Treasure hunting: Ginger Island diggable tiles

Lew Zealand

Helper
The purpose of this resource is to identify which tiles are available to use
Treasure Totems on at Ginger Island for the purpose of Treasure Hunting!

Yarrrrrr!

I hope to eventually identify which tiles are the best for placing Treasure Totems as they are expensive (
Moss x10,
Hardwood x5,
Mystic Syrup x1) and I kinda super wasted a whole lot of them at the Pelican Town Beach (in Winter no less!) where I should have been saving them for the extra-lucrative returns that locations at Ginger give. Without further ado:

Ginger Island South:
GIsouth.jpg


Ginger Island West:
GIwest.jpg


Ginger Island North:
GInorth.jpg


Ginger Island Southeast:
GIsoutheast.jpg


The GI West was taken at 8pm so the color's off but I processed all of them to make it easier to see. Doing this in the rain greatly helps of course.

Because
the Mermaid is there for chitchat and exchange of haircare strategies! Um yeah, I guess it also makes the available tiles way easier to see. Whatever.

The Treasure Totem strategy will be interesting as it spawns this circle of Artifact Spots 3 tiles away from you so minimizing the overlap in order not to waste this valuable resource is an essential part of The Buccaneer's Calculus. Interesting non-coincidence that the totems spawn 16 Artifact Spots as that's only as high as most Pirates can count on their fingers, toes and peg leg.

As an initial point of reference, I replayed the day just kinda eyeballing 20 Treasure Totems on the South, West, and North maps only but I over-overlapped a few, oops. But remembering the Buccaneer's Calculus, we shouldn't waste resources! So I had:

High Luck day
Iridium Hoe enchanted with Generous
+5 Luck from Magic Rock Candy
+1 Luck from Ginger Ale

The total is in the bottom 2 rows, ignoring the Fishing Pole of course:

Y6Sp23 Hi luck, MRC, GA, Generous Iridium, 20 Treasure Totems.JPG


Why do this? Well for swashbuckling of course, note how piratey I'm dressed. Yeah this was spur of the moment because of the High Luck day so I didn't plan my outfit, oops. Next time! But the real reason is I want all the Golden Coconuts plus the 2 remaining Shirts which are obtainable only from random action drops.

Next up is trying to map this with the proper placement of Treasure Totems to minimize overlapping and reviewing which kinds of Luck actually do anything when digging Artifact Spots. Mmmmm map and overlap rhyme with nap and now I'm tired.

😴
 
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Lew Zealand

Helper
OK I mapped out the first and most important Treasure Totem plan as the Ginger Island West map is on Stardew Planner and luckily that's also the most open for diggin' fer treayzzhurre!

Iridium Sprinklers are where you should set the Totems off and Stone paths are where the wiggly worms will wallow, waiting.

Totem Placements Ginger West.JPG


17 total totems with IMO minimal overlapping. However if you want to further reduce the overlap thanks to resource shortages there are 3 clusters of 3, each which can be reduced to two: one middle right, and one on each side of the river. Remove the Totem/Sprinkler in each cluster that's vertically offset, leaving the 2 directly horizontally offset ones in each cluster. And the most dedicated treasure hunters out there should rememberrrrrrr: ye can pickaxe all yer hoed spots to repairrrrr the sand and set off yer extra Totems agin!





Ginger South and Southeast will probably be easy as there are few real clean options but Ginger North is gonna be a pain. I skipped the nap. Shouldn't have...
 

Lew Zealand

Helper
LUCK


Here's how Luck will affect your finding
Treasure from these spots:

Daily Luck will only boost finding
Mystery Boxes and
Golden Animal Crackers so if you're not looking for those, maybe waiting for a High Luck day isn't worth it and instead spend that day in Skull Cavern looking for Treasure Rooms. Yeah, you can go Treasure hunting there, too!

Luck Buffs (Food, Rings) are even less useful, only boosting your chances of finding
Animal Crackers.

So not worth it for me as Luck doesn't affect much of what I'm looking for other than you can use Mystery Boxes to trade in for Magic Rock Candy once you unlock it from the Raccoons. It turns out that's something I'm doing so I'll probably go on modest Luck days and save High Luck and
Magic Rock Candy for Skull Cavern Treasure dives.
 

Lew Zealand

Helper
So I replayed the same High Daily Luck day with the intent to do the current optimal placement of Treasure Totems on the Ginger Island West beach. But of course messed up some placements though I now see that it should be easily doable using the various bits in the sand as guides for placement along with generated Artifact Spots.

Here are the results from 20 Treasure Totems: the 17 correct placements, 2 wrong ones and one accidental oops! Because it ain't a true Farmer Bobbi production if there isn't at least one big oops. No consumed Luck Buffs this time as they do nothing useful for me.

Y6Sp23 Try2.JPG


Here's the first one from above for comparison using a similar number of totems, there are different bones as I used the South and North maps for that one:



Notes so far:

2 cosmetic items are identical, interesting
Different books from different Ginger maps? Or just random.
Ginger West may be better for Mystery Boxes and Wild Bait
This place was crawling with snakes at one point. Um, slithering. Slithering with sneks.

I'm restarting the day one more time to try getting the placement right.

Edit: Third try, keeping this one as I somehow I managed to place the Totems properly. 17 Treasure Totems at Ginger Island West, finished at 3pm fwiw.

Y6Sp23 Try3.JPG


Notes:

Cosmetics different
fewer Books
more Golden Cocos!
fewer Animal Crackers
way less Bait

So a decent look at how randomness affects drops. Seems very efficient for only 17 Treasure Totems, and remember I have the Generous enchant on my Hoe, helping this along. I also have Generous on my Pan, which I'm finally using after 7 years and thousands of hours playing. The little quality of life enhancements that CA adds really keep long and repeated gameplay interesting!
 
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stardew_luv

Farmer
OK I mapped out the first and most important Treasure Totem plan as the Ginger Island West map is on Stardew Planner and luckily that's also the most open for diggin' fer treayzzhurre!

Iridium Sprinklers are where you should set the Totems off and Stone paths are where the wiggly worms will wallow, waiting.

View attachment 30846

17 total totems with IMO minimal overlapping. However if you want to further reduce the overlap thanks to resource shortages there are 3 clusters of 3, each which can be reduced to two: one middle right, and one on each side of the river. Remove the Totem/Sprinkler in each cluster that's vertically offset, leaving the 2 directly horizontally offset ones in each cluster. And the most dedicated treasure hunters out there should rememberrrrrrr: ye can pickaxe all yer hoed spots to repairrrrr the sand and set off yer extra Totems agin!





Ginger South and Southeast will probably be easy as there are few real clean options but Ginger North is gonna be a pain. I skipped the nap. Shouldn't have...
Holy cow you’re turning into @FilthyGorilla 😂

I had a lot of luck in the GI quarry. Only when you’re done you have to pick axe the tilled tiles or nothing will spawn for many days.
 
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