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Apart from farming and fishing inStardew Valley, you can also go to the different mines and dungeons to get ores and engage in combat. While in these dangerous areas, you’ll come across various enemies with differing levels of strength. Stronger enemies will deal more damage and drop better loot.
As the monsters you come across get stronger, you’ll need to be better equipped to face them. You can put on pieces of equipment to improve your chances of surviving. A piece of equipment you can have is a trinket, and these come with various abilities. One such trinket is theFairy Box.
How To Get A Fairy Box
In order to start finding trinkets, you’ll first need tounlock Combat Mastery. This is one of the rewards available in theMastery Cave, and it gives a number of new recipes, in addition to theability to find trinkets.
In order to get this reward, you’ll need to firstunlock the Mastery Cave. This cave is a location hidden in the mountains found in thesoutheast corner of Cindersap Forest. Along the edge of the mountain, you’ll finda door leading to the cave.
The door to the Mastery Cave will be locked until youmaster all the skills. This means that you’ll need to reachlevel ten in farming, fishing, foraging, mining, and combat.
Harvest crops and take care of animals.
Pick up foraged goods and chop wood with an axe.
Complete the fishing mini-game and catch creatures using Crab Pots.
Break rocks with a pickaxe or with bombs.
Combat
Defeat enemies.
Once you’ve mastered all the skills, the door to the Mastery Cave should be unlocked. Head inside in order to find all theskill mastery pillars.
Each pillar represents a skill, and Combat Mastery isrepresented by a sword.
To unlock a mastery skill pillar, you’ll first need toclear a level of mastery points. The current mastery points you have and the number of levels you’ve unlocked can be viewed using thepedestal in the center of the Mastery Cave.
The pedestal will read,“The final path”. The first level requires you to obtain10,000 mastery points, and each level above that will require5,000 points more than the previous level in total.
Mastery points are simply experience points, and you can gain more byperforming actions in any skill.
Once you’ve completed a level of mastery points, you’ll receive a notification that reads,“You’ve reached a new level of understanding…”. You can then head back to the Mastery Cave and unlock the pillar for Combat Mastery.
Once you have Combat Mastery, trinkets like the Fairy Box can start appearing asdrops from enemies, containers, and treasure chestsin the mines and dungeons.
A great way to look for trinkets is tohead to the Skull Cavern. This area has severaltreasure chest floorsthat can possibly hold a trinket inside, and there is roughly a0.6% chance that the trinket you’ll find is a Fairy Box.
you’re able to increase the odds of finding a Fairy Boxthrough luck. The daily luck you receive, as dictated by thefortune teller’s television program, can affect your chances of finding one.Consuming items that give you luck buffswill also help in your search for a Fairy Box.
Equipping the Burglar’s Ringwill not increase your chances at finding a Fairy Boxas a drop from defeated enemies. Instead, you canuse Monster Muskin order to double the number of monsters in an area,increasing the odds of obtaining a Fairy Box.
A Fairy Box appears as a pink box, and hovering over it will revealwhat level the fairy inside is.
How To Use A Fairy Box
Once you have a Fairy Box, you can equip it byputting it in your trinket slot.
Your trinket slot can be found in your inventory menu, and it’sright next to your hat slot.
Once you have the Fairy Box equipped,a small fairy will appearand will start following you around. They can follow you everywhere,inside or outside the mines and dungeons.
Your fairy willnot take damagefrom monsters or explosions.
This fairy companion is very useful in combat, becauseit heals you for a certain amount, depending on what level it is. Fairies of higher levels canheal you at higher frequencies, and canrestore a higher amount of health.
Take note that a fairy only heals youwhile you’re in a combat setting. Your fairy will not heal you, unlessdamage is being dealt or received.
There areeight different styles of fairiesavailable, but you will only getone fairy style per game file or multiplayer player slot. The fairy sprites are the same for every Fairy Box, but different game saves will have a particular color combination.
How To Level Up A Fairy
The level of the Fairy Box you find is random, but those of a higher level have alower chance of appearing. The lowest level of a Fairy Box is level one, and thehighest is level five.
1
4.7 seconds
80%
2
4.4 seconds
90%
3
4.1 seconds
100%
4
3.8 seconds
110%
5
3.5 seconds
120%
How much a fairy can heal you for is dependent onhow much damage you deal or receivesince you were last healed.
The amount is the cube root of the total damage, up to ten percent of your total health, multiplied by thefairy’s healing percentage level. Then, 25 percent is added or subtracted to that total to get the final amount of total healing granted by your fairy.
you’re able to change the level of a fairy you’ve found, but you’ll need touse your Fairy Box on an anvilto do it. The recipe for crafting an anvil is one of the rewards you receivewhen youunlock Combat Mastery.
To craft an anvil, you’ll need50iron bars.
When you’ve placed your anvil, you can use it tore-roll the stats of your trinkets, but you’ll needthreeiridium barsper attempt. The stat you re-roll for fairies on an anvil will be its level, affecting itshealing frequency and its healing power.
It’s possible for your fairy toremain at the same levelwhen you attempt to re-roll its stats on an anvil.
As with the drop chances,the odds of getting a higher leveled fairy are slimmerwhen re-rolling the Fairy Box on an anvil.
Chances Of Finding Or Rolling
33.66%
45.00%
13.75%
5.16%
2.44%
What Can You Do With A Fairy
Apart from using your Fairy Box as a trinket, there areother things you’re able to do with it.
you may sell the Fairy Box for1,000 gold to Marlonat the Adventurer’s Guild.
You can also give Fairy Boxes asgifts to the different villagers. They’ll have different reactions to it, butJas in particular loves receiving this as a gift. In fact, Jas will have aunique dialogue for this present.
The Wizard also likes receiving Fairy Boxes, but the rest of the villagersdislike receiving them as a present.
