Only two artifacts left!

I have only two artifacts left for the museum! The skeletal tail and the palm fossil. I know that the tail can be found in chests fishing or in dig spots, but the palm fossil can only be found in dig spots. Does anyone have some advice as to where to look? I have nearly dug up the entire area down by Marnie's and to the sewer entrance and nothing! At the beach I only get clay, glass or wild seeds. I have gotten tons of geodes in fishing chests but no tail! Does luck play a big role in finding them? What about season, weather or time of day? I have been looking nearly constantly from the beginning of summer through the 15th of winter. The Dino egg wasn't this hard to find. I need help please. Thanks in advance.

 

Apparently I have two palm fossils (and 5 skeletal tails). You want one?

Have got enough dolls to impress many a young girl, and it took forever for the fourth dwarf scroll to pop out. Still missing some, but one day...

Don't have any advice unfortunately, but it sounds like you're on top of where stuff can be found, so just keep digging and fishing I guess?

 

Funny you mention the Palm Fossil, I just dug one up about 5 minutes ago. It was an artifact spot in Cindergap Forest, west/southwest of Leah's place.
The skeletal tail can be found in the places listed here (I find lots in the mines): https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Skeletal_Tail
This link tells you where they all can be found: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Category:Artifacts

 

- Skeletal Tail: Use your bombs in the mines (levels: 10, 50, 90). If not, reset your day.
- Palm Fossil: Simply use this magical tool.

 

Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't play today but will probably play tomorrow. I especially want to try the bombs in the mines. The Palm fossil I'll just have to keep digging and digging, maybe rent a backhoe LOL. I'm sure it's just a matter of time, luck and plugging away at it.

 

One piece of backasswards logic from the days of HM-FoMT mining is to defy Lady Luck and pretend you don't want it, don't care if you dig it up. She doesn't like to be ignored. Worked every time! (eventually)

 

Yea! I finally got the skeletal tail!! Now just searching for the palm fossil! Thanks to Icesmoon's suggestion about the levels in the mines and using the bombs.

 

The desert is comfortably your best bet for a palm fossil, 10% chance according to the wiki

Might as well go there and check every day, doesn't take long.

 

you can go and check the worms in the desert..if you don't find it, reset the day and try again tomorrow..worms will have different stuff the next day..

 

Okay now my turn. My 3rd game file is in Fall year 2 and no ancient seed! I've been going back thru the top floors of the Mine beating up bugs but nothing. Fishing and opening treasures - nothing. Wormy digs are getting a lot of dirt and stupid Random Seeds (don't like - I need to know what's growing!).

Anyway, what's up with the ancient seed artifact? I know it's random but I neeeeed one.

 

I would suggest crafting like 5-10 seed-makers and then shoving a ton of something cheap like parsnips through them. You'll get parsnip seeds aplenty, and some wild seeds, and eventually an ancient seed.

 

go to the sewers and kill bugs

 

Thanks for the suggestion but my sewer is still just Krobus and fishies. No access to the bug room. I need more wizard rep I think to get that questline.

 

I just finished that on a different save. It's not Wiz rep. You have to complete the CC for him to trigger that questline.

 

Didn't get that yet. Maybe I gotta get the desert open...almost there, like 5k more.

Thought the bug room was tied to finding the witch's hut and stuff.

 

It is. You have to get the talisman (bug lair) to open the witches hut (train map) to get the ink. I had 10 hearts with the Wiz and just was not getting the quest. I checked the wiki and it turns out you have to have the CC finished to trigger it. I didn't see anything to say what heart-level he had to be at, so I'm assuming it doesn't matter. Could be wrong on that last part though.... not 100% sure. But I am sure of the CC needing to be done first.

 

Okay, the bus repair is my last CC task so this should happen soon. Thanks Stryder.

 

Even better, wheat, as OP is in fall already, and it's the cheapest crop going, only 10g per seed

With the chance of getting an ancient seed out of the seed maker standing at 0.5% per input, you would need to put 139 through to be better than 50% to get at least one, 275 to be better than 75%, and 460 to be better than 90%.

It's laborious with only one seed maker, so if you are doing it this way I'd suggest crafting a dozen or more of them. If you don't have the resources for this many seed makers you can buy the wood and ore for 3350g per maker

 

You need to give Gunther the ancient seed artifact before the actual seeds show up elsewhere, no? I can do the seed maker thing tho. The only thing wrong is that the other "rare" seed it could make is the damned random seasonal seed. Hate when that happens.

 

Actually, no! I have always found the artifact first in the past, but just a couple episodes ago in my Let's Play the traveling cart was selling plantable ancient seeds. I have yet to find an ancient seed artifact in this playthrough. Unfortunately I was buying a barn upgrade that day (going for a first-year community center) and didn't have the cash to clean out the stock, so I never found out how many there were... I bought three, which is what I could afford and still pay for the barn.