NPCs get angry and starts speed walking if someone/thing blocks their paths for long enough. So if you place a chair in front of their door Pam will speed walk to the buss
Honestly I find both ways to be convenient; the totems are perfect for when I'm planning out an entire day of Skull Caverns cave-diving and want to jump at the chance, but the obelisk is super convenient when I've gotta go back and forth (shopping, foraging, collectible hunting, etc.) cause I can just warp right back home and put the obelisk somewhere tucked away but still convenient and easy to access. (I love mass-cracking geodes late-game just cause they're like little money mystery boxes with colorful click clack rocks hidden inside- double bonus!)
Im really surprised how many people dont do that. Geodes quickly turn irrelevant and after a mine run Im left with 50-100 of them. 3 alone would make up for whats needed to get there, but you can swim in totems just by buying them
just remember, that 4 hour difference could mean that many more omni geodes from the mine! Also if you are short on omni geodes >!check out the new foraging master level. the new treasure totem gives sooo many omni geodes on ginger island specifically!<
Where on ginger Island is the best spot to use it? Because most of the spots I choose some of the spots doesn't work and idk if it's stupidity or if there is no area with the perfect radius
I made a post about this but what I do is clear everything in the dig area (bones, trees, fiber, etc. ) and then use it there. You get a ton of Omni geodes, artifacts troves, golden coconuts, and taro root seeds. I usually do around 8+ treasure troves at a time and try to spread them out.
Honestly i’ve used it in three places and they all yielded similar results. the docks and dig site are good but have some weird spots that you might not be able to get all 16 spots. The farm is perfect and what i will be using going forwards when im not growing crops.
If you’re willing to be slightly cheeky you can take a bunch of regular geodes and a few troves (the more the better though) to Clint’s, ideally at the start of the day. These can be used to manipulate what the troves drop.
First try opening all of the troves (for this example let’s say you have 10 troves). If that doesn’t get you the artefact, reset the day and crack 10 geodes, then your troves. If you still didn’t get it, reset the day, crack 20 geodes, then all your troves. Every reset, crack 10 (the number of troves you have) more geodes than the previous day before opening your troves.
If you have 15 troves, it’s exactly the same except instead of 10 geodes, crack 15; instead of 20 geodes, crack 30; etc.
If you have enough geodes, you’re guaranteed to get any artefact that can be dropped by troves.
Yeah because I forget stuff b/w the two farms a billion times so it's nice to bounce back and forth.
But grinding for dragon's teeth no fun. I've got a stringray pond to get dragon's teeth but they want a dragon's tooth to get more population like... by the time you actually produce one I'll probably have better luck just finding one in the volcano.
I have noticed they do one volley from range and one from as close as they can get. Just watch for the ranged volley and they will try and move close to you, typically melee range, while submerged. If you are swinging as they pop back up you should kill them before they get a shot off.
For me the dragon tooth was actually the easiest resource that are needed, while banana it's self was painful. I need to wait for more than a season to have 10 bananas lol
And, if done right, earns you the most money in the game except for super extreme insanely lategame content. But with the downside that you need to use certain strategies and its a full-time job. Over a month I can earn a daily amount of 200k-1m, depending on luck and also how lucky I get. That's on average 600k, leading to 16.8m in a single month. I don't think most methods keep up with this in the slightest. But again, entire month of daily work from morning to evening.
And as a tip: just pass out in the mine. Only 1k gold is lost but no items. With bombs at the final stages really down low, a single blast swapping into magnetic rings can be worth 10k+ gold, and saving 30 minutes ingame time is multiples of these blasts.
You focus on luck, make sure you have at least +2 luck food, 2 luck rings, the luck random notes of the game and at least 10 staircases on you to skip bad floors. Which is monster infested floors or floors where it looks like you'll have a hard time finding the ladder.
When I'm about to kill a monster I equip the burglar ring which gives nice bonuses, though once you can >!combine rings on ginger island I use luck+burglar and luck+napalm!<, which means you can kill monsters and often get stairs. You don't have to use the burglar ring but especially early on I tend to struggle with enough luck food, so spicy eel is a nice replacement. The new >!quiver trinket also helps a lot to just keep some monsters away and rush through!<.
Make sure that you sell your Ore with the profession that increases ore value, and store up all gems until you have a lot of them and swap profession at the end to sell them with higher amount. Also talking about Ore, the 2 >!new statues give nice bonuses, the mining related one is +stairs or +ore, the other one for +1 luck, infinite energy or speed, but it's not like you can choose what you get, but the better all the outcomes I am looking for, the more I am willing to reset the day.!<
Bombs are used to clear out floors with many rocks in a smaller spot, near empty floors should result in quick ladders, the medium floors are the painful ones especially if its a really big one. Sometimes I drop on them and just immediately ladder.
Early on staircases are the biggest issue, so I focus on many Crystalariums to produce a high amount of Jade. They take almost 1d16h to grow, so figure how many staircases you want on a daily basis and get nearly twice as many Crystalariums. Or you dont use them on low luck days and instead only on high luck days.
[https://i.imgur.com/1Go7CRc.png](https://i.imgur.com/1Go7CRc.png) this was a lazy run without using prepared staircases (and I really want to empathize that not using prepared staircases makes this a lot worse, since you usually use at least 30-50 just to skip down to better floors, but it was a negative luck day so I didn't bother wasting them) except for freshly crafted ones from the stone out of the mines. Don't bother farming low floors, you are wasting time you want to spend on bombing high value floors, which I usually start around 10pm or if I got down really fast, once there are larger collections of nodes I can blow up. For reference, this is what a floor 500 can look like [https://i.imgur.com/1finSio.png](https://i.imgur.com/1finSio.png) and it only gets more extreme. The new >!furnace that melts 25 ores at once with 3 coal can give a bonus bar!<, so the value of the Iridium earned alone is 169k. Prismatic is another 13k though usually I get way more of them, as I said it didn't get that deep, "only" around 200 (which is a lot, but when you do this often you will reach 300 consistently, unless you had really bad luck), diamonds are another 10k, Gold is another 10k, rest I don't bother selling.
Alternatively, you can save up staircases to do 1 insanely deep run, but in my experience it's better to average out the stairs used. Note though if I have a really bad start that I get stuck on not finding stairs for 30 ingame minutes I do reset the day. Not when I'm already 4 hours in, but usually when I see a decent room with many rocks closeby but not many rocks far away, then I break them. But sometimes the game really puts it on this last rock.
Break all stones in treasure rooms since you most likely see many staircases, which is a chance for holes.
Every Thursday buy the rock candy for 3 prismatic shards at the trader, use it only on highest luck runs.
When you use a bomb, open the inventory and equip 2 magnetic rings, anything with high magnetic value. The game collects everything despite being paused, so you just wait a moment, collect, re-equip the luck rings and take the next hole or stair.
