Qi's Prismatic Grange Items

A list of all the items accepted for qi's challenge. Plus my opinion which might be best to send.

1.6

I have not updated the guide for 1.6 yet. The wiki hasn't been updated yet and haven't gotten the quest yet in my personal game. When I do, I will test some items but likely not all of them. I plan to switch back over to modded and am not going to like have every item on hand to test with (My vanilla run for 1.6 is just me killing time waiting for SVE to update).

Starting off

This guide is only for Qi's Prismatic Grange quest which is a challenge you accept in Qi's Walnut room for Qi gems. It's mostly just a quick guide for myself tbh.

First of all keep in mind it does not need to be 100 of the same item. So you can put a little bit of several different things if you're short on junk to toss out.

Second of all you will not get any money or anything back after you have deposited it. So keep in mind that you will probably not want to send off 100 iridium ore even if you do have a lot of it on hand.

Third this is based on the color dye system, but doesn't accept everything on the color dye system. I went thru the list on the wiki and picked out everything that wasn't accepted but it is hard to tell the difference between bold and unbolded so I might have made mistakes.

Lastly some modded items work. Gl finding out what does tho there's probably zero way to know until you open the box to deposit items.

Cheap / items you might already have in bulk on hand.

Need the items fast? these items are most likely what you have on hand in largest amounts/garbage you need to get rid of.

I'm too lazy to anylyze this all too deeply but I'm pretty sure the stuff on this list is all the "Cheapest" options. What you have on hand for the challenge really depends on your playstyle.

Red: Cherry bombs, explosive ammo, salmonberry
Orange: copper ore, copper bar, earth crystal
Yellow: Hay, sap, torches
Green: Fiber, green algae, seaweed
Blue: Blackberry, blueberry, broken CD/Glasses, joja Cola, clam, Frozen Geodes
Purple: refined quartz, void essence, bug meat

Some rarer garbage-y items are not included (dwarf scrolls) and I tried not to include crops/forage since most people likely sell off most of their crops and don't keep 100+ of each crop on hand lol. Be sure to check out the more detailed lists below to make sure you can't do a bit of spring cleaning of old rings or such.

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I recommend if you literally have nothing to your name ingame... to take trips in the mines at the lower levels for copper ore/ supplies for explosive ammo, bug meat, fiber, quartz to refine, and scouring the upper levels for shadow ppl to kill off. The Blue items are probably the hardest to get a hold of fast. You could try fishing up junk on level 100 of the mine but it would likely take a lot of energy and time ( probably more than 1 ingame day). If you're short on coal kill off dust sprites on the icey levels of the mine for coal, it seems faster and less supplies over charcoal kilns imo.

If you find a "overrun floor" It will continue to be the overrun floor the entire day so after killing everything you want on that floor (bugs/shadow people/dust sprites) exit the mine and try to get back to that level (aka if lvl 81 is overrun then leave and take the elevator to level 80) this trick is useful enough that it might be a good idea to enter/exit each level divisible by 10 and going down 1 level for the group of monsters you are targeting at the start of the day in case you are lucky.

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Purple is the most annoying to have on hand (especially in some modded games where shadow people are passive and unattackable).

Easiest strat:
passively purchase 10 shadow essence every day from Krobus if you don't enter the mines often.

crazy person strat #1:
passively accumulate cheap purple items year round might be to use fish ponds to produce bug meat/void essence as a by product while aging the roe.

Pike/Dorando/Lingcod have a chance to produce 20 bug meat
min pop: 9
Aged Roe sells for 160g [Pike/Dorando] or 180g [Lingcod])
0-1 roe each day

Void salmon have a chance to produce 5-10 void essence
min pop: 8
Aged Roe sells for 180g
0-3 roe each day
5% Chance to get void eggs too.

even crazier person strat #2:
have a shed of crystalariums that normally produce profitable gems and when you get this quest you switch to producing amethysts or fire quartz. Both take only 1 day to duplicate, then you'd swap out the crystals back to your profitable gems after the quest. The fire quartz would need to be smelted into refined quartz but produces 2 purple items per crystalarium.

