Oasis
| Oasis | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Location |
| Address | The Desert |
| Open Hours | 9:00am to 11:50pm |
| Closed | Desert Festival days, Fall 15 after 1pm |
| Residents | Sandy |
The Oasis is a bright pink shop in the south-west of the Calico Desert, run by Sandy, and it keeps the longest hours of any shop in the valley: nine in the morning until ten minutes to midnight. It is the only place that stocks Starfruit Seeds, which makes it the single most profitable shop in the game for a farmer with a greenhouse and patience, and Rhubarb, Beet and Cactus Seeds sit on the same shelf. A second pair of items rotates in every day of the week, from Omni Geodes to Deluxe Speed-Gro to a tub of Ice Cream, so the stock is worth a look on every trip. Behind the till a doorway leads to the Casino, with a bouncer standing in front of it until Mr. Qi's quest chain is finished. Getting here at all needs the bus repaired and a ticket from Pam.
Area
The desert is reached by bus from the Bus Stop, which stays broken until the Vault bundles are paid for at the Community Center or the repair is bought through the Joja Community Development Form. A ticket costs five hundred gold and covers the ride home as well.
The shop itself is unmistakable, a squat building of bright pink brick in the desert's south-west corner, with a bench outside to sit on. Inside is one room with the counter along one side and a doorway in the back corner. That doorway is the Casino, and the bouncer in front of it will not move until the Club Card turns up at the end of the Mysterious Qi quest.
The Key To The Town does not work on this door, which is the one shop in the game it does not open. The compensation is that the Oasis trades through festival days, when the town's own shops are shut, so a festival morning is a good time to come out here. The Desert Festival is the exception, since the whole desert turns into the festival for its duration.
Shops
Starfruit Seeds are the headline. They are expensive to buy and slow to grow, and Starfruit is worth enough on its own and far more again as wine, so a greenhouse full of them is one of the standard routes to a rich save. No other shop carries them, with only an occasional appearance on the Traveling Cart.
Rhubarb and Beet are the other two crops that start here. Rhubarb is a spring crop that Pierre never stocks, and Beet Seeds are among the cheapest seeds anywhere, which makes a desert trip pay for itself in autumn. Cactus Seeds are a curiosity: the plant will only grow indoors, so it belongs in the greenhouse or on a windowsill rather than in a field, and it keeps fruiting once it is established.
The clothing shelf is the other reason to come. Sandy sells a random shirt each day drawn from the ones available at character creation, along with Farmer Pants, Shorts, a Long Dress, a Skirt and a Pleated Skirt. For decorating there are mannequins in two styles, a Coat Stand, a Clothesline and a Wall Cactus, and a Seasonal Plant that changes with the time of year and never needs watering.
The daily rotation is where the bargains hide. Monday brings a stack of Coconuts and a Large Cottage Rug. Tuesday has Cactus Fruit and a selection of wall sconces. Wednesday is the useful one, with Omni Geodes on the counter and a Jade Hills painting. Thursday brings Deluxe Speed-Gro, which is worth buying in bulk before a big planting, and an Old World Rug. Friday has Honey and a Large Green Rug, Saturday Quality Retaining Soil and more sconces, and Sunday a Large Brown Couch and Ice Cream for slightly less than Alex charges in Summer.
Residents
Sandy runs the shop alone and is behind the counter almost all day, which makes her one of the easiest villagers in the game to find and one of the hardest to reach. She has no family in the valley and her closest friend is Emily, back in Pelican Town.
That friendship closes the shop once a year. Emily travels out to the desert on Sandy's birthday in the middle of Fall, and the two of them shut the Oasis at one in the afternoon to spend it together, so a late arrival that day finds the counter abandoned.
Notes
The bus runs more reliably than it looks. Pam drives on the Feast of the Winter Star like any other day, so the desert stays open on one of the few days when the rest of the valley has stopped working. On days when Pam cannot drive, she leaves a sign at the stop and the farmer can take the wheel instead, though the ticket still has to be paid for.
The Oasis also quietly undercuts other shops on a few lines. Several of the items on its shelves are sold elsewhere at higher prices, and the furniture it carries is included free in the Furniture Catalogue, so a farmer who owns the catalogue should buy the seeds here and take the decorations from the book.
All Shops
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Open Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Abandoned House | 
|
All Day |
| Adventurer's Guild | 
|
2:00pm to 2:00am |
| Blacksmith | 
|
9:00am to 4:00pm |
| Bookseller | 
|
- |
| Carpenter's Shop | 
|
9:00am to 5:00pm |
| Casino | 
|
9:00am to 11:50pm |
| Desert Trader | 
|
Always |
| Fish Shop | 
|
9am to 5pm |
| Giant Stump | 
|
- |
| Harvey's Clinic | 
|
9:00am to 3:00pm |
| Ice Cream Stand | 
|
1pm to 5pm during Summer |
| Island Trader | 
|
Always |
| JojaMart | 
|
9:00am to 11:00pm |
| Marnie's Ranch | 
|
9:00am to 4:00pm; (Building open 9am to 6pm) |
| Oasis | 
|
9:00am to 11:50pm |
| Pierre's General Store | 
|
Shop: 9am to 5pm; Building: 9am to 9pm |
| Qi's Walnut Room | 
|
Always |
| The Stardrop Saloon | 
|
12:00pm to 12:00am |
| Traveling Cart | 
|
6:00am to 8:00pm Friday and Sunday; 5:00pm to 2:00am during Night Market; 12:00pm to 2:00am during Desert Festival |
| Volcano Dungeon | - | - |
| Wizard's Tower | 
|
6:00am to 11:00pm |