Mini-Shipping Bin
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The Mini-Shipping Bin is a shipping bin small enough to carry, and it will stand anywhere in the world rather than only on the farm. Anything dropped into it joins the nightly shipment and is paid for in the morning, exactly as the big bin on the farm does. That makes it the answer to a backpack filling up halfway through a job: one standing at the mine entrance, another on Ginger Island and a third at the far end of a long field turn a trek home into a few steps. Two of the special orders on the board outside the Mayor's Manor hand one over, and Mr Qi sells more in the Walnut Room for anyone who wants a bin in every corner.
Overview
The free routes come from Mayor Lewis's board. Crop Order asks for a hundred of a single crop from the current season and gives a bin the first time it is finished. Pierre's Prime Produce wants gold-star vegetables delivered into the bin at the General Store, and that pays gold and a bin as well. Both are month-long orders rather than week-long ones, so they fit comfortably around ordinary farm work, and the vegetables for Pierre have to be picked by hand because anything the Junimos harvest will not count.
Once the boards have been exhausted, Mr Qi stocks them. The Walnut Room opens after a hundred Golden Walnuts have been found, and the bins sit on his shelf at a fairly high price in Qi Gems, which is still worth paying for a farm sprawling across several maps.
The bin itself behaves like its larger cousin with one helpful difference. Nine slots is the limit, but each slot holds a full stack, so the capacity is far more generous than it sounds. Items sitting in it can be taken back out at any point during the day, which makes it safe to use as a dumping ground for anything that might be needed later. Everything still there at nightfall is sold.
Picking it up again means emptying it first. A bin with goods still waiting to be shipped refuses to go back into the backpack, which is a small mercy given what people tend to leave in them.
Notes
The letter Pierre sends after his order suggests the bin will route quality crops into his shop as stock for him to sell. It reads nicely and means nothing: everything put in a Mini-Shipping Bin is sold the usual way at the usual price.
Where to put one is worth a moment's thought. The mine entrance is the classic spot, since a day in the caverns produces more ore than any backpack holds, and a bin beside the Volcano Dungeon or the island farm saves the boat trip home with a full load.
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