Mummified Bat
| Mummified Bat | |
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | Breaking rocks in the Volcano Dungeon |
| Sell Price | 100g |
The Mummified Bat is the hardest of Professor Snail's specimens to find, and the only one that comes out of the volcano. Rocks in the Volcano Dungeon hold it, but barely one in a couple of hundred does, so the hunt means hours of mining on the hot floors rather than a trip to a known spot. Donating it to the Island Field Office completes a display on its own, with no other bones to match it, and pays a Golden Walnut. Spares grind down into fertiliser at a Bone Mill or sew into the Skeleton Shirt. Like every bone in the collection, it is the last thing any villager wants as a present.
The in-game description reads: The delicate wings have been perfectly preserved.
Overview
The volcano stands at the northern end of Ginger Island, and the dungeon underneath it is where the bat waits. Every ordinary rock on those floors carries the same thin chance, which means the sensible approach is to break as many as possible rather than to search carefully. Mega Bombs do the work of a dozen pickaxe swings and clear whole shelves of stone at once, so a farmer stocked with explosives finds the bat far sooner than one working by hand.
The dungeon helps in two ways. Its floors regenerate on each visit, so the rocks never run out, and the walnut payments that open a permanent bridge at the entrance and an escape shortcut partway down make repeated trips far less of a slog. Everything else the stone gives up on the way, Cinder Shards especially, is needed for the Forge further in, so nothing about the grind is wasted.
Professor Snail takes the bat at his tent west of the dig site, which only opens after the boulder sealing his cave has been blown apart. His wall holds four studies, and this one is a single piece rather than a skeleton, so the moment the bat is handed over the display is finished and the reward is paid. The donation screen will drop a hint about where to look for anyone who has not worked out that the volcano is the place.
Once the specimen is in, the usual uses apply to any further bats. A Bone Mill takes one and gives back Quality Fertilizer, Speed-Gro of either grade or Tree Fertilizer, occasionally doubling the batch. The spool of a Sewing Machine turns it into the Skeleton Shirt, and the dye pots at 2 Willow Lane treat it as a yellow dye. Gunther's Fragments Of The Past order on the Special Orders board counts it among the hundred bone items it asks for.
Notes
Finishing all four studies and the island surveys is what earns the Ostrich Incubator recipe, and the bat is usually the piece holding that up. Keeping a few bombs in the bag on every volcano run is the simplest way to get past it.
The volcano is dangerous in its own right, so the trip wants a decent weapon and a stack of food alongside the pickaxe. A farmer who treats the bat hunt as a mining expedition rather than a fossil hunt tends to come home with the bat and a full backpack besides.
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