How to Skull Cavern | Stardew Valley 1.6

let's talk about how to skull Cavern in Star Val 1.6 with the new release of 1.6 there's tons of new items and elements added to staru Valley that will now change the way we can tackle and dominate this dungeon I'm going to share with you beginner Advanced and legendary tips on how you can come in here and absolutely tear through this dungeon like it's Child's Play There's Now new rewards added to skull Cavern for every 100 Floors you ass send I'm going to show you the best ways to get down to those floors but first let's start at the beginning and we'll work our way up slowly but surely the first thing we have to do to unlock skull Cavern is either clear out of the Vault bundles or go to the Georgia out here and unlock the bus for 40,000 gold now that would just give you access to the desert to get into the actual skull Cavern itself you just have to get down to floor 120 in the regular mines pick up the skull key and you can now do the skull Cavern every single day you can do it as much as your heart desires but the skull Cavern is no easy feat for beginners there's a few items I recommend you take before you go into the first is to maximize your inventory space get the two backpack upgrades now the second backpack upgrade does cost 10,000 gold that can be quite a lot for beginner players but it is absolutely worth it because when you go into this called Cavern there are so many different items you can pick up if you don't go in with all of the backpack upgrades you're going to spend half of your time trying to figure out out what to throw away and what to keep I recommend at least a steel pickaxe going into the skot cavern reason being it just takes two swings and a steel pickaxe to break open a regular node It's also two swings for a gold so my advice is to go from steel and then when you have the resources try to chain upgrade to an aridium pickaxe if you select the mushroom cave it is worth your while to now keep all of those mushrooms especially the ones that are needed to make life alexir I'm going to show you a little life alexir Farm later on in the video if you pick up jeds rubies or diamonds absolutely keep those as well you'll need us later on for staircases spicy eids and triple shot espressos they would be the basics of how you can succeed in the skull Cavern you should also be focusing on Monster eradication goals to unlock some of the very powerful Rings the game has to offer and if you don't have a whole lot of money to spend you should also make your way down into the mid level of the mines and start farming up coal and ores so you can make yourself some bombs to make bombs you need a mining level of six so I would strive for that before you start venturing into this SK Cavern you should also focus on leveling up your combat skill the higher your combat level the higher your HP and trust me you want to go into this SK Cavern with lots of HP because the enemies hit quite hard when you get level two combat you learn the recipe for the life alexir you get it quite early which is good that means you can focus and G mushrooms for this and saving them up so when the time comes you can spam life alexir when you get level five mining I recommend the Minor Park for beginners because the extra ores means extra bars for you and aridium bars early on sell for quite a lot of money 1,000 gold if you have the blacksmith Park 1,500 gold I recommend to always take the fighter for beginner level combat players you can always go Scout later when you have a more advanced setup when you get specific rings specific perks skull can be quite fun the Critical Strike builds are actually quite fun level six mining does give it the bomb and that is the minimum requirement in my opinion for starting skull Cavern runs the charity bomb is also quite useful so if you have some copper ORS lying around I recommend you make a few of those just for blowing up the mummies earlier in the game The Mummies do drop cloth drop minor treats and they do yield some decent combat experience so they are worth farming if you have some cherry bombs to spare now you will occasionally come across copper and iron in the SK Caverns so if you do run out of bombs do not worry you can make more bombs as you go along for the life X you need a red and purple mushroom a moral and a Chantell you can get all of those using mushroom logs and I'm going to show you some pretty cool mushroom log setups in a few minutes it's also worth going to Ghost and purchasing some salads if you can afford them 220 gold will get you one salad it heals you for 50 health and that's very nice starting off of the game I would recommend you get at least 25 of these salads before you do your first skull Cavern run if you can afford more I'd get them if you're low on cash I recommend going to floor 60 in the regular mines and just fishing up some ghostfish it is quite easy to get perfect catches on these and an aridium star goldfish will give you 44 Health which is very nice indeed now if you have trouble pulling up a huge amounts of ghostfish don't worry just make yourself a bait maker put some ghost fish inside and reap the rewards once you have all of those items assembled it's worth going out to the desert a few days or the day before you do a SK Cavern run and just purchase some warp totems for some Omni geod if you have them you can get Omni geod in the regular versions of the mines you could home up from the ground as well look for the book of power called Jack B nimble Jack B thick you can get this from Hing up the ground just gives a plus one to defense it is a game changer at start the game also try to get to dwarf Scrolls as quickly as you can to get the dwarf's transation Guide this way you can have a chat with the lovely dwarf and you can purchase some of his wees he does sell the dwarvish safety manual now it does cost 4,000 gold if you can afford it I recommend it because bombs deal 25 less damage to you so you're not hurting yourself as much when you get CAU in your own explosions he also sells bombs but they're now more expensive than what they used to be so I would only recommend you purchase bombs when you're making hundreds of thousands of gold when you're in the end game for now you're better off to just make them check the tell in the morning time if you have a lucky or a Super Lucky Day pop that warp totem straight away and go to the desert the warp totems are great because you can go at 6:00 instead of 10:00 for the bus purchase some trip