Stardew Valley
40 Achievements
1,000
150-200h
PC
A Complete Collection
Complete the museum collection.
50
0.89%
How to unlock the A Complete Collection achievement in Stardew Valley - Definitive Guide
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So as the previous guides deal with a, now patched, glitch I figured it’d be a good call to throw out some hints and tips I learned by doing this the hard way.
To get this achievement you are going to need to gather a total of 95 items. 53 minerals and 42 artifacts which will need to be taken to Gunther in the museum.
The museum is in the south east corner of Pelican town, over the bridge and south of the blacksmiths hut.
Bringing up your menu allows you to see how many items from each area you have collected and are short. Note that minerals and artifacts collected show up as soon as you collect them, even if you haven’t dropped them into the museum yet so it’s worth taking any new collectables you find straight away.
When finished your collection pages should look like this.
If you are going through the game normally you should get most of these in the process of picking up the other achievements.
I got all but 4 artifacts and 2 minerals without having to do any grinding, though I confess I did regularly refer to the wiki for help to complete subquests.
So here’s a quick breakdown of the various items in order and how you can get each one. I’m not going to post an exhaustive list of where each one can be found, just the most common occurrences of each. Just be aware that some items can be picked up through other means then those listed, my first ruby was given to me as a gift during the feast of the winter star festival for example.
Geodes:
Geodes are your key to opening up all the different minerals and a couple of the artifacts so it’s important to know where you can find the different types.
They come in 4 types. Geodes, Omni Geodes, Frozen Geodes and Magma Geodes. These can be opened by Clint the blacksmith in Pelican town for 25g.
Geodes: Chance to drop whilst breaking any stone above ground or in the mine (higher chance in mine levels (1-39). Dropped by Duggies (25%), produce of stonefish pond (pop 9). Found whilst tilling soil in farm.
Omni Geodes: Chance to drop from breaking stone at every level of the mines, skull cavern and quarry cavern. Dropped by carbon ghosts (99%, skull cavern). Produced by octopus fish pond (pop 9).
Frozen geodes: Chance to drop from breaking stone in the mines (level 41-79. Produced by ice pip fish pond (pop 9).
Magma Geode: Chance to drop from breaking stone in the mines (level 81-119). Chance drop from breaking crates and barrels in skull cavern. Produced by lava eel fish pond (pop 9).
Artifacts
Artifacts are a whole different ball game though at first it’ll seem like they are identical to minerals and you won’t know why they’re kept on a separate list. Very few artifacts are found inside geodes. Instead they are more commonly found in artifact spots around the surface of the world. These are identified by patches of dirt, sand or snow with worms wiggling about
An artifact spot (the infamous sand wigglers)
Most artifact spots will contain something other than an artifact (stone, clay, wild seeds, yam) but a handful of artifacts are only obtainable by smacking the artifact spot with your hoe.
It’s also worth noting that artifact spots in different areas will have a different list of artifacts that can be found there (no dried starfish or anchors in the Calico desert for example). Several artifacts are given as rewards for certain subquests and missions so if you’ve been trying to get everything done that the game has to offer you will get a load of these as you progress.
There are also several which can be gained by buying artifact troves from the trader in the calico desert, he will trade 5 omni geodes for a single artifact trove which the blacksmith can open. If you find you have all of the minerals you require it’s worth stockpiling omni geodes for this purpose if you are still missing artifacts.
Additional notes:
Quarry: For the sake of artifact spots the quarry counts as part of the mountains.
Winter artifact hunting: Because everything in winter is covered in snow, more artifact spots are able to generate in areas where previously they couldn’t because it was grass. If you’re having trouble finding a specific artifact it might be worth waiting until winter when you might have more spawnable surfaces. This isn’t true for items on the beach or desert and makes minimal impact on artifacts which spawn at the railroad, but it’s handy for those elusive town or forest artifacts.
Wilderness farms: Wilderness golems have a chance of dropping diamonds, earth crystals or prismatic shards, wilderness golems can only be found if the wilderness map is chosen for the players farm at the start of the game.
