Minecart
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The Minecart is the valley's fast travel, a set of four stations linked by a single click: the Mines up in the mountains, Pelican Town beside the Blacksmith, the Bus Stop at the foot of the farm and the Quarry east of the mine entrance. Getting the carts running takes either the Boiler Room bundles in the Community Center or fifteen thousand gold handed to Joja through the Community Development Form, and either way they start running the following day. The Quarry stop is the one that waits, because the broken mountain bridge has to be repaired before the track reaches it. Once the system is live, the long walk from the farm to the mountain and back stops being part of a mining day.
Area
Each station opens onto a different corner of the map, and the value of the network is in what sits within a few steps of each one.
The Mines station is the busiest. Stepping out of it puts the mine entrance, the Adventurer's Guild, Robin's Carpenter's Shop, the Spa and the gate to the Railroad all within easy reach, which makes it the obvious stop for a day of mining followed by an errand with Robin and a soak to get the energy back.
The Pelican Town station lands beside the Blacksmith, with the Museum and JojaMart a short walk away. That is the stop for a bag full of ore and geodes, since Clint takes both and the Museum takes the minerals that come out of them.
The Bus Stop station is the one that goes home. It opens next to the bus itself, the path up to the farmhouse and the Tunnel that leads west, so it is the natural end of an evening when the farm still needs locking up.
The Quarry station is the quietest of the four, serving the Quarry and putting the Adventurer's Guild nearby. The Quarry fills with rocks and trees again each day, so a cart ride straight to it turns what would be a long trek into a short routine.
Notes
Getting the carts working is one of the better early reasons to care about the Boiler Room. That set of bundles asks for ore, metal bars and the geode minerals, all of which come from the first stretch of the Mines, so the reward arrives at exactly the point in a save where the walk to the mountain has started to feel long. On the Joja route the same thing is bought outright, and the minecarts are the cheapest project on the form.
The Quarry condition catches people out. Paying for or earning the carts does not put the fourth station on the map by itself. The bridge east of the Mines has to be mended first, through the Crafts Room bundles or by paying Joja for the Bridge project, and only then does the Quarry appear as a destination in the cart menu.
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