Rock Rejuvenation
| Rock Rejuvenation | |
|---|---|
| Type | Special Order |
| Board | Special Orders board |
| Giver | Emily |
| Time Limit | 7 days |
| Needed | Have access to the Sewing Machine in Emily's House |
| Repeatable | No |
Emily is planning a crystal ceremony with her friends and asks for a gem of each colour to channel the right energies. It is the gentlest request on the town board and the only one that a well stocked chest can settle on the spot, because the gems may be dug up long before the notice appears. The reward is a Sewing Machine of her own design for the farmhouse, which lifts tailoring and dyeing out of someone else's living room. Her friendship jumps by a healthy margin at the same time, and a short scene plays at her house afterwards. It runs only once, so it is worth taking the week it shows up.
The board reads: Hey! I'm going to invite some friends over to do a "rock rejuvenation" ceremony, but I'll need some crystals to channel the right energies. Do you think you could lend me a hand?
Requirements
The order waits on tailoring. Emily's own machine has to be reachable first, and that happens after she calls at the farmhouse on the first clear morning following the arrival of a piece of Cloth. Cloth is spun from wool on a Loom, pulled out of a Recycling Machine with a Soggy Newspaper inside, or taken from a mummy in the Skull Cavern, so a farm with sheep or a rabbit is halfway there without trying.
The five stones are the easy part. Unlike almost every other notice on the board, these can come out of storage, so a chest of mining leftovers finishes the order the same afternoon. Gem nodes in The Mines produce any of them, with Jade appearing from the middle floors down and Ruby waiting until the deeper half of the shaft. Panning in any river or lake turns one up occasionally, fishing treasure chests hold them, and the Dwarvish Sentries in the Volcano Dungeon give up a stone of some colour fairly often. On the island, Gem Birds hand over Topaz, Emerald and Amethyst on rainy days, and Green Slimes and Blue Slimes drop Amethyst and Jade now and then in the mines. Every adult in town except a handful hands over a Ruby at the Feast of the Winter Star, and barrels and crates in the deeper floors can hold Jade.
Everything goes to Emily rather than into a bin on the street, so the delivery means a walk into the house during her waking hours.
The order asks for every item in this table.
| Item | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby | 
|
1 |
| Topaz | 
|
1 |
| Emerald | 
|
1 |
| Jade | 
|
1 |
| Amethyst | 
|
1 |
Rewards
A Sewing Machine at home is the whole point. It works exactly as the one at 2 Willow Lane does: Cloth goes in the feed and a second item goes on the spool, and the pair decide the garment. Fish produce angling gear, monster remains produce rougher clothes, and a Prismatic Shard produces one of the prismatic pieces at random. Boots and shoes cannot be sewn from scratch, but one pair can be restyled to look like another while keeping its stats, which is how a good pair of boots stops looking like mining gear. Dyeing comes with it, and the dye pots beside Emily's machine still handle several pieces at a time when a whole outfit needs recolouring.
The gold is modest and the friendship is not. The jump is large enough to carry Emily past an early heart gate in one go, which matters for anyone working towards her later scenes or thinking about marriage. The ceremony scene plays at her house and is one of the few pieces of writing in the game that lets her hobby speak for itself.
Finishing the order pays out all of this.
| Reward | Image |
|---|---|
| 1,000g | - |
| 250 Friendship points with Emily | - |
| Sewing Machine | 
|
| "Rock Rejuvenation" ceremony cutscene at Emily's House | - |
Strategy
Keep one of each colour aside from the first trip into the mines and this order becomes a formality. A Crystalarium is the reliable answer for anyone who has already sold their stones: load it with the missing gem and it produces copies on its own, slowly for the valuable colours and quickly for the cheap ones.
The tailoring gate is the real blocker, so a farm that wants the machine should get a piece of Cloth early. One Soggy Newspaper from the rubbish and a Recycling Machine is the cheapest route by a wide margin, and the wool route follows naturally once a barn is upgraded.
The usual way this one slips away is simply not being ready. Tailoring unlocked and gems in hand mean the notice can be cleared the day it appears, while a farm that has never touched Cloth watches it sit on the board until the week ends. Since the order never comes back after a success, a failed week is a long wait for another posting.
Notes
A machine that goes astray can be bought back at a steep price from the shop for lost items tucked away in the Secret Woods, which is worth knowing before rearranging a cluttered farmhouse.
Gems left over after the ceremony have plenty of other homes. Each colour is a museum donation in its own right, Ruby and Emerald are loved gifts for several villagers, and the Desert Trader swaps cheese for an Emerald on the right day of the week.
Marrying Emily does not take the notice off the board, and her machine at 2 Willow Lane stays available until the farm has one of its own.
All Special Orders
Every special order from both boards, with who posts it and how long it runs.