Junimo Chest
| Junimo Chest | |
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | Qi's Walnut Room for 30 |
The Junimo Chest looks like an ordinary chest and behaves like a shared cupboard. Every one placed anywhere in the world opens the same small stash, so stone dropped into the chest beside the farmhouse can be pulled back out of a chest standing at the volcano entrance. Mr Qi sells them in the Walnut Room, which means they arrive late, but they change how a long trip is packed: tools, bombs, food and ore no longer need to be carried out and carried home. The stash is deliberately small, nine slots in total, so the chests work as a courier rather than a warehouse.
Overview
Mr Qi's shelf in the Walnut Room is the only place they are sold, and the room itself opens once a hundred Golden Walnuts have been found. The first pair costs thirty Qi Gems between them, and single chests are cheaper afterwards, so the price of Getting Started is modest by the standards of that shop. Gems come from Mr Qi's special orders, from killing monsters with the Shrine of Challenge switched on, and from trading leftover walnuts at his counter.
Placing them is the interesting decision, since the usefulness comes entirely from where they stand. One on the farm near the shipping bin, one on the island farm and one outside the mine covers most journeys. A chest by the Volcano Dungeon entrance is the classic choice, because Cinder Shards pile up faster than they can be carried and the Forge is right there.
The chests follow the usual rules with two exceptions. They must be emptied before they can be picked up again, although a full one can still be nudged a tile at a time by hitting it with an empty hand. Villagers will shove one aside if it has been left in their path rather than walking around it. A Workbench placed next to a Junimo Chest will not draw crafting materials from it, which is the one place where an ordinary chest is better, and the Mines and the Skull Cavern refuse them altogether.
Nine slots fill quickly, so the trick is to keep the stash as a set of running supplies rather than storage. Bombs, Staircases, food, bait and the day's ore are the things that earn their place. Anything meant to be kept belongs in a proper chest at home.
Notes
In a shared farm the chests are a quiet fix for the usual problem of one player hoarding the useful items. Everything in the stash is reachable from any chest, so a farmer in the desert can take a bomb left by someone standing in the greenhouse.
A Junimo Chest cannot be sold back but never wears out, so the gems are its only real cost. Anyone who already has every other purchase from the Walnut Room tends to end up buying several out of habit.
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