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Tutorial quest - ID 1012

Pio's Collecting Recycled Goods

Pio in Amherst is famous for fixing broken things. Break down wooden boxes for Rusty Screws and Old Wooden Planks - reward is a Green Relaxer, Maple Island's iconic first CHAIR.

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Quest giver
Pio (Maple Island - Amherst)
Starts at
Amherst
Minimum level
5
Class requirement
Beginner (Maple Island)
Chain position
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In-game text

Pio in Amherst wants you to help collect recycled goods. I ran into Pio, who's famous in Amherst for fixing broken things. He asked me to break down wooden boxes from around town and bring back Rusty Screws and Old Wooden Planks.

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Liven's take

Pio's Collecting Recycled Goods introduces two mechanics that most Maple Island tutorials skip:

  1. Environmental interaction: the wooden boxes are actual map objects, not mobs. You break them by attacking them like a mob, but they don't fight back and their drops are guaranteed on breakage.
  2. Chairs: The Green Relaxer is a full-featured chair item. Chairs go in your Setup inventory tab and can be summoned by double-clicking to sit down. Sitting boosts your HP/MP regeneration substantially - the recovery rate math is worth exploiting between training runs.

Where: the wooden boxes are scattered around Amherst's town map itself. You don't need to leave town. Break enough to collect the required Rusty Screws + Old Wooden Planks.

Why chairs matter long-term: Classic MapleStory's AFK recovery mechanic depends on either standing still (slow) or sitting in a chair (much faster). Magicians especially chair-camp to refill MP after Magic Guard depletes their bar. The Green Relaxer isn't the best chair in the game - just the first - but it teaches the pattern.

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