Bone Flute
| Bone Flute | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Artifact |
| Artifact Spots | Cindersap Forest (0.7%); The Mountain (0.7%); Pelican Town (0.4%) |
| Other Locations | Fishing Treasure Chest; Artifact Trove (3.6%) |
| Museum Reward | Flute Block |
| Sell Price | 100g |
The Bone Flute is a prehistoric instrument and one of the artifacts with its own museum reward. Donating it after at least two other artifacts earns the Flute Block, a piece of furniture that plays a flute note when someone walks past. Spare flutes are more useful than most artifacts. A Bone Mill turns them into fertiliser, Gunther's Fragments of the Past order counts them as bone items, and Abigail likes them as a gift. The flute also makes the Blue Long Vest at the Sewing Machine and works as a yellow dye.
The in-game description reads: It's a prehistoric wind instrument carved from an animal's bone. It produces an eerie tone.
Location
Artifact spots in Cindersap Forest and on The Mountain can hold a Bone Flute, and so can spots in Pelican Town at a lower rate. Only a Hoe can dig these wriggling spots. Winter brings far more of these spots, but many of them give Winter Root or Snow Yam. With the Archaeologist enchantment, a Hoe finds artifacts twice as often.
Both normal and golden Fishing Treasure Chests can hold a Bone Flute.
Artifact Troves include it too. The Desert Trader, out in the Calico Desert, gives a trove for five Omni Geodes, and Clint opens it at the Blacksmith for a small charge.
Museum
Gunther gives the Flute Block for the Bone Flute once the collection holds at least two other artifacts. In practice, the flute should be the third artifact donated or later, so donating two cheaper finds first is the safe order.
The Flute Block is a furniture piece. When the farmer walks next to it, it plays a flute note. The Ancient Drum earns a matching Drum Block under the same rule.
The Bone Flute also counts toward the artifact milestones, with the Skeleton Statue at fifteen artifacts and Rarecrow #7 at twenty. Every donation adds to the overall total as well.
Prices
The Bone Flute sells for a middling price among artifacts. The first copy is worth far more in the museum because of the Flute Block. A spare flute can go to the shipping bin, the Bone Mill, Abigail or the Sewing Machine. Reading the Treasure Appraisal Guide triples the sale price of every artifact.
Gifts
Abigail, the Dwarf and Penny like the Bone Flute. Abigail dislikes most artifacts, so the flute and the Ancient Sword are the ones worth giving her. She plays the flute herself, and on receiving this one she pictures a purple-haired cavewoman playing it long ago, then decides to wash it first.
Friendship with the Dwarf only grows from the flute after the Dwarvish Translation Guide is earned.
Among those who dislike the Bone Flute are Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam. The same goes for Krobus, Sandy and the Wizard, and for the shop owners Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy. Jas, Leo and Vincent also dislike it. The marriage candidates Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Sam, Sebastian and Shane dislike it as well.
Notes
The Special Orders board sometimes carries Gunther's Fragments of the Past order. It asks for bone items gathered while the order is active, within seven days, and Bone Flutes found during that week count. Finishing it brings the Bone Mill recipe by letter.
Loading a Bone Flute into a Bone Mill makes a random fertiliser: Quality Fertilizer, Speed-Gro, Deluxe Speed-Gro or Tree Fertilizer. A small chance doubles the batch.
Putting Cloth in the feed and a Bone Flute on the spool of the Sewing Machine makes the Blue Long Vest. The Sewing Machine is in Emily's house at 2 Willow Lane, and the dye pots in the same house accept the flute as a yellow dye.
All Artifacts
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Amphibian Fossil | 
|
150g |
| Anchor | 
|
100g |
| Ancient Doll | 
|
60g |
| Ancient Drum | 
|
100g |
| Ancient Seed | 
|
5g |
| Ancient Sword | 
|
100g |
| Arrowhead | 
|
40g |
| Bone Flute | 
|
100g |
| Chewing Stick | 
|
50g |
| Chicken Statue | 
|
50g |
| Chipped Amphora | 
|
40g |
| Dried Starfish | 
|
40g |
| Dwarf Gadget | 
|
200g |
| Dwarf Scroll I | 
|
1g |
| Dwarf Scroll II | 
|
1g |
| Dwarf Scroll III | 
|
1g |
| Dwarf Scroll IV | 
|
1g |
| Dwarvish Helm | 
|
100g |
| Elvish Jewelry | 
|
200g |
| Glass Shards | 
|
20g |
| Golden Mask | 
|
500g |
| Golden Relic | 
|
250g |
| Nautilus Fossil | 
|
80g |
| Ornamental Fan | 
|
300g |
| Palm Fossil | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Handaxe | 
|
50g |
| Prehistoric Rib | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Scapula | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Skull | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Tibia | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Tool | 
|
50g |
| Prehistoric Vertebra | 
|
100g |
| Rare Disc | 
|
300g |
| Rusty Cog | 
|
25g |
| Rusty Spoon | 
|
25g |
| Rusty Spur | 
|
25g |
| Skeletal Hand | 
|
100g |
| Skeletal Tail | 
|
100g |
| Strange Doll (green) | 
|
1000g |
| Strange Doll (yellow) | 
|
1000g |
| Trilobite | 
|
50g |