The Ultimate Forge Guide - Stardew Valley

The Forge in Stardew Valley is your path to efficiency! Despite being a reward for mastering Mining and Combat, it can help you out in every part of the game, including Farming and Fishing. I'm going to help you make the most out of your enchantments!
Sections:
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Forging Weapons
3:47 - The Infinity Weapons
4:48 - Enchanting Tools
10:30 - Combining Rings
12:05 - Thank you for Watching!
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[@Gottaculat]

We all know the best reskin of the Infinity Blade is the Rusty Sword. The monsters see that rusty blade, laugh, and then turn to abject horror when you slice their friend right out of space-time itself.

[@ropeburn6684]

Stardew vs Doom crossover 😂

[@jeonderland]

give them tetanus

[@bloodlove93]

i call it the ding hao effect read Supreme emperor of sword and saber for reference

[@Gatorboy5678]

Now it’s Meowmere and there’s no competition!

[@weebstersnation2968]

What?! I put extra lucky ring in the trash bin since "I have one already" 😢

[@haillls]

I honestly found skull caverns more difficult than the volcano dungeon

[@slwrabbits]

SAME I grind volcano to prep for skull cavern!

[@angusheys5207]

same

[@altalia07]

Me too I've been trying to do do the skull caverns for a while now, but it only took me four tries foe the volcano

[@mynameisvincent.]

SAAAMMEE

[@donkarnage6986]

@@altalia07 what, i just bought the game, and volcano is so easy that i did it n my first try, thats the reason iam here, what is the forge for.... But 4 times, what do you do?

[@thermophile1695]

Best ring for combination is lucky rings; I have two lucky rings combined with an iridium band and burglar ring, and it turns worst luck into best luck, and best luck into 3x best luck. It's INSANE, and you'll immediately notice things get impacted by your massive, passive luck buff.

[@Flare-Bolt]

Its pretty hard to get 2 lucky rings got only one in my 4 year gamefile

[@thermophile1695]

@@Flare-Bolt I get them all the time panning in the fossil river.

[@Pirokh]

@@Flare-Bolt If you pan in an area that gets you a lucky ring. If the same spot becomes pannable that day it will give you the same reward.

[@klokslayer]

@@Pirokh that is a powerful thing

[@smittywerbss]

the digsite river method is the way to go! go on a good luck day, buff your luck if you want (i didnt need to), spend the day there and pan every time it pops up. if you get it then youre set, and if not reset the day and use your luck doing something else

[@Betterhose]

I really like the option to change the appearance of your weapon. I took an Infinity Gavel (the best mace/club) and gave it the appearance of the wooden club. Now I can run around Ginger Island as a caveman with grass skirt, bone on my head and a super powerful wooden club 😄

[@MalekitGJ]

Try wearing a blue skirt with a white shirt with a bow tie for the retro anime-eske style

[@Hugo-ux2gb]

can i combine this in mobile?

[@DarchrowTheEnigma]

@@Hugo-ux2gb You should be able to now that mobile SV is at 1.5 version, and soon 1.6 contents will be added.

[@AnUnnaturalNaturalDisaster]

Unrelated but the volcano music fucking SLAPS. It had no right being such a bop .

[@salmence100]

YES I use those songs whenever I can!

[@LOLA-yj9rr]

And don’t even get me started on the mines levels ~70 music!

[@SilverDragonMoon18]

Powerful on the pickaxe actually allows you to break all the rocks with one swing, which is pretty nice. Even an iridium pickaxe can’t break them in one swing without it

[@TheAlexandrine]

Also efficient on the pickaxe is kinda huge if you're not super late game, it's by far the tool that drains the most energy out of all of them

[@Glory.to.master.kohga.]

@@TheAlexandrine i mean, by the time you get to ginger island and are enchanting you probably have a few stardrops and a good food source so i would say efficient is still pretty bad

[@ropeburn6684]

Efficient is pretty much a useless buff in late or even mid game. If you haven't upgraded your energy bar several times and virtually endless access to good food at that point, you're doing it wrong. I actually resent it, because it's a useless enchantment that still appears randomly and makes me grind for more prismatic shards to get the enchantments I actually want. Probably because I pretty much hate the deeper skull caverns, it's just tedious - and you need to go there for halfway reliable prismatic shard farming. 😂

[@huntermusselman3250]

​​@@ropeburn6684 I would agree with the skull caverns being tedious, but honestly, going in with 60 to 80 staircases, (you can farm them using jade in a few crystalariums and going to the desert trader on Sundays) a bunch of mega bombs, (I usually just buy the components from Clint and krobus if I run out) and on a good luck day, definitely makes it much more bearable. Really the only way I can actually tolerate it lol

[@acu.32]

I like enchanting my pickaxe with efficient. It makes the the soul sapper ring useless for mines/skull cavern/volcano dungeon runs, and if you use vampire rings with weapons with the vamprific enchantment in addition to that, it will make qi's hungry challenge so much easier.

