Mining

Additional Useful Mining Links

Crystal Description	Information regarding the classification of ore crystals.
Name Chart	Chart with mineral name, crystal description, and what it produces.
Public Mines	A list of public mines and the metals they produce.
Graphical Chart	A graphical chart of what crystals produce what types of ore.
Mineral Map	Keeping tabs on which mines produce what
Gems	A list by region and type of gems with any public facilites close by

Data/Research Mining Links

Theories	A place to write down and discuss various theories about mining
Alloy	Figuring out optimal alloy ratios and how impurities affect alloys
Furnaces	Experiments with weird furnaces to figure out how they work
Tools	3rd Party Utilities to assist with Mining

General Information

You need four things to get worthwhile results from mining:

1. a mine
2. an ore cart
3. a furnace of some kind
4. the mineralogy skill from SThought (1 copper, 1 iron) - Not actually necessary but a great help

A mine can produce up to 5 ore stones before you have to get rid of some to be able to mine more. Each of these looks like a large grey snowman, with variously colored crystals sticking out. Each type of crystal is, in effect, a different ore (or in some cases several different ores). To make use of these ores, you must load the stones into a mine cart and then smelt them in a furnace. To load them into the cart, click on them*, and you will have an option to load them into the nearest mine cart. You can also discard them if you feel they are not of use. (A stone with nothing at all in it is useless and should be discarded.)

Each ore stone will only have one mineral type per metal. For example, you will never see a rock with both Magnetite (iron) and Kemecite (iron). The maximum observed amount of clusters on a single rock has been 8.

• If the only option that appears when you click on a cluster is to "gently break it apart", then you have Advanced Mining activated, and these options appear under your personal menu (click on yourself) when you are near a cluster. To disable this, go into Options under Interface, and clear Use Advanced Mining System.

The order in which the mineral types appear on a rock determines the priority of those minerals within that mine level. The highest priority mineral (highest on the list compared to the other ones) will produce gems. Priority also, of course, denotes the rate of mineral appearance.

Need Help?

If you've read through this page and are still confused about some aspect of mining or just need some help, feel free to contact anyone on the list below. If you are knowledgable about mining and would be willing to help people out, put your name on the list.

• Chichis
• Dragyn
• Fahq
• Kaotika
• Humbleseeker

Metals and Standard Furnaces

In order to predict what a batch of rocks will produce, one need's to know the number of clusters of the dominant material, the number of clusters of impurities, and the furnace one will be smelting with. If a metal is being smelted, it doesn't matter how many of each of the 5 varities of the metal is in there, it only matters the total number of clusters. More research needs to be done to full understand how impurities affect yield.

Smelting Pot

• General Description - The Smelting Pot is the lowest tech smelter available. It smelts out the material that composes 50% or more of the clusters in the smelting pot. A Smelting Pot works best with pure loads of metal. A Ra's Furnace (a special prize in a Blacksmithing contest) should be considered a Smelting Pot for all purposes, except for the fact that it is portable.
• Construction Cost - 1 Crucible, 50 Firebricks
• Efficiency and Maximum Capacity - The Smelting Pot has an efficiency of 33%. It will produce 1 metal per 3 clusters in a pure smelt. The maximum capacity of the Smelting Pot is 10 rocks.
• Fire Time and Cost - 2 minutes, 7 charcoal

Craft Furnace

• General Description - The Craft Furnace operates the same as a Smelting Pot, but with a different capacity and efficiency. It is the next step up.
• Construction Cost - 4 Crucible, 120 Firebricks, 12 Leather, 36 Boards, 12 Flint, 2 Iron Bar
• Efficiency and Maximum Capacity - The Craft Furnace has an efficiency of 85%. It will produce 1 metal per 1.2 clusters in a pure smelt. The maximum capacity of the Craft Furnace is 25 rocks.
• Fire Time and Cost - 2 minutes, 25 charcoal

