Mines, and how they work?

[min_the_fair]

OH! So I build a mine hole inside of a cave and it goes down to the next level... I get it now. xD

Is it better to just start off with a mine hole if you have the leathers for it? I'm a newb, is going to L2 a bad idea?

If you build a mine hole outdoors, it goes into the same place as if you walk into a cave. If you build a mine hole in a cave, OR if you build one mine hole in some tiles you've mined out from a mine hole built outdoors, they will go to level two.

[Phaen]

I made you a little drawing to explain.



A couple of things to note:

• There are five underground layers.
• The black areas represent solid rock.
• Caves are natural passageways and they only appear on the first underground layer.
• You can use mining to dig a path between any two things (minehole or cave) as long as they're on the same layer.
• Building a minehole on any layer will allow you to access the next layer below it.
• Deeper layers have a higher minimum quality for ore (q10, q20, q30, q40, q50 respectively), but you can get lucky and find higher.
• Deeper layers have a higher minimum hardness, but you can get unlucky and find harder.
• Silver deposits do not exist on layer 1. You must dig deeper.
• Gold deposits do not exist on layer 1 or 2. You must dig deeper.
• Silver and Gold do not have a quality, other ores do.
• Prospecting searches the layer below the layer you are currently standing.

Someone else can explain cave-ins.... be careful out there.

[Leny-m]

Cave-ins are well described in Sevenless guide.

Mining techniques are on a Russian youtube video. Can be found on forums as well.

[borka]

Ty Phaen! Makes it easy to point others here without big explanations...

[ApocalypsePlease]

Ty Phaen! Makes it easy to point others here without big explanations...

It has happened to have found it's way onto the wiki so you know.