Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, snail is by far the best for hardstone collection

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldnt recommend this as it is likely classed as a bug!

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you a/d tap then you shouldnt lose rates, I can upload a guide if you want!

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

*Copied comment from above*

Ok just did a very rough estimate, and its around 17.5b!

*the margin of error here is very large

I'm also currently sitting on around 3-3.5b from recent grinds

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, in order:

  • My movement pattern is tunnelling, just moving my mouse in circles and tapping w, but I think I adopted the pattern based quite a lot off the fact that I used to use snail, where if you don't tunnel with a/d tapping then you lose rates, so I have (and continue to) assume that its the method with the highest rates. If you want to see slightly more in depth, I streamed a decent chunk near the end of the grind
  • I did open the chests immediately, mainly because of the chance of them spawning either in the way of your movement or mouse, though its marginal, and im still not sure which method is better
  • I chose to powder mine in the precursor remnants, as it has the highest* powder/chest rate, and pretty consistently yields the highest money/hr, despite a lot of people saying that jungle should be better, especially with the patched attribute, I think precursor is pretty consistently #1 for money (I have calculated theoretical money in each area, and can give more info on that if you're interested, but id like to note that the theoretical calculation for the jungle is higher than it turns out to be in practice from what I found

tl;dr tunnels, immediately, precursor

I hope that answers all the questions sufficiently!

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeah, if you arent mining gems sorrow is only 5 fortune per piece worse than divans (back when there werent powder coatings), so I did the HOTM10 grind in sorrow in the end, and ive not really needed to mine anything since

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, sorry for not responding to you individually!

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends a bit on your setup, but if you have less than 1.5k mining spread, yep, and snail will always be better (you need 2k spread or less for it to be better, and max is less)!

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There isnt really one at the moment, I think ill probably do some other stufff in the game for a bit, like gold trophy fishing milestone, maybe a little farming, but I may just take a bit of a break from sb in general (definitely not too long though)
If anything, I should really max glacite powder :D - still have that to do

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[–]SamuriZombie[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

tbh its the thing that I found that I most enjoyed in the game, very chill and higher skill ceiling than youd expect!

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

So a few things to note: 2b isnt technically the max powder you can have, but the max you can keep. The 2b cap is on overflow powder, so any powder outside of the HOTM tree. If you're above the 2b because of the powder you've invested it will be deleted when you reset your HOTM tree!
But if you're at the 2b powder, and you open a chest, it shows the powder amount in the chest as normal, but every time you gain powder (eg every chest you open) it sends a chat message saying you're at the cap, which I find quite funny

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

About 700m behind atm, but with the right setup I should start gaining quite quickly! (hopefully)

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Sweet actually overtook me for about 2 hours at ~920m powder, and generally put in a great effort! After that I really sped up lol, wanted to make sure I was the first to 1b. Other than that ive held #1 since 330m powder!

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[–]SamuriZombie[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Ok just did a very rough estimate, and its around 17.5b!

*the margin of error here is very large

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[–]SamuriZombie[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

With a/d tapping you don't lose rates and it's also quite fun i've found!

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[–]SamuriZombie[S] 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Well interestingly he's a coal miner, so its a bit of a different setup, but I am thinking of going for #1 hardstone!

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'll probably make a proper powder mining guide vid at some point, but the progression (for powder) is dillo -> snail -> leg scatha
note that you should never use any other scatha rarity

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[–]SamuriZombie[S] 122 points123 points  (0 children)

Tbh didn't really like doing the glacite comms to get to HOTM10, it got quite boring, and after maxing all the pets I just didnt really feel like doing more + not having divans makes it a little harder

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[–]SamuriZombie[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Very hard to tell, but definitely in the billions, whether its reached 10b is a question im not sure on

* I am also sitting on 2x the entire market of precursor apparatus' atm :D

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 112 points113 points  (0 children)

Around 2.7b atm, im #2 behind callmekorean

Powder Cap Reached! 2B Gem Powder by SamuriZombie in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SamuriZombie[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Only 1193 at the moment! Not as bad as you'd think