Precious Furnace

• General Description - The Precious Furnace operates differently from Smelting Pot and Craft Furnace. It appears to smelt out the second most common material. It appears to have specific tolerances, and often fails. More research is needed to figure out exactly what it tolerates.
• Construction Cost - 60 Firebricks, 40 Leather, 24 Copperwire, 40 Slate, 400 Small Quartz, 4 Copper Straps
• Efficiency and Maximum Capacity - The efficiency of the Precious Furnace is unknown at this time. The maximum capacity of the Precious Furnace is 18 rocks.
• Fire Time and Cost - 20 minutes, 60 charcoal

Fragile Furnace

• General Description - The Fragile Furnace also operates in its own unique way. It appears to have a particular tolerance formula: Ideally, the material intended to be smelted should be the highest amount with X clusters, followed by impurities of (X-1) each. For example, for Iron, an ideal load would be 30 Iron, 29 Dirt, 29 Sand. The Fragile Furnace is best used with mines with three nearly-equal minerals on one or multiple levels.
• Construction Cost - 20 Cut Stone, 6 Crucible, 24 Leather, 4 Copper Sheeting, 4 Bearings, 2 Iron Bar, 2 Sheet Glass, 300 Firebricks
• Efficiency and Maximum Capacity - The efficiency of the Fragile Furnace appears to be up to 150% of the cluster count, in the case of an ideal (first mineral approaching 33%) smelt.
• Fire Time and Cost - 2 minutes, 35 charcoal

Alloys and Alloy Furnaces

Alloys are made of a combination of ores. In order to make an alloy, one needs to have sources for all the metals needed for the alloy nearby. One cannot use smelted metal to make alloys. In order to get the maximum efficiency in an alloy furnace, one needs to use the right ratio of metals. Impurities or incorrect ratios will lower the yield.

Amalgamation Furnace

• General Description - The Amalgamation furnace is the only furnace that produces alloys at this point.
• Construction Cost - 12 Cut Stone, 1 Iron Pot, 20 Leather, 240 Firebricks, 40 Small Topaz
• Efficiency and Maximum Capacity - The efficiency of the Amalgamation furnace is 83%. It will produce 1 alloy per 1.2 clusters under optimal conditions. The maximum capacity of the Amalgamation Furnace is 22 rocks.
• Fire Time and Cost - 7 minutes 10 seconds, 18 charcoal

Alloy Formulas

Alloy research is currently ongoing. Visit Alloy to see the data.

Brass

Ideal formula is N Zinc and N + 1 Copper. Examples: 15 zinc + 16 copper, 19 zinc + 20 copper, 25 zinc + 26 copper.

Bronze

Various ratios work well. Anywhere between 3 copper:1 tin and 5 copper:1 tin should give decent yield. A good yield can obtained by using 15 copper to 7 tin. Still being investigated.

Steel

Iron and aluminum or iron and tin. Use iron > tin or aluminum. Optimal ratios still being investigated. Very high yields of steel can be obtained by using a 3 metal mix of Iron, Tin and Zinc. The ideal formula is Iron > Tin > Zinc. Examples: Iron 20 + Tin 10 + Zinc 2.

Pewter

Smelted from Tin and Antimony. There must be more tin than antimony. The ratio appears not to matter.

Metal Blue

Still being investigated. Recipe is Titanium > Tungsten > Silver.

Gems, Limestone, and Dirt

In order to get Gems, Limestone, and Dirt you need a Jeweler's Pick. Click on an ore stone and click "Gently break apart the Ore Stone" in order to free whatever is inside it. If a gem is produced, no dirt or limestone will be, and if a stone could produce multiple sizes of gem only the larger will appear. However, limestone and dirt can show up together.

Dirt

Dirt is produced at a rate of 1 dirt per dirt cluster in a rock. All dirt crystals will produce dirt when picked if they are not gem carrying at the particular mine and level. The dirt crystal types are TC+, YM+, SB+, YB+, and AS+.

Dirt crystals can also be smelted for dirt, but this is very inefficient and expensive.

