Specific Purchases
MadamOcelot in TigerTon buys golden feathers for $5,000/each.
MadamGoldFire in the AngleTon Inn buys quartz for: $200/each, $22,000 per 100 pieces, and/or $55,000 per 250 pieces.
SweetieSmurl in LeafTon will trade you ore or silkworm cocoons for giant pollens. (You're providing the pollen.)
SparLad in the Prairie dock will buy your logs for $200 each and your sticks for $30 each.
MadamSweetLace in MarshTon will buy your baked goods; muffins, rolls, etc. Prices vary based on the item.
MrChevre on Oak buys pinecones for $50/each.
MiniKins in the Twin Forest lighthouse buys clam and scallop shells for $20/each.
Repeatable Activities
MrHammerPrice in the Marshy Auction House would like your help finding specific horses for people on the foreign isles. He will give you a specific breed, color, and exp amount to find. When you own the horse he wants, ride it as you enter the auctions again, and talk to him. He does not take the horse from you, so you're free to sell it or give it away later.
GoodRestSan in the NarrowTon Inn would like you to stand in as a chef for his guests. Pick up an order from him, find/craft all the items on it, and return it to him for a small cash reward - $1k to $7k depending on order complexity. (You have 24 hours to complete the order; if you run out of time, you will need to stop by for a new set of items.)
Pro-Tip: If you're working on awards, it's most efficient to collect as many as you can of every dish he asks for first, then stand in the inn and click, as opposed to leaving every time to find items.
Almond Candy Bar
Apple Pie
Apple Turnover
Asparagus Stalk
Bagel
Banana Bread
Blueberry Muffin
Broccoli
Caramel Corn
Cauliflower
Celery
Cheddar Cheese
Cherry
Cinnamon Roll
Cluster of Grapes
Eggplant
Eggplant Parmigiana
Fish Dinner
Fruit Salad
Garlic Clove
Ginger Snaps
Glass of Wassail
Key Lime Pie
Kiwi
Knishes
Lemon Meringue Pie
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffin
Lettuce
Mango
Mozzarella Cheese
Onion
Papaya
Peach Pie
Peanut Butter Candy Bar
Pineapple
Pizza
Plum
Raspberry Jam
Sack of Egg Noodles
Salad Dressing
Star Fruit
Sushi
Tomato Soup
Tortilla
Vegetable Salad
Watermelon
Zucchini Bread
MadamSweetLace in MarshTon wants you to help deliver some orders of baked goods for her, and get supplies she needs to continue making orders. She will ask you to bring a package to another NPC and return to her with the receipt, or get various vegetables or cooking ingredients and ribbons for her sister, LadyRibbons. (Ribbons can be purchased from LadyRainbow in MeadowTon.) No time limit on orders.
AlkalineSan in AngleTon needs to study chemistry - and she'd like your help! She has two quiz options: giving her the symbol of a given element ($100 per correct answer), or telling her the total mass of a given number of moles, after being provided with the molar mass ($250 per correct answer).
ProfReasoner in the AngleTon library loves etymology - the historical origin of words - and has a quiz for you, where she states a word, and you need to figure out whether it's from the British or American dialect. Notes: "our" is generally British, see flavour, colour, arbour, neighbour, [dis]honour. Double consonants are often British: see programmable, travelling.
MrUnderBrush in the TigerTon livery just lost an employee, so he needs a replacement. Are you interested? Every day, he'll have some tasks to give you (in the livery or in town) and will pay when they are complete. You begin with a salary of $40,000/work day, and gain $5,000 more every 30 work days up to a limit of $80,000/day.
MrWarmHeart in the GlacierTon inn needs some help with daily upkeep. Every day, you can come by to complete inn chores, such as cleaning the windows, replacing burned out candles, and watering plants, for a reward of $5,000.
Adventure Mazes
The Secret Maze Club is a group of people around the isles who design adventure mazes for fun. For $1,000, the members will let you test the maze they've been working on -- or you can buy a membership card for $100,000, and use any of the Club's mazes for free afterwards. The mazes work in a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style, where the narrator gives you 1-3 options that lead to different outcomes.