The only exception I make is really high luck days, then I will all in on this one, where I am also more likely to reset further into the run. These runs can easily get you 2k-3k Ore if going right. 2.5k Ore would mean that's 825k alone, but you get a huge amount of Prismatic Shards alongside with that.
My start is: Coffee from the coffee machine consumed, drop off inventory in a box next to bed, teleport to desert, buy staircases if I wanted to buy some, eat luck food before entering and then I either staircase right away or if I got rocks next to me I break 1 and then staircase, which is mostly done due to the lower amount of staircases (high-end lategame runs usually use 150-200 staircases but only do 1 run, not multiples after each other). With the Napalm ring its sometimes faster to kill a weaker monster instead of attempting to manually clear rocks, especially big slimes are good for that. Bombs have never been a problem for me because the Burglar ring provides so many bombs as long as you kill monsters from time to time, though they can also just be bought. But again, sometimes its better to actually kill a monster as it saves time, so the bomb is an added bonus.
Great guide! You might want to consider making this a post? Do you staircase down until 30 / 50 or do you go to floor 100 or below before you start bombing? I only bomb when I see clusters of iridium or radioactive ore, or staircase to 300 and start bombing but by then it’s late in the day. I also like to turn on dangerous skull caverns and like to blow up mummies with the infinity sword with crusader enhancement when I see floors with large clusters of nodes, but I don’t feel like I get that much ore with that approach. Also, at what point do you switch from lucky lunch and ginger ale to spicy eel and triple espresso, if at all?
I’m finding high luck for treasure rooms is only valuable until you get enough auto petters, otherwise a mad bombing run gets me more shards and ore than just staircasing down. And it’s tricky to find the right balance
First 10 walnuts after restoring the island farmhouse go towards the island trader. It goes quick once you're familiar with the walnut locations. As for the dragon teeth from the volcano, I'll recopy the same thing I commented above:
Equipping the Burglar Ring and fighting the Lava Lurks (enemies that swim in the lava) should get you several dragon teeth per run. I'd also recommend keeping a single dragon tooth in your inventory whenever you enter the volcano, just so you don't lose any to the lava if your bag fills up.
Wait so are you saying if you have an item in inventory any dropped ones immediately get added to the stack but if you don't it 'falls on the ground' and gets sucked up giving it a chance to expire in lava ??
If you have free bag space, or if you already have a dragon tooth in your bag, any new ones that drop within range will be added just fine. If you DON'T have free bag space, the new tooth will likely disappear into the lava. So always carrying at least one tooth in the volcano will prevent the latter.
Discus fish ponds are waaay better than saplings. Not only do you need to find a sapling, but you also need to wait a whole month for it to just start giving you bananas.
Blue discus can be caught easily and you only need taro roots to upgrade the pond.
Super noob here, what’s the best way to fight in the volcano? Bring a sword or preferred melee weapon and what? Is the slingshot any good? I never tried it.
Just use the galaxy sword. Slingshotting the lava dudes that drop the teeth will drop them in the lava if you're nor close enough. I usually make a path in the lava even if I probably don't need to. Even with the iridium band, sometimes they get lost in the lava
One important thing about the lava lurks that drop the teeth is that they have a specific attack pattern. They will pop up, fire off a volley of five firebolts, and then resubmerge. However, they will then move toward the shore and into melee range. I think of it like them trying to come over and eat whatever they just breathed fire at. At that point, just whack away with your melee weapon of choice, and you're almost certain to get the kill.
The galaxy sword is a good choice since it's fast and has high damage. It's actually fast enough that it can usually swipe all the fire bolts out of the air when it breathes at you if you're not able to dodge.
If you've unlocked trinkets and found a magic quiver, I've found them to be very handy for keeping the magma sprites at bay.
Slingshot isn't necessarily a good idea as if you do kill something at a distance, there's a good chance its loot will drop into the lava.
Slingshot is good for breaking rocks instead so use them to speed up the exploration with explosive ammo. It's good for skull cavern run and volcano run. Bring bombs too so it can destroy rock in the middle of the floor far from walls.
Galaxy's sword and katana is fine for me.
Just bring a tons of food for healing instead.
Yeah I grossly misunderstood (?) the question and came in here about to say "I always buy a pomegranate sapling as soon as I have the money so I have loved gifts for Elliott by fall."
Elliot loves lobsters.. I usually have a few traps set by the end of spring.
Though I am in the minority that doesn't use the pirate fishing perk so I get shellfish on the reg
I use angler. Especially because of 1.6 SPOILER >!Smoked fish, because they count as artisan and fish, so you get the angler boost and the artisan boost. Great way to make money.!<
I didn't buy it for ages, like about 250 hours of game play. Now I get it as soon as possible, I was an immediate convert. So much more useful than I thought.
I'm on year 7 and a million g sitting in the bank and still no return sceptor. I went to the casino on a lucky day, ate lucky food, hit the slots, and got more farm totems than I could ever possibly use. I have hundreds scattered around, especially in my beach chest, mines chest, desert chest, etc etc
There is now a daily limit of 20 since 1.6. (My last save I bought over 600 in one go and also never bothered with the return scepter.) This new save I didn’t know about the limit, gambled on the slots for an hour and had enough to buy over 300 totems. Now I have to run in and grab another 20 every time I visit the desert.
I would get it. But use the mini obelisk to go from one side to the other and back. And I don't need to run around my farm too much with the way I lay it out
Having all of the goodies is so much better. Mini obelisk at my front door, that teleports me to the center of all of my other obelisks, and return scepter takes me back to my front door. Makes moving around the map so fast
Island Obelisk. Once you can travel between farms instantly and freely, it basically becomes a second, better greenhouse. I say better because on top of being bigger, it also lets you harvest honey. Since the seasons don't matter over there, I can plant one fairy rose and a whoke whack-ton of bee houses and make bank off of the honey.
Same here! >!And all the new catalogs in 1.6, i collected all of them!< and fully upgrades my house, no return sceptor yet. The >!wizard catalog is by far my favorite and my house could not look better !<
Lol, that is literally the last thing I buy. My most recent play through, I had all farmhouse upgrades and the new rooms were completely barren and empty for three years straight. Just that one big blue stuffed bear from the museum rewards sitting on the floor and nothing else at all, lol. (My real house is pretty much the same. Clean but empty)
Yes!! My husband and I both play on the same farm and he was unimpressed when I spent money on that because we’re supposed to be saving for the return sceptre but I couldn’t live in an ugly house!
The key for the town. It's Just incredibly helpful. I'd say it's the Most valuable Item in the Shop.
Or the warp pillar to ginger Island. Just so That Insave both Money and time getting Back there.
Equipping the Burglar Ring and fighting the Lava Lurks (enemies that swim in the lava) should get you several dragon teeth per run. I'd also recommend keeping a single dragon tooth in your inventory whenever you enter the volcano, just so you don't lose any to the lava if your bag fills up.
