Refined Quartz
| Refined Quartz | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Furnace |
| Sell Price | 50g |
Refined Quartz is the clear crafting crystal that sits between the metal bars and the gems. It comes out of a Furnace when Quartz or Fire Quartz is smelted with Coal, and a Recycling Machine also makes it from old CDs and glasses. Small amounts go into many of the most useful items on a farm: the Quality Sprinkler, the Lightning Rod and the Sonar Bobber. Larger amounts build the Slime Hutch and craft the Solar Panel and the Farm Computer. Every Quality Sprinkler needs a piece, so a steady supply matters far more than its modest sell value.
The in-game description reads: A more pure form of quartz.
Location
Smelting is the most reliable method. A Furnace loaded with one Quartz and one lump of Coal produces one Refined Quartz in an hour and a half. Fire Quartz works the same way but gives three pieces from a single crystal, so it is the better input when it is available. Plain Quartz lies on the floors of The Mines and Skull Cavern, and the first few floors of The Mines are the quickest place to pick it up. Fire Quartz shows up in the lava levels of The Mines, from floor 80 down.
Recycling is the other main route. Fishing pulls up Broken CDs and Broken Glasses, and both also turn up in Garbage Cans around town. Feeding either one into a Recycling Machine always returns one piece of Refined Quartz. The machine unlocks at Fishing level 4, and finishing the Field Research Bundle on the Bulletin Board gives one for free. A few rarer finds add to the pile. Large crystals in The Mines very rarely drop a piece when broken. Garbage Cans in town occasionally hold one, once Clint has handed over the Furnace blueprint. Ghosts and Carbon Ghosts sometimes drop it too. A Ghostfish Fish Pond with a large population can produce some as well.
Uses
Farming tools take the most. The Quality Sprinkler, learned at Farming level 6, needs one piece along with an Iron Bar and a Gold Bar. It waters all eight tiles around it, so many farms craft dozens of them. The Lightning Rod, learned at Foraging level 6, uses one piece plus Bat Wings and an Iron Bar. It catches lightning in storms and turns each strike into a Battery Pack. Anglers need it as well, because the Sonar Bobber that shows the fish on the line is built with Refined Quartz.
Evelyn shares the Garden Pot recipe after the Greenhouse is restored, and each pot uses one piece with Clay and Stone. Robin sells the Crystal Path recipe, and Krobus sells the Crystal Floor recipe. Each piece makes five tiles of either floor.
Two special orders unlock bigger recipes. Caroline's island order teaches the Solar Panel, and Demetrius' orders teach the Farm Computer. Each of those machines asks for ten pieces. The Slime Hutch from Robin also needs ten, along with Stone, an Iridium Bar and gold.
The Remixed Bundles version of the Boiler Room includes the Engineer's Bundle, which asks for five pieces. At the Sewing Machine, Refined Quartz in the spool makes the dyeable Necklace Shirt. The dye pots at Emily and Haley's house accept it as a purple dye.
Crafting Refined Quartz with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Farm Computer | 
|
Dwarf Gadget (1), Battery Pack (1), Refined Quartz (10) |
| Garden Pot | 
|
Clay (1), Stone (10), Refined Quartz (1) |
| Lightning Rod | 
|
Iron Bar (1), Refined Quartz (1), Bat Wing (5) |
| Quality Sprinkler | 
|
Iron Bar (1), Gold Bar (1), Refined Quartz (1) |
| Solar Panel | 
|
Refined Quartz (10), Iron Bar (5), Gold Bar (5) |
Notes
Once Clint has given out the Furnace blueprint, the Help Wanted board outside Pierre's General Store may ask for Refined Quartz. The reward is a little gold and a good boost in friendship with whoever posted it.
Fire Quartz is worth saving for the Furnace rather than selling. Three pieces of Refined Quartz from one crystal cover three Quality Sprinklers for the cost of a single lump of Coal.
All Resources
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bat Wing | 
|
15g |
| Battery Pack | 
|
500g |
| Bone Fragment | 
|
12g |
| Broken CD | 
|
0g |
| Broken Glasses | 
|
0g |
| Bug Meat | 
|
8g |
| Cave Jelly | 
|
180g |
| Cinder Shard | 
|
50g |
| Clay | 
|
20g |
| Coal | 
|
15g |
| Copper Bar | 
|
- |
| Copper Ore | 
|
5g |
| Driftwood | 
|
0g |
| Fiber | 
|
1g |
| Gold Bar | 
|
- |
| Gold Ore | 
|
25g |
| Green Algae | 
|
15g |
| Hardwood | 
|
15g |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
- |
| Iridium Ore | 
|
100g |
| Iron Bar | 
|
- |
| Iron Ore | 
|
10g |
| Joja Cola | 
|
25g |
| Monster Loot | - | - |
| Moss | 
|
5g |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
- |
| Radioactive Ore | 
|
300g |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
50g |
| Rice | 
|
100g |
| River Jelly | 
|
125g |
| Rotten Plant | 
|
0g |
| Sea Jelly | 
|
200g |
| Soggy Newspaper | 
|
0g |
| Solar Essence | 
|
40g |
| Stone | 
|
2g |
| Sugar | 
|
50g |
| Trash | - | - |
| Trash (item) | 
|
0g |
| Treasure Chest | 
|
5000g |
| Vinegar | 
|
100g |
| Void Essence | 
|
50g |
| Wheat Flour | 
|
50g |
| White Algae | 
|
25g |
| Wood | 
|
2g |