shot espressos and spicy eels from the mineral you've collected and then stroll down into skull Caverns now if you get long windy floors like this starting out I just recommend you transverse them don't try to waste energy or Papa staircase you're always going to get cold at the end which is great you need coal to make bombs if you see staircases just take them try to get down as quickly as possible the serpents can be quite the trait at the start but now concerned AP has added some improved combat mechanics and Swinging downwards now has an increased range so the serpents aren't as bad as they used to be if you see iron ores I would prioritize them early on because you will eventually run out of bombs when you start getting to the good aridium ores and if you have some iron ores in reserve you can make a lot more bombs and that would sustain you for much longer in the skull Cavern all of the enemies in the skull Cavern drop specific items the serpents can drop spicy eels the mummies can drop Miner streats the crabs can drop crab cakes so the skull Cavern is everything you need to Tri just like Georgia you will occasionally see armored bulks in the Cavern they are invincible but you can get some enchants that are on that can wipe them out such as the buat killer you're also going to come across purple slimes and giant purple slimes it is worth killing them sometimes because they can occasionally drop rudor and other goodies all of the enemies in this called Caverns to be honest with you have a chance to drop Prismatic shards and other goodies as well if you see clumps of or light D it is worth putting on a bomb and just getting those resources iron and gold is still quite valuable you need those to make a lot of items in the future gold for example is needed to make crystarium iron is needed to make kegs quality sprinklers if you come across small Ambush floors like this I do recommend just killing the enemies and then popping the staircase naturally instead of using up one of the staircases that you made the dinosaurs are also quite rare in skull Cavern so it is worth killing them just to get those monster eradications gos unlocked anyway what you're seeing right now is an uncut version of me going into this SK Cavern for the very first time with just some of the basic resources so I just have a couple of bombs I've got a few staircases just in case I get some really bad Ambush rooms I don't want to waste a whole lot of time in those rooms if I come across diamonds it is a godsent not only can you trade that in for a triple shot espresso you can also sell it for 750 gold and you also get a lot of mining experience for breaking open diamonds so if you do see a diamond in the SC Cavern it is still precious you should absolutely collect it if you have the time to spare you will occasionally come across holes in the SK Cavern and a hole can drop you down up to a maximum of 15 levels so you can actually get quite lucky and you could find yourself literally just flying through floors very quickly if luck is on your side you will occasionally come across barrels in the skull Cavern if you see them wipe them out there is a chance you could get a lucky ring in one of these barrels but the luck ring is incredibly rare but you'd be very surprised after you whack open enough these barrels you might just get one now you can also pan it up and I will show you some really good panning spots later on in the video and I'll show you how easy it is to get lucky ring as of patch 1.6 now when you're in the SK Cavern keep an eye on your Buffs triple shot expresso buff is always the first to go so if you find your character slow down pop another one straight away the faster your character the easier it is to evade a l of enemies meaning you're taking less damage you're using less resources to heal yourself you don't want to be spamming salads every few seconds you know it's also what remembering too that if you do get swarmed by monsters and your health gets low you can very easy go into your start menu it will pause the game for you just take a few deep breaths relax and then just pop a healing item everything is going to be okay most of the enemies in the SK Cavern are quite slow they are quite easy to evade even the mummies are quite slow now they do hit hard so you have to be careful especially on the smaller levels where you don't have a whole lot of room to evade them if you ever find yourself cornered my advice is to just kill the mummy if you have a cherry bomb detonated and get some nice XP and rewards in the process so we're now on the floor 20s and we just found some aridium ore the further you get down the more aridium or you're going to find and this is one of the main reasons you come into this Cavern it's to farm hundreds and thousands of aridium ores because you can use that to turn into aridium bears you can sell those bears for lots of money or you can use those Bears to make a lot of the end game items the game has to offer now when you jump down holes depending on how deep the hole was you will lose health so just be careful when you drop to the next floor sometimes serpents literally come out of nowhere and they could snipe you to death so when you do drop down a hole check your health straight away also if your health is very low and you do see a hole sometimes it's good to just top your heal up before you go down so you don't land on some dangerous scenarios at the moment we're doing quite well we have descended a good few levels and it's only 11:40 so it's still the morning time this run turns out to be a very good run and it was my very first time to come in here now you could come in here and it could be a terrible run for you even though you could come in here on a very lucky day sometimes the luck just isn't there don't be afraid to reset the day and save on your precious resources because sometimes it can take a very long time to save up the bombs save up the healables save up those rubies and diamonds to get those triple shot espressos and buff boots so if you do come in here and you're only on floor maybe 5 or 10 and it's already halfway through the day consider just restarting the day and just coming back in now I'm using the obsidium edge at the moment it's not the best weapon in the game but it will do the job for you when you're very trudos Cavern it will wipe out the enemies it does take a good few swings but you'll get there if you're not very good at combat you could always just save up for a couple of more weeks or months