Dwarven Mine: Pickaxe Hoarding & 100-Floor MR Blueprint Push

How the Dwarven Mine event works: 7-day mining grid, the 750-pickaxe F2P hoarding rule, floor progression via jackpots, and choosing Herbs over Gearstones in the endgame.

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The Dwarven Mine is a recurring 7-day mining event: you spend Pickaxes to dig tiles, find jackpots to climb floors, and the player who clears 100 floors within the event takes the top prize — an MR gear blueprint (a max-tier gear piece). The entire event is decided before it starts: whoever hoarded pickaxes wins, whoever starts empty pays real money to catch up.

This guide covers pickaxe income, the F2P hoarding target, reward choice strategy, and where the money pit is.

Mechanics

7-day duration, recurring event.
You dig a grid of tiles with pickaxes; finding the jackpot tile levels you up to the next floor with better rewards.
Floors keep rising with each jackpot — 100 floors total.
Top prize at Floor 100: an MR gear blueprint.
The wheel attached to the event can also roll red (max-rarity) gear — the true endgame equipment tier.

The 750-Pickaxe Hoarding Rule

F2P reality check: the event is not “played” — it is pre-funded. Save at least 750 pickaxes across event cycles before you start digging seriously.

With fewer than ~750 pickaxes you have no realistic path to Floor 100’s MR blueprint. Spending pickaxes off-cycle just burns the resource you needed next time.

Pickaxe Sources (Free)

Daily and event quests
Training troops
Falcon Tower quests
Alliance Island donations (up to 6×)

Paid packs exist but are aggressively priced — assembling MR gloves through packs runs around $500. If you’re not a spender, just hoard.

Reward Choice: Herbs vs Gearstones

Each climb lets you pick between two reward lines:

Option	Verdict
Herbs (~8M per pick, with luck variance)	✅ Best for anyone approaching endgame. Herbs gate high-tier research — the permanent bottleneck. 100 floors × multi-M herbs is a game-changer.
Gearstones	❌ Once you’re deep in the game you’ll sit on hundreds of thousands of unspendable stones. The bottleneck is blueprints, not stones.

The Flow

Between events: hoard pickaxes, do not dig.
Event opens: commit the full stockpile in one push.
Dig → find jackpot → floor rises → repeat, choosing Herbs at every reward fork.
Floor 100 lands the MR blueprint; the wheel shots at red gear are bonus along the way.

Video Breakdown: Don’t Waste Your Pickaxes! (KorpezGaming)

Floor progression tactics and pickaxe math by KorpezGaming (DON’T Waste Your Pickaxes! Dwarven Mine Guide):

Timestamp	Topic	Practical Takeaway
0:40	The 750 Pickaxe Rule	If you have under 750 pickaxes, DO NOT start digging! Skip and hoard for next time.
1:30	Jackpot Routing	Prioritize revealing tiles toward high-score jackpot blocks to advance floors rapidly.
2:45	Herbs Over Stones	Always choose Herbs: 100 cleared floors provide tens of millions of herbs for endgame research.
4:10	Floor 100 Jackpot	Reaching Floor 100 guarantees the MR gear blueprint, justifying months of patient hoarding.

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DON'T Waste Your Pickaxes! Dwarven Mine Guide

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What's up guys? Corpus Gaming here and today we have a new video for you. It is about the dwarf mines and we're going to dwarf out all those resources.

Of course, I didn't mean dwarf out those resources. That is dirty. I mean mine out those resources. Let's get straight into it. So, it has started again guys,

the dwarf mine event and what we got going on here, we have an event that is going to be for 7 days and it is basically going to be that you

want to mine all these nodes and get want to mine all these nodes and get those high score of jackpot rewards and then you'll move up a level. If you complete

100 levels, you will get the main prize, the gear blueprint and or and this is basically going to give you a max level gear piece. So, what do we want to do

for this? We want If you are a free-to-play player, you want to save up at least 750 of these mine thingies, items so that you can actually

have a good chance at completing these 100 floors.

If you have below that, you will not be able to basically get the MR blueprints that you really want cuz that is basically what

you want in this event.

Uh for the wheels, of course, you always want to get these ones as well cuz that will give you uh a red gear and that's basically end game

gear right there. And for the dwarf pickaxes, how to get them, you get them from completing quests. You get them from uh training troops, completing

falcon quests and donating islands alliance stack six times. And of course, you get more of these items if you top up and that means spending money. You

also have these pickaxe uh packs that are uh obviously costing a lot of money.

