Coffee Maker
| Coffee Maker | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | "Gifts for George" Special Order |
The Coffee Maker brews one cup of Coffee every morning and asks for nothing in return. No beans go in, no fuel is needed, and the cup is simply waiting in it at the start of each day. Evelyn pays it out by post after her "Gifts for George" order is finished, which makes it one of the better rewards on the Special Orders board. Coffee is a speed drink, so a machine by the farmhouse door turns into a free movement boost for every single morning of the save. Three saved cups also cook into Triple Shot Espresso, which stretches the same boost from seconds into minutes.
Overview
The order itself is gentle work. Evelyn posts it on the Special Orders board in front of the Mayor's Manor, and it asks for leeks to be gathered and left on her stove. Leeks are spring forage, turn up in the valley's bins during spring and can be grown from Spring Seeds, so the hard part is usually waiting for the right season rather than finding them. The board rotates its offers every week and picks them at random, so the order can take a while to appear and cannot be summoned on demand.
Once the machine arrives it can be set down anywhere, indoors or out. Each morning it holds a single cup, which is collected by hand like any other machine's output, and the next cup appears the following day. Putting it just inside the farmhouse door is the usual habit, because the drink is then picked up on the way out without a detour.
What makes the cup worth collecting is the buff. Coffee adds a point of speed for a short burst, along with a little energy and health. A short burst sounds minor, but speed is the one buff that makes mining runs, watering rounds and long walks to the beach measurably quicker, and the game is otherwise stingy with it. Keeping the cups instead of drinking them is the stronger play: three of them cook into Triple Shot Espresso in a farmhouse kitchen, and that drink holds the same speed bonus for several minutes. The recipe for it is sold over the counter at the Stardrop Saloon.
Coffee can be had in other ways, which is useful while waiting for Evelyn's order to show up. The Saloon sells cups every day for gold, five coffee beans of matching quality turn into a cup in a Keg in about two hours, and the trader at the Night Market hands out a free cup each evening it is open. None of those are free forever, which is the whole appeal of the machine.
Notes
A lost Coffee Maker is not gone for good. The Lost Items Shop that appears in the Secret Woods stocks a replacement for ten thousand gold, along with the other one-off rewards a farm can accidentally destroy.
The game files the Coffee Maker with the farm's equipment, in the same company as the Deconstructor, the Mini-Forge and the Farm Computer, rather than with the furniture. It is one of the few pieces in that group that produces something for nothing.
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