G1: Reached Mine Core but don't have mind nutrients. Am I screwed?

[JavaJack]

I randomly decided to dust off G1. My old save games were dated 2013

 

Subject says it all. Without mind nutrients, I can't get the servant mind to disable defenses in the various parts of the mine. Am I screwed?

 

It's been so long since I last played that all the quests in the journal are meaningless to me. I'm not sure how to proceed.

[Randomizer]

I haven't tried it, but you can probably with greater difficulty fight your way through. You may have to go back and rest more often or get supplies.

 

There is one less mind nutrient than places that you could use them. So if you want to wait, you could come back here later after you locate another one.

[Nim]

The pylons are not difficult to kill if you have speed and a ranged attack. Or just speed and combatmode to get past them and reach the Arena. That will turn the mines green (except northern mines).

[JavaJack]

Yeah, my range pets were good enough to 3-shot the pylons before they got initiative, as long as I took great care to only fight a single pylon at a time. But there was no getting my pets over the lava squares into the northern mines. Guess I'll just move on to the arena.

[Triumph]

The only truly important thing to find in the mines is an entry baton, but you can also get one of those in the West Workshop, and if for some reason you destroyed that one, there's still other paths to the Geneforge (besides the one that requires the entry baton).