Golden Coconut
| Golden Coconut | |
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | Foraging; Island Trader; Blue Discus Fish Pond |
The Golden Coconut is Ginger Island's version of a geode: a sealed shell that has to be taken to Clint before anyone finds out what is inside. The very first one opened always holds a Golden Walnut, and every one after that draws from a short list of island prizes, including the Banana and Mango Saplings, Pineapple Seeds, Taro Tubers, a Mahogany Seed, a stack of Iridium Ore, the Fossilized Skull and the Golden Helmet. Shaking palm trees and digging the island's artifact spots are the usual way to find them, and a well stocked Blue Discus pond starts turning them out at home. Because the skull for Professor Snail's big specimen comes from nowhere else, most farmers end up cracking a good many of these before the island is finished with them.
The in-game description reads: This is one tough nut to crack, but a professional might be able to break it open.
Overview
Four supplies feed the habit. A Palm Tree with a coconut visible in its crown sometimes drops the golden kind when shaken, so shaking everything on the way past is worth the second it takes. Artifact spots anywhere on Ginger Island can hold one, and the odds there improve slightly once the first has been cracked. A Fish Pond stocked with Blue Discus produces one now and then once the pond is close to full. Last, the Island Trader keeps them in stock permanently and asks for ten ordinary Coconuts apiece, a trade that unlocks after the first golden one has been opened.
That last route turns the hunt into shopping. Ordinary Coconuts are sold at the Oasis in Calico Desert on Mondays, so a desert run converts straight into golden coconuts without a Palm Tree or a hoe. Anyone chasing the Fossilized Skull or the Golden Helmet usually does exactly that rather than trusting the island to provide.
Opening them is Clint's job. He breaks one at the blacksmith for the same small fee he charges for a geode, and a Geode Crusher on the farm will not touch them, so this is one errand that cannot be automated.
The contents are close to evenly weighted, which makes a batch of coconuts a fair way to stock an island orchard: the saplings and seeds that come out are exactly the trees and crops that only grow out there. The Golden Helmet is the exception and is much rarer, and once one has been found the game stops offering a second. The Fossilized Skull is the prize that matters for the Island Field Office, since no Artifact Spot, river or bone node will ever produce one.
Notes
The coconut itself cannot be sold at any counter, which makes trading or cracking the only sensible thing to do with a spare. Handing one to a villager goes down badly across the whole valley.
The Sewing Machine takes a Golden Coconut in the spool and returns the Island Bikini, which is a cheerful if expensive way to spend one. The dye pots in Emily and Haley's house at 2 Willow Lane read it as a yellow dye.
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