Warp Totem: Beach
| Warp Totem: Beach | |
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| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Foraging Level 6 |
| Sell Price | 20g |
The Warp Totem: Beach is a single-use travel charm that drops the farmer straight onto the shore south of Pelican Town. The recipe arrives at Foraging level 6, and everything it needs can be gathered on the sand and in the woods, which makes it the first totem most farms can build in quantity. It turns the long morning walk to Willy's Fish Shop into one button press, and that matters on a day set aside for ocean fishing. Five arrive free with the Ocean Fish Bundle, and Willy hands over a huge pile at the Feast of the Winter Star if he draws the farmer's name. The Water Obelisk does the same job for ever, but until half a million gold is spare, this totem is the cheap way to reach the sea.
The in-game description reads: Warp directly to the beach. Consumed on use.
Recipe
Reaching Foraging level 6 teaches the recipe. Each totem takes one Hardwood, two Coral and ten Fiber. Coral washes up along the eastern stretch of the Beach, past the bridge that needs 300 Wood to repair, and it lies thickest in Summer. Ocean crab pots bring up Coral as well. Fiber comes from cutting weeds on the farm or in the Mines, so the slow ingredient is usually the Hardwood from stumps and fallen logs.
Finished totems turn up in several places. Completing the Ocean Fish Bundle in the Fish Tank pays out five of them, which is often a farmer's first taste of fast travel. Willy gives twenty-five at once if he is drawn as the secret gift giver at the Feast of the Winter Star. A Mystery Box sometimes holds one. Digging an Artifact Spot from the first day of Summer in year one can turn up a totem in place of the Clay. A Fish Pond stocked with ocean Crab Pot creatures produces them once the population reaches nine, and Lobster, Crab, Cockle, Mussel, Shrimp and Oyster all share the same small daily chance.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Hardwood | 
|
1 |
| Coral | 
|
2 |
| Fiber | 
|
10 |
Use
Picking the totem up in the inventory and right-clicking plants it in the ground, and the farmer lands at the warp shrine on the Beach. The totem is spent doing it. The trip works from almost anywhere, including the lower floors of the Mines or a far corner of Ginger Island.
Early mornings are where it earns its keep. Sardine, Tuna, Tilapia and Red Snapper are all pulled from the ocean here, and starting at six rather than half past seven adds a long stretch of casting to the day. The same warp lands the farmer beside Willy's Fish Shop for rods, bait and tackle, and beside the boat that sails to Ginger Island, which helps a great deal before the Island recipe is affordable.
The warp also skips the streets of Pelican Town. Walking through town can set off a cutscene, and a totem jumps clean over it. The reverse holds at the far end: an event waiting on the Beach starts the moment the farmer appears. On the morning of the Luau or the Dance of the Moonlight Jellies, using the totem before the festival opens spends it and leaves the farmer standing where they were, so those two days are worth walking.
Variants
The other warp totems in the game, with what each one takes and where the recipe comes from.
| Name | Image | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warp Totem: Desert | 
|
Hardwood (2), Coconut (1), Iridium Ore (4) | Desert Trader for Iridium Bar (10) |
| Warp Totem: Farm | 
|
Hardwood (1), Honey (1), Fiber (20) | Foraging Level 8 |
| Warp Totem: Island | 
|
Hardwood (5), Dragon Tooth (1), Ginger (1) | Volcano Dwarf for 10,000g |
| Warp Totem: Mountains | 
|
Hardwood (1), Iron Bar (1), Stone (25) | Foraging Level 7 |
Notes
The totem has a second life as cloth. Feeding one into the spool of a Sewing Machine produces the Totem Mask, and the dye pots in Emily and Haley's house at 2 Willow Lane read it as an orange dye.
Travel on the Beach route can be made permanent instead. The Water Obelisk, sold by the Wizard once the Goblin Problem is settled, warps to the same shrine and is never used up. Krobus sells the Return Scepter for a far larger sum, and that one only ever points home. Against those prices a handful of cheap totems is excellent value, and they fetch so little in the shipping bin that a spare is better kept.
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