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Question About Mining

I learned Mining up to Mining II, Refining, and Alchemy up to Alchemy II. I made a dozen combinations of elements and then quit grinding rocks because I couldn't really see any benefit, so now I'm just selling rocks I mine. 

What am I missing? What great things come of Refining and Alchemy? Or what short-term benefits are there in grinding for currants rather than selling rocks for currants? So far I'm only vendoring, and I'm low enough level to need the currants.

Posted 17 months ago by Widdershins Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Making Extremely Hallowed Shrine Powder seems worth it to me.
    Posted 17 months ago by Hagbard Celine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, I forgot what skills you need, exactly, but buy a test tube and you can make powders. I think you need Admixifying or something.

    EDIT: LOLOL Sorry, I meant beaker. :O
    Posted 17 months ago by Cerulean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I mostly mine and donate all my rocks and all my gems to finish my skills as soon as possible.  I also sell them for money.

    That being said, I only have 4 skills left.  Once I don't donate the majority of my mining profits to shrines, I will probably start playing around with what else I can do with rocks.
    Posted 17 months ago by Laurali Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I understand you already have a test tube and are making compounds (=combinations of elements). Now all you need to do is learn Intermediate Admixing, buy a beaker and turn those compounds into useful powders! I like Extremely Hallowed Shrine Powder (donation gives 3x the amount of favor) and Powder of Startling Fecundity (animals in the area drop their goodies).

    I don't really know what you can do with Alchemy II, I don't have that skill yet. You can make ingots, but I don't know what those are for.
    Posted 17 months ago by Victoria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Also widdershins, you may want to keep developing your mining skills as the hight you go, the quicker you mine a rock, use very litte if any resources AND, the number of gems you get increases dramatically.

    Having said that re: gems, it does seem that I don't get many more diamonds than before...Is that true of other miners?

     
    Posted 17 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Here's the wiki entry on Powder of Startling Fecundity: 
    You can make this with a Beaker.You can use this to build a Pork Fountain in your backyard.

    Perhaps you can see why I wonder what the usefulness is. Thanks Victoria for the description!

    Yep, MeherMan, I'm waiting on getting an emblem before going higher in Mining.

    :)
    Posted 17 months ago by Widdershins Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Some pages of the wiki are more useful than others, but... we're working on it! You can help if you want :)
    Posted 17 months ago by Victoria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Victoria: I would like that, when I'm more experienced. 

    I should have said upfront that I don't mean to criticize the hard work wiki contributors do for the community - I appreciate all they do. I was intending to speak to the fact that I could not find out what benefits the higher skill levels give to players.
    Posted 17 months ago by Widdershins Subscriber! | Permalink