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Harvesting

Mining

Mining is the backbone of every metal chain in the game. Ore becomes ingots at a forge, ingots become weapons, armour, tools and half the furniture in your house — so a smith who cannot mine is a smith buying their materials from someone who can. It is also the most interruptible harvesting skill: rock faces attract things that bite.

How you train it Start Mining at either of the two mines and it swings on its own every fourteen seconds or so. Every swing is a chance at ore and a chance at a skill gain, whether or not the swing found anything.
What you need A pickaxe you have made active, and standing in a mine. The pickaxe wears out — an Iron one also caps your skill gain at 75, so upgrade before you stall.

What the rock gives up

Higher skill unlocks the rarer ores; you keep finding the common ones too.

SkillYieldsShare at GM
No requirementIron Ore82.0%
65.0Dull Copper Ore4.0%
70.0Shadow Iron Ore3.5%
75.0Copper Ore3.0%
80.0Bronze Ore2.5%
85.0Golden Ore2.0%
90.0Agapite Ore1.5%
95.0Verite Ore1.0%
99.0Valorite Ore0.5%
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An Iron pickaxe caps your Mining gain at 75 no matter how good you are. Move to a better tier before you wonder why the number stopped.

Smelting ore into ingots

Smelting trains Mining rather than a skill of its own, so the whole metal chain sits under one number.

SkillOreBecomes
No requirementIron OreIron Ingot
65.0Dull Copper OreDull Copper Ingot
70.0Shadow Iron OreShadow Iron Ingot
75.0Copper OreCopper Ingot
80.0Bronze OreBronze Ingot
85.0Golden OreGolden Ingot
90.0Agapite OreAgapite Ingot
95.0Verite OreVerite Ingot
99.0Valorite OreValorite Ingot

Other Harvesting skills

Lumberjacking Fishing Begging Camping