and you could treat yourself to a lavic tana and you can get that inside the adventur skill now it does cost a lot of money I think it's over 20 grand but it is a very nice weapon and it is in my opinion just as good as the Galaxy weapons it does give a nice defense stat as well now since patch 1.6 has hit the Prismatic Shard has become ever so slightly rarer it used to be more common but concerned ape has nerfed it a little bit so my advice is that when you get the first Prismatic Shard swap that in straightway for a Galaxy weapon you will get the Galaxy sword but it will unlock the Galaxy series inside Adventure skill so you can choose between the dagger The Sword and the hammer now you will have to purchase those weapons using money but the options are there for you if you want to swap around your playy in the future but when you do get your hands on the Galaxy sword it does make combat a lot easier because the sword has some very good attack power stats and it's also very quick you should also consider going back to the regular mines and completing a lot of the monster eradication goals there's a lot of overpowered rings in this game there's a lot of rings that would make life much easier for you the crabshell ring for example it gives a plus five defense if you combine the two of those together on different ring slots that's a plus 10 defense there's very very few enemies in this game that would hit you for more than a few pieces of damage if you had two of those rings on you've also got a slime charm ring for killing slimes that makes you immune to allim damage the burglar ring gives you a much greater item drop chance from enemies so there's loads of different combinations that you can go with now I'll show you a few combinations in this video that I like to use and I'll explain my reasoning for it but everyone has their own personal preferences when it comes to combat builds Stu Valley is an dep game it does have a lot of combat configurations it also has high crit builds it has speed builds it has tank builds and all of those builds can be overpowered depending on what kind of endgame items you got now what I'm doing here now is I'm prioritizing these armored crabs because I find these one of the toughest enemies to clear for Monster eradication goals and I do want that crab sheling for myself especially starting out in a skull Cavern so if I do see iridium crabs or any sort of crab enemy I do destroy it the crabs can also drop crab cakes it's a plus one speed and a plus one defense it's not bad it gives you a speed buff and a defense buff now the spicy eel gives you a speed buff and a luck buff so you're trading the luck for defense but if you don't have the greatest of combat skills if your health is quite low it is worth taking survivability is of course the most important stat when it comes to hitting the skull Cavern luck is great too but you should always prioritize your survival over anything else if you want to make the most out of a skull Cavern run at the moment we're on 73 inside skull Cavern it's only 10 3 so we're doing really well and we still have lots of bombs left if we do run out of bombs we have gathered a lot of iron ores now we can easily make more bombs to replenish our stocks that will sustain us quite well now there are enchants and Rings we can get in the future that will make killing some of these enemies trivial the Crusader enchant will absolutely annihilate all of these Undead enemies the ghosts the mummies it will just literally kill them in a few hits if you put them on a good weapon like an Infinity weapon or a Galaxy weapon the ghosts can drop some really nice items they can drop lots of amni geod which is great traded in for more desert warp totems you can also trade in the Omni geod for Treasure troves and you need those to get some really cool artifacts if you're going for Perfection the naam ring is also a magnificent ring that causes enemies to explode upon dead that will also pack in the momies as well for you I find that when you get past 4or 50 you will occasionally start to see aridium nose you might not see them in great amounts but you will see the occasional one here and there so your chances of getting that Prismatic Shard greatly increase now I do hit a lot of aridian Nords today I end up maybe one or two Prismatic shards that have become quite rare but you will get one eventually so don't worry about it I've just run out of bombs but I have iron ores that will allow me to make 12 more bombs which is pretty nice and that's why it's so important to come in here when you have at least a mining level of six so you can make those bombs because if I didn't have the ability to make those bombs I'd be stuck using my pickaxe all the time and it's to swings per node and you wouldn't make half the progress you could make with bombs it's just so nice to just blow everything up those aridium nodes require a lot of strikes as well with a steal pickaxe it's at least five strikes to break One open so if you do see iron ores even if you get down deep you should definitely prioritize them as we can see I'm still putting bombs down between gold ores and iron ores because I need them when you get a higher mining skill you will learn the mega bomb now you do need gold or to make that you also need some solar Essences but you do get those inside here quite a lot and solar Essences do drop from the ghosts and from the mummies so you can quite easily stock up on Mega bombs too in the future and they're very nice they have a much greater blast radius and because you can now get the book of power from the dwarf that reduces bomb damage they're not too bad when you take damage from one at 25% is pretty good when it comes to doing the most successful skull C runs the main stat you want to focus on is luck the more luck you come in here with the more success you're going to find the more odds that you're going to find a stair case or a hole that means you can get down deeper you're going to get a lot more resources and you can actually do it extraordinarily well now with all the new items added to the game I'm going to show you all of the new luck buff items that have been added I'm going to show you a super crazy luck build towards the end of the video it's just absolutely insane for now though we're going to stick with our uncut version of progressing through our very first skull Cavern the main reason why I'm showing you a full uncut version is because I've received out of comments from people wanting uncut