Mining

Mining lets you gather your own raw ores and rare prisms straight from the world, then smelt them into metal bars at the Forge to craft pickaxes, weapons and full equipment sets. It is a self-contained progression: the deeper your mining skill and the better your pickaxe, the faster and richer every strike becomes.

How it works

• Step 1Earn your pickaxeFinish the dwarven task — slay 500 dwarves — to unlock the Copper Pickaxe recipe, then forge it at the Forge (Tools tab).
• Step 2Find an ore veinOre veins are rock formations scattered through the mines and caves. Walk next to one.
• Step 3Use the pickaxe on itEach use makes several strikes. Every strike rolls for ore, a bonus lump of coal and (rarely) a prism.
• Step 4Smelt & craftTake your ore + coal to the Forge Ingots tab to smelt bars, then craft gear from those bars.

Pickaxes

Your pickaxe tier decides how many strikes (drop rolls) you get per use — a better pickaxe means more ore, coal and prism chances every single time you mine. Each tier is crafted from the previous one plus bars at the Forge.

	Pickaxe	Strikes / use	Notes
	Copper	1	Requires the dwarven task (500 dwarves)
	Iron	2	Upgrades the Copper Pickaxe
	Gold	3	Upgrades the Iron Pickaxe
	Adamantium	4	Upgrades the Gold Pickaxe
	Ancient	5	Upgrades the Adamantium Pickaxe
	Voidsteel	6	End-game pickaxe
	Aetherium	7	Top-tier pickaxe

Mining skill

Every strike grants mining experience and raises your mining level (1–100), shown in your skills window. A higher mining level unlocks tougher ores, increases your chance of finding prisms (up to +5%) and improves the ore yield inside the paid infinite mines. You need to reach each ore's required level before you can mine it.

Ores & where they come from

Each vein yields one kind of ore. Tougher ores require a higher mining level but grant more experience per strike. Coal is the fuel every smelt needs — and any non-coal vein also has a small chance (~3%) to drop a bonus lump of coal.

	Ore	Mining level	XP / strike	Used for
	Copper Ore	1	4	Copper Bar
	Coal	5	8	Fuel for every smelt
	Iron Ore	10	7	Iron Bar
	Gold Ore	25	12	Gold Bar
	Adamantium Ore	40	18	Adamantium Bar
	Ancient Ore	60	25	Ancient Bar

Vein types

Prisms

Prisms are the rare bonus drop while mining. They are the key material for the Forge's high-end recipes — Upgrade & Rarity Infusions, the attribute Essences and weapon Gems. The Ancient Prism is the common workhorse (recipes use it in bulk); the coloured prisms are far rarer.

Smelting — from ore to bars

Bring your ore and coal to the Forge and open the Ingots tab. Each recipe turns ore + coal into a refined metal bar, the base material for every crafted pickaxe, weapon and armour piece.

	Bar	Ore	Coal	Cost
	Copper Bar	1× Copper Ore	1	Free
	Iron Bar	1× Iron Ore	1	Free
	Gold Bar	1× Gold Ore	2	Free
	Adamantium Bar	1× Adamantium Ore	3	Free
	Ancient Bar	5× Ancient Ore	5	Free
	Voidsteel Bar	1× Voidsteel Ore	8	500 gp
	Aetherium Bar	1× Aetherium Ore	10	1,000 gp

Mines & access

Beyond the open veins, dedicated mines hold the richer ores. They are unlocked through progression and entered for a timed, paid session at their foreman.