Guide - [GEMSTONE MINING] The FULL, DETAILED Guide to MINING over 30M/h (2024)

1sac1 said:

Hey everyone, while I was leveling up my HOTM (Heart of the Mountain) on my way to gemstone mine like a pro, I realized you had to scrounge through different threads to find what you needed. I believe not a single guide actually has everything you need, so this one will be it. I will explain things in order of progression but you can just search for the section you want.

Basics & Important Stuff
What is Heart of the Mountain (HOTM)? Heart of the Mountain is basically just a leveling system for mining. Advancing in this will unlock new perks. Which perks and abilities to go for, I will explain up ahead.

Before we get into the guide, you want to unlock the Dwarven Mines. If you haven't done this yet, go ahead and do it. Head to the mines and do the quests that the NPC gives you to unlock the DVM (Dwarven Mines).

I would recommend having at least 10 to 15m coins available for the things you will need to get. If you have more, great. If you don't, too bad. You'll get money as you grind, tho.

The following notes do not necessarily make sense to you. Come back to these when you've read about the topic and understand what they mean.

The amount of money that you need will increase as you keep mining. If you have around 100m though, that's more than fine. The Jaded Sorrow Armor in total should cost around 60m, and the Gemstone Gauntlet around 20m (for a decent/good one). The Automaton Parts will add up to a lot, but you'll earn a lot of it back as you mine gemstones for commissions and from the nucleus bundle drops. The Pickonimbus 2000s will also add up to a couple or a few mil.

If you are confused by all the drills available, completely forget about them. I will tell you which ones you need to buy and when.

Commands you want to know: /hotm to access hotm tree, /wd to access your wardrobe to quickly switch between your mining armor and your fighting armor (for bal and slayer quests)

See Also

How do I use gemstones?

Get a Gemstone Sack and a Personal Compactor with slots set to Enchanted Hard Stone and Enchanted Coal, you can decide how you use the rest. Mithril is a good choice when you're mining in DVMs.

"How long does it take to get HOTM 7?": 70 to 80 hours. Maybe give or take a few hours (up to 10 possibly hah). This depends on how efficient you are

"How long does it take to powder grind/mine to 4m powder?": ~100k Gemstone Powder (GP) = 1 hour. Mithril Powder? Eh, around that, for some reason seems to be less.

*The color of the brackets (explained later) of the slot unlocked changes depending on the rarity of the gem inside.*

• White = Rough
• Yellow = Flawed
• Blue = Fine
• Purple = Flawless
• Orange = Perfect

Which Gemstone Gauntlet you wanna get depends on you and your mathematical abilities. Also, you want at least a couple levels of Pristine. It's a bit good of money that it'll get you throughout all your grind (Pristine enchantment costs a lot, btw).

IF YOU ARE RICH ENOUGH:
Buy Jaded Sorrow Armor. Each piece ranges around 20m, usually less than that. Make sure it has the slots unlocked (that the brackets are not gray). If it has the slots unlocked, it probably has gemstones in it already (if you don't know what this means, that's fine. It's not going to change a lot and you will understand and find out what it means by yourself. It's not significant enough to worry about it). Nonetheless, make sure it has slots unlocked. Or you can just unlock them yourself. Putting in gemstones and unlocking slots happens at the DVM, to the left of the Crystal Hollows pass buy guy.

If you have the money for it:
Always have a Booster Cookie active so you can do /ah and /bz to buy the things you need.
Always have a God Pot active for the extra Mining XP and MF. This is very important, specially at HOTM 7 when you powder grind/mine. Same for the Booster Cookie.

Early, mid and lategame:
The early and midgame is all about becoming strong enough to get to the lategame and be able to gemstone mine for millions an hour (up to over 30m an hour with a max setup and route!).

The first thing you want to do after unlocking the Dwarven Mines is grind commissions until HOTM 3. I'll proceed to explain this in the next section.

Dwarven Mines
*If you are HOTM 3 or more, you want to skip to the Crystal Hollows.

Heart of the Mountain & Commissions.
Remember. You are reading this guide because you want to be able to make money like a beast by gemstone (or if you want mithril, which makes a lot less money but still decent) mining.

It is extremely simple. You don't wanna do anything except get HOTM XP. Doing only dailies you can calculate how long it'll take you to get to HOTM 3, which is what you are aiming for right here, but grinding commissions will get you there faster. In 1 hour of grinding commissions, you can probably get 5 to 15 commissions done depending on your speed. If you just want to do dailies here it's ok. Grinding in the Crystal Hollows feels better because you get 400 HXP (HOTM XP) per commission, whereas here you get 100 HXP.
Participate in events, even if you don't have them as a commission. That is all for the Dwarven Mines strategy.

