Tutorial:Mining Guide

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This tutorial is an overall guide for  Mining. It has been designed by the Mining Cult, whose discord server can be found here.

Basic Information

There are some certain topics that are necessary to get to grips with mining. Many, if not all, of the methods in this guide require Heart of the Mountain VII. It is highly recommended to do commissions until reaching this milestone.

Breaking Speed

There are 20 Minecraft ticks per second (1 tick = 0.05s).

Blocks break in terms of ticks; how many ticks it takes to break a block is determined by your ⸕ Mining Speed and the "Block Strength" (see Breaking Power) of the block you are breaking. The formula for how many ticks you break a block in is $round(blockStrength * 30 / miningSpeed)$

Ticks round: 8.499999 ticks breaks at the same speed as 8 ticks, as does 8.33333333. Once you cross that threshold, you get will be able to break the block 1 tick, or 0.05s, faster. Mining a block 1 tick faster is equal to roughly 150 fortune (another ~1.5m per hour). The formula for Mining Speed needed to cross a tick threshold is $round(blockStrength * 30 / (tick + 0.4999999999999))$

If you have the mining speed to mine a block in less than 1 tick, the block will be instamined. However, if you do not have the mining speed to break a block in less than a tick, you will mine the block in 4 ticks instead of insta-mining.

Maximum possible consistent tick speeds

• Jade: 8348 Speed (11 Tick)
• Ruby: 9201 Speed (7/8 Tick)
• Blue Wool Mithril: 6923 Speed (6 Tick)

Blocks that can be instamined with Mining Speed Boost

• Mines of Divan Gold: 36,000 Speed
• Prismarine Mithril: 48,000 Speed (In Magma Fields with Bal Pet)
• Gray Mithril: 30,000 Speed
• Obsidian: 30,000 Speed

Block Efficiency

Block efficiency is how much downtime you take in-between mining. This can include moving your crosshair to your next block or ether warping to the next platform.

The higher your block efficiency is, the more gemstones you can mine in an hour. To get better block efficiency you just have to keep practicing to get faster. Your ping or the server's TPS can affect how hard it is to have high efficiency.

Video

A video displaying high block efficiency can be seen below.

Waypoints

Waypoints are crucial to efficiently and effectively mining. They mark locations to easily see where you need to go to mine. There are 3 main types of waypoint, and you can differentiate them as follows. You can use https://soopy.dev/waypointconvert to convert between waypoint formats.

SkyTils

Waypoint

There are 2 variations of the import format:

• <Skytils-Waypoint-Data>(V1):H4sIAAAAAAAC/51Y225bNxD8FeM8CwW5F (Newer)
• eyJjYXRlZ29yaWVzIjogW3sibmFtZSI6ICJBbWJlciBEaWxsbyIsIndheXBv (Older)

Import

Copy the import string then in-game, do /st → Exit Waypoints → Share → Import from clipboard

SoopyAddons

Waypoint

There are 2 variations of the import format:

• AQAAAJ0AATFDTwAAQxsAAEPsgAAAfwAAAAABMQABMkNMAABDHwAAQ+0AAAB/AAAAAAEyAAEzQ0sAAEMiAA (Newer)
• [{"x":208,"y":170,"z":518,"r":0,"g":1,"b":0,"options":{"name":1}},{"x":207,"y":173,"z":520,"r":0,"g":1,"b":0,"options":{"name":2}} (Older)

Import

Copy the import string then in-game, do /loadwaypoints → /converttoorder → /clear waypoints. If you do not want ordered waypoints just do /loadwaypoints

Coleweight

Waypoint

Coleweight uses both Soopy import formats as well as the older skytils format.

