User:AspectOfTheAlpha/HoTM

Heart Of The Mountain, otherwise known as HOTM is a perk tree entirely dependent on HOTM level and mithril/gemstone powder. It is extremely helpful in many cases and certainly something you should invest in if you are upgrading your mining level or just wanting to get some profits.

The HOTM tree consists of many different levels, starting with the one HOTM token when you join the dwarven mines. This will be spent on the only one you can get, which is mining speed. Now while you mine mithril, you will see there are five types of different mithril.

When you start, go to Bubu and buy a bandaged mithril pickaxe for 10,000 coins, then go and mine mithril, starting with the Grey blocks. Walk forwards until you reach a bridge, walk across and you will see the king’s. The one on the throne is the one you have to interact with. He will give you two Commissions, which tell you an area and what to do. For example:


 * Mine 350 mithril in the Lava Springs
 * Mine 10 titanium in the Upper Mines
 * Kill 50 ice walkers

To do this, go to the area mentioned in the text and do what the action tells you to do.

While you are doing this, you will get enough mithril for the next tier of mining speed boost, so do /hotm and click on the emerald to upgrade it. Repeat this for around 5 - 10 levels.

Once you get HOTM 2, via repeatedly doing commissions, you will unlock two HOTM tokens, you should get Mining Fortune and Titanium Insanium, because Titanium Insanium is very useful in commissions. You should continue leveling all three to around level 10 - 15. You can stay with the bandaged mithril pickaxe but you can get Glacite Armor, which further increases your mining speed. If you can afford it, add gemstones so that you can get even faster at mining.

At HOTM 3, you have access to the Crystal Hollows, by this time, you should have enough money for a Pickonimbus. Crystal Hollows commissions take less time and grant more HOTM xp which is good but doesn’t give any mithril powder unless you get it from chests.

Tip: When you are done collecting all 5 crystals, don’t hand them in to the crystal nucleus and instead, keep them, so that you don’t get ‘Collect the Crystal’ Quests.