Stone Chest
| Stone Chest | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | "Robin's Resource Rush" Special Order |
The Stone Chest is a storage box carved from Stone. It holds exactly as much as the wooden Chest, so the choice between them is about looks and about which material is easier to spare. Its recipe is a reward from Robin, who asks for a huge haul of Wood or Stone in her special order. Once learned, it opens the way to the Big Stone Chest, a larger version sold as a recipe by the Dwarf.
Recipe
Robin's Resource Rush teaches the recipe. Robin posts this special order and challenges the farmer to gather a thousand pieces of Wood or Stone within a week. The materials collected can be kept afterwards. Finishing the order pays a gold reward, and the recipe arrives in the mail soon after.
The order appears on the Special Orders board beside Mayor Lewis's house, where Robin's own request waits alongside the others. Which material she asks for varies from one save to the next, so the first job is to read the board before deciding whether to spend the week in the woods or in the Mines.
Each Stone Chest takes only Stone. Breaking rocks with the Pickaxe gives it, on the farm and all through the Mines.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Stone | 
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50 |
Use
A Stone Chest stores items in the same way as a wooden Chest. It has room for many different stacks, and identical items pile up into the same slot. It can be placed indoors, such as in the farmhouse, or outside on the farm.
One chest takes thirty-six different kinds of item, and each kind stacks up to nine hundred and ninety-nine in its slot. Nothing inside ever spoils, so a chest is a safe place to park a harvest until the Shipping Bin or the next machine is free.
Getting a chest back is easy while it is empty. One hit from any tool, or a few hits with a bare hand, lifts it into the inventory. A chest with items in it stays where it is and slides a tile away from the blow instead, and it will hop over obstacles to the nearest free tile, so a chest in the wrong place can be nudged into line rather than emptied first.
A chest left on a villager's walking route is pushed out of the way rather than lost. That makes storage safer to leave around town than most crafted goods, though a tidy farmer still sets it clear of the obvious paths.
When the chest is open, a colour bar sits above its storage. Clicking a colour changes the chest at once, for free, and it can be changed again at any time. There are twenty colours to pick from, and the plain stone look is the white setting at the start of the bar. Giving each kind of item its own colour, such as one shade for fish and another for crops, makes a row of chests easy to sort at a glance.
Notes
The Big Stone Chest is the natural next step. The Dwarf in the Mines sells its recipe. It is a bigger chest, and like the Stone Chest it is built from Stone alone.
Robin teaches a wooden equivalent as well. Her Big Chest recipe is sold over the counter at the Carpenter's Shop and holds seventy different kinds of item. Between the four of them the sizes cover most farms: a wooden Chest for the first season, Stone Chests for a neat row outside, and the big versions once a shed starts to fill.
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