that’s how i collected 400 Qi Beans in 10 days

Lol you are correct. Who else's fault could it be?

Still, better to discover late, than never!

I wanted all the treasure to myself.

I WAS NEVER GOING TO SHARE MY SECRET

<3

the thing with the treasure totem is that

1. it was only added in 1.6
2. it's unlocked through claiming the foraging mastery

so the mastery cave would've told you what comes with each mastery, including info about the treasure totem

The bus will be there, but I take a farm totem in case I stay too long or I'm about to pass out. Basically only use it in critical cases.

Lucky you! She's waiting with the bus. But bring a totem anyway, so you can warp straight from the depths of the skull cavern.

Actually you drive the bus home yourself.

I’ve only managed it without staircases once. I have a “desert trunk” with warp totems, bombs, purple mushrooms, spicy eel, and espresso. On good luck days I grab those items, warp to the desert, and just hope I luck out on some long mine shafts.

Make sure you're strong enough (got a few stardrops under your belt already); take foods that boost your luck, defense, speed, energy restoration & eat 'em before you're down half; wear good booster rings & boots; carry a lot of bombs, some stairs, focus more on getting down than gathering or fighting monsters along the way, go on a v good luck day (save "bad" luck days for racking up fighting points); go earrrly and stay late (warp totems); and ? have fun! If you don't make it this time, you will make it another time.

All that said, it is an accomplishment. When you do make it, and you will, come back and tell us: we know to cheer for you!! If you don't make it, tell us (my iPad crashed just as I read that "Well, well, well" the first time) we know to groan with you in commiseration.

Are ya winning, Child?

Don't care

Are ya having fun?

yeeeeeah!

Me too!

Check with fortune teller that it’s a very good day for luck. Stock up on bombs- more than you think you need, bring plenty of energy drinks and go forth. Don’t waste time smashing unnecessary rocks- find your exit to next level and go. If you have choice of falling through hole, take it.

I do it with about 100-200 bombs, 10-20 stairs, and a full inventory bar of meals. I don’t usually use them all, but it’s better to be overprepared so that you can stay proactive. Bombs help you mine faster, stairs help where the rocks are just too spread out or a dozen serpents harass you at the ladder, and food makes it so you can be more aggressive. Warping to the cavern also saves a few hours, and luck makes a huge difference in how readily the ladders spawn. I once tested max daily luck and a lucky lunch vs min daily luck and no buffs, and it was a difference of about 80 floors.

Get a desert warp totem too. Waiting for the bus wastes a solid 4-5 hours of in game time.

Trade 3 Omni Geodes to the trader in the desert for the warp totem. You should have plenty of Omni Geodes just from doing basic mining.

If you interact with the blueprint table, there should be an Option to Claim the Garden as yours. If there isn't, I don't got a clue what one can do.

that one is for apple trees and berry bushes. the one you want is to the right on the other side of the fence

the garden you are looking for is to the right from this garden ^^

Have you been playing for a long time? Save and close the game for a snack break, then see if you have the options when you start again

Can't quite tell from the picture but it looks like you're at the orchard which only does fruit trees and Berry bushes, I think you need to fix the blueprint table to the right of that garden, then you can plant carrots in empty garden beds on the other side of the fence

Do the mana bundle in the museum. It’ll give you what I mainly use to get orbs. Rarely drop below 1,000 orbs these days with that and the siphon flower going in a barn with Phoenixs

No one has mentioned it yet so, fruit trees! They are amazing passive income, even better if you use machines to turn them into tea (and most teas only require the fruits, with no other ingredients, making it very easy to use!) This is how I make almost all my money, in pretty much all my saves, in every town! Yes you can do all the other activities to boost your income, and I’ll do those too, but a solid fruit tree grove with some of each (or you can just do the most expensive one if you want, as those will be worth the most,) will give you a really good starting base. Most of the trees aren’t expensive either so you can start with one and quickly build your little orchard!

Edit: to find the fruit trees for the two other towns, go to the General Store, talk to the guy behind the counter, and scroll down to the bottom! That’s where they can be found! Nel’vari has 4, >!Withergate!< has 3, and >!Brinestone!< has like… six? Or something? And the ones from there also give mana orbs I believe. (Names are spoilered in case anyone hasn’t gotten that far and doesn’t want to see it!)

