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Coal

Coal and Hard Stone on routes in the Crystal Hollows, instamining with high Mining Speed and swapping to a Blue Cheese drill for the ability.

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At a glance

Where
Crystal Hollows, on routes from the route-sharing channel or your own. During progression, The Jungle while Sludge Mining or grinding powder.
Key blocks
  • Coal Ore: instamine at 9,001 Mining Speed in mid-air
  • Hard Stone: instamine at 7,501 Mining Speed in mid-air
  • On the ground you need five times less Mining Speed for the same speed
Rates
  • Coal collection 4.0M to 9.0M per hour
  • Hard Stone collection 3.0M to 6.0M per hour

Rough estimates from the author; most players land in between or below.

Heart of the Mountain

Recommended HOTM 7

  • 8.5m Mithril
  • 19.4m Gemstone
  • 1.3m Glacite

Tree coming soon. The drawn tree for this method is not confirmed yet.

Key perks

  • Heart of the Mountain 7

Gear

Budget is the cheapest setup the guide recommends and max the best one. Items not marked apply to both.

Drill 4 items

Budget setup

  • Progression drill (Ironman)
    • Jungle Pickaxe
    • Mithril Drill SX-R226
    • Mithril Drill SX-R326
    • Titanium Drill DR-X355
    • Titanium Drill DR-X455
    • Titanium Drill DR-X555

    Upgrade in this order while you progress.

Max setup

  • Titanium Drill DR-X655 or Divan's Drill
    • Titanium Drill DR-X655
    • Divan's Drill
  • Drill upgrades
    • Recombobulated
    • 3 Perfect Jade
    • 2 Perfect Amber
    • Amber Power Scroll
    • Divan's Powder Coating
    • 5x Polarvoid Book
    • Perfectly-Cut Fuel Tank
    • Amber-Polished Drill Engine
    • Sunny Side Goblin Omelette

    Enchantments: Efficiency X, Fortune IV, Compact X, Flowstate III

    Reforge to Stellar (Petrified Starfall), Auspicious (Dwarven Geode) or Lustrous (Gleaming Crystal). Put the Sunny Side omelette on the main drill and keep a second drill with Blue Cheese for the ability.

  • Swap drill with a Blue Cheese Goblin Omelette
    • Blue Cheese Goblin Omelette

    Hold it when you use your pickaxe ability.

Tools 3 items

  • Aspect of the Void

    With Etherwarp. An Aspect of the End works too.

  • Large Mining Sack and Large Enchanted Mining Sack
  • Any Abiphone

    Refuel your drill.

Armor 2 items

Budget setup

  • 4/4 Mineral, then 4/4 Glossy Mineral, then 1/4 Mineral with 3/4 Armor of Divan

Max setup

  • 1/4 Glossy Mineral and 3/4 Armor of Divan

    Jaded reforge (Jaderald), Recombobulator, Perfect gemstones, Wisdom V, Divan's Powder Coating.

Equipment 5 items

Budget setup

  • Titanium Gauntlet, Belt, Cloak and Necklace

Max setup

  • Dwarven Handwarmers
    • Recombobulated
    • Blazing reforge (Blazen Sphere)

    Enchantments: Quantum V

  • Jade Belt
    • Recombobulated
    • Blazing reforge (Blazen Sphere)

    Enchantments: Quantum V

  • Ancient Cloak or Sapphire Cloak
    • Ancient Cloak
    • Sapphire Cloak
  • Pendant of Divan
    • Recombobulated
    • Blazing reforge (Blazen Sphere)
    • Divan's Powder Coating

    Enchantments: Quantum V

Pets 2 items

  • Legendary Goblin, level 100

    Goblin gives 12.5 Mining Speed per level instead of 2.5, 1,250 at level 100. Use it if you are short of Mining Speed.

  • Rare Scatha, level 100

    Pet items in order: Bejeweled Collar, Quick Claw, Hephaestus Relic.

Accessories 8 items

  • Personal Compactor 7000
  • Speed Relic
  • Titanium Relic
  • Haste Artifact
  • Relic of Power
    • Recombobulated

    Perfect gemstones

  • Glossy Mineral Talisman
  • Magic 8 Ball optional
  • 450+ Magical Power with a Sighted or Bizarre power stone

Consumables 3 items

  • Filet O' Fortune
  • 5x Dwarven O's Ore Oats
  • 5x Dwarven O's Block Bran

Collections, skills and shops 4 items

  • Glacite collection 8
  • Umber collection 8
  • Tungsten collection 9
  • Obsidian collection 8

Attributes

Level 10 values. See the attribute reference for every mining attribute.

Attribute Shard Effect Priority
Rotten Pickaxe Zombie Miner (Common) +30 Mining Speed Required
Fortunate Miner Flitter (Common) +25 Mining Fortune Required
Mossy Box Hideonleaf (Common) +50 Block Fortune Required
Gold Box Hideonsun (Common) +50 Ore Fortune Required
Echo of Boxes Cuboa (Uncommon) Box attributes +20% Required
Greedy Goblin Gimmiegold (Rare) Goblin pet gains +10 Ore Fortune Required
Sleepy Spread Snoozle (Rare) +10 Mining Spread Required
Pickaxe Cooldown Abyssal Miner (Epic) -10% pickaxe ability cooldown Required
Echo of Echoes Tiamat (Legendary) Echo attributes +50% Required
Yog Membrane Yog (Common) +10 Heat Resistance Useful
Breeze Wither Specter (Rare) -10% mana costs when you have not taken damage for 5 seconds Useful
Mana Regeneration XYZ (Epic) +10% mana regeneration Useful
Ultimate DNA Galaxy Fish (Legendary) +10 Mining Fortune Useful

How to mine

Coal mining depends heavily on ping; try to stay under 120 ms. Routes send you up and down a lot, so you are often in mid-air, where blocks take five times more Mining Speed to break than on the ground.

Go to the start of the route and mine. When your pickaxe ability is ready, switch to the drill with the Blue Cheese Goblin Omelette, use the ability and keep mining. When the route is done, change lobby.

Craft the Coal and Hard Stone from your sessions into enchanted items to earn more, but never craft Enchanted Coal Blocks.

Mining Speed tips

  • Strong Arm currently gives 25 Mining Speed per level on Hard Stone by mistake, 2,500 at max level. Take it if you struggle to reach the instamine thresholds.
  • A level 100 Goblin pet gives 1,250 Mining Speed for the same reason.

Ironman

The guide works for Ironman and Classic profiles. If you are past progression and mine for money, focus on the max column.

Credits and sources

  • Guide: TheUltimateNon
  • Source: Mining Cult Discord, posted 13 October 2026. Last checked 27 October 2026.
  • Requirements as data: coal.json (format: guide schema).

Found a mistake? Tell the author in the Mining Cult Discord, or open an issue on GitHub.

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