Mining

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Mining

Mining is used for Mining ore, Rune Essence, and gems. Each Mining action takes 3 seconds, and can be reduced by 5-50% by purchasing pickaxe upgrades, 15% by purchasing the

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Master of Nature

god upgrade, and 0.2 seconds by reaching the 50% Mastery pool checkpoint. The pickaxe upgrade and

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Master of Nature

reductions are additive with each other, applying before the 0.2 second Mastery reduction, resulting in the lowest possible action time of 0.85 seconds. Ore and rune essence amounts can be doubled by wearing Mining Gloves with active charges. Raising Mining to

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Level 99

will unlock the Mining Skillcape for purchase from the Shop. Equipping the Mining Skillcape will give 1 bonus Coal Ore for every Mining action.

Mastery Unlocks

Item Mastery Unlocks

Level Unlock
1 Each Mastery Level increases maximum Rock HP by 1
10 1% Chance of obtaining 2 ore
20 2% Chance of obtaining 2 ore
30 3% Chance of obtaining 2 ore
40 4% Chance of obtaining 2 ore
50 5% Chance of obtaining 2 ore
60 6% Chance of obtaining 2 ore
70 7% Chance of obtaining 2 ore
80 8% Chance of obtaining 2 ore
90 9% Chance of obtaining 2 ore
99 15% Chance of obtaining 2 ore

Mastery Pool Checkpoints

Pool % Pool XP Bonus
10% 1,150,000 xp +5% Mining Mastery XP for Melvor Realm only
25% 2,875,000 xp -10% Mining node respawn interval for Melvor Realm only
50% 5,750,000 xp -0.2s Mining Interval for Melvor Realm only
95% 10,925,000 xp +10 Mining Node HP (Melvor Realm Only)
Total Mastery Pool XP 11,500,000

Rock HP

Rock HP determines how many ores can be extracted from a rock before it has to respawn. All rocks passively regenerate HP at a rate of 1 every 10 seconds, stopping when a rock reaches its maximum HP. Regeneration does not occur while a rock is respawning after being fully depleted.

Maximum rock HP is calculated as follows:

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{Rock HP}=5 + \text{Mastery Level} + \text{Bonus} }[/math]

Where [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Bonus} }[/math] starts at 0, increasing by:

  • +10 if the 95%
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    Mastery
    pool checkpoint has been reached
  • +20 when both the
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    Mole
    and
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    Bear
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    Summoning
    synergy and Perfect Swing Potion is active
  • The below amounts when the relevant bonuses are active:

In addition, the following can be used to provide a chance to deal no damage to rock HP while Mining:

Using these bonuses effectively increases a rock's HP to [math]\displaystyle{ \frac{\text{Rock HP}}{1 - \text{Preserve Chance}} }[/math]. For example, a rock with a max HP of 12 while the Perfect Swing Potion III is being used will have an effective max HP of [math]\displaystyle{ \frac{12}{1 - 0.4} = 20 }[/math].

Due to passive rock HP regeneration, it is possible (given a sufficiently high maximum rock HP) to ensure a rock always has HP and never has to respawn, no matter how long it has been mined for. To achieve this, the player's chance to deal zero damage to ores must be at least [math]\displaystyle{ \left \lceil 1 - \frac{\text{Action Interval (seconds)}}{10} \right \rceil }[/math].

Therefore, the chance required in order to avoid respawns at the lowest possible interval (0.85 seconds) is [math]\displaystyle{ \left \lceil 1 - \frac{0.85}{10} \right \rceil = \left \lceil 0.915 \right \rceil = 0.92 = 92\% }[/math] or higher. This can be achieved by using Perfect Swing Potion IV, Miner's Helmet, and at least +9% from

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Terra

. Below lists the rock HP at various

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Mastery

levels with and without the maximum possible bonus:

Mastery Level Max Rock HP
Without Bonus With Bonus
1 6 61
2 7 62
3 8 63
4 9 64
5 10 65
10 15 70
20 25 80
50 55 110
75 80 135
99 104 159

Skillcape

The skillcape can be purchased from the store for 1,000,000GP after the player reaches

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Level 99

.

