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Mining — Striking a vein

Veins and boulders never stand inside a town, so head out into the country. You can mine at any hour, but not with enemies close by, not while fully encumbered and not at sea. Indoors, only dungeon veins can be worked.

Property	Appearance	Range
Compass	Copper marker	150 m
World	Star-shaped glints; veins at the base of rocks	—
Overworld	Copper diamonds such as Mining ×6 for unworked nodes	Up to 3 km

Press O on the held map to open the Overworld.

Face the vein or boulder and press Interact (E). The prompt names the work, shows your rank and warns when the required rank is higher.

Action	Result
Press attack	Swing at the rock
Hit the glinting point	Two strike points
Hit elsewhere	One strike point
Hit every glint	Clean vein; +50% XP
Press Esc	Stop without loss

One of five rock-face points glints at a time. The glint moves after a strike or after a short wait.

Ore group	Strike points needed
Common	4
Middling	5
Rare metals	7

A clean Iron vein takes two swings.

Resource	Ordinary yield	Clean result
Vein	2–3 ore	Small gem chance on each glint hit; at most 1 gem per vein
Boulder	3–5 Rough Stone	Half as many Cut Stone; fractional pieces rolled as a chance

If you need Rough Stone for Mortar, avoid a fully clean quarrying result. In every gathering profession, about one harvest in ten also gives a few silver, up to 30 silver per account daily.

Enable Gentle work on the Professions page (Down arrow online) to skip timing activities in every gathering profession. Harvests give ordinary results without clean bonuses; Mining also gives no gems in this mode.

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