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'''Mining''' is the skill of excavating [[rock stone shards]], [[marble shards]], [[slate shards]], [[sandstone shards]] and [[ore]] veins. '''

==Opening a mine == Characteristics gained ====Body / Activate [[pickaxe]] '''right click''' any [[cliff]] or [[rock tile]] and select '''mining''' > '''tunnel'''. '''[[Mining warnings|Find potential error messages here.]]'''*The first step is to make a '''mine entrance''' on the surface which may be done on any [[cliff]] or [[rock tile]].*The minimum slope is +1.*Each tunneling action has a chance to create a [[stone shards|stone shard]]. After a number of [[Body strengthstone shards]]are created, usually 9, the message {{event|inline|You will soon create an entrance}} will appear, after 51 actions. A stone shard or two later, and an entrance will be created.*The two lowest slopes of your tile will form the bottom tile border of your opening, which will be completely flat. The top of your mine opening will be completely flat as well. *'''You cannot [[Body staminaMining#Surface_mining|surface mine]]to correct an oddly shaped entrance once it is open.''' So you must make sure to have the tile in the exact shape you want it to be before you open the mine.*If you don't want any ugly water on the floor in the mine, ensure that both lower corners of the entrance are at least at height 28 (hover the corner with the mouse).*The maximum height of a tunnel entrance is 270 slope, but you would not be able to continue mining because of ceiling height restrictions. Tunnel slopes should be less than 235.*The maximum height of an tunnel entrance is 90 slope if you plan to add a mine door. *You may create a mine entrance up to 3 tiles wide.**To widen a tunnel, the tile you mine must only be connected to ONE open tunnel only** Mine doors can be placed on tunnel entrances that are 1 tile or wider, except on PvP servers. Note that you will need more than one mine door for wider entrances!* Mine Entrances cannot have a reinforced cave floor. So, when you are tunneling an entrance from the outside and receive the message, {{event|inline|The ground sounds strangely hollow and brittle. You have to abandon the mining operation.}}, you most likely have a reinforced floor inside the tunnel you are trying to open. Enter the mine from another angle and remove the reinforced floor.

Mind / == Tunnel excavation ==Activate [[Mind logicpickaxe]]'''right click''' on [[rock tile]] select '''mining''' > '''mine'''.

== Method ==* It is possible to mine up, down or flat but only the final action is taken into account. The resulting slope of up or down will be approximately 20.* There are several slight deviations in mine slopes (up to 3 "modesSlope" ) when a mine shaft progresses.This is based off Mining Skill.** skill less than 50, +-3** skill = 50, variance is +-2** skill = 70, variance is +-1** skill = 90+ no variance* When connecting two mine shafts, the direction of the mining, depending on where is irrelevant; one floor will connect to the other floor and what you mineceilings will likewise connect.* Each action will produce one stone shard. The method is much * All items mined from the same for all of them: Activate cave wall will appear in a pile on the ground on the tile you're standing; this often includes items such as [[salt]] and [[pickaxegem]]s, all of which are found randomly.* It is not possible to create an exit from the inside if there is dirt covering the planned exit, right-click this must be fully uncovered and bare just as if you were to create an entrance from the outside.* If the place outside tile is covered by dirt while trying to mine out, the message {{event|inline|The cave wall looks very unstable and select Mining -> (action)dirt flows in.You would be buried alive}}

Because Wurm == Mining resources==[[Ore]] is not produced by mining metal ore [[vein]]s found inside of a true 3D world, the cave layer is essentially a second world beneath the surface world. It is possible to mine upwards and downwards with a few limitations. You may not mine upward out of [[Marble]], [[slate]], [[rock salt vein|rock salt]], and into the [[dirtsandstone vein|sandstone]] that is covering itveins produce shards. You can mine downward until you reach the A [[waterRock salt]] table, but can not mine deeper than one tile level below water level. It is also not possible to have one tunnel pass under or over another without forming has about the same amount of shards as a vertical shaft. Each regular rock tile is essentially a pillar, so if two tunnels cross at different elevations they create a shaft going from the upper tunnel to the lower tunnel. his can be useful when done intentionally. It can also ruin your mine if unplanned. Planning your mine with an overhead view of your mine on graph paper can save you some heartacheapproximately 50 shards.

