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Bonus Impact Summary

Icon	Action	Memory Shard Counter	Critical Hit Counter Value	Well Fed Bonus Impact	Elixir Bonus Impact	Hang Out Bonus Impact
	Cooking	Shared	n/a	none	n/a	none
	Digging	Unique	n/a	none	Increase Rewards, i.e. Memory Shards and (Reward Condition)	Companion Bonus Formula limit 2 Green Reward Chests
	Feeding Critters	Unique	n/a	none	n/a	none
	Fishing	Shared	1	Increase Critical Hits	normal	Companion Bonus Formula
	Foraging from ground	Shared	1	Increase Critical Hits	n/a	Companion Bonus Formula
	Foraging from trees/bushes	Shared	2	Increase Critical Hits	n/a	Companion Bonus Formula
	Gardening (Harvesting)	Shared	2	Increase Critical Hits	normal	Companion Bonus Formula
	Mining	Shared	1	Increase Critical Hits	normal	Companion Bonus Formula
	Removing Night Thorns	Unique	n/a	none	n/a	none
	Watering Dried Flowers	Shared	n/a	none	n/a	none

Memory Shard Mechanics

Shared Memory Shard Counter: Cooking, Fishing, Foraging, Gardening, Mining, Watering Dried Flowers. When you do these Activities in the game that are capable of producing Memory Shards, an invisible counter is running in the background. Each time an Activity is performed, the counter increases by one. It then essentially checks against a predetermined list of numbers, conditions, and rewards. If your counter hits an indicated number and the current gameplay conditions meet the requirements, a reward will be yielded - in this case, a Memory Shard.

A specific piece of a specific Memory will always result next from doing that particular Activity, and this value is predetermined. However, since these Activities have a shared Memory Shard counter, this can be exploited to have a better chance at gaining desired Memory Shards. For example, if you know that a Memory Shard is in your action queue and you desire a different type of Memory Shard value, you can save right before you are supposed to get the Memory Shard, quit without saving, restart, then swap to a different type of Activity. The Memory Shard properties seem to be unrelated depending on Activity —- i.e. the orb color, Memory Universe, or specific piece of the Memory Shard will not be the same if you change activity to acquire a different Memory Shard. The counters are consistent, and each action of the activities listed counts as one (1). However, it is currently unclear how or if collects from Red Critical Hits or Golden Harvests are counted. "Miracle" Elixirs have no impact on these activities. When Fishing, if the Player's Inventory is full and the Activity is not completed, the counter is not incremented.

The Memory Shard for each Activity is randomly generated each time - i.e. you are not doomed to get the same next Memory Shard per Activity. If you get a repeat Memory Shard, it always benefits you to reset the game and switch to another Activity.

An example use case: a player plants 50 Wheat, which is a fast-growing ( 1 min) and cheap ( 1) crop. They harvest the crops, manually saving their game every 10 actions. They encounter a yellow Memory Shard on their third crop harvest after a save point. They have already completed all of their yellow Gardening/Foraging Memories, so they want to get a different Memory Shard. They immediately quit the game, restart, and go to a biome where they saw a Dried Flower. They forage from 1 tree, and 1 bush, and on their third action, they water the Dried Flower to yield a pink Memory Shard. Unfortunately, when opened, it yields a coin, indicating they already collected that specific Memory Shard, so they immediately quit the game, and try switching to either Cooking, Mining, or Fishing.

Note that collecting prepared Meals from an Auto-Cooker (any level) counts as one action, and does not correspond to the number of Meals collected. Harvesting using a Gardener does not appear to count as an action, and will not yield a Harvest Memory Shard.

Digging: Unique Memory Shard counter. Elixir (Shovel Varnish), DOES impact, as does location (i.e. Beach vs. Non-Beach). See Digging section for more details.

Feeding Critters: Unique Memory Shard counter. Critter does not matter. Like/Love food does not matter. "Failed" feedings increase counter, failed feeding will not yield Memory Shard.

Night Thorns: Unique Memory Shard counter.

For all of the above, the "Well Fed" Bonus has no impact. Having a Villager Companion has no impact.

