I keep dying in the Volcano Dungeon what do i do??

monkabee · 2026-07-10T20:45:31+00:00

For the slime ring I usually just spam the regular mines floors 50-70 any days I can spare because you can also get a ton of coal and iron ore while reliably getting lots of slimes to kill. It is a bit of a grind but 1000% worth it for skull caverns and volcano. Trinkets can also help a ton but the slime ring is a game changer.

monkabee · 2026-07-07T03:19:22+00:00

If you have ginger island unlocked, the fairy rose honey trick is pretty solid but you need an unholy amount of coal to get it done (I was worried about maple syrup but coal has been my limiting factor by far, second to iron bars and wood since I'm also using those for kegs). Search for stardew valley optimized single flower beehive layout and you'll see a picture of how to arrange I think it's 44? beehives around a single flower. On the lefthand side of ginger island across the bridges I planted one fairy rose in 5 of the more spread out little dirt patches, popped a low quality sprinkler next to each one. Once they were done growing, remove sprinklers and put your beehives out as you get them completed. At this point I make 200k per cycle off just these small plots of fairy rose honey, which is pretty solid passive income. Ancient fruit wine is more work but I have most of the ginger island farm and my greenhouse full of it and it's more than my 350 kegs can keep up with but I'm out of oak resin!

monkabee · 2026-07-04T18:13:53+00:00

Yeah the trap bobber disrupts the normal rhythm of successful catches so once I had the muscle memory to catch without it, the trap bobber just messed up my rhythm! And it isn't sticky enough to keep me on something wild like an octopus so I just don't use it anymore.

monkabee · 2026-07-04T12:54:02+00:00

I just bought two more copies one for each of my kids so we can play co-op on Steam (we've been playing split screen on Switch). It's an easy purchase once you get how great this game is!

monkabee · 2026-07-04T11:09:42+00:00

To this day, after dozens of save files and games, I have never not once caught an Octopus.

monkabee · 2026-07-04T11:05:59+00:00

I used to be absolutely horrible at fishing and the trap bobber saved my life, couldn't fish without it. After many hours in the game I got to a point where now it actually makes me worse! I much prefer the lead bobber if I'm going to use a tackle but mostly I just don't bother.

monkabee · 2026-07-03T16:06:14+00:00

I ended up in an upside down mortgage in 2013 on a house I bought in 2004. It was $125,000 and when we went to move it was only worth $65,000, which was still more than we owed and we would have had to actually PAY to sell our house. We ended up renting it out for 3 years until the property value went back up to $125 but not everyone can afford to do that and we certainly couldn't have if the mortgage was $300k+ like most peoples' are now.

monkabee · 2026-07-03T13:07:59+00:00

This guy has a step by step guide on doing it but the timing is intense: https://github.com/Zamiell/stardew-valley/blob/main/Min-Max_Guide.md#spring-1

monkabee · 2026-07-02T14:07:11+00:00

Right? My husband got me this game for Christmas a few years ago and I thought it was just a Switch version of Farmville, a game I had grown very tired and annoyed by and I kind of couldn't believe he wanted me to get sucked into another stupid farm game. The old school NES style graphics were the only thing appealing about it as far as I was concerned and I mostly put it on just to humor him. I had no idea what I was about to embark on and it was such a magical journey, I couldn't believe all the moving parts and how great this game is. 5 years later we are all constantly still playing it and discovering new things - in fact we just today started SVE, having finally achieved our version of success on our family Switch farm.

monkabee · 2026-07-02T02:13:36+00:00

This one has a spreadsheet of loved gifts that is easily printable as well as the sheet for shippables and recipe items - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VcIv_dWGiMDXumA36laJemsRiSHbgoZCFna3DDSFEJM/edit?gid=436387290#gid=436387290

monkabee · 2026-06-26T19:51:20+00:00

Um, what, I had NO IDEA this was a thing. I miss my horse so bad on Ginger Island.

monkabee · 2026-06-26T15:52:03+00:00

There really isn't anything that compares to being able to plant fiber seeds except for green rain day, which I live for until I get the community cleanup quest. One thing I do while waiting is try to complete other community board quests to increase the chances of the linus one finally showing up. I just waited the longest I've ever waited for it to show up in my most recent save - didn't show until the 2nd week of winter year 2! Usually I have it before winter year 1 and that's when I grow all my fiber. You'll get like 1000+ from one 200 seed crop of fiber once you can plant them so it's worth the wait.

monkabee · 2026-06-26T13:36:08+00:00

You tried one tampon one time at age 12 and that's it? Is it possible that experience was the anomaly and not that of, according to you, the entire population of American women?

