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Trinkets are a group of  Items found by digging up Graves using a Shovel. Digging up graves normaly causes a Sanity loss of 10 points.

The only use for Trinkets is to be traded to the Pig King in exchange for Gold Nuggets. The following are all the Trinkets players can find :

Ball and Cup Ball and Cup

The Ball and Cup has a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave. It can be traded to the Pig King for 4 Gold Nuggets, but it cannot be used in any crafting recipes.

This Trinket is known as "trinket_7" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name.

Ball and Cup
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
4×

Dessicated Tentacle Dessicated Tentacle

The Dessicated Tentacle has a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave . It is not the same variety of Tentacle as the in-game mob, which are found in Swamps: it instead seems to resemble an octopus's tentacle.

.It can be traded to the Pig King for 8 Gold Nuggets, but it cannot be used in any crafting recipes. Only the Hardened Rubber Bung can equal the amount of Nuggets given by the Pig King.

This Trinket is known as "trinket_12" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name.

Dessicated Tentacle
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
8×

Fake Kazoo Fake Kazoo

The Fake Kazoo has a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave. Unlike the Pan Flute, the Fake Kazoo cannot be played. It can be traded to the Pig King for 6 Gold Nuggets, but it cannot be used in any crafting recipes.

This Trinket is known as "trinket_2" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name.

Fake Kazoo
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
6×

Frazzled Wires Frazzled Wires

Frazzled Wire have a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave. The Frazzled Wires cannot conduct Lightning, or connect to the Lightning Rod. They can also result from hammering Broken Clockworks. They can be traded to the Pig King for 5 Gold Nuggets, but they cannot be used in any crafting recipes.

This Trinket is known as "trinket_6" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name.

Frazzled Wires
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
5×

Gord's Knot Gord's Knot

Gord's Knot has a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave. Gord's Knot is a reference to the story in which Alexander the Great was told that whoever could complete the impossible challenge of disentangling Gordian's Knot and release the tethered cart would rule all of Asia. He released the cart by cutting the Knot with a knife, and went on to conquer much of Asia Minor, before his army rebelled. It has since become a metaphor for solving a complex problem with a simple solution, by thinking outside of the box.

It can be traded to the Pig King for 4 Gold Nuggets, but it cannot be used in any crafting recipes.

This Trinket is known as "trinket_3" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name.

Gord's Knot
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
4×

Gnome Gnome

The Gnome has a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave. The Gnome is often noted as the most popular decorative item by the community. It can be found outside of Graves in the Box Thing set piece. It has a 1% chance to drop from a Splumonkey Pod. Gnomes are most commonly placed near Gardens. There is also variant of the gnome called the Female Gnome.

It can be traded to the Pig King for 5 Gold Nuggets, but it cannot be used in any crafting recipes.

This Trinket is known as "trinket_4" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name.

Gnome
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
5×

Hardened Rubber Bung Hardened Rubber Bung

Hardened Rubber Bung has a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave. It is more commonly referred to as a Bath Plug. It can be traded to the Pig King for 8 Gold Nuggets, but it cannot be used in any crafting recipes. Only a Dessicated Tentacle can match the 8 Gold Nuggets given by the Pig King in return for the Hardened Rubber Bung.

This Trinket is known as "trinket_8" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name.

Hardened Rubber Bung
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
8×

Lying Robot Lying Robot

The Lying Robot has a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave. It is similar to a Robot toy. WX-78 claims the Lying Robot's name is 'HAL', and is his friend, the name 'HAL' is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which a murderous supercomputer named HAL 9000 is found. The 'Lying' part of the robot's name probably refers to the story Liar!, by Isaac Asimov.

It can be traded to the Pig King for 5 Gold Nuggets, but it cannot be used in any crafting recipes.

This Trinket is known as "trinket_11" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name.

Lying Robot
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
5×

Melty Marbles Melty Marbles

Melty Marbles has a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave. It can also be obtained by hammering Broken Clockworks. It can be traded to the Pig King for 4 Gold Nuggets. 

This Trinket is known as "trinket_1" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name. 

Melty Marbles
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
4×

Mismatched Buttons Mismatched Buttons

Mismatched Buttons have a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave. It may be a nod to the fact that buttons are well known for being found lying around for no reason, particularly in piggy banks. This may be why they are worth such a high amount.

They can be traded to the Pig King for 7 Gold Nuggets, but they cannot be used in any crafting recipes.

This Trinket is known as "trinket_9" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name.

Mismatched Buttons
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
7×

Second-hand Dentures Second-hand Dentures

Second-Hand Dentures has a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave and can be traded to the Pig King for 2 Gold Nuggets.

This Trinket is known as "trinket_10" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name.

Second-hand Dentures
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
2×

Tiny Rocketship Tiny Rocketship

The Tiny Rocketship has a 4.17% chance of being found when digging up a grave. Despite the examine line from Wilson "Sadly, it's too small for me to escape on...", the Tiny Rocketship cannot fly. Besides the Gnome, the Tiny Rocketship is the most popular decorative Gravedigger item. It appears to be a reference to the comic book Destination Moon (Tintin), as it looks exactly like the rocket in the comic, only smaller.

It can be traded to the Pig King for 4 Gold Nuggets, but it cannot be used in any crafting recipes.  

This 'trinket' is known as "trinket_5" in the game files and can be DebugSpawned using that name. 

Tiny Rocketship
Pig King Icon
Gold Nugget
4×

Reign of Giants icon Reign of Giants

In the Reign of Giants DLC, certain trinkets can be found in Tumbleweed or vomited from a Catcoon. They can also be given to a Catcoon to befriend it.

Moleworms will pick up Trinkets if laying on the ground, however they will drop the items when killed.

Placeholder Trivia

  • Under the old research method, Trinkets were one of the best ways of gaining research points (80 points).
  • The reason these items are known as "trinkets" is due to their file names (trinket1, trinket2 etc.).
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