My Setup that I use when preparing for skull cavern, before going to bed I empty my inventory of everything besides: 1. The best melee weapon you have access to (prioritize knockback if anything as we will mostly ignore mobs) 2. Iridium pickaxe 3. Slingshot with as much explosive ammo as you can afford (anywhere from 500-999 ammo) 4. As many Mega Bomb as I can craft and buy from the dwarf 5. 10-20 stairs to leave monster floors. 6. For food buffs 1-2 Magic Rock Candies and/or 2-4 Spicy Eels 7. For Drink Buffs Triple Shot Espressos are necessary as speed is key so we need 5-7 8. For Healing LOTS of gold quality cheese 9. For rings if you haven't gotten to the volcano I go with an Iridium Band + a lucky ring, if I can combine rings I go with 2x lucky ring combined with 2 Iridium Bands for really far magnetism so you don't have to waste time walking towards bombed items 10. If you haven't unlocked the ability to craft desert warp totems you should at least buy 1 for the trip giving you an extra 4 hours in the mines which can net you extra prismatic shards and 100+ extra iridium ore. Some quick tips would be to: 1. Use the pickaxe as little as possible 2. Ignore enemies but you can hit them with the slingshot to hit ore that isn't up against the wall 3. Skip infested floors with stairs 4. Focus on getting to floor 100+ for higher chance of iridium 5. Prioritize iridium over any other ore 6. If stairs have appeared do not hesitate to go down unless you see a vein of 5+ iridium ore that is easy to get to. I managed to get to floor 200+ with 8 prismatic shards 2 Auto-Petters and 300+ iridium ore using this method in ONE of my runs, and once you do this strategy depending on your outcome you only need to do it 2-5 times to get everything you could ever need from skull cavern.
Definitely going to try some of your tips. I already have more than I think I'd ever need. I like going for the heck of it and seeing how much I squeeze into my inventory though. 😅🤷♀️ I really like mining when I'm waiting on crops to grow or kegs to process.
I'd say that the last bit of setup that you missed (if you don't mind your desert being ugly and it isn't filled with tree farms or anything like that) is a path of chair between the desert totem location and the cavern, because the time stops when you get into and out of a chair you can jump from chair to chair without passing a single minute in game time, and get to the entrance of the cave by 6:00 instead of 6:40, just be careful to not put any chairs in the path between Sandy's place and the bus because Emily comes to visit Sandy once in a while and she will destroy the chairs in her path. Anyway it's not much at all but it can help
I've been delaying going to the 100th flr of the skull cavern because it stresses me out so much. But thanks to watching your videos, i managed to finally reach it and got 200+ iridium ores and 6 prismatic shards!
excuse me may i ask something? is there no checkpoint on skull cavern? i just reached level 5 and i leave it to the next day until i know there is no 5 level checkpoint like normal mines 😢
@@rahezaaa It resets every time you leave. What I did was to go on a lucky day (when the tv says the spirits will shower everyone with blessing or smtg like that) cuz luck affects the chance to find stairs iirc. Go there as soon as you wake up with the desert totem. Use explosive ammo and bombs if you can afford it because mining is too slow OR if you want it to be super easy, duplicate jades with crystalarium and buy stairs from the desert trader on a SUNDAY. Get at least 100 stairs and you can fly to floor 100 in no time :D
Hey my expendable cash is next to nothing since the pandemic aftermath but I am sending you this one-time appreciation gift because I never thought I could get along in the desert cavern but today I reached 110 levels and had to stop as 3 or 4 beasts came at me all at once… so I just hit my farm warp-totem with a split second til my extinction! And I managed to have lots of iridium loot in my backpack…so…MANY THANKS to you for this very helpful video. xoxox
I made it to floor 97 and passed out I got frustrated haven't tried in months then I just decided to get 100 staircases and finally met Mr qi for the snake milk yesterday
I got 25+ level deep in my first run, I was killed by dragons because I forgot to eat. It was fun and not bad for my first time right. Also I finished Qi's quest about hitting level 25 in Skull Cavern. I also didn't know Cheese is more effective than Salad I always eat until this video. You helped me alot I watch your tips because they're the best.
Great tips! Most of which I knew already but good for beginners and those that have difficulty with skull cavern. In late game, I prefer to make 2+ luck ginger ales and either +4 luck lucky lunches or +5 luck magic candy. It's annoying how you're slower but you can find holes a LOT easier.
The farthest I had reached was floor 35, but after watching your videos, I was able to get to floor 92. I'm still not very skilled with the slingshot, so it took me a bit longer to explode a lot of rocks, but I am much closer to getting to 100. Thank you so much for the tips in your videos
@@senmetwo42 A year 8 farm can do this pretty easily. Once your mass producing starfruit wine you basically have unlimited funds. You need to replicate the jades for staircases and rudys for spicyeels, then you just buy bombs from the dwarf. There's alot of setup however by year two you should be producing 18 or so staircases a week through jades. Then you keep doing skull cravern runs to build up your machines for more jades. I have a farm on year 10 that produces a hundreds of jades a week.
