Animal Catalogue
| Animal Catalogue | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Book |
| Location | Marnie's Ranch |
| Sell Price | 2000g |
Marnie keeps awkward hours, and the Animal Catalogue is the fix for them. She sells the book over her own counter once the farm has seen out its first year, and reading it opens that counter whenever the ranch door is unlocked, whether or not she is standing behind it. A shop with a closed day, a late opening and an early finish on Friday becomes somewhere a farmer can call in on the way past. The power pays for itself fastest while a coop or a barn is being filled, because the livestock and the hay that feeds them both come from that one shelf. It is also one of the power books needed for the Well-Read achievement, so a copy has to be read even by a farmer who never buys another animal.
The in-game description reads: You can access Marnie's shop when she's not around.
Overview
Marnie's Ranch sits in Cindersap Forest, straight south of the farm and west of Pelican Town. Marnie has to be behind her counter for the catalogue to be on offer, which is the small joke in the item: the book that solves her absences can only be bought while she is present. It appears on the shelf at the start of the second year, so a first-year farm has to work around her timetable the hard way.
Her timetable is the reason the power is worth having. The ranch stays shut all Monday while Marnie is busy elsewhere, and Tuesday is a gamble because she sometimes slips out to exercise. Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday run from mid morning to early evening, and Friday closes a full two hours earlier than the rest. Farmers who come home from the mines in the late afternoon tend to arrive at a locked door or an empty room. After the book has been read, walking through the door during opening hours is enough to bring the shop menu up.
That shelf carries more than animals. Hay keeps barns fed through Winter, a Heater keeps the animals inside cheerful in the cold, and the Milk Pail and Shears are the tools that get anything out of a cow or a sheep in the first place. An Auto-Grabber collects the day's produce without a walk round the pens. The animals themselves climb steeply in price, from chickens up through ducks, cows, goats, rabbits, sheep and finally pigs, and each one needs the right building standing before Marnie will sell it. Being locked out of that list for a day and a half each week is a real brake on a farm that is trying to grow.
Reading the book consumes it, as every book in the valley does, and the power then shows up on the Special Items and Powers tab of the player menu so it can be checked at a glance. A second copy of this one adds nothing further, which puts it in a small group alongside the Price Catalogue: once the power is banked, spare copies are better sold on or given away than read. On a shared farm the power belongs to the farmer who read it, so each person who wants Marnie's counter on a Monday needs a copy of their own.
Notes
Penny is the one villager who treats any book as a treasure. She teaches Vincent and Jas and spends her own quiet hours reading in the library, and she loves receiving this one. Elliott, writing his novel in the beach cabin, is happy enough with it. Alex would rather be handed a football, and takes a book poorly.
The catalogue also has a second life as a colourant. Dropped into the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house on 2 Willow Lane it counts as purple, and fed through the spool of the Sewing Machine with a dyeable garment underneath it gives a dark pink instead.
All Books
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Catalogue | 
|
2000g |
| Bait And Bobber | 
|
500g |
| Book Of Stars | 
|
2500g |
| Book of Mysteries | 
|
3000g |
| Combat Quarterly | 
|
500g |
| Dwarvish Safety Manual | 
|
1000g |
| Friendship 101 | 
|
3000g |
| Horse: The Book | 
|
1000g |
| Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Thick | 
|
500g |
| Jewels Of The Sea | 
|
800g |
| Mapping Cave Systems | 
|
4000g |
| Mining Monthly | 
|
500g |
| Monster Compendium | 
|
2000g |
| Ol' Slitherlegs | 
|
1000g |
| Price Catalogue | 
|
1000g |
| Queen Of Sauce Cookbook | 
|
10000g |
| Raccoon Journal | 
|
1000g |
| Stardew Valley Almanac | 
|
500g |
| The Alleyway Buffet | 
|
3000g |
| The Art O' Crabbing | 
|
1000g |
| The Diamond Hunter | 
|
1000g |
| Treasure Appraisal Guide | 
|
500g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 1 | 
|
5000g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 2 | 
|
10000g |
| Woodcutter's Weekly | 
|
500g |
| Woody's Secret | 
|
500g |