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[Godfarva1]

How are you supposed to mine if you are over burdened after 3 hits? and doesnt even dent the ground... I cant raise my mining skill even if im extracting iron ore from the ground

[Kossako]

Rise Willpower.

I'm 20 mining and rising fast on x1 server.

[Reese]

Was coming here to respond. Having issues mining as well.. can tunnel to get iron but cant directly mine it. Will try the willpower thing.. not sure how though.

[Godfarva1]

how do you start mining? you go to a random rocky terrain and select dig a tunnel downwards? how many times do you do the process to actually take away a chunk of land?

[Reese]

Varies.. for mining iron you would prospect for it, find it within 2 or 4 squares then plan to tunnel(lvl 60 terraforming needed). Make a plan to tunnel down one square for every square forward. So if you think the ore is 4 square down you want to start your tunnel 5 squares away from it headed towards where you think the ore is(leaving a little room for error correction).

TO TUNNEL: Use "Dig Tunnel" on the surface. takes between 3 and 50? actions to break the surface. After that you want to aim at the next square ahead on the side facing you(not the surface). Use the "Dig downward tunnel" or whatever its called. 10 to 30 hits should get you thru that one. Keep on that pattern, prospecting to keep on path and dumping your dirt, clay, rock ect in separate piles on the surface you can then dig up later to use.

[Reese]

So i guess you ahve to mine directly in front of you. Up down and diagonally dont work for me. But, im mining! And gaining skill.

[Kaia]

ive been using this topic as a ref to mine. so i broke through the surface and now im through and got a section dug out but ive been spamming the dig tunnel command at the next block for 20+ mins ive had to stop twice cause i got over burdened. is there something im doing wrong

[Malbios]

If you mean the "Mining" skill, then you have to actually use that on ore tiles. Right-click an ore tile that's in front of you (you can't mine ore below you for some reason) and select the mining skill and the "mine <ore name> ore" or something similar action.

"Dig a tunnel" won't raise your mining skill.