How to Farm Gold Efficiently in Roblox The Forge

The Forge is built around repetition: mine, fight, forge, sell, repeat. There are no shortcuts to instant riches, but there are clear ways to turn that grind into much more gold per hour. The core idea is simple: stop selling raw ore, push your pickaxe upgrades, and route everything through high-value crafted gear and essences.

Focus on quests and Index early for easy gold

Early on, the fastest “active” money is not mining — it’s quest rewards and Index claims.

Step 1: Work through the main story quests as far as you comfortably can. These quests pay balanced amounts of gold and XP that are tuned to get you into better pickaxes and gear, and they often unlock new areas, enemies, and systems.

Step 2: Pick up and clear side quests whenever you’re nearby. Typical tasks like killing specific enemies double as XP and Essence farms, so you’re progressing multiple systems at once.

Step 3: Open the in-game Index menu frequently and claim every new entry you’ve unlocked (weapons, armors, ores, enemies, and more). Each claimed entry grants a burst of XP and gold; once you’ve explored a bit, tapping through a page of new entries can grant several levels and thousands of gold in seconds.

Upgrade your pickaxe before anything else

Mining is the backbone of the economy in The Forge, so gold spent on your pickaxe multiplies everything you do later.

Step 1: Save for clear pickaxe milestones instead of buying every single tier. A strong route is to move through mid-to-high tiers, such as Platinum > Cobalt > Mythril, and then into late-game options like the Arcane pickaxe.

Step 2: When you have enough gold for one of those “big jump” pickaxes, buy it immediately rather than spreading that gold across smaller upgrades or miscellaneous gear. Higher-tier pickaxes hit harder, swing faster, and unlock tougher rocks that drop better ore.

Step 3: If you are willing to reroll race, consider switching to Goblin just before buying very expensive pickaxes. Goblin gives a discount on shop purchases, which cuts a noticeable chunk off 80k–150k gold tools.

Once your pickaxe is ahead of the curve, everything that involves ore — from crafting to quests that require mining — pays out faster.

Never sell ore directly if you can forge with it

The biggest mistake many players make is dumping ore at Greedy Cey. Raw ore has very low sell values; turning it into weapons or armor and selling those to Marbles is where most of your profit comes from.

Step 1: Stop selling valuable ores outright. Only consider selling the truly bad commons that you cannot realistically fit into any recipe.

Step 2: Take your ore to the Forge and craft gear instead. Even simple weapons like scythes or straight swords, made from the same ore you were about to sell, typically sell for several times the combined value of their components.

Step 3: Sell your crafted weapons and armor to the gear vendor (Marbles). Compare what you would have earned by selling the ores directly; even basic math quickly shows that forging more than doubles your return in many cases.

Craft Heavy Armor and Colossal Swords for big payouts

At mid to late game, the most efficient use of ore is to funnel it into the highest-value crafts: Heavy Armor and Colossal Swords. They consume a lot of ore per piece, but have excellent base sell values.

Step 1: Farm large amounts of fast-to-mine ore (commons and rares) with your current pickaxe level, prioritizing productive nodes (more on those below).

Step 2: At the Forge, build up crafts toward Heavy Armor pieces and Colossal Swords. Use at least the minimum ore required, and aim for the “optimal” counts in the table when you have the stockpile — this gives you much higher success chances.

Step 3: Play the forging mini-game carefully. Your performance directly influences item quality and, therefore, sale value. High success runs can push the sell price of a single Colossal Sword into the hundreds of thousands of gold.

Step 4: Sell your finished Heavy Armor and Colossal Swords to Marbles, then loop back into mining. This loop — mine > craft big-ticket gear > sell — is one of the strongest money engines in The Forge.

Target the right rocks: Basalt, Boulder, Volcanic nodes, and Basalt Cores

Not all rocks are worth your time. Once you’re past the early game, basic low-HP, low-value rocks become a bottleneck.

Step 1: As soon as your pickaxe can handle them, prioritize Basalt Veins and Basalt Cores. These nodes are where the economy starts to open up: they have better multipliers and, in the case of Basalt Cores, reliably spit out rare-or-better ore.

Step 2: In any area, seek out the highest-tier rock nodes available in your progression: Boulder > Basalt > Volcanic Rock/Crystal. Ignore cheaper rocks unless you desperately need filler ore; the time spent on them drags down your gold per hour.

Step 3: Once you can reach the Ashen Passage and deeper volcanic zones, clear the Basalt Vein barriers repeatedly to access end-game areas. These spots combine high-yield rocks with dangerous enemies that drop valuable Essences.