Fishing chests: Fishing chests are an alternative way of gaining some of these artifacts or minerals, you’ll almost certainly pick up one or two this way; but the list of possible items in the fishing chest is large, there is a chance that when you are fishing you might not get a chest pop up and even if you do get a chest to appear in the minigame you might not be able to catch it/catching it might lose you the fish and therefore the chest. As such I’ve put it here as a mention but unless you assign your professions and gear yourself solely to getting chests (which is possible) you can’t really rely on it.
Luck: Whilst luck makes a difference on how often geodes will drop from rocks it does not effect what items are found within geodes. With that in mind it's worth using good luck days for collecting geodes from the mines and bad luck days for having the blacksmith open any geodes you've opened. You can find out what the luck for the day is like on your tv in your house.
Well that’s all I can think of, if you can think of any more information which I could add to here, please let me know, I hope this helps some of you out. Almost all of the percentages from these lists came from the official stardew valley wiki, not my own data collection.
To get this achievement you are going to need to gather a total of 95 items. 53 minerals and 42 artifacts which will need to be taken to Gunther in the museum.
The museum is in the south east corner of Pelican town, over the bridge and south of the blacksmiths hut.
Bringing up your menu allows you to see how many items from each area you have collected and are short. Note that minerals and artifacts collected show up as soon as you collect them, even if you haven’t dropped them into the museum yet so it’s worth taking any new collectables you find straight away.
When finished your collection pages should look like this.
If you are going through the game normally you should get most of these in the process of picking up the other achievements.
I got all but 4 artifacts and 2 minerals without having to do any grinding, though I confess I did regularly refer to the wiki for help to complete subquests.
So here’s a quick breakdown of the various items in order and how you can get each one. I’m not going to post an exhaustive list of where each one can be found, just the most common occurrences of each. Just be aware that some items can be picked up through other means then those listed, my first ruby was given to me as a gift during the feast of the winter star festival for example.
Geodes:
Geodes are your key to opening up all the different minerals and a couple of the artifacts so it’s important to know where you can find the different types.
They come in 4 types. Geodes, Omni Geodes, Frozen Geodes and Magma Geodes. These can be opened by Clint the blacksmith in Pelican town for 25g.
Geodes: Chance to drop whilst breaking any stone above ground or in the mine (higher chance in mine levels (1-39). Dropped by Duggies (25%), produce of stonefish pond (pop 9). Found whilst tilling soil in farm.
Omni Geodes: Chance to drop from breaking stone at every level of the mines, skull cavern and quarry cavern. Dropped by carbon ghosts (99%, skull cavern). Produced by octopus fish pond (pop 9).
Frozen geodes: Chance to drop from breaking stone in the mines (level 41-79. Produced by ice pip fish pond (pop 9).
Magma Geode: Chance to drop from breaking stone in the mines (level 81-119). Chance drop from breaking crates and barrels in skull cavern. Produced by lava eel fish pond (pop 9).
Artifacts
Artifacts are a whole different ball game though at first it’ll seem like they are identical to minerals and you won’t know why they’re kept on a separate list. Very few artifacts are found inside geodes. Instead they are more commonly found in artifact spots around the surface of the world. These are identified by patches of dirt, sand or snow with worms wiggling about
An artifact spot (the infamous sand wigglers)
Most artifact spots will contain something other than an artifact (stone, clay, wild seeds, yam) but a handful of artifacts are only obtainable by smacking the artifact spot with your hoe.
It’s also worth noting that artifact spots in different areas will have a different list of artifacts that can be found there (no dried starfish or anchors in the Calico desert for example). Several artifacts are given as rewards for certain subquests and missions so if you’ve been trying to get everything done that the game has to offer you will get a load of these as you progress.
There are also several which can be gained by buying artifact troves from the trader in the calico desert, he will trade 5 omni geodes for a single artifact trove which the blacksmith can open. If you find you have all of the minerals you require it’s worth stockpiling omni geodes for this purpose if you are still missing artifacts.
