Battery Pack
| Battery Pack | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Lightning Rod; Solar Panel; Iridium Bat (5%); Stingray Fish Pond |
| Sell Price | 500g |
The Battery Pack is a stored charge of electricity, and it is one of the most useful resources on the farm. Several late machines cannot be built without one, including the Iridium Sprinkler, the Crystalarium and the Slime Egg-Press. Packs also power lamp-posts, the Mini-Jukebox and the Farm Computer. Getting them takes planning, because the two main ways depend on the weather: Lightning Rods catch them in storms, and Solar Panels gather them over sunny days. A pack also opens the Mysterious Qi quest line, and five of them help repair Willy's Boat to Ginger Island. Maru is the one villager who loves receiving one.
The in-game description reads: It's fully charged with precious energy.
Location
Lightning Rods are the first steady supply. During a thunderstorm, a rod that catches a bolt becomes charged. The next morning the rod holds a Battery Pack ready to collect. A storm does not hit any one rod for certain, so a cluster of rods gives better odds than a single one. Placement on the farm makes no difference, so the rods can stand together in a corner. Storms only come in Spring, Summer and Fall, so packs from rods dry up over Winter.
Solar Panels arrive later and work in any season. Caroline gives the recipe after her "Island Ingredients" Special Order, which asks for a large shipment of Ginger Island crops. A panel placed outdoors makes one Battery Pack after a week of sunny days. Each location keeps its own weather, so a panel in the Calico Desert never loses a day to rain. That makes the desert a popular home for a row of panels once the bus to it is running.
A few other places help fill the gaps. The Iridium Bats deep in Skull Cavern sometimes drop a pack. Breaking crates and barrels in Skull Cavern very rarely turns one up. The Traveling Cart sometimes sells them, but at a steep price. Pam and Kent may send one in the mail as a friendly gift. A Stingray Fish Pond with a large population can also produce them now and then. In the remixed Community Center, completing the Children's Bundle on the Bulletin Board rewards three packs at once.
Uses
The Iridium Sprinkler is the most common reason to collect Battery Packs. Crafting one pack with a Gold Bar and an Iridium Bar makes a sprinkler that waters a wide square every morning. The recipe comes at Farming level 9, and a large field needs many sprinklers, so packs run short quickly at this stage.
Mining level 9 brings the Crystalarium recipe. Crafting a pack with Stone, Gold Bars and Iridium Bars makes one machine. It copies whatever mineral sits inside it, over and over, without using up the original stone.
Combat level 6 teaches the Slime Egg-Press. Crafting a pack with Coal and a piece of Fire Quartz makes the press, which squeezes a hundred Slime into a Slime Egg for the Slime Hutch.
Robin sells two lamp-post recipes at the Carpenter's Shop. Crafting a pack with Wood makes the Wood Lamp-post, and crafting one with an Iron Bar makes the Iron Lamp-post. Both give a strong light for paths and yards. Gus's 5-heart event teaches the Mini-Jukebox, built from a pack and two Iron Bars. Demetrius rewards the Farm Computer recipe through a Special Order, and that machine uses a pack, a Dwarf Gadget and Refined Quartz.
In the remixed Boiler Room, the Engineer's Bundle asks for a Battery Pack.
Crafting Battery Pack with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Crystalarium | 
|
Stone (99), Gold Bar (5), Iridium Bar (2), Battery Pack (1) |
| Farm Computer | 
|
Dwarf Gadget (1), Battery Pack (1), Refined Quartz (10) |
| Iridium Sprinkler | 
|
Gold Bar (1), Iridium Bar (1), Battery Pack (1) |
| Iron Lamp-post | 
|
Iron Bar (1), Battery Pack (1) |
| Mini-Jukebox | 
|
Iron Bar (2), Battery Pack (1) |
| Slime Egg-Press | 
|
Coal (25), Fire Quartz (1), Battery Pack (1) |
| Wood Lamp-post | 
|
Wood (50), Battery Pack (1) |
Gifts
These villagers love receiving Battery Pack as a gift.
| Villager | Image |
|---|---|
| Maru | 
|
Notes
Placing a Battery Pack on the panel in the tunnel west of the Bus Stop starts "The Mysterious Qi" quest. That chain of clues eventually leads to the Casino hidden in the Calico Desert.
Pam sends a letter in Fall of the second year asking for a pack in the "Pam Needs Juice" quest. Bringing it to her pays a little money and earns a heart of friendship.
Repairing Willy's Boat needs five Battery Packs along with Hardwood and Iridium Bars. That repair opens the trip to Ginger Island.
At the Sewing Machine, a pack in the spool with Cloth makes a shirt. It also works as a cyan dye there, and as a blue dye in the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house.
Selling a pack to Robin pays well for a single item, but each one is usually worth more as a sprinkler or a Crystalarium.
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 |