Yikes .. Skull Caverns. I wasn't prepared for this.

[Alucard †]

Monsters that take 25% of my hp in one hit.
Monsters that just refuse to die and keep standing back up after being "killed"
No elevator

While last levels of the Mines were a breeze. I could barely even make it through 5 levels of Skull Caverns.

There got to be easier ways to get Iridium right?

[Alucard †]

Got sashimi recipe and Galaxy sword (got lucky with Mystic stone in Quarry)

Managed to snag some iridium from slimes in Caverns before i had to bail

[airgid-sionnach]

引用自 ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟：

Got sashimi recipe and Galaxy sword (got lucky with Mystic stone in Quarry)

Managed to snag some iridium from slimes in Caverns before i had to bail

Easiest food to get is gold quality cheese - any large milk will produce it. Sashimi is better for early game TBH.

[supersand]

引用自 ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟：

引用自 Amberbaum：

What's your gear?

Not too great:
Space Boots , Lucky Ring , Glow Ring , Obsidian Edge

This is fine, just bring some Pumpkin Soup and Coffee / Espresso and lots of bombs, you can buy bombs from the Dwarf. Magnet Ring over Glow Ring would help too.

Bring Solar Essence and Stone with you. If you get 2+ of the green flying things coming at you or the mist that spawns them just craft a ladder and go down. You get lots of Void Essence and Gold Ore drops in the caverns so you can craft Mega Bombs easily if you brought Solar Essence. Only use your pickaxe while waiting for a bomb or to mine ores / gems, use bombs to find a ladder.

For fighting the green flying things, just find a safe spot to wait and just time your sword hits, if you swung too early just parry to avoid damage. If you have multiple of them and don't want to ladder or can't then try to get them into the same direction and time your parry well, if you get them lined up you can just fight them as if it was one.

For the mummies, just avoid them but if you do want to kill them you have to use a bomb after they collapse. They drop Solar Essence so they can be useful to craft bombs with.

For recovery food, lots of gold / silver Cranberries or Sashimi or Common Mushrooms work fine. Always spam eat if you get to yellow health. Don't worry about your energy, energy is rarely an issue in the cavern, only health.

Using about the same gear as you and this strat, I was able to get to like floor 60-70 and got like 40 iridum ore, but you have to be careful and confident, and also speedy.

[SGT. D]

Yeah, I just started a new farm to check out the new update and just to play again. I thought I was hot stuff rolling into the caverns with Combat level 9 and my Lava Katana, Iridium band (got super lucky and scored this Summer Day 1 from a fishing treasure), Crabshell ring, and of course Space boots. Went in with lots of sashimi and bombs and died pretty quickly on level 2 my first time in. Got swarmed by slimes and those flying dragon things. Forgot that the caverns aren't to be explored until you get further down. The early levels offer only death and not much loot. Best to pack a couple dozen staircases and just dive down a ways before really looking for iridium and prismatic orbs.

[Alucard †]

引用自 airgid-sionnach：

引用自 ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟：

Got sashimi recipe and Galaxy sword (got lucky with Mystic stone in Quarry)

Managed to snag some iridium from slimes in Caverns before i had to bail

Easiest food to get is gold quality cheese - any large milk will produce it. Sashimi is better for early game TBH.

Hmm yea cheese has more oomph

[Stealth-Boy 3000]

Do you fish? I got a bit of iridium that way. Also, start making copies of Jade with crystalariums asap. Some general tips for skull cavern: Obsidian edge is kinda underleveld, if you can, get the Galaxy sword. Cheese is the best healing item imho so stock on those. Have alot of bombs and just bomb the ♥♥♥♥ out of stones. Also, buff yourself with lucky lunch- Greater chance of getting holes that way. Always jump in holes when you see them. Also, have at least a couple of staircases with you always so you can skip really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ (spiral or monster infested) levels when encountered. Try to ignore enemies (particularly slimes) as much as possible. GL

[Avilyn]

Also you can use a Crystalarium to duplicate Jade, and then trade Jade for staircases with the dessert trader on Sundays.

[NBOX21]

One of my favourite accessories to use in all of Stardew Valley which is especially helpful in the Skull Cavern is the Slime Charmer Ring, where wearing it makes you immune to all slime attacks, which can be very useful against those purple slimes that not only come in great numbers in the Skull Cavern but also deal a lot of damage. You can get one from the Adventurer's Guild after defeating 1,000 slimes of any colour.

Make sure to bring some bombs with you too. Those mummies you find on certain floors will revive themselves after a while, but when they're knocked down, you can use bombs to finish them off.

引用自 Avilyn：

Also you can use a Crystalarium to duplicate Jade, and then trade Jade for staircases with the desert trader on Sundays.

Haha, I'm at that point in the game where I have a shed full of at least 35 crystalariums that all duplicate Jades regularly for this exact purpose.

引用自 Stealth-Boy 3000：

Cheese is the best healing item imho so stock on those.

I mainly bring a lot of bread with me. While not as effective as cheese, they're super easy to make and it's really easy to obtain the supplies for it. Just grow some wheat on your farm, run it through a mill and you'll have some flour overnight. Just one is enough to make bread. Since it's easy to make a lot of bread, I find them great to use in a pinch.

Serpents (the flying monsters that rush towards you) also have a chance to drop spicy eel which is also great for healing and even provides some useful buffs that can be of great help in the Skull Cavern or in the Volcano Dungeon later on.

[mammodragon1]

Get the slime hutch, keep making slime eggs until you get a purple slime egg. get rid off all your slimes except the highest color of the opposite sex to the purple. breed all purple slimes. They drop iridium when slain. The volcano on the island is an easier place for mining iridium.

[aylie]

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