Mining
Mining is a skill that allows players to obtain ores and gems from rocks. With ores, a player can then either smelt bars and make equipment using the Smithing skill or sell them for profit.
Contents
Uses
- Ore can be smelted into its respective bar through the Smithing skill
- Runes slatesare used as a component in runecrafting
- Gems are used to create jewelry, and in some cases, are a compound in augmenting.
- Geodes can be opened for a chance at ores, gems, or very rarely, talismans.
How to mine
To mine, a player will first need a pickaxe. As a player is mining a location, they will eventually obtain an ore (or a gemstone). This ore can either be used in the Smithing skill or it can be sold.
Different areas will give different types of ore, but each area can drop every type of gems and geode.
Some areas will have ores that requires a higher level than the area it is in, in this case, players are able to mine in the area but will only receive ores they meet the requirements for.
Pickaxes
Other equipment
Besides the pickaxes discussed above, the following items have some effect on mining:
- Pickaxes gives a bonus to mining level, this bonus will only affect the duration of actions and not the kind of ore that can be mined.
- Scroll of destructive testing can enchant a pickax to automatically destroy junk drops and convert them into 5 XP.
- Scroll of the prospector can enchant pickaxes to increase the odds of finding gems.
- Scroll of wealth can enchant rings or necklaces to automatically sell mined resources to the in-game shop at an increased price.
- Scroll of naturalist can enchant gloves or boots to increase the odds of finding a geode.
- Scroll of gathering can enchant rings or necklaces to give a chance to obtain extra resources.
- Scroll of superheating can enchant pickaxes to gives a chance to transform a mined ore into a bar at no extra cost.
- Scroll of the scholar can enchant rings or necklaces to increase the experienced gained, at the cost of not receiving items.
- Scroll of haste can enchant rings or necklaces to increase action speed.
Mineable items
Locations
Mining chances per location
| Stone | Clay | Sand | Coal | Silver | Slate | Bronze | Tin | Iron | Gold | Mithril | Addy | Runite | Styg | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Pit | 10 | 40 | 10 | 20 | 20 | |||||||||
| City Outskirt | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 30 | 30 | 5 | |||||||
| Village | 40 | 20 | 40 | |||||||||||
| Desert | 3 | 3 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 2 | ||||
| Underground | 5 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 24 | 19 | 10 | 5 | |||||
| Hidden Mine | 10 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 35 | 10 | |||||||
| Volcano | 20 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 20 | ||||||||
| Deep Pit | 23 | 23 | 45 | 9 |