[@RealQuarlie]

Slight correction on the powerful enchantment of the axe and pickaxe, they actually increase the power level (2 for axe and 1 for pickaxe), meaning you need less swings to destroy something, which makes them actually quite better than the swift enchantment if you already use animation canceling anyway.

[@LOLA-yj9rr]

You can cancel animation?!

[@vicstahlman8403]

Great video. Just a slight correction. You can buy the galaxy souls as well with radioactive bars at the island trader on some days. You also have a rare chance in the dangerous mines to get one too. Keep up the good work and hope you don't mind the amendment.

[@salmence100]

I genuinely had no idea, it’s so late game that I hadn’t ever come across them in that way!

[@flyvefiskke]

last day of a season

[@altabalder]

10 radioactive bars per soul on the last day of the season. I prefer this way, since I can then use QI gems for other stuff

[@daphnevalentina7247]

i’ve also found galaxy souls inside giant slimes in skull cavern, although i don’t know how rare that is

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

It seems you also have a chance to get them in the Hard Skull Caverns, the drop I got in the Dangerous Mines level 1 while farming for the Radioactive Ores for the end of the month trade felt around the same chance for a Prismatic Shard monster drop!

[@Intrafacial86]

I _loooove_ the ring combination feature. I typically roll with Iridium+Lucky and Burglar+Lucky for better drops from basically everything. Combine that with a Generous Hoe and Qi-seasoned Lucky Lunch, you can get stupid amounts of Omni Geodes from the island dig site. Or combine it with a Qi-seasoned Pumpkin Soup for crazy monster loot.

[@milkis9098]

i have iridium + lucky and then burglar + slime charmer, simply because not worrying about slimes is a very nice thing

[@miyazakiendo3743]

@@milkis9098 thanks my fave and napalm

[@chelseap2071]

I used to combine vampire and soul sapper as he suggests in the video but as mentioned in the tool section, I've found that energy isn't really ever an issue in the mines by this point and if it is, I can eat something. Now I combine the vampire ring with the slime ring and that seems infinitely more useful! Slimes can't harm me but killing them can give me life?? Yes please!!

[@formablesabb]

If you have stardew valley expanded, Sophia sells aged blue moon wine that gives you an insane +7 luck! That with iridium + lucky and burglar + lucky AND magic rock candy would be absolutely insane

[@timohara7717]

I have a defense ring with slime and crab, and blame to make a death ring with napalm and burger

[@rachaelbatey]

I'm so happy I found this! I was really sad because I combined my lucky ring with the glowstone ring before I realized that there was an iridium band and now I can unforge them and create a better combination. I hadn't realized unforging was an option.

[@flyvefiskke]

powerful also makes it easier to break rocks, and chop down trees

[@Teejayx3]

Exactly. No one is weaponizing the pickaxe. Powerful on the pick is honestly OP for farming ore when you don’t want to blow through your bombs. Unless you’re good at that slingshot shit which i most definitely am not.

[@RubicGirl]

@@Teejayx3 According to the wiki, it increases the 'power' by one for the pickaxe. Is it really any good? I assume it means one less swing. If so, then for things that take two hits, it would only take one. And in that case the reduction in time is 50%. But for things that take more hits such as iridium or radioactive nodes, then the decrease wouldn't be as substantial, right? I could boot up the game and try it out myself, but I'm too lazy. I hope you can provide a faster answer. I would appreciate it.

[@timohara7717]

​@@RubicGirlvolcano mine rocks are like hardmode rocks that always are a challenge

[@frogtank4407]

Powerful actually makes your tools do their job quicker, not do more damage. thy get +1 or +2 power, and that can turn a 3 chop stump into a 1 chop stump, or instantly break any rock in the game, as far as I'm aware, so i would recomand it.

[@lillianleader5095]

This is soooo helpful! I've had Ginger Island unlocked for ages and just ignored the forge cuz I had no idea how it works. Thank you for this! :D I'm gonna go get that infinity sword now.

