In order pay and play the dig game, you must acquire the shovel. Shovel is a logical requirement for dig game.
#Bring your own shovel
carmine remnant
drifting nova
if I'm bringing my own shovel I want a discount
real pine
^Lol.
but to OP, this seems slightly romhacky (since you'd have to add behavior that's not in vanilla), though it doesn't seem difficult. However, there should be a good reason to pursue this: does it make logic/gameplay more interesting? How so?
For reference, non-advanced item placement requires invincibility items for laser bridge/spike cave I believe, because that prevents you from getting stuck. I'm wondering if there's a comparable justification here.
drifting nova
this is kinda counterintuitive compared to how the vanilla shovel works, because in vanilla you actually lose the shovel permanently after you dig up the flute
urban terrace
also the guy loans you a shovel for the mini-game in vanilla. there isn't really a reason to change that besides making things a little more annoying.
regal crane
Digging game guy is holding a shovel for you to use if you look closely at him 🙂