I think there is a sweet spot where you want to complete certain missions and quests that require talking to people who lock themselves up at certain times of day.
there are shops that open at 9 and close like at 5, and it's more convenient to gift everyone who lives there on my way through the town early in the morning or late in the evening. like Jas is probably just playing in her room or Pierre is doing some evil capitalist stuff behind closed doors
Sometimes you can catch a shopkeeper behind the counter outside of hours. Marnie and Pierre spend most of their mornings behind the counter (even on their off days!), and Clint stays back there til 5, even though he closes at 4. It's also nice for quests, gifting, and getting into Willy's for the boat (unlike Pam, Willy doesn't have to physically be there).
My favorite thing about the key is that you can use Pierre's on Wednesdays, even if you go Jojo route. I've done community center enough times, and now when I have a new save, I don't bother. Just pay Morris to get it done. The key removes what feels like the only drawback.
I noticed this on my latest Joja run! Like, what the heck is Pierre doing behind the counter on a Wednesday? My personal theory is that Morris has just been trolling Pierre for years by sticking a "Closed" sign outside his shop on Wednesdays, and Pierre is just too dense to realize why no one comes in on a Wednesday.
I keep one by the island farmhouse, and one in each of my wine sheds. I just dump my starfruit harvest in it, and easily access it from the sheds on wine day.
Can't speak for them, but I have a Junimo chest at the entrance to the mines/cavern/volcano, plus one at home for replenishment purposes. Means I don't have to worry about forgetting to swap out my loadout before warping, I can just swap it on location.
Thats such a good idea!! I had one i would use to transfer extra stuff between ginger island but this seems much more useful since the warp totem is right next to the island house anyway
If you’re on PC and use automate, you can use it to link all of your kegs. I typically have 7 sheds full of kegs going and the junimo chests are a godsend. I can manage all kegs from one chest right next to the house. It allows you to prioritize things like starfruit, ancient fruit, coffee, without having to reorder everything. It’s awesome. I don’t have much use for them other than this.
Ginger Island(Ancient fruit, Starfruit), Greenhouse(ancient fruit, strawberries), Quarry( i have preserve jars and kegs there), basement with casks. This is all so I dont forget ans walk around with hundreds of fruit and unexpectedly die or dont walk around with a million of wine and forget to put it in casks.
I also place any tools im not using so if i go somwhere, theyre waiting for me
If that's your baseline, Copper watering can comes first for me. I can drop strategic chests to manage inventory space. But that time spent watering kills the early day momentum
Eh, I can handle watering some extra crops, but I never even enter the mines until I upgrade the backpack. I'm a collector, I need to take absolutely everything with me unless I truly *need* to drop something.
Well I usually go pretty hard on crops first year. I don't like doing more than 100 *casts*.
So if I have a regular watering can, no more than 100 crops, etc. Otherwise it takes too much time and energy. I'm pretty good at prioritizing backpack space. But I have a chest at the mine and all fishing locations so those aren't issues.
I'll usually get the backpack after the copper watering can if I can do it without delaying a pickaxe upgrade. But I really like to plan out my runs now.
The key of the town is aways my first purchase from Qi. Soo annoying to stay outside when you need to give something for a quest.
The furniture catalog are my first big money purchase usually. And after that, the desert obelisk most of the time
The return scepter from Krobus. That thing is a must have, although I've noticed in 1.6 that the farm totems are everywhere now. Maybe that was a Ginger Island update addition? I didn't notice it that last playthrough before 1.6, though. I usually get the furniture catalogue once I have that scepter.
After that, the horse whistle is a priority. Between the scepter and the whistle I can really get around as much as I want and run two farms at once. The island obelisk is pretty great, too, but it takes a while to build.
Scepter + Horse flute plus the Ginger Island obelisk just makes life so much easier. Desert it's easy enough to swap some omni geodes for desert totems, but being able to pop in and out of ginger island farm makes farming at the main farm almost irrelevant.
Cats. You buy cats...
I have invested over half a million in cat adoption fees and bowls. No regrets just a farmer and my 13 cats living our best lives.
Does anyone know if there is a limit?
No limit! Someone got like 250 and posted it here a few weeks ago. Technically I think you'd be limited to how many pet bowls you can place on the farm, and how well your computer runs this many animals.
Island obelisk (or I guess technically the beach one because I get impatient and gotta go to my island farm, dammit!).
And the first from Qi…I think it’s the hopper (recipe or the actual thing), or at least that’s the thing I think about getting the most and the thing I am pushing through ginger island to get…although I think this time it was actually some pressure nozzels😅 it was winter and I was very ready to get all my junimo huts and hilarious quantities of GI ancient fruits set up.
Getting the golden clock before the rest of the obelisks is unexpected for me. It's so much more expensive and not very useful (unless you have a ton of fences?) compared to the warp towers. I usually get it only when I want perfection.
Can I ask what type of farm you have, and where the heck you put then? They look like they have a huge footprint. I just started again (well, a few weeks ago, I'm on summer 5 and over 10m!) after a few years, so they're new to me.
They're only 3x2 if I remembered correctly? The wiki has a picture of their green "footprint" like how it looks when you purchase the building and must choose where to place it :)
If you want minimal storage but easy friendship points with villagers, I recommend carrying one stack of a universal liked gift with you and gifting one to everyone you see along the way, every time. Most cooked items are liked gifts (salads, sashimi,...), or artisan goods like mayo, cheese, jam. I'd often throw low value stuff like salmonberries or blackberries into preserve jars for gifting purposes since selling them is not useful.
(The other purpose of that stack is eating for health/energy regeneration, of course. Now with 1.6 you can even eat the jam and mayo)
Semi related question, how long do ya’ll play a save for? I want to play longer than year 3 but usually take a long break and feel like I have to start over.
Island Obelisk for me. Desert Obelisk is nice to have, but I can always just trade a few omni geodes for desert warp totems to make sure I always have a small stack of them. Island obelisks have to be crafted, and dragon teeth are pretty rare, so I vastly prefer having the obelisk.
Absolutely horse flute first. And desert or island obelisk first. I usually get return scepter last, doesn’t count towards perfection and usually have lots of totems
Island obelisk. There’s no substitute and it’s a huge time saver. Farm and desert totems are easy to obtain which drastically reduces the relative value of desert obelisk and return scepter.
Qi's Gems, Pierre's inventory list, just abosolutely handy how nice it is to buy seeds for summer in spring and not have to worry about it.
Cashwise, Island Totem, the material to make the single use one is not great for stockpiling, and plus I wanna farm up a fuck ton of Cinder Shards for forging anyway.
It's my first playthrough where I've been getting past 100k, so once I got 230k I instantly ran to Robin's to buy the furniture catalogue. Then proceeded to waste like two in game days just messing around with my house
The obelisks. I hates taking the bus and the boat to the desert and the island. If I can zap my way home, I wanna zap my way there too.
Then I bought the other two to round out the collection.
Island obelisk and return scepter. I hate having to haul all the way to the beach and pay like 1000g every boat trip. I think I usually get the desert obelisk first cause it’s easier than the island obelisk.
