Treasure Chest
| Treasure Chest | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Artifact Trove (3.6%); SquidFest festival; Fishing Treasure Chest (0.24%); Secret Note #16; Spook Fish (Fish Pond) (0.3%) |
| Sell Price | 5000g |
The Treasure Chest is a small wooden chest packed with loot, and it is one of the most valuable single items a farmer can stumble across. Its worth lies in selling it or handing it over as a present. Most chests come from luck: a rare roll inside an Artifact Trove, a Mystery Box or a fishing Treasure Chest. One chest is guaranteed, though, for anyone who finds Secret Note #16 and digs at the spot it marks. As a gift, nearly every villager likes it, which makes it one of the few items that pleases almost the whole town.
The in-game description reads: Wow, it's loaded with treasure! This is sure to fetch a good price.
Location
Secret Note #16 is the reliable route. Secret Notes only start appearing after the Magnifying Glass turns up during the "A Winter Mystery" quest. From then on, notes drop at random while mining, chopping trees and fighting monsters. Note #16 is a tiny map with a red X. The marked spot lies just north of the railroad tracks, one tile to the right of a large boulder. Digging there with a Hoe after reading the note brings up the chest.
Artifact Troves give the next best chance. The Desert Trader in the Calico Desert swaps one trove for five Omni Geodes, which is the steadiest way to collect them. Haunted Skulls start dropping troves once the Vault in the Community Center is finished. During the Desert Festival, George may also sell them for Calico Eggs when he runs a stall. Clint cracks each trove open at the Blacksmith for a small fee.
Most troves hold an ancient artifact for the museum. A few contain a Golden Pumpkin, a Pearl or a Treasure Chest instead. Every possible item has the same chance, so a long run of troves turns up a chest now and then. Since the chest is worth more than anything else a trove can hold, it is the jackpot of the draw.
Mystery Boxes can also hold one. The ordinary box rarely does, while a Golden Mystery Box gives roughly double the odds.
Fishing adds a slim chance as well. A Treasure Chest sometimes appears during the fishing minigame, and catching it hands over its contents. Very rarely, those contents include a Treasure Chest item.
Notes
Selling a Treasure Chest brings in a large sum in one go. Early in the game, that can pay for a building or a tool upgrade.
As a gift, it pleases almost everyone. Linus is the one exception. He dislikes it and hands it straight back to the farmer.
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 |