• AQAAAJ0AATFDTwAAQxsAAEPsgAAAfwAAAAABMQABMkNMAABDHwAAQ+0AAAB/AAAAAAEyAAEzQ0sAAEMiAA (Newer Soopy)
• [{"x":208,"y":170,"z":518,"r":0,"g":1,"b":0,"options":{"name":1}},{"x":207,"y":173,"z":520,"r":0,"g":1,"b":0,"options":{"name":2}} (Older Soopy)
• eyJjYXRlZ29yaWVzIjogW3sibmFtZSI6ICJBbWJlciBEaWxsbyIsIndheXBv (Older SkyTils)

Import

Copy the import string then in-game, do /cw ordered load. If you do not want ordered waypoints, do /cw waypoint load

Additional Commands

/cw ordered delete <#>, /cw ordered add <#>, /cw ordered unload and /cw waypoints delete <#>. For any other commands do /cw help.

Gear

Tools

Until in the Dwarven Mines the Progress are the normal Vanilla Mining Tools.

Heart of The Mountain Level	Tool
	Farming personally	Buying per Auctionhouse
Heart of the Mountain 0-1	Fractured Mithril Pickaxe	Pickonimbus 2000
Heart of the Mountain 2	Bandaged Mithril Pickaxe  Mithril Pickaxe
Heart of the Mountain 3	Titanium Pickaxe  Mithril Drill SX-R226  Ruby Drill TX-15 for Gemstones
Heart of the Mountain 4	Polished Titanium Pickaxe  Mithril Drill SX-R326  Gemstone Drill LT-522
Heart of the Mountain 5	Titanium Drill DR-X555 for non-gemstones, but  Titanium Drill DR-X355 is more cost-effective;  Topaz Drill KGR-12 for gemstones, but  Gemstone Drill LT-522 is more cost-effective
Heart of the Mountain 6	Titanium Drill DR-X655, but  Gemstone Gauntlet is more cost-effective
Heart of the Mountain 7-10	Divan's Drill, but  Gemstone Gauntlet and  Titanium Drill DR-X655 are more cost-effective. With HoTm Lvl 7 you can get in to the Glacite Mines and there you need a tool with Breaking Power 9.

•  Pickonimbus 2000 is highly recommended for people who just started mining Gemstones, although it cannot break Topaz (unless you have the Rhinestone Infusion perk from the Diamond Essence Shop) or Jasper.
•  Mithril Drill SX-R226 and  Mithril Drill SX-R326 are not recommended for mining because of their high cost despite the inability to mine most types of gemstones, and their inferiority to the  Titanium Drill DR-X355. However, their increased ᠅ Mithril Powder gain can be useful in deficit.
• The  Ruby Drill TX-15 line should be made even if it won’t be used as a mining tool, because of the eventual +20% ᠅ Gemstone Powder buff given by the  Jasper Drill X.

Armor

Requirement/ Heart of the Mountain Level	Armor
Mining 0-31	Prospecting Armor Cobblestone VII Cobblestone VII
Hard Stone V	optional  Flamebreaker Armor This Armor is Optional but gives 40 Mining Fortune which is the highest until the Sorrow Armor and Divan Armor.
Hard Stone V	optional  Yog Armor this armor is useful when you are farming in the Magma Fields because the immunity.
Mining Level 31	Glacite Armorit can be use earlier but until now it give less miningspeed
Heart of the Mountain 5	Sorrow Armor
Heart of the Mountain 6	Divan Armor

Equipment

Heart of the Mountain Level	Equipment
Heart of the Mountain 0-1
Heart of the Mountain 2	Mithril Necklace Mithril Cloak Mithril Belt Mithril Gauntlet
Heart of the Mountain 3	Titanium Necklace Titanium Cloak Titanium Belt Titanium Gauntlet
Heart of the Mountain 5	Amber Necklace Sapphire Cloak Jade Belt Amethyst Gauntlet
Heart of the Mountain 8	Dwarven Handwarmers
Heart of the Mountain 10	Pendant of Divan

In Some Areas are other Sets are better

	Dwarven Mines	Crystal Hollows	Glacite Tunnels
Necklace	Titanium Necklace until Hearth of the Mountain 10 then  Pendant of Divan		Pendant of Divan
Cloak	Titanium Cloak		Ancient Cloak/ Sapphire Cloak
Belt	Titanium Belt		Jade Belt
Gloves	Titanium Gauntlet until you have the  Pendant of Divan then  Dwarven Handwarmers		Dwarven Handwarmers

Early Game Techniques

These methods are for early-game players to reach Heart of the Mountain VII.

