Well, maybe you can. But you shouldn't.”
–Wurt
A Gold Nugget is a mineral in Don't Starve. It is a required item for many Crafting recipes
Gold Nuggets can be found by mining Boulders (with gold veins on their side) or Stalagmites (found only in Caves). They can be found lying on the ground in Graveyards or Rocky biomes, and fall from the ceiling in Caves during Earthquakes. The Pig King will also exchange Gold Nuggets for certain items. As some of the aforementioned items exchangeable for Gold Nuggets are renewable, this makes it a fully renewable resource.
Like most other minerals, Gold Nuggets can be eaten by Slurtles and Snurtles, and Slurtles will attack a player carrying it if there aren't any other minerals in the immediate area.
Downloadable Content[]
In the Shipwrecked DLC, Gold Nuggets can be Refined from Dubloons. Digging gold flecked Magma Piles can yield Gold Nuggets. Unlike gold veined Boulders, gold flecked Magma Piles do not have a preset amount of Gold Nuggets to drop. Instead, there is an independent 25% chance for each dug up item to be a Gold Nugget. Therefore, there is a small (~7.5%) chance to get no Gold Nuggets, and a very small (~0.00038%) chance to get a total 9 of them from each Magma Pile. Very rarely, Gold Nuggets can be found laying around in Jungle and Magma Field biomes.
This DLC also introduces many new methods to obtain items, most of them include Gold Nuggets as a possible reward, however, typically chance of getting a Gold Nugget among all possible rewards is small and some of these are chance encounters, therefore these cannot be used as a reliable method to obtain Gold Nuggets. These methods include:
- Using Trawl Net outside of shallow Ocean.
- Gambling on the Slot Machine.
- Digging up X Marks the Spot treasure chests.
- One preset of Steamer Trunk.
In the Hamlet DLC, Gold Veins are not present, so the task to obtain Gold has become more difficult. It is still possible to mine Gold from Stalagmites, but Stalagmites themselves are rarer, and can only be found in Cave Clefts. However, new methods has been introduced to obtain gold:
- Pig Statues can be chiseled with a Ball Pein Hammer to obtain 2 Gold Nuggets.
- 6 Gold Dust can be refined to obtain one Gold Nugget (however, 3 can be dropped near a Pangolden for it to convert into 1 Gold Nugget).
- If a Secret Bandit Camp treasure chest is open, there is a 1/6 chance to obtain 4 Gold Nuggets.
- Mining Stalacmite Throne dropped by Queen Womant have a chance to drop Gold Nuggets.
- Gold Nuggets can be bought for 10 Oincs at the Swinesbury Mineral Exchange.
- Trawling in the Hamlet Lilly Ponds has 1.96% chance of getting 1 gold nugget.
- Smashing the 'A Smashing Pot' has 2% chance of getting 1 gold nugget.
Don't Starve Together[]
In Don't Starve Together Gold Nugget's can be crafted by Wilson using Nitre if he has the "Transmute Ore Ⅱ" ability unlocked in his insight skill-tree.
Usage[]
Trivia[]
- During the research period of Don't Starve, Gold Nuggets offered 15 Research Points when put in a Science Machine or an Alchemy Engine.
- Gold Nuggets take on a silvery luster when the player is insane.
- Though in real life Gold Nuggets sink in the water, they stay afloat in the Singleplayer. Gold Nuggets sink in the water in Don't Starve Together.
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