[@theendofthestart8179]

You said you cant really think of a use for the crusader enchantment, but its VERY useful for anyone going for perfection, you need to KILL 100 mummies, not just knock them out, you can use bombs but I find that to be much more of a hassle than just using this enchantment real fast.

[@shadowtheimpure]

I would say keep Crusader on a backup weapon for Skull Cavern runs to use on mummy floors.

[@theendofthestart8179]

@@shadowtheimpure ngl if youre spending time hitting stuff with weapons in the skull cavern, youre being very sub optimal.

[@thermophile1695]

Crusader is nice for more casual skull cavern dives, since it makes getting solar essence for mega bombs while in the cavern much easier.

[@theendofthestart8179]

@@thermophile1695 are you really crafting those? yikes man... you can buy them from the dwarf

[@thermophile1695]

@@theendofthestart8179 But I get the materials as I dive.... Gold isn't as useful as Iron and Copper, and if you're killing mummies and serpents, you get plenty of solar and void essence. Saves a ton of gold, since you no longer have to spend tens of thousands buying them.

[@Pirokh]

I recommend Lucky Ring + Iridium Ring. +1 Luck is nothing to scoff at.

[@knndytn]

as for enchantment, if you are a fan of sword, i would prefer crusader enchantment simply because it kill ghosts way faster (sometimes it's very time consuming to wait for them to come close to you after you hit them, also saves you plenty of time when you are farming for omni geodes), kills mummies way faster (yes you can use bomb to farm ores aswell but again, it's time consuming to wait for the bomb to blow). vampiric is a great enchantment by book but in my opinion if you don't have many foods (cheese for example) to fill your heart bar and you rely on the lifesteal, i wouldn't really recommend you to dive into mines on the first place

[@gracegrass4462]

I basically always go for crusader, at least until the mummy Adventurer's Guild quest is done. No way I'm wasting all my bombs on mummies!

[@NHarts3]

I love crusader too! I hate having to deal with mummies otherwise. Crusader sword + slime charmer ring means the only monsters in the skull cavern that do any damage are the serpents which is just fine in my book

[@LOLA-yj9rr]

Lmao

[@JimmyAzmara]

Totally AGREED 👍👌

[@theendofthestart8179]

7:18 you say powerful adds damage when you hit an enemy, when what it does is it adds 2 "Power Levels" to an axe, letting you chop trees in less swings.

[@theendofthestart8179]

Usually this doesn't matter, as with an iridium axe, it will only reduce the hits on hardwood stumps from 3 to 2, and hardwood logs from 6 to 5, HOWEVER, not everyone has a fully upgraded axe, and getting powerful is the same as upgrading your tool.

[@valfefftheone]

Powerful works the same for a pickaxe :) so late game nodes like cindershards, iridium, and radioactive are going to take 1 less swing

[@VivKJean]

this! i love powerful on the axe and pickaxe. with the pickaxe especially you can hit the rocks in the volcano with one hit and same with the harder gold nodes. it’s so OP

[@kyronshadows2910]

Was mildly disappointed that a Powerful Iridium Axe couldn't one shot a tree, it's two swings but still xD

[@lnlonelyness2801]