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Critical Hit/Golden Harvest Mechanics

Luck Event Definitions

2 types of luck-based events in game:

- Red Critical Hits: 1 item collected initially, and 7 additional items highlighted in red shoot out from initial collection item to run over in limited time window. Applicable for: Crops, Foraged Fruit (Trees and Bushes), Foraged Spices/Mushrooms, Mined Rock Spots, Fishing

- Golden Harvests: Multiple collects from 1 item in place that is highlighted golden for a limited time. Applicable for: Crops, Foraged Fruit (Trees and Bushes)

Luck Event Mechanics

When you do actions in the game that are capable of producing a critical hit, an invisible counter is running in the background. Each time an action is performed, the counter increases by a specified amount. It then checks against a predetermined list of numbers, conditions, and rewards. If your counter hits an indicated number and the current gameplay conditions meet the requirements, a reward will be yielded - in this case, a critical hit.

The "Well Fed" Bonus significantly increases the number of Luck Events - both red Critical Hits and Golden Harvests. However, this appears to be a boolean - NOT a sliding scale of "more energy-->more critical hits". Being at 5 energy over the energy threshold into the Well Fed Bonus will yield the same results as being 3000 energy over, at the maximum 5000 energy. Test results have shown that there appear to be 2 separate Critical Hit Counters for Well Fed vs. not Well Fed.

Items collected from Golden Harvests count as additional collects (both for the purposes of Duties, and also for impact of the Companion Bonus, if Hanging Out with an appropriate Role of Villager), but items collected from red Critical Hits do not (NEED VERIFICATION). It is currently unclear exactly how items collected during a Golden Harvest increment the counter.

Suspicion 1 (Needs further testing): If an item is capable of a Gold critical hit, whether it will be Gold or Red depends on whether it overlaps the indicated reward count on its first or second count (as all Gold crit items increment the counter by 2).

Suspicion 2 (Needs MUCH further testing): Critical hits seem to have an impact on each other, but the exact relationship is unclear. For instance, a if a critical hit is lined up in action 4 and 14, having a red crit in 4 can cause the second gold crit to be a varying number of actions later. If the red crit in 4 happens on a red-crit-only item, and action 14 is also a red-crit-only item, no second crit will occur.

Villager Companions do not affect Luck Event Mechanics.

Critical Hits and Golden Harvests are independent of Memory Shards; it is possible to get a Luck Event and a Memory Shard from the same action. In the case of a Golden Harvest, the Memory Shard will pop out at the end of the golden visual effect. In the case of a red Critical Hit, the Memory Shard pops out at the same time as the limited-time items in highlighted red spurt out from the origin harvest item.

There is 1 shared Memory Shard counter for: Cooking, Fishing, Foraging, Gardening, Mining, Watering Dried Flowers.

Additional Critical Hit Notes

It is possible to get both a Golden Harvest and then a Red Critical Hit from the same plant (crop).

Digging has no equivalent of a Critical Hit - either from digging holes or removing obstacles with the shovel, like Sparkling Holes.

Removing obstacles (including Night Thorns) has no equivalent of a Critical Hit - whether or not a Night Thorn yields a Yellow Chest is from a predetermined list of rewards, independent of the specific obstacle that is cleared. See Night Thorns section for more details.

Digging Reward Mechanics

When you do digging actions in the game in the Valley, an invisible counter is running in the background. Each time a hole is dug, the counter increases by 1. It then checks against a predetermined list of numbers, conditions, and rewards. If your counter hits an indicated number and the current gameplay conditions meet the requirements, a reward will be yielded - in the case of Digging, one of the following: Star Coins, Crafting Materials, Memory Shards, Green Reward Chests.

The "Miracle Shovel Varnish" Bonus significantly increases the number of obtainable rewards. This is one of the boolean conditions that is checked as a reward criterion.

Location also impacts whether and what reward is yielded - but only to the extent of whether or not the Biome that the hole is dug is Dazzle Beach. The exact impacts of this criterion are currently unclear, and are not included in the example below.

Digging has a unique Memory Shard counter that is not shared with any other Activity. There is no way to exploit the Memory Shards from Digging to swap them out for a different type - you are stuck with the specific piece of the specific Memory that you get at the time it is dug up, and this value is predetermined.

