How to go about mining?

[dexgier]

Alright so im playing haven and hearth for about a month now..

But still im not getting into the whole mining thing..
I really don't now what skills i need?
Is it dangerous?
How does it work?
Do i need special items?

If anybody could help me, i would be really happy! .

Greetz.

[martenx]

Here this tells you a lot : http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Mining

[ApocalypsePlease]

I really don't now what skills i need?

The mining skill is all that's really needed. Assuming you want to use bars from the ore you make, increasing the incremental skill "Smithing" is ideal also.
I also strongly advise you raise your nature/industry slider to full industry, as it will grant you a 20% chance that ores mined will turn into bars as opposed to 10% at neutral.
More strength is better.

Is it dangerous?

Mining isn't dangerous if you are aware of what you are doing and making sure you're doing it right.

How does it work?

Upon purchasing the mining skill, the "mine" action will appear in the adventure menu, when you chose to use this ability your cursor will change to a pickaxe. Left click on an unmined tile in a cave/mine, you will either get ore or stone, this is based on whether or not there is an ore deposit there.

There are 3 types of nodes relevant to mining underground:
1. Ore deposits: if you mine in an ore deposit, you will receive that type of ore as opposed to stone when no deposit is present. You can find out the location of ore deposits by prospecting with rustroot on the layer above the layer you want to mine on.
2. Quality node: if you mine within a quality node, the quality of stone/ores received will be above the base quality for that layer (Q10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 for layers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively)
3. Hardness node: if you mine within a hardness node, the amount of "mining ability" (see the mining wiki page) necessary will be above that of the base for the layer. As you go deeper, the base hardness levels increase.
These 3 types of nodes can overlap and have no relevancy to each other in location.

For the actual mining, there are 2 common ways of mining:
The first is mining under mine supports. Mine supports will stop cave-ins from occurring in a radius around them (this is best for making sure you miss absolutely 0 ore).
The second way of mining is snake mining, which is when certain methods are used to avoid cave-ins while not using supports. The key principal behind snake mining is that you a cave-in will not occur if you don't mine more than 3 tiles in any given direction. There is a small section on the essentials to it on the wiki, if you want more information on how to do it, please say so.

Do i need special items?

Either a good quality axe or pickaxe, with pickaxe being the preferred of the 2.
You will also need to create a mine hole if you don't plan on mining through a cave, rustroot extract helps in locating ore deposits so that is also something to look for.

Apologies for the block-like response, I hope this answers your questions. If you need more information for something I wrote about, just quote it and ask to elaborate and I will do just that.

[dexgier]

I really don't now what skills i need?

The mining skill is all that's really needed. Assuming you want to use bars from the ore you make, increasing the incremental skill "Smithing" is ideal also.
I also strongly advise you raise your nature/industry slider to full industry, as it will grant you a 20% chance that ores mined will turn into bars as opposed to 10% at neutral.
More strength is better.

Is it dangerous?

Mining isn't dangerous if you are aware of what you are doing and making sure you're doing it right.

How does it work?

Upon purchasing the mining skill, the "mine" action will appear in the adventure menu, when you chose to use this ability your cursor will change to a pickaxe. Left click on an unmined tile in a cave/mine, you will either get ore or stone, this is based on whether or not there is an ore deposit there.

There are 3 types of nodes relevant to mining underground:
1. Ore deposits: if you mine in an ore deposit, you will receive that type of ore as opposed to stone when no deposit is present. You can find out the location of ore deposits by prospecting with rustroot on the layer above the layer you want to mine on.
2. Quality node: if you mine within a quality node, the quality of stone/ores received will be above the base quality for that layer (Q10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 for layers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively)
3. Hardness node: if you mine within a hardness node, the amount of "mining ability" (see the mining wiki page) necessary will be above that of the base for the layer. As you go deeper, the base hardness levels increase.
These 3 types of nodes can overlap and have no relevancy to each other in location.

