Guides/Mining

General Description of Mining

• Anyone can see what type of ore mine it is. These mines do not crumble so there is no repair cost.

• When dowsing with Perception 'Unrecognizable ore' is the required Perception divided by 2 and rounded down. That's the current theory.

• Work the Mine, Normal hotkey [W] to get the first set or new set of ore stones. There should be an option for Color Blind Mode. (There is, but you need to do a GM call to get it set for you permanently)

• Minimum number of Ore Stones in a successful Workload for any ore seems to be a minimum of 3 Ore Stones chosen. (In Beta, Silver required 4 stones)

• Gems and coal are produced when one of the Ore Stones crumbles. When a specific Ore Stone has been selected in a correct workload 7 times it crumbles. (In Beta, Lithium stone crumbled after only 3 workloads)

Region	Gem
Alcyone	Topaz
Celeano	Emerald
Maia	Ruby
Merope	Sapphire
Sterope	Quartz
Taygete	Opal
Sinai	Diamond

Note: On 4:06PM Year 1, Akhet II-14 teppy corrected his bug that topaz gems were not in egypt and announced in System that Alcyone gems changed. He told Sprocket that it was a bug and flipped a coin to decide either Sterope or Alcyone. Alcyone won. "Scientists at the Alcyone University of Harmony note geological changes among mines in the region."

Ore Type	Number of Ore Stones in a set	Varying Characteristics	Characteristic Rules for a Successful Workload
Aluminum	9	4 Body Colours, 4 Body Shapes, 4 Base Colours	All Same or All Different
Copper	8	3 Body Colours, 4 Body Shapes	All Same or All Different
Iron	7	3 Body Colours, 3 Crystal Shapes	All Same or All Different
Lead	9	4 Body Colours, 4 Body Shapes, 3 Crystal Colours	All Same or All Different
Platinum	12	5 Body Colours, 5 Body Patterns, 5 Crystal Colours, 5 Base Shapes	Some Same and Some Different
Tin	9	4 Body Colours, 4 Body Pattern	All Same or All Different
Titanium	12	5 Body Colours, 5 Body Shapes, 5 Base Colours, 5 Base Shapes	All Same or All Different

Additional mine characteristics from beta, to be checked for T5 live:

Tale 5 Mine.................................................................................Tale 5 Ore Stones

Public Mines

Ore Type	Number of Ore Stones in a set	Varying Characteristics	Characteristic Rules for a Successful Workload
Zinc	10	3 Body Colours, 3 Base Shapes, 3 Crystal Colours	All Same or All Different
Tungsten	12	3 Body Shapes, 3 Body Patterns, 3 Crystal Shapes, 3 Base Shapes	Some Same and Some Different
Lithium	10	7 Body Patterns, 7 Crystal Shapes	Some Same and Some Different (gem/coal after 3 uses)
Strontium	10	7 Body Colours, 7 Crystal Colours, 7 Base Colours	All Same or All Different
Magnesium	9	7 Body Colours, 3 Body Shapes, 3 Body Patterns	Some Same and Some Different
Antimony	14	5 Crystal Colours, 5 Crystal Shapes, 2 Base Shapes	All Same or All Different
Silver	10	5 Body Colours, 5 Base Shapes, 5 Base Colours	4+ All Same or All Different
Gold	12	3 Body Colours, 3 Body Patterns, 3 Crystal Colours, 3 Crystal Shapes	All Same or All Different
Platinum	12	5 Body Colours, 5 Crystal Colours, 5 Base Shapes	Some Same and Some Different

Playing the Mining Game

• We will use a Copper Mine in this example. Copper Mines use the Ore Stone characteristics of body colours and body shapes. You will always play the Mining Game with this type of mine with those characteristics. In the chart above, successful workloads will have characteristics that are either all the same or all different for copper.

• Click on the Mine and choose Work this Mine, Normal [W] to bring out a new Ore Stone set.

• Left-click the stones that you think will be either All Same or All Different as in the chart above for this Ore Stone Set and choose Add this to the Workload [A]. In this example I chose All Different for both colour and shape, so all stone shapes must be different and all stone colors must be different (yellow, purple, blue). A blue rotating ring appears around each stone you choose. Two Ore Stones have been chosen and a blue Ore Stone is about to be chosen.

• Left-click the last Ore Stone and choose Add this to the Workload and Finalize [S]. If you chose a correct set of Ore Stones then you will see the flyaway message as below! You win some ore! The ore amount is added into the pot and you can Take.

Ore Type	Region	Coords	Nearest landmark
Lead	Merope	-1570 5000	UBody-has compound with bullet furnaces and a hearth for cc. Please bring b&b to help maintain as it has no cornerstone
Iron	Alcyone	1783, 2038	Flash Back Fonderie - 3 Compression furnace, 8 Bullet furnace
Copper	Alcyone	1798, 2030	Flash Back Fonderie - 3 Compression furnace, 8 Bullet furnace
Tin	Alcyone	1819, 2015	Flash Back Fonderie - 3 Compression furnace, 8 Bullet furnace
Tungsten	Alcyone	1068, 2251	Smelting facilities planned but not builded yet
Platinum	Sterope	1070, -2282