The Mithril Powder (MP) you get, you want to put into Mining Speed, and little or none to Mining Fortune. As soon as you can, you want to unlock Titanium Insanium and the Mining Speed Boost ability. This is the best path. Disregard "Quick Forge" and "Pickobulus". You only want about 10 levels on Titanium Insanium. Go for even up to 12 if you feel you aren't getting Titanium fast enough. Titanium only matters for commissions, there's no other reason to mine it. It's not special or anything.

1. Path: Titanium Insanium > Mining Speed Boost Ability (right click to use )

Gear for DVM
Do not worry about drills. You want to get Pickonimbus 2000s. They cost about 350k each, so you will likely buy quite a few of them throughout your grinding. The only reason why you would want to get the Ruby Drill TX-15 is that you don't have a lot of money, and buying 350k Pickonimbuses constantly (every hour or so!) would clean out your bank. So if your bank is 10m or so, going for a Ruby Drill is probably the choice. If it's more near 15m to 20m you might just want to get Pickonimbuses. A Ruby Drill TX-15 can usually be bought for around the range of 3.25 to 3.75 million coins. The armor you want here might be Miner's outfit if your mining level is really low (around 15 or so). Otherwise, just get Glacite. If you are unsure which to get, just ask around. Otherwise, it really doesn't matter and Glacite will get better and better as you level up.
The pet you want is an Epic Mithril Golem. You don't need a legendary one, but if you're rich then you can get one if you want. Make sure that the mithril golem you buy is high level.
That is all for DVM. Grind commissions until HOTM 3. It shouldn't take very long. If you are grinding it, it might just take you 8 daily commissions claimed during your grinding time (so a couple of days, each day grinding about 6 hours or so). It could take a lot less and is impacted by your mining speed.

Crystal Hollows

Here it begins to get a bit more interesting. You now have to grind to HOTM 7.
The first thing you want to do is install Skytils and NEU (at your own risk!). I am not sure if it is officially allowed by Hypixel, but honestly, probably half its users utilize these mods all day long and as far as I know, no one has been banned. Again, at least half of the hundred thousands Hypixel users use these mods. You want these mods to be able to navigate easily through the Crystal Hollows with these mods' help and waypoints. When you have Skytils, in Minecraft you want to enter the command /st, then go config > Mining > tick everything under "Crystal Hollows" and scroll down and tick what you think you'll want. You can just tick what you want later too.

HOTM Tree
You want to unlock Daily Powder, and if you have a spare token just put it into Quick Forge, or Luck of the Cave if for some reason you want to mine in the DVMs... Be careful using your tokens because you can only reset your tree starting on HOTM 5. Don't put levels into these perks. Not even Daily Powder, unless you plan to mine very little daily. (If you're gonna grind it out, you'll probably only take advantage of the Daily Powder perk twice and that's not worth it. Just put it into Mining Speed or Fortune). With the following MP you get you want to slightly even out Mining Speed and Mining Fortune. It matters for the Gemstone Collection Commissions (explained below).

OK, the Crystal Hollows
*Keep using Pickonimbus. At HOTM 4 you will get a gemstone drill. Don't worry about this now, it is explained below.

There are basically 3 types of Commissions; Gemstone mining, Slayers, and Crystal Hunting. They explain themselves; mine the gemstone type they ask of you, slay what they ask you to slay. The third, however, may not be very clear. There are only 5 possible Crystals they will ask you to get. Jade, Sapphire, Amber, Amethyst, and Topaz (these are also the 5 types of gemstones they might ask you to mine!). Before you reach HOTM 4, they will not ask you to mine Topaz because you don't have access to a mining tool with enough Breaking Power (BP).

The pet you'll want for the Crystal Hollows is a Silverfish. Scatha isn't worth it too much rn, but each to their own opinions - you can read on it and compare stats it gives. Bal is good, but just for the Magma Fields, honestly. You can buy one if you have money and switch between the Silverfish, but I did perfectly with Silverfish throughout my whole experience.

Every time you complete a commission you need to turn it in, either at the Crystal Nucleus or you can exit the CH and turn it in at any other emissary. I would however recommend trying to get comfortable with a lobby. It is important to note that sometimes one of the main structures doesn't spawn (or just nobody can find them). When you complete 500 commissions, you get the Royal Pigeon, an item that lets you turn in commissions remotely. Before that milestone, you will reach a milestone that gives you +1 Commission Slot too.