Reaching Dwarven Mines

Reaching  Mining 12 is key in early game progression, as it allows the player access to the Dwarven Mines.

Requirements

•  Golden Shovel (Efficiency II)

Method

After creating a profile, you should start farming wheat in the hub until reaching  Farming V, which is the requirement to access the Mushroom Desert. From here, buy a Gold Ingot from the Mine Merchant and  2x Sticks from the Lumber Merchant, and craft a Golden Shovel, which you should then enchant with Efficiency II at the enchantment table next to the Librarian. Once you have done so, go to the Mushroom Desert and mine sand until you reach  Mining XII.

Craft your sand into enchanted sand, and sell both the sand and wheat to the Bazaar. With this money, buy  30x Enchanted Redstone, which will cost 23,775 coins, and give it to Rhys to access the Dwarven Mines.

Crystal Hollows Techniques

All of the following methods take place in the ⏣ Crystal Hollows.

Crystal Hollows Mithril

Crystal Hollows mithril mining is a general purpose mining method that utilizes mithril veins generated in the crystal hollows. Mithril blocks in these veins give around 2x the XP of the mithril blocks in the Dwarven Mines and because of that, its very good for obtaining mining XP.

Requirements

• Maxed Armor of Divan
•  Golden Dragon Pet (For max XP rates, share a second G-Drag)
• Maxed  Divan's Drill (Refined and  Blue Cheese Goblin Omelette)
• Other mining essentials like equipment and accessories etc.

A minimum of 5334 ⸕ Mining Speed is required to instamine green mithril.

HotM Tree

The Heart of the Mountain tree used for crystal hollows mithril mining requires the following powder:

• 9.8m Mithril Powder
• 11.05m/17.35m Gemstone Powder

The Mithril Powder is needed to to max  Efficient Miner,  Seasoned Mineman,  Mining Fortune 1 and  Mining Speed 1, whilst the Gemstone Powder is required to max  Mining Fortune 2 and  Mining Speed 2, mining speed and  Powder Buff. To set up lobbies quicker you could max out  Mole, which costs another 6.3m gemstone powder.

Heart of the Mountain

Method

What makes this method good is being able to level up pets insanely quickly and the most profitable one being the  Golden Dragon Pet, which will gain around 2.5 levels per hour at good efficiency.

You should be digging 2-3 blocks into the vein then activate  Pickobulus to use the ability efficiently.

Magma Fields Mithril

Magma fields mithril mining is a form of mining which utilises the Bal Pet's Made of Lava perk, which buffs mining speed to a point where you are able to insta-mine the prismarine mithril blocks. Unlike normal crystal hollows mithril mining, which can generate around 5m mining XP/h, magma fields mithril can generate up to 8m mining XP/hour without any event buffs, which is a noticeable increase.

It should also be noted that this method is not good for pet levelling.

Requirements

• Armor of Divan (Jaded, Perfect Gems,  Recomb'd)
•  Divan's Drill (Refined,  Amber-Polished Drill Engine,  Blue Cheese Goblin Omelette, Efficiency X)
• [Lv100]  LEGENDARY Bal Pet
• [Lv100]  LEGENDARY Silverfish Pet (When not using MSB, have Silverfish out for more MW, and swap to a Bal when using MSB)
• 2 Auto Pet Rules + Fishing Rod

The rules for the autopet are:

• Rule 1: On cast fishing rod equip Silverfish EXCEPT if Silverfish is already equipped.
• Rule 2: On cast fishing rod equip Bal EXCEPT if Bal is alrady equipped.

A minimum of 48,000 ⸕ Mining Speed is required to instamine mithril ore. A base 8,500 ⸕ Mining Speed is needed.

HotM Tree

It is recommended to have a minimum of 7.7m mithril powder and 7.4m gemstone powder. This is to max out the Efficient Miner, Mining Speed 1 and Seasoned Mineman perks, and the Powder Buff and Mining Speed 2 perks.

