Magic Rock Candy
| Magic Rock Candy | |
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | Desert Trader; Haunted Skull drop (0.13%); Desert Festival; Mystery Box (0.2%); Golden Mystery Box (0.4%); Raccoon Wife's Shop |
| Sell Price | 5000g |
Magic Rock Candy is the strongest sweet in the valley and the hardest to come by. Eating one stacks buffs to luck, mining, attack, defence and speed at once, refills the energy bar completely and heals a great deal besides, which makes it the thing to chew just before dropping into the Skull Cavern. Every villager loves it as a present, so one piece will move any heart meter further than a careful week of ordinary gifts. It also sells for a small fortune, which leaves most farmers in a happy argument with themselves about what to do with the one they found. The Desert Trader is the only dependable supplier, and he wants Prismatic Shards for it.
Overview
The buffs are what justify the fuss. The luck bonus is the largest any food gives, and it arrives alongside enough mining, combat and defence to make a hard dive comfortable. It all runs for a little over eight minutes of game time, so the candy is eaten at the entrance rather than packed for later. Even the energy and health it restores would be respectable on their own.
Supply is the difficulty. The Desert Trader out in Calico Desert takes three Prismatic Shards for one piece and offers it only on Thursdays, which is steep but reliable. Haunted Skulls drop it on very rare occasions, which is a thin reason to go hunting them. Mystery Boxes hold it on long odds and Golden Mystery Boxes roughly twice as often, and the raccoon family will trade a stack of those golden boxes for a piece once their sixth request is done and Foraging Mastery has been claimed.
Several one-off rewards hand it over as well. Gunther pays a piece for a museum well on its way to completion. The prize machine in Mayor Lewis's manor gives one as a fixed prize partway down its list, so it arrives eventually for anyone feeding it tickets. The Desert Festival is generous with it too: the Calico Egg Merchant stocks a piece on the last day, Jas sells one at her stall for a large pile of eggs, and Gil pays one out for a strong result in the egg rating.
What to do with it depends on the farm. Early on, a piece eaten before a Skull Cavern run can be worth more in iridium than the candy would ever fetch at the shipping bin. Later, when the mines are routine, it becomes the ideal gift for a villager whose tastes are awkward, since loved gifts count double on a birthday. Anyone with a surplus can also put one in the spool of a Sewing Machine, where it becomes the prismatic Magic Sprinkle Shirt.
Notes
The game quietly files the candy as a cooked dish even though no recipe makes it. That is why it appears on the cooked items tab of the gift log in the social menu, and why it cannot be dropped into the pot at the Luau.
Keeping one in a chest for emergencies is a habit worth having. Between the luck bonus, the full energy refill and the healing, a single piece can rescue a Skull Cavern run that was about to end in a trip to Harvey's clinic.
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