=== Opening *When an ore or shard vein is depleted a mine ===The first step in all mines tunnel is to make created. However, a mine entrance on the surface. This vein can be done on any [[cliff]] or [[rock tile]]. Equip a mining pick, and select the "Tunnel" option. After 51 tunneling take several thousand actionsto deplete, the message "You will soon create an entrance" will appear. A few actions later an entrance will be created. The exact value so it is random, averaging advised to mine around 5 mining actions after the message appearsore and shard veins for tunneling purposes.

Tunneling on == Mining floors and ceiling ==*Mining the floor or ceiling of a shallow cave will not create tunnels. Instead, it raises (for ceiling) or lowers (for floors) the cave. '''Note that, as with [[slopedigging]] , these actions affect the closest corner of the tile and not the tile itself.''' *A ceiling tile can be mined upward around 31 times before you will receive the message {{event|inline|You cannot reach the ceiling}}. (given that you haven't lowered the floor before you start).*A floor tile can be mined down well past swimming depth to let boats pass through. It is dangerous since a good idea to keep a rowboat/sailboat close by for stamina regain when mining past the water level. *Each rock tile removed will have that standard ceiling height, so each ceiling tile must be mined individually, if you are basically want them to be higher. The floor section will match up (providing you didn't mine up or down). *You can fix slopes with [[concrete]]: one concrete will raise one corner, the equivalent of 1 dirt or 1 mine action.*Mining ceilings for stone shards is much faster than mining straight down and may dig yourself into on a steep slope or wall tile, this can be used to your advantage when not wishing to extend a pitmine, but shards are required. A slope of 10+ *If you have raised the ceiling and try to mine the floor too low, you will receive the message:{{event|inline|Lowering the floor further would make the cavern unstable}} before hitting the water level.*For the best access in a mine it is probably safe (estimate)recommended not to mine the floor directly, because it can create uneven surfaces making it hard to move around. *The actions '''mine up''' and '''mine down''' create predictable slopes of 20 and are good news is that if you want a poor tunnel slopes sloped passage, although floor mining can be fixedvery useful if used in the right way. The bad news '''Proceed with caution when adjusting the floors as mining is that it not easily reversed.''' When digging you can always drop the dirt and refill the hole - this is a lot of work!'''not''' possible when mining.

Tunnels can not be opened == Mine Up/Down ==* Mining up/down will create a slope of 20 or to the corresponding next level, if the northwest corner there is more than 4 dirts below another tunnel (see [[WaterMining#Water levelDropshaft|water levelDropshaft]].)

=== Opening a ship tunnel =Leveling ==Look for Standing on a [[rock flat cave tile will permit the leveling of an adjacent tile]] so that is approximately two-thirds below it will be at the [[Water#Water level|waterline]]same height. Needing to [[dredge]] such To see if a [[tile]] is not unusualflat, especially to make activate a pickaxe and hover over the surrounding terrain look natural for those concealed ship dockstile (as long as you have at least 15 mining skill).

The important thing is Activate a pickaxe and ''not'right click' to tunnel '' the cave floor tile, select '''Mining''' > '''Level'''.*Will mine the ship entrance from highest corners and make the surfacetile flat. You mine Activate [[concrete]] '''right click'to'' the surface from inside, thus leaving an opening deep enough corner to sail throughbe raised select '''raise corner'''.

