Idleon Mining Build Guide - Increase Efficiency (Gear, Cards, Build) - Games Finder (2024)

Last Updated on April 3, 2024 by Samuel Franklin

Maximise your ore gains with our Idleon mining build guide designed for your Warrior classes to increase efficiency in the early game (up to World 3). Regardless of your current progress in Idleon ensuring a steady stream of copper, iron, gold and beyond to fuel your various account upgrades and equipment crafting is a common challenge. With new players constantly stuck on how to mine the next ore in progression this beginner mining guide will help you advance.

With World 3 introducing players to the printer where you can snapshot your mining setup for passive resource printing this guide is intended for players up to this point in progression. Beyond this stage there are so many sources of general skill efficiency and less mining specific optimisation to make that reaching your mining goals will happen naturally as you progress through respective world content mechanics. Guides for all other classes and skills are available on our Idleon builds page.

Table of Contents:
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– Mining Gear
– Mining Cards
– Mining Alchemy
– Other Mining Build Optimisations

Mining Build Talents (Warrior, Barbarian and Squire)

Warrior class talents are the first element of a mining build and the largest early game impact to increase mining efficiency. They should be utilised as follows in approximate order of priority for tab 1 and tab 2 talents:

Talent	Effect	Notes
Brute Efficiency	Increases skill efficiency	The primary skill for mining efficiency that offers a large percentage increase.
Idle Skilling	Increased skilling AFK gains	Boosts ore gain and experience while AFK.
Big Pick	Bonus mining efficiency	Boosts mining efficiency substantially, this must be placed on your attack bar to benefit from the effect.
Tool Efficiency	Increases mining power of equipped pickaxe	Increases every 10 levels that make mining levels useful in boosting your efficiency.
Motherlode Miner	Increases multi-ore drop chance	Increases the chance of dropping multiple ores that significant improves ore gained. There is also an alchemy bubble and star sign that provide this stat which combined cap at 300%.
Copper Collector	Increases mining efficiency based on Copper Ore in storage	Holding significant copper in your storage chest translates to mining efficiency although this is generally one of the weaker sources early game as you will have lower amounts of copper.
Haungry For Gold	Increases golden food bonuses	Boosts the golden peanut effect which improves efficiency.
Tempestuous Emotions	Increases mining experience gained	Boosts experience gained to improve your mining levels and empower tool efficiency or equip new stronger pickaxes.
Health Overdrive	Increases HP %	An alchemy bubble unlocked in World 2 turns your HP into mining efficiency which this percentage boost improves.
Health Booster	Increases HP	Same as above but this is a flat increase to HP.
Fist of Rage	Increases strength	A small boost to mining by increasing your strength.
Absolute Unit	Increases strength	Same as above.
Firmly Grasp It	Temporarily boosts strength	The first point provides 16 strength making this first point highly effective with future points being equivalent to Fist of Rage or Absolute Unit.

Tab 3 skills for either Barbarian or Squire should be considered as follows:

Talent	Effect	Notes
Super Samples (Squire)	Increases sample size (World 3)	With World 3 unlocked this allows you to snapshot a larger amount of your ore gains for automatic printing although does not boost your mining gains while AFKing at an ore node.
Strongest/Shieldiest Statues	Increases effect of statues	Boosts the benefit of mining statues that you have accumulated to date that provide mining power.
STR Summore	Increases strength	Another source of strength to obtain.
Fistful of Obols	Increases strength from obols	Improves the strength gained from obols which is generally quite small and a low priority talent.
Back to Basics	Gives extra talent points for the Warrior tab (tab 2)	If you need extra talent points in the previous tab this can help you max some of the stronger mining talents above.

