Green Algae

Green Algae

Type	Resource
Location	Fishing Pole: freshwater; Green Slimes; Garbage Cans; Fish Pond; Cat
Sell Price	15g

Green Algae is a slimy tangle of weed that fishing lines pull out of rivers, lakes and mountain water. It looks like junk, but it is one of the more useful things to keep from a fishing trip. Five pieces are part of the price of every Fish Pond that Robin builds. Clint teaches Algae Soup, a cheap and filling meal, and the Queen of Sauce adds Trout Soup to the list. Green Algae also sells for a little money, unlike true trash. Every villager hates it as a gift, so the stack belongs in a chest or a cooking pot.

Location

Any freshwater spot can give Green Algae. A rod cast into the river in Pelican Town, the Mountain lake or the forest pond can hook a clump in every season. The one exception is the Farm pond on the Standard Farm map, which only ever gives trash. Ocean water does not count as fresh, so the beach is the wrong place to look for it.

Green Slimes in The Mines drop a clump now and then when slain. A cat at full friendship sometimes leaves one after its first petting of the day. The Garbage Cans of Pelican Town can also hold a piece.

A Fish Pond stocked with Slimejack, Crayfish, Snails or Periwinkles produces Green Algae from time to time. That pond keeps a steady trickle coming without any fishing at all.

Uses

Robin asks for five pieces of Green Algae, five Seaweed and some Stone along with the gold for each Fish Pond. Saving algae from every fishing trip helps when several ponds are planned, since the last few pieces are easy to run short of.

Cooking is the other main use. Reaching three hearts with Clint brings the Algae Soup recipe by mail. Cooking four pieces of Green Algae makes a bowl that restores a good amount of energy for very little cost. That makes it a handy food for long days in The Mines before better meals are available. The Queen of Sauce teaches Trout Soup on her television show in Fall. Cooking a Rainbow Trout with one piece of algae makes a soup that also gives a small Fishing buff.

The Help Wanted board outside Pierre's General Store sometimes asks for Green Algae. Carp and Largemouth Bass ponds may ask for a few pieces before their population can grow from three to five.

Cooking Green Algae with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.

Dish	Image	Ingredients
Algae Soup		Green Algae (4)
Trout Soup		Rainbow Trout (1), Green Algae (1)

Notes

Green Algae shows up in the Fish section of the collection, and catching it counts towards the fishing achievements. In every other way the game treats it as something other than a fish. The Fish Shop refuses to buy it, and the fishing professions add nothing to its price. Recipes that call for any fish will not accept it. Bait Makers, Fish Smokers and Fish Ponds all reject it as well.

At the Sewing Machine, Green Algae in the spool makes the dyeable Collared Shirt. It also works as a green dye at the dye pots in Emily and Haley's house.

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