Use potions, totems, and race choice to boost income

Small percentage bonuses matter when you’re repeating the same actions hundreds of times per hour.

Step 1: Buy Mining Potions and Luck Potions before long farming sessions. They are relatively cheap compared to the extra ore and rare drops they unlock over a full run. Mining Potions speed up node clears, while Luck Potions increase the odds that those Basalt Cores and high-tier mobs drop rare+, Superior, or Epic items.

Step 2: Place or activate Miner totems and Luck totems in your usual grind spots if you have them. Stack these bonuses with potions for noticeably better yields from the same rocks and enemies.

Step 3: Consider your race as part of your economy build. Dwarf is one of the best money-making races: it mines faster and has stronger forging bonuses. Demon, Angel, Dragonborn, Shadow, and Orc are strong picks for Essence-farming builds thanks to their damage output.

Automate mining with the in-game AFK trick

The Forge allows a simple AFK mining setup using only in-game controls — no external tools. This is ideal when you need ore but can’t sit and click for an hour.

Step 1: Stand in front of a rock you want to farm. For best results, choose a spot where a rock respawns in place or where two rocks are extremely close together, such as clustered barrier nodes or Basalt Veins in the volcano area.

Step 2: Hold down your primary attack button (left mouse on PC, equivalent on console/mobile) so your character is swinging at the rock.

Step 3: While still holding the attack button, open the in-game menu (for example, pressing Esc on PC).

Step 4: With the menu open, release your attack button. Then close the menu. Your character will continue mining automatically without you holding any input.

Your character will keep swinging at that spot, repeatedly breaking and re-breaking the rock as it respawns. Combined with Mining and Luck Potions, this passive setup can fill your inventory with ore while you are away.

Sell excess Essence and farm high-tier enemies

Gold doesn’t only come from rocks. Every enemy in The Forge drops Essence, and high-tier enemies in late zones drop Superior and Epic Essences that sell for a lot of gold.

Step 1: Build at least one strong DPS weapon — daggers are a good choice for high attack speed — using ores with the best modifiers and any trait-granting ores you have.

Step 2: Farm enemies that are roughly at your level or slightly above it. In World 2 and the deeper volcanic areas, Elite Skeleton Rogues, fire slimes, Deathaxes, and Reapers are ideal targets.

Step 3: Drink Luck Potions before entering the volcano region or Volcanic Depths. Time your farming window around these buffs; they greatly improve the frequency and rarity of Essence drops.

Step 4: For Reapers, learn their swing pattern. Wait out their combo, parry or dodge into the final swing, then punish with your highest DPS before backing out again. Clean fight execution matters when you’re chaining dozens of kills per potion.

Step 5: Periodically return to town and sell off spare Essences. Keep what you need for upgrades and enhancements, but do not hoard every type. Extra Essences are one of the most reliable gold sources once you’re in mid-to-late game areas.

Late-game loop: Volcanic Depths Reaper and Essence farm

In the late game, gold income spikes once you can survive the Volcanic Depths. The loop in that area can reach tens of thousands of gold per hour if executed well.

Step 1: Gear up for high-end combat: strong weapon, solid armor, tuned runes, and a DPS-oriented race like Demon, Angel, or Dragonborn. Make sure your pickaxe is strong enough to clear Basalt Veins reliably.

Step 2: In the cave network of Forgotten Kingdom Island, work through the Ashen Passage, breaking the Basalt Vein nodes that block access. This opens the route into the Volcanic Depths.

Step 3: Before entering Volcanic Depths, drink one or more Luck Potions. The luck effect does not stack in strength, but durations stack, so chain a few potions if you plan a long session.

Step 4: Inside Volcanic Depths, hunt Reapers and other high-tier mobs non-stop while your Luck buff is active, prioritizing Reapers whenever they appear. Avoid unnecessary downtime; every kill during the buff window is a chance at Superior or Epic Essence.

Step 5: When your inventory fills or your buffs run out, return to town. Sell the Superior and Epic Essences for a large chunk of gold, restock potions, and repeat the loop.

This method sits on top of everything else you’ve built: strong pickaxes (for earlier ore farming), refined crafting for gear, a solid combat build, and optimized potion/race choices. Once unlocked, it becomes one of the most efficient ways to finance late-game pickaxes and any gold-gated quests.

The Forge is unapologetically grind-heavy, but that grind can be structured. Lean on quests and the Index early, prioritize pickaxe upgrades, route ore into big-ticket crafts instead of raw sales, automate mining where possible, and transition into Essence-heavy enemy farms as your combat power rises. Follow that progression and the game’s steep gold requirements — from Goblin Quest fees to 150k pickaxes — become manageable checkpoints instead of brick walls.