Special Talents should be considered as follows:

Talent	Effect	Notes
Tick Tock	Increases away gains for fighting and skilling	The best special talent for away gains and should be maxed first as it can be difficult to obtain this statistic elsewhere.
Supersource	Increases base efficiency for all skills	Available through Party Dungeons this flat boost to your efficiency can be used to help you push early into Iron or Gold ore. Beyond this point it can still help when boosted by % mining efficiency.
Action Frenzy	Increases speed for all skills.	Also from Party Dungeons this skill increases your skilling speed for mining which is great for resources and also earning some of the important cards to boost your mining even further.
Attacks on Simmer	Boosts AFK gains for attack moves	As Big Pick is considered an active skill you can get the benefit of gains by maxing out this special talent.
Frothy Malk	Boost foods give higher bonuses	While not effective early game to boost mining gains as you progress into W2 and W3 you’ll likely be focused on boost foods and potions to push mining gains further which this skill improves.
Toiler Paper Postage	Stamps giving skill efficiency have higher bonuses	As your stamps reach higher levels this can be a notable boost although before this is not particular powerful.
Rando Event Looty	Increased AFK gains rate	A small boost to AFK gains depending on your luck at random event loot.
Dummy Thicc Stats	% all stat	A small boost to stat as STR boosts your mining gains that grows increasingly powerful as your account grows.
Ubercharged Health	Increased base HP	Boosts the gains from the alchemy bubble that turns HP into mining power.
Will Of The Eldest	Extra base stat	Place enough points in this skill to match your highest level character divided by 10. For example if you have a level 73 character you want to place 7 points for a small STR boost.

Mining Gear

Equipment provide some of the largest boosts to mining alongside your talent selection and you should always strive to have the best pickaxe available to you with one for each ore type.

Equipment (Slot)	Effect	Notes
Viking Cap (Helmet)	10% Mining Efficiency	Anvil craft
Dirty Coal Miner Baggy Soot Pants (Pants)	5% Mining Efficiency	Anvil craft
Cavern Trekkers (Shoes)	20% Mining Efficiency	Anvil craft, can be upgraded to Rough Rockers (35% mining efficiency)
Persephones Bouquet (Pendant)	15% Skill Afk Gain	Party Dungeons
Serrated Rex Ring (Rings)	8% Skill Efficiency	Party Dungeons (Rex Ring) then Baba Yaga drop for upgraded version
Gilded Efaunt Dislodged Tusks (Cape)	10% Skill Efficiency	Gilded Efaunt (W2 Nightmare boss)
Blunder Hero (Trophy)	3% Skill Afk Gain	Scripticus (W1 town) quest line
King of Food (Trophy)	20% Food Effect	Picnic Stowaway (W1 Froggy Fields) quest line
Time Candy Keychain (Keychain)	2-5% All Afk Gain	Party Dungeons Tier 3 keychain

Mining Cards

Cards are another central mechanic to tap into to improve your mining gains with sources of afk gains and mining efficiency available here. Players can also pair this with a card set like ‘Easy Resources’ which is a good option due to the skill efficiency it provides. The primary cards to boost efficiency up to World 3 are below, players can also add in card drop rate and mining experience if required and fill any remaining slots with strength or HP.

Card	Effect
Iron Ore	% Total Mining Efficiency
Platinum Ore	% Mining Away Gains
Dementia Ore	% Mining Speed
Void Ore	% Total Mining Efficiency
Bunny	% Skill AFK gain rate
Amarok	% Skill AFK gain rate

Mining Alchemy

Alchemy is the last of the big contributors to your overall mining gains and while small initially continues to grow alongside your account to provide a massive boost. While these are primarily in the orange cauldron there are also some bubbles in other cauldrons with my recommended priority order for bubbles being:

Alchemy Bubble (Number)	Effect	Upgrade Material
Wyoming Blood (Orange #4)	Increase multi-ore chance (must be equipped)	Fly
Stronk Tools (Orange #8)	Pickaxes give more skilling power	Platinum Ore
Hearty Diggy (Orange #3)	Boosts mining efficiency based on max HP	Jungle Logs
Warriors Rule (Orange #2)	Orange passive bubbles give higher bonuses	Spore Cap
Prowesessary (Yellow #5)	Lowers efficiency requirements for skilling quantity drop multipliers	Potty Rolls
All For Kill (Purple #10)	Attack talents contribute more to AFK gains (similar to Attacks on Simmer talent)	Veiny Logs
Roid Ragin (Orange #1)	Total strength (STR)	Oak Logs

For alchemy vials that boost mining players will want to unlock the Void Ore vial that provides mining efficiency.

