Casino
| Casino | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Location |
| Address | The Desert |
| Open Hours | 9:00am to 11:50pm |
| Residents | Mr. Qi |
The Casino hides behind the back door of the Oasis in the Calico Desert, and a bouncer keeps the farmer out of it until the Mysterious Qi quest chain is finished. Inside is a single bright room run by Mr. Qi, where gold buys Qi coins and Qi coins buy everything else. Two games take bets, a row of slot machines and a card game called CalicoJack, and the counter in the corner trades winnings for furniture, rarecrows, warp totems and a Top Hat. Coins never change back into gold, so every exchange at the machine is a one-way decision. In the far corner a shady figure offers the Statue Of Endless Fortune for a flat million, which makes this the most expensive room in the valley.
Area
Everything happens in one room. Mr. Qi stands in the middle of it, and the machine that turns gold into coins sits to his right. The slot machines run down the centre near the entrance, and the two card tables are off to one side: the low-stakes table takes a hundred coins a hand, the high-stakes table a thousand.
A terminal in the top-left corner reads back a pile of save statistics, from hours played to items shipped and steps taken, which makes it the nearest thing the game has to a profile page.
The prize counter is in the top right. On some screen resolutions it sits awkwardly close to the coin machine, and the counter can be stubborn to click; zooming out in the options menu or using the action button clears that up.
Shops
The counter sells for coins only. The four paintings, Primal Motion, Burnt Offering, Highway 89 and Spires, are the headline decorations, and the Top Hat and the Modern Double Bed cost the same as the dearest of them. Rarecrow #3 is the single most expensive line and the reason most collectors come at all, since the rarecrow set cannot be finished without it.
The cheap end is where the real value sits. Warp Totem: Farm, the Magnet tackle and Hardwood Fence all cost little against a good night at the tables, and the fireworks are cheaper still. Several of these lines are stocked in limited numbers rather than endlessly, so a farmer clearing out the fence or the totems has to come back another day. The wallpapers and the flooring are priced as trophies rather than decorations.
Gold itself buys coins at a thousand for a hundred, and the conversion only runs one way. The lone exception to the coin economy is the Statue Of Endless Fortune, which the man by the potted plant sells for gold, a million a time, as many as a farmer can afford.
Residents
Mr. Qi is always in the room, which makes the Casino the most reliable place to find him. The bouncer stands outside the back door of the Oasis until the Club Card is in hand, and the statue seller keeps to his corner.
Notes
Getting in is a quest chain in five steps. A Battery Pack goes into the power box in the tunnel west of the Bus Stop, a Rainbow Shell into the box by the train station, ten Beets into Mayor Lewis's refrigerator and a Solar Essence into the mouth of the dragon skull north of the Oasis. Each delivery hints at the next, and the last one points at the lumber pile beside the Farmhouse door, where the Club Card is waiting.
Reaching the desert at all comes first, which means the bus repaired through the Vault bundles or bought outright from the Joja Community Development Form.
CalicoJack plays like a stripped-down blackjack: draw or stand, and try to land as close to twenty-one as possible without going over. The coin machine asks for confirmation every time, and pressing the yes key answers it, which saves a great deal of clicking when buying coins in bulk.
All Shops
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Open Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Abandoned House | 
|
All Day |
| Adventurer's Guild | 
|
2:00pm to 2:00am |
| Blacksmith | 
|
9:00am to 4:00pm |
| Bookseller | 
|
- |
| Carpenter's Shop | 
|
9:00am to 5:00pm |
| Casino | 
|
9:00am to 11:50pm |
| Desert Trader | 
|
Always |
| Fish Shop | 
|
9am to 5pm |
| Giant Stump | 
|
- |
| Harvey's Clinic | 
|
9:00am to 3:00pm |
| Ice Cream Stand | 
|
1pm to 5pm during Summer |
| Island Trader | 
|
Always |
| JojaMart | 
|
9:00am to 11:00pm |
| Marnie's Ranch | 
|
9:00am to 4:00pm; (Building open 9am to 6pm) |
| Oasis | 
|
9:00am to 11:50pm |
| Pierre's General Store | 
|
Shop: 9am to 5pm; Building: 9am to 9pm |
| Qi's Walnut Room | 
|
Always |
| The Stardrop Saloon | 
|
12:00pm to 12:00am |
| Traveling Cart | 
|
6:00am to 8:00pm Friday and Sunday; 5:00pm to 2:00am during Night Market; 12:00pm to 2:00am during Desert Festival |
| Volcano Dungeon | - | - |
| Wizard's Tower | 
|
6:00am to 11:00pm |