This is more of an appreciation comment but rings in SDV is one of if not the biggest reasons why I love combat the most in the game, it is simple yet very diverse, you can come up with a lot of combinations, almost like you have a gun loadout in Warzone or something. Here's 4 rings (basically 2 combined rings) I use in certain situations. Day-to-day: Iridium Band, Lucky Ring, Hot Java Ring, Burglar's Ring = really great loadout esp. for people that don't frequent the mines or SC but still want amazing effects. Gives you great lighting and magnetism, damage boost, luck, more loot, and since Coffee or TSE u get from killing monsters with Hot Java Ring already has a significantly high chance, you will never have to worry about slowing down ever again. Combat-specific: A. 2 Iridium Bands, 2 Ruby Rings = very cheap and easy loadout for a straightforwardly good effect, I haven't checked yet if the damage boost stacking is multiplicative (meaning 10% x 10% x 10% x 10%) or additive, but either way it's a load of damage, it defo gives you a lot of breather when dealing with the dangerous version of SC. B. Vampiric Ring, Soul Sapper Ring, Iridium Band, Warrior Ring (alternative: Thorns Ring) = This is really helpful if you don't wanna bring that much food into SC or dangerous Mines, since u gain health and energy back by killing monsters, and if you went with the Thorns Ring alternative, it can be hilarious to see monsters die from reflected pre-mitigation damage and u heal from it. C. Ring of Yoba, Crabshell Ring, Iridium Band, Sturdy Ring = This is more aimed for players who haven't grasped the combat system well yet and just want absolute protection (or just want to not worry about enemies at all so this can be mining-specific as well). Gives u good defense, debuffs are less effective against you (like the slimes' -4 Speed slow), and if u get knocked out, you revive for 50% hp once per day. D. Warrior Ring, Savage Ring, Iridium Band, any ring of choice (sometimes it's Ruby Ring for me but it's really up to your preference) = This loadout makes killing monsters give you the definition of an adrenaline junkie: a chance for you getting +10 Attack from the Warrior Ring, and +3 Speed from Savage Ring for a few seconds. Mining-specific: A. 2 Crabshell Rings, 2 Lucky Rings = if you don't care about using your pickaxe and just wanna bomb everything, this niche loadout can be effective. +10 Defense (and assuming u have Dragonscale Boots) will mean regular Bombs only deal 1 Damage to you, and 5 from Mega Bombs. Good luck finding an extra Lucky Ring, but once you do you probably won't need to use Pickaxes at the end game with this loadout. B. Slime Charmer Ring, Napalm Ring, Burglar's Ring, Lucky Ring = This is for when u wanna just get loads of loot, and the combination of Slime Charmer + Napalm Ring means you pretty much have moving Cherry Bombs, the Napalm Ring also makes Crusader a bit obsolete towards mummies so if you're going for this loadout, make sure you don't have the Crusader enchant on your main weapons. Miscellaneous and Pacifism: A. 2 Iridium Bands, 2 Glowstone Rings = Salmence already mentioned the absurd amount of light and magnetism with this loadout, but this is actually also useful for radioactive ore farming. Just head to floor 1 of the dangerous version of the Mines, use your slingshot with Explosive Ammo towards any Radioactive Node u find, and you don't even have to move from the ladder to get the Radioactive ore because of the immense magnetism, then just leave the floor and repeat. B. 2 Amethyst Rings, 2 Iridium Bands = If you just want the satisfaction of knocking the monsters away to the rings of Saturn, then enchant your weapons with a 3 Amethyst for more Weight, have this loadout, and once your weapon hits them, they will be knocked away so far that they go out of aggro range. There's a lot more possible combinations which, again, is the biggest reason why I love the combat mechanic so much.

[@kaylaquinn5047]

This comment, so detailed and informative and I love how you categorized all the combos for certain situations. Thank you so much for the time you put into this comment. I'm gonna rule skull cavern now lol

[@lnlonelyness2801]

@@kaylaquinn5047 no problem :3 I probably should've mentioned more combinations but I'll let people figure out the rest themselves with this foundational knowledge ig

[@kaylaquinn5047]

@@lnlonelyness2801 the stardew wiki helped a lot for me when I got into the later game in terms of rings and combos that just made common sense, like the vampire and soul sapper being a common sense combo. For me the hardest part has just been trying to find certain rings, like no lucky rings, no napalm, no hot java, no savage, ive never gotten these among some others and I've had really good luck days and included buffs and still nothing! So I'm aggravated with that part.

[@ImprovingAndEnjoyingLife]

@@kaylaquinn5047 can you tell where is the place the forge I can't find in the map

[@kaylaquinn5047]

@@ImprovingAndEnjoyingLife not sure what you're asking

[@PlushMari]

On the topic of enchanting tools, it can be slightly controlled. I don't know if the pattern is based by the day or if auto generated via seed. If you don't like the enchant you get on a tool, restart the day and enchant another tool. It will reset all other tools to a different enchantment! Saves a lot of shards this way :>

[@jacksonpercy8044]

Very nice tip!

[@heatherschulz1458]

Oh. My. God. I always forget to restart especially terrible days. I had to do that to finally get a second snake vertebra... ugh

[@HommeGallium]

Basically like minecraft enchants. Got it!

[@WyattUTFT]

Mouseypounds stardew predictor lets you see what you’ll get if you upload your save. I believe it’s based on the seed and then just advances once with every successive enchant. Day does not impact it

[@TheKidman5]

the very first enchant i believe is guaranteed to be either crudader/vampiric, not 100% sure on this

[@Ikine557]

I find that the Crusader perk on the sword is very useful for farming cloth from mummies. Cloth sells for decent money, is loved by Emily, and is necessary if you want to craft all the clothing items.