Contrived Example

Hole #	Required Conditions		Reward
	varnish?	appearOnBeach?
1	yes	yes	pink Memory Shard (Wreck-It Ralph #3, Vanellope's face piece)
2	no	yes	green Memory Shard (The Little Mermaid Memory #2, top right corner piece)
3	yes	no	Green Reward Chest
4	no	no	pink Memory Shard (Wreck-It Ralph #3, Vanellope's face piece)

Results if the same above action queue was conducted under the following different conditions:

• Plaza, Varnish on: 1 pink orb (piece when opened), 1 green orb, 1 green chest, 1 pink orb (coins when opened)
• Beach, Varnish on: 1 pink orb (piece when opened), 1 green orb, nothing, nothing
• Forgotten Lands, No Varnish = nothing, 1 green orb, nothing, 1 pink orb
• Beach, No Varnish = nothing, 1 green orb, nothing, nothing

While there are not exact statistics available, both Memory Shards and Green Reward Chests that do not require varnish are QUITE rare - particularly Chests. Numbers of over 950 holes between any rewards have been experienced while digging without a "Miracle Shovel Varnish" Bonus active.

The "Well Fed" Bonus has no impact on Digging rewards.

Having a Villager Companion has no impact on the number of instances of digging rewards, or whether or not rewards will appear.

Whereas Crafting Materials are subject to impact of the Companion Bonus equation (up to 290% chance of additional resources per hole, if all 25 Villagers are Friendship Level 10 and assigned the Digging Role), Green Reward Chests will only ever produce a maximum of 2. (NEEDS UPDATE 5 VERIFICATION) It does not benefit you to have more than 5 Digging Companions if your intent is to maximize Green Reward Chest yield from Digging.

Crafting Materials/Digging Artifacts

The number of coins and crafting materials that will be yielded from digging (without a Companion or Varnish) appears to be consistent across all biomes (adjusting for number of possible materials per biome), suggesting that these values are also predetermined. However, more testing may be needed, especially on the impact of Varnish and Companions.

Biome	Item 1	Item 2	Item 3
Plaza	Soil ( 3)	-	-
Peaceful Meadow	Soil ( 3)	-	-
Dazzle Beach	Pebbles ( 10) ??	Sand ( 8) ??	Clam ( 45) / Scallop ( 50)
Forest of Valor	Pebbles ( 10)	Soil ( 3)	-
Glade of Trust	Clay ( 20)	Soil ( 3)	-
Sunlit Plateau	Soil ( 3)	Clay ( 20)	Pebbles ( 10)
Frosted Heights	Snowball ( 25)	Soil ( 3)	-
Forgotten Lands	Soil ( 3)	Clay ( 20)	Pebbles ( 10)

Of all of the Crafting Materials that are yielded from Digging, the only items that can be viably converted into something that can be sold for a higher profit than the raw materials are Sand (turn into Glass or Empty Vial) or Clay (turn into Brick). Clam and Scallop can also be used in cooking for increased value, but refined materials have the benefit of being able to be crafted in bulk.

For example, say that you dug X number of holes, these might be your results in 2 key biomes:

Biome	Item 1	Item 2	Item 3
Dazzle Beach	Pebbles ( 10) x 52	Sand ( 8) x 30	Scallop ( 50) x 3
Glade of Trust	Clay ( 20) x 55	Soil ( 3) x 30	-
Frosted Heights	Snowball ( 25) x 55	Soil ( 3) x 30	-

Raw materials

• Dazzle = (10*52) + (8*30) + (3*50) = 910
• Glade = (20*55) + (3*30) = 1190
• Frosted = (25*55) + (3*30) = 1465

Convert to Glass

• Dazzle = (10*52) + (-5*30/5) + 50*(30/5) + (3*50) = 940

Convert to Empty Vials

• Dazzle = (10*52) + (-5*30/5) + 180*((30/5)/3) + (3*50) = 1000

Convert to Bricks

• Glade = (-5*55/5) + 130*(55/5) + (3*30) = 1465

Additional Digging Notes

Digging in Realms does not increment the counter - only Digging in locations that have the potential to spawn rewards.

It is currently unclear when the predetermined list of numbers, conditions, and rewards related to Digging is generated, and if it ever refreshes.

