Skull Caverns | What Every Perfectionist Needs! | Stardew Valley | Ep 3

Skull Caverns | What Every Perfectionist Needs! | Stardew Valley | Ep 3

Is it truly possible to obtain perfection in just one year? Let’s find out. Hello everybody, this is Gamergar. Welcome back to another episode of the perfection series. We are now entering the final week of spring and what a week this is going to be because we’re working a lot with friendships. We’re getting some recipes from a lot of the star NPCs, which is great. We’re going to sell some more strawberries and blue jazz. We’re going to keep a lot of the ghost dark crops for loved gifts later on. The help wanted quests are still extremely important. Demetrius is looking for the copper bar. Now, because today was a rainy day, we are going to use this to full effect. We are going to basically pick up a huge amount of catfish today. I think we get at least 50 catfish today, thanks to the efforts of the bait maker. Catfish bait gives you an extremely, I mean extremely high chance to hook up a catfish every time you span that rod into the water. Now, we’re not going to sell these catfish directly. We’re going to smoke them up first and then we are going to sell them. Now, the first thing we need, of course, is a smoker. So, we need to amass jellies this week. Specifically, cave jellies. We have lots of jellies from the ocean. We have lots of jellies from the river. We don’t have any cave jellies right now. So, we just got farming level four. We can make the preserve jar. This is a huge boon to us because we can now put our legend row into that and we can get a much better profit for it. With over 50 catfish, that’s coming in at 22,500 gold. We could sell it and get loads of gold today, but we’re not. We’re going to smoke up every single catfish, and we are going to double that value. All of the other fish will be sold, you know, like the crab pot fish, the shads, things like that. We are getting quite a lot of money because we’re passing out, but it doesn’t really matter because that extra hour that we used to get fish well exceeds over 1,000 gold. Now, we are going to get some forging none today. All of these leaks, dandelions, daffodils, horse radishes, some of them will be sold. A lot of them will be kept and used as loved gifts. If you take a look at that pink chest that we have there, that chest is going to have one function and that is to hold loved gifts for all of the Star Valley NPCs. It just makes it easy for me to stock it up with things and then every time we have some free downtime or when the new week starts, we can take all of the love gifts out, run around the valley, and just start gifting everyone left, right, and center. So, we just went to Clint. We picked up our gold pickaxe. We’re now going to give Clint the watering can, and we’re going to upgrade that to at least a cop. You might upgrade it again to a steel. It would be nice to have a good watering can going into Ginger Island. We’re then going to head up here and we’re going to fish up four chubs in total as part of a help wanted quest. And it’s very important we keep doing the quest because you get some really nice things from the prize ticket machine. Now, for the rest of the day, we’re heading up to the mines. We’re on floor 100. All we want here are cave jellies. We don’t get the best of luck today, and the majority of things we do fish up are trash. Now, we do get the odd lav eel here and there. And this makes coming up here worth it because if we smoke up a lava eel, we’re going to get a lot of money. We’re going to get at least 3,000 gold for lav eel. We came out with one cave jelly today, which was unfortunate. I was going to reset today, but I said no. I did promise myself that I wouldn’t reset any days in this challenge, so we’re not going to do that. We make one fish smoker, and we make two preserved jars. We can now start smoking up catfish and double their value. We also paid Willie a visit because we fished up Fort Chubs yesterday. He gave us a price ticket for that. We’re now going to head on over to the river here and we’re going to spend the rest of the day fishing up lovely catfish. We have the bait maker and the fish smoker right next to us. So, they’re going to be used if we need them. The bait maker of course will be used if we run out of catfish bait and the smoker will be used every time it’s off cool down. So, we’re going to end up with lots of smoked catfish today as well as natural catfish. Now, if you’re wondering why we’re doing so much fishing is because we need money badly. We need money for the Georgia development projects to get to Ginger Island. We need money for star fruit in summer. So, fishing, in my opinion, is one of the best ways to get that done in the early games. So, we’re just going to the flower dance today. We picked up the tub of flowers recipe along with the rare crow. This leaves us with 16,000 gold. I had a choice between Haley