Stats

Dwarf Eats Mountain stat reference: mithril luck, luck, gem luck, damage, crit, cooldown, den damage, runner stats, and utility stats.

Accuracy

Accuracy is hit reliability. It matters most for projectile or turret lines where missed shots waste a cooldown and delay den or mountain progress.

Main use	Reduces wasted shots.
Best fit	Ballistics Workshop, Harpoon Ballistas, turrets, and den-focused projectile builds.
Priority	Buy after the weapon exists and misses are visibly slowing the build.

Useful Pages

Page	Accuracy Role
Dwarven Precision	Harpoons get bonus accuracy at hitting dens.
Turret Accuracy	Turrets get bonus hit chance.
Ballistics Workshop	The main building where accuracy decisions matter.

Attack Cooldown

Attack Cooldown is the time between attacks. Lower cooldown means more hits per minute, which can multiply damage, crit rolls, ore rolls, and mithril progress.

Main use	Raises hit count and damage uptime.
Best pairing	High damage per hit, Crit Chance, Mithril Luck, and proc-based effects.
Watch out	Cooldown that creates too much ore can expose a hauling bottleneck.

Common Cooldown Lines

Page	Use
Rapid Cannonade	Great Duke Cannon attack speed.
Lubed Crank	Harpoon cooldown support.
Turret Cooling Mechanism	Turret cooldown support.
Rapid Ignition	Flameworks/fire uptime.
Cooling Masters	Laser/science cooldown support.

Calamity Damage

Calamity Damage is target-specific damage used by calamity-related threats and special event targets. It is not the same as ordinary mountain damage or den damage.

Main use	Helps a build handle calamity events instead of only pushing mountain health.
Best when	Falling stars, invasions, rock storms, or other calamity objects are disrupting the run.
Common source	Several weapon lines expose Calamity Damage Multiplier in their object stats.

Carrying Capacity

Carrying Capacity is how much a runner or machine can carry before returning to base. It is one of the most important economy stats, but it must be balanced with speed and pickup time.

Main use	Raises payload per trip.
Best pairing	Speed, Gathering Speed, Dodge, and Shields.
Common trap	Capacity without speed can make loaded returns crawl, especially before slowdown support.

Useful Pages

Page	Use
Carrying Capacity	Main Runner capacity upgrade.
Gorilla Arms	Capacity and payload-throwing support.
Rhino Legs	Reduces loaded-speed penalty.
Bulldozer	High-capacity machine hauling route.
Magical Back Brace	Artifact capacity support.

Crit Chance

Crit Chance is the chance for an attack to become a critical hit. Many weapon lines show a 5% base crit chance in their object stats.

Main use	Turns a damage line into occasional bigger hits.
Best pairing	Crit Multiplier, high base damage, and enough attack rate to roll often.
Avoid	Overbuying crit before the line has enough base damage or cooldown support.

Good Places To Look

Page	Crit Role
Serrated Mithril Spikes	Harpoon crit support.
Deadeye Calibration	Great Duke Cannon crit support.
Enchant Lethal Precision	Forge enchant route for crit scaling.
Dwarf and Weapon Stats	Shows which objects expose crit chance.

Crit Multiplier

Crit Multiplier controls how much extra damage a crit deals after a crit happens. Many weapon lines show a 1.5x base crit multiplier.

Main use	Raises the payoff of each critical hit.
Best pairing	Enough Crit Chance to make crits frequent and enough base damage for the multiplier to matter.
Rule of thumb	Crit multiplier is weak when crit chance is tiny; it becomes strong after crit chance or hit count improves.

Damage

Damage is the main stat for breaking mountain health and creating value. It also feeds drop systems because damage dealt relative to mountain max HP contributes to ore and mithril progress.

Affects	Mountain health, ore value, drop progress, den kills when applied to dens, and many timed checks.
Scales with	Crit Chance, Crit Multiplier, Attack Cooldown, Multishot, and target-specific modifiers.
Watch out	Damage that creates ore faster than Runners can haul it can still be wasted.

Damage Branches

Branch	Damage Identity
Miner's Guild	Early direct hit damage and pickaxe support.
Demolition Shack	Explosive burst, den damage, and mapping-scaling Demodwarf builds.
Ballistics Workshop	Harpoons, den focus, projectile scaling, and Ballista momentum.
Flameworks	Fire damage, burn effects, and firefield hybrid scaling.
Artillery Hall	Heavy cannon, rockets, nukes, and late burst packages.
Grand Laboratory	Laser/scientist scaling and utility damage.

Den Damage

Den Damage is target-specific damage against dens. It is one of the most important stats when you are farming artifacts, mithril, den loot, or den-kill momentum.

