Skull Brazier
| Skull Brazier | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Carpenter's Shop; (3,000g) |
The Skull Brazier is a decorative fire with a skull design, one of the lights Robin teaches at the Carpenter's Shop. It gives the same moderate glow as the other braziers and can be lit or put out with a click. Its recipe is one of the dearest in Robin's range, beaten on price only by the Marble Brazier. Building it takes nothing but Bone Fragments, so a pile of bones left over from fighting and digging finds a use here.
Recipe
Robin sells the recipe at the Carpenter's Shop on the Mountain. It costs far more than the Wooden and Stone designs, so it tends to come once the early building work is paid for.
Each Skull Brazier takes a stack of Bone Fragments and nothing else. Skeletons and Lava Lurks drop them when slain. On Ginger Island, the Bone Nodes at the dig site break apart into Bone Fragments. Digging up Artifact Spots with the Hoe can also turn up a few.
The gold and the materials pull in opposite directions here. Only the Marble Brazier asks more for its recipe, and the eight recipes together come to a little over thirteen thousand gold. Once that is paid, though, the building cost is among the lowest in the whole family, because bones cost a fighter nothing but the walk home.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Bone Fragment | 
|
10 |
Use
A placed Skull Brazier works both indoors and outdoors. Interacting with it sets the fire alight, and interacting again snuffs it out. While it burns, it lights up a modest circle of ground around it.
The lit bowl reaches roughly seven tiles, exactly as the cheapest design in the range does. Choosing between braziers is therefore a question of looks and materials rather than brightness.
The skull and the open flame make this the obvious fire for a corner meant to unsettle visitors. It sits well with a Skull Poster, a Wall Pumpkin or a Decorative Axe, and a pair either side of a gate turns an ordinary path into something out of a ghost story.
Variants
The other lights in the game, with what each one takes and where the recipe comes from.
| Name | Image | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrel Brazier | 
|
Wood (50), Solar Essence (1), Coal (1) | Carpenter's Shop (800g) |
| Campfire | 
|
Stone (10), Wood (10), Fiber (10) | Starter |
| Carved Brazier | 
|
Hardwood (10), Coal (1) | Carpenter's Shop; (2,000g) |
| Gold Brazier | 
|
Gold Bar (1), Coal (1), Fiber (5) | Carpenter's Shop; (1,000g) |
| Iron Lamp-post | 
|
Iron Bar (1), Battery Pack (1) | Carpenter's Shop; (1,000g) |
| Jack-O-Lantern | 
|
Pumpkin (1), Torch (1) | Spirit's Eve (2,000g) |
| Marble Brazier | 
|
Marble (1), Aquamarine (1), Stone (100) | Carpenter's Shop; (5,000g) |
| Stone Brazier | 
|
Stone (10), Coal (1), Fiber (5) | Carpenter's Shop (400g) |
| Stump Brazier | 
|
Hardwood (5), Coal (1) | Carpenter's Shop (800g) |
| Torch | 
|
Wood (1), Sap (2) | Starter |
| Wood Lamp-post | 
|
Wood (50), Battery Pack (1) | Carpenter's Shop (500g) |
| Wooden Brazier | 
|
Wood (10), Coal (1), Fiber (5) | Carpenter's Shop (250g) |
Notes
Bone Fragments have another job on the farm. A Bone Mill turns them into fertiliser such as Speed-Gro and Tree Fertilizer. Keeping a reserve back before building a whole row of braziers saves a second trip to the dig site.
That makes the real decision a question of what the bones are for. A mill-load of fertiliser speeds a whole season of crops, while a brazier is a fixture that stays in the yard for good. Most farms buy this recipe early, then let the mill take its fill before any fires go up.
Timing matters more here than gold. Bones only start arriving in quantity once the Mines run deep or the island opens up, so this design is often the last brazier a farm actually builds, however early the recipe was bought.
All Crafting
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
