The Inferno Minion is normally extremely slow. However, each placed Inferno Minion increases the speed of all Inferno Minions by 18%, additively. For example, 5 Inferno Minions corresponds to a 90% speed boost (the minion operates 1.9x as fast). The maximum speed boost is 180%, which can be obtained with total 10 active Inferno Minions.
Without any fuel, the minion will produce Crude Gabagool.
Inferno Minions have their own, exclusive fuel items, which boost their speed to the average of other minions. Although they do accept regular fuels such as Plasma Bucket and Hyper Catalyst, the extremely low base speed renders regular fuels nearly useless.
The general recipe for Inferno Minion Fuel comprises 6 Distillates of the same type, 2xInferno Fuel Block, and 1 Gabagool. All Inferno Minion Fuels last 24 hours.
The Distillate determines the item which the Inferno Minion will specialise in creating. The Blaze Rod, Magma Cream, Glowstone Dust, and Nether Wart outputs will be replaced by the Distillate's output.
The Gabagool tier used determines the speed boost the minion will receive. Fuel Gabagool gives 10x, Heavy Gabagool gives 15x, and Hypergolic Gabagool gives 20x. This speed boost multiplies with the speed boost from placed Inferno Minions.
Fuel created with Hypergolic Gabagool additionally allows Inferno Minions to very rarely produce special items (Inferno Vertex, Inferno Apex, Reaper Pepper). The production rate is approximately "a couple Inferno Vertices a day" with a "maxed" setup.[1] The Tier X (10) and XI (11) Inferno Minions will create an additional Inferno Apex upon creating one.
Listed below are the profits of this minion when its items are sold to Bazaar. No Minion Fuel, Compactors, nor Diamond Spreading are used in the calculation. Values are shown when the player is online.
That Requires itself to be crafted twice, rather than once; or itself and another minion.
To calculate the action speed of an inferno minion, the formula is baseSpeed / ((1+ speedBuff) * (1+fuelMultiplier)).
In versions before 0.19.5, the Apex Minion ability was bugged and only created the two Inferno Apex if the island is loaded (for example if the player is AFK). If not, then it would've generated only one. It was theorized that while offline, the minion attempted to stack the two together, which is considered invalid, thus the second is deleted to become a single item.
It is the Slayer minion with the lowest slayer level requirement.
As a budget setup, a player can use 9 tier I-II Inferno Minions to boost the one of highest tier.
Without using Hypergolic Gabagool fuels, players can only get to tier VIII of the minion without buying Vertices from other players.
When using Hypergolic fuels, rare drops are only rolled once per harvest, so using fuels with higher specialty item amounts do not increase your chances for rare drops.
The Hypergolic Gabagool fuels can be stacked inside the minion despite not normally being stackable, and will have the fuel time match the amount stacked. This however causes some issues where every time the minion's menu is opened, the game will flood the chat claiming to have corrected an 'Invalid Item' every second, and only one Hypergolic Ionized Ceramics will appear once all the fuel is depleted even if more than one is inserted.