[@LakePlacidBear]

This! I feel like cloth is like one of the most overlooked money maker in the game. Monster musk + burglar ring combo, run the pyramid floor and you guys will see my point - crazy amount of clothes by the end of the day. Even without the musk, I can easily get 15~20 clothes each run on average. 600+ gold each with artisan profession is no joke.

[@GulayBeans]

Just bring a slingshot with explosive rounds, no need to pass on a better enchantment like vampiric.

[@Ikine557]

@@GulayBeans Fair. I don't like to be constantly making ammo, but that's a me thing.

[@GulayBeans]

@@Ikine557 its pretty easy since at the point you reach the forge you'd have a ton of cash to burn, that you can self sustain your explosive ammo and buy loads from adventurers guild

[@Ikine557]

@@GulayBeans True. But killing them with the sword is just so *satisfying.* Like I said, it's a me thing lol.

[@tripplec6798]

Was confused about the prismatic shards in the forge and had zero clue about the weapon reskin ability of it. With this guide I can actually use the forge properly now. Many thanks.

[@akcalo]

So excited I just got to the forge yesterday. Can't wait to start combining stuff

[@bbaaiilleeyy]

By far the most informational video about the forge. This helped me understand it!

[@princeasiedu6495]

thank you salmence I found ur channel not long ago but to be honest you've been very helpful. You are my SV teacher now

[@GemR38]

This was the video I needed as the forge confuses me. Thank you. 🙂

[@cosmickatamari]

Just got the forge last night, this is super helpful!

[@AnUnnaturalNaturalDisaster]

I have the crusader enchant and I love it bc it rlly helps with those annoying ass mummy levels. I hate getting crowded by them.

[@theendofthestart8179]

Just wanted to say that I loved the video, even if some of my other comments are hostile, I love that you went out of your way to talk about the other uses of cinder shards even though they aren't really related to the forge, Huge props and obviously you care about this game and the community, very based.

[@salmence100]

They aren't hostile, correcting information that I get wrong is important! I want to make sure that everyone is getting the right info!

[@lilysmith1673]

@@salmence100 youre sooo wholesome :) please keep being you!

[@blueblitzblaze]

thank you so much for making this video, I have been looking everywhere for how to make fishing easier.

[@samgram.x8040]

you’re my go to when i’m confused about game mechanics!! thank youu❤❤❤❤

[@cdncowguru]

Thank you, this was s helpful! I didn't know you could enchant your tools as well!

[@nathancarver7179]

Powerful enhantment on the Pickaxe can be good for the skull caverns. Remember, it increases the tool's effect on its respective resources, which, for the pickaxe, means rocks take less swings to be destroyed. The wiki confusingly labels this bonus as "more damage to ..." when it's.. not, exactly damage in the way most players think it is. Powerful on the axe is a little silly though, I agree there.

[@jiveformula4316]

Nice quality video, keep up the good work

[@lexcult]

i finally understand the forge omg tysm

[@talmagejones]

Had no idea about the unforge option. Thanks!

[@mrheyzeus]

Can we just talk about how fire the music is in the volcano

[@ashdcookie]

Immunity is the chance you negate a status effect like being slowed from the slimes. Not how long it lasts. Also the cinderclown shoes and the immunity band will get you +9 (10 being max). I like the mermaid boots the most.

[@chibigirl8545]

You can reskin boots as well in the sewing machines

[@hannes8835]

This video is very helpful. Thank you very much.

[@lariiin21]

Powerful is actually useful for pickaxes as it minimizes the amount of hits you need for rocks. I've found it quite useful.

[@RyoneFuushiba]

I personally like having a singular crusader weapon. Not as my main weapon, usually a spare sword or something, but I like having it just so I don't find myself cornered by mummies in the cavern. Also the fact that it does double damage to said mummies, whom tend to drop cloths on death along with the profession to increase artisan goods makes mummies a surprise quick money maker if you like combat.

[@rellimarual]

I try to get crusader on a dagger I wouldn't otherwise use and then switch back and forth depending on what kind of floor it is

[@creppypastaGirl1]

❤️❤️ i’m new and i totally love it!

[@tantheman0921]

Thanks for this 👍 I just got to the forge today and im saving my prismatic shards and cinder shards. I unlocked the door to the forge and the bridge so I dont have to use my watering can to enter the volcano. I have 4 prismatic shards

[@jellybeandotcom6498]

Keep up the good work!

