Iron and ingots are two of the most important resources you’ll find in Hello Kitty Island Adventure. You’ll use it in numerous crafting recipes, including ones for quest items and valuable gifts for villagers. Fortunately, there are two easy ways to farm iron early in your playthrough.
Best ways to get Iron in Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Typically, the main way to get iron in Hello Kitty Island Adventure is to travel around Mount Hothead and pick it up off the ground. However, there are two better methods to obtain iron quickly and consistently:
- Use the Nul Collection Box to get 14 Iron every 24 hours.
- Play the Gemstone Match House minigame in Gemstone Mountain.
The best strategy for maximizing your iron farming is to activate the Nul Collection Box in Seaside Resort as soon as you log into Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Once you do, you’ll have 24 hours to play in the Gemstone Match House or roam around Mount Hothead for extras.
Nul Collection Box
The Nul Collection Box is one of the best ways to get resources around Friendship Island if you don’t want to go around and grab them yourself. After progressing through the main story enough to complete Meet the Island Beings and Terra Nul, you’ll equip one of the island’s Nuls with a Collector Hat, allowing you to use the Collection Box to get various materials. You’ll obtain the resources — in this case, 14 iron — after 24 real-world hours.
Overall, if you want to prepare for the following day or don’t have enough time to play Hello Kitty Island Adventure, the Collection Box is one of the best ways to get any resource with little effort. However, the Gemstone Match House is a great alternative if you prefer active gameplay and item-collecting.
Gemstone Match House
The Gemstone Match House is located in Gemstone Mountain, north of Spooky Swamp. You’ll find it above the Gemstone Town mailbox in a building with a yellow roof.
The main purpose of the Gemstone Match House is farming resources like iron, Shiny, and a few miscellaneous collectibles using Game Tickets. In exchange for one Game Ticket, you’ll swap up to two pairs of grayed-out crystals, lighting them up in hopes of matching two of the same type. A successful match gives you another chance to match, letting you chain them if you find several.
Each successful match gives you either two irons, Shiny, or other rewards like furniture and music. Iron is by far the most common prize you’ll get from this, letting you get upward of eight to ten with one Game Ticket if you get lucky with your matches. Even if you don’t find any matches right away, the puzzle won’t reset, letting you memorize their locations and create some chains.
The Gemstone Match House is a fantastic way to get iron quickly if you have enough Game Tickets to play a few rounds. Game Tickets also spawn on the ground daily, so you can grab more the next day if you run out.
How to make Iron Ingots in Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Before you can craft ingots using your newly acquired iron, you’ll need to find its crafting recipe blueprint in Gemstone Mountain. The ingot crafting blueprint appears on a small barrel near the Gemstone Match House.
Once you collect this ingot blueprint, head to Chococat’s crafting table to find the recipe. You’ll need three iron for every ingot you create, so be prepared to farm the Gemstone Match House and ask the Nuls to collect some iron for you occasionally.
