Summary
So, you’re new to the Adventurer’s Guild. Or maybe you’ve had trouble with the long Monster Eradication Goal list. Either way, that’s perfectly fine. Tackling this specific job inStardew Valleycan be difficult, even for experienced players. There are just so many monsters to fight and kill to complete it.
So if you need a helping hand or a little direction as to what you should do to start completing some of the goals, you’ve clicked on the right article. Here is a list of tips and tricks to make the list a little less daunting and a little more fun.
This list is designed not just for how to complete each task quickly, but how to best prepare and start the Monster Eradication Goals from very early on in your save file.
10Kill Everything While Descending In The Mines
A lot of times, when you start up a new save file or plan to play the game for the first time, the natural pull is to make it as deep in The Mines as you may. It’s helpful to make it to the deeper floors, of course, butonce you complete your Initiation quest and have access to the goals, you can instead verify you clear the floor of all enemies before moving on.
In the early game, killing every slime, bug, duggie, etc. will help you get a jump start and maybe even complete some of the goals before you ever set foot in Skull Cavern. And,once you have access to Skull Cavernandthe Volcano Dungeon, you may use this tip to help cross more monsters off the list.
9Upgrade Your Weapon
As you fight monsters and descend into The Mines, you will naturally find some new weapons. All of them will be an upgrade from your starting sword, but each time you come across one, compare it to what you are currently using and decide which one to keep and which one to sell.
When you visit the Adventurer’s Guild, you’re able to also talk to Marlon at the counter. He has a lot of weapons to sell so, if you have the money to spare, buying a new weapon will help you, especially with some of the tougher enemies in The Mines and, eventually, Skull Cavern and the Volcano Dungeon.
8Get Or Keep Good Boots
You don’t really get armor in Stardew Valley, at least not in the traditional sense. Instead, you can pick up new boots and shoes that will increase your Defense or give you more Immunity, which is vital once the monsters start hitting harder.
You’ll naturally come across some, getting the Space Boots at level 110 on The Mines, and they give you +4 Defense and Immunity. They aren’t the best in the entire game, but they are very good at helping in The Mines and still helpful in both Skull Cavern and the Volcano Dungeon.
7Invest, Buy, Or Forge Rings
The more tools you have at your disposal, the easier your time will be in any of the combat areas of the game. Some rings are only gifted to you once you complete certain goals, like getting the Burglar’s Ring for killing 500 dust sprites.
ButMarlonalso sells several helpful rings you can use to get started and you unlock rings you can craft on your own. Once you’ve unlocked Ginger Island and can head into the Volcano Dungeon, you can fight your way up to The Forge, where you can combine two rings; since you can wear two rings anyway, you can have four effects active instead of just two.
6Food That Boosts Your Defense And Attack
At the end of the day, completing the goals means you’re just going to be going to The Mines, Skull Cavern, or the Volcano Dungeon a lot. But instead of taking food with you that only replenishes your health and energy, take something that gives you added combat benefits.
There are several dishes you may come across, buy, and even be gifted that will help you in combat.The list of Attack buffing foods is small, with only three dishes. Friend Mushroom, Roots Platter, and the Magic Rock Candy,but there are many more that boost your Defense:
5Increase Your Speed
One more food-based tip is all about speed. Zooming around The Mines, Skull Cavern, and the Volcano Dungeon isn’t just about walking faster. It will help you look around and clear floors of monsters quickly.
You can also use this to evade monsters hitting you;Serpents, iridium bats, and magma sprites are all very speedy monstersthat can catch up with you if you start to run away. Having a speed boost will help you survive longer and check for any monsters you can’t see when you first enter a floor.
4Reset Certain Floors
This tip only really helps in The Mines where you can control what floors you visit. But doing this can help you focus on some of those goals that require you to kill a lot of a certain kind of beast.
For instance, dust sprites can be found between floors 40 and 79. So, if you use the elevator and reset those floors, you’ll see more of these cute little monsters you can slay and grind through that goal.
To reset floors, you choose a floor to go to, then choose to leave The Mines. Once back on floor zero, and after ten minutes ticks by in-game, you choose the same floor again and it will have a new layout.
3Secret Woods and Ginger Island Slimes
If you want to take a break from heading into The Mines or the other combat areas, you’re able to still work on killing slimes, which is the most daunting of the Monster Eradication Goals. You need to kill 1,000 of them to complete the task.
So, when you spend time on some of the other activities Stardew has to offer, you can swing by the Secret Woods orGinger Islandwhere slimes spawn naturally. There aren’t many in these areas, but every little bit helps when you’re working toward that lofty goal.
2Kill Green Slimes
Another way to try and quickly work your way through the toughest Eradication Goal is to focus on killing green slimes. Once you’ve upgraded your weapon, these slimes can be killed in one or two hits.
This just means you are spending less time killing them and more time searching and resetting floors, which in turn means the more slimes you can encounter. It doesn’t matter what color the slime is for completing this goal after all.
1Complete The Prismatic Jelly Quest
Once you unlock theSpecial Order Board, The Wizard will eventually ask you to kill a prismatic slime and collect from it some prismatic jelly. While, of course, this earns you some coin, the day after you hand the jelly over to The Wizard, he will send you the recipe for Monster Musk.
Monster Musk makes it so that more monsters will appear, no matter which location you go to. So, no matter which monster it is you’re focusing on, your chances of encountering them and others go up, allowing you to put a big dent in, if not complete, some of the goals.
