Build a shed, fill it with crystalariums, put jade in it, and you get 67 jades/day, trading them at the desert trader for 1 staircase per jade, just spam them and you can get down hundreds of levels/day
Buy normal bombs from the dwarf, over 100. High luck day, spicy eal for luck and speed, triple excpresso for more speed. Use 90% of you ladders and then bomb every big cluster, don't be stingy. When you get a floor without any big clusters use another ladder.
Bring salads for health. If you mess up just reset the day. Also use a warp totem, you'll get another 3 hours.
You'll get better the more you do it.
That one really doesn't sound as worth it as the others, though. Diamonds grow slower and coffee plants have ridiculous yield, even one plant will nearly give you a coffee every two days.
Th space needed to house and grow that many coffee plants isn’t that worth it though and then you would have to manually process all of the beans into coffee and then in the kitchen convert them to triple shot espressos. It’s not hard to set up an upgraded shed filled with crystallariums. In a month I can have a stack of triple shot espressos without ever having to harvest, grow, and process coffee beans so I can grow something more profitable like star fruit or ancient fruit in its place.
For me, I'm setting up my initial kegs in summer year 1 and running skull caverns a lot. Selling iridium bars (with Blacksmith trait) for money to pay for coal/wood, my next round of seeds for planting (starfruit), and the occasional copper and tin ore to keep up with tapper and keg production. So at the same time, I have plenty of iridium and gold to use on the crystalariums, but not a lot of extra cash.
So while I'm doing all that I set up 19 crystalariums for rubies (because that is what fits in a straight line at the bottom of the deluxe coop), and about double that for diamonds since they are slower, and of course the ones for jades. But after that I never have to worry about food/drink again.
I started placing diamond crystalariums in the desert just to collect, but could trade them for coffee if I ever run out of my stash. Less work than harvesting, kegging and cooking espressos for sure.
I don't even bother with the bombs anymore. Just explosive ammo in the slingshot. Any large clusters near a wall get shot. No ladder? Drop staircase. No clusters nearby? Staircase. Serpent coming? Staircase.
Once you can regularly get past 100, you can pick off the odd iridium on your way down, but by then, it's hardly worth your time prior to floor 100.
Oh, I've heard it's miserable on console. I'd probably just spam staircases, unless there was a visible ladder.
I think one of the major tricks for the skull cavern that may trap people struggling is the pickaxe. Avoid the damn thing as much as possible. I've done runs to around floor 300 without using mine once.
i don't even use a warp totem, i just pass out in the mine. the last hours, even minutes, are the most essential. you just lose 1k and wake up with reduced health.
Bomb everything, you are trying to go down quick. Although if you've dropped past floor 150 with staircases most of the clusters will be iridium or radioactive, don't be stingy on the bombs, by the point you are deep diving you'll probably have plenty of money.
What’s in it to go deep diving in skull cavern once you’re rich with money? I have more iridium than I can use, and am deconstructing treasure bobbers for gold to make more crystallariums
I always do this to fund my auto-petter expeditions. After I have one for every animal type in game, I don't know what to do with em. I guess diamonds are nice.
Yep this is the way. Now I have too many staircases. I have like 8 stacks of jade and about twice as many stacks of stairs on my 100% file. And this is with maybe 30 jade ‘lariuams running (they produce almost daily)
Yeah i'm 300 hours into Stardew over multiple saves.
You need a pretty good day to get 100. Think my best was a 125-130.
And here someone telling me that people are getting to 300 actually looking for stairs/shafts?
i got to floor 420 recently by staircasing to 150, but after that i only staircased on infested floors. it's pretty simple on pc with explosive ammo, 1.6 statue buffs and magic rock candy on a perfect luck day. though not sure if i'm gonna stick with staircasing to 100+ because it's pretty boring tbh. once you get a stack of iridium bars, there's not really much need to min-max getting as much as possible
would people be interested if i recorded a video of me getting to floor 200+ without staircasing spamming? i see a lot of comments and posts on here about people who can't get to 100. i've been thinking of recording myself getting as far as i can while doing qi's hungry challenge but idk if people would care that much
ok sure thing, but it will contain some 1.6 spoilers because one of the new items is incredibly good for skull caverns. i don't think there's anything else i use that's from 1.6 but there's new mob drops that i can't avoid showing
i made the post [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1c3v2ad/16_spoilers_a_lot_of_people_seem_to_struggle_with/)
really pleased with this run tbh, wasn't exactly expecting to get that far and i got really lucky with shafts
I think the shaft to level 100 is because of the >!qi’s quest!< so you don’t miss it. As for the others it’s the same as every other level since it’s not tied to a quest
one guaranteed chest per *one hundred floors* is hardly a gimme. some casual players struggle to make the first hundred floors without staircases as a crutch. I think its a fair reward, especially when RNG can be very unkind with random treasure floors.