And as you can see, if you want to get all of these to get those MR gloves, you will have to pay 500 bucks and that is a lot of money even for

everyone. Everyone 500 is 500. You can do a lot of nice stuff with that. So, if you are a free-to-play player, save up these quests and that is basically it

for the free-to-play players. We are now going to discuss a little bit about how the game itself is playing out on my other account, of course, cuz I am also

saving up right now. I am at 160. So, let's get on my other account and do this event. All right, we are at the other account and let's look at this

game. We have a few options that we can do here. And there are two options really that you can pick. You can pick the gear stones or you can pick the

herbs. And it's really basically depends a bit on where you are in the game, but for most people that are getting near into the end game, you really want to

pick this. This is your best option.

This is basically going to give 8 mil herbs each time you do this. So, it's also a bit of luck, of course, but just imagine if you do this 100 times. That

is a lot of resources right there. And gear stones, at one point in this game, you will have plenty of gear stones. As you can see right here, I have almost

800k gear stones that I cannot use cuz I need all my herbs for my resources research. So, we want to pick up this research. So, we want to pick up this one.

And that is basically it. We are going to start it now and you basically have to guess where the jackpot is and you press these tiles to see if you're lucky

and uh of course for me I am the most unlucky person in this game. So I have a few turns before I get my reward. Then you can pick it up again and that is

basically it and each time you get the basically it and each time you get the jackpot more floors will go up and if you have

100 floors and that is basically the goal of this event you will get these stone these MR blueprints that we want.

And this is this is it.

I cannot make anything more of it.

And you just really have to save up And you just really have to save up those those 750 mine thingies that we call pickaxes in

real life. And that is it for this guide and this video. I want to thank you all for watching again and you know what to do. If these guides are helping you,

smash that like, hit that subscribe and I'll see you guys in the next one.

I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye-bye.

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STOP WASTING BLUEPRINTS! Last Asylum Ultimate Gear Guide

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What's up guys, Corpus Gaming here, and today we have a new guide for you. We are going to talk about the gear, everything you need to know, stars,

level, you name it. What type of gear you need to put on what type of hero.

Let's get straight into it. It's going to be a big one, so get your notepad and your coffee ready. Let's go.

All right, here we are in the game, and basically, if you are advanced with the gear, check out the description below.

There time stamps, and these are going to guide you through the parts where you need to be.

We are going to start off with the basics right here, and that is the gear basics right here, and that is the gear workshop.

Once you have started in the game, you can build the gear workshop, and you really want to get that to 20 as fast as possible, so you can put stars on your

gear. But before we go all through that, let's go to the crafting section right here. And as you can see, we can craft three types of weapons, blue, purple, or

UR. And of course, the goal is to get all the UR gear for your heroes, and way to do that is by dismantling gear. As you can see right here, I've

quite a lot, and what you can do is you can dismantle all of this, and you will get gear pieces or material pieces.

These material pieces, then again, you can fuse, and by fusing them, you can make new pieces and higher gear materials. And these go four for

one, so if you have four brass, you get one refined iron. And this goes all the way up to tempered steel, and that is what you

need to make these UR swords, UR armor, all of that. All the UR gear is needed with tempered steel. Also, the massive upgrades, you will need tempered

steel. So, tempered steel is going to be really something that you need to make sure you have a lot of and you get them from events, you get them from gear

from events, you get them from gear chests because you if you get gear chests, you can dismantle that and you can make these gear pieces and you get get all

the way to the tempered steel. And as you can see, I'm fusing now my refined iron to the tempered steel and I have 3,000 tempered steel right now. Then we

have a few options that we can do. We can also salvage the tempered steel, but I don't see the point for it. You don't need to do this. This is useless and I

don't know what why it is here.

The only reason why you can do this if you need your SSR gloves for the world bosses and stuff like that, then you can do this, but

in the end, you don't really need this.

Then we go to crafting. Of course, what you can do is you can craft all types of gear now cuz we have the tempered steel.

So, let's say I need chest plate or some boots, then I just press craft here and it's going to cost me 500k herbs and it's going to take 1 day

and 5 hours for me. And the higher the level your gear workshop shop is, the faster it will go.