versions of things they want to see how I tackle something from the startup day to the finish so I'm going to show you the full day of this but the future SC Cav runs I'll just show you some Snippets I also want to prove to people that you don't need to come down to this SK Cavern when you have maxed out skills and hundreds of bombs you can come down here with just a handful of things and you can do very well it's not as hard as people make out now when you get past a certain floor I believe it's floor 50 the regular bats get replaced with aridium bats now those things hit like trucks if you think the serpents are bad the idum bats have a lot more HP they're a lot more ferocious they're a tad bit slower so they're much easier to repel but when you get attacked by a huge flock of them it can be quite demanding stay alive but I'm a big believer in no risk no reward if you do destroy idium bats they can drop some pretty cool things they can drop energy tonics it gives you back a ton of health and a ton of energy they also drop battery packs and you need those to make aridium spring and crystarium so obviously when you're coming down to this SK Caverns you're going to be getting resources that will help you make those that's going to make your life back in the farm way easier we're now getting lots over rum ORS we're getting lots of gold we're getting lots of everything because we're getting down deeper so a lot more resources are becoming available to us the serpents now and idium bats pose a great tra especially when you have to fight them together but just keep your cool swing when they get close eventually they will die as I said the obsidian sword it's not a bad weapon it will do the deed for you just give it a chance now we have gotten past L 25 that means we will get 10,000 gold in the mail from Mr key and it's very nice to get that especially if you can come in here in Spring and you can grab that 10,000 gold for summer and that is a tactic I always try to do during any my playthroughs because it's a lot of money at the started game and it does give you quite a number of options that you can utilize in summer for example starfruit now we are down on floor 101 we've just got our first chest and every time we get to floor 100 you are absolutely guaranteed that chest if you make it to floor 200 you will get two chests and if you make it to floor 300 you will get three chests but beware if you make to floor 400 you will not get any additional chests you actually won't get anything you're just going to get a random Soul Cav floor that might not even be a treasure room so the perks are there for the 100 200 and 300 floors but you don't get anything extra when you get to floor 100 so just beware of that when you're spamming staircases my advice is to stop after you've hit floor 300 and just start farming as per usual there isn't much beyond that to be honest with you but the time you get down to floor 300 there's going to be iridium ores iron ores there's going to be all manner of minerals all over the place feed the farm with bombs now for those of you who are unfamiliar with skull Cavern who don't like going to skull Cavern if you die it is not the end of the world if you slay a thousand monsters in this game you can get access to a back room in the adventures Guild inside lies a book of power the book will give you a 50% discount on Maryland's retrieval service if you lost something precious do not worry concerned AP has now made the game a little bit more forgiving when it comes to getting knocked out in the SK Cavern or any other place for that matter so it's not the end of the world if you get knocked out you can get your items back don't worry about it if you're on the bench about C called Cavern already my advice is just come in and see what happens as long as you bring in healables that's that's the very minimum requirement just bring in some salads or some ghostfish with you or some mushrooms and you'll be fine there'll be no hassle when you're inside a skull Cavern time goes a little bit slower so you actually have a lot more time in here to farm the resources before you go unconscious my advice is to never leave this place when it gets close to 2:00 just stay here pass out and take the hit you could lose some money but it's worth spending extra time in there especially if you're on a roll and you're getting down into the deep floors and you're getting some decent resources just stay here pass out all you're going to lose potentially lose is money you won't use any of the items that you picked up sometimes you can get warp totems back to the farm if you have a warp totem back to the farm you could activate that at 10 minutes to two and just run into your house to save on the money but if you don't have warp TOS back to the farm just stay here until you pass out it's going to be all right if you have a lot of money on you and you're worried about losing a few thousand gold you can always just invest it spend it on crops plant the crops I only have 123 gold at the moment blow it all on salad so when you pass out you have nothing to worry about the most they could Billy there would maybe be 10 or 20 gold which is pennies at this stage of the game the great thing about serpents is that they always make a big hissing sound before they actually come at you so even when you hear that hissing sound you don't see them on the screen just brace yourself they are coming they are quite fast if a serpent ever takes you from behind Don't Panic just push the right click on your mouse if you have a sword out you will do a Parry if you have a hammer out you'll do a ground slam and you will repel them back so you don't have to take back damage at all so I'm out of regular bombs now at the moment I'm using cherry bombs now cherry bombs only have very small explosive radius however it's still a bomb and it will still one shot any node that I put in there so charry bombs are still quite useful and if I have copper ORS it's definitely worth making them because it's going to save you a lot of time using that steel pickaxe to break open these noes even if you had an aridium pickaxe it would still save your time because those aridium ores still take a few swings now we just have some iron ores here so we can very quickly build up our regular bombs again if we want to You'll also notice that I have over 400 Stone in my inventory just from detonating nodes I could very easily turn that stone into four staircases if I found myself in the tight spot so if you