Broken CD
| Broken CD | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Fishing Pole; Crab Pot; Garbage Cans; Fish Pond; Cat |
| Sell Price | 0g |
The Broken CD is a piece of fishing trash, a scratched trial disc that turns up in rivers, lakes and the sea. It has no sale value, and every villager hates finding one in a gift. Even so, it is one of the better kinds of junk to pull from the water. A Recycling Machine turns each disc into a piece of Refined Quartz, a material that goes into sprinklers, Lightning Rods and several late machines. A fisher who keeps a recycler running near the dock can collect a small but steady supply of quartz this way. The disc also counts towards Linus's clean-up order and works in tailoring.
Location
Broken CDs come mostly from fishing. A rod can hook one in any season and in any body of water. Trash bites most often in places with few kinds of fish, so small ponds and the Farm pond on the standard map hand out discs far more often than a busy river. As the Fishing skill grows, trash comes up less and less often.
Crab Pots catch Broken CDs too. A baited pot left in any water may hold a disc instead of a crab or shellfish the next morning. Collecting trash from a pot still earns a little Fishing experience.
Garbage Cans around Pelican Town can hold a disc as well. Digging through a can while another villager stands nearby upsets them and costs some friendship. Linus is the only one who does not mind seeing it.
The farm itself can provide discs in two odd ways. A Fish Pond stocked with Crab Pot creatures can produce a Broken CD from time to time. A pet cat at full friendship sometimes leaves a disc as a gift, which is a cat's idea of a present.
Uses
Recycling is the main use. Fishing level 4 teaches the Recycling Machine recipe. Placing a Broken CD inside it gives one Refined Quartz in about an hour. Refined Quartz otherwise needs Quartz and Coal in a Furnace, so recycling discs saves both the mining trip and the fuel.
That quartz then goes into many recipes. It goes into the Quality Sprinkler, the Lightning Rod, the Garden Pot and the Crystal Path. Later it also helps build the Solar Panel and the Farm Computer. A fishing farm that recycles every disc rarely needs to smelt quartz by hand.
Linus sometimes posts "Community Cleanup" on the Special Orders board. It asks for twenty pieces of trash gathered from the water, Garbage Cans or Crab Pots within a week. Broken CDs count towards that total, and finishing the order pays well and raises friendship with Linus.
At the Sewing Machine, a disc in the spool with Cloth makes the Trash Can Shirt. On dyeable clothing it gives a cyan colour. The dye pots at Emily and Haley's house accept it as a blue dye too.
Throwing Broken CDs away wastes free quartz. Keeping a chest beside the Recycling Machine makes it easy to drop the day's junk in after a fishing trip.
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 |