Trash (item)
| Trash (item) | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Fishing Pole; Crab Pot; Garbage Cans; Fish Pond; Cat |
| Sell Price | 0g |
Trash is the plain, crumpled junk that every angler in the valley reels in sooner or later. Nobody buys it and every villager hates it, yet it is far from useless. A Recycling Machine breaks each piece down into Stone, Coal or Iron Ore, so a bag of junk becomes real crafting stock. Trash also fills Linus's "Community Cleanup" special order, and the Sewing Machine turns it into a shirt. For a new farm with a junk-filled pond, it is one of the first things worth sorting rather than throwing away.
Location
Fishing is the usual way to get it. Junk comes up whenever no fish takes the bait, so it depends on how many kinds of fish live in the water. Places with only a handful of fish types, such as The Mines, give out a lot of Trash. On the Standard Farm and the Beach Farm, the Farm Pond holds no fish at all, so every catch there is junk.
Crab Pots also catch Trash, and they need no skill at all to check. A Fish Pond stocked with Crab Pot creatures can drop a piece too.
The Garbage Cans outside the houses and shops of Pelican Town sometimes contain some. Digging through them is risky with people nearby, because a villager who sees it thinks less of the farmer.
A pet cat at full friendship may also leave a piece of Trash as a morning gift.
Uses
The Recycling Machine is what makes Trash worth keeping. The recipe arrives at Fishing level 4, and the Field Research Bundle on the Bulletin Board also rewards one. A piece of Trash spends an hour in the machine. About half the time it returns a few pieces of Stone. The rest of the time it gives a few lumps of Coal or a little Iron Ore. That turns a pile of junk into fuel for the Furnace and material for Stone crafts.
Linus's "Community Cleanup" order asks for twenty pieces of trash, dropped in the dumpster near the train platform within a week. Plain Trash counts, along with the other fishing junk except Joja Cola. Fishing the junk-only Farm Pond on the Standard Farm makes the order quick to finish.
At the Sewing Machine, Trash in the spool sews the Trash Can Shirt.
Notes
Every villager in town hates Trash as a gift, so it should never leave the farm except in a dumpster. Each piece is better sent through a Recycling Machine than left in a chest.
All Resources
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bat Wing | 
|
15g |
| Battery Pack | 
|
500g |
| Bone Fragment | 
|
12g |
| Broken CD | 
|
0g |
| Broken Glasses | 
|
0g |
| Bug Meat | 
|
8g |
| Cave Jelly | 
|
180g |
| Cinder Shard | 
|
50g |
| Clay | 
|
20g |
| Coal | 
|
15g |
| Copper Bar | 
|
- |
| Copper Ore | 
|
5g |
| Driftwood | 
|
0g |
| Fiber | 
|
1g |
| Gold Bar | 
|
- |
| Gold Ore | 
|
25g |
| Green Algae | 
|
15g |
| Hardwood | 
|
15g |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
- |
| Iridium Ore | 
|
100g |
| Iron Bar | 
|
- |
| Iron Ore | 
|
10g |
| Joja Cola | 
|
25g |
| Monster Loot | - | - |
| Moss | 
|
5g |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
- |
| Radioactive Ore | 
|
300g |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
50g |
| Rice | 
|
100g |
| River Jelly | 
|
125g |
| Rotten Plant | 
|
0g |
| Sea Jelly | 
|
200g |
| Soggy Newspaper | 
|
0g |
| Solar Essence | 
|
40g |
| Stone | 
|
2g |
| Sugar | 
|
50g |
| Trash | - | - |
| Trash (item) | 
|
0g |
| Treasure Chest | 
|
5000g |
| Vinegar | 
|
100g |
| Void Essence | 
|
50g |
| Wheat Flour | 
|
50g |
| White Algae | 
|
25g |
| Wood | 
|
2g |