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Mining Mining

Mining is a skill used for obtaining ores, gems and oil. Mining Machinery or the Pickaxe are the primary method to obtain ores. Mining XP can be obtained by converting ores with the Pickaxe. Stardust Prisms can also be obtained from mining after completing the hard mining achievements.


Ores

Ores are the primary resource obtained from the mining skill, and can be sold, used to craft Bars, or used to obtain mining XP. Socketing a Gem into the Pickaxe reduces the amount of stardust needed, but does not change the amount of ores needed.

Ore                  
  XP per item 0.1 1 5 10 20 100 300 N/A N/A
  Game Shop Sell Price 1 2 2 5 10 90 300 1000 N/A

  Oil

Oil is an important resource for Mining which is used to operate all Mining Machinery. It is obtained by Oil Wells and the Oil Factory and can be increased by upgrading the Oil Wells. Only a finite amount of oil can be stored at once, which can be increased by upgrading the Oil Silo. Oil can also be increased with the help of the Infinite Oil Potion.

  Mining Machinery

The Pickaxe and Mining Machinery work by incrementing a progress bar every tick (second). Once that progress bar has been completed the Pickaxe or Mining Machinery roll their loot tables. The base number of ticks is 12. The base number is used for the pickaxe and any mining machinery type where only one of that type is activated. If there are two machines then it is 6 and three machines is 4.


The pickaxe is always working while the mining machinery can be individually turned off.


To determine production rates you need to divide the ore output chance by the number of ticks required to complete the progress bar (12, 6 or 4).


For example:


The Pickaxe always produces Stone  , has a 1 in 2 chance to produce Copper Ore   , and a 1 in 340 chance to produce Iron Ore   for each completion of the progress bar.


The Pickaxe progress bar takes 12 seconds to complete. This means that the Pickaxe produces on average 1/12 Stone per second, 1/24 Copper Ore per second, and 1/4080 Iron Ore per second.


Mining Machinery can be summarized as below:

Icon Machine Mining Level Required Oil   Cost/Machine Ores Produced per Completion Maximum machinery crafted
 
Drills
1  
1  
 Stone Always

  Copper 1 in 2   Iron 1 in 7   Silver 1 in 42

3
 
Crushers
10  
3  
  Stone Always

  Copper Always   Iron 1 in 5   Silver 1 in 25   Gold 1 in 300

 
Giant Drills
25  
8  
  Silver 1 in 16

  Gold 1 in 165   Promethium 1 in 1600

 
Excavators
60  
15  
  Gold 1 in 125

  Promethium 1 in 1250   Titanium 1 in 8400

 
Giant Excavators
80  
30  
  Titanium 1 in 4100

  Ancient 1 in 16000

 
Massive Excavators
Elite Achievment  
100  
  Ancient 1 in 4100

  Dragon 1 in 16000

1

  Gems

In addition to ores, miners will begin to find gems after the player finishes the Gem Seeker quest. Gems can be sold for coins or used to upgrade the effect of tools. The amount of Mining Machinery being used does not affect the chance of receiving gems.

  Geodes

Geodes are rare resources that may be obtained randomly from Mining after obtaining the Chisel from Gathering within the Desert Mines. Finding rarer geodes also required a higher Mining level as well as better gem slotted onto the Chisel.

Every Geode may be cracked with a different chance to receive new Minerals, which may be used to craft Rings for Combat. If not for Crafting Rings, the player may convert the Minerals to free Mining XP.

Upgrading the Chisel with Gems will also allow the player to obtain higher-level geodes.

These are the possible Geodes which may be obtained from Mining:

Geode Chisel Type Required Mining Level Required
to obtain and crack
Rarity Average per Day Possible Minerals
  Grey Geodes   (Basic Chisel)
20  
1/80,000
1.08
  /   /  
  Blue Geodes   (Chisel slotted with  )
35  
1/120,000
0.72
  /   /  
  Green Geodes   (Chisel slotted with  )
50  
1/250,000
0.3456
  /   /  
  Red Geodes   (Chisel slotted with  )
70  
1/500,000
0.1728
  /   /  
  Cyan Geodes   (Chisel slotted with  )
85  
1/900,000
0.096
  /   /  
  Ancient Geodes   (Chisel slotted with  )
90  
Meteors
 ????
  /   /  

Minerals

The chance to get minerals from each geode is as follows: (Thanks Agro for collecting the data)

Defense: 50% (1/2)

Damage: 25% (1/4)

Accuracy: ~11% (1/9)

Mineral Geode Rarity Conversion
XP
Ring Crafting Level
for Ring
  Blue Marble
  Grey Geodes
Common   1 000   Weak defence ring
  40
  Amethyst Uncommon   2 000   Weak damage ring
  Sea Crystal Rare   5 000   Weak accuracy ring
  Dense Marble
  Blue Geodes
Common   3 000   Normal defence ring
  50
  Fluorite Uncommon   8 000   Normal damage ring
  Clear Marble Uncommon   15 000   Normal accuracy ring
  Jade
  Green Geodes
Common   5 000   Good defence ring
  60
  Lime Quartz Uncommon   10 000   Good damage ring
  Opal Rare   20 000   Good accuracy ring
  Purple Quartz
  Red Geodes
Common   8 000   Great defence ring
  70
  Amber Uncommon   16 000   Great damage ring
  Smooth Pearl Rare   30 000   Great accuracy ring
  Sulfer
  Cyan Geodes
Common   10 000   Perfect defence ring
  80
  Topaz Uncommon   25 000   Perfect damage ring
  Tanzanite Rare   100 000   Perfect accuracy ring
  Magnesium
  Ancient Geodes
Common   25 000   Ancient defence ring
  90
  Frozen Mineral Uncommon   50 000   Ancient damage ring
  Blood Crystal Rare   200 000   Ancient accuracy ring

Explosives

  Bombs

This bomb is not very useful in combat. Detonating it would kill both you and the enemy. It can be used as a mining method, detonating deep into a mine.

The bombs may be obtained from the Volcano as a drop from the Fire Golem. It can may detonated in the inventory to obtain various kinds of loot, such as Copper Ore  , Silver Ore  , Gold Ore  , Promethium Ore  , Promethium Bars   and etc.

  TNT

TNT may detonated be obtained from the Ghost Miner after killing it and is used in the same matter as the Bomb, but allowing to gain even better loot, such as rare Geodes or Titanium Ore.

  Loot Table  

Image Item Name Amount Dropped Rarity
  Grey Geode 3 - 6 Always
  Blue Geode 3 - 6 Always
  Green Geode 3 - 6 Always
  Red Geode 3 - 6 Always
  Cyan Geode 1 1/100 chance


Skills  
Combat Skills   Melee   Magic   Archery
Gathering Skills   Gathering   Farming   Fishing   Mining   Woodcutting
Production Skills   Brewing   Cooking   Crafting   Invention



  Skilling Outfits  
  Mining        

 Crafting        
 Gathering        
 Farming        
 Brewing        
 Woodcutting        
  Cooking        
  Fishing