Ingots
Using a Pickaxe or Shovel a Miner can dig out Ore, which in turn can be used to produce metal Ingots. Beginning Miners will only be able to harvest plain iron, but with practise, they can extract types that come with special properties. These are used by blacksmiths and tinkers for crafting purposes.
Aside from Mining, ore can also be found as loot on these creatures:
Smelting
Before ore can be used in crafting it must be smelted by using it on a forge.
The colored ore types require high levels of the Mining skill to refine. The skill needed is equal to the Mining skill required to find the ore, as listed in the table below.
Unlike the conversion of hides or logs, a skill check is performed at the refining stage - if failed, no ingots are produced and the ore pile is instead halved. When smelting high-level ore such as Platinum, it is best to separate large piles into smaller ones to prevent large losses.
Ore | Weight | Ingots |
---|---|---|
12 Stones | 2 |
The following table shows the smelting success rates for each ore at different Skill levels (note that skills above 100 can be achieved using Mining Gloves):
Metal | Mining Skill |
---|---|
Iron | 0 |
Dull Copper | 65 |
Shadow | 70 |
Copper | 75 |
Bronze | 80 |
Golden | 85 |
Agapite | 90 |
Verite | 95 |
Valorite | 99 |
Blaze | 100 |
Ice | 105 |
Toxic | 110 |
Electrum | 115 |
Platinum | 119 |
Metal Types
Shields receive the same bonuses from colored ingots as armor. You require the same Blacksmithy/Tinkering skill level to work the ingots as the skill level required to Mine them.
Metal | Skill | Equipment | Total | Other | |||||
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Iron |
0 | Armor | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Weapon | |||||||||
Dull Copper |
65 | Armor | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | +50% Durability, Lower Requirements 20% |
Weapon | +100% Durability, Lower Requirements 50% | ||||||||
Shadow |
70 | Armor | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 12 | +100% Durability |
Weapon | 20% Cold Damage, +50% Durability | ||||||||
Copper |
75 | Armor | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 13 | |
Weapon | 20% Energy Damage, 10% Poison Damage | ||||||||
Bronze |
80 | Armor | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 14 | |
Weapon | 40% Fire Damage | ||||||||
Golden |
85 | Armor | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | +40 Luck, Lower Requirements 30% |
Weapon | +40 Luck, Lower Requirements 50% | ||||||||
Agapite |
90 | Armor | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 15 | |
Weapon | 30% Cold Damage, 20% Energy Damage | ||||||||
Verite |
95 | Armor | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 16 | |
Weapon | 20% Energy Damage, 40% Poison Damage | ||||||||
Valorite |
99 | Armor | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 | +50% Durability |
Weapon | 20% Cold Damage, 20% Energy Damage, 10% Fire Damage, 10% Poison Damage | ||||||||
Blaze |
100 | Armor | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 25 | +125% Durability, 60% Lower Requirements |
Weapon | 100% Fire Damage, +125% Durability, 60% Lower Requirements | ||||||||
Ice |
105 | Armor | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 26 | +150% Durability, 70% Lower Requirements |
Weapon | 100% Cold Damage, +150% Durability, 70% Lower Requirements | ||||||||
Toxic |
110 | Armor | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 30 | +175% Durability, 80% Lower Requirements |
Weapon | 100% Poison Damage, +175% Durability, 80% Lower Requirements | ||||||||
Electrum |
115 | Armor | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 35 | +200% Durability, 90% Lower Requirements |
Weapon | 100% Energy Damage, +200% Durability, 90% Lower Requirements | ||||||||
Platinum |
119 | Armor | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 40 | +250% Durability, 100% Lower Requirements |
Weapon | +255% Durability, 100% Lower Requirements | ||||||||
Metal | Skill | Equipment | Total | Other |
Cauldron of Transmutation
A Cauldron of Transmutation converts ingots of one color to ingot of another color. There are four cauldrons types--Bronze Cauldron of Transmutation, Golden Cauldron of Transmutation, Agapite Cauldron of Transmutation, and Verite Cauldron of Transmutation. When used, the cauldron converts three ingots of the base type into one ingot of the next-higher color. So a verite cauldron provides one valorite ingot for every three verite ingots consumed. The cauldrons are obtained as a Covetous Void Pool reward from Vela the Sorceress.