How to Skull Cavern | Stardew Valley 1.6

[@ludivineblais8066]

Also something I learned is that if the bus is open you DO NOT need the skull key to reach skull caverns. You can access them during the spring three day calico event. This means that bc you never reached floor 120 all enemies will have HALF the hp compared to if you had the skull key. It also means that your starter clubs weapons will be fine to defeat baddies. I still agree that steel pickaxe is best :)

[@jmtradbr]

Year 1 you can get calico eggs in the regular mines too (that one with the elevator) you can score 25 points there and get Gil hat.

[@Goteryup]

I managed to open the bus by the second day of desert fest by fishing and I had the Riverland farm so that started with a smoker. Another thing that helped me tone was getting the broken trident for that

[@Bonfree24]

Truth, I was able to get to the skull mines during the festival and didn’t see anything totally worth the few calico eggs I was able to get. And so I just used the ones I had to get a magic rock candy ¨̮

[@Goteryup]

@@Bonfree24 if Demetrius is ever at one of the shops you can get deluxe speed grow and the guy above the traveling cart has strawberry seeds which are super profitable

[@Bonfree24]

@@Goteryup true, but for me Demetrius wasn’t one of the shop keepers. And also, due to when I’d purchase the strawberry seeds, they wouldn’t get more than 1 harvest in year one. And I already had a plan to get enough stocked up for year 2 (due to ones I already had planted). So, I felt it was going to be fine leaving it at that, and just making for a more fun skull cavern dive later on.

[@chaosstripe9446]

48:30 One other thing to consider specific to the Desert Festival! You can eat from the mysterious chef for long lasting special buffs that stack with normal food and drink buffs. The buffs always last 7 minutes, but your choices effect what buffs you get. A really good option is Rare Fruit with Uncomfortably Hot Sauce for +3 luck and +1 speed, but other options can give defense, attack, and mining levels. The only one you don't want is the shrimp, which give the dish a +3 fishing buff.

[@chaosstripe9446]

Bonus Tip: If you get an egg rating of 25-54, you can actually get Gil's Hat, once per game.

[@katherinec6031]

Though, as I understand it you can eat an unlimited amount of dishes at the festival, so if you need a fishing buff to do the fishing challenge and then a skull cavern-oriented buff, you can do that :)

[@pokadotplot]

This is fantastic! For a future video, maybe consider making (even a short) video on skull cavern or combat in multi-player. I love playing with friends, but we get absolutely destroyed by lag and the inability to pause when eating. Thanks again for this extensive video!

[@ThiZRoxXx]

Im playing coop too and if your friend enters the inventory the game will pause when you eat. You just have to tell him to pause. Feeling the same with lag tho

[@libitina27]

thx, im finally overcoming my fear bc i NEED autopetters. I have 5 barns and 4 coops, its so much work to have to pet all my animals. at the same time i refuse to ever go the joja route LOLLLL

[@sourcandy6469]

If you aren’t against modding you could use the „Marnie sells autopetters“ mod

[@libitina27]

@@sourcandy6469 👀

[@paulosullivan3472]

Take the jojo mart route instead of the community center and jojo mart sells autopetters.

[@MalcadorTheSigilite]

Why do you have so many animals?

[@libitina27]

@@MalcadorTheSigilite i’m a collector…

[@sourcandy6469]

You are already one of my favourite stardew-tubers!

[@tallgamerboy]

Bonus Tip: On the Springtime Desert Festival days, you can get food buffs that don't interfere with your normal food and drink buffs, check the wiki for combos that you want, but basically you can get another luck bonus on top of what you already had at the end there.

[@mememan5466]

You can eat food on top of it? I thought it counts as a food buff

[@LuisCares42]

The uncut version was great, really helped answer all my questions! Thank you!

[@littledragon5642]

Throwing in a tip or two for beginners: I make a lot of cheese anyway, so I keep all my gold star cheese for food. With a barn of cows it stacks up quickly and it is a really good food source.

