Skeletal Tail
| Skeletal Tail | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Artifact |
| Other Locations | Fishing Treasure Chest; Bone Node (0.8%) |
| Museum Reward | Sloth Skeleton R |
| Sell Price | 100g |
The Skeletal Tail is one of the slower bones to find for the museum's Sloth Skeleton. Donating it with the Prehistoric Tibia earns Sloth Skeleton R, one of the three pieces of the set. The hunt runs through Fishing Treasure Chests, soil patches in The Mines and the Skull Cavern, Bone Nodes on Ginger Island and a well-loved pet dog. Spare tails go toward Gunther's Fragments of the Past order, into the Bone Mill or into a Skeleton Shirt.
The in-game description reads: It's pretty short for a tail.
Location
Fishing Treasure Chests are the most dependable route. They sometimes appear while a fish is being reeled in, and the Skeletal Tail is one of their possible contents. More chests mean more chances. With the Treasure Hunter tackle, chests turn up a little more often, and the fish cannot escape while one is being collected. Magnet bait also raises the chance of treasure, so the two together give many more chests over a long fishing day.
Certain floors in The Mines and the Skull Cavern have patches of soft ground. Hoeing those patches, or blowing them up with a bomb, can turn up the Skeletal Tail along with other buried artifacts. Floors with plenty of soil are the best ones to work through.
On Ginger Island, the Bone Nodes at the Dig Site have a small chance to hold a tail when broken with a Pickaxe. Bone Nodes also give plenty of Bone Fragments for Gunther's Fragments of the Past order, so a tail can turn up as a bonus while working on it.
When a pet dog at full friendship gets its first pat of the day, it sometimes leaves a gift. The chance is one in five each day, and the Skeletal Tail is one of the rare gifts in that pool.
Museum
Each artifact goes to Gunther once at the Museum & Library in Pelican Town, and the Skeletal Tail is the same. Donating the first Skeletal Tail adds it to the artifact collection and raises the donation count toward Gunther's milestone rewards.
Sloth Skeleton R needs the Skeletal Tail and the Prehistoric Tibia. With both bones donated, Gunther presents the piece as farmhouse furniture. The tibia drops often from Pepper Rexes, so the tail is usually the piece that decides when Sloth Skeleton R is finished. For Sloth Skeleton L, the museum needs the Prehistoric Skull, the Prehistoric Scapula and the Skeletal Hand. Sloth Skeleton M takes the Prehistoric Rib and the Prehistoric Vertebra.
Gunther's special order Fragments of the Past calls for a hundred bone items before the week is out. The Skeletal Tail is one of the bones on that list. The tally covers only bones found after the order is taken. Finishing it is worth 3,500g, and the Bone Mill recipe shows up in the mail.
Prices
The Skeletal Tail sells for the same price as most of the prehistoric bones, and for twice as much as a Trilobite. The first copy belongs in the museum, given how slowly it turns up. Reading the Treasure Appraisal Guide, one of the power books, lifts the tail's sale price to three times its normal value, as it does for every artifact.
A Bone Mill offers another use for spares. Loading one tail into the mill gives a random batch of Quality Fertilizer, Speed-Gro, Deluxe Speed-Gro or Tree Fertilizer. Each batch has a small chance to come out doubled.
Gifts
Penny and the Dwarf like the Skeletal Tail, as they like every artifact. A liked gift raises friendship with both.
Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Sam, Sebastian and Shane all dislike the Skeletal Tail. The older villagers Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam dislike it as well, as do Krobus, Sandy and the Wizard. The same goes for the children Jas, Leo and Vincent, and for the shop owners Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy. Handing it to any of them lowers friendship.
Notes
Putting Cloth in the feed and a Skeletal Tail on the spool of the Sewing Machine makes the Skeleton Shirt. With a dyeable piece of clothing in the feed instead, the tail works as a white dye.
The Prehistoric Rib, the Prehistoric Scapula, the Prehistoric Vertebra and the Skeletal Hand make the same Skeleton Shirt.
All Artifacts
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Amphibian Fossil | 
|
150g |
| Anchor | 
|
100g |
| Ancient Doll | 
|
60g |
| Ancient Drum | 
|
100g |
| Ancient Seed | 
|
5g |
| Ancient Sword | 
|
100g |
| Arrowhead | 
|
40g |
| Bone Flute | 
|
100g |
| Chewing Stick | 
|
50g |
| Chicken Statue | 
|
50g |
| Chipped Amphora | 
|
40g |
| Dried Starfish | 
|
40g |
| Dwarf Gadget | 
|
200g |
| Dwarf Scroll I | 
|
1g |
| Dwarf Scroll II | 
|
1g |
| Dwarf Scroll III | 
|
1g |
| Dwarf Scroll IV | 
|
1g |
| Dwarvish Helm | 
|
100g |
| Elvish Jewelry | 
|
200g |
| Glass Shards | 
|
20g |
| Golden Mask | 
|
500g |
| Golden Relic | 
|
250g |
| Nautilus Fossil | 
|
80g |
| Ornamental Fan | 
|
300g |
| Palm Fossil | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Handaxe | 
|
50g |
| Prehistoric Rib | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Scapula | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Skull | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Tibia | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Tool | 
|
50g |
| Prehistoric Vertebra | 
|
100g |
| Rare Disc | 
|
300g |
| Rusty Cog | 
|
25g |
| Rusty Spoon | 
|
25g |
| Rusty Spur | 
|
25g |
| Skeletal Hand | 
|
100g |
| Skeletal Tail | 
|
100g |
| Strange Doll (green) | 
|
1000g |
| Strange Doll (yellow) | 
|
1000g |
| Trilobite | 
|
50g |