Iron Minion

Iron Minion
Type	Minion
Collection	Iron Ingot I
Category	Mining Minions
Collects	1x Iron Ore
Upgrade with	Iron Ingot  Enchanted Iron Ingot  Enchanted Iron Block
Upgrades
Super Compactor 3000	✔ Yes
Super Compactor 3000	✔ Yes
Compactor	✔ Yes
Compactor	✔ Yes
Auto Smelter	✔ Yes
Auto Smelter	✔ Yes
Metadata
ID	IRON_GENERATOR_1 IRON_GENERATOR_2 IRON_GENERATOR_3 IRON_GENERATOR_4 IRON_GENERATOR_5 IRON_GENERATOR_6 IRON_GENERATOR_7 IRON_GENERATOR_8 IRON_GENERATOR_9 IRON_GENERATOR_10 IRON_GENERATOR_11 IRON_GENERATOR_12
ID	IRON_GENERATOR_1 IRON_GENERATOR_2 IRON_GENERATOR_3 IRON_GENERATOR_4 IRON_GENERATOR_5 IRON_GENERATOR_6 IRON_GENERATOR_7 IRON_GENERATOR_8 IRON_GENERATOR_9 IRON_GENERATOR_10 IRON_GENERATOR_11 IRON_GENERATOR_12

Iron Minions are a type of Minion that collects  Iron Ore (or  Iron Ingot if used with  Auto Smelter or  Dwarven Super Compactor).

Description

Iron Minions are unlocked at Iron Ingot I and can be placed on the ⏣ Private Island.

The Iron Minion collects  Iron Ore unless an  Auto Smelter or  Dwarven Super Compactor is used, and it will collect  Iron Ingots.

Ideal Layout

Drops

Note:  Auto Smelter and  Super Compactor 3000 mentioned below are interchangeable with  Dwarven Super Compactor, which can perform the combination of functionalities of the prior two items.

Condition	Input		Output		XP	Sell Price
None	From Harvest Avg. Amount 1 Chance of Obtaining 100%			Iron Ore	+0.3	Per Item Stack NPC: 3 coins NPC: 192 coins
Auto Smelter		1x Iron Ore		Iron Ingot	+0.3	Per Item Stack BZ: 7 coins NPC: 3 coins BZ: 410 coins NPC: 192 coins
Auto Smelter with  Compactor	9	9x Iron Ingot		Block of Iron	+2.7	Per Item Stack NPC: 27 coins NPC: 1,728 coins
Auto Smelter with  Super Compactor 3000	160	160x Iron Ingot		Enchanted Iron	+48	Per Item Stack BZ: 1,483 coins NPC: 480 coins BZ: 94,855 coins NPC: 30,720 coins
	160	160x Enchanted Iron		Enchanted Iron Block	+7,680	Per Item Stack BZ: 248,345 coins NPC: 76,800 coins BZ: 15,894,068 coins NPC: 4,915,200 coins

Stats

Tier	Info	Total Upgrade Cost	Bazaar Upgrade Costⓘ	Recipe
		Total Cumulative Cost	Bazaar Cumulat. Costⓘ
I	Cooldown: 17s Storage: 64	1x Wooden Pickaxe  80x Iron Ingot	992 coins	101010 1010 101010
		80x Iron Ingot CUMU	992 coinsCUMU
II	Cooldown: 17s Storage: 192	160x Iron Ingot	1,984 coins	202020 2020 202020
		240x Iron Ingot CUMU	2,976 coinsCUMU
III	Cooldown: 15s Storage: 192	320x Iron Ingot	3,968 coins	404040 4040 404040
		560x Iron Ingot CUMU	6,944 coinsCUMU
IV	Cooldown: 15s Storage: 384	512x Iron Ingot	6,348.8 coins	646464 6464 646464
		1,072x Iron Ingot CUMU	13,293 coinsCUMU
V	Cooldown: 14s Storage: 384	8x Enchanted Iron	15,872 coins
		2,352x Iron Ingot CUMU	29,165 coinsCUMU
VI	Cooldown: 14s Storage: 576	24x Enchanted Iron	47,616 coins	333 33 333
		6,192x Iron Ingot CUMU	76,781 coinsCUMU
VII	Cooldown: 12s Storage: 576	64x Enchanted Iron	126,976 coins	888 88 888
		16,432x Iron Ingot CUMU	203,757 coinsCUMU
VIII	Cooldown: 12s Storage: 768	128x Enchanted Iron	253,952 coins	161616 1616 161616
		36,912x Iron Ingot CUMU	457,709 coinsCUMU
IX	Cooldown: 10s Storage: 768	256x Enchanted Iron	507,904 coins	323232 3232 323232
		77,872x Iron Ingot CUMU	965,613 coinsCUMU
X	Cooldown: 10s Storage: 960	512x Enchanted Iron	1,015,808 coins	646464 6464 646464
		159,792x Iron Ingot CUMU	1,981,421 coinsCUMU
XI	Cooldown: 8s Storage: 960	8x Enchanted Iron Block	2,539,520 coins
		364,592x Iron Ingot CUMU	4,520,941 coinsCUMU
XII	Cooldown: 7s Storage: 960	16x Enchanted Iron Block  2,000,000 coins	5,079,040 coins	Merchant Bulvar Required 162m
		774,192x Iron Ingot CUMU	9,599,981 coinsCUMU

Profits

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.

Tier	Harvests per minute	Per day
		Items	Bazaar Profitⓘ	NPC Profit
I	1.76	2,541x Iron Ingot	16,264 coins	7,623.53 coins
II	1.76	2,541x Iron Ingot	16,264 coins	7,623.53 coins
III	2	2,880x Iron Ingot	18,432 coins	8,640 coins
IV	2	2,880x Iron Ingot	18,432 coins	8,640 coins
V	2.14	3,085x Iron Ingot	19,749 coins	9,257.14 coins
VI	2.14	3,085x Iron Ingot	19,749 coins	9,257.14 coins
VII	2.5	3,600x Iron Ingot	23,040 coins	10,800 coins
VIII	2.5	3,600x Iron Ingot	23,040 coins	10,800 coins
IX	3	4,320x Iron Ingot	27,648 coins	12,960 coins
X	3	4,320x Iron Ingot	27,648 coins	12,960 coins
XI	3.75	5,400x Iron Ingot	34,560 coins	16,200 coins
XII	4.29	6,171x Iron Ingot	39,498 coins	18,514.29 coins

Trivia

• When the  Warden Helmet was released,  Iron Ingots shot up in price on the Bazaar. This caused Iron Minions to sometimes be better than  Clay Minions.

History

SkyBlock Prototype
June 11, 2019	0.1	Added Tier I-XI Iron Minion.
Jan 15, 2021	0.11	Added Tier XII Iron Minion.