Geode Crusher
| Geode Crusher | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | "Cave Patrol" Special Order |
The Geode Crusher is a farm machine that cracks geodes open without a trip to the Blacksmith. Feeding it a geode gives up the minerals, ores and artifacts inside after about an hour. It replaces Clint's fee for each geode, so a big haul from the Mines can be processed at home. The recipe is Clint's own reward for clearing monsters in his "Cave Patrol" Special Order. A row of crushers makes short work of a chest full of geodes.
Recipe
The recipe comes from Clint through the Special Orders board outside Mayor Lewis's house. In "Cave Patrol", he asks for fifty kills of one monster type within a week. The type is picked at random from Bats, Dust Sprites, Skeletons and Grubs. Finishing the order pays a good sum of gold, and Clint mails the recipe afterwards. The order can be taken again later, and it pays the same gold every time.
Each target has its own hunting ground. Grubs are common on the early Mines floors, and the Mutant Bug Lair in the Sewers is full of them too. Dust Sprites swarm the frozen floors between 40 and 79, and they often drop Coal on the way out. Skeletons live on the lower frozen floors, just above level 80.
Crafting takes two Gold Bars, fifty Stone and one Diamond. The Stone is free from any mining trip. Gold Ore smelts into bars in a Furnace, and Diamonds come from gem nodes deeper in the Mines.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Bar | 
|
2 |
| Stone | 
|
50 |
| Diamond | 
|
1 |
Use
Placing a geode into the machine starts it working. After about an hour of game time, the contents are ready to collect. The crusher handles every kind of geode, from the plain Geode to Frozen Geodes, Magma Geodes and Omni Geodes.
A few containers still need Clint. The crusher cannot break Artifact Troves, Golden Coconuts, Mystery Boxes or Golden Mystery Boxes. Those keep their trip to the Blacksmith.
Notes
Clint charges 25g for every geode he opens. Over a season of mining trips, those small fees add up to far more than the bars and Diamond in the recipe. Its real advantage is time. Several crushers side by side can clear a large pile of geodes in about an hour, while the Blacksmith opens them one at a time.
Geodes are a steady way to fill the Museum's mineral collection. Running them through crushers at home makes it easy to check the results and set aside new finds for donation.
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