My best run is around floor 140, used max 5 stairs. My setup: 40-60 bombs and mega bombs 20-40 cherry bombs Iridium pick (its just a luxury thou) A slingshot with around 30 Ammo Galaxy sword (doesnt matter which sword thou) 5-10 staircases 40 salads Spicy eels Warp totem to desert, and to farm EDIT: I use lucky ring and glowstone ring (idk a lot thou, just the best i have) Strategy: ALWAYS get your health topped up, use the ślad even if you waste a bit of health points heal. Bomb with normal bombs to get as much stairs as possible Ignore ores that are not Iridium Pick um Iridium and gems Do not fight, use the sword to knock back annoying enemies If you need to clear the path, use cherry bombs or slingshot Around floor 60-70 you can start exploring a bit more, since the main purpose is Iridium Craft more bombs partway through Craft more staircases jf needed partway through Use staircases on prehistoric floors, when you are about to die or infested/enemy floors. If you have a lot of stair left you can use them on spiral floors or on floors which you got unlucky and didnt got the staircase fast. Tips for gathering the setup: For bombs just mine often, do not but them since they are overpriced as f. Use jade that you got from the mines for staircases, do not duplicate jades, use diamonds at crystalariums for money, you wont need that mamy stairs Salads are cheap, just but them from gus Spicy eels you can get with ruby, you can duplicate ruby, but i just use the Ruby from the mines. Warp totem to farm almost always drops in the cavern from something, and to desert trade it for 3 omni geodes. DO NOT but the recipe, you go to skull cavern like 1-3 times a season max, and from just one run you have 30 Omni geodes. Its just not worth 10 iridium bars, and then mats to craft it That's my way of doing it, if you want to add something tell me in replies, i will update it if it will be good.
@@truevoidchaos5980 they have been pasting that response on literally every comment they can find, its not you mentioning god, its their savior complex. hail satan my friend💛
Another good healing option: once you unlock your Ginger Island farm, turn it into a massive pineapple field. They regrow every 7 days without replanting, and gold quality pineapples heal for more health and energy than most of the recipes or other crops in the game. I keep all my gold pineapples for healing and sell/keg any silver and regular pineapples for big profits!
I am loving these tips, EZ!! There are times I need to back up and see exactly what ir getting, but for the most part, I'm keeping up, which, for a grandma is a good thing!
I just reached this part in my first playthrough without mods (I usually use the skull cavern elevator) and I am SUFFERING AND STRUGGLING SO HARD 😭 thank you for this ❤️
Thanks for the useful tips! The farthest I've gotten in the Skull Cavern is like level 10, but then again that's the only time I actually kind of tried and I didn't get there early enough at all
I think making 5 crystallurium (wrote wrong probably) instead of desert totem recipe at early has more impact to your game. While farming iridium ore, you already got many omnigeode. Just buy a couple warp totems instead of recipe. Btw, thank you! Your and a couple other guides shown me importance of stairs and bombs in the skull cavern as well as volcano bombs.
For food, I used the Spicey Ell and Ginger Ale so I had speed and luck. I used the big bombs and moved fast. I also had rings to allow the item collection pan to increase. I wouldn't stop for long above floor200 unless I saw a grouping of at least 3 iridium within a step or two that a single bomb would allow collecting.
Since I'm already into the late game with my save file, and I have tons of staircases, this is what I do: I usually staircase to floor 200+ right away, not mining any ores along the way. It's not really worth the time, and the lower we go the more iridium ore we can find, and we will collect that one instead. When I get to the desired floor I eat a magic rock candy to increase my luck. (In my latest skull cavern run I tried also drinking Ginger Ale with Qi Seasoning to increase my luck even more, and it turned out okayish, I need to experiment more with it). Then I just bomb everything with the slingshot and bombs. I prioritize iridium ores as I also want to get prismatic shards. I usually make it to floor 350+ using this method, and it the end I get around 10 prismatic shards depending on how lucky I am, lol. I gotta say it's a pretty good deal, using 3 prismatic shards for the magic rock candy and then getting a 7 profit + tons of iridium and other ores!
6:06 what she said about the one hour makes a difference is totally true because on one playthrough I found the monster room like the 99th floor and it took me a while to clear it and that was with us their cases so I couldn't go down by that time it was like 1 a.m. 1:30 and by the time I got out of the monster room it was 140 and I was lucky with the shaft I got me precisely two full of 100 and I got to the cutscene at 1:50 a.m. when nicotine ended I instantly fell asleep
I think the main thing I learnt the first time watching was just to skip going back to bed, by this time in the game I had like half a million bucks anyway so a thousand was only a small dent. But coming back to this again I think the other thing I learnt was about pickaxe swinging! I really did spend so much time with my Gold Pickaxe taking multiple swipes at things when I could have just used a bomb or skipped the gold nodes entirely. But now I have my iridium pick and I'm excited to give it another go and farm up some crystalaria to fence in the Desert Trader!
I finally forged and enchanted my weapon and am ready to take on the skull cavern just this morning! You posted this at just the right time ezlilyy! Thanks a bunch!