But 1 day is fine. I I am not in a hurry at all with this. Then we have discussed how we craft the gear. Let's get straight into how to upgrade the gear

and what gear is needed for what hero.

Let's go. All about crit and attack. And the higher the levels, the more attack or crit you will be getting. And basically, once you reach level 40, it

will go up with a lot of stats extra.

You have here the basic stats that you will get from upgrading these gears. And as you can see, after 40, it gets quite a lot. Also extra percentages with

attack and crit rate, which is pretty attack and crit rate, which is pretty nice.

nice. Nice.

Nice. And that is it for the upgrading. For upgrading, you need gear stones, a lot of herbs, and of course, after level 40,

you will also need a lot of tempered steel for this. So, it's going to get quite expensive later on in the game.

So, that is something you need to take uh with you in your planning, especially with the herbs, cuz you also need a lot for research. Then we go to the next

one, and this is one I'm going to show you guys right now. These are the SSR gauntlets, and why am I showing you guys this? Cuz

this is also really an important one.

Basically, these SSR gauntlets are needed for the PvE events, cuz these will boost your attack a lot cuz of these damage to

monsters with a 6% and with the basic stats is another 6%, so so you get 12% extra attack on the monsters. And the reason why you do the gloves and not the

sword is cuz the gloves have damage resistance on their UR version, and you really need want to keep your UR sword cuz of that crit rate and that extra

attack that you will be getting. Then let's look at the UR gloves, and we're just going to pick out this one. And for your your UR gloves, it is really nice

cuz you have attack, damage resistance, and attack, and another damage resistance. And that's already 4% damage resistance only with the additional

stats. So, this is also really a nice one to get 40 quite fast, and this is going to save your back line a lot of times. Then you also have the basic

stats, and again, you get a lot of percentages extra for damage resistance, and you get a lot of hero attack as well. Then we have the

chest plate UR giving out quite a lot of defense and HP, but sadly, it's giving physical damage resistance, and that one is not that

useful cuz uh, a lot of heroes do energy damage. Only the Raven and uh, Joker do really good physical damage. So, that is

something you have to keep in mind with upgrading this. You can upgrade it to 40, uh, but after that, uh, yeah, it's going to get quite, uh, useless. And of

course, for the DPS, I will have a template later. You can get this to two stars with the to get it extra 10% 10% damage resistance, which is quite nice.

Then we go to the last one and these are the UR boots. And these give, uh, hero defense, energy damage resistance, and all of that. And energy damage

resistance is the main damage that most heroes do in this game. So, keep that in mind when making your, uh, gear. Of course, the the Warlock squad does have

more heroes that do energy damage resistance. Resistance. Then we have the basic stats here and as you can see, it's also giving a lot of extra

percentage for the defense and the HP.

And with promotion, again, you have all of this.

Uh, we will discuss this more in, later in this video about the stars. We are now talking purely about the gear and what to upgrade. And how where to

get these, uh, gear stones is as followed. Uh, you get a lot of them from events, from chest, from, from operations. And but the main output

or input from these gear stones are from these, uh, workshops, smelting workshops. I have also full guide on these gear stones, so I'll put that in

the description below for you to watch.

Uh, but you will need a lot of this and with this guide that I made, you can get around 140K of these gear stones. So, that is it for the gear stones and what

type of gear is useful, uh, for what, uh, gear piece. Let's go to the setup that you want to start off with with the stars, with upgrades, and what hero gets

what gear. And I'm going to give you guys three stages where you need to upgrade your gear on. And this is basically going to take around 7 months

or maybe 6 to complete. So, you have after the 6 months, I'll make a second video about the next stages, but this is the first stages that everyone has to

take to get a good account for PvP. And we're going to start off with the gear pieces and we need to locate who are our main DPS's. And the main DPS's in this

game are Malena, Cynthia, and Annie. And what you want to start off with is as follows. You want to make sure that you get the swords to three stars first,

then we go to the boots to level two stars first. And the reason why is this is going to give your DPS some extra defense in the arena to survive longer

and to really get you more points in these battles. Then, after that, you're going to start off with the gloves, getting that two stars as well to

collect that extra damage resistance on the additional stats that we have already discussed. And the same thing goes for the boots. So, you will have

goes for the boots. So, you will have 30 30% extra energy damage resistance, which is really good for your DPS as well. And to get that extra 2% damage

resistance for everything on your gloves as well. And it's really going to boost your account. And for the levels, you really want to make sure that you

upgrade your sword, always get that as high as possible. And after this stage, we will move on to the next stage, and that is the tank. Need to locate the

main tanks, and the main tanks are as follows: Billy, Duskoll, and Lewis. If you are free-to-play player, Duskoll, of course, is going to be replaced by

Arthur. But for the gear, it doesn't not Arthur. But for the gear, it doesn't not matter.

