Piña Colada
| Piña Colada | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | Gus at Beach Resort's bar for 600g |
| Sell Price | 300g |
| Energy | 75 |
| Health | 33 |
Gus packs up a few bottles and sets out a bar on the sand whenever he takes a holiday at the Beach Resort, and the Piña Colada is the drink he mixes there. It is sold nowhere else, cooked from no recipe and crafted in no machine, so a glass can only be had on the island on a day Gus has come over. Pam loves it, which says a great deal about Pam, and most of the valley is happy to receive one. It also goes into the spool of the Sewing Machine, where it dyes up a Black Leather Jacket. For a drink with a single shop and a single seller, it travels surprisingly far.
Overview
The bar comes with the resort rather than the island. Paying the parrot beside the docks twenty Golden Walnuts turns the derelict stretch of south beach into a holiday spot, and from then on the valley's residents start taking days off there. Gus is one of them, and when he goes he brings his stock, so the Piña Colada appears and disappears with him. There is no schedule worth planning around: checking the beach on an island day is the whole method.
Buying one costs twice what it fetches at the shipping bin. The drink is bought to be drunk or given away, and shipping a glass is simply throwing away half of its price. Drinking it restores a decent amount of energy along with a little health, which makes it a sensible thing to buy and use on the spot while working the volcano or the island farm, rather than something to carry home and store.
As a present it is unusually well judged. Pam loves it outright, and nearly every adult in the valley likes it, which makes a stack of them a reliable way to spend an afternoon raising hearts across town. Kent will not touch it. Jas, Leo, Penny, Sebastian and Vincent all hate it, and the reasons write themselves: three of them are children, and Penny has lived with the consequences of her mother's drinking for her whole life. That pairing produces one of the game's sharper small moments, because Penny will sometimes suggest a Piña Colada as a good present for her mother while refusing to hold one herself.
The drink is filed with cooked food rather than drink in the game's own records. The practical effect is that it appears under cooked items in the gift log on the social tab once it has been given to somebody, and that it cannot be dropped into the Luau soup with the rest of the kitchen.
Tailoring is the last use. Cloth in the feed and a Piña Colada in the spool of the Sewing Machine produces the Black Leather Jacket. Beer, Mead, Pale Ale and any Wine will make the same jacket, so the cocktail is by far the most expensive route to it, and worth using only if a glass happens to be in the bag when the machine is free.
Gifts
These villagers love receiving Piña Colada as a gift.
| Villager | Image |
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| Pam | 
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Notes
Since the bar only exists while Gus is standing behind it, buying several at once is the right move. A few glasses in a chest cover the next birthday, the next heart event and the next trip to the jacket machine, none of which will wait for Gus to fancy another holiday.
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