and Shane. I’m going to go with Haley this time around because it’s really easy to get love gifts for Shane. You can just get him bear all the time. So that’s an extra heart with Haley who’s got an achievement there. New friends. So I believe that is now Haley up on five hearts out of eight which is really good to be honest. Most of the Stu Valley NPCs have love gifts that are fairly easy to obtain. The hardest by far though is Pierre. Pierre is quite difficult. There is no kind of loved gifts you can just forage or you know pick up off the ground to give to him. One of his love gifts is a fried calamari. You need squid to make that. So, when it comes to Pier’s birthday in a few days, we’ll actually give him the star drop tea to dramatically boost friendship. Now, we didn’t go to bed after the flower dance. We did some more fishing. We picked up a few more cave jelleries, which was nice. Let’s take a look at all the money we made. Three smoked lava eels that committed over 9,000 gold. It’s really nice to get that. We also have a lot of smoked catfish, which I’m going to show in the next picture here. We’ve got 14 smoked catfish coming in at 12,600. And we have a lot more catfish in a chest that need to be smoked. If you’re wondering why some of the crab pot items are silver star, it’s because we’re using deluxe bait instead of regular bait. The next day was the 25th. It was a glorious day. We get some coffee beans. We get to harvest some strawberries. But look at all this kale we get to harvest with our lovely sight. There’s about 200 pieces of kale right there we get to harvest. Not only are we going to get tons of money from selling this kale, but we are going to get lots of skiups as well. And these skillups are very important because I wanted level six farming for quite some time now. So I can make quality sprinklers. We can now automate the watering process. That’s going to come in very handy now for summer when we start planting star fruit and other bits and bobs. We also went to Clint. We got our copper watering can. But we’re not finished. We have 43,000 gold and we’ve got bars. So we’re now going to hand in the hoe and upgrade that to a copper hoe. We’re then going to go to Mars and it’s now finally time to get the first Georgia development project, which is the bus for 40,000 gold. That brought us right down to 1,800 gold. So, yet again, our money is quite low, but because we sold all that kale, we will have lots of money tomorrow, so not to worry. The copper watering can is nice. We can water up three slots at once. The mushroom cave is still turning out to be a real good choice because if we get, for example, five common mushrooms and we dry them out, we’re getting back a super mushroom. If we get purple mushrooms, I don’t really save them up. I just eat them as I go along because the purple mushrooms give so much energy. We are getting through our catfish slowly but surely. We’re also going to get into the secret woods here as well, and we’re going to farm up these stumps. Hardwood is something that’s still needed badly. We used up a little bit of hardwood to make those fish smokers. We need to keep the rest of it now so we can repair the boat to Ginger Island. We should actually have all of the projects done. Believe it or not, within the next few days, if we can keep a solid line of money coming into the farm, between the kale that we sold and the catfish that we get to smoke up, we should be okay for the next week or so. Now, we got very lucky in the secret woods today. There was lots of forgeables. The green slimes occasionally can drop mahogany seeds, and if we do get mahogany seeds, we will plant them straight away. Now, I decided to focus more on foraging today, so I’m going to cut down a huge amount of trees until I get foraging number seven. We also picked up a Woody’s secret book of power. This is actually amazing to get earlier rather than later. It gives you a very small chance that trees will yield double the wood and that includes the mahogany trees as well and the tree stones. It’s 5% chance, but you would be very surprised how often it actually activates. Now, we ended up getting huge amounts of wood today as well. And to be fair, regular wood was something that we also needed because if we’re going to star fruit without, we’re going to need thousands upon thousands of wood to make cakes. And that’s something we’ll be putting a lot more time into as well over the next couple of weeks. The spring onions are always a godsend in spring cuz once you accumulate so many of them, you can eat them for huge amounts of energy. Now, we’re probably not going to get, you know, all skills maxed out in spring, but it would be nice to get them all maxed out within the first one or two weeks of summer so we can jump straight into the mastery tiers. Regarding the very first mastery we’re going to go with, I’m not too sure right now. I might go with fishing maybe if we can get