Mining
gathering
Mine ore from nodes across the world. Your skill and your pickaxe together control your chance to get ore from a node. A Draconium node with a Draconium pickaxe gives 20% at 0 Mining and 70% at 100.
How Mining and Pickaxes work
- 1
Carry a pickaxe.
On nodes where your success chance is below 100%, a higher-quality pickaxe can improve it. A broken pickaxe does not work.
If no usable pickaxe is selected, the game selects the best one in your inventory.
- 2
Click a node.
If your chance is less than 20%, you cannot mine the node. Each try costs 1 durability. This includes the tries that fail.
- 3
Collect the ore.
A successful mine gives ore and a separate chance at a gem. Only a successful attempt depletes the node. A failure leaves it ready.
Each ore you mine also counts toward Fires of the Forge while that regional event runs in your region.
Pickaxes
You need 40% Mining to use a Rusty Pickaxe on a Tier V node. A Draconium Pickaxe works at any skill.
| Pickaxe | Tier V at 100 Mining | Where to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Rusty Pickaxe | 50% | |
| Steel Pickaxe | 55% | |
| Gold Pickaxe | 60% | |
| Beryllium Pickaxe | 65% | |
| Draconium Pickaxe | 70% |
Success by skill
On Tier V ore, each pickaxe quality adds 5% to your success chance. Each 1% Mining adds another 0.5% to that chance. In the shaded bands, the node still gives ore and experience, but no more Mining skill.
With Rusty Pickaxe at 0%, you can try 2 of 5 ores. 2 of them still give Mining skill, at 95% for each success. The dashed lines show what you cannot mine.
Mining is a value from 0% to 100% and has no experience bar. When mining can increase skill, the chance is 95% at 0% Mining and 80% at 50%. At 100%, Mining cannot increase further. Dwarves start at 5%. Every other race starts at 0%.
Ores
| Tier | Ore | Success | Skill gain | XP | Respawn | Nodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | Iron Ore | 80% | 0.13% - 0.38% | 15 | 2m 30s - 5m | 22 |
| II | Icevril Ore | 30% | 0.33% - 1.00% | 150 | 5m - 10m | 17 |
| III | Gold Ore | cannot mine | — | 750 | 5m - 10m | 21 |
| IV | Beryllium Ore | cannot mine | — | 4 000 | 7m 30s - 15m | 23 |
| V | Draconium Ore | cannot mine | — | 10 000 | 10m - 20m | 19 |
Where to mine
There are 102 nodes. Each ore is in two to four zones.
Bonus gems
Every success makes one more roll for a gem. The chance is between 0.8% and 2.5%. Mining skill does not change it.
Every gem pool
IV Beryllium Ore
V Draconium Ore
What ore is for
- Iron Ore 1 recipe
- Icevril Ore 10 recipes
- Gold Ore 8 recipes
- Beryllium Ore 9 recipes
- Draconium Ore 18 recipes
Quests that need ore
| Quest | Ore | Amount | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gathering Minerals | Iron Ore | 5 deliver | 9 |
| Gathering Iron | Iron Ore | 3 have | 25 |
| Journey into the Frozen Abyss [A] | Icevril Ore | 8 have | 30 |
| Journey into the Frozen Abyss [F] | Icevril Ore | 8 have | 30 |
| Journey into the Frozen Abyss [P] | Icevril Ore | 8 have | 30 |
| Journey into the Frozen Abyss [S] | Icevril Ore | 8 have | 30 |
| Glimmer of the Frost | Icevril Ore | 30 deliver | 40 |
| Luster of the Deep | Beryllium Ore | 20 deliver | 40 |
| Verdant Flames | Draconium Ore | 10 deliver | 50 |
Rurik Ironbeard sells Iron Ore.
Ore also goes into Alchemy recipes and other crafting stations. Ore follows the same experience rules as other gathering. See Experience for the rule.