[@tobyfinchghost]

i have my iridium band combined with my lucky ring so i have all the glowing / magnet ups as well as extra luck !! and then i typically have my napalm and burglar ring combined since i mine all the time and its good for blowing up rocks in skull caverns :^)

[@Blooprint394]

Great video! I absolutely love all your stardew guides and the entire let's play series^^ it's one of the few let's plays I've watched all the way through and I absolutely love the idea of the perfection run. It is also great to play along side it ^^ Are you planning to upload another stardew let's play? Maybe with the expanded mod? Keep up the great work!

[@salmence100]

Yes I am! I’d like to do a modded playthrough, it’s just a case of deciding which mods

[@alexyalexers]

Powerful makes it take less swings to break open rocks or trees depending on the tool you are using

[@Liduha13]

And thank you for making this video 👍

[@Sirdirt-iu4kt]

great video. personally i like crusader so i can save bombs as i am not that far into the end game

[@gunawanputera6443]

Slightly correction on powerful enchantment on pickaxe is not for attacking, but decrease hit on node/rocks example with iridium pickaxe, you need to hit iridium node 4 times to break, with powerful enchantment you only need 3 times,

[@gunawanputera6443]

For me the combine rings is Iridium band + lucky ring : a very good one, and if you have two it gonna make game far more easier, the only down side is lucky ring is very hard to find and very based on luck Hot java ring + bulgar ring : gave you insane amount coffee, again only downside hot java ring only found in chest on volcano mine

[@hannnix4913]

That intro was just PERFECT 👌 AHHHHHH

[@ropeburn6684]

Galaxy souls can also be obtained in the dangerous mines, or during the Danger in the Deep and Skull Cavern Invasion quests. They're rare dangerous monster drops, sometimes even in big slimes. Be aware that you also need to kill 50 dangerous monsters for being able to buy them in Qi's walnut room. However, that's more or less just a technicality. They're really rare drops, and just doing Qi quests for buying them is the more reliable and faster method by far.

[@GoonManGuy]

I can't remember where I got this idea from (either Salmence or Floydson), but a possible use for Crusader would be putting it on a dagger and using its special attack to fight ghosts, drastically cutting down on the amount of times they are pushed away from the player.

[@raggedcaster123]

I like the slime ring cuz I don’t wanna be attacked by slimes, they can deal a lot of damage if they are purple slimes or tiger slimes

[@braderbell6814]

Crusader enchantment is pretty great for skull cavern. not as good as artful, but it's worth keeping if you dont have enough prismatic shards to keep rerolling Also... Powerful is in fact the best pickaxe enchantment! it gives the pickaxe +1 power which is equivalent to a blacksmith upgrade level allows you to break rocks in volcano dungeon in 1 hit instead of 2, and break iridium nodes in 3 hits instead of 4

[@Mr.Eivier]

So powerful is acutally good. It doesnt just increase power but it also gives more damage to rocks. So example is the rocks in the volcano take 2 hits with an iridium picaxe but with powerful it will only take 1. Its pretty nice.

[@darkshibe2267]

I think I ran Iridium Band + Lucky Ring, and Slime Rancher + Lucky Ring. All that luck is super nice, and I just love not having to worry about slime damage for skull cavern runs. I ran swift on the axe and pickaxe because you can tear through things quickly,. Then I ran reaching on the hoe and watering can so that at the start of the season I could immediately for iridium sprinklers. Fishing I went with the extra level.

[@LyricTheEnby]

My favorite ring combos: Savage+Vampire I don’t like to use too many healing items because guess what? Cheese is worth a lot of money. Also, +2 speed makes you feel extremely powerful. Slime Charmer+Napalm Like, half the damage I take in the caverns are from slimes. Also, rocks go boom. That’s really it.

[@LilLaurasaurus]

Time to go make my galaxy sword look like the meowmere sword 😂 im so glad you can do that

[@elliottduffey4240]

Pretty sure powerful on the axe and pickaxe allows more than just more damage in combat, it makes it do more damage to trees/rocks when you cut it down/mine it. Honestly might be the best one for each.

[@miyazakiendo3743]

I don't know why, but I really like to struggle in the game. I'll do the infinite galaxy sword as I always like to go mining. Once you actually get all the stuffs and reaching so much early in the game, it would be boring after that. I won't get the bottomless watering can, as I barely use them also. 😂 hopefully concernedape will still update this, esp there's forging involve. His name is so addicting I'll be sad if he doesn't want to update it anymore.