ever run out of staircases and you find yourself in a tight spot Don't Panic just go into your inventory see how much Stone you have you get lots of stone in the SK Cavern don't be afraid to just make yourself a staircase and go into the next level and hope for the best you'll also notice the Big Stone chunks I don't mind those a whole lot but they will give you 10 Stone a piece and that's where not that's a lot of stone that you can get from them if you take into consideration now the amount of enemies that I've killed the amount of ores that I've mined open I'm going to get lot of skillups from this so even if I've totally drained my energy today I'll wake up the next day with full energy because I get a skill up every time you skill up in Stu Valley regardless of even if you got the exhaustion debuff day before your character will be a brand new person the next day so skin- UPS are totally overpowered the only other buff I recommend you come in here with potentially is a magnetism buff so if you can get your hands on an aridium band even a magnet ring early on that's quite useful because you're blowing up so many ores you're going to save a lot of time if they just magnetize to you we're now in the last in-game hour over SC Cavern and we're doing really well here we've hit an absolute ton of ridium nodes we also have our Prismatic Shard so we can now upgrade that into a Galaxy weapon that's our second Prismatic Shard right there we're going to keep that one though so my advice any Prismatic shards you get after the first keep them you can trade them in for magic rock candy every time you get tree and the magic rock candy is something that you should be aiming for when it comes to Future SK having runs to get the most out of these runs because that magic rock candy gives a huge luck buff it also gives Buffs everything else for example your defense your attack power your mining skill it's it's just an amazing candy all around it's the most powerful buff food in the game so we're now going to pass out very soon and I'm just going to show you it's not the end of the world if you pass out in here we're not going to lose any items the only thing we might lose is just a small bit of money and that's about it I've run out of bombs so we just use my pickaxe to get the last few rumores I made it down to floor 132 and that's not bad for the first skull Cavern attempt and this is something you can achieve in Spring if you do a lot of fishion and a lot of fan so I got two levels in mining today I can now make Mega bombs let's take a look at some of the items I got I got over 180 aridium ores I got two prosmetic shards I got rubies I got d hum I got lots of omni jots got a piece of hardwood there which is nice I got some aridium bars which is very nice as well I also got some artifacts and some solar Essences I got cloth so it was a real good run I got lots of great items all those aridium ores now can be turned into rium bars they are going to sell for tons of money my advice don't sell the bars until you get level 10 mining unless you're really need cash because if you wait to level 10 and you get the blacksmith Park those bars go from 1,000 gold gold to, 1500 gold at a 50% increase and that is nothing to Snuff at especially if you have tons of bars you should go to the desert the next day or whenever you have time trade in your first Prismatic Shard for the Galaxy sword this would unlock the Galaxy series inside the adventurers Guild the Galaxy Hammer is especially good because of the ground pound but everyone has their own preference when it comes to combat the obsidian Edge pales in comparison to the attack power of that Galaxy sword it does way more attack damage it's much faster and it's going to make our future scavern runs way easier what's more this weapon can be further upgraded when we get to Jing Island and I'll show you that later on in the video now the Galaxy Hammer is quite expensive 75,000 gold the dagger is 35,000 the dagger is actually not bad if you're going for a crit build it's a pretty cool weapon indeed the hammer is really good if you like hammers now I do recommend you save up and get the aridium pick I know you're using bombs a lot so you might not need the pickaxe as much but to one shot no is incredibly handy inside the skull Cavern we're also going to get 10,000 gold from Mr key cuz we might have pass FL 25 that's also really nice let's now talk about the more advanced sections of skull Cavalry it's now time to get yourself set up it's now time to look at how you can do more effective skull Cav runs and it all starts with making some lightning rods this is going to be the first item you're going to get your hands on that will give you battery packs you want battery packs for crystalarium you get this at level 9 mining but to make a crystarium you need battery packs stone gold bars and aridium bars so all of those bats you've been slain keep all the bat wings don't sell them just keep them because you'll be happy that they're there when it's time to make those lightning rods you'll only be able to make a few crystarium at the start you might get lucky Inc Cavern and you might get a few in Treasure rooms if you go the community center route you'll also get one from doing the bundles to the Vault so that's one of the big advantages of going the community center route just put jads into the crystarium consider putting in one Ruby and one Diamond just to get the um buff foods every Sunday visit the desert Trader trade in your jeds for staircases if you don't get a good luck day consider going to the regular mines focus on Monster eradication goals now my mind looks a bit green at the moment moment that's because it's summer and I got the green rain outside so this is what the mines looks like when you get that mass rain which I think is pretty cool I just wanted to show that in this video cuz never seen it before it's always good to start at the midsection you need 500 dust Sprites to get that burglar ring it's an amazing ring lots of iron down here to make more bombs and coal when you get level 9 combat you get the aridium band now it's quite expensive to make early on and the biggest problem with that is the amount of solar Essences and V ens you need when you get level combat I I don't really advise Defender you should always take brute 15% more damage cuz the more damage you do the faster the enemy is going to die problem solved in this game my big belief is that the greatest defense is a pretty good offense look out for