This guide is great for the most part, but there is one thing I disagree with. Purchasing the recipe for warp totem is a waste of iridium. Omni geodes are incredibly plentiful in the skull cavern, you can easily reach triple digit omni geodes in about a week of Skull Caverns, and omni geodes aren't really worth much for anything else. Conversely, crafting desert warp totems costs 4 iridium, 2 hardwood, and a coconut. Compared to 3 omni geodes this is significantly more expensive, you usually only get a couple coconuts at most per visit to the desert, hardwood is already often in short supply and needed for many other recipes, and iridium is the whole reason for going to the skull cavern, not to mention the very expensive 10 iridium bar cost for even buying the recipe. 10 warp totems either costs 30 omni geodes, or 40 iridium, 20 hardwood, and 10 coconuts. Compare these and it's pretty obvious which is the better deal. You can buy the recipe later if you want, and you need to for completion anyway, but it is 1000% better to spend your iridium on the pickaxe upgrade and crystalariums before buying the recipe.
Yeah this is the one thing that bugs me about this game. I feel like making the desert warp token should be *easier* after buy the recipe, not harder. Otherwise what's the point of the recipe? I've never bothered getting it for this reason.
The best food i can find is gold pineapple. It gives 111 health, easy to multiply and very easy with fertilizier. I use greenhouse or island and can find lots of them..
In the early game the first few runs where you do not yet have staircases, iridium pickaxe, money for bombs, good food etc.. are the toughest. There are not much guide on this. On my best luck day I attempted a run and just reset the day if I didn't have a productive run. I just kept doing it repeatedly until I got lucky with iridium and then crafted crystalariums for jades. After a shed full of crystalarium level 200 is now a breeze.
Fun fact, There's a secret level in junimo kart. On lvl 1, Collect every coin, cherry,orange,grape And don't die. That unlocks the secret level. I'm pretty sure there's a secret lvl for doing the same on the sea giant.
Actually, if you beat the second level in one minute or less (use the ice slopes well and conserve your momentum by jumping) you actually get to skip the third level! Really great tip since the gem sea giant always seems to snipe me
@@cononsberg6919 FYI If you do what I said above, You skip the 2nd lvl And move to the 3rd. ( The secret lvl is so easy ) I always pic the slime giant as my 3rd, But for a speed run beating lvl2 quickly is a better choice. Thanks:) However, I suspect if you don't die on Sea giant and collect everything, You easily beat junimo kart
@@cononsberg6919 I was wrong. The dots I suspected that were from the sea giant for beating the lvl were From beating lvl 2 for going to Ghastly Gallows.
I JUST got the keys to the skull cavern, i tried for the first time yesterday. I think I have a lot of work to do. Firstly, I need t obuild crystalariums so I can duplicate the Jades, so I could purchase staircases. I guess that's the only way to reach deep in the mines!
the deepest i've gotten in the skull caverns is... floor 3. the first ever serpent i killed gave me a prismatic shard, and the very next floor i entered had a swarm of ~10 serpents. i figured it was an omen (and the next day i got another prismatic shard from a regular slime in the mines! i was freaking out on discord lmao)
Another way to get easy Iridium ore is the stash you get from the Grandpa shrine. Sometimes I get tend to sometimes I get 7 and sometimes I get 3. I didn't know that until I just got it.
I’m new to stardew and really want to get my first prismatic shard, so I get 23 stairs a ton of luck speed and health food, but on floor 4 I get 6 iridium nodes that got me 2 prismatic shards :/
I think I'm going to start practicing with my slingshot. If I can double the iridium ore I usually get, that'd be great. 😏 P.s. I love your videos. They've been very helpful with my second playthrough.
Pumpkin soup is better than spicy eel. But I didn't even use it. I only used roots platter and I was able to get to floor 100 at 1:50am using 44 staircases. I used more than 10 in the last hour though cause it had already passed 1am when I got to level 90. Duplicate a lot of jade and trade for staircases. That's what I did.
I hit 65 on a casual day - not trying to get 100. Highest luck day plus pumpkin soup (+2 luck). Will defo do it again w lucky lunch. I got four treasure floors and the infested floors were super easy.
Mostly get to around 200-300 depending on luck. Stair down to 50 and after if the floor I'm on has more then 10 or so rocks in a group less then a few steps away I'll bomb it, else it's stairs.
Just over floor 110 is my best with no staircases. I've hit 100 several times but I have never gotten the quest step that gives me a snakemilk at floor 100 (where do you get that?!).
I like the time mod so much because it makes a lot of things in the game more attainable. Does it break the game? Maybe a little, but after you've played for quite a while it's nice to have.
Level seven is the most I've been able first time I've ever been this far in the game never could complete Community Centre because my fishing was so bad but somehow I tufted out and finally finished the tank the community centre skull cavern so mean to me I will never get iridium
the gold thing is so true, first starting I would farm gold at level 80 for sprinklers, getting like 40 or so but now after only doing 2 skull cavern runs on lucky days, Im at like 250 gold and I didn't even try to get that much
The fortune TV that tells you if you're lucky is completely and utterly useless because the RNG for the mines can be completely different than what the TV tells you. Several dozens of times my TV tells me that "spirit will shower everyone with good fortune" but instead the mines never gave me a single drop hole and it takes me ages to finally found a stair despite me using bombs and in the end, I only reached floor 34 because no drop hole. On the other hand, when the TV tells me that my luck will be really bad, I got luckier in the mines and get tons and tons of drop hole.
I would not prioritize the desert totem recipe if you're short on iridium. If you've diving Skull cavern you should be swimming in omni geodes. Outside of completing the mineral collection they aren't super useful and have no sale value, so you're better off trading them in for desert warp totems (3 geodes) or artifact troves if you are short on artifacts.
