Dinosaur
| Dinosaur | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Animal |
| Building | Big Coop |
| Produce | Dinosaur Egg |
The Dinosaur is one of the rarest animals a farm can raise. Marnie never sells one, so the only way to get it is to hatch a Dinosaur Egg in a Coop Incubator. A grown dinosaur lays a fresh Dinosaur Egg about once a week. That egg can become another dinosaur, a jar of valuable Dinosaur Mayonnaise or a museum donation. The Dinosaur is more of a prized curiosity than a money maker, since a single chicken earns more in the same Coop space.
Care
A dinosaur needs a Big Coop or Deluxe Coop, because only those buildings have an Incubator. Day to day, it lives exactly like any other Coop animal. It eats one portion of grass or Hay each day and drops its egg on the Coop floor. On sunny days it can roam outside with the rest of the flock and graze.
Friendship and mood follow the usual Coop rules. Daily petting raises friendship towards five hearts and lifts the day's mood. Fresh grass outside puts it in the best possible mood. Missed meals, missed petting and nights stuck outside all pull it back down. Like every farm animal, a dinosaur stays inside on rainy days and through Winter. A Heater in the Coop helps its mood on cold evenings.
Produce
A fed dinosaur lays one Dinosaur Egg every seven days. The egg is both an animal product and an artifact. Better friendship and mood raise its chance of higher star quality.
Putting a Dinosaur Egg into a Mayonnaise Machine makes Dinosaur Mayonnaise in a few hours. The jar sells for more than twice the raw egg at normal quality. Dinosaur Mayonnaise is also one of the options in The Missing Bundle at the abandoned JojaMart.
The Treasure Appraisal Guide changes that sum. Reading this power book triples the sale price of every artifact, and the Dinosaur Egg counts as one. After reading it, a raw egg sells for more than the Mayonnaise made from it. From then on, selling eggs unprocessed earns more.
A Dinosaur Egg has a few other uses. Placed in the Sewing Machine, it makes the Dinosaur Hat. It also works as a green dye for clothing. Gus accepts it as an egg for his "Gus' Famous Omelet" special order. As a gift, Alex, Demetrius, the Dwarf and Penny like it.
Buying
The first Dinosaur Egg has to be found. Tilling Artifact Spots in The Mountain and the Quarry can turn one up. Fishing treasure chests and the Pepper Rex in the Skull Cavern sometimes drop one as well. Eggs also lie on the ground on the prehistoric floors of the Skull Cavern. The Crane Game in the Movie Theater offers one as a prize.
Placing the egg in the Incubator starts a long wait of about eleven days. The Coopmaster profession cuts that to about six. A full Coop holds the egg until a space opens.
The museum also wants a Dinosaur Egg for its collection. Hatching the first egg and donating a later one covers both needs.
A dinosaur can be sold like any farm animal. At full friendship it fetches a modest price, far below the value of its weekly eggs over time.
Notes
In earnings, the dinosaur trails cheaper birds. A chicken lays every day, and a week of its Mayonnaise sells for more than one jar of Dinosaur Mayonnaise. Its real value lies in the eggs: one for the museum, one jar of Mayonnaise for The Missing Bundle, and a slow but steady supply after that.
All Animals
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Building | Price | Produce |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 
|
Coop | 800g | Egg; Brown Egg; Large Egg; Large Brown Egg |
| Cow | 
|
Barn | 1500g | Milk; Large Milk |
| Dinosaur | 
|
Big Coop | - | Dinosaur Egg |
| Duck | 
|
Big Coop | 1200g | Duck Egg; Duck Feather |
| Dusty | - | - | - | - |
| Goat | 
|
Big Barn | 4000g | Goat Milk; Large Goat Milk |
| Golden Chicken | 
|
Big Coop | - | Golden Egg |
| Ostrich | 
|
Barn | - | Ostrich Egg |
| Pig | 
|
Deluxe Barn | 16000g | Truffle |
| Rabbit | 
|
Deluxe Coop | 8000g | Rabbit's Foot; Wool |
| Sheep | 
|
Deluxe Barn | 8000g | Wool |
| Void Chicken | 
|
Big Coop | - | Void Egg |