[@noval791]

This is an amazing and very detailed guide, I'll be referencing it again before my next Skull cavern run

[@Lilith_The_Earthling]

Wonderful video. Packed with useful info and formatted very well. Your voice is very nice to listen to as well. Definitely worth subscribing ❤

[@AwkwardBirb]

What timing! I JUST unlocked the Skull Cavern in my first 1.6play through today! Thanks man!

[@يوسف-ك3ذ5ت]

Thank you so much my man, such an amazing video I've been looking a guide like this for a long time most for the guides that I found with channels that have more then 100K subs are just general info they don't explain everything, but you made it so informative and so easy to understand, thank you again you deserve more 100K for reall :D

[@justhannah3960]

Getting to 1000 slimes for that slime charmer ring is so worth it, imo. Not having to worry about those guys is a huge weight off.

[@andoypordoy100]

napalm and slime charmers ring the way to go for me, its always rquipped forged with either iridium ring and salvage ring

[@jackplisken4738]

@@andoypordoy100 if you are that far in the game you dont need cavern runs any longer

[@kenzierenea]

This was one of the best videos I’ve watched on the caverns and maybe stardew valley in general. The amount of detail vs ‘get bombs’ etc is really awesome. Subscribed!

[@Amoebatirith]

It's also good to take out the crabs when it's your first cavern runs because you can usually get a piece of iridium ore from them. Yes, it's disappointing that it's not an actual ore node, but at least they drop some iridium compared to the slimes that rarely drop iridium ore. If you go to skull caverns on the desert festival, make sure to get your free meal before going in as it does not count as a regular meal so you can stack the buffs you get from the chef with a magic rock candy. Select rare fruit as the base and then Uncomfortably Hot sauce. This meal will give you +3 luck and +1 move speed.

[@BriiqhtStarZ]

Thats by far the best guide i've ever seen. Thank you very much for ur detailed guide, it shows everything from the start, now I can try my luck again at skull cavern :D

[@openworldgaming1976]

I watched this, did my first run of skull caverns (I've been playing since 2016 lol) and had 3 dinosaur eggs drop on the one level.

[@caioschneider3825]

I dont know but prismatic shards are droping like crazy for me and my friends in 4 differents farms on the first day of the desert festival I got 6

[@terminalvelocityrunner2202]

Another somewhat decent weapon to consider looking for if you’re short on cash and lack a prismatic shard is a Dark Sword from the Quarry Mine. It tends to have the Vampiric enchantment pre-applied which gives a chance to heal you for a certain amount depending on the health of the slain monster when it activates. It’s not guaranteed to trigger. But it can really save your life at times. Because the recovery is based on the monster’s health, and the skull cavern enemies are pretty bulky, you will actually recover a fair amount when the effect happens.

[@TripleRoux]

Thank you so much! This was really helpful and fun!

[@pcer9973]

Absolutely amazing video. Thank you. I'm on console, and this was definitely helpful.

[@nexus02496]

I personally don’t bother with the caverns until I have set up crystalariums with jade and I can consistently get down to floor 100. Just farm the regular mines for all the ores you need and kill slimes so you will get the charmer ring and never have to worry about those. It gets a lot easier once you unlock ginger island and you can farm coffee and pineapple en mass as well as being able to get ginger for ale that you can buff with qi spice. For combat I used an artful galaxy hammer with acrobat so I can just spam the special and use the click glitch to kill everything. I also threw three knockback buffs on it so I can pick and choose what I want to fight by just flinging mobs off the screen.

[@davidhatch7603]

Getting to floor 120 in your first spring seems crazy good.

[@audraverela3663]

I would also recommend saving all your regular quartz bc you can get bombs with 5 of them. Even using 1 crystalarium will give you multiple of them per day.

[@ihaveacutecat]

Get this man to 100k

[@Glotzie1]

Great and very informative video as always. I'm so glad I discovered your channel. You definitely became one of my top 5 favorite stardew valley/gaming KZbinrs. Also learned that people call the Television "Telly", lol. As someone whose native language isn't english, I've never heard that before, it made me chuckle :D

[@rellimarual]

I’ve never made life elixir for anything but completing the crafting completion requirement in three perfection saves. I just bring cheese or a good stack of either salmon berries or blackberries if I don’t have enough cheese yet.

