ThornTail Store
ThornTail Store is the only shop in Star Fox Adventures located in the ThornTail Hollow on planet Sauria. It is run by the ShopKeeper, who only accepts Scarabs as payment. His shop is divided into the Main Room, the Scarab Room and 3 shopping rooms all of which have a different color representing the nature of the goods sold in the particular room. The Main Room's doors form an inequilateral hexagon, which connects all the other rooms to the Main Room. If the first door from either left or right from the entrance is taken, the destination will be the Scarab Room. The second door on left leads to the Blue Room and the second door on the right leads to the Purple Room. Red Room is located opposite the entrance. There is also a well in the middle of the Main Room, which sells Fox a Cheat Token, which he can take to the Game Well Maze under the Warp Stone.
The Blue Room
Here the ShopKeeper has all his perishables:
Item | Price |
Dumbledang Pod | 3 Scarabs |
3 Dumbledang Pods | 10 Scarabs |
PukPuk Egg | 6 Scarabs |
3 PukPuk Eggs | 15 Scarabs |
FireFly | 10 Scarabs |
Fuel Cell | 10 Scarabs |
Bomb Spore | 5 Scarabs |
Grubtub Fungus | 12 Scarabs |
The Red Room
In this room he has all kinds of special goods and four maps:
Item | Price |
Bafomdad Holder | 20 Scarabs |
FireFly Lantern | 20 Scarabs |
SnowHorn Artifact | 130 Scarabs |
Tricky's Ball | 15 Scarabs |
Rock Candy | 10 Scarabs |
Hi-Def Display Device | 20 Scarabs |
Krazoa Palace Map | 5 Scarabs |
Dragon Rock Map | 5 Scarabs |
Cape Claw Map | 5 Scarabs |
Ocean Force Point Temple Map | 10 Scarabs |
The Purple Room
This room holds most of the ShopKeeper's maps:
Item | Price | Bargain Price |
ThornTail Hollow Map | 5 Scarabs | 3 Scarabs |
SnowHorn Wastes Map | 5 Scarabs | 3 Scarabs |
Moon Mountain Pass Map | 5 Scarabs | 4 Scarabs |
DarkIce Mines Map | 5 Scarabs | 3 Scarabs |
CloudRunner Fortress Map | 5 Scarabs | 4 Scarabs |
LightFoot Village Map | 5 Scarabs | 3 Scarabs |
Walled City Map | 5 Scarabs | 3 Scarabs |
Volcano Force Point Temple Map | 10 Scarabs | 8 Scarabs |
The Scarab Room
In this room, Scarabs can be gambled with the ShopKeeper. First he asks the amount of Scarabs to be gambled, with the maximum of ten. He then throws the desired number of Green Scarabs into the play area, from where they have to be collected within 30 seconds. The catch is, that he also frees the same amount of Purple Scarabs in the play area, which when collected, result in losing the bet. The amount of Scarabs lost is reduced by the amount of Green ones collected before stumbling into a Purple one. For example, with a 10 Scarab bet, and only four collected Scarabs before getting a Purple one, will result in six Scarab loss. The bet is won if all Green ones are collected. The prize is rather unsurprisingly the amount of Scarabs gambled. Playing the game actually costs nothing unless a bet is lost.
Trivia
- There are two canisters in the hallway between Main Room and Purple Room. They contain a two Dumbledang Pods, which can also be bought in the Blue Room at a high price. This makes buying Dumbledang Pods a fool's errand.
- In the Purple Room there is a Boost Pad, which can used to reach upper floor of the Store. There are four containers having a total of eight Scarabs inside.
- When exiting the Scarab Room there are normally two choices, left and right. But on the other side of the wall faced here is a room containing a large rock, under which three Orange Scarabs wait to be found. They are worth 10 Scarabs each. This isn't hard to exploit, since they will be back every time Fox leaves the ThornTail Hollow.
- Strangely, even if Fox does not have the FireFly Lantern, he can actually buy FireFlies, but is unable store them, thus buying nothing for the price of ten Scarabs.
- The ShopKeeper let's Fox bargain the price, by tapping the Control Stick down when he shows him the price. But curiously, he also lets Fox pay overprice, by tapping the Control Stick up. Nothing is known to be gained by doing this.