the Prismatic jelly Community Quest this is a game changer cuz if you complete that Quest you're going to get the monster musk and that means monster eradication goals become much easier because a lot more monsters would spawn though the Prismatic slime is a major threat do not underestimate it it will kill you it hits for an absolute ton of damage it actually has K me before on a few occasions and it's such a pain cuz it is quite the rear spawn because I had the burglaring I get two Prismatic jellies the wizard will only take one off you which is unfortunate but you can use the other one for the decoration the next day he teaches us the monster musk it's cheap enough to make just e a few monster Parts my advice starting out is to aim for two iridium bands what's great here is you're going to get a 10% increase in your attack power from each one you're also going to get some light when it gets dark that's okay but the magnetism buff is amazing so when you're running through the skull Caverns or running to the mines in general and blown up ores they're all just floating towards you the S charmer ring is pretty good the crabshell ring is very good for defense if you find it you're d a lot and the napam ring would pack in those mummies no problem at all so these are all Rings obtained from Monster eradication goals except for the idium band you have to craft that ring it's also worth going to Rin and building a slime Hutch now the Slime hutches are now much smaller so you can very easy took one of these away in a nice Cozy Corner your farm Marin will visit you the next day he will give you a green slime egg for free you can incubate that you don't even have to bother with slimes my advice is to just put one down so you have the ability to harvest eggs from when you kill slimes it is quite rare but the eggs do sell for lots of money especially when you're going to SK Cavern the purple eggs do sell for loads of money so it's just an extra perk for when you're doing your dungeon crawling that the Slime eggs might drop it's just extra income for you I also recommend upgrading your house at least once so you have the ability to cook now you could sidestep this if you get to Ginger Island and you unlock the house there that that also comes with a cooker but it is Handy having the cooking session on your farm you also have to cookout kits as well but I do prefer a permanent cooking station if you haven't gotten a coffee bean from slain all the dust sprits when you're going for those monster eradication goals consider purchasing one from the traveling cart she occasionally sells them for 5,000 gold now it is quite expensive at a start but if you put it into a greenhouse you have it forever and they will rapidly expand every time you harvest one you get more C coffee beans you can plant those rinse and repeat my advice take up maybe one third of the greenhouse that'll keep you going for a while when you get to Winter you will get the magnifying glass with this you can locate some secret notes my advice is to track down two secret notes that are really good for skull Caverns the first will bring you to this truck here if you give the driver the rabbit's foot he will give you a special charm this gives you a permanent increase to look and that's a game changer for a skull Cavern run you know in order to get that you just need a secret letter but there's one more secret letter and it gives you an amazing buff for Dungeon crawling and it is basically a letter from Mr key saying it's waiting for you on level 100 in skull Cavern now if you keep going the way I'm going with the crystal Arium eventually you can just Spam staircases down to this floor he does mention it if use staircases but he will not punish you in any way you can still take that lovely idium milk and you will get a permanent increase your H by 25 which is absolutely amazing that it's going to increase your survivability by a huge amounts every other time you reach level 100 in skull Cavern you'll just get that treasure chest with the health increase and with some of the defense items you can equipped you're now much harder to kill and in my opinion if you're much harder to kill you can relax a bit more in the skull Cavern now here comes the fun part we're now going to talk about end game skull cavine when it comes to Serge 1.6 it all starts with Mastery a new element that has been added to the game when you max out all of your skills you can go to the Mastery cave and every time you get a level in Mastery you can choose a big Mastery pork the mining Mastery is amazing statue of the dwarf King this would give you amazing perks it gives you one perk every day and that perk lasts for the whole day before it expires you also get the heavy furnace which is way better than the regular furnace it can process way more bars and it can even give you back a lot more resources than what you put into it then you have the combat Mastery this gives you the mini Forge which exact same as the Dwarven Forge over on Ginger Island it also gives you the Anvil and trinkets trinkets really make the game a lot more fun it adds a lot more Dynamic to combat and to dungeon exploration and I'm going to got you all the trinkets as well in this video for you the anval is important for upgrading the trinkets the farming Master is also quite good the statue of blessings there can give us a lock pork so that's something we want as well then we have the mushroom logs now I did mention at the start of the video I would show you a life elixir farm it all starts with the Mystic tree seed so you will need the forging Mastery to make these and the more Mystic tree seeds you put around a mushroom log the higher chances you have of those mushroom logs producing purple mushrooms so that is how you farm purple mushrooms in Ser value 1.6 just around these mushroom Logs with Mystic tree seed seeds now in order to make life Elixir we need the red mushroom the purple mushroom the Marl and the Chantell so we have different types of trees surrounding these mushroom logs so we can very quickly and efficiently get all the recipes needed within Just 4 days if we get a rainy day that will reduce the time frame of when a mushroom log produces mushrooms now I have four mushroom Logs set up in a grid here I could easy double these to eight or even 12 I could I could have way more mushrooms coming out and you can then bang out tons of life leers this is just the beginner mushroom farm but you can make this way better by adding more mushroom logs