[@canebrake]

Great video brother! Something I learned was there was a book available after 1000 monster kills. Just when I think I know everything, there is always something new I was unaware of.

[@luminechan9066]

What's the purpose of that button at the entrance of the skull cavern?

[@suhyoungp9285]

i think there’s a “hard mode” for skull cavern, so you can switch it on and off with that button

[@beforedrrdpr]

Thank you so much, I was looking for something exactly like this

[@CaptainMarci104]

During the calico festival, you could buff your luck even more with the cook who gives you +3 luck and +1 speed on top.

[@helen4787]

Really helpful thanks. I onky started playing with 1.6 & not a fan of combat. But i have managed to get to floor 83 in skull cavern & have 2 autopetters so far. Definitely need to craft an iridrum ring & try out some of the other tips

[@Al0neStillAlive]

I think a good idea is to wait until you have done ginger Island and have really good gear before you do too much skull cavern stuff. Going in with a Dwarven sword, mermaid boots, and two decent combined rings makes it much much easier to do well.

[@Cmay76]

Highly recommend the swift enchantment on the pickaxe. Makes life easier. 😊

[@hackdotx4060]

Seems like bombs are the bottleneck for how deep you can go realistically, so the first few runs need as many bombs as possible to make the effort worth it.

[@kluangh1tam]

Making golden star cheese is much easier and give you energy too instead of making life elixir. But showing full Skull Cavern run with bare minimum requirement and all upgrade you can get in year 1 are very uplifting and motivating.

[@feyza877]

Yesterday i went to skull cavern and found 3 treasure rooms before 58th floor and 2 prismatic shards lol, but i play in coop and my backpack was full and wasted a lot of time in a precious luck day 😭😭 ill upgrade it as soon as i open the game thank u for the advice

[@Marialla.]

On multiplayer I'm finding skull cavern ten times harder, because time never will pause, and monsters move differently. Knockback doesn't seem to work the same, and it's difficult to keep serpents from hovering on top of you, damaging you while you fight them. I'm normally comfortable hitting floor 130 in a day in skull cavern, but in multiplayer now I'm rarely hitting floor 40 anymore. I'm thinking that spamming staircases might be the only way to get down to iridium levels in multiplayer, early in the skull cavern days. Maybe after I get to Ginger Island and have more luck buffs I could get farther.

[@AttacMage]

could largely be a lag issue. been playing with a friend and as the host I have no issues with mobs. Can't say much about how my friend does, especially since he's got crap internet. With my extremely barebones setup I could still hit level 40 or so quite easily. Once I have Ginger Island that'll probably jump to a hundred without too much stair spam.

[@promo9844]

Yea I’ve even played multiplayer on switch and had reasonable runs

[@sourcandy6469]

I would recommend the „timespeed mod“ for multiplayer. Combined with the mod manager so that you can change the speed to your liking.

[@AttacMage]

@@sourcandy6469 I've been wanting a mod that pauses time while both people are in a state that would do so in singleplayer. I'll have a glance at the mod you recommended too.

[@nina512]

​@@AttacMage I've been using 'Pause Time in Multiplayer' for that and the mod worked quite well for me. I think there are also others that pause time when only one player is doing something that pauses time (which I think is fine if you're only playing as a pair but with more players can get quite cheaty)

[@lazylantern1]

Love your videos! Your voice is so relaxing 😌

[@peacelily15]

How is it possible to get so much money to unlock the bus by Spring 7? At 0:30 Spring 6 I see 51,000g and at 1:21 Spring 7 I see 71,000g Total Earnings? While waiting for the new update on consoles, I have been practicing on my switch to get that much money before spring 15 (before the desert festival) and I find it impossible.

[@CapuchinMonkey1]

He showcases how he does this in his 1st 100 day of 1.6 video from a few weeks ago. It mainly boils down to lots of mining and fishing. Good luck!

