Also something I learned is that if the bus is open you DO NOT need the skull key to reach skull caverns. You can access them during the spring three day calico event. This means that bc you never reached floor 120 all enemies will have HALF the hp compared to if you had the skull key. It also means that your starter clubs weapons will be fine to defeat baddies. I still agree that steel pickaxe is best :)

thx, im finally overcoming my fear bc i NEED autopetters. I have 5 barns and 4 coops, its so much work to have to pet all my animals. at the same time i refuse to ever go the joja route LOLLLL

The uncut version was great, really helped answer all my questions! Thank you!

This is fantastic! For a future video, maybe consider making (even a short) video on skull cavern or combat in multi-player. I love playing with friends, but we get absolutely destroyed by lag and the inability to pause when eating. Thanks again for this extensive video!

Getting to 1000 slimes for that slime charmer ring is so worth it, imo. Not having to worry about those guys is a huge weight off.

Thats by far the best guide i've ever seen. Thank you very much for ur detailed guide, it shows everything from the start, now I can try my luck again at skull cavern :D

48:30 One other thing to consider specific to the Desert Festival! You can eat from the mysterious chef for long lasting special buffs that stack with normal food and drink buffs. The buffs always last 7 minutes, but your choices effect what buffs you get. A really good option is Rare Fruit with Uncomfortably Hot Sauce for +3 luck and +1 speed, but other options can give defense, attack, and mining levels. The only one you don't want is the shrimp, which give the dish a +3 fishing buff.

What timing! I JUST unlocked the Skull Cavern in my first 1.6play through today! Thanks man!

Bonus Tip: On the Springtime Desert Festival days, you can get food buffs that don't interfere with your normal food and drink buffs, check the wiki for combos that you want, but basically you can get another luck bonus on top of what you already had at the end there.

Thank you so much my man, such an amazing video I've been looking a guide like this for a long time most for the guides that I found with channels that have more then 100K subs are just general info they don't explain everything, but you made it so informative and so easy to understand, thank you again you deserve more 100K for reall :D

This is an amazing and very detailed guide, I'll be referencing it again before my next Skull cavern run

I personally don’t bother with the caverns until I have set up crystalariums with jade and I can consistently get down to floor 100. Just farm the regular mines for all the ores you need and kill slimes so you will get the charmer ring and never have to worry about those. It gets a lot easier once you unlock ginger island and you can farm coffee and pineapple en mass as well as being able to get ginger for ale that you can buff with qi spice. For combat I used an artful galaxy hammer with acrobat so I can just spam the special and use the click glitch to kill everything. I also threw three knockback buffs on it so I can pick and choose what I want to fight by just flinging mobs off the screen.

Great video brother! Something I learned was there was a book available after 1000 monster kills. Just when I think I know everything, there is always something new I was unaware of.

You are already one of my favourite stardew-tubers!

I watched this, did my first run of skull caverns (I've been playing since 2016 lol) and had 3 dinosaur eggs drop on the one level.

This was one of the best videos I’ve watched on the caverns and maybe stardew valley in general. The amount of detail vs ‘get bombs’ etc is really awesome. Subscribed!

Thank you so much! This was really helpful and fun!

Absolutely amazing video. Thank you. I'm on console, and this was definitely helpful.

Love your videos! Your voice is so relaxing 😌

I dont know but prismatic shards are droping like crazy for me and my friends in 4 differents farms on the first day of the desert festival I got 6

It's also good to take out the crabs when it's your first cavern runs because you can usually get a piece of iridium ore from them. Yes, it's disappointing that it's not an actual ore node, but at least they drop some iridium compared to the slimes that rarely drop iridium ore. If you go to skull caverns on the desert festival, make sure to get your free meal before going in as it does not count as a regular meal so you can stack the buffs you get from the chef with a magic rock candy. Select rare fruit as the base and then Uncomfortably Hot sauce. This meal will give you +3 luck and +1 move speed.

