Limestone

Limestone

Type	Mineral
Location	Geode; Omni Geode; Coral (Fish Pond)
Sell Price	15g

Limestone is a geode mineral found in plain Geodes and Omni Geodes. It is the least valuable mineral in the game, worth less than the fee Clint charges to open the geode it came from. Its worth lies elsewhere. The first piece fills a slot in Gunther's mineral collection at the museum, and later pieces help grow Fish Ponds, since Bullhead and Largemouth Bass can ask for one. Coral in a Fish Pond can also produce it, and the Sewing Machine turns it into a gray dye and a Shirt.

The in-game description reads: A very common type of stone. It's not worth very much.

Location

Plain Geodes are the usual way to find Limestone. Each one has about a one in thirty-two chance to contain it. Omni Geodes can hold it too, but their odds are spread over every geode mineral.

Plain Geodes drop from rocks on floors 1 to 39 of The Mines and from rocks across the valley, including the Farm. Duggies drop them often. Fishing Treasure Chests, the Garbage Can outside the museum and a full Stonefish Fish Pond provide more.

Clint at the Blacksmith opens geodes for a small fee. His Cave Patrol special order rewards the Geode Crusher recipe, which opens them for free. Daily luck leaves the contents unchanged.

A Fish Pond stocked with Coral can also produce a Limestone once the pond holds nine Coral. That gives a slow but steady supply without cracking any geodes.

Prices

A plain Geode that turns into Limestone loses money: the mineral sells for less than a third of the unopened Geode. Paying Clint to open it costs more than the Limestone is worth. The Gemologist profession at Mining level 10 adds thirty percent, but that changes little at such a low price.

A Crystalarium can copy Limestone, but each copy still takes about three and a half days. That earns only a few gold a day, so the machine is far better used on a gem.

Uses

Donating the first Limestone to Gunther at the museum adds it to the mineral collection. Mineral milestones bring rewards, among them furniture such as the Standing Geode, the Singing Stone and the Obsidian Vase. Reaching forty-one minerals earns the Crystal Chair, and fifty earns a free Crystalarium.

Bullhead and Largemouth Bass ponds can ask for one Limestone in the quest that raises the pond's limit from five fish to seven. Keeping a spare in a chest saves a wait when that request appears.

Putting Limestone and Cloth in the Sewing Machine makes a Shirt. Placed in the spool with a dyeable clothing item instead, Limestone dyes it gray.

Gifts

The Wizard likes Limestone. It is the cheapest mineral he likes.

Among those who dislike Limestone are the children Jas, Leo and Vincent. The same goes for the shop owners Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy, and for the bachelors and bachelorettes Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam, Sebastian and Shane. The older residents Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam dislike it as well, as do the Dwarf, Krobus and Sandy.

Spare Limestone is worth more as a gift or a Fish Pond item than as a sale. A few pieces given to the Wizard raise his friendship at almost no cost.

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