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)

• Each mine is born with certain characteristics dependent on ore type. For example, an iron mine always uses 2 characteristics in its 'game': Body Colour and Crystal Shape.

• 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	south Quartz
Celeano	Emerald
Maia	Ruby
Merope	Sapphire
Sterope	Quartz
Taygete	Opal

(Gems were not regional in Beta, but based on very large gem grids - 500x500 or 1000x1000. Check for Tale5 live.)

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 Base 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 Base Shapes	All Same or All Different

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

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.