Highlights
- Desert Festival in Stardew Valley brings latest Calico Statue effects, with buffs like Full Refresh and Speed Boost.
- Calico Eggs are currency on the festival, used for villager shops and more, with rewards based on Egg Rankings.
- Debuffs like More Ghosts, Mummies Have Turn out to be Offended, and More Bats could make Skull Cavern challenges tougher.
Stardew Valley’s 1.6 Update brings lots of fun latest features, including the Desert Festival. The Desert Festival occurs on the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth of Spring. This festival brings lots of fun changes, including latest Skull Cavern challenges.
While you enter the Skull Cavern throughout the Desert Festival, you’ve got a likelihood of coming across a Calico Statue on each floor. While you give this statue one Calico Egg, you’ve got a likelihood of getting a Buff, Debuff, or Neutral effect. Below, you’ll find all Calico Statue Effects Ranked.
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Buff: Calico Eggs
100 Calico Eggs!, 50 Calico Eggs, 25 Calico Eggs, 10 Calico Eggs.
The predominant reason to tackle challenges throughout the Desert Festival is to get Calico Eggs, that are a type of currency throughout the Desert Festival. Subsequently, 100 Calico Eggs! is the very best buff that the Calico Statue can provide, followed by 50, and so forth.
On the Desert Festival, you need to use your Calico Eggs at villager shops, the Calico Egg Merchant (where there can be latest items on daily basis), and The Traveling Merchant.
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Buff: Full Refresh!
Full refresh is a unbelievable buff since it fully restores your energy and health. This may prevent whenever you’re in a pinch, and increase your probabilities of succeeding in Skull Cavern challenges.
Nevertheless, should you’re fully stocked on food, or should you get this buff earlier in your Skull Cavern run, it’s slightly less useful.
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Buff: Monsters Do Less Damage
With the Buff Monsters Do Less Damage, Monsters will do 25% less damage, which is more helpful the further you delve into the mines. A number of the monsters within the Skull Cavern can kill you quite quickly, and the more dangerous foes appear the deeper you go.
If you’ve got a lesser weapon, this buff is amazing. Once you’ve got the Lava Katana or Galaxy Sword, it’s less needed.
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Buff: Speed Boost
In the event you get the Buff Speed Boost, you gain +1 speed for five minutes. This buff is lower in rating because you’ll be able to get the identical buff from drinking a triple-shot espresso.
Earlier in the sport, whenever you don’t have a coffee machine, or coffee plants, this speed boost is great. Nevertheless, when you’ve acquired those items, it’s roughly useless.
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Neutral
This one is pretty self-explanatory; nothing happens, good or bad. You continue to spend one calico egg, but that’s about it.
For each Calico Statue activated, you gain one “Egg Rating.” You’ll be able to submit your egg rating to Gil to earn prizes, so though you’re spending an egg, you’re gaining a +1 Egg rating.
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Debuff: More Ghosts
More Ghosts Debuff implies that 15% more Carbon Ghosts will appear, and you’ve got a +1 overall monster spawn likelihood. Carbon Ghosts have a base HP of 190. Hitting them several times should kill them.
More Ghosts is considered one of the best Debuffs you’ll be able to get; Ghosts are persistent, but not incredibly hard to defeat. Having more of them is a nuisance, but it surely’s not too overwhelming.
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Debuff: Mummies Have Turn out to be Offended
The Debuff Mummies Have Turn out to be Offended turns Mummies into dangerous Mummies. The bottom HP of an everyday Mummy is 260, and the bottom HP of a dangerous Mummy is 445, which makes them harder to kill, and may do more damage.
Each regular and dangerous mummies have a defense of zero, and a speed of two. Overall, dangerous Mummies are usually not lots worse than regular mummies.
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Debuff: Lose More Eggs When Knocked Out
This Debuff isn’t considered one of the worst ones; in fact, losing more eggs whenever you’re knocked out isn’t fun, especially since Calico Eggs are the currency on the festival. In the event you trigger this Debuff and pass out, you’ll lose 50% of your Calico Eggs.
Nevertheless, should you don’t pass out, this Debuff doesn’t affect you in any respect. You’ll leave with all of your Calico Eggs, and you may still gain plus one egg rating.
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Debuff: More Serpents
This Debuff could be very just like More Ghosts, but in fact, with Serpents. Serpents are faster, and a bit harder to kill than ghosts, so having more of them can feel threatening.
With this Debuff, 15% more serpents will spawn, and there can be a +1% overall monster spawn likelihood. Serpents have a base HP of 150, are relatively fast and might deal an honest amount of harm.
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Debuff: More Bats
The More Bats Debuff will increase the possibility of bats by 15%, and add a +1 to all monster spawns. There are a number of bats, including Bat, Frost Bat, Lava Bat, and Iridium Bat.
Iridium Bats are the rationale this Debuff is robust. They’ve an HP of 300, a speed of three, and a base damage of 30.
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Debuff: Bugs Turn out to be Assassin Bugs
This Debuff causes Armored Bugs to get replaced by Assassin Bugs. Assassin Bugs can do 50 damage, have 500 health, increased speed, and dangerous movement.
Armored bugs are difficult to kill because they’re fast and have increased health. That is considered one of the more dangerous Debuffs, especially because it’s a more recent variant of Armored Bugs.
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Debuff: Monsters Do More Damage
If the Calico Statue bestows this Debuff on you, Monsters will do 25% more damage. This is hard by itself, but it surely’s even worse if you’ve got any of the Debuffs that increase the variety of monsters surrounding you.
If you’ve got this Debuff together with More Monsters, it’s going to be tough to beat. Make sure that to bring loads of food, coffee, and staircases.
Taking a prismatic shard to the three pillars in Calico Desert provides you with a galaxy sword, which is super helpful for these tougher challenges.
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Debuff: Food Is Half As Effective
This Debuff makes it so that you just gain 50% less Energy and Health from eating food. This is hard when you’ve got lots of monsters attacking you, and also you’re low on health, so this might make or break you winning your challenge.
To combat this, pack as many meals as you’ll be able to. Bring a stack of Cave Carrots, Oil of Garlic, and stacks of energy-filled food; this manner, if this Debuff comes along, it doesn’t stifle you.
Food that increases your luck is great for these runs. Try Spicy Eel.
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Debuff: Skeletons Are After You…
Skeletons Are After You… is one of the vital dangerous Debuffs. There’s a ten% likelihood to spawn dangerous skeletons, a 5% likelihood to spawn dangerous haunted skulls, and a +1% to overall monster spawn.
Dangerous Skeletons are very hard to kill; they’ve a base HP of 655 and have a long-range bone attack that may go through rocks. Haunted Skulls will be difficult to beat as well, especially when there are multiple, they usually’re fast, so that you’ll need a powerful weapon to beat them.
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Debuff: More Monsters
If the Calico Statue gives you this Debuff, 20% more of every monster will spawn, which increases your probabilities of passing out within the Skull Cavern. That is the worst one since it makes lots of the opposite Debuffs harder, corresponding to food becoming less effective, and losing more eggs when passing out.
The more monsters there are, the harder it’s to finish your challenge. Be prepared with a great weapon, a number of food, and as many bombs as you’ll be able to!
Don’t forget, should you pass out throughout the challenge, you’ll be able to restart the day by exiting the sport before you go to sleep.
