Soggy Newspaper
| Soggy Newspaper | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Fishing Pole; Crab Pot; Garbage Cans; Fish Pond; Cat |
| Sell Price | 0g |
Soggy Newspaper is a sodden old paper that fishing lines and Crab Pots drag up from every body of water in the valley. On its own it is worthless, and every villager hates it as a present. A Recycling Machine changes that: most papers come out as a bundle of Torches, and now and then one becomes a piece of Cloth. That small chance gives an early farm a route to Cloth long before a Loom and a flock of sheep are running. Papers also count towards Linus's "Community Cleanup" special order, and a Sewing Machine can turn one into a shirt.
The in-game description reads: This is trash.
Location
Fishing is where most newspapers come from. A paper can take the hook in any season and at any fishing spot. Junk appears when no fish wins the bite, so waters with few kinds of fish hand out far more of it. The pond on the Standard Farm and the Beach Farm only ever gives junk, which makes it a dependable place to pull up papers.
Crab Pots bring them in as well. Some mornings a pot holds a wet newspaper where a shellfish should be, though emptying it still gives Fishing experience. A Fish Pond stocked with Crab Pot creatures, such as Crayfish or Snails, may also produce one.
The Garbage Cans of Pelican Town sometimes hold a newspaper. Rummaging through them in front of a villager costs some of that villager's friendship.
A cat at full friendship sometimes leaves a newspaper on the ground as a morning gift.
Uses
The Recycling Machine is the main use. Feeding it one Soggy Newspaper gives three Torches most of the time. On the remaining runs it gives a single piece of Cloth instead. A machine left recycling papers builds a steady pile of Torches for The Mines and the occasional Cloth for crafting.
That Cloth is worth having. The Mill from Robin needs Cloth as part of its cost, and the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry asks for a piece too. Recycled newspapers can cover both needs before a Loom is weaving wool.
Linus posts "Community Cleanup" on the Special Orders board. It asks for twenty pieces of trash, dropped in the dumpster near the train platform within a week. Soggy Newspapers count, and so do the other fishing junk items except Joja Cola. A stack of saved newspapers makes that order quick to finish.
At the Sewing Machine, a newspaper in the spool sews the Trash Can Shirt.
Notes
Every villager hates Soggy Newspaper, so it should never be handed out as a gift. Selling it earns nothing, which leaves recycling as the only way to get value from it.
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