The Crystals are not items, they are simply achievements. When you find them, you right-click them and you already have them collected until you place them at the Nucleus, on their spots (at each corresponding Crystal's statues). They are always found at their main structure, and you just have to repeat the process each time you want to get one!. Placing all 5 Crystals gives you a Nucleus Bundle (it's called something like that lol) which drops you some gemstones and possibly Jasper/Ruby Crystals. Ignore these Crystals, they don't matter very much right now. The drops can have Pickonimbuses too, which is nice. You can also get Divan's Fragments (worth abt 900k) and if you're lucky enough a Divan's alloy (worth like 1b or something). Don't just start focusing on "nucleus runs" (getting all 5 crystals to get bundles) because of this tho. The drop chances of a Divan's alloy are eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeextremely low.

About Commissions:

• Jade gemstone: found in Mithril Deposit. This is the green gemstone.
  • Slayer quests: Team Treasurite and Boss Corleone are found here.
  • Jade Crystal: Always only found at Mines of Divan. Talk to one of the NPCs there, they'll guide you clearly to what you have to do to get it. One of the 6 main structures.
• Sapphire gemstone: found in Precursor Remnants. This is the blue gemstone.
  • Slayer quests: Automatons are found here.
  • Sapphire Crystal: Always only found at Precursor City (another of the main structures!). Talk to the NPC. He will ask you to get 6 Automaton Parts to open the gates. These cost around 80 to 200k on the AH (Auction House). You get them from killing Automatons, but that takes quite a bit of time, so you better have a nice bank account to be able to constantly buy these from the AH.
• Amber gemstone. found in Goblin Holdout. This is the orange gemstone.
  • Slayer quests: Goblins are found here.
  • Amber Crystal: You have to find King Yolkar (another main structure). He will ask you to give him 3 eggs of the same type (just give him the regular ones, they cost less. You can buy them from the Bazaar). Eggs are dropped by Goblins and chests. When you give King Yolkar this, he will give you a potion effect of some sort that allows you to enter the Goblin Queen's Den (GQD) to grab the Amber Crystal.
• Amethyst gemstone: found in the Jungle. This is the purple gemstone.
  • Slayer quests: Sludges are found here.
  • Amethyst Crystal: You have to find the Jungle Temple (guess what; another of the main structures). You then have to give a Jungle Key to the guards at the temple's door and they will open it for you. You then complete its parkour and grab the Amethyst Crystal. Jungle Keys are dropped by a zombie that is found on a tower structure in the Jungle, or you can buy it from AH (again what I recommend. Finding stuff takes a bit of time, it isn't worth it if you can buy the stuff).
• Topaz gemstone: found in Magma Fields. This is the yellow gemstone.
  • Slayer quests: Yogs are found here. Careful with Yogs; they jump and when they hit the ground they deal a lot of damage around them. Also, when you kill them they explode after a few seconds (3 or so). I'm pretty sure explosion this insta-kills you if you don't have "melee" gear (just gear that can resist the blast).
  • Topaz Crystal: You need to defeat Bal, the huge Magma Cube found in Khazad-Dum, the last main structure (this is all in the Magma Fields, of course). Bal doesn't have HP, it has hits. I believe it is around 300 hits, maybe 400 or even 500, but I don't think it's that high. Anyhow, for this, you will want a bow and a lot of arrows, and gear that can survive here. Yog armor is a good choice for the Magma Fields, as a heat mechanism comes in where heat begins to build up on you and you can't stop it from killing you (even with fire) unless you leave the Magma Fields. If you want you can also take water bottles which reduce 30 or 40 heat each. Defeating Bal will spawn the Topaz Crystal right there in Khazad-Dum ready for your grabbing.
• Ruby gemstone: found everywhere. Most common in the Magma Fields, but you have to pick around for it. You can find it exposed in Mines of Divan, which worked for me.

Gemstones you mine have tiers. These are irrelevant right now unless you bought Sorrow Armor which has slots. To the left of the Crystal Hollows cart on the DVM, there is a station to put gemstones in these slots (also unlock the slots in the first place, if you bought Sorrow Armor without unlocked slots, which again, you prob don't wanna do, it costs a couple million for the first 2, then a lot more for the "universal" (the third one). It depends tho, you might wanna buy locked-slots armor and unlock it yourself if in total it'll be cheaper. You do the maths bro!
So, gemstones go Rough > Flawed > Fine > Flawless > Perfect. It's just like crafting an enchanted diamond or an enchanted whatever (except its 80 per tier, instead of 160), and this has like 5 tiers.