1. LadyTandem at the Angled Equestrian Park wagon is one of the members. In her maze, you have a choice of three characters (explorer, pathfinder, horse rider), and you can upgrade these at the beginning, or at checkpoints throughout the game. Idea of the maze: you have just found new land, have no way of leaving, and need to explore to find some sort of food and water.
2. OrangeSkySon in Thar Village on Amber Sands is one of the members. In his maze, you have a choice of two characters (explorer, scientist), and you can again upgrade them at the beginning or at checkpoints within the game. Idea of the maze: you're conducting research, and need to find species of flora/fauna - the more, the better. When you feel like you've found a bunch, you can head off to find your research station, and there you can see the total of species you've collected, and turn the collection over for a reward piece.
Mazes can be completed with no upgrades and no reward, or with full upgrades to receive a reward piece. [May 2017: Upgrades have been changed to be very cheap; full upgrades come out to around $2,000.]
Adventure Maze Rewards
When you complete a maze with any fully upgraded character, you will receive one of three rewards; a crystal water bottle (collect 7 for a full set), a golden talisman (collect 10 for a full set), or a miniature Esroh (collect 13 for a full set). Once you have a full set of any of these, they can be traded to WhiteOwlCrone on Decay for corresponding rewards, which can then be sold at a general store or tack shop.
Messenger Abilities
After completing the Messenger quest chain, you obtain several abilities.
1. Chipping chunks of ice from ice pillars
These can be sold to AzureSkySon in Meadow Inn for $100 per chunk or $2,000 for 8 or LadyWaffler in PlainTon for $150 per chunk or LadyParmigiana in Angled Inn for $2,890 for 17. (Know any other NPCs that buy ice chunks? Send them in!)
2. Finding beetle shells in milkweed plants
MissMillipede in the MarshTon Pet Shop will buy any beetle shells you come across. Prices vary between $700 and $2,400 per shell.
3. Filling empty water troughs
4. Receiving items once a day by clicking a sandcastle moat game
5. Trading two violets for two honeycombs once a day by clicking any beehive
6. Gardening (for subscribers only); after completing PurpleEyedGrass' Vegetables Challenge, get some seeds from PonyBop's drawer of seeds, and plant them in the patch of grass next to the Froli Village (Location), then water the seeds (with water from a canteen) and weed the garden. The "INFO" tab will tell you what's growing and when it was planted; you can pick up the crop after it's fully grown, growth duration depends on the seed type.
+ One-way transport between any two consecutive animal NPCs involved in the quest (eg. GreySnowBlizzard -> YellowEyedSwamp)
Amber Sands:
BadlandsLass - Shaman (medicine woman/healer)
DesertLakeSon - Silversmith
MadamPlaya - Chef
Angled:
DrBiped - Doctor
FrictionSan - Chemist
JessesLass - Raptor-savvy
LadyParmigiana - Chef
LilWings - Butterfly-savvy
LordBlackWell (Tack) - Bridle-Repairer/Crafter
MissRuby and MissOpal (The Misses Gemstones') - Geologist and Mineralogist
MrBridger - Civil Engineer (builds bridges, roads, houses, etc.)