our hands on some magic bait earlier rather than later. It would especially be nice to get some extended family key quest later on, but that’s way ahead in the challenge. For now, let’s just focus on cutting down these trees and getting into skull cavern and getting some aridium ores and prismatic shards. After the bus has been upgraded, we can now do skull caverns as much as we want. Level five far now would take till crops for 10% more. Now that I look back on what I have done, it probably would have been a good idea to keep the kale and set it to Pierre directly the next day to get that extra 10%. Because there was so much kale there, I probably would have made a few more,000 gold. Level seven forging was very nice though because that gives us the tree fertilizer and now we can start massing up tree farms. We met almost 50,000 gold. Let’s break it down. The big fees there came from the kale of course and we had bits and pieces of strawberries. In terms of fishing, we have a lot of smoked fish. 23 smoked catfish and we have a smoked lava eel thrown in there as well. So, it was really nice to get that kind of money now, especially coming into the end of spring. We can now unlock more Georgia development projects and we’ll have a little bit of money left over for Starfruit. So, we’re going to pay Mayor Lewis a visit today. We’re going to get that lovely star drop tea. That star drop tea will be used on Pier. So, in terms of giving Pier gifts, we’re going to give him a gold star daffodil for the birthday gift for the first one. That’s going to put him up to two hearts. And then we’re going to give him the star drop tea. That’s going to put him up to five. The star drop te gives 750 friendship points on a birthday. So, that’s basically three hearts, which is what I love about the Star Drop TE’s. We’re now going to get Clint to process some geoids, and we’re going to process some mystery boxes as well. There’s some really nice stuff you can get from the mystery boxes. Bombs were really nice, and I got 10 pieces of hardwood as well. I was really happy with that. We’re then going to go to the museum with all of the new artifacts that we have, and we’re going to donate those. We’re actually making really good progress in the museum right now. I reckon if we keep this pace up, before we know it, we’ll have access to the sores and we can talk to the lovely Crobus. We’re going to go with the minecarts for the next project. It’s the cheapest project by far and getting the fast travel is always nice to save lots and lots of time. Now, we’re going to be doing skull cavern runs on the 27th and the 28th. So, we’re going to spend today in the regular mines farming up as much iron ores as possible. And all of the iron ores we get today, the great majority of them will be used to make bombs. If we come across dust sprites, we will eliminate them as well for multiple reasons. The main reason, of course, is because they drop coal, but also we need to think about the monster eradication goals. So, this all counts towards that. Picking up diamonds today will be saved for triple shot espressos when we talk to the traveling cart the next day. The rubies will be saved for spicy eels. Now, any skillups we get today will be a bonus, of course. We have a very nice combat level for the skull caverns. Level six isn’t bad, and we have a fairly good mining skill as well. We also have a gold pickaxe. Now, the gold isn’t strong enough to one-shot regular mining nodes in the skull caverns. It would still take two swings, but the reason why I went for the gold is because I only have one more upgrade to do to get the original. And because I had the money at the time in the bars, I said, “We might as well get the upgrades done now rather than later.” Because what I find is that once you have all your tools fully upgraded, progression, it just becomes way easier. And you can save so much time as well when it comes to whether you’re mining ho up the ground or cutting down trees. The Ridium tools make it so that you have a much greater chance to get where you want to go in terms of progression. Now, floor 67 was an invested floor and we actually hit this floor multiple times today because of the sheer amount of enemies that was on it. My only regret is that I don’t have a stronger weapon. Now look, this holy blade is good for undead enemies, but when it comes to the dust sprites, when it comes to the frost slimes, it was only all right. If I had a galaxy weapon, I could have made way better use of that room. Mars is now repairing up the traveling carts for us, which is great. We get level six combat, which is nice, and level seven mining. So, it was a good day. The next day starts with a collection of aged catfish row. And the reason why I got that was because of the book of power jewels of the sea. And it just means more money for us. We weren’t getting any legend road today, which was unfortunate. And we also got build 1,000 