Other Mining Build Optimisation

In order to truly min-max your mining output players will want to use every single Idleon mechanic available. While I’ve covered the largest contributors above when you are looking to progress further you will need to use these options which still contribute to mining gains but require a little extra effort to obtain or provide smaller boosts. These extra mining optimisations include:

• Star Signs
• Food
• Statues
• Stamps
• Post Office
• Obols
• Shrines
• Prayers

Mining Star Signs

Star signs for your Idleon mining build with players equipping as many as possible based on their current maximum star signs. In order of priority I recommend:

• Dwarfo Beadus (+5% Mining Efficiency +20% Multi-Ore Chance)
• The Big Comatose (+2% Skill AFK Gain)
• The OG Killer (+5% Carry Cap +1% Skill AFK gain +2% All Skill Prowess)

Mining Food

Food can often be an overlooked way to gain some efficiency and players should equip the following foods where possible based on availability and number of food slots in this order:

Food Item	Effect	Source
Icing Ironbite	Increases Mining Speed by 15%	Anvil
Golden Peanut	Increases Mining Efficiency	Anvil
Golden Jam	Increases Max Health	W1 Colosseum or Picnic Stowaway
Small Life Potion	Increases base HP (30)	W1 Shop
Average Life Potion	Increases base HP (120)	W2 Shop
Decent Life Potion	Increases base HP (250)	W3 Shop

Mining Statues

For statues you want to make sure that you give as many to the W1 statue as possible from your miner although from W2 onwards there is an item that allows all characters in your account to share statue progress.

Statue	Effect	Source
Mining Statue	Increases Mining Power	Crystal Monsters & W1 trees
Health Statue	Increases Base HP	Crystal Monsters
Feasty Statue	Increases Food Bonuses	Crystal Monsters

Mining Stamps

There are a number of stamps that boost your mining prowess in Idleon where you can invest resources for further gains. The below are the key mining focused stamps and doesn’t include the HP or strength stamps:

Stamp (Tab)	Effect	Source	Resource
Pickaxe (Skills)	Mining Efficiency	Mr Pigibank	Oak Logs
Twin Ores (Skills)	Multi-ore Chance	Sheepie (W3 Mob)	Thief Hood
Cool Diggy Tool Stamp (Skills)	Mining Efficiency	Snowman (W3 Mob)	Iron Hatchet
Potion Stamp (Misc)	Food Effect	Papua Piggea Quest	Icing Ironbite
Golden Apple Stamp (Misc)	Golden Food Effect	Mutton Quest	Golden Nomwich

Mining Build Post Office

The post office can be a long journey to unlocking boxes for various fighting and skilling character builds. It is still an important contributor though and I recommend you focus on placing your boxes in the following priority order for your primary miner:

Box	Effect
Dwarven Supplies	+% Mining Efficiency +% Prowess Effect +% Mining AFK Gains
Locally Sourced Organs	+ Base Max HP +% Max HP
Carepack From Mum	+% Health Food Effect +% Boost Food Effect

Mining Build Obols

Obols are another small boost to mining potential with personal and family obol pages to fill for maximum gains. While you will eventually acquire some sources of AFK gains later in your Idleon adventure during the early game you’ll primarily want to target mining obols that are only available through the alchemy liquid shop.

Mining Build Shrines

Shrines are fairly basic when it comes to mining given there are no direct boosting shrines for mining but there are two available in W3 that provide some benefit while you swing your pickaxe at the ore nodes of the W1 mines.

Shrine	Effect
Isaccian Shrine	Increases Max HP
Primordial Shrine	Increases AFK gain

Mining Build Prayers

There are two prayers available that will benefit your mining gains with Skilled Dimwit being easy to acquire while Zerg Rushogen will take significantly longer as it requires sufficiently levelled wizard towers for the tower defence mini game.

Prayer	Effect	Source
Skilled Dimwit	Increased skill efficiency Decreased skill experience gain	Goblin Gorefest Wave 25
Zerg Rushogen	Increased AFK gain rate Decrease carry capacity	Goblin Gorefest Wave 121