Sea Jelly

Sea Jelly

Type	Resource
Location	Fishing Pole; Flounder Fish Pond; Bookseller; Turtle
Sell Price	200g

Sea Jelly is the saltwater member of the jelly trio, a rare catch that drifts up from the ocean instead of a fish. Its main job is the Fish Smoker, which needs one Sea Jelly, one River Jelly and one Cave Jelly. The Beach and the coasts of Ginger Island are the places to look, and a Luck buff improves the odds a great deal. It is the most valuable of the jellies to sell, and eating one gives a short boost to Fishing. Like the other jellies, it appears in the Fish collection but is not handled as a real fish by shops and machines.

Location

Any ocean water can hold Sea Jelly in every season. The Beach in Pelican Town is the obvious place, and the docks by Willy's Fish Shop work as well as anywhere else. The ocean edge of the Beach Farm counts too. During the Night Market in Winter, the submarine ride can also bring one up. On Ginger Island, the western beach, the southern and south-eastern coasts and the Pirate Cove all hold it.

The item simply appears as soon as the line comes in, which makes it easy to tell apart from a fish bite.

Luck buffs are what raise the odds, and each level helps a lot. Food such as Lucky Lunch or Ginger Ale is worth eating before a jelly hunt. The fortune teller's forecast for the day changes nothing here.

A Training Rod on the western beach of Ginger Island gives the best rates. Every fish in that water is too hard for the rod, so each cast lands a Sea Jelly, a Snake Skull or trash. The southern beach of Ginger Island and the town Beach in Summer work almost as well with the same rod, with Seaweed turning up instead of Snake Skulls. After a trash catch, the jelly roll stays stuck until a real fish is landed. Swapping to a normal rod for one fish clears it, and then the Training Rod can go back to work.

Other routes take less effort. A Flounder Fish Pond with at least seven fish sometimes produces Sea Jelly. A pet turtle at full friendship may leave one as a gift. The Bookseller can trade a set of jellies for a Jewels Of The Sea book, once that book's power has been learned.

Uses

Building the Fish Smoker is the reason to hold on to a Sea Jelly. Willy's Fish Shop sells the smoker, and crafting one uses ten Hardwood with a Sea Jelly, a River Jelly and a Cave Jelly. Each fish smoked with a piece of Coal comes out worth double. The Raccoon at the Giant Stump starts his family's requests by asking for a Smoked Fish, so the smoker quickly earns its place.

Eating a Sea Jelly gives a solid amount of energy and health, plus one level of Fishing for a short time. That small buff is handy right before casting for a difficult fish.

Crafting Sea Jelly with the other materials below makes these items.

Item	Image	Ingredients
Fish Smoker		Hardwood (10), Sea Jelly (1), River Jelly (1), Cave Jelly (1)

Notes

Spare jellies go in the Shipping Bin, where Sea Jelly fetches the best price of the three. Willy will not buy jellies at the Fish Shop.

Because the Training Rod setups also turn up plenty of trash, a Recycling Machine nearby turns those misses into Stone, Coal and other useful scraps.

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