Dwarf Eats Mountain

An incremental mining game where dwarves physically break mountains apart while runners haul the loot back to the Great Maw, which converts it into gold. You spend gold on upgrade lines, reset for Prestige Points to buy permanent prestige upgrades, and work up the mountain-level ladder toward the eight-artifact Great World Spire gate. It released on Steam May 18, 2026 at $9.99 and is not Early Access.

By PP maths, not by a clock. Prestige Tier 2 unlocks at 12 PP spent, so the first useful reset is 14-15 PP — reset below that and you open a tier you cannot buy from. The first PP reward lands at mountain level 2 and each marker moves 1-3 levels further out, so the game tells you when the next PP stops paying for its own time. In my tracked run 1 that came at about 3.5 hours; later runs were far shorter because permanent upgrades carry over.

The community database covers 121 artifacts, and the honest answer is that value depends on which damage branch you run. The documented standouts: Book Of Grudges for stacking damage, Arcane Headlamp when miners are your damage source, Golden Crane (runners get +10% dodge) for hauling survival, Holy Grail, and The Nauglamir, which since v1.1.0 doubles mountain PP gains. Four of the eight Spire gate artifacts drop from the peak bosses, so collection value outranks raw stats late.

Goblin King Peak is the first of the four special peaks, at mountain level 20, and the attempt runs on a 180-second timer — the fight tests whether you have sustained damage, not whether you have a burst window. No artifact in the catalog grants bonus boss damage, so the kill comes from your prestige tier and dwarf classes; since May 22, 2026 losing the fight no longer forces a prestige. The reward is Goblin Crown, a +4 PP collect and one of the eight Spire artifacts.

Careful here, because the term is community shorthand rather than a documented state. The store page, the changelog, and the 21-entry Steam achievement list contain no True Ending cutscene, trophy, or achievement. What is documented is the end of the content ladder: hold the eight gate artifacts (Goblin Crown, Dragon's Egg, Mountain Core, Shadowflame Whip, The Nauglamir, Arkenstone, Philosopher's Stone, Dial of Destiny), clear The Great World Spire at mountain level 100, then run Endless Mode. Any guide that hands you a numbered requirement list with gallery percentages is guessing.