Mining Monthly
| Mining Monthly | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Book |
| Location | Bookseller; Traveling Cart; Fishing Treasure Chests; Mayor's Manor; Mystery Boxes; Golden Mystery Boxes; Monsters; Crates and Barrels; Trees; Artifact Spots |
| Sell Price | 500g |
Mining Monthly is the skill book that rewards going underground, and most of its copies come out of the ground as well. Each reading pours experience into mining, and mining levels are what turn a careful descent into a quick one: the crafting recipes they unlock include the bombs and staircases that let a farmer skip rooms entirely. The book can be read as many times as copies can be found, which makes it steadily useful rather than a one-off. Crates and barrels in the Mines, Skull Cavern and the Volcano Dungeon are the obvious place to look, and the Bookseller sells it at the modest end of his table. He will also take a copy off a farmer's hands in exchange for a stack of Coal, which is usually the scarcer of the two.
The in-game description reads: Read this to gain some mining experience.
Overview
The shaft in the Mountain runs a hundred and twenty floors, and the first run down it is slow. Every floor has to give up a ladder before the next one opens, and the ladder comes from breaking rocks or killing whatever lives there. Levelling mining is the quiet half of making that faster, since the recipes along the way cover bombs in three sizes, staircases built out of stone and the furnaces that turn ore into bars. Level five then splits between more ore and a better chance of minerals, and the choice at level ten follows from it. A handful of these books read in one sitting can bring that decision forward by a whole season.
The drop pool is broad. Crates and barrels smashed open in the Mines, Skull Cavern and the Volcano Dungeon are the most natural route for a miner, and artifact spots dug with a hoe are close behind. Trees give it up as well, both when shaken for seeds and when felled outright, and any monster can drop it, with Iridium Golems far more generous than the rest. Fishing has its own route through treasure chests on the line, and Mystery Boxes opened at the Blacksmith are another. The Prize Machine in the Mayor's Manor hands one over as a possible prize deep into the ticket list, and the Traveling Cart stocks it now and then at a price that reflects its mood rather than its value.
The Bookseller is the only way to buy it reliably, and even he does not promise it. He parks for a single day twice each season on the rise north of JojaMart, and the titles he brings are different every time. His skill books sit in a price band rather than at a fixed figure, so the same book can cost noticeably more on one visit than another.
Trading is worth a thought before reading. The Bookseller swaps this book for a sizeable pile of Coal, and Coal is the resource that holds up furnaces, kilns, bombs and Preserves Jars alike. A farmer with plenty of mining levels and no spare Coal is usually better off with the fuel. Once every skill has been maxed and the Mastery Cave has opened, however, the reading itself becomes valuable again, because the experience converts into Mastery points.
Notes
Clint, who runs the Blacksmith's and spends his life around ore, likes being given this one. Penny loves it, Elliott is pleased with it, and Alex is not.
For dyeing, the book counts as orange in the pots at Emily and Haley's house on 2 Willow Lane, and as brown when it goes through the spool of the Sewing Machine with a dyeable garment in the feed.
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Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Catalogue | 
|
2000g |
| Bait And Bobber | 
|
500g |
| Book Of Stars | 
|
2500g |
| Book of Mysteries | 
|
3000g |
| Combat Quarterly | 
|
500g |
| Dwarvish Safety Manual | 
|
1000g |
| Friendship 101 | 
|
3000g |
| Horse: The Book | 
|
1000g |
| Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Thick | 
|
500g |
| Jewels Of The Sea | 
|
800g |
| Mapping Cave Systems | 
|
4000g |
| Mining Monthly | 
|
500g |
| Monster Compendium | 
|
2000g |
| Ol' Slitherlegs | 
|
1000g |
| Price Catalogue | 
|
1000g |
| Queen Of Sauce Cookbook | 
|
10000g |
| Raccoon Journal | 
|
1000g |
| Stardew Valley Almanac | 
|
500g |
| The Alleyway Buffet | 
|
3000g |
| The Art O' Crabbing | 
|
1000g |
| The Diamond Hunter | 
|
1000g |
| Treasure Appraisal Guide | 
|
500g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 1 | 
|
5000g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 2 | 
|
10000g |
| Woodcutter's Weekly | 
|
500g |
| Woody's Secret | 
|
500g |