I managed to get to floors 73 after decided to go for my first rush today. Died to dinosaurs cause i ran out of stones to craft a staircase and didn’t drink my Elixir on time. I lost half of the iridiums i found so i guessed it would be a reset. It’s so tough because you gotta need iridums to do a lot of things but the only way to farm is to skull cavern which also required them at first place for a smooth run ;(
For a long time before I even stepped foot into the skull caverns I had been saving up coffee from my coffee machine every day because I wasn’t sure when to use it. Suffice to say, it did come in handy!
the furthest I've been is floor 150 and I get stuck during 150 what I take with me at the start is coffee or triple shot if I make any follow by magic rock candies I take at least 20 with me since I don't really use them to heal by the time I get to floor 70+ I'm not of a bomb person it looks fun I didn't know you keep your stuff past 2am and only lose 1k gold I'll keep that in mind on my next run in the skull caverns
Super food is easy to get once you have money coming in and increases speed...plus triple shot espresso.. both easy to get.then bring a few hundred large bombs and go to town. Way easier then a slingshot with explosive ammo. I never ever use the sling shot in this game.
Cow cheese and goat cheese heal for 101 Health when gold quality and are automatically gold quality if you use large milk to make it. You can technically age the cheese but you are better off using your cask to age the products you are gonna sell.
Iridium ore easy for me already have 24 winter year 1 on my beach farm. Those amazon packages that wash up is OP. Iridium Pickaxe anyone without going to skull caverns by spring year 2 😂
I have a gold pickaxe, and is it really not worth upgrading it to eridium? I feel like it's expensive but worth it because mining makes so much money but should I really just focus on bombs?
Hello there. Great video! I'm new to the game. Just had my best run so far too the 89th floor, but I left to make it home on time. I won't be doing that again thanks to your tip! I accidently cancelled the quest to get to the 100th floor. Do you think the cutsceen will still activate when I get there?
I have a question about fishing. In one of your videos you teach us that we can fish iridium quality legendary fish with the "quality bobber", and i im fishing all the legendary fish whit that. But I can't fish the "Rape" in iridium quality. You know some way to do it? If any one know a way please tell me.
My Setup that I use when preparing for skull cavern, before going to bed I empty my inventory of everything besides:
1. The best melee weapon you have access to (prioritize knockback if anything as we will mostly ignore mobs)
2. Iridium pickaxe
3. Slingshot with as much explosive ammo as you can afford (anywhere from 500-999 ammo)
4. As many Mega Bomb as I can craft and buy from the dwarf
5. 10-20 stairs to leave monster floors.
6. For food buffs 1-2 Magic Rock Candies and/or 2-4 Spicy Eels
7. For Drink Buffs Triple Shot Espressos are necessary as speed is key so we need 5-7
8. For Healing LOTS of gold quality cheese
9. For rings if you haven't gotten to the volcano I go with an Iridium Band + a lucky ring, if I can combine rings I go with 2x lucky ring combined with 2 Iridium Bands for really far magnetism so you don't have to waste time walking towards bombed items
10. If you haven't unlocked the ability to craft desert warp totems you should at least buy 1 for the trip giving you an extra 4 hours in the mines which can net you extra prismatic shards and 100+ extra iridium ore.
Some quick tips would be to:
1. Use the pickaxe as little as possible
2. Ignore enemies but you can hit them with the slingshot to hit ore that isn't up against the wall
3. Skip infested floors with stairs
4. Focus on getting to floor 100+ for higher chance of iridium
5. Prioritize iridium over any other ore
6. If stairs have appeared do not hesitate to go down unless you see a vein of 5+ iridium ore that is easy to get to.
I managed to get to floor 200+ with 8 prismatic shards 2 Auto-Petters and 300+ iridium ore using this method in ONE of my runs, and once you do this strategy depending on your outcome you only need to do it 2-5 times to get everything you could ever need from skull cavern.
Definitely going to try some of your tips. I already have more than I think I'd ever need. I like going for the heck of it and seeing how much I squeeze into my inventory though. 😅🤷♀️ I really like mining when I'm waiting on crops to grow or kegs to process.
@@michellesteimling3807 Good luck hope it helps! 😁
I'd say that the last bit of setup that you missed (if you don't mind your desert being ugly and it isn't filled with tree farms or anything like that) is a path of chair between the desert totem location and the cavern, because the time stops when you get into and out of a chair you can jump from chair to chair without passing a single minute in game time, and get to the entrance of the cave by 6:00 instead of 6:40, just be careful to not put any chairs in the path between Sandy's place and the bus because Emily comes to visit Sandy once in a while and she will destroy the chairs in her path.
Anyway it's not much at all but it can help
This is so helpful! Thanks for the tips!
@@wendyz1309 Glad I could help 😁👍
If there's one word I would associate with the royal serpents, it would certainly be "unethical".