How '''The corner you get inside doesnt matterare standing nearest will be raised, so make sure you are standing in the correct spot.'''*To raise corners [[concrete]] must be held in the inventory and activated. Everything ranging from alternative entries *One concrete will raise one corner equivalent to making temp openings and collapsing them with 1 [[shaker_orb|orbsdirt]] works. All *Concrete can be used to raise an underwater cave tile as long as the tile is 25 [[dirt]]s deep or less; below that matters is you mine get the cave floor message: {{event|inline|The water is too deep enough and then mine straight out. Just make sure you have some means of restoring [[stamina]] nearbywould only dissolve the concrete.}}

Even if you get the entrance wrong on the first try. Do not worry. Simply collapse the == Surface mining ==Activate [[pickaxe]] and '''right click''' [[cliff]] or [[rock tile with an orb or Mag priest and try again]], select '''Mining''' > '''Mine'''.

Surface mining is the action of shaping external rock or cliff faces to prepare an area for tunneling, adjusting terrain for other uses or simply for aesthetic reasons. *To mine on the surface, all adjacent corners of the tile must be clear of dirt. '''You will need dig all four corners of a tile to expose rock.''' *When mining into water the maximum depth permitted is -25 from the water level. *It may take one or more actions to lower a single [[dirt]] level of [[rock]]. *Border [[Sculpting wandslope]]depth may be seen with a pickaxe activated just as with a [[shovel] is also something ].*You will only be able to look into mine slopes which are 3 times your mining skill. For example, if you mining skill is 3, you can`t find a tilemine slopes of 9 or below.

The slope of surface rock == Mine doors ==You can be changed limit access to your mine with the use of a pickaxe or a '''[[sculpting wandmine door]]'''. The sculpting wand is the fastest way to shape rockSeveral types of mine doors are available. Using a pickaxe however is time consuming but possible. Here's a step-by-step on how to do this:

<table><tr valign=top><td>'''Remember that off-deed mine doors can be bashed by other players, so your mine is not entirely safe just because it has a mine door attached. A deed [[perimeter]] does NOT protect mine doors.'''* If you wish to place a [[fence]] around a mine entrance this should be done before attaching a mine door.1) Clear * On [[Elevation]] and [[Defiance]] servers, there must be a square minimum of four 3 tiles all the way down to rock between mine doors and only 4 mine doors in order to lower the rock at the point where those four tiles intersectan 11x11 area. To clear all the dirt off There is a check in a single rock 5 tile, you must dig down to rock on all four corners. You will know that you have hit rock by watching event messages for messages that indicate you are hitting rock. You will also cease collecting dirt in inventory when you start hitting rockradius around the door being placed. Example:

If you want to lower rock at point E, you will == Dropshaft ==Dropshafts are typically unfavorable in mines. They link two sections of a mine together which have to dig down to rock at all points A a height difference of many dirts. They are not easily traveled through I. Points A/B/E/D Vehicles and horses will clear not be able to move between the top left squarelevels, B/C/F/E will clear and a player must [[Climbing|climb]] to move between the top right, etc, etctwo.</td><td> A--B--C | | | D--E--F | | | G--H--I</td></tr></table>

2) Activate your mining pick and stand at *When a drop shaft is going to be created you will receive this message before the intersection wall breaks: {{event|inline|You hear falling rocks from the other side of the four tiles (point E), click the ground, and select the mining action. Be sure that you do not select tunnelingwall. Tunneling A deep shaft will eventually create a mine entrance, which we do not want (at least not yet)probably emerge.}}

3) Randomly*Should a dropshaft be required, with about 10-20% chance, you will drop simply mine out the rock level at the point where you are mining by 1 dirt and produce a tile which separates two mines of different levels. Some players have created dropshafts to gain fast access to water or create short-cuts. There is no falling [[rock sharddamage]]. This inside mines, so falling down these shafts is not cumulative. Sometimes you will drop going to injure the rock level very quickly for a short spurt, other times you might mine for along time not drop the level. In other words, many failures in a row does not make future success more likelyplayer.

