Now you need to find mineral veins. While you are playing, hit your "Find Minerals" Icon (or press the corresponding hot key). Mineral spots will
now show up on the mini-map when you are near them. Seek them out. You will have to look
around to find mineral veins. They are often found near quest locations and inside mines. They are
usually near mountain terrain. It's up to you to discover the good mining locations.
Have "Find Minerals" active nearly all the time so that you will know when minerals are nearby.
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Now that you have the precious metal, you can smelt it into bars that can be used for creating armor, weapons,
or other items through the blacksmithing or engineering skills.
Find yourself a forge. They are located in main towns and some smaller towns. If you cant find one, ask around
to determine their locations. To confirm you have in fact found a forge, move your mouse over the location and
see if it says "forge". You can also try smelting the metals. You do not need to interact with the forge; you only
need to be near it.
Now that you have found a forge, its time to smelt the metal. Open up your abilities book and
locate the smelting icon. Press that to see your recipes. Some examples of what you can create with smelting are: converting copper ore into copper bars and creating bronze
by combining copper bars and tin bars. To gain additional smelting recipes/options, you will
need to learn them from a mining trainer. The mining screen will tell you how many of each bar
that you can smelt based on the types and amounts of raw material that you have.
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You will undoubtedly run into another player who is after the same mineral node as you; in fact you might not even see each other before you are both mining it.
This is a place where you have the opportunity to be kind or greedy or even-handed with your character.
You might offer the other person the mineral node, or try to take it all for yourself, or even offer to alternate mining at the node to increase both of your skills.
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Does a higher mining level mean you have a greater chance to mine jewels?
No. The jewels are already spawned in the node before you get there. They are either there or not there, and your
skill level does not affect that.
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So you want to be a miner? Mining is an exciting Profession used to gather materials for blacksmithing or
engineering. However, you dont need those Professions to be a miner. You could simply collect resources and sell them to
blacksmiths and engineers. You're going to find these spots anyway as you travel throughout the world, so why
not cash in on them? However, most people combine mining and blacksmithing or mining and engineering.
Now you need to go buy yourself a "mining pick". They are usually sold by a "trade merchant" or other
merchants near the mining trainer.
Minerals come in many different versions, from common to more rare: copper, tin,
silver, iron, gold, mithril, and more. To find rare veins, you will have to fight your way
(or sneak) to more powerful regions of the world. The first veins you will come across are copper. As you
head to more powerful areas, you will begin to see tin and so on.
After you find a mineral vein, right-click on it to begin mining. If you are successful, you will now be able
to loot some minerals and possibly some rough stones. If you fail, try again. Continue to mine the mineral vein until it disappears.
When you mine, you will find three main types of ingredients: metal, stones, and gems.
Gems are rare and are used for better recipes for other professions, such as blacksmithing
or engineering. Collect all the ingredients you find and keep them for later.
Stones can be transformed without the use of a forge. Many of these components can also be found from
killing monsters or bought from other players.
