How to Skull Cavern | Stardew Valley 1.6

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Mastering Skull Cavern has never been easier! I have put together a comprehensive guide to Skull Cavern, if you are totally new to Stardew Valley or are a seasoned player this guide will show you some tips and tricks on how I maximize my Skull Cavern runs. It consists of 3 levels Beginner, Advanced and Pro to cover what ever stage you are in your play though.
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[@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.

[@user-mf4uo9ox2y]

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 ¨̮

[@user-mf4uo9ox2y]

@@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]

@@user-mf4uo9ox2y 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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@AwkwardBirb]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@noval791]

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

[@sourcandy6469]

You are already one of my favourite stardew-tubers!

[@user-py5yu5ub4e]

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

[@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

[@pcer9973]

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

[@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

[@lazylantern1]

Love your videos! Your voice is so relaxing 😌

[@ihaveacutecat]

Get this man to 100k

[@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.

[@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.

[@Cmay76]

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

[@goodguynissl3458]

Very helpul, good job!

[@GamerGarYT]

Glad it helped! thanks for watching :D

[@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 👍🏾

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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)

[@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.

[@shadowqueen1701]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@NurseCait]

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

[@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.

[@leafar08]

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

[@kenoekek]

why did you trash the 2 iridium bars 😿

[@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?

[@rylann2868]

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

[@lumux622]

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

[@luci-xp5uo]

i am early oh my

[@Aw3someV1king]

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

[@vivalanina]

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

[@vogiacuatTran]

100 day

[@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

[@insertname1129]

49th

[@IMeanMachine101]

this vid could have been 10 mins