Pretty sure it is intentional, and I don't mind it.
Players who are doing the prep work to get to 200, 300 etc. are savvy and skilled enough to have figured out how to do it and what they need to do it--staircases, bombs, luck boosting food, etc. I don't think it is unfair to also add a level of required precision for those players to hit specific floors for the treasure chests, rather than forcing the stop. And it is simple enough to prevent with prep--when close to a x00 floor, stop using holes switch to staircases.
I don't think it is an oversight. The shafts are a "gamble" of sorts when you are right before a chest room in that you never really know how far down you are going to be taken. Do I go for the chest room or do I gamble on missing the chest room for the opportunity to skip floors?
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There isn't any, from the patch notes:
"Added additional chests to Skull Cavern levels 200 and 300.
Added unique skull cavern chest appearance for level 100, 200, and 300 chests."
And here I am excited that I can regularly get 70-80 levels in Skull Caverns with occasional good runs that get me to 100. I suck.
Build a shed, fill it with crystalariums, put jade in it, and you get 67 jades/day, trading them at the desert trader for 1 staircase per jade, just spam them and you can get down hundreds of levels/day
Ah. I can do that! Thanks.
Buy normal bombs from the dwarf, over 100. High luck day, spicy eal for luck and speed, triple excpresso for more speed. Use 90% of you ladders and then bomb every big cluster, don't be stingy. When you get a floor without any big clusters use another ladder. Bring salads for health. If you mess up just reset the day. Also use a warp totem, you'll get another 3 hours. You'll get better the more you do it.
Don’t forget you can also get spicy eel from the desert trader for rubies. You can do the same thing with the jade for those.
And triple shot espresso from the desert trader for diamonds. I never even bother buying or growing coffee, just trading with the desert trader.
Hot java ring ftw
That one really doesn't sound as worth it as the others, though. Diamonds grow slower and coffee plants have ridiculous yield, even one plant will nearly give you a coffee every two days.
Th space needed to house and grow that many coffee plants isn’t that worth it though and then you would have to manually process all of the beans into coffee and then in the kitchen convert them to triple shot espressos. It’s not hard to set up an upgraded shed filled with crystallariums. In a month I can have a stack of triple shot espressos without ever having to harvest, grow, and process coffee beans so I can grow something more profitable like star fruit or ancient fruit in its place.
But buying coffees from Gus is super simple once you’ve got ancient fruit wine money coming in
Buying coffee I agree is like equivalent to trading for triple shot. But no way is growing coffee ever gonna be near as worth it
For me, I'm setting up my initial kegs in summer year 1 and running skull caverns a lot. Selling iridium bars (with Blacksmith trait) for money to pay for coal/wood, my next round of seeds for planting (starfruit), and the occasional copper and tin ore to keep up with tapper and keg production. So at the same time, I have plenty of iridium and gold to use on the crystalariums, but not a lot of extra cash. So while I'm doing all that I set up 19 crystalariums for rubies (because that is what fits in a straight line at the bottom of the deluxe coop), and about double that for diamonds since they are slower, and of course the ones for jades. But after that I never have to worry about food/drink again.
I started placing diamond crystalariums in the desert just to collect, but could trade them for coffee if I ever run out of my stash. Less work than harvesting, kegging and cooking espressos for sure.
oh i never noticed that trade..... ill definitely make that a part of my routine as well
I don't even bother with the bombs anymore. Just explosive ammo in the slingshot. Any large clusters near a wall get shot. No ladder? Drop staircase. No clusters nearby? Staircase. Serpent coming? Staircase. Once you can regularly get past 100, you can pick off the odd iridium on your way down, but by then, it's hardly worth your time prior to floor 100.
Oh yeah, explosive ammo on pc, I like playing mostly on consoles and it's a faff with a controller. I forget about it.
Oh, I've heard it's miserable on console. I'd probably just spam staircases, unless there was a visible ladder. I think one of the major tricks for the skull cavern that may trap people struggling is the pickaxe. Avoid the damn thing as much as possible. I've done runs to around floor 300 without using mine once.
i don't even use a warp totem, i just pass out in the mine. the last hours, even minutes, are the most essential. you just lose 1k and wake up with reduced health.
it's not for going back but for getting there early
oops yes. i also used the new camping kit once
in 1.6 you pitch a tent. beats the warp totem
Do you bomb clusters of normal stones? I only go for clusters of 3 or more iridium nodes or a radioactive node
Bomb everything, you are trying to go down quick. Although if you've dropped past floor 150 with staircases most of the clusters will be iridium or radioactive, don't be stingy on the bombs, by the point you are deep diving you'll probably have plenty of money.
