Mining

The skilled miner seeks out veins of metal to harvest ore, which can then be smelted to ingots for use in crafting items with the Blacksmithy or Tinkering skills.

In order to mine you must use a Pickaxe or Shovel on a cave floor or mountainside tile. Ore may then be smelted by using it on a Forge or Fire Beetle. Be warned - If you fail to smelt you will lose 50% of the contents of your ore pile!

The mining skill is also useful when practising the creation of smeltable items (which can be recycled back into usable Ingots, with the amount of ingots returned based on the Mining skill). You cannot mine while mounted.

As your skill improves, you become capable of mining and smelting more obscure forms of ore:
0+	Iron Ore
65+	Dull Copper Ore
70+	Shadow Iron Ore
75+	Copper Ore
80+	Bronze Ore
85+	Golden Ore
90+	Agapite Ore
95+	Verite Ore
99+	Valorite Ore

A GM Miner, after the proper research, may also extract High Quality Granite and Sand for use by the more experienced crafters. When you have read the High Quality Granite book, you can click on your pickaxe and set it to mine both stone and ore. When you have read the High Quality Sand book, instead of mining only in rock, you can also mine the beaches and deserts of Britannia (or any random sand tiles available to you).

Although your Mining skill cannot advance past 100 points through training, Mining Gloves may be worn to take your skill to an absolute maximum of 105. Mining is the only skill that can be advanced in this way without the use of a Power Scroll.

Human characters will have a chance to get extra ore with each dig, while Elves have an increased chance of harvesting special ore types from colored veins (as opposed to finding colored veins).

Whenever an ore vein refreshes after being harvested from, there is a slight chance it will change resource type. For example, a mountainside that yielded Valorite today might give plain iron tomorrow, and vice versa. Your level of skill does not determine your chance of finding a colored vein, it only determines whether you can extract the colored ore.

A Gargoyle's Pickaxe and/or Prospector's Tool can be used to potentially advance an ore vein's level by up to two types (e.g., Agapite to Valorite).

A colored ore map can be obtained from Vela the Sorceress as a Covetous Void Pool reward. These maps reveal the exact location of a single colored ore vein. The vein color depends on the type of map:

• Miner's Golden Map gives Golden Ore
• Miner's Agapite Map gives Agapite Ore
• Miner's Verite Map gives Verite Ore
• Miner's Valorite Map gives Valorite Ore

PvP vs PvM

All harvesting skills follow the PVP Mechanics rules.

• Players who forgo the blessing of peace will receive double the resources when harvesting compared to those who seek the blessing of peace.

Training

0 - 30:	Purchase training from a miner.
30 - 100:	Play in the dirt like a grubby dwarf.

There are no accelerated gains on harvesting skills. AFK macroing is perfectly legal, so boosts were deemed unnecessary.