gold for passing out. But you know what? That 1,000 gold doesn’t really bother us anymore because we have so much money. And I would rather spend the extra few hours in the evening trying to get more XP or, you know, trying to make more progression than going to bed early. We are going to make a total of 48 tree fertilizers. I didn’t need 48 right now, but it’s always good to just have it on standby. We are going to fertilize up all these trees. Once these trees are fully grown, we will tap the whole lot of them except the mahogany trees. We’re just going to cut them down for extra hardwood. Those mahogany trees will ensure that we have enough hardwood to fix up the boat. Now, the hardwood is just one component. We still need five battery packs and five aridium bars. Hence why we’re doing skavern runs over the next 2 days. I gave Pam a gold star parnip, b my way into the Georgia Mart. It was time for another development project. Now, I was kind of on the fence about should I spend money to unlock another project or should I save my money to get even more staff loot, but you know what? We’re going to get 10,000 gold if we make it past floor 30. And I still had more catfish to smoke up. So, I was fairly confident in my ability to make lots of money from today until the 1st of summer, which would allow me to get lots of starf fruit. It was Emily’s birthday. She got an amethyst, and we also paid Clint to visibly got the copper hole. We’re now going to hand in the watering can again and upgrade that to a steel watering can. It was then off to Gus to get some salads because we needed some healables, of course, for the Skull Cavern run. Then it was straight off to the desert to begin our Skull Cavern adventure. For troubleshot espressos, we are going to trade in some diamonds and for spicy eels, we’re going to trade in some rubies. I had a nice healthy supply of bombs, salads, and I had a fairly decent weapon and pickaxe. Now, the weapon isn’t great against serpents, and it won’t be great against slimes, but it will be also super effective against the likes of ghosts and mummies. Now, on the very first floor, I was met with a diamond. I decided to hang around, wipe out the enemies, and claim that lovely diamond because it’s just so hard to ignore them, especially this early in the challenge. When I was on floor number two, this was what I call an undead floor, so it was filled up with mummies and ghosts. This is where the holy blade shines because we do extra damage against these enemies. What’s more, once the mummies have been defeated, we don’t have to blow them up with bombs. They just die. So once their HP goes to zero, they just disintegrate. That’s what I love about this weapon. Now, we got very lucky with holes today. And if you end up getting two or more holes on the same level, it doesn’t matter which hole you pick, they will all bring you down the exact same level. Just so you know, we went down 11 levels there, which was pretty significant. I was hoping for a lucky running in one of these chests or some sort of a weapon upgrade, but it wasn’t meant to be. Now, we didn’t have the greatest defense right now, and my health was below half. As a rule of thumb, I will always take a salad or some sort of healable before I jump down into the next glory. You never know what you’re going to meet. Sometimes you could jump down, there could be nothing. Sometimes it could be a few enemies. Other times, it could be about five or six serpents ready to ruin your day. It was so satisfying to just attack all these mummies at once and just watch them all die without losing bombs. Each one was giving me 20 combat XP as well. When I got down to floor 20, I was swarmed with bats. I I mean, there wasn’t like two or three bats. There must have been about 15 or 20 of them. And it was just so nice to wipe them all out and get all the bat wings. I was still getting lots and lots of holes I could go down. Now, look, some holes weren’t great. They might give you maybe two or three floors. Some would give you eight. On the rare occasion, you might get 11. But you know what? It was much better than the staircase. the fact that we got lots of holes, I didn’t come out with a whole lot of Aridium Moores. So, I left a little bit early to go to the desert merchant. I got some troubleshot espressos. I got some more spicy eels, but I also picked up some warp totems to the desert by trading in on the geodess. It just means I don’t have to wait until the bus, you know, until 10:00. If I want to just got caverns from 6 or 7:00 in the morning, I can do just that. I got Mars to fix up the bridge here. We can now enter into the quarry. The quarry will be put to great use in this challenge. Once we get rid of all the resources in the quarry, it’ll more than likely end up being a huge tapper farm. So, we’re going to have, you know, oak resins, maple syrups, pine ts, all of that in the quarry. So, if we ever need any of those