Main use	Kills dens faster without necessarily optimizing ordinary mountain damage.
Use case	Dens can pay out artifacts, mithril, loot, and special progression value.
Best pairing	Death Mark, Harpoon Ballistas, Demodwarf den bonuses, and den artifact support.

Strong Den-Damage Pages

Page	Use
Death Mark	Focuses Harpoon Ballistas on a selected den until it dies.
Monster Bane	Harpoon den-damage scaling after Mithril Forging support.
Denbreaker's Rain	Permanent Ballista damage after Ballista den kills.
Great Slayer's Axe	All dwarves get bonus damage against dens.
Dens and Artifacts	Strategy-level guide for den farming.

Dodge

Dodge is a safety stat for avoiding falling-rock and monster downtime. It is most visible on runners because stunned or injured runners stop the economy even when your damage is strong.

Runner base	Runners have about 10% base dodge.
Luck scaling	Runner dodge gains extra chance from Luck and caps around 70%.
Best use	Hazard-heavy runs where falling rocks or monsters are repeatedly stopping haulers.
Common trap	Dodge prevents downtime, but it does not move ore by itself. Buy basic speed/capacity first unless hazards are already the bottleneck.

Sources

Explosion Radius and Force

Explosion Radius controls how wide an explosive effect reaches. Explosion Force controls how hard it pushes objects or ore. These stats are powerful, but they can make hauling messier by scattering drops.

Main use	Area burst and object displacement.
Best fit	Demolition Shack, Artillery Hall, TNT, bombs, nukes, and cannon effects.
Watch out	More force can create hauling problems if ore flies farther than runners can collect efficiently.

Fire Damage

Fire Damage covers Flamer hits, burn effects, and firefield-style scaling. It is the core stat family for Flameworks and fire hybrid builds.

Main use	Damage-over-time and firefield pressure.
Best fit	Flamers, Draconic Salvo, Infernal Symphony, and late fire/artillery hybrids.
Watch out	Fire builds still need enough hauling and direct progress to convert damage into upgrades.

Useful Pages

Gathering Speed

Gathering Speed is how quickly a hauler picks up ore or gems once it reaches the pile. In object stats this can appear as Gathering Timer; lower timer means faster pickup.

Main use	Reduces pickup time at the ore pile.
Best pairing	Speed for travel time and Carrying Capacity for payload size.
When to buy	When runners reach the pile quickly but spend too long filling up.

Useful Pages

Gem Luck

Gem Luck, also shown in some stat panels as gem bias or Gem Buff, helps push eligible ore drops toward gems. It matters most when your hits are already large enough to trigger gem preference checks.

Main use	Improves gem-focused ore drops and gem-value farming.
Damage gate	The ore-drop pipeline only starts forced-gem behavior on large enough hits.
Chance cap	The gem-forcing chance starts low and caps around 60%.
Best build fit	Ore/gold farming, gem calamities, and high-damage hit builds that can afford to bias toward gems.

Good Sources

Upgrade or Artifact	Use
Crystal Skull	Broad gem-luck support for dwarves.
Stardust Calamity Powder	Demodwarf package with Gem Luck, Mithril Luck, and damage.
Superheated Gem Harvester	Laser/gem route support.
Ore and Gold Farming	Guide-level context for when gem bias beats ordinary ore income.

HP

HP is object health. It appears on machines such as Bulldozers, falling hazards, and other game objects.

Main use	Survivability for machines, hazards, and defensive objects.
Best known unit	Bulldozer, which is both a hauler and a protected machine.
When to prioritize	When a machine's uptime is the bottleneck, not its speed or capacity.

Useful Pages

Luck

Luck is a broad chance stat, but it is not always global. Most luck values belong to the dwarf, weapon, runner, turret, or effect that is making the roll.

Main use	Improves chance-based effects attached to the acting unit or weapon.
Mithril conversion	For damage-based mithril drops, normal Luck contributes 0.01 Mithril Luck per point.
Runner use	Runner dodge and some runner lucky-find effects scale with Luck.
Common mistake	Assuming one unit's Luck automatically improves every other unit. Check the page that grants it.

Where Luck Matters

System	Player Meaning
Mithril drops	Normal Luck adds a small amount to the Mithril Luck term for the hit.
Ore and gem drops	Luck can support drop and gem-forcing rolls when the hit is large enough.
Runners	Runner dodge formulas and some ore/gem handling upgrades read runner Luck.
Enchant Good Luck	A direct way to push a chosen dwarf or building's lucky rolls.
Holy Grail	Example of broad artifact Luck support.

Mithril Luck

Mithril Luck improves the hidden progress meter for damage-based mithril drops. It is not a flat drop percentage. It makes each qualifying hit push the meter farther, then the game checks that progress against a random step.

