Text Sign
| Text Sign | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Starter |
The Text Sign is a wooden sign that carries a short written message of the farmer's own choosing. Where the Wood Sign and the Stone Sign show a picture of an item, this one shows words. It is on the starting recipe list and costs only Wood, so it is ready to use from the first day. Signs like this suit notes, reminders and labels that a picture cannot express, such as the name of a field or a note about what to plant next.
Recipe
Every farmer knows the recipe from the start, with no skill level or purchase needed. Each sign takes a stack of Wood, which comes from chopping trees and fallen branches with the Axe.
Four signs sit together on the crafting list. The Wood Sign and the Stone Sign are starter recipes as well, and Krobus teaches a darker version down in the Sewers. Each one is built from a single material, so the choice comes down to the frame that suits the spot and to whether words or a picture say more.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Wood | 
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25 |
Use
After the sign is placed, interacting with it opens a box for typing the message. The text then appears in a speech bubble whenever the farmer walks up to the sign or points the cursor at it. Interacting with the sign again allows the message to be changed at any time.
The message has to be short, about the length of a single sentence. That is plenty for a field name, a short label on a row of machines or a reminder for the next morning.
Farmers put the signs to work in ways the game never spells out. A note beside a chest can hold a reminder to sort it, or a short list of which fruit is worth sending to the Kegs. A sign at the door of a coop can name the animals inside, and one planted beside a line of crab pots can claim them by name. A favourite trick is to stand a sign in a doorway before closing the game for the night, because the next trip through that door forces the message to be read.
Placement away from the farm takes some care. A crafted object left on a tile that a villager walks across is destroyed, and the routes through town and along the Beach are busier than they look. A sign meant for a public spot belongs tucked against a wall or a fence, clear of the paths the townspeople take each day.
Notes
Pam puts a Text Sign to use herself. Once the bus at the Bus Stop has been repaired, she leaves one standing in front of it on the days she is away, explaining where she has gone and leaving the farmer to make the trip to the Calico Desert without her.
The sign is a quiet favourite on tidy farms. It gives a machine shed, a row of ponds or a wall of chests a readable label without any outside help, and the whole cost is one trip to the woods with the Axe.
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