"Illegal" 😭
Lol it dies fit pretty perfectly
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@@sophia23346 your imagination
@@mcpeguru4060 Jesus is real and he is amazing he will always be with you so please turn to him before it’s to late
I've been delaying going to the 100th flr of the skull cavern because it stresses me out so much. But thanks to watching your videos, i managed to finally reach it and got 200+ iridium ores and 6 prismatic shards!
excuse me may i ask something? is there no checkpoint on skull cavern? i just reached level 5 and i leave it to the next day until i know there is no 5 level checkpoint like normal mines 😢
@@rahezaaa It resets every time you leave. What I did was to go on a lucky day (when the tv says the spirits will shower everyone with blessing or smtg like that) cuz luck affects the chance to find stairs iirc. Go there as soon as you wake up with the desert totem. Use explosive ammo and bombs if you can afford it because mining is too slow
OR if you want it to be super easy, duplicate jades with crystalarium and buy stairs from the desert trader on a SUNDAY. Get at least 100 stairs and you can fly to floor 100 in no time :D
@@dummydumdum9306 OOOHH I GOT IT, THANKS FOR THE TIP I APPRECIATE IT 😭🙏🏻
Hey my expendable cash is next to nothing since the pandemic aftermath but I am sending you this one-time appreciation gift because I never thought I could get along in the desert cavern but today I reached 110 levels and had to stop as 3 or 4 beasts came at me all at once… so I just hit my farm warp-totem with a split second til my extinction! And I managed to have lots of iridium loot in my backpack…so…MANY THANKS to you for this very helpful video. xoxox
I made it to floor 97 and passed out I got frustrated haven't tried in months then I just decided to get 100 staircases and finally met Mr qi for the snake milk yesterday
is it true that he calls you "clever but not honorable" if you use more than 10 staircases to get to him??
@@hiwelcometochillis5140 yes it is and he says it's smart of you to craft all the staircases to get to him
@@smittygritty8338 do you get a penalty or anything? Is it better to use less than 10 to get to him?
@hi welcome to chillis no penalty what he says in the cut scene is different is all
I got 25+ level deep in my first run, I was killed by dragons because I forgot to eat. It was fun and not bad for my first time right. Also I finished Qi's quest about hitting level 25 in Skull Cavern. I also didn't know Cheese is more effective than Salad I always eat until this video. You helped me alot I watch your tips because they're the best.
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I also use salad mostly because it’s less work, just buying from gus
@@sophia23346yep he sure is spread the gospel
Great tips! Most of which I knew already but good for beginners and those that have difficulty with skull cavern. In late game, I prefer to make 2+ luck ginger ales and either +4 luck lucky lunches or +5 luck magic candy. It's annoying how you're slower but you can find holes a LOT easier.
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The farthest I had reached was floor 35, but after watching your videos, I was able to get to floor 92. I'm still not very skilled with the slingshot, so it took me a bit longer to explode a lot of rocks, but I am much closer to getting to 100. Thank you so much for the tips in your videos
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@Maqua no one knows when Jesus will come back it could be today tomorrow in and hour in 5 minutes no one knows .💗
on my first dive i got to floor 40 with steel falchion and silver pickaxe and no bombs. But i got pretty much nothing except the qi quest.
I bring 999 staircases, 999 spicy eels and 999 mega bombs! I'm a skull cavern machine!!
@@cosmickatamari how long does it take you to prep for a run like this? I imagined these deep dives happening yearly
@@senmetwo42 A year 8 farm can do this pretty easily. Once your mass producing starfruit wine you basically have unlimited funds. You need to replicate the jades for staircases and rudys for spicyeels, then you just buy bombs from the dwarf. There's alot of setup however by year two you should be producing 18 or so staircases a week through jades. Then you keep doing skull cravern runs to build up your machines for more jades. I have a farm on year 10 that produces a hundreds of jades a week.
My best run is around floor 140, used max 5 stairs.
My setup:
40-60 bombs and mega bombs
20-40 cherry bombs
Iridium pick (its just a luxury thou)
A slingshot with around 30 Ammo
Galaxy sword (doesnt matter which sword thou)
5-10 staircases
40 salads
Spicy eels
Warp totem to desert, and to farm
EDIT: I use lucky ring and glowstone ring (idk a lot thou, just the best i have)
Strategy:
ALWAYS get your health topped up, use the ślad even if you waste a bit of health points heal.
Bomb with normal bombs to get as much stairs as possible
Ignore ores that are not Iridium
Pick um Iridium and gems
Do not fight, use the sword to knock back annoying enemies
If you need to clear the path, use cherry bombs or slingshot
Around floor 60-70 you can start exploring a bit more, since the main purpose is Iridium
Craft more bombs partway through
Craft more staircases jf needed partway through
Use staircases on prehistoric floors, when you are about to die or infested/enemy floors.
If you have a lot of stair left you can use them on spiral floors or on floors which you got unlucky and didnt got the staircase fast.
Tips for gathering the setup:
For bombs just mine often, do not but them since they are overpriced as f.
Use jade that you got from the mines for staircases, do not duplicate jades, use diamonds at crystalariums for money, you wont need that mamy stairs
Salads are cheap, just but them from gus
Spicy eels you can get with ruby, you can duplicate ruby, but i just use the Ruby from the mines.
Warp totem to farm almost always drops in the cavern from something, and to desert trade it for 3 omni geodes. DO NOT but the recipe, you go to skull cavern like 1-3 times a season max, and from just one run you have 30 Omni geodes. Its just not worth 10 iridium bars, and then mats to craft it
That's my way of doing it, if you want to add something tell me in replies, i will update it if it will be good.
