Wallpaper
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Wallpaper covers the walls of a single room in the farmhouse, and it is the cheapest way to make the place feel like somewhere a person lives. Pierre's General Store and JojaMart each put one design on the shelf every day, the same one in both shops, so collecting a particular pattern by shopping means waiting for it to come round. The sensible answer is a Catalogue, a piece of furniture that hands out wallpaper and flooring for nothing, in any quantity, forever. Beyond the shops and the catalogues, a scattering of designs comes from festivals, from Mystery Boxes and from the Casino's prize counter, and one is painted on a wall overnight by a Cursed Mannequin. A roll is used up when it goes on the wall, so a room redecorated twice costs two rolls.
Overview
Each roll decorates one room and does not stack in the inventory, so buying three means carrying three separate items. Putting one up needs the farmer standing against the wall and facing it, and anything in the way counts: a dresser, a chest or a piece of equipment between the character and the wall stops the job. Hallways can be papered too, by standing in one of the rooms either side and facing the gap, although a hallway only takes paper on its upper part until the open renovation turns it into a proper room.
The daily shop stock is drawn from the designs in the main Catalogue, with the greenhouse-styled pattern at the end of the list held back. JojaMart charges a little more than Pierre does for the same roll, which is the usual arrangement between those two shops.
Catalogues are where serious decorating starts. The main Catalogue sits in Pierre's shop for thirty thousand gold, and once it is placed anywhere in the house it dispenses nearly every wallpaper and flooring design for nothing, as often as wanted. Its selection never rotates, so a farm with one has permanent access to the standard set. The Joja Furniture Catalogue comes from JojaMart for twenty-five thousand and carries a wallpaper of its own, and the same single design can also be bought over the counter at JojaMart for pocket change. The Junimo Catalogue and the Retro Catalogue both turn up occasionally in the Traveling Cart's stock once the Community Center or the Joja development form is finished, at seventy thousand and a hundred and ten thousand respectively, and each brings three more designs. Krobus sells the Wizard Catalogue in the Sewers for a hundred and fifty thousand. The Trash Catalogue is the odd one out and cannot be bought at all: it turns up while rummaging through the town's bins, and it only starts appearing after a great many have been searched.
Some designs sit outside the catalogue system entirely. Seven villagers run stalls at the Desert Festival, Jas, Kent, Marnie, Evelyn, Jodi, Robin and Leo, and each sells one wallpaper for a handful of Calico Eggs, which makes the festival the single best wallpaper shopping trip of the year. Mystery Boxes occasionally contain one. Pierre sells a design at the Feast of the Winter Star, and the Traveling Merchant sells the same one at the Festival of Ice. The Casino prize counter stocks two, one at ten thousand coins and one at a hundred thousand, and the expensive one is among the most costly things in the building. The Attic renovation comes with its own wall that cannot be lifted and used elsewhere.
Notes
A Cursed Mannequin standing in a room has a very small chance each night of repapering the nearest wall above it with a design that cannot be obtained any other way. It only happens if the mannequin stayed still and kept its clothes overnight, which makes it one of the quietest secrets in the house.
A married spouse redecorates without being asked, occasionally swapping the wallpaper or flooring of a room. It is reversible with another roll, so a carefully themed room is worth keeping spare paper for.
The Desert Festival stalls are the practical tip hidden in all this. Calico Eggs are earned by playing festival games rather than by spending gold, and each villager's stall asks for only a few, so a single festival can furnish the whole farmhouse for what amounts to an afternoon's play.
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