Bone Fragment
| Bone Fragment | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Skeletons; Lava Lurks; Artifact Spots; Bone Nodes; Skull Cavern; Panning; Dog |
| Sell Price | 12g |
The Bone Fragment is a small resource that becomes far more useful once Ginger Island opens. Skeletons in The Mines drop it, and the island's Dig Site is full of bone nodes that break into fragments. Its biggest job is feeding the Bone Mill, which grinds bones into Speed-Gro and fertiliser for the fields. Fragments also go into the Thorns Ring, the Ostrich Incubator, Deluxe Speed-Gro and a handful of decorations. The Island Trader accepts them as payment too. Selling them earns almost nothing, so a stack is better kept for the mill.
The in-game description reads: A small piece of bone.
Location
Skeletons are the first steady supply on the mainland. They walk the bone-strewn floors from 71 to 79 in The Mines and drop fragments often when slain. Running those floors a few times is the quickest way to gather a hundred fragments early on.
Ginger Island offers far richer supplies. At the Dig Site in the north of the island, bone nodes sit among the rocks and break with a pickaxe. Lava Lurks in the Volcano Dungeon also drop fragments when killed. Breaking crates and barrels in Skull Cavern sometimes turns up a few more.
Artifact spots can hold fragments, and the ones on the island's north side give them often. A pet dog at full friendship sometimes leaves a fragment on the farm as a gift, much as a well-loved cat brings other small treasures.
Uses
Gunther posts a Special Order called "Fragments of the Past" at the museum. It asks for a hundred bone items gathered while the order is active, within one week. Finishing it pays a good sum and brings the Bone Mill recipe by mail the next day. Crafting ten Bone Fragments with Clay and Stone then makes the mill itself.
Feeding five fragments into the Bone Mill makes fertiliser after a few hours. The result is picked at random from Quality Fertilizer, Speed-Gro, Deluxe Speed-Gro and Tree Fertilizer. Now and then the mill doubles the batch. A mill running all day turns a stack of fragments into a steady supply of growth boosters, which saves buying them in the shops.
Fragments also show up in many crafting recipes. Farming level 8 teaches Deluxe Speed-Gro, made from fragments and Oak Resin. Mr. Qi's Walnut Room sells the Hyper Speed-Gro recipe, which mixes fragments with Radioactive Ore and Solar Essence. Combat level 7 unlocks the Thorns Ring, built from fifty fragments, fifty Stone and a Gold Bar. That ring hurts any monster that lands a hit on its wearer.
Professor Snail gives the Ostrich Incubator recipe after the fossil collection and surveys at the Island Field Office are complete. The incubator needs fifty fragments with Hardwood and Cinder Shards, and it hatches Ostrich Eggs. Krobus mails the Dark Sign recipe at three hearts, and that sign pairs fragments with Bat Wings. The Carpenter's Shop sells the Skull Brazier recipe, a spooky light made from ten fragments alone. Fishing Mastery unlocks Challenge Bait, which combines fragments with Moss.
The Island Trader on Ginger Island keeps two bone trades in its permanent stock. Two fragments buy a Taro Tuber, which is the seed for the island's Taro Root. A larger stack buys the Banana Pudding recipe.
In the remixed Boiler Room, the Adventurer's Bundle accepts ten fragments as one of its choices.
Crafting Bone Fragment with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Bone Mill | 
|
Bone Fragment (10), Clay (3), Stone (20) |
| Dark Sign | 
|
Bat Wing (5), Bone Fragment (5) |
| Deluxe Speed-Gro | 
|
Oak Resin (1), Bone Fragment (5) |
| Hyper Speed-Gro | 
|
Radioactive Ore (1), Bone Fragment (3), Solar Essence (1) |
| Ostrich Incubator | 
|
Bone Fragment (50), Hardwood (50), Cinder Shard (20) |
| Skull Brazier | 
|
Bone Fragment (10) |
Notes
Sam hates receiving a Bone Fragment. Nearly every other villager dislikes it, so it makes a poor gift for anyone.
At the Sewing Machine, a fragment in the spool turns Cloth into the Skeleton Shirt. The dye pots at 2 Willow Lane take it as a yellow dye.
Fossils and some bone artifacts can go into the Bone Mill too. Spare fossils left over after museum donations can be ground into fertiliser the same way.
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 |