Limestone

Limestone is produced at a rate of ? per limestone cluster in a rock, or may be dependent on crystal count or limestone variety (well more than 1/cluster; the most reported from one stone is 60, but they are only rarely in multiples of 20). All limestone crystals will produce limestone when picked if they are not gem carrying at the particular mine and level. The limestone crystal types are KM+, GM-, SS+, GS-, and one unknown type.

Limestone crystals can also be smelted for limestone, but this is very inefficient and expensive.

Gems

The material that is most prevalent in a mine will be the gem carrier for that mine. For most mines, this material is dirt, sand, or limestone. However, in good metal mines, it can be the metals as well. Below is a chart listing which minerals produce which gem types. All you need to figure out is which material carries gem in your mines, and then you can predict which minerals will produce what size gem.

Name	Nothing	Small Gem	Medium Gem	Large Gem	Huge Gem
Aluminum	Akdalaite	Corundum	Diaspore	Hibonite	Painite
Antimony	Paradocrasite	Valentinite	Senarmontite	Bystromite	Berthierite
Copper	Cuprite	Tenorite	Digenite	Covellite	Cupalite
Iron	Magnetite	Kamecite	Hematite	Bernalite	Fayalite
Gold	Maldonite	Yuanjiangite	Auricupride	Weishanite	Calaverite
Lead	Litharge	Blixite	Asisite	Laurelite	Shannonite
Lithium	Gricite	Liberite	Sicklerite	Tavorite	Tiptopite
Magnesium	Periclase	Fluborite	Kotoite	Suanite	Brucite
Platinum	Yixunite	Luberoite	Hongshiite	Braggite	Genkinite
Silver	Pearceite	Jalpaite	Eugenite	Nauamannite	Proustite
Strontium	Tausonite	Celestine	Acuminite	Ohmilite	Jarlite
Tin	Romarchite	Abhurite	Berndtite	Cassiterite	Stistaite
Titanium	Osbornite	Rulite	Brookite	Anatase	Kleberite
Tungsten	Wolframite	Ferberite	Sanmartinite	Rankachite	Jixianite
Zinc	Danbaite	Matraite	Ashoverite	Sweetite	Wulfingite
Dirt	TC+	YM+	SB+	YB+	AS+
Sand	TS-	GS+	TB+	SM-	GB+
Limestone	GM-	KM+	?	SS+	?

• GS- is either the medium or the huge Limestone type.

Extraction Bit and Levels

The amount of levels available on a mine is directly related to the number of pulls on the mine. In order to find out how many pulls a mine has, click on the mine>Utility>Mine Logbook. The formula for cumulative pulls needed is CurrentLevel ^ 2 * 1000. The formula for just the amount of pulls on the current level is CurrentLevel * 2000 - 1000.

Current Level	Cumulative Pulls	Pulls For Level
1		1000
2	1000	3000
3	4000	5000
4	9000	7000
5	16000	9000
6	25000	11000
7	36000	13000
8	49000	15000
9	64000	17000
10	81000	19000
11	100000	21000
12	121000	23000
13	144000	25000
14	169000	27000
15	196000	29000
16	225000	31000
17	256000	33000
18	289000	35000
19	324000	37000
20	361000	39000

• One of the deepest mines is the public mine at 815 -7696. It is currently at level 10 and about 94k pulls, provides all metals except Silver, Gold, Platinum, Zinc & Magnesium.

Here is a picture of the mining bit setting option:

Deepest Mines

Location	Coords	Level	Pulls	Submited by
Fool's Paradise	-2114, -248	12	121000	HumbleSeeker
Nile Delta	947, 6844	13	160289	MrBungle
Nile Delta	946, 7318	13	158261	MrBungle
Karnak	2140,-925	36	1,292,000

Subpages

Note that this includes numerous outdated pages and does not include other important pages.

• Basicmining
• Color Chart
• Crystal Description
• Furnaces
• Graphical Chart
• Mine Logbook
• MineralByAlpha
• Mineral Map
• Mineralogy
• Name Chart
• Picking Research
• Production Chart
• Reverse Production Chart
• Smelting Combinations
• Theories
• Tools
• Yield