Crystal Caverns

The Crystal Caverns is a place to mine many types of crystals, ranging from ruby, to amber, and to hematite. Each crystal needs a different type of drill to be mined. Also a place for some decent mid-game gear. (Also Andy1515's favorite place)

**Warning: Drills CANNOT mine the previous crystal, so make sure to save up crystals!**

To start, go down the hallway that you warped into from /warp, and there you will meet Starter Steve. He sells an *First Miner's Pickaxe* for 4 diamonds*,* which can mine ruby and quartz (red and white glass) at an incredibly slow rate with mining fatigue 2. You will then see a large gap, which leads to multiple places. Land in the water, or tank the fall damage. If you look to your left, you can spot the Spider's Den. Rich with quartz, the den itself has a quartz pickaxe, which costs 2 quartz gems (256 quartz crystals), and always doubles the amount of quartz you get without the 20x crystal drop. More info on the 20x crystals and the Spider's Den later.

If you look behind you from the water, you can spot the Miner's Village. The villagers there sell or buy a variety of things, such as Drill Catalysts, Mining Helmets, and Drills.

**General Store**

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 *Drill Mould*
 Cost: 2 stacks of Greg Coins

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 *Mining Helmet*
 Cost: 64 Coal and 4 Amber Gems
 Gives the wearer Saturation 10.

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 *Mole Pet*
 Cost: 1 Drill Catalyst and 4 Ruby Gems
 Haste 5 in offhand. +50% KB resistance and +25% attack speed.

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 *Miner's Soup*
 Cost: 4 Diamonds
 Gives haste 2 for 10 seconds

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 *First Miner's Pickaxe*
 Cost: 4 Diamonds

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**Crystal Sell Price**

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 16x Ruby Crystal/16x Ruby Powder
 Sells for 1 diamond.

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 16x Amethyst Crystal
 Sells for 2 diamonds.

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 16x Sapphire Crystal
 Sells for 3 diamonds.

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 16x Jade Crystal
 Sells for 4 diamonds.

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 16x Quartz Crystal
 Sells for 5 diamonds.

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 16x Amber Crystal
 Sells for 6 diamonds.

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 1x Pile of Ruby Dust
 Sells for 8 diamonds.

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 16x Hematite Crystal
 Sells for 8 diamonds.

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*P.S. you can sell gems as well at a nearby villager.*

To start using a drill, buy a Drill Mould at the General Store for 128 Greg Coins, which have a value of 1 diamond each, and can be traded for at the Mountain Range. Next, go to the nearby Ruby refinery, and purchase the following Drills:

**Ruby Drills**

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*Ruby Drill RB-1000:*
 Cost: 1 Drill Mould and 32 diamonds
 Effect while holding: Mining Fatigue 2
 Can Break: Red Stained Glass/Glass Pane (applies to all Ruby drills)

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*Ruby Drill RB-2000:*
 Cost: Ruby Drill T1 and 2 Piles of Ruby Dust
 Effect while holding: Mining Fatigue 1

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*Ruby Drill RB-3000:*
 Cost: Ruby Drill T2 and 4 Ruby Gems
 No effect while holding.

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**Ruby Forger's Assistant**

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 *Soul Gauntlet +15*
 Cost: Soul Gauntlet and 4 Piles of Ruby Dust

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 *Ruby Ring*
 Cost: 8 Ruby Gems
 When placed in the 9th hotbar slot, gives Regeneration 5 and +2 bonus ruby crystals.

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Oh! Didn't I forget to mention that you can convert crystals into their gem form for 128 of the crystal specified? Sorry for not telling you sooner. This can also be applied to Ruby Powder. Also, all T1 drills have Mining Fatigue 2, and all T2 drills have Mining Fatigue 1. Also, you need the T2 of the previous drill to upgrade, and not the T3 of the drill.

**Amethyst Drills**

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*Amethyst Drill AM-1000*
 Cost: Ruby Drill T2 and 5 Piles of Ruby Dust
 Effect while holding: Mining Fatigue 2
 Can break: Purple Stained Glass/Glass Pane (applies to all Amethyst drills)

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*Amethyst Drill AM-2000*
 Cost: Amethyst Drill T1 and 3 Amethyst Gems
 Effect while holding: Mining Fatigue 1

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*Amethyst Drill AM-3000*
 Cost: Amethyst Drill T2 and 1 Drill Catalyst
 No effect while holding.

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Drill Catalysts can be bought for 20 Ruby Gems and 20 of any other gem.

**Sapphire/Jade Drills**

Sapphire is most likely better cause BLUE! Sorry, just opinions.

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 *Sapphire/Jade Drill SP/JD-1000*
 Cost: Amethyst Drill AM-2000 and 11 Amethyst Gems
 Effect while holding: Mining Fatigue 2
 Jade Drills can break Green Stained Glass/Glass Panes for Jade Crystals, while the Sapphire Drills can break Blue   Stained Glass/Glass Panes for Sapphire Crystals.

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 *Sapphire/Jade Drill T2*
 Cost: 5 Sapphire/Jade gems and their respective T1 Drill
 Effect while holding: Mining Fatigue 1

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 *Sapphire/Jade Drill T-3000*
 Cost: One Drill Catalyst and the respective T-2000 Drill
 No effect while holding, as with all T-3000 Drills!

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Quartz Drills are considered useless, as the Quartz Pickaxe can double drops and has no mining fatigue effect, so I won't list them here. But now, here's the Amber Drills!

**Amber Drills**

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 *Amber Drill T-1000*
 Cost: Jade/Sapphire T-2000 Drill and 5 gems of the respective drill
 Has Mining Fatigue 2 upon holding.

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 *Amber Drill T-2000*
 Cost: Amber Drill T-1000 and 10 Amber Gems
 Has Mining Fatigue 1 upon holding.

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 *Amber Drill T-3000*
 Cost: Amber Drill T-2000 and one Drill Catalyst
 Still no effects upon holding.

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Finally... the source of all riches... and the source of power... HEMATITE MINING! Also see Andy's Dog for lots of cool info :)

**Hematite Mining**

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 *Hematite Drill T-1000*
 Cost: Amber Drill T-2000 and 10 Amber Gems
 You know where this is going.

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 *Hematite Drill T-2000*
 Cost: Hematite Drill T-1000 and 10 Hematite Gems
 Same with here.

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 *Hematite Drill T-3000*
 Cost: Drill Catalyst and Hematite Drill T-2000
 Still going. The source of much power.

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Question to enook. Has Greg/his sla- I mean soldiers, started hematite mining? Yes, that's how they paid off their national debt.

**20x Crystal Multiplier**

With a 5% base activation chance, you can get 20 of a single crystal through just mining a single crystal. Like, any single crystal besides ruby, which instead gives 10 ruby crystals or 10 ruby powder. You can increase your base activation chance by doing /minerbox, which requires you to go azure mining. But this is only just the beginning...