Mummified Frog
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | Ginger Island Jungle; Dangerous Mines (Floors 41-69) |
| Sell Price | 100g |
The Mummified Frog is the specimen that hides in the undergrowth. Cutting the tangled weeds in the Ginger Island jungle is what turns one up, and the very first frog found after Professor Snail opens his Field Office comes much more readily than any that follow. It also drops from the weeds on the middle floors of the mines while the dangerous difficulty is running, which gives anyone taking Mr Qi's challenges a second route. Handing it over finishes a study by itself and pays a Golden Walnut. Any further frogs are fertiliser for a Bone Mill or cloth for a Sewing Machine, and no villager will take one as a gift.
The in-game description reads: This ancient frog may have lived in the jungle canopy.
Overview
The jungle covers the eastern side of Ginger Island, reached by walking right from the beach where Willy's boat lands and heading up past Leo's hut. The ground there grows thick clumps of weeds that a scythe or a sword clears in one swing, and each clump has a slim chance of leaving a frog behind. The chance is far better on the first one, which the game arranges deliberately so that the collection does not stall at the very start.
Patience is the trick. The weeds grow back over the following days, so a farmer who clears the whole jungle and finds nothing has only to come back later and cut it again. Combining the sweep with the walnut hunt in the same area keeps the trip from feeling wasted.
The mines offer the other path. With the Shrine of Challenge switched on, or while Mr Qi's Danger In The Deep order is active, the weeds in the middle stretch of the mine floors can drop a frog too. That is rarely the reason anyone goes down there, but it does mean a save that has already turned the difficulty up need not sail to the island for this one piece.
Professor Snail keeps his notes in the tent west of the dig site, reachable once the parrot has rebuilt the northern bridge and a bomb has freed him from his cave. The frog stands alone on his wall rather than belonging to a skeleton, so the walnut is paid the moment it is donated. His hint button names the jungle for anyone who has not found it.
Spare frogs behave like the rest of the bone collection. The Bone Mill turns one into Quality Fertilizer, Speed-Gro at either grade or Tree Fertilizer, and sometimes returns two batches. The Sewing Machine spool makes the Skeleton Shirt, and the dye pots in Emily and Haley's house read the frog as a yellow dye. Gunther's Fragments Of The Past order on the Special Orders board takes it as one of the hundred bone items he wants inside a week.
Notes
Clearing the jungle is useful beyond the frog. The same weeds give fibre, and a walnut sits in a bush on the path up to Leo's hut, so a scythe swung there pays for the walk whatever the frog does.
The frog and the bat are the two studies that need only one piece each, and getting both of them out of the way early makes the rest of the collection feel much shorter, since the large skeletons can then be filled in whenever their bones happen to appear.
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