For the actual mining, there are 2 common ways of mining:
The first is mining under mine supports. Mine supports will stop cave-ins from occurring in a radius around them (this is best for making sure you miss absolutely 0 ore).
The second way of mining is snake mining, which is when certain methods are used to avoid cave-ins while not using supports. The key principal behind snake mining is that you a cave-in will not occur if you don't mine more than 3 tiles in any given direction. There is a small section on the essentials to it on the wiki, if you want more information on how to do it, please say so.

Do i need special items?

Either a good quality axe or pickaxe, with pickaxe being the preferred of the 2.
You will also need to create a mine hole if you don't plan on mining through a cave, rustroot extract helps in locating ore deposits so that is also something to look for.

Apologies for the block-like response, I hope this answers your questions. If you need more information for something I wrote about, just quote it and ask to elaborate and I will do just that.

I got a cave from a friend which i can use, but im scared to die inside while im mining .
Just grab my axe and start mining ?
Or do i need like waterskin's etc etc?

[dexgier]

I really don't now what skills i need?

The mining skill is all that's really needed. Assuming you want to use bars from the ore you make, increasing the incremental skill "Smithing" is ideal also.
I also strongly advise you raise your nature/industry slider to full industry, as it will grant you a 20% chance that ores mined will turn into bars as opposed to 10% at neutral.
More strength is better.

Is it dangerous?

Mining isn't dangerous if you are aware of what you are doing and making sure you're doing it right.

How does it work?

Upon purchasing the mining skill, the "mine" action will appear in the adventure menu, when you chose to use this ability your cursor will change to a pickaxe. Left click on an unmined tile in a cave/mine, you will either get ore or stone, this is based on whether or not there is an ore deposit there.

There are 3 types of nodes relevant to mining underground:
1. Ore deposits: if you mine in an ore deposit, you will receive that type of ore as opposed to stone when no deposit is present. You can find out the location of ore deposits by prospecting with rustroot on the layer above the layer you want to mine on.
2. Quality node: if you mine within a quality node, the quality of stone/ores received will be above the base quality for that layer (Q10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 for layers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively)
3. Hardness node: if you mine within a hardness node, the amount of "mining ability" (see the mining wiki page) necessary will be above that of the base for the layer. As you go deeper, the base hardness levels increase.
These 3 types of nodes can overlap and have no relevancy to each other in location.

For the actual mining, there are 2 common ways of mining:
The first is mining under mine supports. Mine supports will stop cave-ins from occurring in a radius around them (this is best for making sure you miss absolutely 0 ore).
The second way of mining is snake mining, which is when certain methods are used to avoid cave-ins while not using supports. The key principal behind snake mining is that you a cave-in will not occur if you don't mine more than 3 tiles in any given direction. There is a small section on the essentials to it on the wiki, if you want more information on how to do it, please say so.

Do i need special items?

Either a good quality axe or pickaxe, with pickaxe being the preferred of the 2.
You will also need to create a mine hole if you don't plan on mining through a cave, rustroot extract helps in locating ore deposits so that is also something to look for.

Apologies for the block-like response, I hope this answers your questions. If you need more information for something I wrote about, just quote it and ask to elaborate and I will do just that.

I got a cave from a friend which i can use, but im scared to die inside while im mining .
Just grab my axe and start mining ?
Or do i need like waterskin's etc etc?

[kralmir]

build supports and learn what radious it keeps safe around itself and youll only have to worry about trolls.

[ApocalypsePlease]

[I got a cave from a friend which i can use, but im scared to die inside while im mining .
Just grab my axe and start mining ?
Or do i need like waterskin's etc etc?

You got the idea. Depending on your strength and the quality of the axe, you may not be able to mine.

Thanks for pointing this out, I knew I forgot something. Yes, you need a way to refill stamina. It's best to only bring 1 waterskin/flask and use one or more buckets