Helvite

Helvite

Type	Mineral
Location	Magma Geode; Omni Geode
Sell Price	450g

Helvite is a geode mineral from Magma Geodes and Omni Geodes, and one of the most valuable of them all. Among geode minerals, only Star Shards sell for more. That price makes it one of the few geode minerals that earns well in a Crystalarium, where it ranks just behind Diamond and Star Shards. Its first job is still a museum donation, and its tailoring use is the Classy Top. The Wizard likes it, but the rest of the town dislikes it.

The in-game description reads: It grows in a triangular column.

Location

Helvite only comes from cracking geodes. The short mineral list inside Magma Geodes gives them the best odds. Omni Geodes can hold it too, but they spread their odds across the minerals of every geode type.

Breaking rocks on floors 81 to 119 of The Mines gives Magma Geodes. Omni Geodes drop from rocks on floor 21 and deeper, and they turn up often in the Skull Cavern. Every Wednesday the Oasis stocks Omni Geodes.

Clint at the Blacksmith opens each geode for 25g. Once Clint's Cave Patrol special order unlocks the recipe, a Geode Crusher opens them at home. The odds stay the same on lucky and unlucky days.

Prices

Helvite sells for nine times the price of Baryte from the same geode. One Helvite pays for cracking eighteen geodes at Clint. Gemologist, the Mining level 10 profession, adds thirty percent to the price of Helvite and of every other gem and mineral.

In a Crystalarium, each copy takes about three and a half days. That works out to roughly 130g a day per machine. Diamond earns about 150g a day and Star Shards about 144g, but Helvite beats Emerald, Ruby and Jade, which earn about 120g. With the Gemologist profession, the gap to those gems grows further.

The stone placed in a Crystalarium stays in the machine. The machine keeps making copies for as long as it stays in place, so one Helvite is enough to start.

Uses

Donating the first Helvite to Gunther adds it to the museum's mineral collection. Mineral donations unlock rewards at set totals. Furniture such as the Standing Geode and the Singing Stone makes up the early rewards. The Crystal Chair follows at 41 minerals and a Crystalarium at 50.

Putting Helvite and Cloth in the Sewing Machine makes the Classy Top, which has separate versions for male and female farmers. Helvite also works as a red dye in the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house.

Gifts

The Wizard likes Helvite.

Helvite is a poor gift for Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam. The Dwarf, Krobus and Sandy dislike it too, and so do the children Jas, Leo and Vincent. Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam, Sebastian and Shane share that view, and so do the shop owners Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy.

Cheaper geode minerals please the Wizard just as much, so Helvite is far better sold or copied than given away.

Notes

Donating the first Helvite and loading the second into a Crystalarium fills the museum slot and starts an income at once. Every copy after that can be sold, sewn into a Classy Top, or used to start more Crystalariums.

All Geode Minerals

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Image	Price
Aerinite		125g
Alamite		150g
Baryte		50g
Basalt		175g
Bixite		300g
Calcite		75g
Celestine		125g
Dolomite		300g
Esperite		100g
Fairy Stone		250g
Fire Opal		350g
Fluorapatite		200g
Geminite		150g
Ghost Crystal		200g
Granite		75g
Helvite		450g
Hematite		150g
Jagoite		115g
Jamborite		150g
Jasper		150g
Kyanite		250g
Lemon Stone		200g
Limestone		15g
Lunarite		200g
Malachite		100g
Marble		110g
Mudstone		25g
Nekoite		80g
Neptunite		400g
Obsidian		200g
Ocean Stone		220g
Opal		150g
Orpiment		80g
Petrified Slime		120g
Pyrite		120g
Sandstone		60g
Slate		85g
Soapstone		120g
Star Shards		500g
Thunder Egg		100g
Tigerseye		275g