Early into Stardew Valley, Gunther from the Museum will come to you with a request Come from Sports betting site VPbet. He tells you that the Museum is lacking when it comes to real artifacts and asks you to donate any rare items you find to him. The Museum functions similar to one in the Animal Crossing games, where you need to donate one of each item to complete the collection. Completing the entire collection will earn you a Stardrop, which permanently increases your max energy.
How the museum works
The Museum is open from 8am to 6pm, except during town festivals. It is located in the southeast corner of town, next to the Blacksmith. Inside is a large collection of books, which is where you can read any lost books you find, and a large display area, where new donations go. To donate an item, speak with Gunther and he will let you place any new donations wherever you want, with the option to move them later.
Gunther will also give rewards at certain milestones, including once you donate a total number of certain items, and individual paths for both Artifacts and Minerals. Most of the rewards are nice bonuses, but unimportant, with three exceptions. At 60 items you get the key to the sewers, at 95 items you get a Stardrop, and if you donate all four Dwarvish Scrolls, you get the Dwarvish Translation Guide, which allows you to communicate with Dwarves.
Artifacts and Minerals
There are many different ways to acquire the items for donation, which change depending on which of the two categories they belong to. There are 95 items total: 53 Minerals and 42 Artifacts.
Minerals are typically found via mining, although there are a couple of other ways to obtain them. Gems can be found in their corresponding nodes–an Emerald node gives an Emerald, for example, and the generic Gem Node, gives a random gem. The four foraged minerals–Quartz, Earth Crystal, Frozen Tear, and Fire Quartz–can be found in the mines and the Skull Cavern.
The last and largest group are the Geode Minerals, which are obtained from cracking open geodes. Geodes, which appear as basic Geodes, Frozen Geodes, Lava Geodes, and Omni Geodes, can be opened at the Blacksmith at the cost of 25G each. While the first three types of geodes can only contain certain minerals, the Omni Geode has the chance to contain any of them, making it the best way to find them. Some Minerals can also be found in fishing treasure chests, but due to the randomness of those, it’s an inefficient way to find them.
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