40% Physical Damage
10% Fire Damage
20% Cold Damage
10% Poison Damage
20% Energy Damage
1.4%
Mining issues:
Valorite Ore is hardest to find, Iron Ore the easiest. A miner with
a high mining skill is more likely to find a colored ore vein than less
skilled miner.
Ore spots give a consistent total amount of ore each time they are mined, this can be either all iron or a mix of iron and colored.
Ore spots have a random chance to change what ore they give at each respawn.
When a miner reaches the minimum required mining skill and is mining
a colored ore vein he has a 50% chance of actually digging up the colored
ore.
Mining colored ore seems to improve skill a little faster than normal
iron ore.
Smelting colored ore into ingots improves mining skill much faster
than smelting normal iron ore.
Mining Tools:
A brand new shovel or pickaxe bought from a tinker npc has 50 uses before it
breaks.
An exceptional shovel or pickaxe made by a player using tinkering skill has 100 uses before it breaks
High quality mining tools, such as the sturdy
pickaxe and sturdy
shovel can be obtained by blacksmiths turning in a completed Bulk
Order Deed. Sturdy digging tools have approximately 180 uses.
Prospector's tools can also be obtained by blacksmiths turning in bulk orders. This item will allow you to extract ore one color higher than the one normally yielded by a vein. For instance, if you use it on a verite vein, you will obtain valorite. The process to use this item is to dig once with the shovel/pickaxe, use the tool on the ore vein then dig normally to empty the spot.
Gargoyles
and Stone Gargoyles
sometimes carry a
gargoyle's pickaxe. These pickaxes have a variable number of uses between 100 and 120 approximately and can also be obtained by blacksmiths turning in a completed bulk order deed. Using a gargoyle's pickaxe boosts the ore vein by one level and will stack with the same effect from a prospectors tool. For example an agapite vein can be raised to verite with a prospector tool and then to valorite with a gargoyle pickaxe. This item also has a chance to spawn an Ore
Elemental of the same color as the ore you are currently mining.
Smithing issues:
A smith cannot use the colored ingots unless he has the required skill
for that color.
If a smith has the minimum skill requirement for a color, the success
on smithing seems the same, even on exceptional quality plate chests.
Smithing colors has no effect on the rate of skill gain.
Other Resources
6 Gems used to craft a variety of items spawn randomly when mining at GM level. These are:
Normal, jewelry gems, spawn randomly when mining at GM level when the miner has read the book 'Mining for Quality Gems' bought from a blacksmith in the Royal City, Ter Mur facet and has selected from the context menu on his mining tool 'set to ore and gems'
Crystaline Blackrock spawns randomly when mining at GM level in the Ter Mur Facet (These can also be found as loot on ore elementals dug using a gargoyle pickaxe on all facets)
Saltpeter can be mined from niter deposits in dungeons or from boats. Only miners with high luck can find these deposits which can occur in 5 different sizes. Once found the miner must mine the deposit until it is consumed. The niter will decay if not mined when found.
Saltpeter
A Small Niter Deposit
A Larger Niter Deposit
A Huge Niter Deposit
A Massive Niter Deposit
A Gigantic Niter Deposit
Thanks to Dymos, GM-Smith of the Cove's Merchants and Craftsmen (CMC) on
Chesapeake for most of the information on colored ore and ingots.
Thanks to Elowyn of Moonglow for pictures of the different colored
armor sets.
Two
small piles
or
One
medium pile
One
large pile
