Mining

The skill

Mining covers breaking rocks, mainly in the Mines. Bigger nodes take more hits, and some need a stronger pickaxe. You gain mining experience when a rock breaks, whether the hit came from a pickaxe or a bomb. Rocks a monster breaks give nothing. Experience applies as soon as the rock breaks. The level-up window waits until you sleep.

Mining Monthly and the Book of Stars each give 250 mining experience. Panning gives 1 experience for each piece of copper, iron, gold, or iridium ore it pulls up. A meteor on the farm gives no mining experience.

The Mines open on Spring 5 of year 1, after the letter about the landslide.

• Ores and barsPrices, coal, and furnace times
• NodesWhich floors spawn which node
• The Mines120 floors and the elevator
• Skull CavernIridium and no elevator
• QuarryA daily roll of nodes
• Volcano DungeonCinder shards and the Forge

Professions and recipes

Each mining level adds 1 pickaxe proficiency. At level 5, Miner adds one ore per vein. On the Miner track, Blacksmith makes copper, iron, gold, iridium, and radioactive bars sell for 50% more. Prospector doubles the chance to find coal. Gemologist makes gems worth 30% more. Geologist gives specific gem nodes a 50% chance to drop twice the gems. When that double drop happens, the experience for the node is lower. Mining mastery also doubles gems, and it does not cut the experience.

Level 1 teaches the cherry bomb: 4 copper ore and 1 coal. Level 2 teaches the staircase: 99 stone. Level 3 teaches Miner's Treat. Level 6 teaches the bomb: 4 iron ore and 1 coal. Level 8 teaches the mega bomb: 4 gold ore, 1 solar essence, and 1 void essence.

The morning after you pick up your first copper ore, Clint visits with the furnace blueprint. The furnace costs 20 copper ore and 25 stone.

• First days in the Mines
• Smelting times