"You're Missing Out": Stardew Valley Player Reveals Just How Important Totems Can Be On Ginger Island

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A fan has discovered that using Treasure Totems on Ginger Island can help you gather a plethora of useful items in a short period, including Qi Beans. Treasure Totems were introduced with update 1.6, and by placing one on tillable ground and digging, players can get a ton of geodes, seeds, and other goods, all in one go. On average, a Treasure Totem should lead to around 3,000 gold every time, and using one on Ginger Island can be even more lucrative.

A Reddit post from user Cowgirlsteph shows a quick nine-second video using 10 Treasure Totems on Ginger Island. Within just seconds, they were able to dig up golden coconuts, Qi beans, snake skulls, Omni geodes, artifacts, and more. There's a chance to find rare treasures too, including high-value artifacts worth even more in gold.

Craftable Treasure Totem are a fairly new feature and are only available once you unlock the Mastery section in your Skills menu. Once you have the recipe unlocked, crafting it is simple: you just need one mystic syrup, five hardwood, and 10 moss. To use the totem, head to any tillable ground around you and activate it from your inventory. You’ll see a ring of Artifact Spots surrounding you, with little worms squirming in them.

Qi Gems can be hard to come by in Stardew Valley, so players will want to make sure they are spending this rare currency on the right items.

One such reward is the elusive Qi Bean, which yields Qi Fruit, which is needed to complete the Qi’s Crop quest on Ginger Island—where you must grow and ship 500 Qi fruit within the time limit.Qi beans are found throughout Stardew Valley, but mainly on Ginger Island, which can be accessed via boat for 1,000 gold. Commenter Adorable-Storm474 claims that the Qi bean challenge is much easier if you have Treasure Totems to spare.

This is solidified in the short video posted, as it appears each totem yielded an average of four Qi beans per dig, making the quest a breeze to get through. Apart from Qi beans, players in the thread also