Regular Skillcape

The Mining Skillcape is the skillcape for the Mining skill. It can be purchased for 1,000,000GP from the Shop once the player reaches

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Level 99

in the Mining skill. The Mining Skillcape offers the following benefits when worn:

+1 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply)

Superior Skillcape

The Superior Mining Skillcape is the superior skillcape for the Mining skill. It can be purchased for 10,000,000GP from the Shop once the player reaches

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Level 120

in the Mining skill.

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Level 120

can only be reached if the player owns the Throne of the Herald expansion. Likewise, the superior skillcape can only be purchased if the player owns this expansion. The superior skillcape offers the following benefits when worn:

+2 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) and +5% Chance to find gem veins when Mining

Pet

The pet can be unlocked by doing any Mining action.

PetNameDLCEffect
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Cool RockMelvor Logo.svg +5 Mining Node HP

Pickaxes

Pickaxes are permanent upgrades purchased from the Shop that decrease the amount of time it takes to mine ore by their bonus speed percentage. In addition they provide a chance to double ores. The bonuses provided by these upgrades are permanently active once purchased, they do not need to be equipped or otherwise enabled.

Ores

Higher tiers of ore are unlocked as the player's Mining level increases. Mining Rune Essence yields double the amount of ore, however Gem Gloves will not work when Mining it. To begin Mining Dragonite Ore the player must have at least 271 Mining mastery levels in total.

Gems

Each Mining action has a 1% gem find chance, which can be increased by +1-15% when the increased chance to receive gems modifier from

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Terra

is active, or can be increased to 100% when wearing Gem Gloves. If the Clue Chasers Insignia is equipped, then this chance is increased by 10% of its current value (For example, a 20% chance becomes [math]\displaystyle{ 20\% \times 1.1 = 22\% }[/math] when Clue Chasers Insignia is equipped). The chance to receive a gem is capped at 100%, so any bonuses above this limit have no effect. The

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Mole

and

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Octopus

synergy may also be used for a 15% chance to receive an additional gem of any type whenever a gem is dropped while Mining.

The possible gem drops are shown in the table below:

GemDLCGem ChanceGem Price
TopazTopazMelvor Logo.svg 50.0%225GP
SapphireSapphireMelvor Logo.svg 17.5%335GP
RubyRubyMelvor Logo.svg 17.5%555GP
EmeraldEmeraldMelvor Logo.svg 10.0%555GP
DiamondDiamondMelvor Logo.svg 5.0%1,150GP

Potion

The Perfect Swing Potion provides a chance to mine from a rock without lowering the rock's HP.

Perfect Swing Potion
PotionTierChargesEffect
Perfect Swing Potion II30+10% chance to deal no damage to Essence Nodes in Mining and +10% chance to deal no damage to Ore Nodes in Mining
Perfect Swing Potion IIII50+20% chance to deal no damage to Essence Nodes in Mining and +20% chance to deal no damage to Ore Nodes in Mining
Perfect Swing Potion IIIIII80+40% chance to deal no damage to Essence Nodes in Mining and +40% chance to deal no damage to Ore Nodes in Mining
Perfect Swing Potion IVIV100+80% chance to deal no damage to Essence Nodes in Mining and +80% chance to deal no damage to Ore Nodes in Mining

Summoning Boosts

This table shows all the

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Summoning

Familiars and Synergies that provide a bonus to Mining.

Skill Boosts

This table lists most sources of Mining-specific modifier boosts. For a list of boosts that apply to all skills, see the Skill Boosts page. This list does not contain boosts provided from

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Mastery

rewards.

Trivia

Prior to the release of V1.0, the source code file for the Mining skill was called rockHitting.js, which is in contrast to other skills' source files which are named eponymously (i.e., woodcutting.js for Woodcutting). This used to be case for Mining as well[1], however it turned out that some browsers or extensions block a script called mining.js, likely in an attempt to prevent unwanted crypto mining, so the file was eventually renamed.

Upon release of V1.0, Mining became one of a small number of tick-based skills, at which point the source file was renamed once more to rockTicking.js.