# Mining

Mining

Mining is used for Mining ore, , and gems. Each Mining action takes 3 seconds, and can be reduced by 5-50% by purchasing pickaxe upgrades, 20% by purchasing the god upgrade, and 0.2 seconds by reaching the 50% Mastery pool checkpoint. The pickaxe upgrade and reductions are multiplicative with each other, applying before the 0.2 second Mastery reduction. Ore and rune essence amounts can be doubled by wearing with active charges. Raising Mining to Level 99 will unlock the for purchase from the Shop. Equipping the Mining Skillcape will give 1 bonus 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% 550,000 xp +5% increased Mining Mastery XP
25% 1,375,000 xp Reduced Ore respawn time by 10%
50% 2,750,000 xp Reduce Mining interval by 0.2s
95% 5,225,000 xp All Rocks gain +10 Max HP (Bonus applied on Rock Respawn)
Total Mastery Pool XP 5,500,000

### Rock HP

Rock HP determines how many ores can be extracted from a rock before it has to regenerate. Maximum rock HP is calculated with this formula:

$\text{Rock HP}=5 + \text{Mastery Level} + \text{Pet Bonus}$

Where $\text{Pet Bonus}$ is 5 if is unlocked, or 0 otherwise.

Perfect Swing Potions can be used to give a 10-80% chance to not lower rock HP while Mining.

Mastery Level Max Rock HP
1 6
2 7
3 8
4 9
5 10
10 15
20 25
50 55
75 80
99 104

## Skillcape

The skillcape can be purchased from the store for  1,000,000 after the player reaches Level 99.

Skillcape Name Effect
Mining Skillcape Receive 1x Coal per Mining Action

## Pet

The pet can be unlocked by doing any Mining action.

Pet Name Effect
Cool Rock All mining nodes gain +5 Max HP.
Named after CoolRox95

## 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.

Name Level 2x Ore Chance Bonus Speed Cost
Iron Pickaxe 1 1% 5%  250
Steel Pickaxe 10 2% 10%  2,000
Black Pickaxe 20 3% 15%  10,000
Mithril Pickaxe 35 4% 20%  50,000
Adamant Pickaxe 50 5% 30%  200,000
Rune Pickaxe 60 6% 40%  1,000,000
Dragon Pickaxe 80 7% 50%  5,000,000

## Ores

Higher tiers of ore are unlocked as the player's Mining level increases. Mining yields double the amount of ore, however will not work when Mining it. To begin Mining the player must have at least 270 Mining mastery levels in total.

## Gems

Each Mining action has a 1% gem find chance, which is increased by 10% (to 1.10%) if the is equipped, or to 100% when wearing . The possible gem drops are shown in the table below:

## Potion

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

Potion Tier Charges Effect
I 30 10% chance to do zero damage to Ores and Rune Essence
Does not work Offline
II 50 20% chance to do zero damage to Ores and Rune Essence
Does not work Offline
III 80 40% chance to do zero damage to Ores and Rune Essence
Does not work Offline
IV 100 80% to do zero damage to Ores and Rune Essence
Does not work Offline

Melvor Idle version v0.18.2 (Released: 6th January 2021)
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