Broken Glasses
| Broken Glasses | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Fishing Pole; Crab Pot; Garbage Cans; Fish Pond; Cat |
| Sell Price | 0g |
Broken Glasses are a common piece of junk, a pair of shattered spectacles that someone lost in the water. Shops pay nothing for them, yet they are worth keeping. Each pair goes into a Recycling Machine and comes out as Refined Quartz, the crafting glass behind sprinklers and Lightning Rods. Five pairs also buy the Jungle Tank from the Raccoon's wife at the Giant Stump. Oddly, Evelyn likes receiving them, which makes them the rare piece of trash that pleases a villager. Almost everyone else in town hates them.
Location
Fishing brings in most pairs. They can bite on a rod in any season and in every fishing spot. Junk shows up when no fish takes the bait, so quiet waters with only a few species give out far more of it. The Farm pond on the standard map yields nothing but trash, which makes it a reliable place to collect glasses. Fishing in The Mines also brings up plenty of junk. Higher Fishing levels make fish bite more often, so trash becomes rare in well-stocked waters later on.
A baited Crab Pot can hold a pair of glasses instead of a crayfish or clam. Each pot checked still adds a little Fishing experience, even when it holds junk.
The Garbage Cans beside the houses and shops of Pelican Town sometimes contain glasses. Any villager who spots the rummaging loses friendship with the farmer, except Linus, who approves of it.
A Fish Pond holding Crab Pot creatures may sometimes produce a pair. A cat at full friendship may also drop a pair after its first petting of the day.
Uses
The Recycling Machine is the best place for spare glasses. Its recipe comes at Fishing level 4. One pair goes in, and roughly an hour later one Refined Quartz comes out. Smelting quartz in a Furnace costs a piece of Quartz and a lump of Coal, so recycled glasses give the same result for free.
The Raccoon's wife opens a small shop near the Giant Stump once the fifth Raccoon request is done. She trades a Jungle Tank for five pairs of Broken Glasses. The tank is a decoration for the farmhouse, and glasses are the only payment she takes for it.
Linus's "Community Cleanup" Special Order asks for twenty pieces of trash in seven days. Glasses from the water, from Crab Pots or from Garbage Cans all count. It is a good reason to keep a few pairs aside rather than recycling every one.
A Sewing Machine with Cloth in the feed and glasses in the spool sews the Trash Can Shirt. Glasses give a cyan tint at the machine and a blue tint in the dye pots at 2 Willow Lane.
Notes
Evelyn is the one villager who likes Broken Glasses. A pair counts as a pleasant gift for her, and it costs nothing to give. Every other villager hates them, so handing a pair to anyone else does real harm to the friendship.
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 |