GEMSTONE POWDER: Forget about this until you reach HOTM 6. It is for HOTM 6 and 7 perks.

From the Crystal Nucleus (the Nucleus), every area has its path and it's very obvious due to the colors. All except Topaz. Topaz can be found under

any

biome. You can go to the bottom of the Nucleus and find in every corner a way going down to the Magma Fields (you can also just mine down from any biome!).

As you get Mithril Powder (MP), you want to put it into Mining Speed and Fortune. Mining Fortune you might just want to take to 10 to 15 (you'll personalize your MP division yourself as you realize what you need), and then focus on Mining Speed. Other perks don't matter very much, except Efficient Miner which you might want to put up to 20 levels or more on it. It is pretty cheap in comparison to the other 2 perks.

Getting to HOTM 4 is only a few hours of grind, as commissions in the CH (Crystal Hollows) give 400 HXP. When you get to HOTM 4, buy a Gemstone Drill LT-522. If you bought a Ruby Drill TX-15, you can upgrade that at the DVM's forge for about 2 to 3m worth of materials (this method is cheaper). I believe it only takes about 20 minutes craft time. You are going to want to keep using Pickonimbus to mine regularly (if you have money for it, that is) and only use your Gemstone Drill for Topaz.

When you get here, you want to unlock Efficient Miner and if you have another token you want to get Seasoned Mineman. I am pretty sure at this stage you don't have enough tokens for Mining Madness, but if you do, go for it. If you have Sky Mall or Luck of the Cave or Quick Forge you should reset your tree and put it into these perks. Summarised, your HOTM tree should look like this (Mining Speed = MS, Mining Fortune = MF).

MS > MF > Daily Powder > Efficient Miner > Seasoned Mineman > (and if you have enough tokens, which I think you don't) Mining Madness.

You will learn how you want to distribute your MP between MS and MF to complete commissions faster. It's kind of up to you, anyway, but I suggest putting a good bit to MF (regardless, don't leave MS behind!).

When you get to HOTM 5, you want to keep mining with Pickonimbus and your Gemstone Drill. By the way, you really want Jaded Sorrow Armor, if you still haven't gotten it. It's really good. Now on your HOTM tree, unlock Peak of the Mountain (POTM). You only wanna level this up until you get the +1 Commission Slot (level 3 I believe, not sure, doesn't matter. Just get this as soon as you can). Now, you might understand better and feel like have spare tokens as all perks you have locked are useless. Just go for Front Loaded if you have enough tokens. Remember, if you ever want to re-distribute your MP you can reset your tree for 100k. By the way, you don't get back the powder you spent on POTM (you don't lose it either; it just stays there).

At HOTM 6, it gets juicier! You now want a Gemstone Gauntlet. If it sounds like something that isn't a pickaxe, well you're just confusing yourself, it's to mine (basically a pickaxe, its used is to mine blocks ). You may've (<-- this not a word (?)) heard about Divan's armor and Titanium Drill x655, but it just isn't worth it right now. All other drills are sh-eeeeee- (forget about them ).

Buy a Gemstone Gauntlet. Again, probably want it with slots unlocked (check Basics & Important Stuff). Now you don't want any more Pickonimbus 2000s ever again, finally

You don't want that Gemstone Drill either right now (you can sell if you need the money or keep it, whatever). You can't upgrade it to Titanium Drill x655, the mining tool you'll want to buy which is better than Gemstone Gauntlet if you apply upgrades to it (but not worth it right now, very small diff for 6 to 10x the price). I guess if you are very rich and you don't mind, go for it. Apply upgrades into your Titanium Drill x655 and buy that Divan's Armor. Just make sure after all the process it is Jaded and has nice stats with slots unlocked and at least Flawless-tier gems in it. Or Perfect (let me just tell you it costs a lot probably around 400m total for a maxed armor). Sticking with Jaded Sorrow Armor is fine. This thing is really good.

HOTM 7 & Powder Grinding

*Powder mine in the Jungle with a Jungle Pickaxe! You will make 50k per minute while you powder grind.

When you reach HOTM 7, what you want to do is reset your tree, just respec the whole thing, so it's fresh outta the oven and you feel nice. What you want your tree to look like is like this:

MS > MF, Titanium Insanium, Mining Speed Boost Ability > Daily Powder > Efficient Miner, Seasoned Mineman, Mining Madness > POTM (at max level now, get that!) > Mole, Professional, Lonesome Miner, Vein Seeker, Fortunate, Great Explorer, Powder Buff, Mining Speed II.

