Skull cavern mining iridium nodes, or the quarry?

  • SickleRick [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Stardew Valley is a deterministic system. Your loot drops have already been calculated in advance from the game seed. It's possible to not get a prismatic shard for several ingame years, or to get it in the first year.

    The most important thing is DO NOT give your first one to the museum or as a gift. Get the Galaxy Sword first.

  • Ziege_Bock [any]
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    3 years ago

    Boost your luck every way you can.

    You can give a rabbit's foot to the truck next to the Jojamart for a permanent 0.25 luck bonus, you can eat things to boost luck, like the spicy eel dish for +1 luck and speed or Pumpkin soup for +2 luck, and obviously hit the mines or cavern on a very lucky day.

    Personally, I like to prioritize killing dust sprites in the mines. If you kill 500 of them you can get a burglar's ring from the guild. It boosts the frequency of all drops, and everything has a miniscule chance of dropping a prismatic shard. It also makes farming coal from killing dust sprites very productive.

    I just started a game where I got my first shard Winter year one from killing one of those buzzing bugs.

  • Fuck [he/him,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Pretty sure iridium nodes are the highest chance. You could get a fish pond with rainbow trout, which afaik has a 1% chance of making a prismatic shard per day. I just go to Skull cavern on a good luck day with 40 bombs and go to town.

  • ToastGhost [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    the first one you get will probably be from cracking geodes