Salem

So I was reading about the musician skill, and heard we could change biomes with special instruments. Is it true you can only get them from paying 50 dollars real cash? (the wiki claims this.) Is there seriously no way of finding one that can change biomes? I mean... Is the instrument atleast bound to your soul permanently or something? 50 bucks is alot to spend in a game where you can be robbed/murdered quite easily. I buy things impulsively, especially unique sounding things, but in this game its like... Ripping my hair out looking at all the stuff and going "no... I will be hunted down like a dog and lose this within hours." I would kill to have an instrument that I can change biomes with and play in town to cure people of insanity...maybe make songs, idk.. But its just, alot of money to ask for if the thing can't be found/can be stolen.

TL:DR: Can mystery music box instruments be found as spawns in the world?
Can the 50$ ones be stolen?

They can and will be stolen, so you better be able to protect them if you own them.

And no they do not spawn, have to be bought from the store

sad. Alright.

There is also an option of buying it from other players in game for silver or other goods. They normally sell for 20-30 thousands silver, but there aren't many at the market.

There is another way to change biomes, but it takes a while: you need to dig an area near the wanted biome and pave the edges of unwanted biomes, the one you wanted will slowly spread after that.

Hefferman's selling a viola right now for like 30,000s. Start killing those crickets.

You can also make a trumpet which you can play to decrease insanity but it doesn't change the biome.

The other instruments only change a few squares at a time. It takes a while to change large areas.