[@peacelily15]

@@CapuchinMonkey1 In this video he obviously used animation cancelling, because he managed to make it to the bottom of the mines in one day. I can't do that on my switch :( In the 100 day video he bought 60 potatoes and 80 kale and barely unlocked the desert (had to sell almost everything). I would run out of energy watering all those crops and wouldn't have enough time to progress down the mines. He also got lucky fishing up the Neptunes glaive. Even if I did unlock the desert, I probably wouldn't survive in Skull cavern that early. Anyone else unlock the desert in spring year 1 for the festival? and what was it like?

[@goodguynissl3458]

Very helpul, good job!

[@GamerGarYT]

Glad it helped! thanks for watching :D

[@shadowqueen1701]

Nice video, im playing on the PS4, waiting for the update.

[@liliespetals19]

My preference is quartz trading for bombs, a couple of duplicators of quartz, with a few for ruby and jade keeps me rolling in bombs, but early game that's only feasible if you had quite a few saved from the regular mines 👍🏾

[@NurseCait]

How do you not have half a million subs yet?!

[@ananda_adi]

Got lucky with prismatic shard while cracking geodes from regular mine, got the galaxy sword and still strugling reaching floor 30 in skull cavern. Those serpent is nightmare

[@icata12345]

Do you start from floor 1 on skull cavern always and do you need to sleep somehow while inside?

[@PK-se2jh]

Thankyou so much 🙏

[@leafar08]

"How to Skeleton Cave ?" -Seanie Dew, probably

[@dronzer007]

I got prismatic shard and ancient seed both from slimes in the secret forest( above wizard's house). I got it them in spring of year 2.

[@Whootzie]

It's rough being a mobile player. I watch these videos and I think to myself one day... One day.

[@maxbillyhalfh]

forgive me for my ignorance but how do you get the zoomed out view so you can see more over the map? badly explained i know but someone must knw what i mean xD

[@danielhill7705]

@@maxbillyhalfh go into the settings on the pause menu and scroll down. There’s an option for zoom. Use left and right to zoom out and in respectively.

[@guinter-l8i]

you can go down those holes??

[@ThePongo]

Thank you :)

[@blazedmoose1432]

I’m confused on why you keep saying crystalarium will help you with making stair cases… do crystalariums replicate stone as welv

[@GamerGarYT]

Crystalariums can replicate jades, Jades can be traded for staircases, and staircases and be deconstructed into 99 stone. This makes farming stone incredible easy.

[@kenoekek]

why did you trash the 2 iridium bars 😿

[@linis331]

I spent hours maxing all the hearts in pelican town and holding out on the desert till in got married. Only to find out i still gotta max out Sandys hearts 😅😅😅

[@GamerGarYT]

I always get caught with the dwarf from the regular mines for some reason lol

[@Aw3someV1king]

24:22 Gave my girlfriend this same advice..... did not work out that well tho....

[@Fam_From_Town]

I bet that something gone wrong I got 2 lucky rings in 2 visit's 10 prism shard as well😁

[@rylann2868]

great video, love your content. long ass video though lol

[@lumuxyy]

I choose to die so baby girl Harvey can save me 🥰

[@Venusxberry]

@@lumuxyy so real

[@vivalanina]

cheese gives you 200 hp, it's nice that you don't have to cook a recipe with it.

[@arthaschen4701]

How did you earn 70k in only 7 days tho

[@GamerGarYT]

i don't think its possible unless you get some insane luck fishing up treasures worth loads of money, the video was a guide on skull caverns so to seed up my progress I spawned in money to save myself time

[@TheEvilChocolateCookie]

Screw getting just the two backpack grades. Go get yourself the giant backpack mod and expand the heck out of that thing. Just have fun having through at 80 something times.

[@gamersislerr]

I reached 1000 level in Skull Cavern : kzbin.info/www/bejne/fILQnKijltahgbc

[@luci-xp5uo]

i am early oh my

[@vogiacuatTran]

100 day

[@insertname1129]

49th

[@IMeanMachine101]

this vid could have been 10 mins