What should i use my first 5 Iridium bars on?

[Fsc]

So i recently finished grinding skull caverns and now have 5 iridium bars. Should i use them to get an iridium tool or ginger island or other?

 

[Lew Zealand]

IMO Ginger island so you can start experiencing those things. However if you really like Mining, then an Iridium Pick can be nice. I prefer Bombs because my Pickaxe fails to explode, make loud noises, or do any cool area-of-effect damage to monsters (OK or myself) even at Iridium level.

So I stick to Bombs.

And spend the Iridium on Willy's boat so I can further enrich him at 1000g per trip to Ginger after I fix it up. Can you imagine how much he charges the rest of the town if the gal who fixed his boat still has to fork over four digits per trip?

 

[24k Ancient Fruit]

And spend the Iridium on Willy's boat so I can further enrich him at 1000g per trip to Ginger after I fix it up. Can you imagine how much he charges the rest of the town if the gal who fixed his boat still has to fork over four digits per trip?

And that's even if the Farmer has 10 hearts with Willy

This is why I like to go for the Island Obelisk ASAP

 

[Lew Zealand]

And that's even if the Farmer has 10 hearts with Willy

This is why I like to go for the Island Obelisk ASAP

I cannot get those Dragon Teeth fast enough. Each one costs like 3-4000g to get though I really want to get like 4 Stingray ponds next time and just ignore Ginger until I get the full thunder lizard orthodontia set.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

There are a few options that are generally "good", I've listed them in what I think is the best order to go about it, it's up to you but the top 3 are definitely high priority:
1. Pickaxe
2. Boat
3. Crystalariums (for infinite jade and ruby and therefore staircases and permanent luck+speed and staircases)
4. other tools
5. iridium bands
6. iridium sprinklers

 

[DJModulo]

I'd go with either the boat or crystalariums (the latter being used for Jades mostly at first, later one Diamonds (for Gifts and Triple Shots) ), depending on how manx SC dives you plan on doing in the near future.

 

[FarmerMeg]

I tend to go with either a pickaxe or an axe so I can better clear stone and wood.

 

[Tom]

It probably depends on timing. I would be choosing among crystalariums, pickaxe, and axe (wood for kilns) assuming that I will be abundantly deep in the Skull Cavern before I finish the CC. The combination of those three soon snowball me to more than enough iridium ore to sell for income.

 

[HaleyRocks]

In my 1.6 run, i didn't grind for Iridium at all. I earned the statue from Grandpa's Shrine, as my main source of Iridium ore.

The first thing i spent 5 bars on, had been Willy's boat. Then pickaxe, then axe, then Copper Pan. In that order. Iridium pan got me Lucky Rings.

 

[REtroGeekery]

I always save the first five for Willy's boat repair (and then forget the island exists for like a year in game) because Willy is the best npc in the game and he deserves it.

After that I usually make some irridium sprinklers for the greenhouse. Once that's filled, I start upgrading tools.

 

[RennyBenny]

When I got my first bars, I saved them until I could upgrade my pickaxe since I do a lot of mining.

 

[MogBeoulve]

I usually put the first 5 bars toward getting to Ginger Island, because I don't go to the Skull Caverns and thus I can get more iridium from the Volcano.

But I also tend to be very lazy about upgrading everything to iridium (sprinklers, tools, etc.) until I have the Statue of Perfection. I don't rush things.

 

[stardew_luv]

Always save for Willy’s Boat repair. It’s a requirement (in addition to 200 hardwood and 5 batteries) to get to Ginger Island which is the next adventure in the game after completing community center or Joja development route.

 

[24k Ancient Fruit]

In my very first game, I never got 5 iridium bars. I used fishing to complete the Joja Route, then shelved the game, as a new version was released shortly thereafter.
In my second game, I was on the Beach Farm and watering plants by hand every day so I had used my first 5 Iridium Bars to upgrade my Watering Can to Iridium.
In my last game and now my current game, I had become more adept at combat and used my first 5 Iridium Bars to upgrade my Pickaxe to Iridium.