Prospecting

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Prospecting

Debuff	No
Prolonging	Yes
Related Skills	Mining
Scroll
	Scroll of the Prospector
Slot (Max)	Pickaxe (8) Mining Set (3)
Experience	1,500
Level	25
Cost	300 Silver 40 Air Rune 40 Fire Rune 40 Cosmic Rune 1 Scroll
Description
Increase your chance to find gems or silver while mining by 50%. Has a 10% chance to consume an earth rune on success. Attempts to pull the rune from your inventory then ammo pouch if none found.

Prospecting increase your chance to find gems or Silver while Mining by 50%. It has a 10% chance to consume an Earth Rune on success and will attempt to pull the rune from your Inventory then ammo pouch if none are found.

Interactions

• Unlike Root Digging ( Foraging) and Refining ( Smithing) buffs, gems can be obtained without this enchantment while mining.

• Prospecting rolls after Empowered Prospecting and does not stack with it.

Scroll

The Scroll of the Prospector has a vendor value of 2000 gold and is tradeable at the Marketplace. It is used to enchant pickaxes or items from the mining set. This scroll is created through Scrollcrafting:

Icon	Name	Skill: Level	Experience	Recipe
	Scroll of the Prospector	Scrollcrafting: 25	1,500	x40, x1, x40, x300, x40

• Earn a Scroll of the Prospector by completing the Caves and Caverns quest.

Potion

Prospecting does not have a potion form that can be brewed through Alchemy, however individual stacks of Prospecting 2 can be purchased from the Event Shop at a price of 3 stacks/1 Event Token. They are not stored in the inventory but are consumed immediately.

Formula

The chance to find a random gem per action while mining is calculated using this formula:

$GemChance={\frac {baseTime*2+prospector*100+100}{500000}}\times 100\%$

Level	Zone	Base Time	Buff - Gem Chance							Buff 6 - Average Gems per Day
			0	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Clay Pit	5s	0.022%	0.042%	0.062%	0.082%	0.102%	0.122%	0.142%	25
10	City Outskirts Mine	8s	0.023%	0.043%	0.063%	0.083%	0.103%	0.123%	0.143%	13
20	Village Quarry	8s	0.023%	0.043%	0.063%	0.083%	0.103%	0.123%	0.143%	13
30	Desert Mine	12s	0.025%	0.045%	0.065%	0.085%	0.105%	0.125%	0.145%	9.0
40	Underground Mine	12s	0.025%	0.045%	0.065%	0.085%	0.105%	0.125%	0.145%	9.0
45	Slate Spires	13.5s	[?]	[?]	[?]	[?]	[?]	[?]	[?]	[?]
50	Hidden Mine	15s	0.026%	0.046%	0.066%	0.086%	0.106%	0.126%	0.146%	7.3
60	Volcano Mine	15s	0.026%	0.046%	0.066%	0.086%	0.106%	0.126%	0.146%	7.3
70	Deep Pit	20s	0.028%	0.048%	0.068%	0.088%	0.108%	0.128%	0.148%	5.5

The following table shows the distribution for random gems:

Gem	Chance
Sapphire	40%
Emerald	30%
Ruby	20%
Diamond	7%
Black Opal	3%

Global Buffs

• A temporary Prospecting buff can be purchased from the Shrine of Toucan with gold when it becomes available at the Altar.