Heart of the Mountain

Routes

As with most mining methods, a route is necessary to mine efficiently, and waypoints can be seen below.

Coal Mining

Coal is an ore found very commonly in the Crystal Hollows. Coal mining is a method that utilizes huge routes in the ⏣ Magma Fields and is very ping dependant.

Requirements

• [Lv100]  Bal Pet (Preferably LEGENDARY)
• 3/4  Divan's Armor
•  Mineral Boots

A minimum of 1800 ⸕ Mining Speed is required to instamine coal ore. A base 7500 ⸕ Mining Speed is needed in the Magma Fields to instamine Hard Stone while falling.

HotM Tree

The Heart of the Mountain tree used for Coal mining should have the following powder splits:

• Efficient Miner 60-80
• Mole 71
• Efficient Miner 100
• Mole 190

It is recommended to have a minimum of 4.2m mithril powder and 4m gemstone powder to start off. All fortune perks should be maxed, and the remaining powder should be put into efficient miner.

Heart of the Mountain

Tips

• Muscle memory is your best friend, the less you think about going to the next waypoint the better.
• Use Coleweight ordered waypoints, Skytils waypoints can clutter your screen so you wont see where to go next.
• Always instasell your  Enchanted Coal, sell order isn't worth the time.
• Use Etherwarp to go up, jumping is just downtime.

Crimson Isle Techniques

The following methods take place on the ⏣ Crimson Isle.

Quartz Mining

Quartz is a white ore found on the Crimson Isle. It is not a very common mining method, although it does make quite a sizeable amount of coins, at around 30-40m/h, although this is dependant on the current bazaar prices. It is also often used by Ironman players for the Terminator crafting recipe.

Requirements

• [Lv100]  Scatha Pet (Any rarity, but EPIC+ is preferable)
• Any Mining armor
•  Mineral Boots
• Any Drill/Gemstone Gauntlet

HotM Tree

The Heart of the Mountain tree used for Quartz mining is the same as dillo mining, as it only requires fortune due to the Quartz ore speed cap being very low. For the powder and powder splits, it is recommended to have 3m/3.7m powder to start off. All fortune perks should be maxed, and the remaining powder should be put into efficient miner.

Heart of the Mountain

Method

For Quartz mining, the route that should be used are these 3 waypoints:

• -436, 57, -662
• -419, 57, -696
• -440, 57, -687

You should circle around these 3 waypoints and mine all the Quartz veins there.

As for the mobs, you can either kill them using any weapon that can kill them quickly, or you can use an Aspect of the Dragons to remove them from the veins. Right click abilities do not aggro the magma cubes.

Opal Mining

Opal is a white Gemstone that spawns in veins in the ⏣ Smoldering Tomb area of the Crimson Isle. Opal mining isn't a very common mining method that is used, but can still make respectable amounts of coins (20-30,000,000 coins an hour, although this is dependant on the current bazaar prices). This method is often not recommended due to the insane amount of lag in the Crimson Isle.

Requirements

• [Lv100]  Scatha Pet (Any rarity, but EPIC+ is preferable)
• Any Mining armor
• Any Drill/Gemstone Gauntlet

HotM Tree

The Heart of the Mountain tree used for Opal mining is the same as any other manual mining. The powder requirements are also the same, being 4m powder of both types.

Heart of the Mountain

Method

The method for mining opal is quite similar to any manual mining method, with the only difference being no setup time. This can be useful if you don't have time to set up a dillo route.

To neutralize damage from the blazes that spawn in the Smoldering Tomb, you can use a method with the  Re-heated Gummy Polar Bear:

1. Consume a Gummy
2. Spawn a T1 Blaze Slayer boss.
3. After its spawn animation finishes, go to your island.
4. Go back to the Smoldering Tomb and blazes shouldn't attack you!

Alternatively, you can use a Moody Grappleshot to pull blazes away from where you are mining or use an  Aspect of the Dragons to yeet the blazes away.

Route

Unlike a lot of mining methods, Opal does not require setting up a route. Just run around the Smoldering Tomb and mine the Opal veins.

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