Museum donations

How a donation works

Walk up to Gunther during museum hours, 8:00am to 6:00pm, any day that is not a town festival. Give him one copy of an artifact or mineral he does not already have. Later copies stay in your bag for gifts, geode machines, and the shipping bin.

The full reward tables are on the rewards page. The lists of names are the artifacts and minerals pages.

Rewards that change the farm

Early donation counts pay seed packs: 9 cauliflower seeds at 5 items, 9 melon seeds at 10, 1 starfruit seed at 15, and 9 pumpkin seeds at 35. Those are the early-game crop payouts.

Donating an Ancient Seed is the rare-crop payout. Gunther returns one plantable pack and the crafting recipe. That is how Ancient Fruit gets onto the farm, and Ancient Fruit is one of the crops that can satisfy Monoculture.

Fifty minerals pay a Crystalarium. Ninety total donations pay a Magic Rock Candy. Ninety-five pays the museum Stardrop.

Scrolls, the key, and the sewers

Donate all four Dwarf Scrolls to receive the Dwarvish Translation Guide. The dwarf shop in the Mines starts talking after that.

At 60 total donations, Gunther brings the Rusty Key to the farmhouse the next morning. The key opens the Sewers. Krobus, who lives there, sells one Stardrop for 20,000g. In multiplayer the host is the one who has to speak to Gunther.

Jas and Vincent mention the key in a Cindersap Forest scene. It can play on or after Spring 11 of year 1, between 9am and 4pm, on a Monday, Thursday, or Sunday.

The Ancient Drum and the Bone Flute pay music blocks once enough other artifacts are already on the shelves. The thresholds are on the rewards page. The Rare Disc plus the Dwarf Gadget, inside a set of at least 11 artifacts, pays the 'Burnt Offering' painting. The Dwarf Gadget is also the crafting piece for the Farm Computer, and Maru loves it as a gift.

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