Really helpful thanks. I onky started playing with 1.6 & not a fan of combat. But i have managed to get to floor 83 in skull cavern & have 2 autopetters so far. Definitely need to craft an iridrum ring & try out some of the other tips

Very helpul, good job!

Get this man to 100k

I would also recommend saving all your regular quartz bc you can get bombs with 5 of them. Even using 1 crystalarium will give you multiple of them per day.

Great and very informative video as always. I'm so glad I discovered your channel. You definitely became one of my top 5 favorite stardew valley/gaming KZfaqrs. Also learned that people call the Television "Telly", lol. As someone whose native language isn't english, I've never heard that before, it made me chuckle :D

I’ve never made life elixir for anything but completing the crafting completion requirement in three perfection saves. I just bring cheese or a good stack of either salmon berries or blackberries if I don’t have enough cheese yet.

Thankyou so much 🙏

Nice video, im playing on the PS4, waiting for the update.

"How to Skeleton Cave ?" -Seanie Dew, probably

My preference is quartz trading for bombs, a couple of duplicators of quartz, with a few for ruby and jade keeps me rolling in bombs, but early game that's only feasible if you had quite a few saved from the regular mines 👍🏾

Highly recommend the swift enchantment on the pickaxe. Makes life easier. 😊

What's the purpose of that button at the entrance of the skull cavern?

During the calico festival, you could buff your luck even more with the cook who gives you +3 luck and +1 speed on top.

How do you not have half a million subs yet?!

I got prismatic shard and ancient seed both from slimes in the secret forest( above wizard's house). I got it them in spring of year 2.

Throwing in a tip or two for beginners: I make a lot of cheese anyway, so I keep all my gold star cheese for food. With a barn of cows it stacks up quickly and it is a really good food source.

I think a good idea is to wait until you have done ginger Island and have really good gear before you do too much skull cavern stuff. Going in with a Dwarven sword, mermaid boots, and two decent combined rings makes it much much easier to do well.

Do you start from floor 1 on skull cavern always and do you need to sleep somehow while inside?

On multiplayer I'm finding skull cavern ten times harder, because time never will pause, and monsters move differently. Knockback doesn't seem to work the same, and it's difficult to keep serpents from hovering on top of you, damaging you while you fight them. I'm normally comfortable hitting floor 130 in a day in skull cavern, but in multiplayer now I'm rarely hitting floor 40 anymore. I'm thinking that spamming staircases might be the only way to get down to iridium levels in multiplayer, early in the skull cavern days. Maybe after I get to Ginger Island and have more luck buffs I could get farther.

Seems like bombs are the bottleneck for how deep you can go realistically, so the first few runs need as many bombs as possible to make the effort worth it.

Making golden star cheese is much easier and give you energy too instead of making life elixir. But showing full Skull Cavern run with bare minimum requirement and all upgrade you can get in year 1 are very uplifting and motivating.

great video, love your content. long ass video though lol

How is it possible to get so much money to unlock the bus by Spring 7? At 0:30 Spring 6 I see 51,000g and at 1:21 Spring 7 I see 71,000g Total Earnings? While waiting for the new update on consoles, I have been practicing on my switch to get that much money before spring 15 (before the desert festival) and I find it impossible.

why did you trash the 2 iridium bars 😿

I choose to die so baby girl Harvey can save me 🥰

I reached 1000 level in Skull Cavern : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLedntiextfSe4k.html

I bet that something gone wrong I got 2 lucky rings in 2 visit's 10 prism shard as well😁

I’m confused on why you keep saying crystalarium will help you with making stair cases… do crystalariums replicate stone as welv

i am early oh my

24:22 Gave my girlfriend this same advice..... did not work out that well tho....

cheese gives you 200 hp, it's nice that you don't have to cook a recipe with it.

How did you earn 70k in only 7 days tho

100 day

49th

this vid could have been 10 mins