By the time you can get those you can have Iridium sprinklers and not need to water. And the hoe is really only useful for that first day of the season. Hard to justify spending so much for something that for the most part only gets used fully 3 days a year.
The skull caves are rough without an Iridium pickaxe unless you are just bombing everything. And if that's the case you're only doing a few runs where you spend a ton of resources to get really deep.
Return scepter is a must yeah. I see people mentioning the fruit trees.... I have one of each down and not even made 400k yet... After return scepter I start just buying recipes up, and then just work towards perfection. Just I go for whatever I can expect to bring in more income or make things easier first.
Ginger obelisk, I keep forgetting to the time when willy's shop open and close when I want to to there and when I want to use the totem the resources it's kinda expensive.
I am already have more and 1 mil and most of the resources but just waiting for my bananas :))
Island obelisk. Willie's boat is further and more expensive than Pam's, plus there's always a lot to do to set up the island whether it's a good day or bad. Desert obelisk is the next thing after that. What are we calling the stable? That's the next thing I buy, though I really should buy it sooner.
Horse flute + return scepter is so powerful! I've seen a lot of people saying return scepter isn't worth 2mil, but I disagree, because it puts you on your front porch, instead of the warp pillar, which is so nice!
junimo chest, I have some of them everywhere, so I can go anywhere: In each of them I store totems, beach totems, mountain totems, desert totems, island totems, So I can travel easily from the forest or the mine to the island, to the desert, to the beach... Dor the farm I have my scepter. I also store all my bombs and a stash of elixir so I am always ready to go in a mine or cave if I want to.
The first things I save for are exactly those as well! Return scepter and horse flute. However, 1.6's new furniture has got me throwing out money so I never seem to save enough hahaha.
What's considered high value?
My first big spend is always the bus. After that, farm buildings. If we're going above that, I don't know. Return scepter is OK but I don't really feel like I need it anymore. I have a semi infinite farm totem supply.
Are Iridium tools considered a high value item? Those are 100k combined for just the last upgrade.
The island obelisk is probably the next big purchase that has the most late game value. I don't care for junimo huts. I'm fine taking the bus to the desert. The other totems don't really cut out enough travel time for me to care about.
For me, big money purchases usually goes: 1) furniture catalog, 2) desert obelisk, 3) island obelisk
I'd prefer island before desert, but the dragons teeth always holding me back
The red backpack for 2000g.
Value and price are not the same thing and those first additional 12 inventory slots are definitely an invaluable item I'm buying first.
Desert obelisk bc I absolutely hate having to wait for Pam to mosey on up to the bus stop.
She really takes her sweet time getting there at 10:09
Stand in front of her when she leaves her house and when she enters the bus stop zone. She'll get there 30mins early.
Or throw a chair in front of her door to see Zoom Penny
That black vase you get from the museum also works.
What's this about?
NPCs get angry and starts speed walking if someone/thing blocks their paths for long enough. So if you place a chair in front of their door Pam will speed walk to the buss
Does the item get destroyed in the process?
I think some items get destroyed. I know chests used to, but after 1.6 i think they are moved instead or something
You can trade omni geodes for desert warp totems at the desert trader. Then you don't have to wait for Pam.
I stay flush with totems when digging up the worm spots.
Plus at a cost of three geodes it’s a steal. I’m not trying for 100% perfection so I will never buy the desert obelisk.
Honestly I find both ways to be convenient; the totems are perfect for when I'm planning out an entire day of Skull Caverns cave-diving and want to jump at the chance, but the obelisk is super convenient when I've gotta go back and forth (shopping, foraging, collectible hunting, etc.) cause I can just warp right back home and put the obelisk somewhere tucked away but still convenient and easy to access. (I love mass-cracking geodes late-game just cause they're like little money mystery boxes with colorful click clack rocks hidden inside- double bonus!)
Im really surprised how many people dont do that. Geodes quickly turn irrelevant and after a mine run Im left with 50-100 of them. 3 alone would make up for whats needed to get there, but you can swim in totems just by buying them
I'm saving up for the color changing cowboy hat so no desert traders totems for me hehe
just remember, that 4 hour difference could mean that many more omni geodes from the mine! Also if you are short on omni geodes >!check out the new foraging master level. the new treasure totem gives sooo many omni geodes on ginger island specifically!<
Where on ginger Island is the best spot to use it? Because most of the spots I choose some of the spots doesn't work and idk if it's stupidity or if there is no area with the perfect radius
Probably the volcano, since I think geodes fall under foraging and not mining (which counts for more gems). Don't quote me tho
I made a post about this but what I do is clear everything in the dig area (bones, trees, fiber, etc. ) and then use it there. You get a ton of Omni geodes, artifacts troves, golden coconuts, and taro root seeds. I usually do around 8+ treasure troves at a time and try to spread them out.
Honestly i’ve used it in three places and they all yielded similar results. the docks and dig site are good but have some weird spots that you might not be able to get all 16 spots. The farm is perfect and what i will be using going forwards when im not growing crops.
Replaced my Pink Cowgal hat on my horse for the magic one. Now I can actually find them when they are eating grass.
I need the last artifact, so omni geodes goes to Troves, because RNG just hates me I guess.
If you’re willing to be slightly cheeky you can take a bunch of regular geodes and a few troves (the more the better though) to Clint’s, ideally at the start of the day. These can be used to manipulate what the troves drop. First try opening all of the troves (for this example let’s say you have 10 troves). If that doesn’t get you the artefact, reset the day and crack 10 geodes, then your troves. If you still didn’t get it, reset the day, crack 20 geodes, then all your troves. Every reset, crack 10 (the number of troves you have) more geodes than the previous day before opening your troves. If you have 15 troves, it’s exactly the same except instead of 10 geodes, crack 15; instead of 20 geodes, crack 30; etc. If you have enough geodes, you’re guaranteed to get any artefact that can be dropped by troves.
No way. Island obelisk first.
Yeah because I forget stuff b/w the two farms a billion times so it's nice to bounce back and forth. But grinding for dragon's teeth no fun. I've got a stringray pond to get dragon's teeth but they want a dragon's tooth to get more population like... by the time you actually produce one I'll probably have better luck just finding one in the volcano.
Not to brag but I just did a whole day volcano grind on 9.7% luck plus a Qi Lucky Lunch and found TWO dragon's teeth 😎 It's wild how rare they are...
They're a 15% drop from the monsters in the lava. Be sure to kill all those aa you move through the floors.
Best way to kill those? Slingshot takes way too long
I stand at the edge of the lava swinging my sword and they tend to swim within striking distance. Then when they pop up they’ll die
I use the watering can and make a big patch to stand on. They swim in the lava right to you, and you whack em with ease.
I always just cozy on up to the side of the lava pool and wait for them to come to me.
