Chipped Amphora & Rare Disk Madness

[bvrakvs]

Cannot find these two artifacts at all... No worm in town gave me the cursed amphora, nor any dirt patch in the damned mine gave me any rare disk. If you have found them somehow, please tell me where & when?

[drizzan]

Very true forgot about the horse, gonna get one ASAP.

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by drizzan:

Very true forgot about the horse, gonna get one ASAP.

Coffee buffs both walking AND horse speed! ;-)

[pdSlooper]

Where do you get the Chicken Statue and Rusty Spur?

[Mackenzie]

Originally posted by pdSlooper:

Where do you get the Chicken Statue and Rusty Spur?

I found them both while digging on the Bus Stop screen. But I have also found them in fishing chests at the ocean and river south of the farm.

[pdSlooper]

I'm fishing at the river south of the farm/Marnie's right now. How many (in-game) days should I expect this to take?

[Mackenzie]

It's all down to pure luck. The chance to get them is quite rare if I recall.. could take a game week, could take 3 game years.

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by pdSlooper:

Where do you get the Chicken Statue and Rusty Spur?

I got my chicken statue fishing off the beach pier (into the rock on the west side).

Also... Mackenzie is quite correct -- all artifacts have a 1-4% chance to be found when you dig worms or get a fishing treasure. The are very rare.

[drizzan]

Down to four now, 3 of them are from worms only according to the wiki so probably saving those for winter. Last one I can fish up is Dinosaur Egg, is it ocean only or has anyone had any luck in rivers aswell with Dinosaur Egg?

[gorpie]

In case other people look at this topic, I finally found the chipped amphora immediately south of the Jojamart doors (north of the blacksmith).

[Rafein]

Got the disk from a fishing treasure chest.

[Genuine Cat Herder]

Chipped amphora is found pretty much exclusively by digging in town, but has a relatively low drop rate so you just have to get lucky unfortunately. The disc can be found in a number of places as mentioned, but I managed to find about a dozen while fishing for a dinosaur egg with 10 fishing, magnet bait, and the treasure hunter lure. Seemed to be a fairly common drop, really.

[Oppaikun]

First off, anyone hunting for artifacts might want to check out the wiki page: http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Artifacts

The Rare Disc is an all around Mines item, meaning you can get it in multiple ways: killing monsters (Shadow Brute - the shadow-looking things, and Void Spirits - the ones wearing a mask), hoeing dirt, and breaking barrels. Since the appropriate monsters start spawning at level 81, the best strategy is to go to mines level 80 and then comb all levels from there. Hoeing dirt is probably the most efficient way of gaining artifacts as other artifacts may drop from this method (including the two rare dolls).

The Chipped Amphora can only be found from worms in Town. In response to Kohmei's post above: Do not waste your time with luck and rain inducing items. Luck does NOT affect the percentage of artifacts dropping from hoeing worm-tiles. Additionally, it has not been confirmed that rain affects the worm-tile spawn-rate, even though it would seem logical. The Wiki mentions nothing of this and has a lot of information that is drawn from the code - it is likely that since there is no such information, rain has no effect on worm-tile spawn-rate. The only confirmed trick to getting the Chipped Amphora is to comb the Town area for worms during Winter, where the worm-tile spawn area is enlarged. Despite Winter foraging items dropping from the worm-tiles, the artifact drop-rate persists giving you a lot more chances than any other season to get your artifacts.

If you are having trouble getting some of the artifacts, you might want to give fishing with a Treasure Hunter tackle a try. Treasure Chests hold some unique artifacts, while having a low drop-rate for many of the artifacts in general.

[Abalister]

I'm 2 artifacts away from the museum collection achievement. For the life of me, I can't find the Rusty Spur and 1 of the 2 strange dolls. Did everything I could, can't find them.

[KatherineOfSky]

@Abalister -- so funny how RNG works in this game. I've gotten 4 of each strange doll, and multiple rusty spurs, yet other artifacts elude me.

I found both strange dolls digging up floors 90-93 in the mines.

[RooKs]

I'm resurrecting a super old topic, but figured I'd throw in an addition for anyone still looking. The forge now allows for Archaeologist to be set on the Hoe which increases chances of finding artifacts.

I'm still looking for the Amphora myself, so just wanted to give folks information who were looking for it.

I've also been a little curious how Artifact Troves work. Mainly in regards to if you need to have already gotten the Artifact to get it through an Artifact Trove. I've opened probably 75 Artifact Troves and still haven't seen the Amphora so I have to lean towards no. If yes, it would almost seem easier to just make Skull Cavern runs over and over, stock pile Omni Geodes, trade them all in for Troves, and then open them.