4) Attempting to lower surface rock below the ceiling of a mine below results in the message "The rock sounds hollow, you will need to tunnel to continue". At this point, you cannot lower the surface rock any further. <table><tr valign=top><td>Note that the example above is only for one point. To lower the face of a tile to make a nice mine entry tunnel, here's a more complex example: After prospecting tile B/C/G/F to create a tunnel there to start a mine, the slope is just not right.* Drop corners F and G to make a nice slope for the mine entrance.* To drop the rock level at F dig A/B/C/E/F/G/I/J/K down to rock.* To drop the rock level at G dig B/C/D/F/G/H/J/K/L down to rock. Remember: surface rock lowering is done at intersections of rock tiles, tunnel creation is done within a single rock tile. If you try to tunnel while standing at a intersection of 4 tiles, you might get a tunnel at an unexpected location, so be sure to be standing on one tile, and be sure to be clicking that one tile when creating a tunnel.</td><td align="right"> A--B--C--D | | | | E--F--G--H | | | | I--J--K--L</td></tr></table>  Surface mining will produce [[rock shards]] on each action that lowered the corner. === Mine doors ===You can limit access to your mine with the use of a [[mine door]]. Several types of mine doors are available. <br>Remember that offdeed minedoors can be bashed, so your mine is not entirely safe just because it has a mine door attached. Perimeter does '''not''' protect mine doors. Walls can be built around any slope of tunnel entrance by standing within the mine and selecting the tile borders. Note that you should build Proceed with caution as these walls ''before'' placing a mine door if you wish to install one aswell. === Tunnel Excavation === Mining a cave wall inside a mine will create a tunnel further into the mine. It takes 45 mining actions to produce the message "The wall will break soon", after which it takes average 5 actions to open the tunnel. ==== Dropshaft ====To create a dropshaft, mine a tile that is either above or below a tile that has already been dug out. Primary uses of dropshafts are fast travel from one level of a mine to a lower level. For examplevery hard, if you dig down to water level to get a source of wateroften impossible, you can create a water-filled cave and mine out over that cave to get a dropshaft that takes you straight down to the water. There is no falling [[damage]] inside mines. I do not recommend doing this as it ruins the structure of the mine. Making some parts unstable thus making it unable to be minedmodify once created. === Tunnel exits ===* You '''cannot''' mine out from a tunnel if the tile outside has dirt on it.* You '''can''' mine out from Collapsing a tunnel if dropshaft tile with the tile outside is bare rock. === Ore mining ===Ore is produced by mining ore veins found inside a mine. When an ore vein is depleted, a tunnel is created as when tunnel mining. However, a vein can take several thousand actions to deplete, so it is advised to mine around ore veins for tunneling purposes. Each action will produce one [[oreStrongwall]] of the vein's type. === Floor and ceiling mining ===Mining the floor spell or ceiling of a cave does not create tunnels. Instead, it raises (for ceiling) or lowers (for floors) the cave. Note that, as with [[diggingshaker orb]], these actions affect the closest corner of the tile and not the tile itself. A ceiling tile can be mined upward around 31 times before it is too high will allow you to reach (given that you haven't lowered the floor before you start). A floor tile can be mined downward remine a maximum of ?? times.  Excavating a new tile from a tile that has raised ceiling will not create a new tile with to the same ceiling height as the adjacent: of the new tile will have the standard ceiling height for cave tiles. However, if you have lowered the floor you might excavate a new tile at the same floor level. If you have mined down the two floor corners that are in contact with the wall you mine down the floor will stay at that level (the ceiling will still have standard heightaround it, but at the new level). This is very useful for making tunnels, for example for boats, as you only have to reach the wished floor level on the first tile proceed carefully and the rest will go along in accordance to it. Please note that when mining the floor you can create uneven surfaces thus making it hard to move around in your mine. For the best access in a mine it is recommended not to mine the floor directly unless you have a plan ask for it. The actions "mine up" and "mine down" create somewhat predictable slopes of 20 and are good if you want a sloped passageassistance, although floor mining can be very useful if used in the right way. Proceed floor excavations with caution as the mining is not easily reversed. When digging you can always drop the dirt and refill the hole - this careful planning is '''not''' possible when mining. It's advised that you mine cave ceilings when in need of rock shards it's faster than mining the caves wallsrequired.