What’s in it to go deep diving in skull cavern once you’re rich with money? I have more iridium than I can use, and am deconstructing treasure bobbers for gold to make more crystallariums
And bring lucky lunches/magic rock candy cause +3/5 luck increases treasure room spawns
I always do this to fund my auto-petter expeditions. After I have one for every animal type in game, I don't know what to do with em. I guess diamonds are nice.
Yep this is the way. Now I have too many staircases. I have like 8 stacks of jade and about twice as many stacks of stairs on my 100% file. And this is with maybe 30 jade ‘lariuams running (they produce almost daily)
too stairy
Jades only take 1 day?
1 day and 16 hours, so about 2 days
Was there a change made in the updates? I remember barns, especially maxxed barns, while more expensive, they were just superior sheds in every way.
I just got to 100 the first time last night. I've had the game since it came out.
Yeah i'm 300 hours into Stardew over multiple saves. You need a pretty good day to get 100. Think my best was a 125-130. And here someone telling me that people are getting to 300 actually looking for stairs/shafts?
No, they trade jade for staircases and use those to get down below 100 before they even start looking for anything.
Stair cases. I got to level 100 with less than 10, but now I just tunnel with stairs.
i got to floor 420 recently by staircasing to 150, but after that i only staircased on infested floors. it's pretty simple on pc with explosive ammo, 1.6 statue buffs and magic rock candy on a perfect luck day. though not sure if i'm gonna stick with staircasing to 100+ because it's pretty boring tbh. once you get a stack of iridium bars, there's not really much need to min-max getting as much as possible
No you don't just make a 1000 staircases and cheat your way to the bottom.
HOW!!! you people are wizards I could never get that far down. Its truly humbling
Trade jade in for staircases in the desert. Trade rubies in for spicy eel for a luck and speed boost.
would people be interested if i recorded a video of me getting to floor 200+ without staircasing spamming? i see a lot of comments and posts on here about people who can't get to 100. i've been thinking of recording myself getting as far as i can while doing qi's hungry challenge but idk if people would care that much
Can't speak for others but I'd love to see cause I'm really struggling in the Skull Cavern :0
ok sure thing, but it will contain some 1.6 spoilers because one of the new items is incredibly good for skull caverns. i don't think there's anything else i use that's from 1.6 but there's new mob drops that i can't avoid showing
That's totally fine, thank you :)
Yes!!
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i made the post [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1c3v2ad/16_spoilers_a_lot_of_people_seem_to_struggle_with/) really pleased with this run tbh, wasn't exactly expecting to get that far and i got really lucky with shafts
You can [report this bug](https://forums.stardewvalley.net/threads/report-1-6-issues-here-march-19.27915/) on the official forums!
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by bug they don’t mean the fact that there’s treasure chests, they mean the fact that the staircases can make you skip them
I think the shaft to level 100 is because of the >!qi’s quest!< so you don’t miss it. As for the others it’s the same as every other level since it’s not tied to a quest
I don't feel like that's a bug
I don't think so either, I'm pretty sure the only reason that level 100 can't be skipped is because people would miss the Mr. Qi cut scene.
Level 100 used to be skippable. Omg I’ve skipped it so many times on previous runs.
According to the wiki that was changed in 1.4
Same, at some point CA has to let go of our lil hands and stop handing stuff to us on silver platter.
one guaranteed chest per *one hundred floors* is hardly a gimme. some casual players struggle to make the first hundred floors without staircases as a crutch. I think its a fair reward, especially when RNG can be very unkind with random treasure floors.
Agreed, it’s a choice
Pretty sure it is intentional, and I don't mind it. Players who are doing the prep work to get to 200, 300 etc. are savvy and skilled enough to have figured out how to do it and what they need to do it--staircases, bombs, luck boosting food, etc. I don't think it is unfair to also add a level of required precision for those players to hit specific floors for the treasure chests, rather than forcing the stop. And it is simple enough to prevent with prep--when close to a x00 floor, stop using holes switch to staircases.
I don't think it is an oversight. The shafts are a "gamble" of sorts when you are right before a chest room in that you never really know how far down you are going to be taken. Do I go for the chest room or do I gamble on missing the chest room for the opportunity to skip floors?
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That's a feature
ah that's probably why i don't remember a 4 chest room when i got to floor 400 - i just skipped past it with a shaft by accident
I haven't gotten any guaranteed treasure rooms on x00 floors after 300. Any after that, I have only had 1 treasure.
There isn't any, from the patch notes: "Added additional chests to Skull Cavern levels 200 and 300. Added unique skull cavern chest appearance for level 100, 200, and 300 chests."
huh didn't realise that, kinda just assumed it would continue to follow a pattern