Minerals

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Image	Price
Aerinite		125g
Alamite		150g
Baryte		50g
Basalt		175g
Bixite		300g
Calcite		75g
Celestine		125g
Dolomite		300g
Esperite		100g
Fairy Stone		250g
Fire Opal		350g
Fluorapatite		200g
Geminite		150g
Ghost Crystal		200g
Granite		75g
Helvite		450g
Hematite		150g
Jagoite		115g
Jamborite		150g
Jasper		150g
Kyanite		250g
Lemon Stone		200g
Limestone		15g
Lunarite		200g
Malachite		100g
Marble		110g
Mudstone		25g
Nekoite		80g
Neptunite		400g
Obsidian		200g
Ocean Stone		220g
Opal		150g
Orpiment		80g
Petrified Slime		120g
Pyrite		120g
Sandstone		60g
Slate		85g
Soapstone		120g
Star Shards		500g
Thunder Egg		100g
Tigerseye		275g