Mining

The Mining crafting is a skill that can help you to gather resources within the mines that work with a variety of different crafts. Mining is a craft that can be learned from a shop in New Tarsonis, it is titled "Pitter (Mining)". With this skill and a mining pick you are able to mine under the surface layer of the world map. Once under the surface layer you are able to continue downwards until you reach the abyss. You may also mine in the four directions being north, south, east, west. (Note: Mining picks can break, unless you have a pick made of emeralite)

When mining up and down you are required to reinforce with a girder, except for when originally starting your shaft from the surface. You can make these girders with your mining skill at a forge with the right materials; girders are listed under the craft menu known as "Architecture". While mining be sure to keep an eye out for unstable fault-lines as mining into these can cause the mines to collapse.

When you mine in a direction it will completely strip the wall of any resources in that direction and place them in your inventory. After the wall is stripped of resources it will continue to mine the rest of the stone layer remaining. Sometimes while mining you will come across Voidstones, these are solid walls that are not capable of being mined. To recognize these on the map, they are a blank black space, ie. + + (the space in between the two + symbols would represent an existing Voidstone.) Knowing this can help you better plan your mining route as you go.

Prospecting is a useful mining skill, and some races have it as a bonus. Mine smell works the same way, but is racial only. A character with both gets two chances to spot ore, but never sees deeper than 3 rooms. For a large picture of the mines a player could make use of the scry spell.

Another key factor in mining is Xorns. A druid or ranger would be able to access these mining helping mobs the easiest, but any character with the right amount of complexity in the Nature school would be able to summon cast them. How many Xorns you can command depends on your summon limit. In order to have access to the spell to summon Xorns a person would need to put an alternate rune in their Sunbeam prism.

Having this craft, Pitter (Mining), gives you the ability to process raw mining materials, such as ores.

Details

• 'reinforce' (or 'use girder') shores up a mine room with a girder.