[@HeyGamingHere]

You can also get Galaxy souls from the danger in the deep quest from slimes

[@calamaribowl8683]

The qi gem duplication exploit REALLY helps with getting infinity weapons

[@brianbread7698]

Oh wait what!

[@emmettomeara1910]

Powerful adds damage when breaking things, not fighting enemies. It reduces the number of hits needed to down a tree or stump or rock.

[@anikadaimaginative3020]

Crabshell ring is op, I wore two crabshell rings and my space boots and just walked to the end eating only one salad on my first volcano run. Each defense point means that monsters deal one point less damage. They’d have to land like a million more hits to kill you, with 4 out of 8 of the types of monsters doing only one damage per hit. That’s why, for mines/volcano/cavern, I just wear two crabshell+iridium combo rings if I want to speed run it (actually for mines this is overkill, burglar is better, unless you just don’t care and are mining out gold from floor 80 while ignoring the monsters).

[@WarrioruwuSociety]

if your luck is high enough have the drop ring you can get galaxy souls from the Qi updated mine shaft monsters. i just cant remember if its specifically the shadow beings or the star qi slimes

[@LilMxShivani]

3:55 I know I'm super late but here's a small correction ( In case anyone new, like me, is watching this video ); You can actually get Galaxy Souls in two other ways. 1. " After killing at least 50 Dangerous Monsters [1], Galaxy Souls can also be purchased from Island Trader on the last day of a season for Radioactive Bar.png Radioactive Bar (10). " - The Wiki And 2. They can actually be a dropped item when killing said dangerous monsters. I found this out myself through my own playthrough, and now I have 2 Galaxy Souls as a result. ( Both I've gotten from the Mines with the shrine on )

[@igorrogaski3357]

I changed the look of my Galaxy Sword to a different one. If I want to upgrade it to Infinity Blade, will the skin I previously chose stay?

[@MalekitGJ]

Small correction here: Powerful add +1 power level to the tool, meaning that a fully upgraded Axe can chop a tree in 1 hit instead of 2 (pretty useless if you ask me); but gives the biggest improvement to the Pickaxe, a 24hp rock (volcano) would require 5 swings from a iridium pickaxe, would fall to 4 with powerful. A node that requires 8 swings would fall to 5~6, and so on. I think you made a table on the Mining video, just instead of dividing by 5 (iridium) you do it with 6.

[@HardlightMari]

powerfull enchantments dont just make them deal more damage, but add an additional power level to the tool. So things like breaking rocks and cutting trees take less swings. still not as good as the other options but not as bad as they seem initially.

[@idiotically-everything]

My go to is slime charmer ring + lucky ring and iridium band + burglar's ring

[@sobblegaming350]

This video was very helpful. However some people have managed to predict enchants on the stardew valley predictor.

[@jacksonpercy8044]

That definitely makes things easier

[@klaudia2141]

You can also get galaxy souls spawning from killing Qi slimes during the dangerous mine quest! That's how I got all of them.

[@brickbot2.038]

Oh man, I thought you could only prismatic shards in the forge, so I never upgraded anything. Knowing that common gems do stuff too, I might have to revisit it!

[@BigIndianBindi-jy1cz]

Just got to the forge, right at 1:50am. Had no idea what it was and was not prepared.

[@Ejb5154]

4:00 You can (very rarely) have enemies in the dangerous mines/skull cavern drop Galaxy Souls.

[@QiraTane]

Thanks a lot

[@wasd1571]

powerful on Pickaxe make it break normal Ginger Island stone with one shot and Cinder Shard with two i think it pretty good.

[@Urxryzudzruzzrirzruzuztutzitz]

5:33 I love the haymaker. When using it on fibre, it has a chance of dropping hay and a 100% chance of dropping fibre. I repeatedly go to lvl 81 of the mines and get 100s of fibre amd hay by the end of the day. Im trying to get all of ginger island and the greenhouse full of 100% retaining soil, so im runnomg low on fibre. I have 84 animals ( 4 coops and 3 barns ) so the good chance of hay is very useful. Edit It would be especially useful in winter.