things, we know where to go. We’re now on the last day of spring and we’re getting through the catfish. There’s still a, you know, a good few catfish left to smoke up. We’re going to make some quality sprinklers. We had the gold bars, the iron bars. We had a lot of refined quartz. Believe it or not, most of my refined quartz came from the recycling machine, which was really nice. We’re going to put down these quality sprinklers. I’m just not going to bother water any crops today. There’s there’s really very little point. I know I have some coffee beans there as well, but look, the sprinklers will get them eventually. Once I was finished putting down the sprinklers, I popped the warp totem and went straight down to the SC caverns. Now, the start of this run, it wasn’t great. I’ve had way better starts. I wasn’t happy only for the fact that I pick up an early prismatic shard. I would have been very very tempted to reset today. And I I promised myself I wouldn’t do resets because I just want to see if you played through one whole year without resets what’s actually possible. When I got that prismatic shard, I left Scott Cavern straight away. I wasn’t down that deep and I swapped it in for the Galaxy Sword. It was now time to go back in with a much better weapon to see how much progress we could make. And I have to say, despite the fact that the Galaxy Sword didn’t have the Crusader Enchant, so we would have to detonate the mummies, the sheer attack power upgrade was enough for me to comfortably make very short work of all of the enemies here. It made the run far more enjoyable, I have to say. Now, it was almost 4:00 and we were only on floor 7, but I started getting some real good luck here. And it all started with that rabbit’s foot. That’s going to come in very handy now for a loved gift. I might even sell it actually, you know, for the for the collection later on. But we’ll see anyway how we go. The rabbit’s foot is a universal loved gift bar one of the serge valley NPCs. It’s also worth noting too that if I want to increase my odds to max out all of the star valley NPC friendships, a coupe filled up with rabbits is the way to go. So during summer, it’s not just going to be a farm filled up with star fruit. It’s going to be a fairly balanced farm, but it will be dominated by star fruit. But we’re now going to have to look at getting a coupe, a barn, and some other bits and bobs as well, just so we can get all of those items needed for perfection because the less perfection we have to buy, the better. We got very lucky today. We mined open another prismatic shard. That one will be given to Gunther. I know I could keep them, trade them for magical rockies, but we’re all about completion. And I already traded in the first one for the Galaxy weapon. This one will be given to Gunther. Absolutely. Now, I ended up fighting a dinosaur on Earth 63. And look, just prevailed once more. We got a dinosaur egg again. We could save this one, put it into a coupe. But you know what? We’re going to be doing way more skull car runs. We’re going to come across way more dinosaur eggs. They’re not that common. If you absolutely abuse the skull cavern on your first year. So, we’ll give that one into Gunther. And if we get any future dinosaur eggs, we might turn the next one maybe into a dinosaur mayonnaise. And then we’ll sell the next one. And that’s basically it then with all the dinosaur eggs. And if we end up getting the movie theater, there’s a chance you could get a dinosaur egg in the crane game. So I’m not too worried about dinosaur eggs to be fair. We also have to get the monster eradication gold for dinosaurs. Surely a few eggs will be dropped between those kill counts. So we are now finished the month of spring. Let’s look at the money we made today. We met 5,000 gold. Couple of smoked catfish there. We are now in the first of summer. This is where we’re going to leave the challenge. 10,000 gold from Mr. Key was nice. It puts us up to a nice healthy 43,000 gold we can spend on starfruit, maybe a few other bits and bobs. We have some catfish left over as well. A lot of catfish actually. So, I’m now thinking to myself, would I just sell those catfish just for the extra boost on the first day of summer? Thanks everyone for watching. Huge shout out to my channel members. I’ll see you all very soon in the next Stu Valley challenge.

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Is it possible to achieve perfection in just 1 Year using the all of the new stardew Valley 1.6 mechanics.
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This video contains days from Spring 21- 28 of the challenge, finishing off Spring and entering into the Summer.
A very balanced playstyle is required for us to achieve perfection.

Clearing Joja Development projects will open a path to Ginger Island.
Farming hardwood, battery packs and iridium bars are now key goals.

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