Inferno Minions Guide and Their Fuels

[XDSlicer]

I'm including a little rant in this, but this is a guide for Inferno Minions:

Since the introduction of Inferno Minions, we've all recognized them as slow, unreliable gambling minions — relying on other minions just to function. To even get decent performance, you need two or three high-tier minions alongside roughly 7 or 8 lower-tier ones that you're not even fueling, all for that 180% speed boost.
We've gotten several reworks for the minions themselves. For example, on August 5th, 2022, chili peppers were introduced as a drop. Then the minions were reworked again to increase speed by 9%, and drop chances of:

• Vertex by +2.8%
• Apex by +20%
• Chili Peppers by +15%

Now, chili peppers have a drop chance of 1/136 per harvest by the Inferno Minions when fueled. It doesn't seem too bad — until you realize the amount of junk the Inferno Minion produces with its fuels.

Fuel Results:​

• Gabagool Distillate: Produces 1 Gabagool per harvest (IMO, the best fuel)
• Magma Cream Distillate: Produces 1 to 3 Magma Cream per harvest
• Glowstone Distillate: Produces 2 to 3 Glowstone
• Nether Wart Distillate: Produces 3 to 7 Nether Wart
• Blaze Rod Distillate: Produces 1 Blaze Rod

Drops with Legendary Fuel
Also remember: If, and only if, an Inferno Minion is fueled with Inferno Minion Fuel, Derpy will not double their output.

Drop Chances (Per Roll):​

• Chili Pepper: 0.6410256% (1/156)
• Inferno Vertex: 0.0061% (1/16,364)
• Inferno Apex: 0.0000636574% (1/1,570,909)
• Reaper Pepper: 0.0002182539% (1/458,182)
• Gabagool the Fish: 0.0000254629% (1/3,927,273)

With that all said, I get that chili peppers are lower on the roll — but it's still a collection nonetheless. And honestly, it’s one of, if not the most annoying collection to obtain unless you're dumping roughly 537,206,720 coins per Tier 10 or 995,491,200 coins per Tier 11 for maximum output toward the collection.

It’s also good to remember that you only need 10 minions for the max speed boost, but people don't like waiting for certain drops. This guide is to maximize output.

Costs (12 Minions):​

• 12 Tier 10s: 9,436,427,520 coins
• 12 Tier 11s: 11,945,894,400 coins
• 12 Mithril Infusions @ 5.5m: 66,000,000 coins
• 24 Flycatchers @ 22.84m: 548,160,000 coins
• If lucky, 12 Free Wills @ 16.17m: 194,040,000 coins

This includes but not limited to:

• 12 Mithril Infusions
• 24 Flycatchers
• 12 Free Wills

First-time fueling using Gabagool Distillate for the minions will cost roughly:
901,956,240 coins

Daily fueling cost:
93,756,240 coins for 12 minions

With all this said, I don't think normal players will be too happy dumping 9–12 billion coins into a minion setup, on top of a one-time fueling cost of 900 million, just to pay 100 million coins a day to maximize chili pepper output.

As for Ironman players with how grindy it is, I think they dislike it even more. They can’t just buy the items:

• They have to fish for Water Hydra Heads
• Fight Tier 4 Blaze slayer Slayers
• Save Gabagool from their minions
• Get bits for Inferno Minion Fuel Blocks
• Mine Mithril
• Fight Tier 4 Spider Slayer
• Get lucky with Free Wills in the Rift
• Hope their minions don’t leave
• And grind more bits to upgrade Lava Buckets

It’s a whole grind.

Suggestion for Future:​

Maybe the devs can add a Chili Pepper Distillate that increases the amount per harvest to 1 or even just 0.05 (like Gabagool). Or at least make it drop from T3–T4 Inferno Demon Lords, on top of the Derelict Ash:

• 6 to 8 on T3s
• 12 to 22 on T4s

(if not less just don't make fueling obsolete, just rework it to make the collection bearable)
Because right now, it’s worse than P2W crates on a faction server
I'll also make a guide for Ironmans in a different post.

 

[XDSlicer]

i noticed as i posted this i forgot to mention the cost of a tier 5 beacon

 

[sunnytian]

can u do a calc for the profit tho
are people ever gonna make the money back

 

[Zodiac90]

can u do a calc for the profit tho
are people ever gonna make the money back

Skyblock Inferno Calculator

Calculates the profits, xp and collection for inferno minions on a perfect average

sekki-minions.com

 

[XDSlicer]

can u do a calc for the profit tho
are people ever gonna make the money back

i can but not at the moment i know their are websites out their for it i just use demos and rounding

 

[XDSlicer]

can u do a calc for the profit tho
are people ever gonna make the money back

and no not really unless you drop an a few apexes every fueling session since apex minion or 1 per minion it will be 2 at 24 apex's its gonna be a bit. some youtubers ruined the profits you could make from the minion and since blaze isnt as popular as other slayers the price wont really decrease