Dinosaur Egg
| Dinosaur Egg | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Animal Product |
| Animal | Dinosaur; Artifact Spot in The Mountains / Quarry (0.6%); Fishing Treasure Chests (0.7-0.8%); Pepper Rex drop (10%); Prehistoric Floors in the Skull Cavern; Crane Game in Movie Theater |
| Sell Price | 350g |
The Dinosaur Egg is a rare find that counts as both an artifact and an animal product. The first one has to be dug up, fished up, won or taken from a monster in the Skull Cavern. That egg can do three very different jobs: hatch a Dinosaur, fill a gap in the museum or become a jar of Dinosaur Mayonnaise. Once a Dinosaur lives on the farm, it lays a fresh egg about once a week, which removes the need to choose. The egg also makes a hat at the Sewing Machine and works as a green dye.
The in-game description reads: A giant dino egg... The entire shell is still intact!
Production
Once grown, a Dinosaur that eats every day leaves a new egg once a week. As with other Coop animals, better friendship and mood raise the egg's star quality.
Finding the first egg takes patience and luck. Tilling Artifact Spots on The Mountain, including the Quarry, has a tiny chance to turn one up. Fishing treasure chests can hold one too, once Fishing reaches level 2 and at least one artifact has already been found that way. In the Skull Cavern, the Pepper Rex drops a Dinosaur Egg about one time in ten. Prehistoric floors there sometimes have eggs lying on the ground as forage. Now and then, a Dinosaur Egg sits among the prizes of the Crane Game in the Movie Theater.
The Burglar's Ring improves the Pepper Rex route, because it rolls monster drops twice.
Putting the egg in the Incubator of a Big Coop or Deluxe Coop starts a long wait of around eleven days. With the Coopmaster profession, the egg hatches in roughly six days instead.
Prices
At normal quality, a raw Dinosaur Egg is a solid sale, and its stars raise the price further. A Mayonnaise Machine turns it into Dinosaur Mayonnaise in three hours. That jar is always normal quality and sells for more than twice a normal egg. Artisan farmers get two fifths more for each jar.
Reading the Treasure Appraisal Guide turns that advice around. The book makes every artifact sell for three times its usual price, and the egg is an artifact. From then on, a raw egg outsells its jar of Mayonnaise at every quality. The one exception is a normal-quality egg on a farm with the Artisan profession, where the jar still edges ahead.
Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.
| Quality | Price | Treasure Appraisal Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | 350g | 1,050g |
 Silver
|
437g | 1,311g |
 Gold
|
525g | 1,575g |
 Iridium
|
700g | 2,100g |
Uses
The museum needs a Dinosaur Egg for its collection of artifacts. Hatching the first egg and donating a later one from the Dinosaur gets both a new animal and the museum entry.
A jar of Dinosaur Mayonnaise counts toward The Missing Bundle, found in the abandoned JojaMart. That bundle turns the building into the Movie Theater.
At the Sewing Machine, a Dinosaur Egg makes the Dinosaur Hat. It also serves as a green dye, both in the Sewing Machine and at the dye pots in Emily and Haley's house at 2 Willow Lane.
Gus accepts a Dinosaur Egg toward his "Gus' Famous Omelet" order on the Special Orders board.
Gifts
Like other artifacts, the Dinosaur Egg suits only a few villagers. Only Alex, Demetrius, Penny and the Dwarf like receiving one. The rest of the valley dislikes it.
Notes
Of all the ways to find a first egg, the Pepper Rex is the most direct, since every kill has a real chance to drop one. Artifact Spots and fishing chests give far longer odds.
A Dinosaur lays slowly, so its eggs are best treated as a steady trickle rather than a main income.
All Animal Products
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Animal | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Products Profitability | - | - | - |
| Dinosaur Egg | 
|
Dinosaur; Artifact Spot in The Mountains / Quarry (0.6%); Fishing Treasure Chests (0.7-0.8%); Pepper Rex drop (10%); Prehistoric Floors in the Skull Cavern; Crane Game in Movie Theater | 350g |
| Duck Egg | 
|
Ducks | 95g |
| Duck Feather | 
|
Duck; Cat | 250g |
| Egg | 
|
Chicken | 50g |
| Goat Milk | 
|
Goat | 225g |
| Golden Egg | 
|
Golden Chicken; Marnie's Ranch; Qi's Walnut Room; The Witch; Fishing Treasure Chest (0.12%) | 500g |
| Large Egg | 
|
Chicken | 95g |
| Large Goat Milk | 
|
Goat | 345g |
| Large Milk | 
|
Cow | 190g |
| Milk | 
|
Cow | 125g |
| Ostrich Egg | 
|
Ostrich | 600g |
| Rabbit's Foot | 
|
Rabbit; Traveling Cart; Serpent drop (0.8%); Cat | 565g |
| Roe | 
|
Fish Pond; Fishing Treasure Chests | - |
| Slime | 
|
Slimes; Krobus; Slime Ball; Traveling Cart; Fish Pond | - |
| Slime Ball | 
|
Slime Hutch | - |
| Void Egg | 
|
Void Chicken; Witch; Krobus; Void Salmon Fish Ponds | 65g |
| Wool | 
|
Rabbit; Sheep | 340g |