Contented-Slime
Farmhand
Hey y'all! I just unlocked the mastery cave and was wondering the most efficient way to get mastery points. Any advice?
Best way to get mastery points?
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stardew_luv
Farmer
The fastest way is to read the book of stars from the bookseller. It’s a rare find though. It takes around 100 of them though so unless you are really well off or use a cheat exploit it’s not the most effective. Do buy any lower cost skill books too as they add up little by little. The best way is slow and steady. Harvest lots of high value crops such as ancient fruit, starfruit, etc. Go to mines slay lots of high health point monsters and read any books they drop. Gather high xp ore like gold iridium and radioactive ores Best bet is skull cavern, volcano or use dangerous mines. Chop every freaking tree that grows, pick all forage you see. Fish in the ocean use pirate professional for more treasure chests as they have them and the bigger catches give you more points. I’ve had luck in the dig area on ginger island occasionally. Also always dig artifact spots, they will occasionally on a lucky day yield them. Best of luck to you. It can take some time so don’t get discouraged. 
FilthyGorilla
Local Legend
Really depends if on your skills in playing, the best way objectively is just to run skull caverns as iridium nodes (and calico egg nodes if you get mastery around that time) drop a pretty great 50xp per, and can appear en masse as you descend. When 1.6 just dropped I did one massive skull cavern run and got all 100,000 mastery points in a single day.
Otherwise, large scale crops, which will be hastened when you claim a wonderful certain mastery tool that really quickens harvesting. While nerfed compared to other xp (need 2 farming xp per mastery point instead of 1:1 like the other skills), it's still very viable, especially if you have some setup for crops already like on ginger island. 500 starfruit for example (around 3/5 of the island/greenhouse combo) is about 10k mastery xp per harvest, which isn't too bad if you don't need everything right away.
Besides those, you only really have the option of mass reading books which can be incredibly expensive, or slightly less enjoyable alterations of the other two methods like bombing all the rocks in the volcano every day, etc.
Otherwise, large scale crops, which will be hastened when you claim a wonderful certain mastery tool that really quickens harvesting. While nerfed compared to other xp (need 2 farming xp per mastery point instead of 1:1 like the other skills), it's still very viable, especially if you have some setup for crops already like on ginger island. 500 starfruit for example (around 3/5 of the island/greenhouse combo) is about 10k mastery xp per harvest, which isn't too bad if you don't need everything right away.
Besides those, you only really have the option of mass reading books which can be incredibly expensive, or slightly less enjoyable alterations of the other two methods like bombing all the rocks in the volcano every day, etc.