Additional notes:
Quarry: For the sake of artifact spots the quarry counts as part of the mountains.
Winter artifact hunting: Because everything in winter is covered in snow, more artifact spots are able to generate in areas where previously they couldn’t because it was grass. If you’re having trouble finding a specific artifact it might be worth waiting until winter when you might have more spawnable surfaces. This isn’t true for items on the beach or desert and makes minimal impact on artifacts which spawn at the railroad, but it’s handy for those elusive town or forest artifacts.
Wilderness farms: Wilderness golems have a chance of dropping diamonds, earth crystals or prismatic shards, wilderness golems can only be found if the wilderness map is chosen for the players farm at the start of the game.
Fishing chests: Fishing chests are an alternative way of gaining some of these artifacts or minerals, you’ll almost certainly pick up one or two this way; but the list of possible items in the fishing chest is large, there is a chance that when you are fishing you might not get a chest pop up and even if you do get a chest to appear in the minigame you might not be able to catch it/catching it might lose you the fish and therefore the chest. As such I’ve put it here as a mention but unless you assign your professions and gear yourself solely to getting chests (which is possible) you can’t really rely on it.
Luck: Whilst luck makes a difference on how often geodes will drop from rocks it does not effect what items are found within geodes. With that in mind it's worth using good luck days for collecting geodes from the mines and bad luck days for having the blacksmith open any geodes you've opened. You can find out what the luck for the day is like on your tv in your house.
Well that’s all I can think of, if you can think of any more information which I could add to here, please let me know, I hope this helps some of you out. Almost all of the percentages from these lists came from the official stardew valley wiki, not my own data collection.
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By TheOnlyMatto on 03 Dec 2020 00:23
I just want to say that this is a beautiful list and thank you so damn much
By PhoenixFire424 on 12 Dec 2021 01:24
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the easiest way to complete this is to make a barn and/ or coop and use the list of item spawn numbers here :
and name your animals those numbers over time to complete the list. animals can only have a name that spawns 2 things for anything over the 100+ threshold when you include the brackets
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Can you do this to complete the fishing achievement as well?
By Leo Ascendent on 03 Sep 2018 18:53
There's not much information in this solution so I wanted to add my experience:
This glitch works fine for both artifacts and minerals, but with the latter it will not track in your collection tab. The achievement for museum collection will unlock as normal though.
The items only spawn after you name your animal with the appropriate number. For some reason the game spawns the items after the "name" is spoken by an NPC.
You can't spawn two of the same item in one name.
This glitch works fine for both artifacts and minerals, but with the latter it will not track in your collection tab. The achievement for museum collection will unlock as normal though.
The items only spawn after you name your animal with the appropriate number. For some reason the game spawns the items after the "name" is spoken by an NPC.
You can't spawn two of the same item in one name.
By Yazite on 23 Oct 2018 20:48
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This guide is for anyone whos game bugged and didnt get the achievement -
******YOU ONLY GET ONE OPPORTUNITY TO FIX THIS GLITCH********
So I finished my museum and ate the Stardrop, and I got no achievement, I was super upset, but waited (paused in game) 15 minutes to see if it was delayed, still no pop. I was still in the museum , in the same in-game day as when i finished the museum. I closed Stardew Valley. (Closing Stardew Valley resets the last day played) When I reopened my world, I donated the last item needed, just as I did the first time. I got the Stardrop for finishing museum and the achievement popped immediately. I am going to assume it works for all glitched achievements, so long as you reset your game when you are in the same day that the achievement bugged in.
TLDR : reset game ASAP when an achievement doesnt pop, and re-do said achievement
******YOU ONLY GET ONE OPPORTUNITY TO FIX THIS GLITCH********
So I finished my museum and ate the Stardrop, and I got no achievement, I was super upset, but waited (paused in game) 15 minutes to see if it was delayed, still no pop. I was still in the museum , in the same in-game day as when i finished the museum. I closed Stardew Valley. (Closing Stardew Valley resets the last day played) When I reopened my world, I donated the last item needed, just as I did the first time. I got the Stardrop for finishing museum and the achievement popped immediately. I am going to assume it works for all glitched achievements, so long as you reset your game when you are in the same day that the achievement bugged in.