For the gear, we have to upgrade chest plates and boots. We are not going to spend our resources on swords at all.

For exception for Lewis, you also want to get good gloves on it cuz he has an heal skill that is basically based on how much attack he has. So you want to

get those gloves for Lewis only. That is the only exception in this only. That is the only exception in this guide.

But for the simplification, these are the gears that you are going to upgrade.

The chest plate is going to get to level 40 for that 20% physical damage, but we will not put stars on that gear and we are going to upgrade the boots to level

20 and you're going to get two stars on that for that physical damage. Of course, if you have our spender and have some extra gear, stone get those

boots to 40 as well. But that is it for stage two. And of course, remember if you are free to play player, you're going to use Arthur and not Duscal. Now

off to stage three. So for stage three, we are going to look at our second DPS and the second DPS is basically the one that is also a little bit support and

does little bit less damage than the main DPS. And for this it it is Zorgia, Joker and the Red Lady. And they are all a little bit close except for Zorgia.

a little bit close except for Zorgia. She's a lot weaker than Malena. But for the gear, we are going to do as followed.

Two star sword, two star gloves and two star boots again for that defense. This is going to cost you 45 blueprints in total. So make sure

that you collect these as well. And for the levels, of course, we are going to upgrade the swords as high as possible and afterwards we

can do the gloves second to that. Also, we are now going to discuss a little bit on how to get these blueprints cuz that is an important part of this video as

well. Let's get straight into that and I'm also going to show you guys a real quick template that uh my uh R4 made in uh 222 ASA, and you can take

a screenshot of this and you can basically put this on your alliance Discord as well to really help out your alliances. Of course, we already

discussed first is going to be the main carry, then the tank, uh then uh the second uh main carry, so the second DPS.

And as you can see, you can also see the levels of which uh things you're going to upgrade. Uh there are a bit of errors cuz of the of

course uh AI, but the boots, but you can ignore that. Uh of course, it's going to be the chest plate at level 20. After that, uh you can see that she wants to

start off with support hero. Of course, that is perfectly fine, but I do recommend getting the sword of your main DPS to four stars first before you start

working on your support hero afterwards, the second tank. The reason why is as followed. Uh you want to get to that MR blueprints as

fast as possible, and we're going to discuss how to get all these blueprints next. So, to get started on your gear, you need blueprints. And where to get

these blueprints? It is quite easy. You just need to do a lot of PvP events, and you have to join them all of them every week. You don't want to stop with this,

and I will show you guys where to get these blueprints right now. So, this is the honor shop, and as you can see, it has reset it cuz the month has been

finished. Every month, these reset, and you can buy 50 of these blueprints free-to-play, and all you need to do is join PvP events. And here is it. We're

going to buy it all, and we can buy 14 blueprints. That is quite nice, and it's going to really upgrade uh my account.

So, I've bought the blueprint and this is also uh, only thing you are going to buy from this owner shop. Maybe in era of revival you can buy the the shards as

well, but the blueprints are important.

So, I have bought the blueprints here and that is now bought and I can basically start upgrading my gear. And what I'm doing right now is I'm working

on my second carry and let me get the right gauntlet for this. Here we are.

And we are going to upgrade this. And to promote you need blueprints and I have 80 now, so I can upgrade this to two stars and this is going to give me a lot

of extra uh, stuff as you can see right here. And of course uh, I can push now also my UR gauntlets to level uh, 52 and before

that it was a bit lower. So, that's why you also want to put stars on your gear.

That has been done. Now we're going to go to the boots and we're going to upgrade these as well. And for one star you need five blueprints and after that

you need 10 blueprints for two stars.

So, that is done. My gear has been upgraded and this is it for uh, this part and where to get the blueprints.