I currently cap at floor 35... Just had enough bars to purchase the totem recipe. Thanks for the help!
I literally just started to get deeper in the skull cavern on my play through, this video is a godsend
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@@sophia23346 I regret mentioning a godsend, I apologize for making you think I cared about god, Hail Satan
@@truevoidchaos5980 they have been pasting that response on literally every comment they can find, its not you mentioning god, its their savior complex. hail satan my friend💛
@@truevoidchaos5980LMFAO
@@truevoidchaos5980LMAO
Another good healing option: once you unlock your Ginger Island farm, turn it into a massive pineapple field. They regrow every 7 days without replanting, and gold quality pineapples heal for more health and energy than most of the recipes or other crops in the game. I keep all my gold pineapples for healing and sell/keg any silver and regular pineapples for big profits!
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I am loving these tips, EZ!! There are times I need to back up and see exactly what ir getting, but for the most part, I'm keeping up, which, for a grandma is a good thing!
Glad you are enjoying the game kathy!!
This truly is a game that can be played by anyone of any age, its amazing.
I just reached this part in my first playthrough without mods (I usually use the skull cavern elevator) and I am SUFFERING AND STRUGGLING SO HARD 😭 thank you for this ❤️
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Heeeey this is the one I requested!! Yay! Thanks Lily!
Thanks for the useful tips! The farthest I've gotten in the Skull Cavern is like level 10, but then again that's the only time I actually kind of tried and I didn't get there early enough at all
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I didn’t know that you don’t lose items if you pass out from exhaustion. That’s a game changer
I think making 5 crystallurium (wrote wrong probably) instead of desert totem recipe at early has more impact to your game. While farming iridium ore, you already got many omnigeode. Just buy a couple warp totems instead of recipe.
Btw, thank you! Your and a couple other guides shown me importance of stairs and bombs in the skull cavern as well as volcano bombs.
Or just buy the obelisk😂
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For food, I used the Spicey Ell and Ginger Ale so I had speed and luck. I used the big bombs and moved fast. I also had rings to allow the item collection pan to increase. I wouldn't stop for long above floor200 unless I saw a grouping of at least 3 iridium within a step or two that a single bomb would allow collecting.
I love watching your videos when I'm playing the game it's informational and your voice is so soothing.
Since I'm already into the late game with my save file, and I have tons of staircases, this is what I do:
I usually staircase to floor 200+ right away, not mining any ores along the way. It's not really worth the time, and the lower we go the more iridium ore we can find, and we will collect that one instead. When I get to the desired floor I eat a magic rock candy to increase my luck. (In my latest skull cavern run I tried also drinking Ginger Ale with Qi Seasoning to increase my luck even more, and it turned out okayish, I need to experiment more with it). Then I just bomb everything with the slingshot and bombs. I prioritize iridium ores as I also want to get prismatic shards. I usually make it to floor 350+ using this method, and it the end I get around 10 prismatic shards depending on how lucky I am, lol. I gotta say it's a pretty good deal, using 3 prismatic shards for the magic rock candy and then getting a 7 profit + tons of iridium and other ores!
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@@sophia23346 Facts
6:06 what she said about the one hour makes a difference is totally true because on one playthrough I found the monster room like the 99th floor and it took me a while to clear it and that was with us their cases so I couldn't go down by that time it was like 1 a.m. 1:30 and by the time I got out of the monster room it was 140 and I was lucky with the shaft I got me precisely two full of 100 and I got to the cutscene at 1:50 a.m. when nicotine ended I instantly fell asleep
5:42 that sneaky little time travel transition was a gem!
I think the main thing I learnt the first time watching was just to skip going back to bed, by this time in the game I had like half a million bucks anyway so a thousand was only a small dent. But coming back to this again I think the other thing I learnt was about pickaxe swinging! I really did spend so much time with my Gold Pickaxe taking multiple swipes at things when I could have just used a bomb or skipped the gold nodes entirely. But now I have my iridium pick and I'm excited to give it another go and farm up some crystalaria to fence in the Desert Trader!
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I finally forged and enchanted my weapon and am ready to take on the skull cavern just this morning! You posted this at just the right time ezlilyy! Thanks a bunch!
I'm impressed that you made it all the way to the forge before the skull caverns.
how did you get to the forge without the skull caverns?
Thank you for this! I've added this to my SDV tips playlist.
8:07 I needed that encouragement
After a year of playing the game I finally cleared 100 levels of the skull caverns thank to this.
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This guide is great for the most part, but there is one thing I disagree with. Purchasing the recipe for warp totem is a waste of iridium. Omni geodes are incredibly plentiful in the skull cavern, you can easily reach triple digit omni geodes in about a week of Skull Caverns, and omni geodes aren't really worth much for anything else. Conversely, crafting desert warp totems costs 4 iridium, 2 hardwood, and a coconut. Compared to 3 omni geodes this is significantly more expensive, you usually only get a couple coconuts at most per visit to the desert, hardwood is already often in short supply and needed for many other recipes, and iridium is the whole reason for going to the skull cavern, not to mention the very expensive 10 iridium bar cost for even buying the recipe. 10 warp totems either costs 30 omni geodes, or 40 iridium, 20 hardwood, and 10 coconuts. Compare these and it's pretty obvious which is the better deal.