ALL your Gemstone Powder (GP) is now gonna go into 3 perks, and you want to choose the Vein Seeker ability now. The 3 perks are Mole, Great Explorer and Powder Buff. Take Mole to abt level 75 and Great Explorer to 16, no need for more. Then put the rest into Powder Buff, all the following GP you get, yeeee all. If you still haven't figured this out: Mining Hard Stone has a chance to spawn a Treasure Chest than can give powders. This is how you grind powders.
On the other hand, you can find the balance you like or want. What I've told you is what I recommend. It worked great for me. Maybe throw in another level or 2 to Great Explorer, if you wish, but I don't recommend it. With a Booster Cookie and God Pot active, when you use Vein Seeker you will mine 3 more blocks with each hit and be spawning chests like crazy. View attachment 3043791
I wanted to put an image I thought I screenshotted where there were like 10 chests at once, to basically show that you won't need more levels on Great Explorer or mole. Yes tho, you might go dry for a few secs and spawn no chests. That's alright ladies and gentlemen.

Make sure you powder grind during a 2x powder event. When you find a lobby, use that lobby till it runs out, then switch to another that has 2x. If you can't find any then no lobby has them active (lobbies are on the same schedule, except some are delayed up to abt 15 or 20 min, so you'll find 2x powder on another when it runs out on the one you're in).

Forget about mithril powder, you will get enough of it while you powder grind, so we'll measure things in GP.
The most Gemstone Powder amount you wanna have (or simply just worth grinding to) to Gemstone mine and get over 30m an hour (depending on your gear, if you have Divans and Titanium Drill x655 or not and your pet) is 7.4m. As for MP, a little near 4m is fine. GP is so much more important than MP, you'll realize this by looking at the lvl 2 perks (MS II and MF II) that it impacts a lot more, although MP is still important. You will find little to no people with more than that. 2m is the very minimum, maybe with your sorrow armor, you'll be getting around 12-15m an hour with 2m of each powder - or maybe not that much.
In reality, a nice amount to have of MP and GP (in this order!) is 4m and 5m. If you get more than 5m of GP, nice, you'll be getting more million coins per hour.

Being more precise with GP: At 3m Gemstone Powder, you get 80% of all your possible stat increase of MS and MF II. If you don't understand this, basically, by getting to 7.4m Gemstone Powder you will theoretically only be getting 20% more revenue- so if you want to get into gemstone mining fast, going until 3m Gemstone Powder is good enough.

As for the pet, you might want to get a Scatha for the MF now. Mining Fortune is extremely important, it's the essence of your money-making. More MF = more gemstone drops = more cash $.
Whether you get Bal or Scatha depends on what gemstone you're mining. If you'll be mining Topaz, you want a Bal, for the stat increase in Magma Fields, where you find Topaz. The best method I believe is Ruby mining. For this you want to set up a route you'll run through so as you mine a vein of ruby, the other one will be regenerating. Maxed out and with a ruby route, you'll be getting 30m an hour, maybe more.
Sapphire/Jade mining are the other good options. Jade is better tho, I believe. There is not that much data to use for these things, as there aren't enough people sharing what gemstone they're mining with how much of each powder and with what gear and pet etc. Some people say use armadillo, not sure how that makes a lot of sense, probably just stick to Scatha .

Bal pet is dropped by hitting Bal. Each hit you land on him has a chance to drop the pet, it'll just be under him where you hit him.
Scatha pet is dropped by killing a Scatha:

"
The [Lv10] Scatha can be found in the Crystal Hollows while mining. The Worm has a 1/600 chance to spawn when breaking Hard Stone in a tunnel and a 20% chance of turning into a [Lv10] Scatha.

Upon the [Lv10] Scatha spawning, a squelching sound shall play, accompanied by a message in chat: "You hear the sound of something approaching..."

" (from https://wiki.hypixel.net/Scatha)

Final Words
It's a lot of information. I can't be sure if I got it all, but hope this helps more than those average Guides (sorry authors!) that don't really hit the specific questions that you have- and as to that, specific questions, I'll say once again that follow what I say about drills. The only drill you'll wanna get is the Gemstone Drill LT-522 for Topaz mining for commissions, and later the Titanium Drill x655 if you want.

I hope I didn't miss anything, if I did, please do let me know. Any questions too.

