Bat Wing
| Bat Wing | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Bat; Bat (dangerous); Frost Bat; Frost Bat (dangerous); Lava Bat |
| Sell Price | 15g |
The Bat Wing is a piece of Monster Loot that bats leave behind in The Mines and Skull Cavern. On its own it is worth very little, and every villager hates getting one as a gift. Its real value lies in crafting. Five wings go into each Lightning Rod, the machine that turns storms into Battery Packs. The wing also feeds the recipes for Monster Musk and the Dark Sign, and it fills slots in two bundles. Because bats are fast and swarm in groups, most farms collect wings slowly at first and then end up with a large stack after a few deep runs.
The in-game description reads: The material is surprisingly delicate.
Location
Three kinds of bat drop wings. The plain Bat lives on floors 31 to 39 of The Mines and also roams the Wilderness Farm. The Frost Bat takes over on the icy floors from 41 to 79. The Lava Bat haunts the lava floors from 81 to 119, and it also turns up on floors 20 and 40 of Skull Cavern. Each kind can drop one or two wings, and the deeper bats drop them a little more reliably. The Iridium Bat of the lower Skull Cavern is the exception: it drops Iridium Ore and Solar Essence instead of wings.
Bats arrive in three ways. Some hang folded from the ceiling and wake when approached. Others fly in from off the screen after a loud screech. On certain floors a coloured fog rolls in, and a whole wave of bats attacks from every side. These mist floors are tiring to fight, but they are the fastest way to fill a stack of wings. A sword handles a swarm best, since its wide swing catches bats that a dagger or club would miss. Backing away until the whole group sits on one side lets a single swing hit several at once. Killing two hundred bats of any type also completes one of Gil's Monster Eradication Goals at the Adventurer's Guild.
Several gentler routes exist for anyone who would rather not fight. Krobus sells up to ten Bat Wings every Sunday from his shop in The Sewers. A pet cat at full friendship sometimes leaves a wing as a little present on the farm. Neither route matches a busy evening on the frost floors, but both help when a recipe is only a few wings short.
Uses
The Lightning Rod is the main reason to save Bat Wings. Crafting five wings with an Iron Bar and a piece of Refined Quartz makes one rod, and the recipe arrives at Foraging level 6. A rod that catches a lightning strike during a storm holds a Battery Pack by the next day. Each rod only catches one strike per day, so a row of several rods catches far more of a heavy storm. Every strike a rod catches is one that cannot land on crops or fruit trees, so a farm with many rods also loses fewer plants to storms.
The Wizard's "Prismatic Jelly" Special Order teaches the Monster Musk recipe. Crafting thirty Bat Wings with thirty Slime makes one Monster Musk. Using it doubles the number of monsters on each new floor of The Mines or Skull Cavern for ten minutes. That makes it a strong tool for farming Monster Loot, and a handy way to finish slayer goals sooner.
Reaching three hearts with Krobus brings the Dark Sign recipe by mail. Crafting five Bat Wings with five Bone Fragments makes the sign. It shows the picture of any item held up to it, which makes it a dark-toned label for chests and machines.
Bat Wings appear in two bundles. Ten wings are one of the choices for the Adventurer's Bundle in the Boiler Room of the Community Center. In the remixed version of the Bulletin Board, the Spirit's Eve Bundle asks for ten wings outright.
At the Sewing Machine, a Bat Wing in the spool makes the Dark Shirt.
Crafting Bat Wing with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Dark Sign | 
|
Bat Wing (5), Bone Fragment (5) |
| Lightning Rod | 
|
Iron Bar (1), Refined Quartz (1), Bat Wing (5) |
| Monster Musk | 
|
Slime (30), Bat Wing (30) |
Notes
Fish Ponds sometimes ask for Bat Wings before they grow. A Void Salmon pond wants ten wings to go from three fish to five. A Catfish pond may ask for ten as well, to go from five fish to seven. Keeping a spare stack in a chest saves a trip to the mines when one of these requests appears.
The Raccoon at the Giant Stump may ask for twenty Bat Wings in his fifth request, and the wings can come up again in any later request.
Selling wings brings in very little money, so a stack of fifty or so is worth keeping in storage. Lightning Rods, Monster Musk and the pond requests use them up faster than expected.
All Resources
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bat Wing | 
|
15g |
| Battery Pack | 
|
500g |
| Bone Fragment | 
|
12g |
| Broken CD | 
|
0g |
| Broken Glasses | 
|
0g |
| Bug Meat | 
|
8g |
| Cave Jelly | 
|
180g |
| Cinder Shard | 
|
50g |
| Clay | 
|
20g |
| Coal | 
|
15g |
| Copper Bar | 
|
- |
| Copper Ore | 
|
5g |
| Driftwood | 
|
0g |
| Fiber | 
|
1g |
| Gold Bar | 
|
- |
| Gold Ore | 
|
25g |
| Green Algae | 
|
15g |
| Hardwood | 
|
15g |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
- |
| Iridium Ore | 
|
100g |
| Iron Bar | 
|
- |
| Iron Ore | 
|
10g |
| Joja Cola | 
|
25g |
| Monster Loot | - | - |
| Moss | 
|
5g |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
- |
| Radioactive Ore | 
|
300g |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
50g |
| Rice | 
|
100g |
| River Jelly | 
|
125g |
| Rotten Plant | 
|
0g |
| Sea Jelly | 
|
200g |
| Soggy Newspaper | 
|
0g |
| Solar Essence | 
|
40g |
| Stone | 
|
2g |
| Sugar | 
|
50g |
| Trash | - | - |
| Trash (item) | 
|
0g |
| Treasure Chest | 
|
5000g |
| Vinegar | 
|
100g |
| Void Essence | 
|
50g |
| Wheat Flour | 
|
50g |
| White Algae | 
|
25g |
| Wood | 
|
2g |