Treasure Appraisal Guide
| Treasure Appraisal Guide | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Book |
| Location | Artifact Troves; Bookseller |
| Sell Price | 500g |
The Treasure Appraisal Guide triples what artifacts fetch, and that single change turns a shelf of dead weight into an income. Artifacts are plentiful but cheap, and once the Museum has a copy of each there is usually nothing to do with the rest but ship them for a pittance. Reading this book makes every one of them worth three times as much, which rewards the dig sites, the artifact spots and the troves that produce them in the first place. It hides inside Artifact Troves, which is a neat loop: the container that gives the book is also the container the book makes profitable. Later copies pay out a little experience in every skill, and the Bookseller will trade one for more troves to crack open.
The in-game description reads: You will fetch a better price when selling artifacts.
Overview
Artifacts come up almost everywhere. Hoeing an Artifact Spot is the main route, but the soil patches in the Mines and Skull Cavern give them, monsters underground drop them, fishing treasure chests hold them, some Secret Notes point to specific ones, Bone Nodes at the Ginger Island Dig Site produce the bone-related ones, and geodes broken at the Blacksmith's or in a Geode Crusher yield the rest. Gunther wants one of each for the Museum and pays out rewards at milestones, and that is the first job for any artifact a farmer digs up. The difficulty is everything after the first copy, because artifacts carry very low sell prices.
Tripling those prices is what makes the second copy worth having. A farmer who spends Winter walking the valley turning over worm patches, or who grinds the Ginger Island Dig Site for Golden Walnuts, ends up with stacks of duplicates, and under this power those stacks are worth shipping rather than binning. It also stacks neatly with the Price Catalogue, since the hover panel then shows the boosted figure directly and takes the guesswork out of what is worth keeping.
Artifact Troves are both the source and the beneficiary. A trove can be bought from the Desert Trader for Omni Geodes, dropped by Haunted Skulls once the Vault Bundle is finished, found in Supply Crates on the Beach Farm, or dug out of artifact spots at the Ginger Island Dig Site. The Blacksmith opens them for a small fee, and the contents are mostly artifacts, with Golden Pumpkins, Pearls and Treasure Chests mixed in. The book turns up in a trove roughly once in thirty, which is good odds by the standards of these books.
There is also a shop route from the third year, when the stall above JojaMart begins listing the guide at a flat and expensive price on about one visit in ten. The honest comparison is that a handful of troves bought from the Desert Trader will usually produce the book for less.
The trade is worth a mention. Once the power is claimed, a spare copy can be swapped at the Bookseller's counter for either three Spicy Eel, a dish that carries a luck and fishing boost, or three Artifact Troves, which keep that same cycle going.
Notes
Penny loves receiving the guide, Elliott likes it, and Alex dislikes it.
In the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house on 2 Willow Lane the book counts as orange, and the spool of the Sewing Machine turns it into a brown dye for whatever garment is in the feed.
All Books
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Catalogue | 
|
2000g |
| Bait And Bobber | 
|
500g |
| Book Of Stars | 
|
2500g |
| Book of Mysteries | 
|
3000g |
| Combat Quarterly | 
|
500g |
| Dwarvish Safety Manual | 
|
1000g |
| Friendship 101 | 
|
3000g |
| Horse: The Book | 
|
1000g |
| Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Thick | 
|
500g |
| Jewels Of The Sea | 
|
800g |
| Mapping Cave Systems | 
|
4000g |
| Mining Monthly | 
|
500g |
| Monster Compendium | 
|
2000g |
| Ol' Slitherlegs | 
|
1000g |
| Price Catalogue | 
|
1000g |
| Queen Of Sauce Cookbook | 
|
10000g |
| Raccoon Journal | 
|
1000g |
| Stardew Valley Almanac | 
|
500g |
| The Alleyway Buffet | 
|
3000g |
| The Art O' Crabbing | 
|
1000g |
| The Diamond Hunter | 
|
1000g |
| Treasure Appraisal Guide | 
|
500g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 1 | 
|
5000g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 2 | 
|
10000g |
| Woodcutter's Weekly | 
|
500g |
| Woody's Secret | 
|
500g |