Fossilized Leg
| Fossilized Leg | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | Bone Node (10%) |
| Sell Price | 100g |
The Fossilized Leg is the one piece of Professor Snail's big skeleton that has to be found twice. Bone nodes at the Ginger Island Dig Site are the only place it turns up, and roughly one node in ten gives one, so the hunt means a pickaxe and a few mornings of swinging at pale bones in the rock. Two legs go into the Large Animal specimen at the Island Field Office, which pays out six Golden Walnuts and a Banana Sapling once the last bone is in place. Spare legs are worth little on the shipping bin but feed the Bone Mill happily, and they turn into a Skeleton Shirt at the Sewing Machine. Every villager in the valley hates being handed one, so it is a poor choice for a birthday.
The in-game description reads: A thick and sturdy leg bone.
Overview
Bone nodes sit among the ordinary stone of the Dig Site, in the northern part of Ginger Island. They are easy to pick out once spotted: pale, rib-shaped lumps rather than grey rocks. Breaking one usually scatters Bone Fragments, and about one in ten also drops a Fossilized Leg. No other part of the island produces one, so the Dig Site is the whole search area.
Getting to that search area takes a little groundwork. The parrot beside the broken bridge on the northern path asks for ten Golden Walnuts before it will rebuild the crossing. Past the bridge a boulder blocks the mouth of a cave on the upper terrace, and a bomb or a Cherry Bomb clears it. Professor Snail is behind that boulder, and freeing him is what opens the Field Office tent just west of the dig.
The office wants the bones of four creatures, and the biggest of the four is the Large Animal. Its frame needs two legs along with the ribs, the skull, the spine and the tail. Nothing happens piecemeal: the walnuts and the sapling arrive only when the final bone of that skeleton is handed over. The donation screen also has a Hint option, which is worth using when one bone refuses to appear, because the professor points at the right habitat rather than making the farmer guess.
The pickaxe rarely stops after two legs, and the extras have a use. A Bone Mill turns one leg into Quality Fertilizer, Speed-Gro, Deluxe Speed-Gro or Tree Fertilizer in about four hours of the working day, with a small chance of a double batch. The mill recipe comes from Gunther, who posts the Fragments Of The Past order on the Special Orders board and asks for a hundred bone items inside a week; finishing it pays 3,500g and the recipe.
The Sewing Machine accepts a leg in the spool and sews the Skeleton Shirt. The same bone works as a yellow dye at the pots in Emily and Haley's house at 2 Willow Lane, which is a cheap way to colour a shirt to match.
Notes
Daily luck has no bearing on bone node drops, so a bad fortune on the television is no reason to leave the dig alone.
Once all four specimens stand complete and the survey board has been answered, Professor Snail hands over the Ostrich Incubator recipe. It costs fifty Bone Fragments, fifty Hardwood and twenty Cinder Shards, which is a tidy second use for everything the node breaking leaves behind.
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