Should I buy Iridium bar from merchant?

[Erloobus]

The traveling cart is selling one iridium bar for 4000, is it worth buying? I'm in year one fall.

[Včelí medvídek]

in short: very likely yes.

I am in year 2 with tons of money and got only about 8 bars in total yet..

On other hand if you are lucky or confident/skilled in combat to farm skeleton cave you can get iridium freely (with patience you get it from geodes from lowest mine levels and quarry eventually too)

though having iridium band = 5 bars prior going to skeleton cave is super useful...

[Erloobus]

Thanks for the info! I decided to buy it since I'm not so skilled in combat and It'll be a while before I get to skull cavern, only just completed the mines.

[ehyder]

I always go the Krobos route, and strongly recommend buying his sprinklers, it makes a huge difference in getting better efficiency in the greenhouse/farm

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by ehyder:

I always go the Krobos route, and strongly recommend buying his sprinklers, it makes a huge difference in getting better efficiency in the greenhouse/farm

Not so much to be gamechanging.. like sure they allow better organization a bit but I found myself I have no reason replace already used quality spinklers after all.. eg. in greenhouse it is 108 vs 116 tills for crop.. so just make mere 8 tills more at time when I hardly need another profit it would bring (+ 60k and 6 weeks to get them from Krobus and I would have to break full Greenhouse setup and rebuild it with new seed.. which I will eventually do with ancient fruit, but until that..)

On field it would similary mean change of the setup I already have (while it will wont fit same space due landscape, pond and buildings so I would actually need use another area for farming to keep same numbers as now)

It is probably very nice if one has the choice at time (or plan properly ahead for it) but with everything already set...

otherwise - sure, for spinklers go to Krobus;)

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by red255:

You can buy omni geodes from sandy on wednesdays for 1000 gold each, which you could break for iridium

Just good to note you can spend fortune on those and dont get much of it.. it has chance about 5% for ore (not bar).. I buy a few and get them from mine (maybe about 80 total..) If memory dont fail me, got enough ore for like 2 bars from that amount only:/

Edit: forgot Magma geode can drop iridium too as I turned dozens of those too so not sure how much actualy came from Omni geodes - maybe even less.. Sure one can spend million gold or so on it and get some result but still..

[Circa]

Omni geodes are available from Krobus one day for 300. Can use the glitch to buy as many as want.

[Spheal]

It is one hundred percent worth it if you have a bunch of money, but if you are at a point where buying one farm building or something drains your bank to almost empty than you should not buy it and just go mining for it.