You can buy the recipe later if you want, and you need to for completion anyway, but it is 1000% better to spend your iridium on the pickaxe upgrade and crystalariums before buying the recipe.
Yeah this is the one thing that bugs me about this game. I feel like making the desert warp token should be *easier* after buy the recipe, not harder. Otherwise what's the point of the recipe? I've never bothered getting it for this reason.
This is amazing! Thank u for sharing this awesome tips. Thanks!
The best food i can find is gold pineapple. It gives 111 health, easy to multiply and very easy with fertilizier. I use greenhouse or island and can find lots of them..
In the early game the first few runs where you do not yet have staircases, iridium pickaxe, money for bombs, good food etc.. are the toughest. There are not much guide on this. On my best luck day I attempted a run and just reset the day if I didn't have a productive run. I just kept doing it repeatedly until I got lucky with iridium and then crafted crystalariums for jades. After a shed full of crystalarium level 200 is now a breeze.
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Love your channel, definitely became a Star Dew chad because of you gorgeous lady. Thanks!!
Fun fact,
There's a secret level in junimo kart.
On lvl 1,
Collect every coin, cherry,orange,grape
And don't die.
That unlocks the secret level.
I'm pretty sure there's a secret lvl for doing the same on the sea giant.
Actually, if you beat the second level in one minute or less (use the ice slopes well and conserve your momentum by jumping) you actually get to skip the third level! Really great tip since the gem sea giant always seems to snipe me
@@cononsberg6919 FYI
If you do what I said above,
You skip the 2nd lvl
And move to the 3rd.
( The secret lvl is so easy )
I always pic the slime giant as my 3rd,
But for a speed run beating lvl2 quickly is a better choice.
Thanks:)
However, I suspect if you don't die on
Sea giant and collect everything,
You easily beat junimo kart
@@cononsberg6919 I was wrong.
The dots I suspected that were from the sea giant for beating the lvl were
From beating lvl 2 for going to
Ghastly Gallows.
i’m rich enough to bring energy tonics to the skull caverns and it’s so reassuring to know i’ll never die
I JUST got the keys to the skull cavern, i tried for the first time yesterday. I think I have a lot of work to do. Firstly, I need t obuild crystalariums so I can duplicate the Jades, so I could purchase staircases. I guess that's the only way to reach deep in the mines!
this was actually quite helpful, luckily i have all my tools up to iridium quality and have the obelisk to warp right at 6am
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the deepest i've gotten in the skull caverns is... floor 3. the first ever serpent i killed gave me a prismatic shard, and the very next floor i entered had a swarm of ~10 serpents. i figured it was an omen
(and the next day i got another prismatic shard from a regular slime in the mines! i was freaking out on discord lmao)
0:58 sounds like you say "pet and beat them every day" 😄
Another way to get easy Iridium ore is the stash you get from the Grandpa shrine. Sometimes I get tend to sometimes I get 7 and sometimes I get 3. I didn't know that until I just got it.
Thsnk you for not making your voice annoying on this one
Thank you so much for this, I have no idea what I'm doing and always die at the first floor of the skull cave
I can never get further than 50 without using staircases, how are you all getting to 100+ without!?
OMG i must be late to the new hair, your hair looks AMAZING!!!
I got to him at 1:50 am and he congratulated me for not using staircases, the struggle made it very rewarding
I’m new to stardew and really want to get my first prismatic shard, so I get 23 stairs a ton of luck speed and health food, but on floor 4 I get 6 iridium nodes that got me 2 prismatic shards :/
I think I'm going to start practicing with my slingshot. If I can double the iridium ore I usually get, that'd be great. 😏
P.s. I love your videos. They've been very helpful with my second playthrough.
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Pumpkin soup is better than spicy eel. But I didn't even use it. I only used roots platter and I was able to get to floor 100 at 1:50am using 44 staircases. I used more than 10 in the last hour though cause it had already passed 1am when I got to level 90. Duplicate a lot of jade and trade for staircases. That's what I did.
I hit 65 on a casual day - not trying to get 100. Highest luck day plus pumpkin soup (+2 luck). Will defo do it again w lucky lunch. I got four treasure floors and the infested floors were super easy.
I need a guide for Skull Caverns in multiplayer since I feel it´s way more difficult without the game pausing...
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pepper poppers are my go to
they are cheap being one pepper one cheese. i prefer it over coffee
you can also buy return scepter from krobus instead of passing out
my first run in skull cavern got me to floor 100 thanks to this video.
now im just staircase spamming it every week for iridium and prismatic😂
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Trusting the title on this, I am about to start skull cavern for the first time
I went to level 100 to see Mr. Q, but the game screen turns black and white and gives an error, what is the reason?
Mostly get to around 200-300 depending on luck. Stair down to 50 and after if the floor I'm on has more then 10 or so rocks in a group less then a few steps away I'll bomb it, else it's stairs.
Just over floor 110 is my best with no staircases. I've hit 100 several times but I have never gotten the quest step that gives me a snakemilk at floor 100 (where do you get that?!).
I've only gotten to floor 76 so far I didn't know how good the slingshot with Explosive ammo was
I like the time mod so much because it makes a lot of things in the game more attainable. Does it break the game? Maybe a little, but after you've played for quite a while it's nice to have.
