What is the point of skull cavern?

[Jake From State Farm ®]

Do you get more rare drops or something? Is it better than the normal mines?

[Dark]

Every 40 floors of mines consist of primarily one ore type, and the best geodes are only at the bottom.

The skull cave is randomized so you see a little of each ore, better geoeds.

[NotThatHarkness]

I assume we were supposed to find iridium there. I've gotten a little past level 15 but haven't seen anything worth going back for, to be honest.

[SlicedAndDiced]

Originally posted by TreyNutz:

I assume we were supposed to find iridium there. I've gotten a little past level 15 but haven't seen anything worth going back for, to be honest.

A general rule of thumb is the deeper you go the rarer the loot...

so bring bombs and focus on getting deeper in the caverns...

my deepest so far is 140 level with bombs and alot of luck

[beaver201]

The Skull Cavern is supposed to be the best source for iridium (outside of meteorites), but it's still heavily influenced by RNG and how deep you get.

I have found that the most reliable (read: most consistent) way to get iridium is from the Omni Geodes which are most common there. As stated previously, bring LOTS of bombs. I even tried a bomb-only run while I was upgrading to the Iridium Pickaxe. Kind of fun.

[beaver201]

Originally posted by Metatron:

In a general sense, and assuming you have good luck that day, its the best place to find higher tier stuff as it soawns at higher rates than the mines.

Really Iridium is better found in the quarry.

I have yet to find ANY in the quarry. *sigh*

[SlicedAndDiced]

Originally posted by Metatron:

In a general sense, and assuming you have good luck that day, its the best place to find higher tier stuff as it soawns at higher rates than the mines.

Really Iridium is better found in the quarry.

nah its the caverns or just buy a ♥♥♥♥ ton of omnigeodes every wednesday on sandy's shop. i bought 500 geode wait for a lucky day opened them all up got 80-120 iridium that way. spent about 500,000 gold to do it but hey i make millions a month so not an issue! but seriously on a good run in the caverns i get 25 iridium!

[Mackenzie]

Summer year 2 so far.. 0 iridium from quarry. Maybe 2-3 iridium ore from cracking open every geode I ever obtained so far, on best luck days. 1 iridium node in the mines. All tools upgraded and a bunch of iridium sprinklers all obtained from skull cavern. Majority from slimes but once I found a floor with like 10 iridium nodes within a 3x4 tile rectangle. A good 20 ore there.

Edit: That's a good idea Sliced, will keep that in mind when I'm rolling in the riches haha!

[SlicedAndDiced]

Originally posted by Mackenzie:

Summer year 2 so far.. 0 iridium from quarry. Maybe 2-3 iridium ore from cracking open every geode I ever obtained so far, on best luck days. 1 iridium node in the mines. All tools upgraded and a bunch of iridium sprinklers all obtained from skull cavern. Majority from slimes but once I found a floor with like 10 iridium nodes within a 3x4 tile rectangle. A good 20 ore there.

Edit: That's a good idea Sliced, will keep that in mind when I'm rolling in the riches haha!

well late game you need to spend your money on something that is a good place to spend it on!