RESOURCE GATHERING

The end product is only as good as the sum of its parts.

Herb Gathering

The world is full of useful ingredients if you just know where to look. Keep your eyes pealed as you walk around you never know what you might run into that could be useful.

Herb Cutting

Herbs can be useful even if you don’t plan on using them yourself. You can make cuttings of herbs to sell to certain merchants.

Logging

Some times you just need to chop a tree down. It’s even better when you get paid for it though or when you can use the logs as braces for mining, but watch out for the Tasloi that make the trees their home.

Mining

Making a living as a miner is an equal combination of luck and skill. In order to successfully mine you need four things. 1) Two wooden boards per rock 2) A rock hammer 3) good pick axe 4) A dwarf. But if you can only manage the first three you can still try to make a go of if if you know what you are doing.

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The first thing you will want to do is to use your rock hammer on the stone you are interested in mining. This will give you a chance to gather information about the rock you intend to mine. Rocks have four properties

Hardness: This is a representation of how much damage one must do in one hit in order to break off a chunk of rock.
Content: This is information on what the stone might contain. This will be something like coal or iron.
Complexity: This is a representation of how hard it is to identify if the stone contains something of value.
Quantity: This is a representation of how much stone is left to mine out of the site. Once a site is mined out the stone will disappear and in time a new tunnel will appear with new sites.

After identifying a good site (generally speaking you want one of medium hardness with the content you are looking to gather with a low complexity and a large quantity) you will need to reinforce the site so that you can safely mine. To do this you will need two boards per mining site. You can collect boards by either cutting down trees in the Cloakwood Forest and sawing the logs they drop or by getting to the mines first after a server reset as two free boards will always spawn in the pile.

Next you will want to start mining by bashing the rock with a pick axe equipped. Note that some characters may need to purchase weapon tape to be able to use the pick axe. As you mine the rock pieces of stone will break off. There is also a chance that you will release a water elemental that has been trapped in the earth when the mine was originally flooded. Remember its usually best to mine in pairs for safety.

Once you have acquired some unidentified mining rocks use them on yourself or the ground or in general to attempt to identify them. If the stone contained something of value and you make your identification roll the object of value will be added to your inventory along with a raw stone! If you fail or if there was nothing of value in the rock you will be left with a raw stone. Raw stones can still be useful though hauling them to the pile top side will give you a bit of xp for building up your strength and there might even be some potions that call for their use.