Mining

Mining is a gathering skill. You mine ore from rocks. Smithing turns ore into bars, and bars become tools, weapons and armour. Several places on the map need ore or bars to be rebuilt.

How to train

Start with Mine copper at level 1. New activities open as you level up: see the table below.
Tool: Copper pickaxe (+15% speed, made with Smithing). Better ones: Iron pickaxe (+20%), Cobalt pickaxe (+30%).
Potion: Miner's potion (+10% speed, made with Medicine).

Activities

Level	Activity	Makes	Sells for
1	Mine copper	Copper ore	1
6	Mine tin	Tin ore	2
12	Mine iron	Iron ore	5
20	Mine coal	Coal ore	8
30	Mine silver	Silver ore	11
42	Mine gold	Gold ore	14
55	Mine cobalt	Cobalt ore	17
68	Mine electrum	Electrum ore	20
82	Mine orichalcum	Orichalcum ore	23
95	Mine star	Star ore	26

"Sells for" is what one action's items sell for, at the level the activity opens, before bonuses. Every skill uses the same XP table: see Levels and XP.

Mastery

Each of the 10 Mining activities has its own mastery level, from 1 to 99. Every completed action gives that activity mastery XP, and higher mastery makes the activity better (table below).

A quarter of that mastery XP (half once Mining is level 99) also goes into the Mining mastery pool, which holds up to 9,250,000 XP. You can spend pool XP on any Mining activity: 1 pool XP gives 1 mastery XP. See Mastery for the exact numbers.

Each activity's own mastery

Activity mastery	Adds to that activity
10	+2% speed
20	+2% speed
30	+2% speed
40	+2% speed
50	+2% speed
60	+2% speed
70	+2% speed
80	+2% speed
90	+2% speed
99	+10 points high-quality chance, +50% rare drop chance

Pool checkpoints

While the pool is filled to a checkpoint or above, its bonus counts for every Mining activity. If you spend the pool below a checkpoint, that bonus stops until the pool fills up again.

Pool filled	Pool XP	Adds to every activity of the skill
10%	925,000	+5% mastery XP
25%	2,312,500	+10% XP
50%	4,625,000	+25% rare drop chance
95%	8,787,500	+5% speed

Gear for this skill

Copper pickaxe — +15% speed
Miner's lens — +8 points high-quality chance
Well-water flask — +10% XP
Iron pickaxe — +20% speed
Cobalt pickaxe — +30% speed, +1 item per action
Wheelbarrow — +1 item per action
Miner's lamp — +8% speed

Gear only helps while it is equipped. A high-quality piece gives 1.5 times the bonus, rounded down. See also every boost for Mining.

Faster from rebuilt places

Collapsed quarry — +15% speed while you are there, once it is rebuilt
The capital — +5% speed everywhere, once it is rebuilt

Places that need this skill

You need this level to find and rebuild the place. Some places accept another skill instead.

The old well — level 1
Collapsed quarry — level 5
Abandoned farmstead — level 8 (or Foraging 3)
The looted arsenal — level 18 (or Smithing 15)
The capital — level 30 (or Smithing 20 or Construction 15)

Story

Dig copper, tin, iron and other ores out of the ground. Smithing turns your ore into bars.