Boz Universe

Gathering

Mining

Dig ore and stone from rock with a pickaxe or shovel. Smelting turns ore into ingots.

Group
Gathering
Title it gives
Miner
Grows your stats
Strength (100%)
Head start
Inca (most of all Children of Mama Killa)

How it grows

Like every skill it runs from 0 to 100 and rises a tenth of a point at a time as you use it: quickly while it is low, hardly at all on work far beneath you. Every try trains it, by how hard the finds you could make are. A full backpack stops the work.

All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Mining to rise, fall or hold in the Skills window (K). A people that is good at it starts 10 points higher, 15 on its own path, and raises it a fifth more often for life.

Using it can also raise your stats a point at a time, leaning towards: Strength (100%).

Titles

When Mining is your best skill, it names you:

  • 30 Neophyte Miner
  • 40 Novice Miner
  • 50 Apprentice Miner
  • 60 Journeyman Miner
  • 70 Expert Miner
  • 80 Adept Miner
  • 90 Master Miner
  • 100 Grandmaster Miner

The Mining tree

Every 10 points of Mining gives a point to spend here. Some places need another first; some ask you to choose one or the other. Unlearn the whole tree for gold with F4.

Deep Delver

More from every vein.

  1. Rich Veins3 ranks

    +10% chance per rank to dig up twice as much.

  2. Strong Back2 ranks

    You swing the pick 15% faster per rank.

    Needs Rich Veins

  3. Motherlode1 rank

    Another +20% chance to dig up twice as much.

    Needs Strong Back

Prospector

Rarer ore, found faster.

  1. Keen Eye3 ranks

    Rarer ores turn up 20% more often per rank.

  2. Lore of Stone1 rank

    Rare ores turn up twice as often again.

    Needs Keen Eye

What you can find

Your skill decides which finds can come up; better skill makes rare finds more likely. The tool in your hand must also be hard enough.

FindFrom skillWhere
copper ore0Anywhere it can be worked
flint0Anywhere it can be worked
stones0Anywhere it can be worked
tin ore5tin veins
coal10coal veins
sulfur ash15Anywhere it can be worked
iron ore20Anywhere it can be worked
pieces of amber30Anywhere it can be worked
citrines35Anywhere it can be worked
amethysts40Anywhere it can be worked
silver ore45silver veins
tourmalines45Anywhere it can be worked
gold ore50Anywhere it can be worked
sapphires55Anywhere it can be worked
emeralds60Anywhere it can be worked
deep-iron ore65deep veins
ember-iron ore65ember veins
rubies65Anywhere it can be worked
sky-iron ore65sky veins
tide-silver ore65tide veins
Seamsteel ore75seam veins
diamonds75Anywhere it can be worked
star sapphires85Anywhere it can be worked

What you can make (12)

Below the first number you can't make it; at it you succeed half the time; at the second, every time. A failed try loses half the ingredients.

MakesSkillNeedsAt
copper ingots0 to 402 copper oreforge
tin ingots0 to 402 tin oreforge
bronze ingots ×410 to 503 copper ingots1 tin ingotsforge
iron ingots20 to 602 iron oreforge
steel ingots ×235 to 752 iron ingots1 coalforge
silver ingots45 to 852 silver oreforge
gold ingots50 to 902 gold oreforge
deep-iron ingots65 to 1002 deep-iron oreforge
ember-iron ingots65 to 1002 ember-iron oreforge
tide-silver ingots65 to 1002 tide-silver oreforge
sky-iron ingots70 to 1002 sky-iron oreforge
Seamsteel ingots80 to 1103 Seamsteel oreforge

More in the guide: Gathering and materials · All skills