Formula	Each hit adds progress from its damage share of mountain max HP. The multiplier is 0.03 + 0.06 times the capped mithril-luck term.
Cap	The formula caps the combined mithril-luck term at 18 before applying the multiplier.
Normal luck conversion	Each normal luck point on the hit contributes 0.01 Mithril Luck for this formula.
Best use	Take it when mithril is the bottleneck and damage drops are part of your income plan.

How To Read It

The practical formula is:

Mithril progress per hit

Progress scales with damage dealt divided by mountain max health, then multiplied by a mithril-luck factor. A drop occurs when accumulated progress beats a random step from about 0.3 to 1.7.

This means Mithril Luck is strongest when you are already landing meaningful hits. If your damage is tiny relative to mountain health, Mithril Luck helps but can still feel slow. If you need guaranteed mithril now, combine it with dens, Mithril Veins, and Spelunkers.

Sources and Synergies

Upgrade or Artifact	Mithril Role
Mithril Divining	Shares Spelunker mithril-luck value into all dwarves, making the Spelunker route a real mithril engine.
Greyglitter Leylines	Permanent all-dwarf Mithril Luck. This is one of the cleanest long-run mithril fixes.
Greyglitter Dowsing Amulet	Artifact support for mithril-focused runs.
Forgeheart Ember	Temporary damage and Mithril Luck after Forge Artifact use.
Stardust Calamity Powder	Demodwarf support that includes Mithril Luck, Gem Luck, and damage.

Multishot and Burst Count

Multishot and Burst Count add extra projectiles or shots to an attack sequence. They are strongest when each projectile already has useful damage, crit, luck, or den-target value.

Main use	More hit rolls per attack window.
Best pairing	Damage, Crit Chance, Accuracy, and Den Damage.
Watch out	Extra weak shots can be worse than fewer strong accurate shots.

Useful Pages

Range

Range controls how far a weapon, turret, beam, or projectile can reach. It matters when a build has enough damage but fails to connect with targets consistently.

Main use	Improves target coverage.
Best fit	Turrets, beams, projectile lines, and den-focused builds.
Compare against	Accuracy and Attack Cooldown; reach alone does not fix misses or slow shots.

Shields

Shields are temporary protection effects. They usually matter because they keep runners, haulers, or selected dwarves active through falling rocks and other hazards.

Main use	Prevent hazard hits from turning into downtime.
Best pairing	Dodge, Speed, and runner capacity.
When to buy	When hazards are stunning or damaging enough workers that raw damage upgrades stop helping.

Shield Sources

Upgrade or Artifact	Effect
Boon of Shielding	Forge ritual protection; Ritual Power improves shield charges.
Aegis Medallion	Gives a runner a temporary shield after reaching maximum carrying capacity.
Oxheart Ward	Adds shielding to Ox-Lung Lager runner buffs.
Shield of Olaf	Artifact shield chance after rest or when hit.
Magnetic Shielder Aura	Laser-adjacent hazard defense effect.

Speed

Speed usually means movement speed. For runners and machines, it controls how long a round trip takes between base and loose ore piles.

Main use	Reduces travel time for haulers and some machine units.
Best pairing	Carrying Capacity, Gathering Speed, and hazard protection.
Runner warning	Large carried payloads can slow runners. High capacity is best when speed and slowdown support are also handled.

Common Speed Sources

Stun and Rest Time

Stun and Rest Time are downtime stats. They do not look as exciting as damage, but they decide whether workers are actually active.

Stun time	Downtime after falling rocks, monsters, or hazard hits.
Rest time	Recovery time after runs, expeditions, injuries, or specific effects.
Best use	Fixes builds where workers exist but spend too much time disabled.

Where It Matters

System	Downtime Problem
Runners	Falling rocks and monsters can stun or slow haulers, leaving ore uncollected.
Spelunkers	Injuries increase expedition rest time, lowering returns per hour.
Bulldozers	Machine uptime depends on health, repair, stun, and travel behavior.
Falling hazards	Hazard prevention can be stronger than trying to recover afterward.

Stats

Accuracy

Useful Pages

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Attack Cooldown

Common Cooldown Lines

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Calamity Damage

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Carrying Capacity

Useful Pages

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Crit Chance

Good Places To Look

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Crit Multiplier

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Damage

Damage Branches

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Den Damage

Strong Den-Damage Pages

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Dodge

Sources

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Explosion Radius and Force

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Fire Damage

Useful Pages

Gathering Speed

Useful Pages

Gem Luck

Good Sources

Related Pages

HP

Useful Pages

Luck

Where Luck Matters

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Mithril Luck

How To Read It

Sources and Synergies

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Multishot and Burst Count

Useful Pages

Range

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Shields

Shield Sources

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Speed

Common Speed Sources

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Stun and Rest Time

Where It Matters

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