Any excavated cave tile has a chance of caving in. When this happens, the tile is simply returned to its former non-excavated state and can be excavated again. If you mine a tile soon after it collapses, it won't need as many mine actions as usual to re-open. Ore veins may appear in cave-ins.  Reinforcing a cave wall with a [[support beam]] lowers the chance of cave-ins, but reinforced walls cannot be excavated, but they can be mined. Ore veins are said to count as reinforced for purposes of stability. Note: The only cave-ins/tile collapse that I have seen are those next to other unmined tiles.For example: If you mine a three (3) tile wide path, the center tile won't cave in but the outter tiles will have a chance to cave in... == Skill and difficulty ==Different ore veins have different difficulty. The easiest is mining plain rock, followed by [[iron vein]]s and [[copper vein]]s. The hardest are silver and gold. As with most things in Wurm, too low difficulty leads to reduced skill gain, while too high difficulty results in high failure rate. A failure results in a 1.00 QL rock or ore. Items from successful mining have random QL, but the maximum possible is the lower of your mining skill and the tile's inherent quality. See [[prospecting]] for details about tile QL. ''Optimal Skill Gain'' * Rock: 1-50* [[Iron vein]]: 50-60* [[Copper vein]]: 60-70* [[Tin vein]], [[Zinc vein]], or [[Lead vein]]: 70-85* [[Silver vein]]: 90-99 For the best skill gain, you will want to fail to mine the ore sometimes; about 10-15 failures (1QL) is the best skill gain. If you fail more, improve your [[pickaxe]] or downgrade an ore difficulty. Note that if the tile is capped at a QL much lower than your skill you won't be able to check average QL of the pile of ore/shards to see whether or not you have a decent success rate. The average QL of the pile is '''always''' based on your skill and not the tile itself, and the tile QL is therefore irrelevant to skillgain. A wider range in upper QL based on skill will get lost when translated to the tile capped with lower QL so it will look like more top QL gains but in reality they would've been higher in QL if the tile was. For example: If you have 70 mining and you mine a QL32 rock tile and get 1xQL1 and 49xQL32 you don't actually get 49xHighest possible quality - the tile just doesn't go any higher so the ones that would've been in the range between 32-70 are all translated down to 32 due to the cap. The skillgain from a QL32 and a QL70 rock tile is exactly the same. ''Note: Never mine gold for skill; it is a waste of materials and time. You have less than the optimal skill gain % chance to get ore-QL > 1/2 skill.'' ''Note: You will need to adjust your pickaxe quality to stay at the line of optimal %chance success. For the most part, 20-30QL pickaxe will work for skill gain.'' == More details on mining skillgain == '''First Rule of mining skillgain:''' The only thing that matters for skillgain PER SKILL TICK is sleep bonus, the time spent on the action, and the Circle of Cunning enchantment (if any) of your pick. Yes, your skill level impacts this as well, but if you are an X skill miner, your skillgain per hit will be Y, no matter what you mine on, unless you change the timer of the mining action, the CoC on the pick, or activate sleep bonus. *TEST* QL 28.5ish pick with CoC 65 Skill 64.2-64.3 No Sleep Bonus. Unwounded status except where noted specifically below.  Rock, Normal Quality, skill gain per 1.01-39.99 = 0.00262 Iron, Very Good, skill gain per 1.01-39.99 hit = 0.00262 Zinc, Very Good, skill gain per 1.01-39.99 hit = 0.00262 Lead, poor (22), skill gain per 1.01-22 hit = 0.00262(For the lead, note that you cannot see 22-39.99 hits because they are capped as 22. You also cannot see what would normally have been 40+)

