Jeff Stewart submitted this

Mining tip:

To speed up your mining, here's a nice little procedure:

When you start a level for the first time, the first thing you do is build a gold room right? Well, try NOT building one at all until your imps have mined out all the gold.

Details: if there is no gold room, then any gold that your imps mine will just lay where it was dug (there's no where for the imps to take it!). If there WAS a gold room, then the imp would think like this:

DIG-DIG-DIG, go to gold room, come back, DIG-DIG-DIG, go to gold room, come back, DIG-DIG-SMASH! Ok, all done. Next tile.

Wouldn't this be better?

DIG-DIG-DIG-DIG-DIG-DIG-DIG-SMASH! Ok, next tile.

Now, granted, you won't actually GET the gold yet, but...

Instead of having the imps waste time by walking between the gold room and the gold itself (they are SO much trouble to slap, and no, the C isn't all that quick either), wait for them to actually DIG the gold out, then build the gold room on top of it. You'll instantly acquire all the gold that was on that tile (defined by CREATURE.TXT).

This tip is really only usefull at the start of a fresh level. But it still gives you a boost at the beginning; your imps can go do other things while you move all that fresh gold around!

Let the enemy defeat itself?