Dragon Tooth
| Dragon Tooth | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | Volcano Dungeon; Stingray Fish Pond |
| Sell Price | 500g |
The Dragon Tooth is Ginger Island's hardest currency. Teeth are picked out of the dragon skeletons lying on the floors of the Volcano Dungeon and dropped by the Lava Lurks that hide in the magma there, so every one of them is earned in the most dangerous place in the game. Almost everything that makes island life convenient asks for them: the Warp Totem: Island, the permanent Island Obelisk, the Mini-Forge and the Banana Sapling that starts the island's fruit economy. One tooth at the Forge also buys an innate enchantment on a weapon, which is the only way to add those small permanent bonuses. A Stingray pond eventually produces teeth on its own, which is how a patient farm stops making volcano runs altogether.
Overview
The volcano is the first supply. Teeth lie among the bones scattered across the dungeon's floors and are collected by hand like forage, which makes a careful sweep of each level worthwhile even when the lava is in the way. Lava Lurks are the other source. They sit in the magma waiting to spit, and roughly one in seven of them leaves a tooth behind, so a run that clears the route down tends to come back with several.
The Stingray pond is the long-term answer. A Fish Pond stocked with Stingrays starts producing Dragon Teeth once the population is high enough, and getting there needs one tooth to begin with: the pond's own request asks for a Dragon Tooth to raise its capacity past five fish. That makes the first tooth an investment rather than a purchase, because the pond keeps paying out afterwards without another trip into the volcano.
What the teeth buy is the interesting part. The Volcano Dwarf sells the recipe for the Warp Totem: Island, which combines hardwood, ginger and a single tooth into a one-use jump to the island, and that totem is how most farms visit before the boat schedule stops mattering. The Island Obelisk is the permanent version, and it is deliberately expensive: ten teeth go in alongside iridium bars, bananas and a million gold, after which the island is one step from the farmhouse door forever. The Mini-Forge asks for five teeth and is unlocked by mastering Combat, and it puts the volcano's forge inside the farmhouse so weapons can be upgraded at home.
The Island Trader takes five teeth for a Banana Sapling. That trade matters more than it sounds, because bananas are needed for the Island Obelisk itself and a Banana Tree planted on the island fruits all year round, so the trade pays for the next one.
At the Forge a tooth adds an innate enchantment to a weapon. Those are the quiet bonuses, the extra point of speed or the better critical chance that sit underneath a weapon's named enchantment, and a stack of teeth is the price of chasing a good one.
Uses
Crafting Dragon Tooth with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Mini-Forge | 
|
Dragon Tooth (5), Iron Bar (10), Gold Bar (10), Iridium Bar (5) |
| Warp Totem: Island | 
|
Hardwood (5), Dragon Tooth (1), Ginger (1) |
Notes
Leo is the only person in the valley who likes being given a Dragon Tooth, which fits a boy who grew up on the island. Everybody else hates it.
A spare tooth has cosmetic uses too. In the spool of the Sewing Machine it makes the Swashbuckler Hat, and at the dye pots on 2 Willow Lane it counts as an orange dye.
Teeth do sell for a fair price, but selling them is almost always a mistake. Nothing else in the game replaces them, and a save that ships its teeth early usually ends up making the volcano trip again later.
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