if you have the mushroom cave it's an added bonus these heavy furnaces are just brilliant the days of farming for aridium ORS and waiting days and days and days to processes are over these furnaces just process a lot more stuff the statue of the dwarf King is just so great R it can make you impervious the bomb damage it can even give you additional Buffs such as higher chance to get staircases and chefs I can even give you an extra Park of plus one or per node combine that with minor and that's two extra ores per node so let's go to Ginger Island and talk about some of the end game over here we just have to repair the boat some batteries hardwood an aridium bars and Away You Go Robin and Willie will fix up the boat no problem let's take a nice stroll up to the entrance of the volcano there's a lovely George parot up here look it for money and it will find all of the golden walnuts it's just asking for 1.3 million gold why not I had the cash on me the parrot will now get her all of its friends and find every single golden Walnut on this island Mars is even here to show us some support thanks so much moris let's all drive together everyone we're now farming the volcano dungeon now you will have the F this dungeon a lot until you have received all of the unique items it has to offer Cinder shards becomes a new resource you need these to enchant you need these to merge rings together so if you see Cinder Shard nodes just grab them straight away save yourself a headache it's also a great place to get stone gold and idium and other bits and Bobs as well but you can also get some amazing rings and armor inside of this volcano dungeon you can get dragon skill boots they give a plus seven defense which is absolutely amazing you can get the Phoenix ring inside here which will prevent you from dying once every single day you can also get the hot jav ring there's a chance when you slay a monster it will drop a coffee or a triple shot espresso that's pretty cool indeed also get lots of other cool stuff too such as dwarvish Weapons Dragon tooth weapons if you don't have a Galaxy Weapon by now you could take one of those weapons enchant them up make them stronger you're also going to find rubies and diamonds inside of these dwarfing cashes and other bits of Bobs my advice is to keep all of the rubies you get use those to strengthen your weapon on level five we come across another dwarf he sells the book of power the diamond Hunter there's a chance you can get a diamond from a regular nde that's pretty cool it's not really important though if you have the diamonds to spare grab it what you're really here for is the ginger ale recipe that will now substitute the triple shot espresso it will give you a plus one to look if you make it with a key seasoning you will get a plus two to luck combine that with magic rock candy and you're going to have some very lucrative skull Cavern runs indeed now a lot of the enemies in the volcano dungeon will drop really cool items they'll drop pineapples they'll drop tarot tubers and you can put these on your Ginger Island Farm to make even more money when you get to the summit here you will be rewarded with a prismatic Shard and that is a one half reward so use it wisely let's enchant our weapon see what we get now we are hoping for the Crusader inchant I find that to be the most useful inside when you go down into the SK Cavern we got bug killer but we can come back later on with more Prismatic shards and Cinder shards and get more enchants done it's also worth merging some rings together so because I have the Phoenix ring I will attempt to merge it with my idium band I don't have enough Cinder shards so I will have to farm that cave and come back later because we have all of the golden walnuts so you only need 100 out of the 130 and you come in here to Key's Secret Walnut Room and here is where some of the fun begins inside this room you can purchase some pretty lucrative items what you're looking for are Galaxy so just a few ways you can get these you can get them here inside Key's Secret Walnut Room you can also get them of enemies in the hardened versions of the mines you can also purchase it off of the ginger Island trailer on the last day of any season for radioactive Bears so there's a few ways you can grab those Galaxy Souls you should also have a look at the quests you have to do quests to get key gems that's the main currency to get those items I would normally take a skull CERN Invasion or the danger in the Deep because there's a chance you can get additional key gems from St Monsters Inside those dungeons there's also a chance you can pick up some really cool items too such as Galaxy souls and pressure nozzles and things like that for your farm so we're just combined in rings now the crabshell ring with the already band really nice that means we have extra defense magnetism extra attack power we also get the Crusader on our galaxy sword so mummies are now a thing of the past the best enchant for the pickaxe in my opinion are powerful or Swift powerful just means less strikes to break up no aridium nodes other nodes Swift means you strike with faster just depends on your own play style the Infinity Blade is very nice plus two defense plus four speed and a lot of extra attack power we're going to put three rubies into that as well well because it's going to dramatically increase his attack power further now you could put more speed into it you could put more defense into it you can put crit damage or chance on if you want my advice just stack it with a attack I also got the dragon skill boots there from a chest on floor n that's plus seven defense combined with the crabshell ring it's going to be very hard to kill my character they also have the Jack be nimble book of power that's an extra plus one to defense so we don't have much to worry about let's quickly talk with some of the trinkets what I'm using here is the rod of ice every few seconds it fires out an ice projectile this goes to enemies freezing any enemy in its path it's a really nice trinket for going down into skull Cavern with if you're not good at fighting serpents are fastpaced enemies the rod of ice is a nice trinket to slow things down it will help you get yourself sorted we also have the Frog here this frog is just hilarious some people hate him some people love him I love him I think he's adorable he will oneshot any enemy in the game but beware this frog when he eats enemy that enemy will not count towards your monster eradication goal you will