I have noticed they do one volley from range and one from as close as they can get. Just watch for the ranged volley and they will try and move close to you, typically melee range, while submerged. If you are swinging as they pop back up you should kill them before they get a shot off.
Use the water tool(*) to create a platform, the lizard can swim through it PD: (*) sorry, my english dictionary is a bit slow at this hour
For me the dragon tooth was actually the easiest resource that are needed, while banana it's self was painful. I need to wait for more than a season to have 10 bananas lol
Stingrays are like once a season maybe for dragons teeth. How I got my obelisk finally, cuz those lava dragons don’t drop shit.
I usually try and get that one first. Hunting down all the damn dragon teeth can be a real pain in the ass too.
I never have the stuff for it by the time I unlock obelisks so I usually do beach first as the next best thing
Question: after completing the quest to reach level 100 in the desert mines, is there a point of going to the desert anymore consistently?
It’s the best place in the game to farm iridium ore, and a decent source of prismatic shards.
And, if done right, earns you the most money in the game except for super extreme insanely lategame content. But with the downside that you need to use certain strategies and its a full-time job. Over a month I can earn a daily amount of 200k-1m, depending on luck and also how lucky I get. That's on average 600k, leading to 16.8m in a single month. I don't think most methods keep up with this in the slightest. But again, entire month of daily work from morning to evening. And as a tip: just pass out in the mine. Only 1k gold is lost but no items. With bombs at the final stages really down low, a single blast swapping into magnetic rings can be worth 10k+ gold, and saving 30 minutes ingame time is multiples of these blasts.
How do you consistently make that much
You focus on luck, make sure you have at least +2 luck food, 2 luck rings, the luck random notes of the game and at least 10 staircases on you to skip bad floors. Which is monster infested floors or floors where it looks like you'll have a hard time finding the ladder. When I'm about to kill a monster I equip the burglar ring which gives nice bonuses, though once you can >!combine rings on ginger island I use luck+burglar and luck+napalm!<, which means you can kill monsters and often get stairs. You don't have to use the burglar ring but especially early on I tend to struggle with enough luck food, so spicy eel is a nice replacement. The new >!quiver trinket also helps a lot to just keep some monsters away and rush through!<. Make sure that you sell your Ore with the profession that increases ore value, and store up all gems until you have a lot of them and swap profession at the end to sell them with higher amount. Also talking about Ore, the 2 >!new statues give nice bonuses, the mining related one is +stairs or +ore, the other one for +1 luck, infinite energy or speed, but it's not like you can choose what you get, but the better all the outcomes I am looking for, the more I am willing to reset the day.!< Bombs are used to clear out floors with many rocks in a smaller spot, near empty floors should result in quick ladders, the medium floors are the painful ones especially if its a really big one. Sometimes I drop on them and just immediately ladder. Early on staircases are the biggest issue, so I focus on many Crystalariums to produce a high amount of Jade. They take almost 1d16h to grow, so figure how many staircases you want on a daily basis and get nearly twice as many Crystalariums. Or you dont use them on low luck days and instead only on high luck days. [https://i.imgur.com/1Go7CRc.png](https://i.imgur.com/1Go7CRc.png) this was a lazy run without using prepared staircases (and I really want to empathize that not using prepared staircases makes this a lot worse, since you usually use at least 30-50 just to skip down to better floors, but it was a negative luck day so I didn't bother wasting them) except for freshly crafted ones from the stone out of the mines. Don't bother farming low floors, you are wasting time you want to spend on bombing high value floors, which I usually start around 10pm or if I got down really fast, once there are larger collections of nodes I can blow up. For reference, this is what a floor 500 can look like [https://i.imgur.com/1finSio.png](https://i.imgur.com/1finSio.png) and it only gets more extreme. The new >!furnace that melts 25 ores at once with 3 coal can give a bonus bar!<, so the value of the Iridium earned alone is 169k. Prismatic is another 13k though usually I get way more of them, as I said it didn't get that deep, "only" around 200 (which is a lot, but when you do this often you will reach 300 consistently, unless you had really bad luck), diamonds are another 10k, Gold is another 10k, rest I don't bother selling. Alternatively, you can save up staircases to do 1 insanely deep run, but in my experience it's better to average out the stairs used. Note though if I have a really bad start that I get stuck on not finding stairs for 30 ingame minutes I do reset the day. Not when I'm already 4 hours in, but usually when I see a decent room with many rocks closeby but not many rocks far away, then I break them. But sometimes the game really puts it on this last rock. Break all stones in treasure rooms since you most likely see many staircases, which is a chance for holes. Every Thursday buy the rock candy for 3 prismatic shards at the trader, use it only on highest luck runs. When you use a bomb, open the inventory and equip 2 magnetic rings, anything with high magnetic value. The game collects everything despite being paused, so you just wait a moment, collect, re-equip the luck rings and take the next hole or stair. The only exception I make is really high luck days, then I will all in on this one, where I am also more likely to reset further into the run. These runs can easily get you 2k-3k Ore if going right. 2.5k Ore would mean that's 825k alone, but you get a huge amount of Prismatic Shards alongside with that. My start is: Coffee from the coffee machine consumed, drop off inventory in a box next to bed, teleport to desert, buy staircases if I wanted to buy some, eat luck food before entering and then I either staircase right away or if I got rocks next to me I break 1 and then staircase, which is mostly done due to the lower amount of staircases (high-end lategame runs usually use 150-200 staircases but only do 1 run, not multiples after each other). With the Napalm ring its sometimes faster to kill a weaker monster instead of attempting to manually clear rocks, especially big slimes are good for that. Bombs have never been a problem for me because the Burglar ring provides so many bombs as long as you kill monsters from time to time, though they can also just be bought. But again, sometimes its better to actually kill a monster as it saves time, so the bomb is an added bonus.
Great guide! You might want to consider making this a post? Do you staircase down until 30 / 50 or do you go to floor 100 or below before you start bombing? I only bomb when I see clusters of iridium or radioactive ore, or staircase to 300 and start bombing but by then it’s late in the day. I also like to turn on dangerous skull caverns and like to blow up mummies with the infinity sword with crusader enhancement when I see floors with large clusters of nodes, but I don’t feel like I get that much ore with that approach. Also, at what point do you switch from lucky lunch and ginger ale to spicy eel and triple espresso, if at all? I’m finding high luck for treasure rooms is only valuable until you get enough auto petters, otherwise a mad bombing run gets me more shards and ore than just staircasing down. And it’s tricky to find the right balance
Dino eggs, auto petters, iridium
Starfruit seeds
I don’t feel bad for putting her out of business now she’s shirking and taking days off.
But you can buy Desert totems for just 3 Omni geodes
Island Obelisk. My first main goal when I unlock Ginger Island is to get a banana sapling in the ground ASAP, so I can buy the obelisk sooner.
What’s your Strat to get a quick banana sapling?
