6.16.2 Mining
Mining is the ability to extract metal ores from the earth. It is a fully realised skillset centred around establishing and staffing your own mining operations and navigating the dangers of the under-deeps in order to harvest resources from the earth. OBTAINING THE SKILL OF MINING ============================= To learn the skill of Mining, seek out Philbert in the Gorshire Mining Syndicate headquarters (v70606). For a cost of 10,000 gold, you may simply LEARN ABILITY OF MINING FROM PHILBERT to pick up the skill. It is then learned with lessons like any other. * You must have an Agriculture skill slot available in order to do this. See HELP AGRICULTURE for details on slots. Philbert will also supply a variety of basic equipment from both the Syndicate headquarters in Lodi and at the various outposts across the world. GETTING STARTED WITH MINING =========================== Once you've obtained the skill and picked up your equipment, you'll want to head to your city's outpost. Mines operate on their own maps in a similar way to Farming, but the maps are significantly larger. Bloodloch | The Mhojave Desert | v53195 Duiran | The Western Ithmia | v68504 Enorian | The Shamtota Hills | v68550 Spinesreach | The Telfinne Caverns | v68946 After arriving there, you simply ENTER OUTPOST and you can begin searching for a desirable mine using the PROSPECT ability. PROSPECTING =========== The PROSPECT command (AB MINING PROSPECT) allows you to discern the ores available in a specific location, and in what volume. PROSPECT AREA allows you to scan the whole map at once and see an at a glance view of what ore is most common on which tile. * The ore presence on each tile is set until the next Howling, at which point it will be rerolled. OPENING A MINE ============== Utilise the MINES ability (AB MINING MINES) to delve into a mine and explore it. If you wish to keep the mine that you've just opened, return to the surface with LEAVE MINE and CLAIM MINE WITH DEED. You are then ready to get started! AB MINING OFFICE is the place to begin! CLOSING A MINE ============== When you have exhausted the mine's resources, or no longer wish to extract anything from it, you can issue a demolition request (MINING COLLAPSE) for the mine to be collapsed. This will take eight weeks to complete and for safety reasons, you'll be unable to enter the mine. You may cancel the mine collapse any time before the eight week period is up, allowing you entrance again, but this will reset the eight week timer. * Mines will automatically close if you go inactive for 30 days or if you lose the Mining skillset. + When a mine is close by any means, the owner will get a deed placed back in their inventory. + Deeds returned in such a way will always be bound to the same mining outpost area as the one for which they were originally purchased. DEEDS ===== There is currently a limit of one Mining deed per person. This is obtained when the skill is acquired. This limit may be relaxed in the future as knowledge and use of Mining becomes more widespread. DEPOSITS AND VEINS ================== You will find ores in two different states within mines: deposits, and veins. Deposits appear in the room like a normal item and can be mined with your pickaxe. Whereas veins are tiles on the map that must be mined by your Gnome workers. Refer to AB MINING PICKAXE and AB MINING VEINS for more details. GRAPHICAL MAP ============= At this time, there's no graphical map for Mining. The challenges posed are significantly higher for Mining, but it is something that may occur in future. OTHER USEFUL FILES ================== - AB MINING - HELP MINING - HELP AGRICULTURE - HELP PRODUCTION - HELP DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTION
