Yeah, the moment I got my hands on my first Crystalarium (via a weekly quest), I immediately started growing jades with it, just so I could get a decent supply of staircases for my first deep Skull Cavern run. So I'm not surprised that jade was your #1.
Ok hear me out, I keep a shed full crystalariums with different colors of fast replicating gems. Red orange blue yellow and purple for Qi’s prismatic grange challenge. I have ten each of every color. It takes roughly 10 days to get 100 of every color (I use fiber for green because there are no fast replicating green minerals and gems) after I make sure to have one of every color I sell the excess as just bonus gold. It’s free after the initial investment and I don’t have to scramble around or use valuable crafting supplies.
Which gems do you use for each color(aside from green) if i may ask? Personally am starting my journey with Qi's challenges so i can get recipes i need to craft for perfection(and also just cause i want heavy tapper to spice things up with a mystic tree+mushroom log farm) and I would LOVE a way to automate a challenge after dealing with the ship 500 qi fruit one lol.
Did you get 500 Qi Fruit shipped? I have failed that one a few times. I too do Fiber for Green, Sap for Yellow is cheap and easy, Salmonberries for Red (cheap, almost all mine are cheap), I admit to doing Copper Ore for Orange (there is just so much of it!), Broken Glasses & Broken CDs work for Blue and I am always stuck on Purple, but Refined Quartz work. But a Crystalarium for Orange & Purple (unless one does Fire Quartz & cook it) and Blue (I am not really getting the trash I usually get, I don't have enough Crap Pots out) is not an idea I have had on my own, so Thank You!
For yellow, just use sap. Most people have way too much of it, and it's not of much other use. It's an interesting strategy for the grange challenge, I hadn't considered that before. Usually I grow some crops specifically for this challenge late game / save them up for it: blueberries for blue, oranges and apricots for orange, pomegranates and grapes for purple, fiber for green, and sap for yellow, and some mix of various low value red crops (like salmonberries, red peppers, apples etc as available) for red. Orange tends to be the hardest to get, short of buying copper ore from Clint.
@@stylishquesadila7731 sorry it took me so long, I had to dig through my save files to find them because I started a new save and couldn’t remember what I had used. Red Fire quarts Orange Earth crystal Yellow Topaz green Emerald X2 Blue Frozen tear purple Amethyst
@@stylishquesadila7731 sorry it took me so long to respond! I started a new game so I had to dig through my old saves to find the answer because I didn’t remember. I now use emeralds for green and I have 20 crystalariums for them to off set the longer processing time. I started doing that because I consider fibre to be too valuable a resource to waste like that. Here is the list. 😁 Red - Fire quarts Orange -Earth crystal Yellow -Topaz green Emerald X2 Blue -Frozen tear purple -Amethyst
I would add Basalt to this list as well because of Lava Eel ponds! i usually only duplicate jade and ruby for the Desert Trader. In my current 1.6 playthrough i have a bunch of golden cracker Lava Eel ponds that give me more Spicy Eels than i could ever eat so now im only duplicating jade xD If u want a bunch of Lava Eel ponds, Basalt duping is needed in the beginning to get the ball rolling but then the ponds should start giving u heaps of magma geodes which can be cracked for basalt haha
Totally agree with your ranking! Jade is always the most important one, I tend to allocate all iridium in a certain order to first maximise getting more iridium from skull cavern dives (not the biggest fan of combat, so) Like 1. Make more crystalariums for more staircases 2. Update pickaxe to iridium (so regular mine stones can be broken with one hit rather than two, making finding drop shafts easier) 3. Iridium ring (for more damage and so I have an extra slot for another ring free, like the crabshell one or lucky ring / burglar ring) Only then do I make iridium sprinklers, get the iridium pickaxe (felling trees in 3 hits is so satisfying!), repair the boat to GI and so forth.
Time moves faster during the night time (when you're asleep) so this is why machines are often completed after you wake up so that's probably why the emeralds finished earlier
Genuinely helpful. I was really curious about whether it was worth putting anything other than jades or diamonds in them. LOVE the letter from the rock eater at the beginning too
I have all my crystalariums producing jade, except for one that is always producing frozen tears because I love my hubby ♥ (and not in a million years I'm using void eggs as a gift. I love Sebastian but I also love my money)
He also loves obsidian, if you want to go for a change! Once I was married to him for a while, I started gifting him lots of different items because I like that it fills out the loved/liked items info overview in the social menu.
Great video ^^ For the time differences in the wiki, it seems like someone calculated days with 1440min instead of the 1600min that Stardew Valley days have (because of the 400min between 2 am and 6 am). So Emeralds are 3000min and with 1600min per day they will be ready in the morning 2 days later if you put them in until 9:20 am. So there is a 160min difference for every day the wiki shows (if this reduces the day count remember the last 4h of a day are 400min and unplayable). So diamonds are the farthest off and take in reality 4 days 13h 20min and all Minerals are far off too and only take 3 days 3h 20min.
Wow, Sephiloud comes in again with some great info. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there's an overarching issue with timing discrepancies on the wiki. I noticed the dehydrator lists 1750 minutes, but is always ready first thing in the morning as well. Thanks for helping clear some of them up!
@@Kitadollx That's really weird because Dehydrator is new in 1.6 and was never defined with minutes. Dehydrator is set to 1 day to be ready and this setting works by nights. So after x nights the machine is ready at 6 am. So the dehydrator will always be ready 6 am after sleeping for one night.
I agree with 1 & 2, and with Marble (sometimes it is really hard to get, other worlds you are swimming in it). You have made a good case for the others, like Fire Quartz, that I would not have considered on my own.
Nice video! But I think you're underselling just how useful Jade -> Staircase -> Deconstructor -> 99 Stone can be, especially when somebody is trying to set up large amounts of Crystalariums, Preserves Jars, Cheese Presses, or even Deluxe Retaining Soil for large sheds of garden pots. Eventually you'll end up with more stone than you know what to do with, but when you're still expanding it's so much easier than collecting it all yourself and cheaper than buying it from Robin. But even with all that said, Diamonds take the #1 spot for me for a reason you didn't mention: It can be traded to the Desert Trader for Triple Shot Espressos! This is meaningfully easier than growing and brewing your own coffee beans- each TSE lasts 6 in-game hours, so you can get coverage from morning to midnight with 3 TSE a day. Each TSE is equivalent to 3 regular coffees, which are five coffee beans each. Each plant yields ~4 beans every 2 days, roughly ~2 beans a day. This works out to managing 23 coffee plants to average ~46 beans a day, brewing them into 9 coffee, and then cooking them into TSEs. Or you could set up 15 Diamond Crystalariums to get ~3 diamonds a day, trade them, and enjoy +1 speed for 18 hours a day. You could just buy coffee from Gus for 300g/each, making TSEs cost 900g/each, but Diamonds sell for 750g/each without Gemologist so they're cheaper, and even at Gemologist's 974g/each I'd argue that the convenience of not having to cook it all into TSEs yourself is worth the 74g. I don't have numbers for comparison to a Hot Java Ring, but there are plenty of worthwhile uses for the ring slot. (And if you're playing with friends, all of this is per player!)
For TSE stocking i would rather use java ring (forget the exact ring name) that allows monster to drop coffee. Just farm monsters and get bunch of coffees, and sometimes the monster also instead drop TSE. Dont forget to use monster musk if available, and run in icy theme mines to also farm coal at the same time. In a day i can get 20+ TSEs
Jade and destruct for 99 stones cause i hate mining stone. But also love haing the staircase. Then Diamonds for money but also gold and just good to have on hand. Ruby for eels meals but also good to have on hand. Then Moonstone cause they pretty.
Ahaha! Happy accident! I didn't even notice that until you mentioned it. Good eye, though! I really like that. Maybe I'll try playing around with lighting like that more in future videos. Thanks for watching!
10k views but not even 2k subs dont seem right. If you sneak in the "hey a sub helps a lot and i would appreciate it" or something you may get more because im sure these vids are a lot of work
13:45 I physically cringed when you left the prismatic shard on the ground and teleported away
Ha! Sorry. I was just being silly to see if anyone would notice. I hope I didn't scar you for life. Thanks for watching
Yeah, the moment I got my hands on my first Crystalarium (via a weekly quest), I immediately started growing jades with it, just so I could get a decent supply of staircases for my first deep Skull Cavern run. So I'm not surprised that jade was your #1.
Ok hear me out, I keep a shed full crystalariums with different colors of fast replicating gems. Red orange blue yellow and purple for Qi’s prismatic grange challenge. I have ten each of every color. It takes roughly 10 days to get 100 of every color (I use fiber for green because there are no fast replicating green minerals and gems) after I make sure to have one of every color I sell the excess as just bonus gold. It’s free after the initial investment and I don’t have to scramble around or use valuable crafting supplies.
Which gems do you use for each color(aside from green) if i may ask? Personally am starting my journey with Qi's challenges so i can get recipes i need to craft for perfection(and also just cause i want heavy tapper to spice things up with a mystic tree+mushroom log farm) and I would LOVE a way to automate a challenge after dealing with the ship 500 qi fruit one lol.
Did you get 500 Qi Fruit shipped? I have failed that one a few times.
I too do Fiber for Green, Sap for Yellow is cheap and easy, Salmonberries for Red (cheap, almost all mine are cheap), I admit to doing Copper Ore for Orange (there is just so much of it!), Broken Glasses & Broken CDs work for Blue and I am always stuck on Purple, but Refined Quartz work.
But a Crystalarium for Orange & Purple (unless one does Fire Quartz & cook it) and Blue (I am not really getting the trash I usually get, I don't have enough Crap Pots out) is not an idea I have had on my own, so Thank You!
For yellow, just use sap. Most people have way too much of it, and it's not of much other use.
It's an interesting strategy for the grange challenge, I hadn't considered that before. Usually I grow some crops specifically for this challenge late game / save them up for it: blueberries for blue, oranges and apricots for orange, pomegranates and grapes for purple, fiber for green, and sap for yellow, and some mix of various low value red crops (like salmonberries, red peppers, apples etc as available) for red. Orange tends to be the hardest to get, short of buying copper ore from Clint.
@@stylishquesadila7731 sorry it took me so long, I had to dig through my save files to find them because I started a new save and couldn’t remember what I had used.
Red
Fire quarts
Orange
Earth crystal
Yellow
Topaz
green
Emerald X2
Blue
Frozen tear
purple
Amethyst
@@stylishquesadila7731 sorry it took me so long to respond! I started a new game so I had to dig through my old saves to find the answer because I didn’t remember. I now use emeralds for green and I have 20 crystalariums for them to off set the longer processing time. I started doing that because I consider fibre to be too valuable a resource to waste like that. Here is the list. 😁
Red
- Fire quarts
Orange
-Earth crystal
Yellow
-Topaz
green
Emerald X2
Blue
-Frozen tear
purple
-Amethyst
I would add Basalt to this list as well because of Lava Eel ponds!
i usually only duplicate jade and ruby for the Desert Trader. In my current 1.6 playthrough i have a bunch of golden cracker Lava Eel ponds that give me more Spicy Eels than i could ever eat so now im only duplicating jade xD
If u want a bunch of Lava Eel ponds, Basalt duping is needed in the beginning to get the ball rolling but then the ponds should start giving u heaps of magma geodes which can be cracked for basalt haha
I just NOW realized I can duplicate all minerals 😂 why did I always think that you just have to find them 😅
Amethysts are also loved by Clint, the Dwarf and Emily. Abigail just seems like the funniest option :)
Totally agree with your ranking! Jade is always the most important one, I tend to allocate all iridium in a certain order to first maximise getting more iridium from skull cavern dives (not the biggest fan of combat, so)
Like
1. Make more crystalariums for more staircases
2. Update pickaxe to iridium (so regular mine stones can be broken with one hit rather than two, making finding drop shafts easier)
3. Iridium ring (for more damage and so I have an extra slot for another ring free, like the crabshell one or lucky ring / burglar ring)
Only then do I make iridium sprinklers, get the iridium pickaxe (felling trees in 3 hits is so satisfying!), repair the boat to GI and so forth.
I also love putting different gems in my junimo huts to match the seasons
Oh, yeah! I totally missed that. Good tip!
You are becoming one of my favorite stardew valley youtuber also i would love a farm tour your far is so unique
tysm! Yes! I've been thinking about doing a tour. It's on my list as soon as I get some time to put it together
Farm tour sounds fun!
Time moves faster during the night time (when you're asleep) so this is why machines are often completed after you wake up so that's probably why the emeralds finished earlier
Genuinely helpful. I was really curious about whether it was worth putting anything other than jades or diamonds in them. LOVE the letter from the rock eater at the beginning too
I have all my crystalariums producing jade, except for one that is always producing frozen tears because I love my hubby ♥ (and not in a million years I'm using void eggs as a gift. I love Sebastian but I also love my money)
He also loves obsidian, if you want to go for a change! Once I was married to him for a while, I started gifting him lots of different items because I like that it fills out the loved/liked items info overview in the social menu.
@@lachouette_et_le_phoque I probably never divorce so I do like this idea thank you ♥
Being able to deconstruct staircases into huge quantities of stone for crafting is just another reason why Jade really is the best.
Great video ^^
For the time differences in the wiki, it seems like someone calculated days with 1440min instead of the 1600min that Stardew Valley days have (because of the 400min between 2 am and 6 am).
So Emeralds are 3000min and with 1600min per day they will be ready in the morning 2 days later if you put them in until 9:20 am.