also get no items from that enemy you should now be at the stage where you have tons of Prismatic shards from doing L got C runs under bits and pieces so every Thursday without fail take my advice visit the desert and purchase that magic rock candy you can only get one per week now the are other meds in the game in which you can get them but they're incredibly rare going to the desert every Thursday is a great way to stock up on them but it just means that you have two then every time you do a skull Cavern run if you play on Co-op you can purchase them multiple times depending on how many players you have in the game because each player can purchase one each that's also a great way to stack up the heavy furnaces now you just need maybe five or 10 of those and you can go to hundreds of more quite easily more aridium bars for you with the blacksmith per 15500 gold the pop is a no-brainer with key seasoning you just need some ginger and sugar you can buy sugar from Pier no problem it's a simple item to make you now have huge amounts of luck going into the skull Cavern but you can get way more luck these are just the consumables upgrade your pen to an aridium pan and fish yourself up a lucky ring get two of these each ring gives a plus one to look bring those to the forge and merge them with something else whatever ever your play style is these lucky rings are now simple to get because you can upgrade the pan to idium Quality it just means that you have a much greater yield every time you pull St a about of the river with the pen it's just amazing you can also enchant the pan as well with some really cool stuff generous is a great one let's get more back the lucky ring with an aridium band I'm only taking the aridium band because of the magnetism and the attack power buff the idium band is an all around great Ring my second combination is a napan ring ring with the lucky ring I love when monsters explode and when you find extra staircases I also have the infinity R Crusader and I also have my pickaxe with powerful you should also strive now for a Big Shed fill it up with crystall Arium and have all those processed Jades it will take quite some time but I'm going to show you a great way to make crystarium early on in the game by using a few additional items you can get from doing Keys quests once you've purchased a lot of staircases with jads there's an item called a deconstructor okay if you put a staircase into a deconstructor you'll get back 99 Stone so you're probably thinking what you need stone for isn't just Stone used primarily for staircases not at all friends you need Stone to make crystal Arium the deconstructor will see to it that you have tons and tons of stone to make loads of crystarium you should also pick up the community Quest that will from Caroline that would teach you the solar pan just pop these out in the desert every few days you can visit the desert get your battery packs that's your stone and your battery packs taken care of you can get the rested Resources by just do c runs you just need gold bars and rium bars and you'll very easily be able to bang out tons of crystall Arium that is how you make loads of crystall Arium just use the solar panels use the deconstructors in the Sint SC Cavern and get loads of gold bars and rium bars you be able to make loads in no time so we just got a St of blessings there that gives us plus one to luck and we got a nice buff there too with statue of dwarf King an increased chance in finding halls and staircases because today's good luck day we're going to venture off and do a SC Cavern run I didn't realize today was the U desert event but we're going to do it anyway to see what kind of rank we can get so this desert event it has a really cool ranking system every time you get down five floors in the skull Cavern you gain a rank but every time you um activate a statue inside the squ cavern you also gain an extra R but the statues can either bless you or curse you you're taking a gamble you see because we've saved up on staircases all we have to do is just Spam ladders my advice when you have to spam any staircases is to spam ladders till you get to about floor 300 NAB the lovely tree treasure chests once you've nabbed those treasure chests then start exploring and start blowing up rooms you're going to end up with hundreds of on hundreds of a ridum ore gold or you're also going to get an UNM merciful amount of treasure rooms because you're coming to here with all the luck Buffs you've got the luck buff from the statue you've got the luck buff from the ginger with the key seasoning you've got the luck buff from the magic rock candy you've got the luck buff from the television you also have the luck buff from your two lucky Rings you are basically a luck machine and when you come into this Cavern with that much luck every few floors you're you're going to hit a treasure a treasure room and these treasure rooms can give you Auto pets Auto Grabbers crystarium they can give you bombs they give you Prismatic shards they can give you so many cool items because I have Crusader and the na hammering it just makes for a magnificent combination here when it comes to dungeon exploration I'm after getting a ridiculous rank of 130 let's see what Gil has to say he makes such a wonderful face he just can't can't believe it it's just so funny concerned AE you're just a legend to add such a portrait to that man it's been too many years since he's made that cam face every time we went into him to showcase our incredible monster slain skills he also gives us a magic rock candy as well which is really nice tons of Calico eggs finally it's worth noting the way of the Wind part one that's a permanent speed increase if you have the money consider getting that early or mid game the price catalog is handy as well because if you're trying to figure out what to throw away inside called Cavern the price catalog will help you because it will show you the worth of an item way of the Wind part two becomes available once you unlock way of the Wind part one this will make your character even faster and that is on a permanent basis so I am going to leave the video there I hope you enjoyed my guide to Scot Cavern St value 1.6 all my channel members thanks a milon for supporting me and everyone else stay tuned for more content in the near future hope you have a great week bye for now

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Length: 51min 2sec (3062 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 12 2024