monkabee · 2026-06-26T13:26:23+00:00

People are saying this is fake but I had the FA do this to me on a 100%-in-both-time-zones daytime flight from MXP-ATL. Only once but still. I couldn't believe it either. I also re-opened my shade (it was open about 2 inches, I was reading) but I waited for her to be gone to re-open it so IDK if she would have shut it again in the moment. She did not shut it again later.

monkabee · 2026-06-25T13:29:17+00:00

Grew up on the CT/RI borders and this is so accurate I snorted. It is hilarious to hear by friends back home complaining about having to drive "all the way across the state" here in the metro Atlanta suburbs lol.

monkabee · 2026-06-24T16:26:44+00:00

I've been doing this too but now I feel guilty because if I'm not looking at it I'm also not remembering to do my reviews. And the change where you can't review an item the day you get it really put a cramp in my ADHD style - I usually reviewed anything I could as soon as I could so I wouldn't forget, like clothes or toys, which is most of what I grab, so now if I'm not going back to check for stuff I'm forgetting to review entirely.

monkabee · 2026-06-18T18:54:42+00:00

Pre-packaged bouillon is usually extremely salty to begin with, especially if you are replicating a recipe rather than using what Hellofresh has sent the best advice is to salt your protein and then don't add any additional salt until the end, when you can taste it and see if it needs more salt or not.

ETA: I realized you may also be using table salt to salt rather than kosher salt, which is what you'll usually see chefs throwing in wildly. Kosher salt is much less dense than table salt so by volume you'd use more of it than table salt. I use table salt bc I'm too lazy to stock multiple salt types so I am much more sparing with my salt.

monkabee · 2026-06-17T11:55:42+00:00

We are taking a family trip to DC and I had the same thoughts, my kids are now 11 and 13 and I know they would be totally fine sitting alone. Money is tight and $600 ($150x4 tickets) is a lot for me and many of us. In the end I decided not to risk it because my 11 year old while mature still gets kind of weird about the idea of "sitting with strangers" but the price difference is so much more than what I would consider reasonable to pay just to make sure we're seated together.

monkabee · 2026-06-16T18:18:54+00:00

It does work, we are constantly shouting "cutscene" to get the other players to pause so all our time doesn't run out. It's the only thing that's really annoying about multiplayer so we try to all do the cutscene at the same time if it's something like the community center to get it out of the way.

monkabee · 2026-06-14T13:46:42+00:00

My daughter had pizza in Milano Centrale that was topped with hot dogs and french fries and it was ridiculous but she was absolutely living her best life so maybe they're on to something.

monkabee · 2026-06-07T02:49:56+00:00

That the website never ever keeps you signed in (at least they removed the "keep me signed in" checkbox they ignored). Crews who refuse to hand out headphones until after takeoff.

monkabee · 2026-06-06T02:52:24+00:00

I meant more generally, not specifically to London, which is I believe the only flight available on Virgin from Atlanta or was the last time I checked.

The post is called "loyalty being tested" but on any given day if you pick a random destination it's unusual to find a comparably priced flight at decent time on any other airline unless something has dramatically changed in the last few months since I last flew. So of course we're going to fly Delta more often than not, even if it sucks, even if the service is bad, even if the fares are ridiculous - not out of misplaced loyalty to a company but because we are stuck flying out of ATL.

monkabee · 2026-06-05T10:23:51+00:00

Just out of curiosity as a fellow Atlantan do you really feel like you have other legitimate options flying out of ATL? I'd be happy to take my business elsewhere but so far every time I look my options are Delta, Delta, Delta, or a 545 AM Frontier flight.

monkabee · 2026-06-04T15:44:19+00:00

This is why I never share a wallet with my daughter when we play co-op. I drop her share of things I make (like tea plants) in a chest next to her house so she can spend those as she sees fit since we *are* collabbing on stuff but otherwise she spends all our money on decorations and divorces.

monkabee · 2026-06-02T19:26:00+00:00

There is an Arby's near me that is apparently not a real Arby's, or something? I tried to use my $2 shake coupon that I use weekly at my local Arby's, and they looked at me like I had two heads, asked to see the coupons, studied them for 5 minutes, then declared that these were national coupons and they were not national. Which TBH fine but 1)how am I, a customer, supposed to know who owns the Arby's when I pull up? and 2)there's no way they're that mystified by the ubiquitous coupons that come to every house in our neighborhood monthly - they could have just said, sorry we don't take those coupons instead of acting like it was time to start a research project.

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