Digging Anomalies

The following events have occurred that cannot be fully explained:

- 2 green Memory Shards yielded from a single hole. One required varnish to appear, the other did not. Reproduced in Glade and on Beach.

- 2 (green, pink) Memory Shards yielded from a single hole. This event occurred in 1.6.1. A green and pink shard both resulted from a single hole dug, coincidentally one hole after a blue shard. It was reproduced on both Dazzle Beach, in the Glade of Trust, and Sunlit Plateau. Both shards only appeared when varnish was on. Having a companion had no impact. Being Well Fed and not Well Fed had no impact.

- On multiple occurrences (at least 4 documented), a Memory Shard dug up in the Glade becomes a Green Reward Chest if dug up on Dazzle Beach. 3 instances found requiring varnish, 1 instance found not requiring varnish.

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Pre-Determined Lists

Chez Remy Customer Orders

Moved to Chez Remy > Customer Meal Mechanics

Rewards from Green and Yellow Reward Chests

Moved to Green Reward Chest > Reward List Mechanics Duplicated in Yellow Reward Chest > Reward List Mechanics

Rewards from Night Thorns

Moved to Night Thorn > Reward List Mechanics

Rewards from Feeding Critters

Critter	Favorite 1	Favorite 2	Favorite 3	Liked 1	Liked 2	Liked A	Liked B	Liked C	Liked D
Squirrel	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard	Motif Bag	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard	Oregano (3)
Rabbit	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard	Motif Bag	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard		Lettuce Seed (4)
Sea Turtle	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard	Motif Bag	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard	Coconut (2)
Raccoon	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard	Motif Bag	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard	Garlic (2)
Crocodile	1-2 DS	Memory Shard	Motif Bag	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard		Cucumber Seed (1-2)
Sunbird	Dream Shard (2)?	Memory Shard	Motif Bag	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard	Cocoa Bean (4)	Cherry (3)	Crystal (2)
Fox	Dream Shard (2)?	Memory Shard	Motif Bag	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard				Iron Ingot (1)
Raven	Dream Shard (3)?	Memory Shard	Motif Bag	Dream Shard (1)	Memory Shard				Gold Ingot (1)

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"Miracle" Crafting Materials Bonus Impact Summary

Rich Soil, Red Algae, and Onyx are all on the same reward counter, and Biome, "Well Fed" Bonus, crop type, or ripple color does not seem to have any impact. If you save right before you are supposed to get one of these items, quit, then restart, you can get a different item by changing your activity type.

Image	Item	Action	Counter	Well Fed Bonus Impact	Elixir Bonus Impact	Hang Out Bonus Impact
	Onyx	Mining	Shared	none	none	none
	Red Algae	Fishing	Shared	none	none	none
	Rich Soil	Gardening (Harvesting)	Shared	none	none	none

It is possible to get Rich Soil during a Critical Hit. If during a Red Critical Hit, it will shoot out at the same time as all of the other items. Unknown if Rich Soil can also be rewarded during a Golden Harvest.

Miracle Elixir Recipes

Bonus	Image	Name	Uses	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3
		Miracle Growth Elixir	20	Vitalys Crystal (10)	Rich Soil (10)	Dreamlight (500)
		Even More Miraculous Growth Elixir	50	Vitalys Crystal (20)	Rich Soil (20)	Dreamlight (1000)
		Miracle Fishing Bait	10	Vitalys Crystal (10)	Red Algae (5)	Dreamlight (500)
		Even More Miraculous Fishing Bait	25	Vitalys Crystal (20)	Red Algae (10)	Dreamlight (1000)
		Miracle Pickaxe Polish	10	Vitalys Crystal (10)	Onyx (5)	Dreamlight (500)
		Even More Miraculous Pickaxe Polish	25	Vitalys Crystal (20)	Onyx (10)	Dreamlight (1000)
		Miracle Shovel Varnish	10	Vitalys Crystal (10)	Dry Wood (10)	Dreamlight (500)
		Even More Miraculous Shovel Varnish	25	Vitalys Crystal (20)	Dry Wood (20)	Dreamlight (1000)