Mystery Box
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| A blacksmith can open this for you. Who knows what might be inside? | |
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| Source | Fishing • Mining • Artifact Spot • Panning • Combat • Mayor Lewis' Prize Machine • Desert Festival • Trout Derby • SquidFest • Trees • Bookseller • Giant Stump |
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|keywords=Stardew Valley Wiki, Stardew Valley, Mystery Box, gift |site_name=Stardew Valley Wiki |type=article |title=Mystery Box - Stardew Valley Wiki }} 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. Afterwards, they can be obtained in a variety of ways. After opening more than 10 boxes, they can contain any item found in Golden Mystery Boxes (other than Golden Animal Crackers or Auto-Petters).
Mystery Boxes can be cracked by Clint in the Blacksmith shop for 25g, similar to Geodes. However, unlike Geodes, they cannot be broken open using a Geode Crusher.
Locations
The following table lists the different actions that can spawn a Mystery Box if the player does not have Foraging Mastery.
The "Chance" column below indicates the probabilities that the game will attempt to spawn a Mystery Box. When such an attempt is made, the game performs a further check to see if it succeeds. If the player has Foraging Mastery, the check will fail (and will attempt to spawn a Golden Mystery Box instead). Otherwise, the probability of succeeding is 66% if the player does not have the power obtained from the Book of Mysteries and 88% if they do.[2]
Also note that the chances of obtaining Mystery Boxes from some of the sources depends on and increases with higher daily luck, and in some cases, with Luck Buffs.
| Activity | Chance |
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| Fishing Treasure Chests [3] | 9-17% (dependent on daily luck) |
| Golden Fishing Treasure Chests [3] | 12-21% (dependent on daily luck) |
| Panning [4] | 5% |
| Shaking trees with seeds [5] | 3% |
| Monsters [6] | 0.01 + (Daily Luck / 10) + (Luck Buffs / 125)
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| Breaking containers in the Mines, Skull Cavern, and Volcano Dungeon [7] | 0.0081 + (Daily Luck / 15)
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| Chopping trees (Each Axe hit) [8] | 0.5% |
In addition, Mystery Boxes can also be obtained by purchasing from the Calico Egg Merchant at the Desert Festival, as a reward from the Trout Derby and SquidFest festivals, or trading a Book of Mysteries with the Bookseller. The player can still earn Mystery Boxes in these ways even with Foraging Mastery.
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Bundles
Five Mystery Boxes are required for the 
Helper's Bundle on the Bulletin Board (Remixed).
Quests
The Mystery Box is not used in any quests.
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. It can also be used as a dark cyan dye when used in the spool of the Sewing Machine with a dyeable clothing item in the feed.
Trading
Three Mystery Boxes can be traded to the Raccoon's wife for 1 Golden Mystery Box, after the sixth request from the Raccoon family is completed and Foraging Mastery is claimed.
References
- ↑ See Quest::questComplete in the game code.
- ↑ See Utility::tryRollMysteryBox in the game code.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 See FishingRod::openTreasureMenuEndFunction in the game code.
- ↑ See Pan::getPanItems in the game code.
- ↑ See tree::Shake in the game code.
- ↑ See GameLocation::monsterDrop in the game code.
- ↑ See BreakableContainer::releaseContents in the game code.
- ↑ See tree::performToolAction in the game code.
History
- 1.6: Introduced.
- 1.6.4: Can now be traded for Golden Mystery Boxes at the Giant Stump. Slightly reduced chance to find mystery boxes. The order of mystery box rewards is now randomized per-player instead of per-save.