Tin*When a tile caves in the it will become either a rock, Very Goodore or shard vein and will need to be re-excavated. *A recently collapsed rock tile may not require as many actions to re-open, however an ore tile will likely require many hundred, skill gain per 1or even thousand, actions to remove.01*Reinforcing a cave wall with a [[support beam]] will lower the chance of a cave-39in on tiles surrounding that support. Once reinforced they may not be excavated, however a mayor may mine out the support should it reside on their deed. This would take approximately 50 actions just to remove the support. '''A cave wall reinforced with a [[support beam]] off deed is literally impossible to remove. Please be mindful of this.''' *Ore veins are considered similar to reinforced walls for purposes of stability.*The chance that a tile is replaced with a vein or shard other than rock is extremely low.99 hit = 0*You also have the option to manually cave in mine tiles using the spell [[Strongwall]] or using a [[shaker orb]] which can be bought from a trader for 4 silver and is a one time use item.00262

Copper, Normal Quality, skill gain per 1.01-39.99 = 0.00262= Skillgain ==

'''Second rule *Items from successful mining have random QL, but the maximum possible is the lower of your mining skillgain:skill and the tile''' When mining inside mines, on walls, you will only get skillgains if you generate rock or ore between QL 1.01 and 39s inherent quality.99See [[prospecting]] for details about tile quality.

A) This rule does *NOT* hold for surface '''Note''': In order to gain skill from a mining or tunnelingaction the by&#8209;product has to be anywhere in between 1.01 and 39.99 quality range.

B) It MAY not hold for mining straight up or straight down in mines. I'm pretty sure the skillgain calculations for mining ceilings or floors are different. ((I was slack and did not test this''Note''': All tests were done with a 25ql pickaxe.))

C) It MAY not hold for miners with skill less than {| class="wikitable"|-! Tile type !! Skill|-| [[Rock]], [[Zinc vein|Zinc]] || 1-25|-| [[Iron vein|Iron]], [[Rock salt]] || 25-35|-| [[Tin vein|Tin]] || 35-50 (tested at 64 skill)|-| [[Copper vein|Copper]], [[Slate]], [[Lead vein|Lead]] || 50-75|-| [[Silver vein|Silver]] || 75-90|-| [[Gold vein|Gold]], [[Marble]], [[Sandstone vein|Sandstone]] || 90+|-|+ Optimal Skill Gain|}

B) If you want to optimize mining skill gain, you need to pick the correct QL>39.99 is too good of a success, pickaxe for your skill and for the vein you get no skillare mining. You can use the formula:

C'''(Skill + Tool QL) Veins or rock tiles with less than 40 QL can give skillgain even if you max their QLdivided by 2, but itthen subtract 20 = <optimal difficulty>'''s harder to judge based on your pile what sort of success rate you are achieving because the max QL of the tile masks the actual quality of your hits.

In order to fully optimize your skillgain, you need the lowest possible quality pick == Resources ==There are several types of resource which will allow you to frequently create ore or rock (in a mine) between 1.01 and 39.99 quality. Each mine-able substance has a different base difficulty. The lowest being rock, then iron, etc. A combination of your skill and your pick's quality will can be compared against the dificulty of what you are found while mining in order to determine the "curve" of skillgain.:

In other words, it is possible to adjust your skillgain by varying the quality of your pick. A higher quality pick on iron might end up generating just as much skillgain as a lower quality pick on rock because you are hitting for skillgain more often, even if you are getting a bit less skill per each skill tick (because the higher quality pick is faster). If you mine on iron at 64 skill with an 80 QL pick, you will very rarely ever get a skillgain tick. With a 28.5 QL skiller pick, you get more frequent skillgains. On lead, at 64 mining with a 28.5 QL pick, you will be constantly failing with {| class="1wikitable" results that give no skillgain. With a higher quality pick you will get more skillups. |-! Tile type !! Mining By-Products|-| [[Rock]] || [[Stone shards]]|- | [[Rock salt vein]] || [[Rock salt|Rock salt shards]]|- | [[Slate]] || [[Slate shards]]|-| [[Sandstone vein]] || [[Sandstone shards]]|- | [[Marble vein|Marble]] || [[Marble shards]]|- | [[Iron vein]] || [[Iron ore]]|- | [[Copper vein]] || [[Copper ore]]|-| [[Tin vein]] || [[Tin ore]]|- | [[Zinc vein]] || [[Zinc ore]]|-| [[Lead vein]] || [[Lead ore]]|- | [[Silver vein]] || [[Silver ore]]|-| [[Gold vein]] || [[Gold ore]]|+ Mining Resources |}

