Mining

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This article is about the Mining skill. For training the skill, see Mining/Training.

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 Master of Nature god upgrade, and 0.2 seconds by reaching the 50% Mastery pool checkpoint. The pickaxe upgrade and Master of Nature reductions are multiplicative with each other, applying before the 0.2 second Mastery reduction. Ore and rune essence amounts can be doubled by wearing Mining Gloves with active charges. Raising Mining to 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%	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:

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

Where [math]\text{Pet Bonus}[/math] is 5 if Cool Rock 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	+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.

				Mine Time Decrease		2x Ore Chance
Name		Level	Cost	This Pick	Total	This Pick	Total
	Iron Pickaxe	1	250	-5%	-5%	+1%	+1%
	Steel Pickaxe	10	2,000	-5%	-10%	+1%	+2%
	Black Pickaxe	20	10,000	-5%	-15%	+1%	+3%
	Mithril Pickaxe	35	50,000	-5%	-20%	+1%	+4%
	Adamant Pickaxe	50	200,000	-10%	-30%	+1%	+5%
	Rune Pickaxe	60	1,000,000	-10%	-40%	+1%	+6%
	Dragon Pickaxe	80	5,000,000	-10%	-50%	+1%	+7%

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 270 Mining mastery levels in total.

	Level	XP	Respawn Time	Ore Value
Copper Ore	1	7	5s	2
Tin Ore	1	7	5s	2
Rune Essence	1	5	1s	0
Iron Ore	15	14	10s	5
Silver Ore	30	25	15s	25
Coal Ore	30	18	10s	13
Gold Ore	40	28	15s	30
Mithril Ore	50	65	20s	65
Adamantite Ore	70	71	30s	88
Runite Ore	80	86	1m	100
Dragonite Ore	95	101	2m	135

Gems

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

Name	Gem Chance	Gem Price
Topaz	50.0%	225
Sapphire	17.5%	335
Ruby	17.5%	555
Emerald	10.0%	555
Diamond	5.0%	1150

Potion

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

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

Trivia

The source code file for the Mining skill is 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.

Melvor Idle version v0.19.2 (Released: 1st April 2021)