So there is a 160min difference for every day the wiki shows (if this reduces the day count remember the last 4h of a day are 400min and unplayable). So diamonds are the farthest off and take in reality 4 days 13h 20min and all Minerals are far off too and only take 3 days 3h 20min.
Wow, Sephiloud comes in again with some great info. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there's an overarching issue with timing discrepancies on the wiki. I noticed the dehydrator lists 1750 minutes, but is always ready first thing in the morning as well. Thanks for helping clear some of them up!
@@Kitadollx That's really weird because Dehydrator is new in 1.6 and was never defined with minutes.
Dehydrator is set to 1 day to be ready and this setting works by nights. So after x nights the machine is ready at 6 am.
So the dehydrator will always be ready 6 am after sleeping for one night.
I like how I decided to replicate jade when I got it from the bundle quest reward, before knowing anything about what is the best gem to be replicate
I always duplicate Diamonds and Jade. Jade for obvious reasons and Diamond is loved by 8 villagers. That's easy friendship with 8 NPCs.
I agree with 1 & 2, and with Marble (sometimes it is really hard to get, other worlds you are swimming in it). You have made a good case for the others, like Fire Quartz, that I would not have considered on my own.
Nice video! But I think you're underselling just how useful Jade -> Staircase -> Deconstructor -> 99 Stone can be, especially when somebody is trying to set up large amounts of Crystalariums, Preserves Jars, Cheese Presses, or even Deluxe Retaining Soil for large sheds of garden pots. Eventually you'll end up with more stone than you know what to do with, but when you're still expanding it's so much easier than collecting it all yourself and cheaper than buying it from Robin.
But even with all that said, Diamonds take the #1 spot for me for a reason you didn't mention: It can be traded to the Desert Trader for Triple Shot Espressos! This is meaningfully easier than growing and brewing your own coffee beans- each TSE lasts 6 in-game hours, so you can get coverage from morning to midnight with 3 TSE a day. Each TSE is equivalent to 3 regular coffees, which are five coffee beans each. Each plant yields ~4 beans every 2 days, roughly ~2 beans a day. This works out to managing 23 coffee plants to average ~46 beans a day, brewing them into 9 coffee, and then cooking them into TSEs.
Or you could set up 15 Diamond Crystalariums to get ~3 diamonds a day, trade them, and enjoy +1 speed for 18 hours a day. You could just buy coffee from Gus for 300g/each, making TSEs cost 900g/each, but Diamonds sell for 750g/each without Gemologist so they're cheaper, and even at Gemologist's 974g/each I'd argue that the convenience of not having to cook it all into TSEs yourself is worth the 74g. I don't have numbers for comparison to a Hot Java Ring, but there are plenty of worthwhile uses for the ring slot. (And if you're playing with friends, all of this is per player!)
For TSE stocking i would rather use java ring (forget the exact ring name) that allows monster to drop coffee. Just farm monsters and get bunch of coffees, and sometimes the monster also instead drop TSE. Dont forget to use monster musk if available, and run in icy theme mines to also farm coal at the same time. In a day i can get 20+ TSEs
I also ended up deconstructing a few jade-traded staircases for stone to use in late-game crafting recipes.
most underrated stardew valley creator i love you actually
I am indeed a mayonnaise tycoon 😤😆
Awesome video as usual! Keep up the great work!
I found this video SO interesting
Diamonds can also be traded at the Desert Trader for Triple Shot Espresso.
I do love putting Jade in crystalariums. I usually keep 4-10 going and that's enough for me.
Jade and destruct for 99 stones cause i hate mining stone. But also love haing the staircase.
Then Diamonds for money but also gold and just good to have on hand.
Ruby for eels meals but also good to have on hand.
Then Moonstone cause they pretty.
Remember that you also can deconstruct the stairscases that you bet from the desert traitor to get 99 stone
"desert traitor" :D :D
My personal top 5
1. Jade (staircases)
2. Ruby (spicy eel)
3. Diamond
4. Fire quartz
5. Quartz
Awesome content and very helpful🎉
[14:00] did you mean to make a heart with the light?
Ahaha! Happy accident! I didn't even notice that until you mentioned it. Good eye, though! I really like that. Maybe I'll try playing around with lighting like that more in future videos. Thanks for watching!
Starshards outsell diamonds per week and overtime will be more valuable.
Exactly right I only use Starshards for making more $$$$$$$ than Diamonds
Who else immediately tried to throw an iridium ore in it? Lol
10k views but not even 2k subs dont seem right. If you sneak in the "hey a sub helps a lot and i would appreciate it" or something you may get more because im sure these vids are a lot of work
love having troves of marble for the toga party ill never have 🤍