Another consideration: A quality 30ish pick is going to maintain it's status and it'Other resources which can be found include [[salt]], [[gems]], [[source crystal]]s enchantment FAR better than a QL 10 pick will, and a QL 1 pick will poof if you aren't very careful watching your pick's damage level[[flint]].

So == Notes ==*Mining speed is determined by mining skill, pickaxe [[quality]], pickaxe skill, and the most efficient method for mining skillgain would [[Wind of ages]] or [[Botd]] cast, ordered from greatest effect to least.*probably* be to acquire Because Wurm is not a true 3D world, the cave layer is essentially a QL30-ish steel pick (steel second world beneath the surface. It is rumored possible to take less damage mine upwards and hold enchantments better) downwards with very high Circle a few [[Mining warnings|limitations]].*Mining straight mines at zero slope. Mining upward or downward mines at a slope of 20 in that direction. From this, a set of Cunning enchantment and jump variants is applied based on some high QL ores until you determine skill which types ultimately determines the final slope of ores give you the most hits between tile. This skill-based variance set is such that: <50 skill is +/- 3, 50-70 is +/- 2, 70-90 is +/- 1, 90+ is 0.01 Only the final action that breaks the wall (upward, downward, or straight) determines the direction mined. * You may not mine upward out of rock and 39into the [[dirt]] that is covering it.* You can mine downward until you reach 25 dirts below the [[water]] table.* It is not possible to have one tunnel pass under or over another without forming a vertical shaft.99 QLEach tile is essentially a pillar, then find so if two tunnels cross at different elevations they create a horrible trash QL version of that ore and go shaft going from the upper tunnel to town mining itthe lower tunnel.

If your skilling pick ==PVP Servers==* Maximum slope for surface mining is also limited to your everyday use pick, then look around 1x mining skill on [[Defiance]] and experiment on different ores that you have access to, again looking for an ore type that you generate [[Epic]] servers and capped at 60 slope. * There is a lot minimum of hits 3 tiles required between 1.01 and 39mine doors on all PVP servers.99 quality