Items you can just straight buy

For when you have tons of cash and no items/time.

Red: Spaghetti from the Stardrop Saloon (Total Cost: 24,000g)
Orange: Copper Ore from the Blacksmith (Total Cost: 15,000g)
Yellow: Hay from Marnie's Ranch (Total Cost: 5,000g)
Green: Salad from the Stardrop Saloon (Total Cost: 22,000g)
Blue: Joja Cola from the vending machine in the Stardrop Saloon or at JojaMart (Total Cost: 7,500g)
Purple: Void essence from Krobus (10 a day) (Total Cost: 10,000g)


Buyable Alternatives:
Some stores aren't open every day so here are some alternatives with a higher cost.

Yellow: Solar essence from Krobus (10 a day) (Total Cost: 8,000g)
Yellow: Oil from General Store (Total Cost: 20,000)
Purple: Life Elixir from dwarf (Total Cost: 200,000g) <- Not recommended unless in a serious bind.


Please note you can only buy 10 essence each day so it will take 10 days to buy enough void essence from krobus for the quest.

Unfortunately there are no other alternatives for purple in regular stores.

All Red items Accepted

You can mix and match anything on this list to get to 100 items.

• Apple
• Baryte
• Bruschetta
• Cherry
• Cherry Bomb
• Coral
• Crab
• Cranberries
• Cranberry Candy
• Cranberry Sauce
• Crimsonfish
• Dwarf Scroll I
• Eggplant Parmesan
• Energy Tonic
• Explosive Ammo
• Fire Quartz
• Helvite
• Holly
• Hot Pepper
• Jasper
• Jelly (any)
• Lava Eel
• Lobster
• Magma Geode
• Mega Bomb
• Miner's Treat
• Mushroom Tree Seed
• Pizza
• Radish
• Radish Salad
• Red Mullet
• Red Mushroom
• Red Plate
• Red Slime Egg
• Red Snapper
• Rhubarb
• Rhubarb Pie
• Ruby
• Ruby Ring
• Salmonberry
• Son of Crimsonfish
• Spaghetti
• Spicy Eel
• Strawberry
• Sweet Gem Berry
• Tomato
• Tulip
• Vampire Ring
• Void Mayonnaise

All Orange Items Accepted

You can mix and match anything on this list to get to 100 items.

• Apricot
• Cinder Shard
• Copper Bar
• Copper Ore
• Dorado
• Dragon Tooth
• Earth Crystal
• Eel
• Hematite
• Jack-O-Lantern
• Lemon Stone
• Lionfish
• Magma Cap
• Napalm Ring
• Nautilus Shell
• Octopus
• Orange
• Orpiment
• Poppy
• Pumpkin
• Pumpkin Pie
• Pumpkin Soup
• Rainbow Trout
• Rotten Plant
• Spice Berry
• Sunfish
• Tiger Slime Egg
• Tigerseye
• Topaz Ring
• Tropical Curry
• Winter Root
• Woodskip

All Yellow Items Accepted

You can mix and match anything on this list to get to 100 items.

• Angler
• Baked Fish
• Banana
• Banana Pudding
• Beer
• Calcite
• Carp
• Cheese
• Complete Breakfast
• Corn • Daffodil
• Dandelion
• Dish o' The Sea
• Dried Starfish
• Dwarf Scroll IV
• Elvish Jewelry
• Fish Taco
• Fried Calamari
• Fried Eel
• Fruit Salad
• Ginger
• Glow Ring
• Glowstone Ring
• Goat Cheese
• Gold Bar
• Gold Ore
• Golden Coconut
• Golden Mask
• Golden Pumpkin
• Golden Relic
• Hay
• Honey (any)
• Jagoite
• Lucky Lunch
• Lucky Ring
• Mango
• Mango Sticky Rice
• Mead
• Muscle Remedy • Oil
• Pale Ale
• Parsnip
• Parsnip Soup
• Perch
• Phoenix Ring
• Pike
• Pineapple
• Pufferfish
• Pyrite
• Rabbit's Foot
• Ring of Yoba
• Sandfish
• Sap
• Sea Cucumber
• Small Glow Ring
• Snail
• Solar Essence
• Starfruit
• Strange Doll (yellow)
• Summer Spangle
• Sunflower
• Topaz
• Torch
• Treasure Chest
• Truffle Oil
• Walleye
• Wheat

All Green Items Accepted

You can mix and match anything on this list to get to 100 items.

