Mystery Box

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Mystery Box

A blacksmith can open this for you. Who knows what might be inside?
Information
Source	Fishing • Mining • Artifact Spot • Panning • Combat • Mayor Lewis' Prize Machine • Desert Festival • Trout Derby • SquidFest • Trees • Bookseller
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Mystery Boxes are drop crates released by Mr. Qi. After spending 50 days in the valley or after collecting the second Prize Ticket from the billboard^[1], the player will see a cutscene with Mr. Qi and will be informed by a pop up that Mystery Boxes can now be found.

Mystery Boxes can be cracked by Clint in the Blacksmith shop for data-sort-value="25">25g, similar to Geodes. However, unlike Geodes, they cannot be broken open using a Geode Crusher.

Reading the Book of Mysteries will increase the chances of finding Mystery Boxes by approximately 26.7%.^[2]

They can be found by digging up Artifact Spots, in Fishing Treasure Chests, by Mining, purchasing from the Calico Egg Merchant at the Desert Festival, as a reward from the Trout Derby and SquidFest festivals, as loot from killing monsters, breaking open crates in the mines, shaking or cutting down trees, or trading a Book of Mysteries with the Bookseller. There is also a rare golden variant with a different (and more valuable) loot table.

Items
Amethyst Ring	Aquamarine Ring	Artichoke Seeds (8)	Autumn's Bounty
Baked Fish	Bait And Bobber	Bean Starter (8)	Blueberry Tart
Bomb (5)	Book of Mysteries	Cauliflower Seeds (8-20)	Chowder
Coffee (3)	Cookie	Corn Seeds (8)	Cork Bobber
Crab Cakes	Deluxe Speed-Gro (10-20)	Dish O' The Sea	Eggplant Parmesan
Escargot	Fish Stew	Fried Calamari	Glowstone Ring
Golden Pumpkin	Hardwood (10)	Ice Cream	Iron Ore (5)
Jade Ring	Life Elixir (2)	Lobster Bisque	Lucky Lunch (1-2)
Magic Rock Candy	Maki Roll	Maple Bar	Mega Bomb (5)
Mining Monthly	Mixed Flower Seeds (10)	Mixed Seeds (10)	Mystery Box (2-4)
Mystery Hat	Mystery Shirt	Omelet	Orange Sapling
Ossified Blade	Parsnip Seeds (8)	Parsnip Soup (8)	Pepper Seeds (8-10)
Pomegranate Sapling	Powdermelon Seeds (8)	Prismatic Shard	Pumpkin Seeds (8)
Pumpkin Soup	Quality Fertilizer (10-20)	Quality Sprinkler	Pearl
Radish Seeds (8)	Rice Pudding	Ruby Ring	Salad
Sashimi	Shrimp Cocktail	Spaghetti	Stuffing
Sturdy Ring	Super Meal	Tortilla	Treasure Chest
Trout Soup	Vegetable Medley	Wallpaper	Warp Totem: Beach
Warp Totem: Farm (1-3)	Warp Totem: Mountains	Wheat Seeds (8)	Pink Cake
Book Of Stars	Peach Sapling	Fish Taco	Eggplant Seeds (8)
Triple Shot Espresso (3)	Emerald Ring	Carrot Seeds (8)	Tom Kha Soup
Salmon Dinner	Potato Seeds (8-20)	Fried Egg	Glazed Yams
Rhubarb Pie	Crispy Bass	Pepper Poppers

Gifting

Villager Reactions
Hate	Abigail • Alex • Caroline • Clint • Demetrius • Dwarf • Elliott • Emily • Evelyn • George • Gus • Haley • Harvey • Jas • Jodi • Kent • Krobus • Leah • Leo • Lewis • Linus • Marnie • Maru • Pam • Penny • Pierre • Robin • Sam • Sandy • Sebastian • Shane • Vincent • Willy • Wizard

Bundles

Five Mystery Boxes are required for the Helper's Bundle on the Bulletin Board (Remixed).

Tailoring

Mystery Box is not used in any tailoring. It can be used in dyeing, serving as a blue dye at the dye pots, located in Emily's and Haley's house, 2 Willow Lane.

References

↑ See Quest.questComplete(), where the flag for the cutscene to play is only set to true if 6 or more billboard quests are done.
↑ See Utility::rollMysteryBox in the game code.

History

1.6: Introduced.

[gotFirstBillboardPrizeTicket-1] See Quest.questComplete(), where the flag for the cutscene to play is only set to true if 6 or more billboard quests are done.

[rollMysteryBox-2] See Utility::rollMysteryBox in the game code.

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