Best special slime levels in Dangerous Mine?

[h3idi9000]

I can't tell which levels of the mine in Dangerous mode (shrine of challenge) are best for hunting special slimes. I'm still missing the crystal shoes and skull cavern on dangerous is exhausting (I guess I could toggle the shrine off again)

[lizardmang]

According to the wiki, Crystal Shoes can't be obtained in the Mines. They're only a special drop in the Skull Cavern.

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Crystal_Shoes
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/The_Mines#Special_Items

[h3idi9000]

Okay well that explains crystal shoes. Still, I'd like some auto-petters which say they're added to special drops with shrine of challenge on and slimes seem less common on all levels in dangerous mode.

[Avilyn]

I've only ever found the auto-petter once, in a treasure room in the skull cavern, after 1200+ hours of play time.

If you don't mind playing with mods, there's one that adds a quest from Marnie on the Special Orders board that unlocks the auto-petter after you complete it. That's what I use now. https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/7534

[h3idi9000]

Originally posted by Avilyn:

I've only ever found the auto-petter once, in a treasure room in the skull cavern, after 1200+ hours of play time.

Oh bummer. I guess it goes into my Living Hat category which continues to elude me despite 100s of hours of play too :)

[h3idi9000]

Originally posted by h3idi9000:

Originally posted by Avilyn:

I've only ever found the auto-petter once, in a treasure room in the skull cavern, after 1200+ hours of play time.

Oh bummer. I guess it goes into my Living Hat category which continues to elude me despite 100s of hours of play too :)

Following up on this now that I'm the proud owner of two auto-petters. It was a bit tedious but in no way close to the Living Hat difficulty.

I still don't understand what the good slime levels are in dangerous mode so I took the skull cavern approach. I have a bunch of crystalariums so a steady supply of Jade, traded for Stairwells, was no problem. It took maybe 4-6 trips to Skull Cavern on high luck days, with nearly full luck buffs (the wallet buff, lucky lunch, gingerale, and one lucky ring - - presumably cooking those food buffs with Qi spice would have helped but I didn't try). Each run of 120 stairs revealed six or more treasure rooms.

According to the wiki, the auto-petter has a 1/26 drop rate from a treasure room. This felt right although I question those values because I have waaaay more red cowboy hats, seed makers, and energy potions which also have a 1/26 drop rate. RNG will RNG but some of the wiki listed 1/26 items definitely dropped far more often than the 2x auto-petters I finally got.