Edit to add: this goes for crops and animal products and just about everything in this game (except fish, in certain cases.) Just about anything and everything you grow, will be worth more if you make it into something! There are less options for the other towns (compared to Sun Haven’s crops where most can be used in several different ways,) but there are still good options! The juicers and tea kettle/soda machine are amazing to increase your profits a little for each thing you sell! And some fruits from the trees can be used in cooking or jam making back on your Sun Haven machines, so it’s worth looking into!

seed maker, fertilizer, farming skills, farming hat and flower ring will help

Fishing. Buy the Nel'Vari fishing rod, sit at the Nel'Vari entrance, ignore the weird-ass lag that area has for some reason, eat some really spicy bait, and fish the day away

Plant trees. The fruit trees, like cherries and sugar plums, you can combine with just flour in the oven to make cake and pie respectively. Super simple.

Also, go gather all the fruit and monster drops from the underwater combat zone. Those sell for mana orbs. I’d go back every few days to let them regrow their fruit then repeat.

Once you have a supply of mana orbs, you can invest in some expensive crops then grow them. Use the seed maker to get more seeds. The only thing with that is that some of them require ridiculous amounts of mana so have pots or food ready when you do that. I’m currently growing the dragon fruit and the purple flowers for that (I forgot what they’re called).

Use Crystalariums to produce 100 Jade, trade them for Staircases with the Desert Trader on a Sunday, then just Staircase your way down.

Shopping list:

• Spicy eel (3 or 4)
• Triple shot espresso (3 or 4)
• Salad (30+)
• Bombs or mega bombs (75+)
• Staircases (100+)
• Desert warp totem (1)
• Farm warp totem (1)

Warp directly to the desert instead of waiting on Pam. Pop a spicy eel and an espresso.

On levels with clusters of rocks, bomb them. On levels with sparse rocks, staircase immediately. Eat salad to heal. Eat more eel and espresso whenever they run out. Avoid fighting as much as possible.

You are not using desert totem to hit the cavern at 6-7 am. If you wait for Pam, you will waste good 3-4 hrs, and that makes reaching 100th floors much much harder.

Get desert totems. Be there as soon as you finish morning chores, if you have any. The earlier you get started the better. If you warp totem right when you wake up you can be there in by like 630. You only lose 1000 gold for passing out. Super worth to stay until 2 am. Then it's just espresso, spicy eel or rock candy (skip the miner's treat. Spicy eel is king. Pumpkin soup or lucky lunch are decent too), bombs and staircases.

You want to be in the cavern as long as possible. Like, if you can reach floor 100 in 16 hours in the cavern, but you dont get there until 10 am, you've lost 1/4 of your time and only end up reaching floor 75. And 75-100 are going to be the most lucrative so get there early and stay late.

If you bring 3 omni geode to the desert trader you can get a desert totem - then you can teleport to the desert first thing in the morning instead of waiting until 10am for Pam. Those few hours get you pretty far!

You need to either finish the Vault Bundles at the community center, or pay the 40k to Joja if you went that route.

The bus will then be fixed, and you'll be able to take it to the desert when Pam is present, as she is the driver.

Keep your health high at all times. Also, you can make a shit ton of jade in the crystalariums and buy staircases from the desert trader on Sundays to get to the lower floors quicker ;)

Make sure you have food to heal in the skull cavern. Bombs also help a bunch in there

I asked this question the other day and since then i’ve made two successful trips to the skull cavern, with 3 prismatic shards and 70+ iridium ore. Bring cheese, spicy eels, and a buttload of bombs

What I always bring is my Sword, Pickaxe, Hoe, 60ish salmon berries, 2 big health fillers like melons or cactuses, 2 spicy eels, 7 triple espressos, 400 stones, 10 bombs, 1 staircase and 2 health potions.

I always line them up in that order aswell with a gap in the middle between the coffee and the stones, so the sword is 1 and the health potions at the end. This really helps because if im being swarmed or panicking I don't have to search my bar to see where my potions are.

The stones are to enable you to quickly craft staircases, I find you don't collect them quickly enough when you first start going in. Whenever I use a staircase I always craft another one straight away.

When I first started attempting the Skull cavern I always made sure to separate out my health potions just in case I died to lesson the chances of losing all of them.

The reason I bring spicy eels and basic bombs is because the Serpents tend to drop them. I found that when I brought other lucky food that my bag just filled up quicker. AND! I love how fast you can run with Spicy eel and triple expresso at the same time. :D

So yeah, I'm kinda particular with how I work the Skull mines but it's been working really well for me. I find it's a fairly 'doable' setup aswell early on. whatever you don't use at the end, stick in a chest by the entrance for next time. When I first started looking up tips for SC I just found alot of suggestions for 100 staircases and 100 bombs which I just in no way had the money or resources for.

I unlocked it yesterday and fucking noped out of there just about instantly

You have to be standing in front of unsafe (shimmered) desert walls. Luck is a stat you can boost so wear and place some items from this list: https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Luck#Influences

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