Heavy Tapper
| Heavy Tapper | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Qi's Secret Walnut Room for 20 |
The Heavy Tapper is the late-game upgrade of the Tapper. Fixed to a tree, it collects the same syrup, resin or tar, but it fills up in about half the time. The recipe comes from Mr. Qi's shop in the Walnut Room on Ginger Island, and each one needs a Radioactive Bar. Tapped Maple, Oak and Pine trees keep producing in every season, so a grove of Heavy Tappers gives a steady flow of artisan ingredients all year. It also works on the Mystic Tree, which yields the rare Mystic Syrup.
Recipe
Qi's Walnut Room sells the recipe for Qi Gems. The room sits on the west side of Ginger Island and opens once a hundred Golden Walnuts have been found. Qi Gems come from Qi's own Special Orders, from the Shrine of Challenge and from trading spare walnuts.
Each Heavy Tapper takes thirty Hardwood and one Radioactive Bar. Hardwood comes from large stumps and logs cut with an upgraded Axe. The Radioactive Bar is the hard part. Radioactive Ore only appears in the Mines or the Skull Cavern when their dangerous mode is active. Five pieces of the ore smelt into one bar in a Furnace.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Hardwood | 
|
30 |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
1 |
Use
Placing it works like a normal Tapper. Holding it and using it on a fully grown tree attaches it. When the reservoir is full, a click collects the product.
The speed boost shows on the common trees. A Maple Tree fills it with Maple Syrup in four nights instead of nine. Oak Resin takes three nights instead of seven, and Pine Tar two instead of five. A Mahogany Tree already gives Sap every night, so the upgrade changes nothing there.
Other trees give other goods. A Mushroom Tree yields Common, Red or Purple Mushrooms. The Mystic Tree, grown from a seed earned through Foraging Mastery, gives Mystic Syrup. Green Rain Trees of the right type give Fiddlehead Ferns.
Tappers on Maple, Oak, Pine, Mahogany and Mystic Trees keep working through Winter. Mushroom Trees and Green Rain Trees give nothing until Spring returns.
Notes
Tree products feed many other recipes. Oak Resin goes into Kegs and Deluxe Speed-Gro, and Pine Tar goes into Speed-Gro. Maple Syrup goes into cooking. Doubling the output of a few trees covers a lot of crafting.
A tapper can be knocked off its tree with a single tool hit and moved elsewhere without breaking. That makes it easy to shift Heavy Tappers onto the most useful trees as needs change.
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