Donating items to the museum is an important part of progression in , but that's not all it's good for — players can actually claim quite a few rewards for the pieces they donate. Museum donations fall into one of three categories, drawing from 's wider Minerals, Artifacts, and Scrolls item types. You can always recognize a donatable item when its flavor text reads, ""
Of course, not all items should be donated immediately — there's some value in keeping your first Prismatic Shard, Dinosaur Egg, and Diamond to yourself. In the long run, though, you'll definitely want to keep an eye on your donation progress and, when you're confident you don't have any other use for them, donate everything you possibly can. The rewards are various, which means they're not always game-changing, but more than a few of them are downright necessary to your progress in.
First, you receive certain rewards just based on the number of items you donate to the museum, with no regard to what those specific items are. There are 95 total items to be donated, and you'll typically receive a reward for every five, until you get to 40 and the rewards are spaced out to every ten. The following table describes every item count reward available at the museum.
# of Items
Reward
5
9 Cauliflower Seeds
10
9 Melon Seeds
15
Starfruit Seeds
20
'A Night On Eco-Hill' (painting)
25
'Jade Hills' (painting)
30
Lg. Futan Bear
35
9 Pumpkin Seeds
40
Rarecrow #8
50
Bear Statue
60
Rusty Key
70
3 Triple Shot Espresso
80
5 Warp Totem: Farm
90
Magic Rock Candy
95
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A few things to note: first, you'll get two achievements based on the total number of items you donate to the museum. The first, "," appears when you hit 40, and "" when you hit 95 (thus completing the entire museum).
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The Rusty Key is also something of an exception here, as you can't pick it up from the museum as
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