[Farming Geo] 5000 IN 15 MINUTES!!

This guide will show you how to do get mountains of Geo much faster than any other guide out there! It's a fairly simple process, explained in detail and guaranteed to make your farming days a whole lot more satisfying and productive!

Introduction

Ok, so I noticed there were no really decent guides on how to farm for Geo big time, and as far as I searched and compared my estimates, this seems to be the best option on getting some cold-hard cash in the game, FAST.

Boring Math & What To Do

This guide advertises that you'll get 5000 Geo in 15 minutes... probably bs right? WRONG! This section will tell you in detail how it is possible! And the best part is that it's not that hard too!

Here's a list of things you'll want to farm Geo:

ABSOLUTELY NEED

• Be able to grab walls (Mantis Claw)
  
• Be able to dash (Cloak)
  
• Access to Deepnest, Failed Tramway (shown below)

You'll be going from the bench in the right of the circled area to the far left, then go back again to the bench and sit on it so the enemies respawn. Repeat the process as many times you'd like.

Speeding up things (optional)

• Fully upgraded nail (less hits needed to take care of enemies)
  
• Be able to "super dash" (Crystal Heart)
  
• Charms I used:
  

Fragile Greed, Fragile Strength, Gathering Swarm, Steady Body, Quick Slash and Sprintmaster

I know this is in the Deepnest but don't freak out! The Failed Tramway is a very safe place in comparison to the rest of the creepy crawlies' land. This area in particular only has 6x Carver Hatchers[hollowknight.wikia.com], which will be our money maker for this guide. They hatch a maximum of 5x Dirtcarvers[hollowknight.wikia.com] and after they depleted all their baby making juice, they will charge at you at moderate speed. This change of attack pattern can be noticed by their screeching and adjusting their movements beforehand to start chasing the Knight[hollowknight.wikia.com].


Now let's do some boring math!

We know there are 6 Carver Hatchers. Each of them can hatch 5 Dirtcarvers. This means you can defeat a total of 6 Carver Hatchers and 30 Dirtcarvers.

But now you're thinking: "But Kraken, why do I need to wait for them poop out the babies?"
The answer to that is quite simple. You see, the Dirtcarvers that are hatched actually drop Geo of their own when killed! And the Carver Hatcher will still drop as much Geo regardless of how many hatchlings it makes!

Before I get to the values, I'd like to point out that this is calculated WITH the Fragile / Unbreakable Greed charm. This makes you drop more Geo from enemies and is essential for a good Geo farm. Get it from this creepy guy[hollowknight.wikia.com].

With our good luck Greed charm, we will drop:

• 32 Geo for each Carver Hatcher
  
• 12 Geo for each Dirtcarver

And if we recall our math back then, this will be:
32 Geo * 6 Carver Hatchers + 12 Geo * 30 Dirtcarvers = 552 Geo per run

If we have everything listed in "Speeding up things", the time needed to go from the bench, kill everything efficiently while maximizing profit and go back is about 100 seconds. To be as fast as possible you'll need to kill the first two hatchers simultaneously, meaning that you should bait them to be together throwing their hatchlings at you. Once they run out of hatchlings, kill them and keep going to bait the remaining four hatchers in the same fashion.

"But Kraken, why can't we do them all in one go? Why must we do two first, and then the other four?"
This is because the map has a part that makes it impossible for the first two Hatchers to reach where the other four are, since the gap is too narrow (shown below):

Another piece of advice: DO NOT run too ahead of the Dirtcarvers! Either kill them or give them a bit of time to make sure they can reach you. It doesn't happen every time but sometimes a couple of them disappeared in my runs before reaching me because I got too far ahead of them. They won't be hatched again by the Hatchers, meaning you're losing precious Geo in your runs!

Conclusion

With this guide, we are able to make 552 Geo in 100 seconds! This means that you'd be able to make... 4968 Geo every 15 minutes! More if you're faster!

I hope this guide will be helpful for the community, since most guides I saw were about defeating Moss Knights and involved more time to get a lousy 3000 Geo in half an hour... I'm also thinking this is much easier than farming in the Colosseum of Fools as you only get to it later in the game and the 2nd arena (which is the one that is usually farmed, for its balance on Geo reward vs time consumed) usually takes around 12~13 minutes, it's harder and only gives you 1700 Geo.

Do share and add feedback, so I can improve this guide! Thank you for reading.

[SagittariusA]

This is great, though I wonder if changes to the game have altered what you might be able to do.

[Ms. Christa]

thanks bro, this is great for divine

[evile_VT]

my first good grinding area was srumal waestlands

[I fight tf2 bots for a living]

losing geo in this game is DEVASTATING sometimes, thanks for this one bro.

[CautiousCrow167]

An early game area where i grind'ed was in green path, i rested at the skag station, then climbed and attacked the 2 green knights, i got roughly 300 out of each attempt, soon after i cleared out all the stores only after beating hornet.

[gnarsquish]

i just farm the hoppers and i have 61k geo because i have nothing to spend it on. this is on my switch profile

[SkyHighFlyGuy1]

thanks this was super helpful i need like 12,000 geo so thanks again.

[firewolf]

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[turreno]

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[Calligraphiti]

colo 2 is the most efficient way to get geo. if youre still at the beginning of the game, the best geo farming spot is the rows of hoppers in kingdoms edge. this is what speedrunners use