Opal
| Opal | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Mineral |
| Location | Frozen Geode; Omni Geode |
| Sell Price | 150g |
Opal is a geode mineral found in Frozen Geodes and Omni Geodes. It is not to be confused with Fire Opal, a separate and more valuable mineral from Magma Geodes. Opal's main purpose is the museum, where it fills a slot in Gunther's mineral collection. Its price is a solid middle value for a Frozen Geode mineral, worth half again as much as the unopened geode. Spare pieces sell, go to the Wizard as a liked gift, or become a Shirt and a blue dye.
The in-game description reads: Its internal structure causes it to reflect a rainbow of light.
Location
Frozen Geodes are the reliable route to Opal, with roughly a one in thirty chance each. An Omni Geode can contain it as well, though it splits its odds across every geode mineral.
Rocks on floors 41 to 79 of The Mines drop Frozen Geodes. Rocks on the Farm drop them in Winter as well. They turn up in Fishing Treasure Chests, and villagers sometimes give them at the Feast of the Winter Star. A full Ice Pip Fish Pond produces them. The small quarry on the Hill-top Farm and the Four Corners Farm has Frozen Geode Nodes. At the Desert Festival, Sebastian sells Frozen Geodes for Calico Eggs when he has a booth.
Clint at the Blacksmith cracks geodes for a small fee. After Clint's Cave Patrol special order, the Geode Crusher recipe lets geodes be opened without the fee. Daily luck leaves the contents unchanged.
Prices
Opal sells for the same as Hematite and Geminite. Kyanite, Fairy Stone and Ocean Stone are worth more, while Esperite, Marble and Pyrite are worth less. Fire Opal from Magma Geodes sells for more than twice as much as Opal. An Opal sells for thirty percent more once Gemologist is taken at Mining level 10.
A Crystalarium copies Opal in about three and a half days, which earns around 43g a day. Jade earns close to three times that in the same machine, so a gem is the better choice.
Uses
Donating the first Opal to Gunther at the museum adds it to the mineral collection. The milestones for minerals award furniture, such as the Standing Geode, the Singing Stone and the Obsidian Vase. At forty-one the prize is the Crystal Chair, and at fifty it is a free Crystalarium.
Putting Opal and Cloth in the Sewing Machine makes a Shirt. Opal also works in the blue dye pot at Emily and Haley's house.
Gifts
The Wizard likes Opal.
Among those who dislike Opal are Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam, Sebastian and Shane. The older villagers Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam dislike it as well. So do the children Jas, Leo and Vincent. The shop owners Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy dislike it too, and so do the Dwarf, Krobus and Sandy.
Notes
Both Opal and Fire Opal have their own slot in the museum, so each needs a separate donation. Opal comes from the middle floors of The Mines, while Fire Opal waits on the deepest floors.
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 |