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¶ Mining
Veins of ore lay buried throughout the mines, mountains, and caves of Britannia. The skilled miner seeks out these veins to harvest their ore, which can then be smelted into ingots for use by the various Crafting skills.
¶ Usage
In order to mine from an ore vein, equip a Pickaxe and use the Mine special ability. The player must then target the ore vein they wish to mine from.
The vein can be mined until the ore is depleted, at which point the miner should search for other nodes to harvest from. Whenever an ore vein is depleted, a player will no longer be able to find any usable ore from the vein. Whenever an ore vein refreshes after being harvested, there is a slight chance that it will change its resource type. For example, an ore vein that previously yielded Verite ore may now yield Dull Copper ore. Alternatively, an Iron ore vein may respawn to yield Valorite ore.
¶ Mining for Ore or Stone
To mine for stone instead of ore, right-click your pickaxe and choose to mine stone. You will mine stone and ore.
¶ Smelting
Before ore can be used for Blacksmithing, Tinkering, or otherwise, it but must first be smelted into ingots using a forge or the Smelt special ability.
The various colored ore types require higher levels of Mining skill in order to refine successfully. The skill required to successfully smelt higher-tier ore is equal to the Mining skill required to harvest the ore. However, unlike the conversion of hides and logs, a skill check is performed at the refining stage. If failed, no ingots will be produced after smelting and materials (i.e. ore) are lost. Historically, when smelting high-level ore such as Verite or Valorite, it was best to separate large piles of ore into smaller piles in order to prevent large resource losses.
The following table outlines the smelting success rates for each ore at different Mining skill levels.
| Mining | Smelting | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metal | Min Skill | 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | 75 | 90 | 100 | |
| Iron |
 |
0 | 0% | 10% | 40% | 70% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Dull Copper |
 |
65 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 70% | 100% | 100% |
| Shadow |
 |
70 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 90% | 100% |
| Copper |
 |
75 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 80% | 100% |
| Bronze |
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80 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 90% |
| Golden |
 |
85 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 80% |
| Agapite |
 |
90 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 70% |
| Verite |
 |
95 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 60% |
| Valorite |
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99 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 52% |
¶ Gathering Rates
At GM Mining, the chances of gathering each ore type are below:
| Iron | Dull Copper | Shadow Iron | Copper | Bronze | Gold | Agapite | Verite | Valorite | Carbon* |
| 68.0% | 8.0% | 6.0% | 5.5% | 4.0% | 3.5% | 3.0% | 1.5% | 0.5% | 4.0%* |
*Carbon is sometimes gained as an additional resource on each gather attempt.
¶ Leveling
This is an estimate of the type and amount of ore you may obtain when mining from 70-GM. The high end ore values are lower than the table above due to the inability to harvest them while leveling.
| Item | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| Iron | 18000 | 77% |
| Dull Copper | 1520 | 6.5% |
| Shadow | 1206 | 5.0% |
| Copper | 1196 | 5.0% |
| Bronze | 757 | 3.0% |
| Gold | 490 | 2.0% |
| Agapite | 246 | 1.0% |
| Verite | 92 | 0.5% |
| Total | 23507 |
¶ Bonuses
¶ Treasure Hunting
Mining gives an increasing bonus to the search radius of the shovel when looking for treasure. The numbers below illustrate the thresholds at which each increase is gained.
0 skill gives a 3 tile radius. 100 skill gives a max 8 tile radius.
¶ Special Items
¶ Gargoyle Pickaxe
Gargoyle Pickaxes are obtained by completing Blacksmith Bulk Orders and they have a limited amount of charges that are consumed with each use.
Using these pickaxes while mining will increase the type of ore being mined from a vein by +1 and have a chance to spawn Ore Elementals. For example, mining a vein that has Shadow Iron in it with a Gargoyle Pickaxe would result in giving you the next ore above that, Copper.
¶ Prospector's Tool
Prospector's Tools are obtained by completing Blacksmith Bulk Orders and they have a limited amount of charges that are consumed with each use.
Using this tool and targeting a mining vein will inspect the vein, showing you which type of metals are contained within. During its use, you may also come across Rich Veins that will offer an increased amount of metal received from the vein.
Note: Rich Veins can only be discovered with the use of the Prospector's Tool
¶ Learn - Harvesting High Quality Granite book
Used by Grandmaster Miners to learn harvesting of High Quality Granite that is used to craft Stone furniture recipes.
Requires 100 Mining to purchase from NPC Miner for 25,000 gold.
¶ Granite Pickaxe
Used by Grandmaster Miners to harvest High Quality Granite that is used to craft Stone furniture recipes. Must have learned harvesting granite to use.
As ores do, granite has also the same color types of stones.
The pickaxe lasts for roundabout 150 pcs of high quality granite before it breaks.
Requires 100 Mining to purchase from NPC Miner for 12,000 gold.
¶ Learn - Harvesting Glass-Quality Sand book
Used to learn harvesting of glass-quality sand using shovels.
Requires 100 Mining to purchase from NPC Miner for 25,000 gold.