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Level seven is the most I've been able first time I've ever been this far in the game never could complete Community Centre because my fishing was so bad but somehow I tufted out and finally finished the tank the community centre skull cavern so mean to me I will never get iridium
the gold thing is so true, first starting I would farm gold at level 80 for sprinklers, getting like 40 or so but now after only doing 2 skull cavern runs on lucky days, Im at like 250 gold and I didn't even try to get that much
The fortune TV that tells you if you're lucky is completely and utterly useless because the RNG for the mines can be completely different than what the TV tells you.
Several dozens of times my TV tells me that "spirit will shower everyone with good fortune" but instead the mines never gave me a single drop hole and it takes me ages to finally found a stair despite me using bombs and in the end, I only reached floor 34 because no drop hole.
On the other hand, when the TV tells me that my luck will be really bad, I got luckier in the mines and get tons and tons of drop hole.
I only need 2 or 3 more iridium bars for the boat anchor. After that I doubt I'll be returning to Skull Cavern.
Thank you. It did help
I would not prioritize the desert totem recipe if you're short on iridium. If you've diving Skull cavern you should be swimming in omni geodes. Outside of completing the mineral collection they aren't super useful and have no sale value, so you're better off trading them in for desert warp totems (3 geodes) or artifact troves if you are short on artifacts.
5:09
In one of your tip vids you said just put a chair so you don't have to stand there.
I managed to get to floors 73 after decided to go for my first rush today. Died to dinosaurs cause i ran out of stones to craft a staircase and didn’t drink my Elixir on time.
I lost half of the iridiums i found so i guessed it would be a reset.
It’s so tough because you gotta need iridums to do a lot of things but the only way to farm is to skull cavern which also required them at first place for a smooth run ;(
@Ezlily This freaking helps! Thx! ❤️
For a long time before I even stepped foot into the skull caverns I had been saving up coffee from my coffee machine every day because I wasn’t sure when to use it. Suffice to say, it did come in handy!
I reached level 25 on my first run and did not find a single iridium node on a high luck day. Is this normal
I think so, you will start to find Iridium more regularly from floor 50
today it was my first day at the skull savern
...
i died 3 times
so i watched this tutorial
did it work?
i guess we will find out
Good luck!!🌸
@@ezlilyy Thank you!
and also it worked now i can pass floor 9
ur the best
What does blocking Pam in the morning and before the bus stop do?
the furthest I've been is floor 150 and I get stuck during 150 what I take with me at the start is coffee or triple shot if I make any follow by magic rock candies I take at least 20 with me since I don't really use them to heal by the time I get to floor 70+ I'm not of a bomb person it looks fun I didn't know you keep your stuff past 2am and only lose 1k gold I'll keep that in mind on my next run in the skull caverns
I know all these but listen to the tips cause you sound adorable
Can anyone tell me why we need the speed boost here? Ty :)
Amazing guide!
Super food is easy to get once you have money coming in and increases speed...plus triple shot espresso.. both easy to get.then bring a few hundred large bombs and go to town. Way easier then a slingshot with explosive ammo. I never ever use the sling shot in this game.
Actually, the best one is iridium quality goat cheese. Get goats, turn their milk into goat cheese, age it in casks. from 0:51
Cow cheese and goat cheese heal for 101 Health when gold quality and are automatically gold quality if you use large milk to make it. You can technically age the cheese but you are better off using your cask to age the products you are gonna sell.
Tysm for this 😊
You are so welcome 🌸
I love her voice and accent
What does blocking Pam do?
Iridium ore easy for me already have 24 winter year 1 on my beach farm. Those amazon packages that wash up is OP. Iridium Pickaxe anyone without going to skull caverns by spring year 2 😂
Im in love with ur voice
What rings did you use?
Also pumpkin soup is so good for luck
I have a gold pickaxe, and is it really not worth upgrading it to eridium? I feel like it's expensive but worth it because mining makes so much money but should I really just focus on bombs?
Good advice
How you get the iridium sword before getting down the skull cavern?
Useful content but it was hard for me to listen to. Thanks for sharing
1:00 wait what? I thought it would show heart if you pet them?
if you use an auto petter it shows a smiling face :)
My best run was 98 floors, I passed out, got real mad after that
Hello there. Great video! I'm new to the game. Just had my best run so far too the 89th floor, but I left to make it home on time. I won't be doing that again thanks to your tip!
I accidently cancelled the quest to get to the 100th floor. Do you think the cutsceen will still activate when I get there?
It should still work!
Good luck on your next run
I have a question about fishing. In one of your videos you teach us that we can fish iridium quality legendary fish with the "quality bobber", and i im fishing all the legendary fish whit that. But I can't fish the "Rape" in iridium quality. You know some way to do it?
If any one know a way please tell me.
Something funny, I got my first prismatic shard from a serpent, my second from a slime and 3 others within 20 floors of skull cavern
Gold Coat Cheese and Maple Bars are great.
5:10 for some reason sounded really weird
Can i enter the skull cavern in joja route?
How does blocking pam from the bus get u to the desert faster ?
She walks faster after you've stood in her way as she comes out of her home
you are the best
no u
I’m not even at the skull cavern yet I want to know how to get there fast because I want to kill those dinosaurs for the knight helmet
fun fact: game time passes slower while in the cavern / mines :-o
i didn't know this! do you have the source for this info?