1. HOTM Grind till HOTM 7. Get Jaded Sorrow Armor and Gemstone Gauntlet ASAP.
2. Powder mine till 4m 5m for better outcomes of Gemstone Mining for money

Please comment down below so this post gets some attention. If you have any questions, please ask and I'll do my best to answer them. I'll be adding anything I remember as the days go by.

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I was recommended to read this guide by someone in my server, as I make a lot of mining guides as well. I noticed a lot of misinformation in here so i thought id say something real quick.

Powder grinding in precursor gives more coins per hour than jungle by far, up to 8m an hour if you're really efficient. It also gives a lot of ore drops which can really help max collections if you hav any mining collections not maxed. On top of that you're not bound to using a jungle pic and u can instead use gauntlet or divan drill that has more fortune, letting u get more coins per hour from ores.

When you talk about lobby swapping for 2x powder events, it doesnt work like that. When you swap lobbies the game automatically tries to put u in a lobby that has the same event as the one you left with a similar time frame. So if I leave my 2x powder lobby with 1 minute left I might find another 2x lobby with 5 minutes left, possibly more but thats rare, and its not even worth it to keep swapping at that point. And if you want for the event to end u will waste a lot of time swapping lobbies cuz u wont be able to get placed in another 2x powder lobby for a set period of time. Better to stick in a lobby and grind harder when a 2x event comes on, or if your friend has a lobby that has a 2x powder event they can warp you in. Warping in is the only consistent way to keep 2x powder lobbies, and some discord servers offer lobby finders for that.

Im not sure where u got the 1/600 scatha spawn chance, I've never heard of that. Worms and scatha's are counted as the same mob in beastiary, a scatha is basically like a higher lvl worm. When a worm spawns, there's a 1/5 chance that worm is a scatha. Using the drop rate for a rare scatha pet, you need to kill on average 400 scathas which takes about 2000 worm spawns with no magic find or pet luck.

For what perks to lvl while powder grinding I noticed a lot wrong. First its best to get mole to lvl51, because after that the perk is bugged and additional blocks only really work in the north or east directions. Then you want to get great explorer to 20/20. That perk is the key to powder per hour, and maxing it isn't that expensive so its worth it. That extra 4% you get from 16-20 will increase your powder by thousands per hour, it makes a big difference. I understand why you said mining speed is more important than mining fortune, because you're recommending jungle for powder. However, after 1800 speed (instabreak for ores as well as hardstone) speed is useless. In precursor, you want to put powder into fortune. If I mine powder for an hour with my setup which has near max fortune, I get 3-5m coins in enchanted coal and hardstone alone. Not to mention redstone lapis gold iron and all the other ores, and on top of that you get the robot parts. I'm glad you mentioned peak of the mountain tho cuz that is important. But basically, the 3 perks you should put gemstone powder into are mole 51, great explorer 20, powder buff 50, and then mole 190. With any spare powder between lvls you can put it into fortune. With mithril powder everything goes into efficient miner to clear ores easier.

For hotm grinding you did offer some good information on what the commissions were, but didnt see anywhere you telling people to avoid all commissions except the gemstone mining and slayer commissions. Crystal and corleone commissions are extremely slow and not worth it and should only be completed if you happen to come across them while doing your other commissions. Maybe i missed it but i didnt see you telling people to use pickonimbus for hotm grinding until hotm4 when they can get a gemstone drill to get topaz.

I like that you put in the effort to make this post tho, you tried really hard and while there was a lot of misleading information i can tell u really like to help and teach people. Some tips for your next articles:

-try to make sure the information you put out is accurate and is the meta. I make this mistake sometimes too and I get corrected in the comments. I go back and double check the info and if i was wrong i change it.

-make the article more organized. the headings didnt describe what the section was about very well, and the article was split up in a way that made it really confusing to read. It forced me to read the whole article instead of looking for the sections that I need help with. Most people would click off the article or would be too lazy to read it.

-DONT POST A GUIDE IN THE GUIDES SECTION!!! Guides almost never get seen here. I post all my guides in the general skyblock discussion, and they get thousands of views. I never would hav seen this guide if someone in my discord hadn't sent it to me asking if it was accurate.

-Use spoilers. It makes the article more organized and easier to read. Any lists, or extra uneeded information or personal opinions can go in spoilers.

I've made many guides to mining but the most popular one I've made is about the fastest way to grind a hypermaxed mining setup. I'll link it for you below, and I'll also link my discord if you want to come ask any questions or if u want help with future articles, cuz while I had a lot to say about what was wrong I also liked that you tried.