TLDR : reset game ASAP when an achievement doesnt pop, and re-do said achievement
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This should absolutely get more upvotes. I had the same glitch occur and ALMOST moved on to the next day.
Actually, I had to re-discover my last artifact which took a few days of monster grinding. After getting it but before going to Gunther, I slept at home and saved. Then I dropped it off at the museum and the achievement finally popped.
Actually, I had to re-discover my last artifact which took a few days of monster grinding. After getting it but before going to Gunther, I slept at home and saved. Then I dropped it off at the museum and the achievement finally popped.
By Tozi Tiberius on 03 Jul 2023 23:08
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The museum collection includes minerals and artifacts. Note that the items have to be donated and not just found (your collection guide will show them as soon as you find them). The only way to know if you haven't donated something is that the text, "Gunther can tell you more about this..." will appear when hovering over the item.
Artifacts are found purely by chance; the game will also choose two random artifacts and make them extremely rare so this achievement can be fairly difficult.
Here's a spreadsheet to help you keep track of the artifacts you've donated:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rTxEvKUFmRDS4l8px_84...
(Minerals are much more plentiful so I didn't include them on the spreadsheet).
Once you've donated everything possible the next day you'll get a letter from Gunther with a stardrop enclosed.
Artifacts are found purely by chance; the game will also choose two random artifacts and make them extremely rare so this achievement can be fairly difficult.
Here's a spreadsheet to help you keep track of the artifacts you've donated:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rTxEvKUFmRDS4l8px_84...
(Minerals are much more plentiful so I didn't include them on the spreadsheet).
Once you've donated everything possible the next day you'll get a letter from Gunther with a stardrop enclosed.
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It's worth noting that you find artifacts in from digging up the worms you find randomly wiggling around in the ground, geodes, digging up dirt in the mine, and fishing chests. Some are exclusive only to some of those and not the others.
By ShinKotake on 30 May 2018 17:18
You're correct - the spreadsheet does list where each artifact is found but I didn't specify that in the solution. Also, while gemstones and the prismatic shard come from multiple sources the other minerals can only be found in geodes.
By moexu_13 on 02 Jun 2018 00:56
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I recommend leaving this trophy for last, since most of the collection can be collected in the process of completing other trophies. Of the minerals, the rarest is a rainbow fragment, it is better to knock it out of iridium veins - they are found only in the skull cave, the deeper, the more of them, quite often they start at level 30, from mysterious stones (appear very rarely in the skull cave and mine 100-120) .
Artifacts are mainly dug up from places with three worms; in winter there are many more of them; in other seasons, you don’t have to look in the grass - they appear only in the yellow soil. Some may be caught in chests while fishing, but not all of them, so it’s better to immediately start going around all the locations in your free time. I advise you to look for strange dolls at level 93 of the mine by digging up loose soil (most quickly with megabombs). To update levels you don’t have to sleep, just exit the mine to level 0
Artifacts are mainly dug up from places with three worms; in winter there are many more of them; in other seasons, you don’t have to look in the grass - they appear only in the yellow soil. Some may be caught in chests while fishing, but not all of them, so it’s better to immediately start going around all the locations in your free time. I advise you to look for strange dolls at level 93 of the mine by digging up loose soil (most quickly with megabombs). To update levels you don’t have to sleep, just exit the mine to level 0
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If you're missing a mineral, you can buy unlimited geodes from Sandy in Calico on Wednesdays.
If you don’t find the artifact you need while digging, then don’t save the day and try to dig up the same place the next day - the item will be different.
If you don’t find the artifact you need while digging, then don’t save the day and try to dig up the same place the next day - the item will be different.
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