Frog Egg
| Frog Egg | |
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| Type | Trinket |
| Location | Monsters; Crates and Barrels; Skull Cavern Treasure Rooms |
| Sell Price | 1000g |
Equip the Frog Egg and a frog hops along behind the farmer, picking monsters off with its tongue. It is the strangest of the trinkets and the one with the clearest trade: enemies the frog swallows are gone completely, which means no loot, no quest credit and no progress towards Gil's eradication goals. In exchange it clears a path through crowds without a single swing, and it does so even to monsters that normally shrug off a sword. The egg becomes available once Combat Mastery has been claimed, and it comes from the same underground sources as the rest, from kills, from smashed containers and from Skull Cavern treasure rooms. It also comes in a range of colours, which do nothing at all and are half the reason players keep one.
Location
The trinket slot has to exist first, and that means claiming the Combat pillar inside the Mastery Cave in Cindersap Forest. The door there stays shut until all five skills sit at level ten, and the pillar needs Mastery Points on top.
Once the slot is open, the egg can arrive three ways. Any monster killed anywhere underground has a small chance of dropping a random trinket, and the chance leans towards tougher creatures. Crates and barrels in the Mines, the Skull Cavern and the Quarry Mine have a chance of their own that grows with depth, which is why clearing containers on a deep Skull Cavern floor beats clearing them near the surface. Chests in Skull Cavern treasure rooms are the third route, and those rooms turn up more often the further down the dive goes.
Both of the drop formulas read the day's luck and any luck buff in effect, so a run begun after the fortune teller promises good things pays better than the same run on a sour morning.
Effect
The frog works on its own. When a monster strays close enough it lunges, grabs and swallows, then waddles along with a full belly for a while before it is ready again. A failed grab is retried a moment later. Nothing is aimed and nothing is timed, so the frog effectively removes a monster every so often from whatever happens to be nearest.
What makes it unusual is how little it cares about armour or rules. Monsters that need a specific method to kill, and monsters that cannot be hurt at all by an ordinary weapon, go down the frog's throat like everything else. For a farmer tired of chipping away at armoured bugs, that alone is entertainment.
The cost is loot. A swallowed monster leaves nothing behind, so the frog quietly eats the slime, the Bug Meat, the bone fragments and the rare drops that would have paid for the trip. It also eats the kill itself, which stalls any monster slaying quest from the Adventurer's Guild and any eradication goal in progress. That makes the Frog Egg a poor companion for a farming run and a fine one for a pure descent, where the only goal is depth and the only currency is survival.
Gifts
These villagers love receiving Frog Egg as a gift.
| Villager | Image |
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| Sebastian | 
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| Vincent | 
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Notes
Colour is the frog's only variable, and it is purely for show. An egg arrives in a random shade and the Anvil can shuffle it, at three iridium bars a go using the recipe Combat Mastery hands over. The common greens and browns turn up constantly; the odd shades are rare enough that players hunt them deliberately, which is an unusual thing to spend iridium on and a very Stardew thing to do.
Sebastian and Vincent both love the egg, so a duplicate is worth holding back as a present rather than selling. The Wizard likes it, as he likes every trinket, and Alex is indifferent. A spare can also go to the Adventurer's Guild for a round thousand.
One habit is worth keeping: on an infested floor, finish the last monster personally. If the frog takes it instead, the ladder out may never appear, and the only way on is a crafted Staircase.
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 |