[@windflier1684]

You could just plant fiber seed, 250 seed for 1000 fibers, no need for any mine diving or watering

[@Urxryzudzruzzrirzruzuztutzitz]

@@windflier1684 I'm trying to get all of my ginger island farm and greenhouse filled with 100% water retaining soil, so I can't afford 1 clay, 5 sap and 1 mixed seed to make 4 fibre seeds. I don't have a mushroom cave so I can put the mushrooms in a seed maker to get mixed seeds. On top of that, I have 12 rabbits 12 dinosaurs 12 void chickens 12 blue chickens 35 pigs 1 ostrich. Or 84 overall. And I'm on 4 corners and I'm trying to make my farm beautiful, so I'm only using 1corner for farming.

[@eichiandoro2908]

Does the Galaxy Soul enhancement keep the upgrades the Galaxy weapons had or does it reset them?

[@KingBram1]

5:38 crusaders is recommended because it killsmummies without them reviving, and making it not use bombs to kill them completely.

[@dr4g00nk1d]

i assume powerful buffs on the tools makes it so youll use less hits to break stuff so its just as good as even the swing fast buff... its not for attacking just less actions on higher tiered trees/rocks

[@Be_An_Esther]

Can you use dragon tooth at the forge for anything?

[@federicolepix3918]

you can olny use prismatic shard to improve the tools? I only have 4 of them.

[@sicilyfranklin3157]

Me, fixing to combine the iridium ring and the slime charmer ring. No regrets.

[@efsdafjhdkffjhskskd]

u dont just get galaxy souls by buying them, but in the "danger in the deep" quest, i got all 3 galaxy souls without buying a single one

[@ADDICTb2st]

I have combined Lucky Ring and Burglar Ring - best decision ever since more drops from Mobs. Also hates Slimes so bad so I combined my Iridium band with the Slime Charmer Ring so I am invincible with slime attacks.

[@aruaruru624]

the ring combos are so vast that i struggle to decide what i want sometimes! i always have an iridium band combined with a lucky ring (on my perfection file i literally spent DAYS farming for one while on my coop farm with my partner i got one randomly in the regular mines and my partner got one a few in game months later from a breakable box in the skull caverns??? wheres the justice...) but for the second ring option im usually always changing it. ive read other comments saying burglars ring and lucky ring is good! but i very much like being able to ignore slimes so i eventually settled on burglars ring + slime charmer. (my perfection file i wanted to do a little bit of everything so i have a slime hutch so it was also bc of that...) but in my day to day i wear double iridium band + lucky ring (bc yes i eventually got one from one of my skull cavern dives). as for weapons, i only recently swapped to trying to use the galaxy hammer and i cannot WAIT until we unlock the forge on my coop play bc the long CD of the special skill is killing me. but another thing i personally hate is bombing mummies so my plan is to put crusader on my galaxy sword! its just nice to not have to bomb them bc i . forget to bring bombs a lot...

[@Corvuscorax4321]

Nah i LOVE the crusader enchantment. The mummy floors in the skull cavern used to be my worst nightmare, but now they're a breeze. Esp in combination with the napalm ring, since mummies swarm you reliably instead of circling/bouncing like serpents or ghosts, you can save up on bombs by just going to the rocks you want to break, get swarmed by mummies, slay them quickly so they explode, and get both monster loot and staircases+ ore quickly. Mummies are by far the best monster to utilize the napalm ring with imo, so crusader is S tier to me

[@ironwolf5802]

I had accidentally got a Vampiric fishing pole. Don't remember why I even thought to put the fishing pole in to see what happened, but I did and kept it to say I have a vampire pole.

[@samuelabarca8071]

I combine my iridium band with my lucky ring I don't know if the lucky ring is actually doing stuff but it's nice to have the extra space

[@timlumberry5432]

You can also get Galaxy Souls from the Island Trader at the end of every season.

[@sylvanaswindrunner4357]

Crusader is great for the mummy kill quest

[@quinten7064]

Add 3 defense gems to a dwarf dagger and keep it next to ur food, come in clutch if you get nuked by a ton of mobs.

[@be4nis92]

Genuine question: What's the point of swift when you can animation cancel?

[@user-kf5bq6lh7p]

Is it okay to use multiple gems on a single weapon? Or am I stuck at for example, Jade is the first one i forged it with ?

[@Endrow_]

you can get a rare galaxy soul drop in qi's ''danger in the deep'' quest

[@pulsefel9210]

would it be a good idea to have a different weapon with crusader just to take out the annoying mummies?

[@Liduha13]

I’m so early 😅 gonna watch this for education 😆

[@alittlebitoddish]

I've gotten a galaxy soul the other day from giant slimes in the skull cavern lol