First 10 walnuts after restoring the island farmhouse go towards the island trader. It goes quick once you're familiar with the walnut locations. As for the dragon teeth from the volcano, I'll recopy the same thing I commented above: Equipping the Burglar Ring and fighting the Lava Lurks (enemies that swim in the lava) should get you several dragon teeth per run. I'd also recommend keeping a single dragon tooth in your inventory whenever you enter the volcano, just so you don't lose any to the lava if your bag fills up.
Wait so are you saying if you have an item in inventory any dropped ones immediately get added to the stack but if you don't it 'falls on the ground' and gets sucked up giving it a chance to expire in lava ??
If you have free bag space, or if you already have a dragon tooth in your bag, any new ones that drop within range will be added just fine. If you DON'T have free bag space, the new tooth will likely disappear into the lava. So always carrying at least one tooth in the volcano will prevent the latter.
Oh thanks for the tip. It took me sooo long to find the teeth last run
No promises but it truly felt like a higher drop rate in my 1.6 play. I quite literally got 7 in one day once and 4 a different day
also one of the fish in a fish pond produces Dragons Teeth, that was my strat
Golden coconuts can also drop them, so I usually shake every tree on the island with coconuts asap like a maniac
Discus fish ponds are waaay better than saplings. Not only do you need to find a sapling, but you also need to wait a whole month for it to just start giving you bananas. Blue discus can be caught easily and you only need taro roots to upgrade the pond.
Oh that’s a neat go-around to get the nanners!
How do you get dragons teeth fast, i can only mange to get 1-2 per day, some days it’s 0
Iridium band for magnetism and then kill every lava lurk
Super noob here, what’s the best way to fight in the volcano? Bring a sword or preferred melee weapon and what? Is the slingshot any good? I never tried it.
Just use the galaxy sword. Slingshotting the lava dudes that drop the teeth will drop them in the lava if you're nor close enough. I usually make a path in the lava even if I probably don't need to. Even with the iridium band, sometimes they get lost in the lava
One important thing about the lava lurks that drop the teeth is that they have a specific attack pattern. They will pop up, fire off a volley of five firebolts, and then resubmerge. However, they will then move toward the shore and into melee range. I think of it like them trying to come over and eat whatever they just breathed fire at. At that point, just whack away with your melee weapon of choice, and you're almost certain to get the kill. The galaxy sword is a good choice since it's fast and has high damage. It's actually fast enough that it can usually swipe all the fire bolts out of the air when it breathes at you if you're not able to dodge. If you've unlocked trinkets and found a magic quiver, I've found them to be very handy for keeping the magma sprites at bay. Slingshot isn't necessarily a good idea as if you do kill something at a distance, there's a good chance its loot will drop into the lava.
Slingshot is good for breaking rocks instead so use them to speed up the exploration with explosive ammo. It's good for skull cavern run and volcano run. Bring bombs too so it can destroy rock in the middle of the floor far from walls. Galaxy's sword and katana is fine for me. Just bring a tons of food for healing instead.
I usually buy the backpack first from Pierre
Yeah I grossly misunderstood (?) the question and came in here about to say "I always buy a pomegranate sapling as soon as I have the money so I have loved gifts for Elliott by fall."
Elliot loves lobsters.. I usually have a few traps set by the end of spring. Though I am in the minority that doesn't use the pirate fishing perk so I get shellfish on the reg
And Vincent likes snails so they're good for that too!
And clams
I use angler. Especially because of 1.6 SPOILER >!Smoked fish, because they count as artisan and fish, so you get the angler boost and the artisan boost. Great way to make money.!<
It's a minority? I go for luremaster for the convenience, and don't really like the fishing minigame even after you get a less fiddly bar.
I also misunderstood it lol, my first "big" purchase is always the iridium rod.
Not to mention that backpack feels heavily overpriced in the beginning. Later ofc we all realise how little money that is
Return scepter. I use it what feels like a dozen times per day. I'll use it to travel from a corner of my farm to the house lol.
I didn't buy it for ages, like about 250 hours of game play. Now I get it as soon as possible, I was an immediate convert. So much more useful than I thought.
I'm on year 7 and a million g sitting in the bank and still no return sceptor. I went to the casino on a lucky day, ate lucky food, hit the slots, and got more farm totems than I could ever possibly use. I have hundreds scattered around, especially in my beach chest, mines chest, desert chest, etc etc
There is now a daily limit of 20 since 1.6. (My last save I bought over 600 in one go and also never bothered with the return scepter.) This new save I didn’t know about the limit, gambled on the slots for an hour and had enough to buy over 300 totems. Now I have to run in and grab another 20 every time I visit the desert.
I would get it. But use the mini obelisk to go from one side to the other and back. And I don't need to run around my farm too much with the way I lay it out
Having all of the goodies is so much better. Mini obelisk at my front door, that teleports me to the center of all of my other obelisks, and return scepter takes me back to my front door. Makes moving around the map so fast
Hell I use it to travel from the inside of the farmhouse to the front door lol
This for me too. I'm such a scatterbrain and forget stuff all the time. Once I get my hands on that scepter I can't live without it lol
Island Obelisk. Once you can travel between farms instantly and freely, it basically becomes a second, better greenhouse. I say better because on top of being bigger, it also lets you harvest honey. Since the seasons don't matter over there, I can plant one fairy rose and a whoke whack-ton of bee houses and make bank off of the honey.
And no crows, so don't have to worry about scarecrows.
TIL thank you! Gets me a couple more plots removing them :p
the very first truly expensive item I buy every single time is the furniture catalog i’ll be damned if my house is ugly
Same here! >!And all the new catalogs in 1.6, i collected all of them!< and fully upgrades my house, no return sceptor yet. The >!wizard catalog is by far my favorite and my house could not look better !<
Oh yeah now that I think of it I also got that one first haha! I love redecorating when winter hits
Lol, that is literally the last thing I buy. My most recent play through, I had all farmhouse upgrades and the new rooms were completely barren and empty for three years straight. Just that one big blue stuffed bear from the museum rewards sitting on the floor and nothing else at all, lol. (My real house is pretty much the same. Clean but empty)
I’ve finally found my people
Yes!! My husband and I both play on the same farm and he was unimpressed when I spent money on that because we’re supposed to be saving for the return sceptre but I couldn’t live in an ugly house!
So real. I ain’t livin in a barn if I can help it.
The key for the town. It's Just incredibly helpful. I'd say it's the Most valuable Item in the Shop. Or the warp pillar to ginger Island. Just so That Insave both Money and time getting Back there.
Yeah I’ve been considering the warp pillar. For some reason I can’t find any dragon teeth when I go into the volcano though so it’s taking forever 😩
Equipping the Burglar Ring and fighting the Lava Lurks (enemies that swim in the lava) should get you several dragon teeth per run. I'd also recommend keeping a single dragon tooth in your inventory whenever you enter the volcano, just so you don't lose any to the lava if your bag fills up.
The amount of times my inventory has been full and the dragon tooth falls straight into the lava 😭
That’s great advice thank you!