Now we're going to the MR blueprints and for that I'm going to show you guys this. This is my four star UR sword and basically to upgrade this to five stars

to get the max uh, output from it you need MR blueprints. And where to get these MR blueprints I will show you guys uh, right now. Of course, I will need to

upgrade this UR sword to level 60 as well. And there two ways to get uh, these MR blueprints free to play and one is of course the dwarf mine event that

we have talked about already. Uh, description is in below as well if you want to watch this.

Uh, this is going to basically give you 10 MR blueprints if you do uh, 100 floors. And that is quite nice, but it's going to take a long run as well. And

what else do we have? We have the world boss here that has two 20 MR blueprints if you can achieve this damage. And that is also why I say

before you go to support, get that four star sword first for your main DPS so you will get these blueprints sooner.

And that is basically it all about the gear that you need to know. Um maybe in six months when there are new things in the game,

we will start making a part two of this video, but this is really the basics that you need to know. If these guides are helping you and you want to support

the channel, smash that like, hit that subscribe, and I'll see you guys in the next guide. And that's it for today.

next guide. And that's it for today. Bye-bye.

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❓ FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best F2P team in Last Asylum: Plague?

The canonical F2P squad is Arthur, Daskal, Marlena, Harper, Claire (all Warriors — mono-faction gives +20% HP/ATK/DEF). Arthur is free from day 1; the $1 Marlena top-up is considered the best value in the game. Daskal arrives in the first Era of Revival season (day 120+).

What should I upgrade first?

Sanctuary first, always — it gates every other building and your hero level cap. Then Training Grounds, Barracks, Research Lab, Infirmary, Wall. Keep the Builder’s Hut at Sanctuary level until Sanctuary 15 for free construction speedups.

When does Marlena unlock?

Day 66 for free — or immediately via the $1 starter top-up. Save UR shards so she lands at 8★ right away, then push 10★.

How do I get Cynthia as F2P?

Cynthia arrives via the Wishing Wheel on day 8. Save diamonds from day 1 (skip everything else) — ~11,500 diamonds total, and always spin ×10 (single spins waste tokens).

How do I get antitoxin?

Antitoxin Workshop + Stable production, every building upgrade completion, Falcon Quests (nearly all of them), Covert Ops and Caravan Trade (including plundering others’ ops — up to 5/day), and Blight/Elite Blight hunts (10/20 stamina). Events pay large amounts.

Why did my plunder income drop to almost nothing?

You hit the daily plunder limit: below the limit 100%, from 1× the limit you keep only 15%, from 1.3× only 5%. It resets at 02:00 UTC. The limit scales with Sanctuary level (2.5M at Lv.10–12 up to 30M at Lv.30) and rises immediately when you upgrade Sanctuary. A yellow triangle under your Might shows the status.

What should I buy in the shops?

Sanctuary/Expedition/Alliance shops: Crow Essence and UR Hero Omnifragments first. Honor shop is for gear blueprints only (never epigraph chests there). All shops restock Monday.

Are diamonds worth spending on speedups?

Only the VIP-shop 8h speedups are considered acceptable purchases — and only after hero resources. Community rule: never dump diamonds into speedups over hero wheel events (Cynthia day 8, Joker after day 15).

What faction should I build?

Warriors are the best early game (free Arthur/Harper shards, $1 Marlena). Rangers peak mid game (counter Warriors). Warlocks are the best late game but need heavy long-term investment. Mono-faction (5 heroes of one type) is the current meta because UR epigraphs buff a single faction.

How does Claire SSR→UR conversion work?

Opens on Era Day 8. She lands at 6★ and the run to 10★ costs 1,600 SSR shards (each substage costs 2× the SSR price). There’s a team-buff dip between 6★–9★ — skip it by banking Hall of Honor levels before converting (Lv.60→8★, Lv.100→9★, Lv.160→instant 10★).

How do I redeem gift codes?

In-game: Avatar (top-left) → Settings → Gift Code. iOS or web: log in at the official redemption page with your linked Facebook/Google account, pick server and character, enter the code.

What are the biggest beginner mistakes?

Upgrading everything equally instead of one main squad; judging heroes before high stars (Marlena is the classic late bloomer); splitting Awakening materials across heroes; wasting gems on VIP levels over hero wheels; skipping daily plunder (~27M resources/day); letting stamina cap.