Fairy Box
| Fairy Box | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Trinket |
| Location | Monsters; Crates and Barrels; Skull Cavern Treasure Rooms |
| Sell Price | 1000g |
The Fairy Box puts a small winged companion at the farmer's shoulder, and that companion quietly tops up health during a fight. It is the trinket most often named as the best choice for a long descent, because a deep run rarely ends from one big hit; it ends from a hundred small ones with no time to stop and eat. The box becomes available once Combat Mastery has been claimed, after which monsters, breakable containers and Skull Cavern treasure rooms can all yield one. Every Fairy Box arrives at a random level, and a better level means more frequent and stronger healing, so the Anvil turns the box into something worth coming back to. The fairy also happens to be one of the prettiest things to follow a farmer anywhere in the valley.
Location
Nothing drops until the Combat pillar in the Mastery Cave has been claimed, which asks for level ten in all five skills and a stock of Mastery Points. Once the trinket slot appears, the Fairy Box joins the pool of random trinkets that any kill or any smashed container can produce.
Monsters are the most common route, and reports from players match the numbers: the kind of monster barely matters, so slimes and shadow brutes have both handed one over. Larger and tougher enemies are slightly better bets, because the chance scales with a monster's own health. Barrels and crates in the Mines, the Skull Cavern and the Quarry Mine are the other steady supply, and the chance from a container improves with depth. Treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern are the last route, with a small chance in each chest and more rooms appearing the deeper the dive goes.
Luck sits on top of all of it. The morning fortune and any active luck buff both raise the odds, so a lucky day spent clearing containers is worth far more than a neutral one.
Effect
The fairy spawns as soon as the box is equipped and trails along behind. It takes no part in the fighting. Instead it watches, and during combat it restores health now and then without being asked. Nothing needs to be held, aimed or timed, which is the whole appeal: healing arrives while the farmer keeps swinging.
Level is what separates a good box from a dull one. Levels run from one to five, and a higher level fairy both heals on a shorter cycle and heals harder when it does. At the top of that range the trickle becomes enough to carry a fight that would otherwise force a retreat to the elevator.
Compared with eating, the fairy is slow but free. A Spicy Eel or a stack of cheese restores far more at once, and the fairy will never replace an emergency bite in the middle of a serpent swarm. What it does instead is stop the slow bleed between fights, so a run through the Skull Cavern uses up fewer snacks and more of the inventory can be bombs, staircases and ore. For a farmer short on cooked food, that trade is a strong one.
Gifts
These villagers love receiving Fairy Box as a gift.
| Villager | Image |
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| Jas | 
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Notes
Rerolling is where the Fairy Box earns its iridium. The Anvil, built from fifty iron bars with the recipe Combat Mastery provides, randomises the box's level for three iridium bars each attempt. The result can fall as easily as it rises, and the top levels are rare, so chasing a level five box is a long and expensive hobby rather than a quick upgrade. Many farmers settle for whatever the first few rolls give and move on.
The fairy's appearance is set apart from its level. Each save picks one look and keeps it, so a farmer cannot reroll into a different fairy, only into a stronger one. In a multiplayer farm each player gets their own.
Jas loves the Fairy Box, which is an easy heart or two for anyone with a spare. The Wizard likes it as he likes every trinket, and the rest of the town would rather have something else. A spare also sells for a round thousand at the Adventurer's Guild, so a duplicate is never wasted.
All Trinkets
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Basilisk Paw | 
|
1000g |
| Fairy Box | 
|
1000g |
| Frog Egg | 
|
1000g |
| Golden Spur | 
|
1000g |
| Ice Rod | 
|
1000g |
| Magic Hair Gel | 
|
1000g |
| Magic Quiver | 
|
1000g |
| Parrot Egg | 
|
1000g |