== Other considerations ==You can either mine "up", "down" or level when mining a tile. Only the last mining action is relevant to determine the direction the mine shaft will take. Mining up or down represents the equivalent of a 20 dirt [[slope]]. There are slight deviations in slope (up to 1 "dirt") when a mine shaft progresses. So, "level" is actually 0 slope, 1, or -1. Note that when connecting two mine shafts, the direction of the mining is irrelevant; one floor will connect to the other floor and ceilings will likewise connect. == Warning messages Messages=='''''NoteSee:''' Some of these messages aren't exactly as presented in-game. Feel free to correct the wording.'' Sometimes you will be unable to continue mining and presented with a warning message. [[Image:Sideshaft.png|frame|right|Side shaft example]] ; A dangerous crack is starting to form on the floor. You will have to find another way. [The cave shudders from some imbalance.] : Think it is caused by undermining previous tile mined above. No fix, though mining another wall, and therefore changing tunnel direction, worked on same tile.; Another tunnel is too close. It would collapse. : Occurs when opening a new tunnel from the surface. Caused when there is already a tunnel to the back or the sides of the entrance tile or if a tunnel is ahead but to far down to connect to.; The cave walls look very unstable. You cannot keep mining here. : Occurs inside a mine. Happens when mining close to the top of the rock layer. The ceiling of the newly mined tile would break the rock layer. Can sometimes be avoided by mining downwards or by lowering the mine floor and thereby opening the new tile a bit lower.; The cave walls look very unstable and dirt flows in. You would be buried alive. : Occurs inside a mine. Happens when the tile you are mining on will break out to the surface, but the surface is not exposed rock. To excavate it, you must first expose the rock on the surface.; ? The cave walls sound hollow. : Appears when you are mining into another mine shaft and the height difference is not dangerous.; The cave walls sound hollow. A dangerous side shaft could emerge. [The cave shudders from some imbalance.] : Occurs inside a mine. This message appears when the tile you are excavating shares a single corner with an existing tunnel. To excavate it you must first excavate so the target tile shares an entire wall with the other tunnel. See example on the right.; The ground is too steep to mine at here. You need to make it more flat. : Occurs occasionally when mining the floor down. The cause is unknown.; The ground sounds strangely hollow and brittle. You have to abandon the mining operation. : Occurs on the surface. This means there's already a tunnel on the tile you're trying to excavate. There's nothing to do about it, you simply have to make your entrance on another tile. Or you could search for the entrance (possibly caved in) to the existing tunnel.; The topology here makes it impossible to mine in a good way. : Occurs when trying to create a mine entrance on a perfectly flat rock tile. Lower at least 1 corner with surface mining to continue.; The mountainside would risk crumbling. You can't open a hole here. : Occurs when you are trying create a mine entrance on a rock tile that is too steep. The maximum slope is 270.; There is no space to mine here. Clear the area first. : Occurs when the tile you're standing on has 100 items on. Move a few objects and you can continue.; You fail to produce anything here. The rock is stone hard. : Occurs on the surface. This means the tile you are attempting to excavate is actually an ore vein. There's nothing to do about it, you simply have to make your entrance on another tile. Note that if you make the entrance one tile below the vein, the tunnel will open right into the vein and cannot be extended until the vein is depleted. The best course of action at this point would probably be to mine out a rock tile next to the one you get this message on.: Happens when mining down a floor and roof is too high, Can only be fixed by collapsing all affected tiles and remining. (aka. if you want the tile flat collapse it and remine, if you want to lower it collapse all surrounding tiles and remine.); You hear falling rocks from the other side of the wall. A deep shaft will probably emerge. : Occurs inside a mine. Caused when there is already another mine nearby, but there is too much of a height difference to connect the two mines.; You cannot keep mining here. The rock is unusually hard. : The message displayed when one attempts to open a tunnel directly onto a vein.; The roof sounds strangely hollow and you notice dirt flowing in, so you stop mining. : You get this when mining a ceiling too close to the surface and it is not rock.; The water is too deep to mine here. : You get this when you are trying to mine too far under the water table.; The roof sounds strangely hollow. You must mine the other corners if you want to create an opening.: You get this when your mining a cave ceiling and mined to outside corners height.; You cannot reach the ceiling. : You can't mine the ceiling any higher.; You are not allowed to mine here. : Deed permissions have disabled mining, and at least 1 spirit templar exists to uphold the law. == Tips ==Mining speed is determined by mining skill, [[pickaxe]] [[quality]], [[Skills:Pickaxe|pickaxe skill]] and the [[Wind of Ages]] cast, ordered from greatest effect to least. == Ore veins ==There are several types of ore which can be found while mining: * [[Copper ore]]* [[Gold ore]]* [[Iron ore]]* [[Lead ore]]* [[Silver ore]]* [[Tin ore]]* [[Zinc ore]] For details about ore location, see [[prospectingwarnings]].

* [[Support Beambeam]]* [[Clad]]

==GuidesNotes ==* Mining can be done while moving, so long as you do not move too far away (two tiles) from the tile you are currently working on.* See [[Mining Guidewarnings]]for more indepth information on each situation.