Gold Bar
| Gold Bar | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Crafting; Furnace; Tilling in The Mines; Monster drop |
| Sell Price | 250g |
The Gold Bar is the mid-game metal that turns a working farm into an efficient one. It builds the Quality Sprinkler, the first sprinkler that covers a full square around itself, and it pays for the third round of tool upgrades at the Blacksmith. Gold also goes into the Seed Maker, the Oil Maker, the Worm Bin, the Crystalarium and several rings. Clint, Maru and Willy all love receiving one, which makes gold one of the few metals that doubles as a fine gift. Each bar is valuable to sell, yet it almost always earns more as a machine.
The in-game description reads: A bar of pure gold.
Location
Most Gold Bars come from a Furnace. Five pieces of Gold Ore and a lump of Coal make one bar, but the smelting takes around five in-game hours. That is much slower than copper or iron, so a row of furnaces helps once Gold Ore arrives in bulk. The Heavy Furnace from Mining Mastery handles a far larger batch in one go.
Mining level 7 teaches Transmute (Au). That recipe turns two Iron Bars straight into a Gold Bar with no wait at all. It is handy when a gold upgrade is only a bar or two short and iron is plentiful.
Gold Bars also turn up as rewards and rare drops. Completing the Enchanter's Bundle on the Bulletin Board gives five bars. When Clint is the secret gift-giver at the Feast of the Winter Star, his present can be five Gold Bars. Squid Kids drop them more often than most monsters. Shadow Brutes and Shadow Shamans drop one now and then, and Dust Sprites very rarely. Digging in the sandy patches of The Mines between floors 41 and 80 can even uncover a bar by pure luck.
Prices
Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.
| Quality | Price | Blacksmith (+50%) |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | 250g | 375g |
Uses
Gold tools are the third upgrade at the Blacksmith. Clint takes five Gold Bars and a hefty fee, and keeps the tool for two days. A Gold Hoe or Gold Watering Can covers a three-by-three square in one charged swing. A Gold Pickaxe can break the meteorites that sometimes crash onto the farm. The Gold Pan and the Gold Trash Can follow the same pattern.
Farming level 6 teaches the Quality Sprinkler. Crafting a Gold Bar with an Iron Bar and Refined Quartz makes a sprinkler that waters all eight tiles around it. It saves a great deal of daily watering, and a field of them frees whole mornings for other work. Farming level 8 brings the Oil Maker and level 9 the Seed Maker and the Iridium Sprinkler, each needing one bar.
Fishing gear uses gold too. Fishing level 4 teaches the Worm Bin, which produces Bait on its own. Level 7 brings the Treasure Hunter tackle, made from two Gold Bars, and level 8 the Barbed Hook. Combat level 7 adds the Ring of Yoba and the Thorns Ring. Mining level 9 teaches the Crystalarium, which takes five bars.
Special Orders unlock more gold recipes. Caroline's "Island Ingredients" rewards the Solar Panel, and Clint's "Cave Patrol" rewards the Geode Crusher. The Wizard's "A Curious Substance" teaches the Mini-Obelisk, a pair of which lets the farmer warp across the farm. The Mini-Forge from Combat Mastery needs a large stack of Gold Bars along with Dragon Teeth and Iridium Bars. Robin sells the Gold Brazier recipe for decoration.
Crafting Gold Bar with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Crystalarium | 
|
Stone (99), Gold Bar (5), Iridium Bar (2), Battery Pack (1) |
| Geode Crusher | 
|
Gold Bar (2), Stone (50), Diamond (1) |
| Gold Brazier | 
|
Gold Bar (1), Coal (1), Fiber (5) |
| Iridium Sprinkler | 
|
Gold Bar (1), Iridium Bar (1), Battery Pack (1) |
| Mini-Forge | 
|
Dragon Tooth (5), Iron Bar (10), Gold Bar (10), Iridium Bar (5) |
| Mini-Obelisk | 
|
Hardwood (30), Solar Essence (20), Gold Bar (3) |
| Oil Maker | 
|
Slime (50), Hardwood (20), Gold Bar (1) |
| Quality Sprinkler | 
|
Iron Bar (1), Gold Bar (1), Refined Quartz (1) |
| Seed Maker | 
|
Wood (25), Gold Bar (1), Coal (10) |
| Solar Panel | 
|
Refined Quartz (10), Iron Bar (5), Gold Bar (5) |
| Worm Bin | 
|
Hardwood (15), Gold Bar (1), Iron Bar (1), Fiber (50) |
Gifts
These villagers love receiving Gold Bar as a gift.
| Villager | Image |
|---|---|
| Clint | 
|
| Maru | 
|
| Willy | 
|
Notes
The Blacksmith's Bundle in the Boiler Room asks for one Gold Bar.
The Help Wanted board outside Pierre's General Store can ask for a Gold Bar once the Furnace blueprint is known. The reward is generous. Several fish also ask for three bars before their pond can grow.
The Blacksmith profession raises the sell price of a Gold Bar by half.
At the Sewing Machine, a Gold Bar in the spool with Cloth sews the Gold Breastplate. Pairing it with Mayor Lewis's Lucky Purple Shorts in the feed makes a trimmed version of the shorts that can be worn. Gold also works as a yellow dye at the dye pots.
Clint, Maru and Willy love Gold Bars, and Krobus likes them. Sam hates them, and most other villagers dislike them.
All Resources
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bat Wing | 
|
15g |
| Battery Pack | 
|
500g |
| Bone Fragment | 
|
12g |
| Broken CD | 
|
0g |
| Broken Glasses | 
|
0g |
| Bug Meat | 
|
8g |
| Cave Jelly | 
|
180g |
| Cinder Shard | 
|
50g |
| Clay | 
|
20g |
| Coal | 
|
15g |
| Copper Bar | 
|
- |
| Copper Ore | 
|
5g |
| Driftwood | 
|
0g |
| Fiber | 
|
1g |
| Gold Bar | 
|
- |
| Gold Ore | 
|
25g |
| Green Algae | 
|
15g |
| Hardwood | 
|
15g |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
- |
| Iridium Ore | 
|
100g |
| Iron Bar | 
|
- |
| Iron Ore | 
|
10g |
| Joja Cola | 
|
25g |
| Monster Loot | - | - |
| Moss | 
|
5g |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
- |
| Radioactive Ore | 
|
300g |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
50g |
| Rice | 
|
100g |
| River Jelly | 
|
125g |
| Rotten Plant | 
|
0g |
| Sea Jelly | 
|
200g |
| Soggy Newspaper | 
|
0g |
| Solar Essence | 
|
40g |
| Stone | 
|
2g |
| Sugar | 
|
50g |
| Trash | - | - |
| Trash (item) | 
|
0g |
| Treasure Chest | 
|
5000g |
| Vinegar | 
|
100g |
| Void Essence | 
|
50g |
| Wheat Flour | 
|
50g |
| White Algae | 
|
25g |
| Wood | 
|
2g |