Gold Nugget

Gold Nugget
Crafting	×3 ×6
Dropped by	×1.25 (), ×0.5 (), ×0.25 (), ×0.15 (), ×0.066 (), ×1-8 (Details) () ( ×4-8 ) ( ) : 25% ×2-3 () Ocean () : ×2 () () (17%) () (2%)
Stacks up to	20
Code	"goldnugget"

“I can't eat it, but it sure is shiny.”

–Wilson

“Where am I going to spend this?”

–Willow

“Money is for tiny men!”

–Wolfgang

“Even in purgatory it remains the most precious of metals.”

–Wendy

“I APPRECIATE ITS CONDUCTIVITY”

–WX-78

“A small lump of gold. Atomic number 79.”

–Wickerbottom

“You can't make a coffee table out of gold.
Well, maybe you can. But you shouldn't.”

–Woodie

“This was important to me once.”

–Maxwell

“Oddly more common here than lead or copper.”

–Wagstaff

“Such a pleasing göld piece.”

–Wigfrid

“We definitely like shiny.”

–Webber

“It's shiny and useful!”

–Walani

“Yolk yellow, glowing gold!”

–Warly

“Havin' gold around soothes me soul.”

–Woodlegs

“ALL THAT GLITTERS 'TIS GOLD!”

–Wilba

“Little yellow stone”

–Wormwood

“Gold! I've struck gold!”

–Wheeler

“Gold! What a prospect.”

–Winona

“Money is soulless.”

–Wortox

“Shiny from the ground!”

–Wurt

“Ow... I bit it, isn't that a thing people do?”

–Walter

“Hmm... would a solid gold pocket watch be too much?”

–Wanda

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.

Usage

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Console versions of Don't Starve only

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Only during Year of the Gobbler event

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Only during Year of the Varg event

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Only during Year of the Pig King event

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Only during Year of the Carrat event

×4

Only during Year of the Beefalo event

×4

Only during Year of the Catcoon event

×4

Only during Year of the Carrat event

Only during Year of the Carrat event

Only during Year of the Carrat event

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Only during Year of the Beefalo event

Only during Year of the Beefalo event

Only during Year of the Beefalo event

Only during Midsummer Cawnival event

Only during Midsummer Cawnival event

Only during Midsummer Cawnival event

Only during Midsummer Cawnival event

Only during Midsummer Cawnival event

Only during Midsummer Cawnival event

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Only during Hallowed Nights event

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.

Gallery

Glittering Gold Nugget.

Pig King throwing a Gold Nugget.

Gold Nuggets in a Graveyard.

Gold nuggets while the player is low on sanity.

There is no limit to the amount of gold that the Pig King can give.