Best Ways to Get Iron in Hello Kitty Island Adventure

Hello Kitty Island Adventure is a great life-sim with tons of things to do. Even over 100 hours in, you’ll still be unlocking new features, meeting new characters, and encountering new challenges. The further you delve into Island Adventure, the bigger those challenges get. Material costs start to balloon. And before you know it, you’re forced to be more mindful of how you spend them, just in case a new quest asks for a huge sum to complete it. There aren’t many other materials in Hello Kitty Island Adventure that are as hard to accumulate as Iron. The best ways to get iron in Hello Kitty Island Adventure aren’t immediately obvious. Let’s talk about them!

Best Ways to Get Iron in Hello Kitty Island Adventure

Iron is necessary for many high-tier gift items. You use it to make Ingots, which are a big necessity in late-game quests. Problem is, there aren’t many pieces of Iron to find in a given day. Unfortunately, you don’t have many other options when it comes to collecting Iron. An island visitor you can unlock (not currently available on the Steam version of the game) will provide one Iron per day- but this isn’t nearly enough to make the kind of difference we’re looking for.

Collect Iron From Mount Hothead and Gemstone Mountain

There are 14 pieces of Iron you can collect daily, split 50/50 between Mount Hothead and Gemstone Mountain. Mount Hothead’s Iron is scattered outside along its various trails. Check the edges of cliffs or closer to the rocky walls on lower tiers of the mountain. Gemstone Mountain’s Iron can be found inside the Crystal Caves. This group is more tedious to collect, because they can spawn in most of the various rooms inside the caves. In either case, not all Iron looks the same. Some spawns resemble a clay-like mound with bits of grey sticking out of it. Others will have a huge piece of grey ore sitting on top of a bowl-shaped piece of dirt. This is especially difficult to see on Mount Hothead, where the color of Iron’s dirt texture matches the ground’s. Walk slowly, and keep an eye out for the shining effect collectable items give off periodically!

Iron Rewards From Gem Match

Daily Iron limits are dragging you down? Game Tickets burning a hole in your pocket? Solve both problems by heading over to Gemstone Town! Right above the Gemstone Town fast travel point are two buildings. The building on the left is the Dance Hall, but the building on the right houses the Gem Match mini-game. It’s a memory match game, where you have to match all the stones in the play area with another stone of the same symbol. Match all the stones for a special, random reward!

However, Gem Match has an additional feature you aren’t really told about in-game. Every time you pair two stones together, you’re rewarded with a random material. The random material is always either two Shinies, or two Iron. This means, for every pair you match, there’s a 50% chance of earning two Iron! Interestingly, the position of the stones only reset once you’ve cleared the entire room. Failing the mini-game won’t reset their position, meaning it’s possible to use another Game Ticket to keep solving the puzzle! If you haven’t been using Game Tickets, one of the best ways to spend them is farming iron ore in Gem Match.

Hope your memory’s up to the task! Gem Match isn’t the only mini-game with additional bonuses. Other mini-games are a great resource for finding elusive items. Another great way to optimize your Iron collecting is to befriend and bring Tophat with you. His companion ability has a chance of doubling the amount of materials you collect!

Hello Kitty Island Adventure is available now on iOS, Apple Arcade, Nintendo Switch, and PC.