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Mining

Crack ore veins for gold and for the materials behind armour sets, runes and better picks. Every vein is a small gamble: the first strikes are safe, the deeper ones pay more but the rock can collapse.

Get started

Step 1

Buy an Iron Pick

The Quarrymaster sells the Iron Pick for 1,200 gold. Keep it in your bag: you don't equip it, the game uses the best pick you carry.

Step 2

Find a vein

Veins are coloured rocks scattered through the world. Lower tiers sit in Vaelmore; the richest ones are out in the PvP World (level 35+). See them on the Atlas.

Step 3

Strike

Walk up to a vein and tap Mine. Each strike gives 1–2 ore. The first two strikes are safe: that ore goes straight into your pocket.

Step 4

Bank or push your luck

From strike 3 on, new ore is at risk until you bank it. A collapse wipes the at-risk ore (your pocketed ore is always safe). Finish all 8 strikes and you keep everything.

How a vein works

• Every vein holds 8 strikes, then it vanishes and grows back somewhere else nearby in 3–5 minutes.
• Your Mining level adds a chance for +1 extra ore on every strike: 0.7% per level, up to 35% at level 50.
• Rare ore (Heartvein, Gildshard, Bloomcore, Rimeglass, Cinderheart) can only appear on risky strikes. Better picks add to the 5% base chance.
• A collapse also takes any rare ore that was still at risk. Bank before a big risk if you just hit a rare.
• A pick can crack ore up to one tier above its own, as long as your Mining level is high enough for that ore.

When should you bank?

If you always bank after the same strike, this is what one vein gives you on average. The best row is highlighted: past strike 5 the collapse odds eat more than the extra strikes add.

Net gold = ore and rare ore sold to the Quarrymaster, minus the repair cost of the strikes used. Ore you keep for crafting is worth far more than its shop price.

Picks

Every strike wears the pick by 2 points, less on better picks. Repair at the Quarrymaster: you pay per missing point, so better picks cost about the same per strike but last much longer between visits. A worn-out pick (0 durability) can't mine until it's repaired.

Ores

Sell prices are what the Quarrymaster pays per piece. Players often pay more on the Market, because crafters need ore in bulk.

What ore is for

Mining levels

Job

Fishing

Cast from any shore, time the hook and win the reel. Fishing pays a steady income, feeds the alchemy recipes at the Fishmonger, and hides five relics for the patient.

Get started

Step 1

Buy a rod and bait

The Fishmonger sells a starter rod for 500 gold and Worms for 20 gold each. The rod stays in your bag; drag the bait into its slot.

Step 2

Cast at the water

Stand at the edge of any lake, pool, sewer or lava shore and tap Fish. Each cast uses one bait, whether you land the fish or not.

Step 3

Hook it

A bite comes after 2–8 seconds. Tap within the hook window (2–4 seconds) or the fish swims off.

Step 4

Win the reel

For 3 seconds, hold and release to keep the fish inside the green band. The rarer the fish, the narrower the band. Score 55 or more to land it.

The reel: how much room you get

Rods

Rods never wear out and are never equipped: the game picks the best rod in your bag that works for the water you're at. Only the two starter tiers split into a normal and a lava-proof version; from level 20 every rod is lava-proof.

Bait

The game always uses the best bait you have equipped that your level allows. Better bait turns junk into real fish and pushes common catches toward rare ones.

What bites, by level

Odds per cast with the best bait and the best shop rod for that level. The last three columns are the gold you'd make per 100 casts if you sold every catch to the Fishmonger, after paying for the bait, at three different catch rates.

Signature fish and relics are rolled first and depend on the water; everything else is the same at every shore. Fish kept for recipes are worth more than these shop prices.

Every fish

Waters

Extras

What fish is for

Fishing levels

Questions