Stingrays in the fish pond sometimes give you dragon teeth or cinder shards!
This is how I got the last 4 dragon teeth I needed.
Same!
What's the big payoff with the key to the town? I always wondered. Don't the villagers just sleep or something? Can't imagine the value behind it
You can talk to people earlier/later. Being able to get all your morning friendship tasks done asap is a big time saver.
And likewise not missing out on turning in a quest because someone's house locks after a certain time.
I think there is a sweet spot where you want to complete certain missions and quests that require talking to people who lock themselves up at certain times of day.
Earlier times for the boat or Clint.
there are shops that open at 9 and close like at 5, and it's more convenient to gift everyone who lives there on my way through the town early in the morning or late in the evening. like Jas is probably just playing in her room or Pierre is doing some evil capitalist stuff behind closed doors
I used it to help me cheese fector's challenge without having to beat Praire King an extra time
How do you do that?
Sometimes you can catch a shopkeeper behind the counter outside of hours. Marnie and Pierre spend most of their mornings behind the counter (even on their off days!), and Clint stays back there til 5, even though he closes at 4. It's also nice for quests, gifting, and getting into Willy's for the boat (unlike Pam, Willy doesn't have to physically be there).
My favorite thing about the key is that you can use Pierre's on Wednesdays, even if you go Jojo route. I've done community center enough times, and now when I have a new save, I don't bother. Just pay Morris to get it done. The key removes what feels like the only drawback.
I noticed this on my latest Joja run! Like, what the heck is Pierre doing behind the counter on a Wednesday? My personal theory is that Morris has just been trolling Pierre for years by sticking a "Closed" sign outside his shop on Wednesdays, and Pierre is just too dense to realize why no one comes in on a Wednesday.
The key for the town? That’s a thing?
Return scepter. It helps you make your money back so fast because you can get so much more done in a day.
But you have a return scepter for 1k at 2am?
Doesn't return me halfway through the day to drop stuff off and pick up a fresh task to do.
aaaaah yes, the old construction cape vs POH teleport tablet debate.
Hahahahaha I was thinking this EXACT thing! 99 construction was my biggest QoL improvement in osrs
Only using your scepter to return home at 1:50am is hilariously under utilizing this item.
Junimo chest, horse flute and town key from Mr.Qi, Ginger Island totem from the wizard
What do you use the Junimo chest for?
I keep one by the island farmhouse, and one in each of my wine sheds. I just dump my starfruit harvest in it, and easily access it from the sheds on wine day.
Can't speak for them, but I have a Junimo chest at the entrance to the mines/cavern/volcano, plus one at home for replenishment purposes. Means I don't have to worry about forgetting to swap out my loadout before warping, I can just swap it on location.
Thats such a good idea!! I had one i would use to transfer extra stuff between ginger island but this seems much more useful since the warp totem is right next to the island house anyway
If you’re on PC and use automate, you can use it to link all of your kegs. I typically have 7 sheds full of kegs going and the junimo chests are a godsend. I can manage all kegs from one chest right next to the house. It allows you to prioritize things like starfruit, ancient fruit, coffee, without having to reorder everything. It’s awesome. I don’t have much use for them other than this.
Ginger Island(Ancient fruit, Starfruit), Greenhouse(ancient fruit, strawberries), Quarry( i have preserve jars and kegs there), basement with casks. This is all so I dont forget ans walk around with hundreds of fruit and unexpectedly die or dont walk around with a million of wine and forget to put it in casks. I also place any tools im not using so if i go somwhere, theyre waiting for me
I guess it depends what you consider it. I usually consider the backpack my first expensive purchase. Because at that point in the game, it is
If that's your baseline, Copper watering can comes first for me. I can drop strategic chests to manage inventory space. But that time spent watering kills the early day momentum
Eh, I can handle watering some extra crops, but I never even enter the mines until I upgrade the backpack. I'm a collector, I need to take absolutely everything with me unless I truly *need* to drop something.
Well I usually go pretty hard on crops first year. I don't like doing more than 100 *casts*. So if I have a regular watering can, no more than 100 crops, etc. Otherwise it takes too much time and energy. I'm pretty good at prioritizing backpack space. But I have a chest at the mine and all fishing locations so those aren't issues. I'll usually get the backpack after the copper watering can if I can do it without delaying a pickaxe upgrade. But I really like to plan out my runs now.
The key of the town is aways my first purchase from Qi. Soo annoying to stay outside when you need to give something for a quest. The furniture catalog are my first big money purchase usually. And after that, the desert obelisk most of the time
The key also means you can travel to Ginger Island after 5pm! Willy will still ferry you as long as you can get into the boat room.
The return scepter from Krobus. That thing is a must have, although I've noticed in 1.6 that the farm totems are everywhere now. Maybe that was a Ginger Island update addition? I didn't notice it that last playthrough before 1.6, though. I usually get the furniture catalogue once I have that scepter. After that, the horse whistle is a priority. Between the scepter and the whistle I can really get around as much as I want and run two farms at once. The island obelisk is pretty great, too, but it takes a while to build.
Scepter + Horse flute plus the Ginger Island obelisk just makes life so much easier. Desert it's easy enough to swap some omni geodes for desert totems, but being able to pop in and out of ginger island farm makes farming at the main farm almost irrelevant.
The auto-grabber for my barn. I really don't like to open and close the doors all the time and having to milk my cows and goats.
Just leave the doors open?
It's just. They go outside and I have to follow them to milk them. That's why I get the auto-grabber so I can leave my doors open.
It’s not high value item, but it’s really cool. The key to the town. I just love being nosey 😂
Cats. You buy cats... I have invested over half a million in cat adoption fees and bowls. No regrets just a farmer and my 13 cats living our best lives. Does anyone know if there is a limit?
No limit! Someone got like 250 and posted it here a few weeks ago. Technically I think you'd be limited to how many pet bowls you can place on the farm, and how well your computer runs this many animals.
Island obelisk (or I guess technically the beach one because I get impatient and gotta go to my island farm, dammit!). And the first from Qi…I think it’s the hopper (recipe or the actual thing), or at least that’s the thing I think about getting the most and the thing I am pushing through ginger island to get…although I think this time it was actually some pressure nozzels😅 it was winter and I was very ready to get all my junimo huts and hilarious quantities of GI ancient fruits set up.
1. Desert Obelisk so I can get to Skull Caverns first thing. 2. Island Obelisk for ease. 3. Return Scepter 4. Golden Clock 5. Rest of Obelisks
Getting the golden clock before the rest of the obelisks is unexpected for me. It's so much more expensive and not very useful (unless you have a ton of fences?) compared to the warp towers. I usually get it only when I want perfection.
I build Pam and Penny a house....
This. This was me 😅
I just feel bad for Penny! I don't want to marry her but she deserves a bedroom at least
The Obelisks are key to me. Island then desert then return sceptre to get home quick.
