Nekoite

Nekoite

Type	Mineral
Location	Geode; Omni Geode
Sell Price	80g

Nekoite is a geode mineral that comes from plain Geodes and Omni Geodes. Plain Geodes are common from the first days of mining, so Nekoite is one of the minerals a museum usually gains early. Its main role is a slot in Gunther's mineral collection, which pays out furniture and a free Crystalarium as it grows. After that first donation, spare pieces are sold for a modest price or gifted to the Wizard. Tailoring is its other use, since Nekoite gives a pink dye at the Sewing Machine.

The in-game description reads: The delicate shards form a tiny pink meadow.

Location

Plain Geodes give Nekoite at about one chance in thirty-two each. Omni Geodes can hold it too, but each one shares its odds across every geode mineral.

Rocks on floors 1 to 39 of The Mines drop plain Geodes most often. Rocks on the Farm and elsewhere in the valley drop them as well. Duggies drop them about a quarter of the time. Fishing Treasure Chests, the Garbage Can outside the museum and a full Stonefish Fish Pond give more. On the Beach Farm, Supply Crates can hold a few before the Farmhouse is upgraded.

Clint at the Blacksmith breaks geodes open for a small fee. His Cave Patrol special order rewards the recipe for the Geode Crusher, which cracks them without the fee. Daily luck leaves the contents unchanged.

Prices

Nekoite sells for the same as Orpiment and a little more than Calcite and Granite. Alamite and Jamborite, the best plain Geode minerals, are worth nearly twice as much. A Geode that gives Nekoite still sells for more than the unopened Geode. Choosing Gemologist at Mining level 10 adds thirty percent to what Nekoite fetches.

In a Crystalarium, Nekoite takes about three and a half days per copy. That earns about 23g a day. An Amethyst earns more than four times as much in the same machine.

Uses

Donating the first Nekoite to Gunther at the museum adds it to the mineral collection. Gunther's mineral milestones give out furniture, with the Standing Geode, the Singing Stone and the Obsidian Vase among the pieces. Forty-one minerals are enough for the Crystal Chair, and fifty for a free Crystalarium.

Putting Nekoite and Cloth in the Sewing Machine makes a Shirt. Placed in the spool with a dyeable clothing item instead, Nekoite dyes it pink. It also fits the red dye pot at Emily and Haley's house.

Gifts

The Wizard likes Nekoite.

The shopkeepers Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy dislike Nekoite. Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam dislike it too, and so do the bachelors and bachelorettes Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam, Sebastian and Shane. The Dwarf, Krobus and Sandy dislike it as well, as do the children Jas, Leo and Vincent.

Because it sells for little, Nekoite is a good mineral to hand to the Wizard once the museum has its copy.

Notes

Keep one spare Nekoite in a chest for tailoring. A batch of early Geodes cracked at Clint usually fills Nekoite and several other plain Geode slots in one visit.

All Geode Minerals

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Image	Price
Aerinite		125g
Alamite		150g
Baryte		50g
Basalt		175g
Bixite		300g
Calcite		75g
Celestine		125g
Dolomite		300g
Esperite		100g
Fairy Stone		250g
Fire Opal		350g
Fluorapatite		200g
Geminite		150g
Ghost Crystal		200g
Granite		75g
Helvite		450g
Hematite		150g
Jagoite		115g
Jamborite		150g
Jasper		150g
Kyanite		250g
Lemon Stone		200g
Limestone		15g
Lunarite		200g
Malachite		100g
Marble		110g
Mudstone		25g
Nekoite		80g
Neptunite		400g
Obsidian		200g
Ocean Stone		220g
Opal		150g
Orpiment		80g
Petrified Slime		120g
Pyrite		120g
Sandstone		60g
Slate		85g
Soapstone		120g
Star Shards		500g
Thunder Egg		100g
Tigerseye		275g