Dowsing Guide
The Dowsing tech, learned at a University of Body, gives you the ability to assemble a dowsing rod. Level 7 is required (Skill can be learned prior to level 7 by teaching. I was level 5. BubbaHotepJunior).
MUST have a dowsing rod in your inventory. This gives you a new action icon in that appears in upper right hand portion of the screen.
Currently working on my own little page for dowsing, http://perl.atitd.wiki/wiki/tale3/Users/Boone/Mining_Table, comments appreciated. /boone
Dowsing starts focus timer of 10 minutes
- At any Perception below 0, Copper is unidentifiable ore.
- At Perception 0, Copper is able to be identified and Iron is an unidentifiable ore.
- At Perception 1, Iron shows as an unidentifiable ore.
- At Perception 2, Iron is now reported. Tin can not be seen.
- At Perception 3, Tin shows as an unidentifiable ore. Zinc and Aluminum can not be seen.
- At Perception 4, Tin shows as an unidentifiable ore.
- At Perception 5, Tin is able to be identified and Aluminum is an unidentifiable ore.
- At Perception 6, Aluminum is unidentifiable.
- At Perception 9, Aluminum is positively identified. Zinc is unidentifiable. Gold is not seen.
- At Perception 11, Zinc is positively identified. Lead and Magnesium are unseen.
- At Perception 14, Lead is reported as something you don't quite recognize.
- At Perception 15, Lead is reported as something you don't quite recognize.
- At Perception 17 (and some way below?), Lead is identified.
- At Perception 18, Lead is identified.
- At Perception 21 (and some way below?), Magnesium is identified. Lithium, Gold, Antimony and Titanium are unseen.
- At Perception 22 , Gold is identified.
- At Perception 30 (and some way below?), Titanium is identified.
- At Perception 38, Strontium shows as sand.
- At Perception 40, Platinum shows as sand.
- At Perception 41, Strontium is identified.
- At Perception 46 (and some way below?), Platinum is identified.
- At Perception 49 Tungsten is identified.
- At Perception 51, Silver shows as sand.
- At Perception 55 (and some way below?), Antimony is identified.
- At Perception 90 Tungsten shows as sand.
- At Perception 207 Silver shows as sand
Dowsing results are reported in your main chat if you have the Utility - interface - Use console... option checked. If you have your chats minimized the result will not be posted in the main chat.
It is also possible to get a message of "You detect a vein of {some ore} somewhere nearby". I got this message with copper ore while having 29 PER. I dowsed again in the same spot with only 9 PER, and got the sand message. Maybe PER affects distance you can detect ores at along with what ores you can detect. -Ancano
Note: With 0 Perception, Dowsing over a Tin vein resulted in "You find nothing but sand" which would lead me to believe it will only find items just above your perception level or not at all. -- Malard
Question: If I have 0 Perception, and drop a mine over a vein, will I get the ore, or will I just get sand? -- Oofafwet
Answer: ore
Notes on Vein Locations
Public Dowsing Efforts are under way in many regions. Please contribute as you are able.
Karmak Specific(?): Iron runs E-W, Copper runs NNE-SSW. Copper can overlap Iron and Iron will show on a dowse. ~Greyhawk
Copper vein running NNE-SSW also found in Sinai. ~Aoreias
Copper vein running WNW-ESE found in Cradle of the Sun. ~Tairnyn
Iron vein found running NNW-SSE in Lower Egypt (2 different veins). Random copper spots found, but no related map-able vein. ~Bort
Copper vein capped into Tin, not able to be detected at 2 per. ~Aoreias
Iron is in a vein that DOES end, see attachment "IronCap.png". Actually it was capped by Tin and continues past it!
Copper vein running NNE-SSW found in UE. Iron vein ran straight E-W in Qatara. ~Matk
- QUESTION: Does anyone have any information that shows a placement relationship between the different ore veins? ex. If you find an iron vein, can you use the information from location of that vein to determine where a vein of, say, titanium may be located?
- QUESTION: Are there any useful paterns known for dowsing? How far apart are veins found? How far apart should I look to find veins without missing too much?
Notes on mineral shapes and characteristics
Impressions from FaceAnkh, Hassim and AuronXIII. Please add to and correct.
General
Copper and iron are long thin veins (hundreds of coords long, maybe 5 coords wide), and very widespread. They can go any direction and curve. Aluminum is as long, but seems to be wider.
Where copper and iron veins cross, there is often another mineral(tin). This is NOT always the case though. See DowsingTin image. Red was iron, green was copper.
Zinc is a roughly 75 coordinate radius ring, with a small lead spot at the center and a large lead spot north-east of the circle.
Lead and Tin are spots, large enough for approx 4x4 mines.
It seems that the Upper Egypt silver vein is capped in gold and may also be in Kush.
Strontium deposits form four-point diamonds -- each point of the diamond is very small, frequently supporting only one mine. The points are located at the North, South, East, and West compass points, and the distance between diametrically-opposed points is 50 coords. -InambaGuum
Titanium and Antimony
Titanium appears in a large anticlockwise outward spiral, with the vein being less than 8 coords wide and the whole spiral covering an area of approximate 200x200 coords. At the centre of titanium spirals is a small patch of antimony (about 4 mines).The spiral appears to be reasonably well matched by an Archimedean spiral:
