Skull Cavern - Tips please!

[Ancient Toaster]

I'm on Fall Year 2 and I'm making money hand over fist, but I'm still having trouble progressing through the Skull Caverns.

I get to about floor 20 and I either run out of time or I start to run out of healing items becuase the enemies hit like mack trucks down there (the damn flying green fish things piss me off!)

Any tips? I'm using the Lava Blade as a weapon, it's the best I can find at this point.

[emmadashleigh]

I've been having the same problems!! People say to bring bombs and a lot of rock so you can make stairs but I'm still only getting to floor 20ish before its 10/11PM

[KLightningflik]

Eventually you should find that prism rock that gets you the best sword in the game. Outside of that, just bring lots of bombs and jump down any holes you come across to skip multiple floors. I was using cactus for healing. I honestly don't see what the point is as there's nothing down there from what I could see and once you're past floor 25 no quests sent you any deeper.

If you're just farming for iridium, you could get to Year 3 and unlock the statue that gives you some every morning.

[derpygalaxy]

Get spicy eel for speed and luck , buy 100,000 stone from Robin, buy 50 mega bombs from the dwarf and make some omelettes for healing. Then build enough stairs to spam your way down to floor 100 of Skull Cavern and throw your bombs all over the iridium. Try to save a little stone for extra stairs in case you're about to die. You will most likely get a prismatic shard so you can get a Galaxy Sword if you bring the shard to the 3 pillars in the desert.

[derpygalaxy]

It will cost you a lot of money but the amount of iridium, prismatic shards and geodes you get its worth it. Especially because you get the best sword in the game if you manage to get a shard.

[Hammertone]

I've been experimenting on a "poor man's skull cave run" a few times. Enter the skull mines ill prepared and a bit late. A fire katana, gold pick, 2 dozen of standart bomb and salad on a neutral days at 9am. On some run, i can reach 45 if I'm lucky enough, but always reach at least 25. For the iridium, 1 - 3 bars worth ore. Depends on how RNGod bless me. My tips are, use bombs only at cluster of rock. If ladder or hole are not appearing, try at other cluster. If you got a ladder, take it. Even better if it's a hole instead, but always watching your health. If you want to play safe, keep health above 75%. I don't think a normal monster encounter can kill you outright at that health pool. If you got an infested level, check at your bag. Usually at this spot, you'll have at least a staircase worth stone. Craft it and leave the floor. Start moving out of mine at 1 am. Granted, you WILL pass out at street and got a medical fee. But it's much more better than pass out in the mine.

[Khan, Binary of None]

Food: Spicy Eel/Pumpkin Soup (+Luck/Speed or +Luck/Defense)

Coffee: +1 Speed (stacks with food)

Good Rings: Burglar's Ring (increased monster loot drop if you are farming Serpents), Irridium Band (10% Attack, Glow, Magnet in one ring), Ring of Yoba (random prevents damage, increases survivability).

Bombs: Normal Bombs work pretty good, Mega Bombs are a bit more pricy for the work.

Stones: Small stacks of stones to make stairs when you get stuck or infested levels, not entirely needed since Bombing rocks gives you lots of stones.

Luck: You need to go in on a day where your luck is maximized, do not go in any other time as Luck affects not only drops, but ladder spawns, in addition to ore spawns. It helps tremendously for finding holes.

Galaxy Sword or Flaming Katana, anything less will not really cut it for damage if you get swarmed or are planning to farm Serpents.

And over all, always drop down holes/ladders over mining anything. You're goal is to get down as fast as possible, as bombs will farm for you.

[KLightningflik]

Hammertone a écrit :

I've been experimenting on a "poor man's skull cave run" a few times. Enter the skull mines ill prepared and a bit late. A fire katana, gold pick, 2 dozen of standart bomb and salad on a neutral days at 9am. On some run, i can reach 45 if I'm lucky enough, but always reach at least 25. For the iridium, 1 - 3 bars worth ore. Depends on how RNGod bless me. My tips are, use bombs only at cluster of rock. If ladder or hole are not appearing, try at other cluster. If you got a ladder, take it. Even better if it's a hole instead, but always watching your health. If you want to play safe, keep health above 75%. I don't think a normal monster encounter can kill you outright at that health pool. If you got an infested level, check at your bag. Usually at this spot, you'll have at least a staircase worth stone. Craft it and leave the floor. Start moving out of mine at 1 am. Granted, you WILL pass out at street and got a medical fee. But it's much more better than pass out in the mine.

Fire katana is poor?

[derpygalaxy]

KGhaleon a écrit :

Hammertone a écrit :

I've been experimenting on a "poor man's skull cave run" a few times. Enter the skull mines ill prepared and a bit late. A fire katana, gold pick, 2 dozen of standart bomb and salad on a neutral days at 9am. On some run, i can reach 45 if I'm lucky enough, but always reach at least 25. For the iridium, 1 - 3 bars worth ore. Depends on how RNGod bless me. My tips are, use bombs only at cluster of rock. If ladder or hole are not appearing, try at other cluster. If you got a ladder, take it. Even better if it's a hole instead, but always watching your health. If you want to play safe, keep health above 75%. I don't think a normal monster encounter can kill you outright at that health pool. If you got an infested level, check at your bag. Usually at this spot, you'll have at least a staircase worth stone. Craft it and leave the floor. Start moving out of mine at 1 am. Granted, you WILL pass out at street and got a medical fee. But it's much more better than pass out in the mine.

Fire katana is poor?

By the time you unlock the skull cavern the fire katana is pretty cheap in comparison to the amount of money you probably have at that point

[EleventhStar]

bring a lot of stone and make staircases so you can skip floors on your next visit.

use a warp totem to get back to your farm to save some more time.

use food buffs.

buy that lava katana

[KLightningflik]

DerpyGalaxy a écrit :

KGhaleon a écrit :

Fire katana is poor?

By the time you unlock the skull cavern the fire katana is pretty cheap in comparison to the amount of money you probably have at that point

Having blown all my money unlocking the bus, not at all.

[阿夢EDDyume]

If you don't feel like spending money on bomb, eat a spicy eel, equip burglar ring, and then enter and exit skull cavern constantly, kill all serpent & slime that come through, you should have some spicy eel, big bomb, iridium build up, once you have enough bomb, just go on a bomb run. (recommended at least 120+ bomb, 20+ high healing item such as cheese,cactus and 1 or 2 stack of 999 rock)

This should bring you below 100 floor no problem, and also 100+ Iridium Ore

sometimes you get rabbit foot and purple slime egg too.