"I only got 60 floors from 8:10 til 8:20, that was bad!"Funny you should write that (above), because I just watched a good bulk of this video. Holy shmoke!!
Have to respectfully disagree with him that he is bad at the game, though
Things are going so fast I'm not even sure what is going on. Totally nuts.
Yes 100%. You need the Level 100 Qi quest active to trigger the special room and event on SC100. I've only made this mistake once. It's not the type of thing you forget to do again.......mostly.Will take this here as it's kinda related.
What gives? I got to level 100 and there was no reward or cutscene or anything? Is it because I technically haven't gotten the level 100 quest yet? Was so happy to get down there so early in the game (Summer 23), almost without any stairs (crafted 1), and then... nothing
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Right now I can do like 60-70 levels per tick which most people regard as “really good” and though it’s only improbable in my eyes.
Happens to the best of us! ;D
Diving deep yields a higher ROI, both in terms of Bombs but also time. So if you have the Staircases, use them, because if you come home with 50 more Iridium, that's another 5 Crystalariums in the bag, shortening the "accumulation period", meaning you can head back sooner!
Turns out bombs are actually pretty expensive when I thought about it. 60,000g for a stack of 100, and I used more than that. But since I'm not using the slingshot (ammo is expensive too, so there is that), I have found that placing a bunch of bombs on floors with loads of iridium nodes is so, so handy. The Dwarf must be the richest person in Pelican Town after all the bombs I've bought from him, and this is just the beginning of the madness.
Yeah, I have been way too conservative so far. These deeper dives with lotsa bombs also yields more gold, and I ought to start using a bigger portion of the stairs already accumulated. Had another go after the one I posted a screenshot of above. Not quite as good in terms of ore (750-ish), but actually ended up with 11 prismatic shards, one more than last time. Both days were max luck, but you still need some fortune with the floors.
The gold is an absolute killer, I’m working on covering the whole map of stardew with crystalariums which including my farm is probably like 20-30k.Turns out bombs are actually pretty expensive when I thought about it. 60,000g for a stack of 100, and I used more than that. But since I'm not using the slingshot (ammo is expensive too, so there is that), I have found that placing a bunch of bombs on floors with loads of iridium nodes is so, so handy. The Dwarf must be the richest person in Pelican Town after all the bombs I've bought from him, and this is just the beginning of the madness.
Not sure if it was you who mentioned it or somebody else, but I've found that the big bottleneck for the crystalariumkingdomshed is gold, and to a lesser extent batteries. I'm bathing in iridium and have sold several hundred bars already.
Yeah, I have been way too conservative so far. These deeper dives with lotsa bombs also yields more gold, and I ought to start using a bigger portion of the stairs already accumulated. Had another go after the one I posted a screenshot of above. Not quite as good in terms of ore (750-ish), but actually ended up with 11 prismatic shards, one more than last time. Both days were max luck, but you still need some fortune with the floors.
Will focus more on expanding the jade crystalariums so I can do serious deep dives more often. Currently have 30, which is okay, but 50-100 would be better. However, gold+batteries is an issue. Had several thunderstorm days lately, but at best I'm getting only 10 batteries. 40-ish lightning rods was a little overkill... I know about the rain totem thing, but I have no way of getting truffle oil, and don't have any tappers on pine trees anyway. It's an awkward recipe.
Cool if more people write about tips and ideas in here, and your hauls
PS: At one point in one of those runs I got three treasure rooms in a row. The chance for that must be miniscule!
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It used to but was patched, you used to be able to get full only iridium floors around floor 5-600 but now it’s 1740 for full ore and 5600 for fully iridium nodes only, I want to get there but I think it would take a few days of just playing when my fingers and mind are at their sharpest.
Because I used some 300-350 stairs, and 130-ish bombs (started with 200 regular and 11 megas). The bombs alone cost 120,000g. Stairs are sorta free in the sense I don't pay for them, but ofc those 350-ish jades could have been sold for a nice sum as well (~70,000g). And going over all the loot, it has a value of around 180,000g.
Usually I get enough or at least nearly enough iron from Skull Caverns to make up for the ammo I've used, so I just have to buy coal. It does require prioritizing breaking iron nodes at least a little - looks like you don't quite have enough iron, but still, converting your iron to bombs would make up for a decent chunk of that cost. (Remember you can buy coal from Clint - 250g for a coal is a lot less than 600g for a bomb.)
Haven't used it yet, but have been thinking about it. Was shocked when I saw it cost 300g per item. Good point about buying more coal from Clint's tho. The recipe needing two coal has held me off, but did some math yesterday actually, and it's better to make these items yourself than buying it. It's just that then you run into a resource issue sooner or later. For now I'm rather good on iron, however, it's gold that is the huge pinch. One pretty good haul to SC only allows to craft 10 crystalariums. Without farming it's much more difficult to scale things up. You see the funds above. However, once all that iridium is converted to bars, they can be sold for 367,500g. As with everything else in the game, time is the biggest limiter.
) will help a lot. Don't fight enough enemies (ideally) for the Burglar's ring to be worth it (but I like to use it in the regular mines, hello dust sprites), and with few enemies killed, much of the same goes for the Napalm ring.
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if you need radioactive ore, isn't better turn off the switch on the bottom of the mines and search for rad.ore here? every 5 floors there is the elevator and monsters are less dangerous.This looks like it could be a fun topic
I don't know what it is with bombs, but I am extremely shy about using them. Perhaps it's a subconscious self-imposed challenge. I only tend to use them to kill mummies, but only if I can get them in groups of 3 or more. The most I've ever used in a single Skull Cavern run is about 20 or so.
Also, I'm in the midst of a 21-days-in-invaded-Skull-Caverns stretch -- yes, that's with accepting 3 consecutive Qi Quests of Skull Cavern invasion back-to-back-to-back -- with the purpose of grinding for Radioactive Ore and Qi Gems. It kind of has a "Naked and Afraid" feel to it and I've needed plenty of food to stay alive, even with a Vampiric Infinity Blade and the Slime Charmer Ring. I've gotten around 200 Radioactive Ore so far after 14 consecutive days in Invaded Skull Caverns -- those nodes are quite rare!