• Algae Soup
• Artichoke
• Bean Hotpot
• Bok Choy
• Burglar's Ring
• Cactus Fruit
• Coleslaw
• Dinosaur Egg
• Duck Feather
• Dwarf Scroll II
• Emerald
• Emerald Ring
• Esperite
• Fiber
• Fiddlehead Fern
• Fiddlehead Risotto
• Ginger Ale
• Green Algae
• Green Bean
• Green Slime Egg
• Green Tea
• Hops
• Jade
• Jade Ring
• Jamborite
• Juice (any)
• Kale
• Largemouth Bass
• Legend
• Legend II
• Malachite
• Mutant Carp
• Oak Resin
• Ocean Stone
• Oil of Garlic
• Petrified Slime
• Pickles (any)
• Radioactive Bar
• Radioactive Carp
• Radioactive Ore
• Salad
• Seaweed
• Shad
• Slime Charmer Ring
• Slimejack
• Soul Sapper Ring
• Strange Doll (green)
• Super Meal
• Tea Leaves
• Vegetable Medley

All Blue Items Accepted

You can mix and match anything on this list to get to 100 items.

• Aerinite
• Albacore
• Anchovy
• Ancient Doll
• Ancient Fruit
• Aquamarine
• Aquamarine Ring
• Battery Pack
• Blackberry
• Blackberry Cobbler
• Blue Discus
• Blue Jazz
• Blue Slime Egg
• Blueberry
• Blueberry Tart
• Bream
• Broken CD
• Broken Glasses
• Clam
• Crystal Fruit
• Dwarf Scroll III
• Frozen Geode
• Frozen Tear
• Glacierfish
• Glacierfish Jr.
• Glass Shards
• Herring
• Ice Pip
• Joja Cola
• Kyanite
• Midnight Squid
• Opal
• Periwinkle
• Qi Bean (I don't think you can technically have this during the challenge but hey I'll include it)
• Qi Fruit (I don't think you can technically have this during the challenge but hey I'll include it)
• Sardine
• Seafoam Pudding
• Spook Fish
• Sturdy Ring
• Sturgeon
• Tuna

All Purple Items Accepted

You can mix and match anything on this list to get to 100 items.

• Amaranth
• Amethyst
• Amethyst Ring
• Ancient Drum
• Beet
• Bug Meat
• Crocus
• Eggplant
• Fairy Stone
• Fire Opal
• Fluorapatite
• Grape
• Immunity Band
• Iridium Band
• Iridium Bar
• Iridium Ore
• Life Elixir
• Midnight Carp
• Monster Musk
• Pomegranate
• Poppyseed Muffin
• Purple Mushroom
• Purple Slime Egg
• Red Cabbage
• Refined Quartz
• Sea Urchin
• Super Cucumber
• Sweet Pea
• Thunder Egg
• Void Essence
• Void Salmon
• Wedding Ring
• Wild Plum
• Wine (any)

Good Luck

Good luck getting your Qi gems.

Also feel free to comment if you find a bulk mod item that is accepted it might help out others.
Also feel free to comment to complain.

[frances]

Moss is accepted (green).

[POSPA]

Nice guide, regarding
I• Qi Bean (I don't think you can technically have this during the challenge but hey I'll include it)
and
• Qi Fruit (I don't think you can technically have this during the challenge but hey I'll include it)
Yes, you can harvest and deposit them. It counts.

[Opalina]

Thank you for the list, very helpful!

[Citrus]

Had a ton of blueberries I didn't know what to do with from the greenhouse lol

[Flight173]

Just perusing, but thought i'd mention you can easily purchase 10 void essence a day in the sewer for 100 (purple) / faster & cheaper than refined quarts unless you're refining it from junk (coal is worth 250).

[Mici_YEET]

Thank you for this!