Mining

**Mining** is a game feature associated with breaking rocks and nodes in the mines. The player can obtain ores, gems and crystals which are used for upgrading tools or crafting machines at the Blacksmith's Workshop as well as upgrading your farmhouse at the Carpenter's Workshop.

## Locations

There are three different mines which will be accessible depending on the upgrade-level of your hammer.

### Abandoned Iron Mines

The Abandoned Iron Mines are located at the lowest level of Fire Ant Mountains, you will come across the entrance if you follow the mountain road which leads to the train station. This mine is the first mine you will have access to. When you first enter the mines you have to solve Martin's Quest "Finding Pom". After solving the quest you can explore the mines and will find the hammer.

* Very common: Rock, Clay
* Common ores: Iron Ore
* Rare: Copper Ore
* Chest: Cheap Hammer

#### Abandoned Iron Mines: Mine Level 2

Level 2 is accessible if you follow the mine cart tracks. Once you have used the mine cart in this area level 2 can be quickly reached by using the mine cart at the mine entrance.

* Very common: Rock, Clay
* Common ores: Iron Ore, Copper Ore
* Rare: Silver Ore
* Very rare: Blue Crystal, White Crystal, Big Blue Crystal, Big White Crystal, Sapphire Gem

### Green Peregrine's Cave

The Green Peregrine's Cave is located in the far west of Fire Ant Mountains. You can find it at the second lowest level right above the train station. This mine is only accessible after upgrading your hammer and destroying the huge rock in front of it.

* Very common: Rock, Clay
* Common: Iron Ore
* Rare: Emerald Gem, Ruby Gem
* Chest: Golden Orange

### Gold Mine

The Gold Mine is located at the Top of the Mountains, which is right above the Fire Ant Mountains region. This is the last mine you will have access to because it has an even bigger rock in front of it thus requires an even higher hammer upgrade.

* Very common: Rock, Clay
* Common: Gold Ore
* Rare: Gold Nuggets (found on the ground), Ruby Gem

#### Gold Mine: Link to the Past

The entrance is at the far west of the Gold Mine. It is a small area where rare ore nodes are more likely to spawn.

* Common: Clay, Copper Ore, Silver Ore, Gold Ore
* Rare: Ruby Gem, Emerald Gem, Sapphire Gem
* Very Rare: White Crystal, Blue Crystal

## Community-Tips on farming Big Crystals

Steam Community User "Phantom's" tips for getting blue and white crystals:

### Obtaining mass big blue crystals

1. Amass some money
2. Sell the large blue crystal and try to avoid selling a bunch of other things (will reduce the options that the salesman can sell)
3. Upgrade your house to level 2
4. On a Saturday go to the inn and speak to the salesman, when he has the large blue crystals buy them for 5k a pop (far easier than occasionally finding them in the mines)

### Obtaining mass big crystals

1. Enter the mines, only mine the blue rocks with silver ores, the blue and copper ones will just give regular cystals
2. Odds of getting a crystal decrease when you've found them recently
3. Odds of getting a crystal increase with every blue rock smashed and day between having found one last
4. You can only get ONE crystal a day, so make sure its from a blue and silver rock

## Spawning of Crystals

Hudell about crystals:

> "There's a complex formula to determine the chance of finding crystals. They are rare if you mine a lot, but easy to find if you don't. There's a hard limit of 1 crystal per day, but breaking extra blue nodes is still helpful because it increases the chance of finding another one the next day."
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> "White crystals are even harder to find than blue ones (average of 9 blues for every white)."
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## References

1. ↑ Phantom's Post 6th June (21:12 CET) https://steamcommunity.com/app/416000/discussions/0/2289464808489069343/
2. ↑ See Hudell's post 5th June (05:34 CET) and 5th June (08:18 CET) https://steamcommunity.com/app/416000/discussions/0/2289464731264252137/