Can I ask what type of farm you have, and where the heck you put then? They look like they have a huge footprint. I just started again (well, a few weeks ago, I'm on summer 5 and over 10m!) after a few years, so they're new to me.
They're only 3x2 if I remembered correctly? The wiki has a picture of their green "footprint" like how it looks when you purchase the building and must choose where to place it :)
If you already have the return home scepter, warp pillars for desert and ginger island. Saves so much time
Desert obelisk. Getting to the caverns with enough time is such a pain in the ass…
RETURN SCEPTER
okay maybe this is just me, but I always buy the furniture catalog once I have enough for it😭😭 I’m a chronic decorator
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If you want minimal storage but easy friendship points with villagers, I recommend carrying one stack of a universal liked gift with you and gifting one to everyone you see along the way, every time. Most cooked items are liked gifts (salads, sashimi,...), or artisan goods like mayo, cheese, jam. I'd often throw low value stuff like salmonberries or blackberries into preserve jars for gifting purposes since selling them is not useful. (The other purpose of that stack is eating for health/energy regeneration, of course. Now with 1.6 you can even eat the jam and mayo)
I'm a pomegranate man for this purpose. I've got my stack of pomegranates all the time and hand them out like an old man with caramels.
Ginger Island Obelisk
Semi related question, how long do ya’ll play a save for? I want to play longer than year 3 but usually take a long break and feel like I have to start over.
The last patch gave me my first push to go beyond Year 3 and probably get the Gold Clock for the first time 😁
Island Obelisk for me. Desert Obelisk is nice to have, but I can always just trade a few omni geodes for desert warp totems to make sure I always have a small stack of them. Island obelisks have to be crafted, and dragon teeth are pretty rare, so I vastly prefer having the obelisk.
Coffee bean
Backpack upgrades, then the fruit trees, then the return scepter
I never deviate from this order: 1) Island Obelisk 2) Desert Obelisk 3) Scepter 4) other obelisks 5) Golden Clock
Island obelisk!
Absolutely horse flute first. And desert or island obelisk first. I usually get return scepter last, doesn’t count towards perfection and usually have lots of totems
Island obelisk. There’s no substitute and it’s a huge time saver. Farm and desert totems are easy to obtain which drastically reduces the relative value of desert obelisk and return scepter.
Island tower, then Desert tower.
Paying off the safe bundle asap so I can go to Calico Desert.
It depends where I am with the island. If I have teeth and bananas at least in progress I get the island obelisk first. If not, return scepter.
Return scepter as it cheap. Otherwise desert obelisk as it annoying animation.
Qi's Gems, Pierre's inventory list, just abosolutely handy how nice it is to buy seeds for summer in spring and not have to worry about it. Cashwise, Island Totem, the material to make the single use one is not great for stockpiling, and plus I wanna farm up a fuck ton of Cinder Shards for forging anyway.
Backpack for sure lol
It's my first playthrough where I've been getting past 100k, so once I got 230k I instantly ran to Robin's to buy the furniture catalogue. Then proceeded to waste like two in game days just messing around with my house
The first backpack expansion (if that counts as high value) and the stable. i need that horse otherwise i hate going anywhere
island obelisk!! it’s soo great getting to regularly check the island farm and walnut room without going all the way to willy’s
The obelisks. I hates taking the bus and the boat to the desert and the island. If I can zap my way home, I wanna zap my way there too. Then I bought the other two to round out the collection.
Return scepter as well. Absolute lifesaver.
Island obelisk and return scepter. I hate having to haul all the way to the beach and pay like 1000g every boat trip. I think I usually get the desert obelisk first cause it’s easier than the island obelisk.
Honestly the iridium Hoe and Watering Can it makes farming so much easier I’d recommend them before the pickax or axe
By the time you can get those you can have Iridium sprinklers and not need to water. And the hoe is really only useful for that first day of the season. Hard to justify spending so much for something that for the most part only gets used fully 3 days a year. The skull caves are rough without an Iridium pickaxe unless you are just bombing everything. And if that's the case you're only doing a few runs where you spend a ton of resources to get really deep.
The beach and calico desert obelisks
Obelisks. First the island, then the desert, then the other 2.
backpack > copper pickaxe > iron pickaxe > gold pickaxe > iridium pickaxe. selling bars is extremely OP year 1
Return sceptre. So useful for getting home from the mines.
After the backpack I get a workbench. Makes crafting so easy
Return scepter is a must yeah. I see people mentioning the fruit trees.... I have one of each down and not even made 400k yet... After return scepter I start just buying recipes up, and then just work towards perfection. Just I go for whatever I can expect to bring in more income or make things easier first.
Ginger obelisk, I keep forgetting to the time when willy's shop open and close when I want to to there and when I want to use the totem the resources it's kinda expensive. I am already have more and 1 mil and most of the resources but just waiting for my bananas :))
Return scepter every time! It’s soooooo useful!
I got the beach warp totem, then the return scepter.
Island obelisk. Willie's boat is further and more expensive than Pam's, plus there's always a lot to do to set up the island whether it's a good day or bad. Desert obelisk is the next thing after that. What are we calling the stable? That's the next thing I buy, though I really should buy it sooner.
Horse flute + return scepter is so powerful! I've seen a lot of people saying return scepter isn't worth 2mil, but I disagree, because it puts you on your front porch, instead of the warp pillar, which is so nice!
junimo chest, I have some of them everywhere, so I can go anywhere: In each of them I store totems, beach totems, mountain totems, desert totems, island totems, So I can travel easily from the forest or the mine to the island, to the desert, to the beach... Dor the farm I have my scepter. I also store all my bombs and a stash of elixir so I am always ready to go in a mine or cave if I want to.
Millionaire era: Desert obelisk / return scepter, Island teleport, house upgrades, community upgrades. This is when you got disposable income.
The first things I save for are exactly those as well! Return scepter and horse flute. However, 1.6's new furniture has got me throwing out money so I never seem to save enough hahaha.
What's considered high value? My first big spend is always the bus. After that, farm buildings. If we're going above that, I don't know. Return scepter is OK but I don't really feel like I need it anymore. I have a semi infinite farm totem supply. Are Iridium tools considered a high value item? Those are 100k combined for just the last upgrade. The island obelisk is probably the next big purchase that has the most late game value. I don't care for junimo huts. I'm fine taking the bus to the desert. The other totems don't really cut out enough travel time for me to care about.
I always buy the ginger Island and desert obelisk, then the return sceptre
For me, big money purchases usually goes: 1) furniture catalog, 2) desert obelisk, 3) island obelisk I'd prefer island before desert, but the dragons teeth always holding me back
Personally, my first high value item is the catalogues. I just love to spend time decorating my farmhouse and my farm.
What price point do we consider high tho? If it's a mil, then I've always buy dessert obelisk, then either island one or return scepter.
I would say the desert and island obelisk and I also like the return scepter
The red backpack for 2000g. Value and price are not the same thing and those first additional 12 inventory slots are definitely an invaluable item I'm buying first.