Ginger island enemy's

[Spogg]

Died in a dungeon and lost a stack of 950 triple shot expresso's and my galaxy hammer
did too much so i could not bare to restart the day, rip.

i always thought that you only lost items you could get in the dungeon/mines but i was wrong

i'm really struggling to fight the new ginger island enemy's they are all complete hit sponges and every hit knocks most of them way back so i have to just sit there and wait and swing until it dies, i have like stacks of 800 life elixers, mega bombs and food so my deaths are due to not realising my health is low and dying to my own bombs.

is there anyway to deal with these guys better, the new ginger island dungeons feels like such a grind, something im missing?

[Keeper Of Monsters]

I am a notoriously bad fighter in any game, and dying to non-eating is a common thing for me too, I know that pain. Still somehow I manage to get through Volcano dungeon though it takes me a whole day (my son just sighs at that but what can I say - I'm bad).
I use swords - they don't give that much of a knock-back and swing faster. Forged Galaxy with 3 rubies - more damage so killing everything faster. Not enchanted yet and not sure which one to go for but Vampiric looks promising. Also upgrading it to Infinity will help but you have to get those Souls first.
Get good footwear - Cinderclown shoes that dwarf sells at floor 5, maybe Dragonscale or Mermaid if you get lucky with chests.
Also look into combined rings - you will have effect of 4 while wearing only 2. Napalm may be good though I don't have that yet so not sure. I use Crabshell/iridium band and luck/burglar, but if you aren't after mob drops maybe some other rings will be better instead - YMMV.
And yes - pause by opening inventory when in a pinch: this gives you a little space to breath, access the situation, and change your item from weapon or bomb to food or drink. This way you can still save yourself at the (almost) last moment.

P.S. For me every dungeon/mine is a grind - I hate them with passion but if you are after 100% completion and collecting every drop there's no way around it.
P.P.S. Yes, you can lose any item, any at all, and it might be a hard choice to pick just one to recover from Marlon - but at least you can get one of them back...

[Maya-Neko]

I don't know how the hammer can deal with enemies, but the sword is quite good at keeping slimes and flames at distance and the helmet enemy can be fought with a hit&run-tactic. daggers are also quite good for hit&run against single enemies.

but generally it's the same with them as with every other enemy. You've to find a strategy which works for you. If you're unable to keep them at distance, then you might want to get the phoenix ring and the protection ring (you've to be lucky though, as they only spawn in chest within the vulcano dungeon).

Originally posted by Keeper Of Monsters:

Also look into combined rings - you will have effect of 4 while wearing only 2. Napalm may be good though I don't have that yet so not sure. I use Crabshell/iridium band and luck/burglar, but if you aren't after mob drops maybe some other rings will be better instead - YMMV.

The napalm ring only triggers, when you defeat the enemy, so it's quite good in big groups of enemies (like the big slimes) or to brake brake stones in the mines or the skull caverns to speed up things a littlebit. It however doesn't help directly to defeat a monster you're already struggling with.

[Spogg]

Originally posted by cool_shadow:

Try to get yourself an iridium pickaxe and go straight for the next level while skipping as much of the current levels as you can. If you can run away from enemies that's even better. Once you get to the forge at level 10, you can unlock a shortcut straight to the entrance.

i already have beaten the dungeon i just need to grind it for the stuff

[Katitoff]

Build galaxy dagger for crit(scout->desperado), get iridium and crit ring, one shot most enemies.

[ajfusch]

Tip about lost items:

Don't carry stacks of items that are much bigger than what you need. As you noticed, if you do that, if you lose them, the whole stack is lost. Only take what you'll likely need, put any surplus in a chest somewehere.

Also, you know about the recovery service run by Marlon, right? It doesn't matter in which dungeon you lost it, you can use the service. (If you kill enough mummies I think, it was, you can even use it via telephone!)
However, if you lose 2 important items in one run you'll only get back one of them, so choose wisely.

[Pixel Peeper]

Unfortunately, knockback makes combat terribly tedious. Enemies like ghosts and flames will be bounced back a long distance and you'll have to wait until they stop themselves, start moving forward again and get close to you before you can hit them again.

Combat is just bad in this game. Try to avoid most of it if you can.

[I Kinda Fail]

Originally posted by Floof the Destroyer:

Died in a dungeon and lost a stack of 950 triple shot expresso's and my galaxy hammer
did too much so i could not bare to restart the day, rip.

What could you have done in a single day that's worth losing effectively... 3000 cups of coffee, which must be manually farmed and loaded into kegs, and a weapon that costs like 75k?

[Spogg]

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

Originally posted by Floof the Destroyer:

Died in a dungeon and lost a stack of 950 triple shot expresso's and my galaxy hammer
did too much so i could not bare to restart the day, rip.

What could you have done in a single day that's worth losing effectively... 3000 cups of coffee, which must be manually farmed and loaded into kegs, and a weapon that costs like 75k?

prismatic slime quest and that light puzzle on ginger, not doing those again, its fine though i now realise it was way less of a loss than i thought, i have 3 chests stacked with coffee beans and 4 sheds full of kegs got 3000 coffees / 999 expressos again in 5 in game days

and i forgot the adventure guild was even there and only now realised that you can buy multiple galaxy weapons.

i also now have 999 super meals from the dungeon now for extreme speed and im chugging life elixers whenever my health get to half just in chase, Cinderclown shoes do not match my outfit.

i'm mainly grinding the dungeon for dragons tooths but again the enemys are such a pain

[I Kinda Fail]

Okay, yeah, that light puzzle was a pain. :P Fair enough.

You can use the sewing machine to change how your boots look, though! So you can wear the cinderclown shoes, but make them LOOK like Sneakers or Space Boots or Leprechaun Shoes or whatever. You may want to consult a guide to the sewing machine before doing sew so but it can be done!

[Stardustfire]

for healing stuff, try "fruit salads" , they work wonder as healfood, and easy to produce.
for trinkets, 2 irididium band hybrids, one fused with burglar, the other fused with the slime ring. specialy the second makes surviving so much easyer

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

for healing stuff, try "fruit salads" , they work wonder as healfood, and easy to produce

You must be thinking of something else. Fruit Salad ingredients are pretty nasty (there's even a tree fruit in there) and you can't even learn the recipe until the second half of the second year.

Berries are of course the cheapest healing items available, but it's annoying to have to eat multiples.

In my experience, Purple Mushrooms and Magma Caps are the best healing items. While not super common, you can find them just lying around and they provide very, very strong healing.

[I Kinda Fail]

Easy, non-buffing food for me is cheese. Gold star cheese is easy to get, and you can use casks to improve it even further.

I typically don't go the Botanist route, though. I'd rather gather more wood for projects and charcoal kilns. The iridium forage is very nice, but kinda breaks the game in some ways.