It is easier to exchange at the merchant, I agree, but there are also a lot of other stuff I am interested in spending my omni-geodes on (and iridium bars) especially since I decided to try skills I don’t usually use (went for more ores and coal, so less omni’s to go around)

I don’t go to the desert so much as I’m busy at the moment spending most of the time playing and working on my farm’s aesthethic and the income I make is sort of while I am busy type of thing.

It is more a spur of the moment when I go if it is a lucky day.

Taking it slow and eventually will buy the wizard desert totem and have the return sceptre to not have to worry about consumable totems.

Otherwise I am trying to avoid playing optimally and putting in effort to enjoy a chill save of experimentation.