MrsOats - Horse Nutritionist
ProfOch - Horse Breed Expert
ProfStarlight (General Store) - Astronomer/Planetologist
ProfTaxon - Zoologist
SlitherLass - Snake-savvy
Titre Family - Chemist/Assayer
Banana:
LordPuzzler - Puzzle-Lock-Maker
MissAtoll - Jeweler
MissReeds - Basket-weaver
MadamSuds - Soap-maker
Barren:
LordSteel - Iron/steel/bronze-caster
Bend:
MrMuttonChops - Sheep farmer
MrsMuttonChops - Wool spinner
Birch:
MrWickie (Lighthouse) - Oceanographer
Blizzard:
LadyAldisLamp (Dock) - Origami
Boot:
MangaSan and ScripterSan - Mangaka (Manga-writer-and-drawer)
MissTapsAndToes (Dock) - Irish Dancer
MrBlackInk - Book-binder
MrsRedInk - Editor
Cavern:
ProfQuasar (Observatory) - Planetary Geologist
Circle:
EddySon (Dock) - Miniature-Ship-Builder
Curvy:
LordWagStaff (Lighthouse) - Poet
OrchardSan - Fruit Juicers
Desert:
ProfRosetta (Lighthouse) - Egyptologist
Dribble:
SeaOtterSan - Otter-savvy
SecantSan (Lighthouse) - Mathematician
DryTon:
MissMerryWood - Glassblower
MrOakenStave/MrsOakenStave - Coopers
MrQuickerSilver - Hat-maker
MrShiftingDunes (Arena) - Jelly-savvy
MrsHopTo (General Store) - DryTon Town Constable
Dumbbell:
CarpenterSan - Carpenter
MissNailedDown (Lighthouse) - Carpenter
MrWithies - Broom-maker
ProfOliveBough - Botanist
GlacierTon:
BlueIceLass (Clothes) - Igloo-savvy
CirrusLad and StratusLad (Inn) - Cloud-savvy
LadyTessellations - Tile-and-Mosaic-maker
LilyKins - Flower/plant-guru
MadamMinter (Bank)- HI Minter
MissPigmentSan (Art School) - Art Teacher
MrFixer (Livery) - Handyman/"Mr-fix-it"
MrHighFire - Fisherman
MrsBright - Miniatures (creates miniatures)
MrsFlax - Seamstress
MrSparks (City Hall) - Firefighter
MrTransom - Architect and Enigmatologist (Puzzle-studier-and-builder)
ProfBuckLand (Library) - Fossil-savvy
SirArcher (General Store) - Meteorologist
SirSpats - Cobbler
Golden:
MrCaronnade (Dock) - Cannon-savvy
Islands Lake:
GullKins (Dock) - Seagull-savvy
HerbBop - Herb-Grower
LeafTon:
CutieSmurl - Upholsterer
Lost Jungle:
MrStarrySeas (Rowboat) - Astronomer
MarshTon:
LordCobalt - Potter
MrCorsair (Dock) - Puppet Specialist
MeadowTon:
LadyRainbow - Dyer
MissReamKins - Paper-maker
MrsBreadBoard - Chef
MrSpindler - Woodworker
Rush Family - Brushmaker
NarrowTon:
MrDeepWell - Well-digger
MrFeatherStone - Sculptor/Stonewrights
Oak:
MrChevre - Goat milk/fiber/wool
PlainTon:Â
EbonyIvorySan - Music Teacher
LordTerraCotta - Potter
MadamTriangle - Quilter
MrRiata - Rope-maker
MrSoftPace - Road-maker
Penman Family - Scribes/Typesetters
SirCamelHair - Portraitist
Prairie:
DrSeaBee (Lighthouse) - Therapist
SparLad (Dock) - Carver
Snowflake:
MissFlameSan - Iron/steel/bronze-caster
Square:
MrButters (Dock) - Polka Fan
Sunny Glade:
LordChimes - Clock-maker-and-repairer
MadamFromage - Cheese-maker
MissTurnRound - Wheelwright
TigerTon:
LeopardSpotsSan (General Store) - Roper (Lasso)
MissRubyRhyme (Arena) - Doll-house-builder
ProfHomeStretch (Group 1 Arena) - Goldsmith
Spruce Family - Instrument-and-Cabinet-maker
Twin Forest:
GemKins and MiniKins (Lighthouse) - Jewelers
Vine:
MissPrehensile - Primatologist
MrWren - Architect
TigerEyeLass - Butterfly Specialist
Windy Pines:
Chandler Family - Chandlers (Candle-makers)
MissDahlia - Flower-savvy
MrSailor (Dock) - Fly-fisher