Slightly to hard rock

[Jackwolf]

What about "just" slightly too hard? I got those two different messages when mining.

"Slightly too hard to mine" and "Just slightly too hard to mine"

[Ginnungagap]

What does this mean? My tool quality is 5, my STR is 15, so sqrt(75) = 8.660.. ... 8 what? Every rock I have tried to mine says "Very much too hard" .. I kinda figured 5 str later I might scratch the surface

this means the most quality ore you can mine is 8. and I'm pretty sure it starts at 10.

This is untrue. I can self confirm that a q8 stone axe and 10 str were enough to mine walls.

That's just what I read on the wiki: http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Mining

"The hardness of a wall appears to be equal to the quality of ore and stone you receive from mining it. In order to mine a wall, you appear to need sqrt(Strength * Tool_Quality) >= Wall_Hardness. For example, in order to mine a quality 10 rock wall with a quality 10 stone axe or pickaxe, you would need 10 strength."

[SacreDoom]

What about "just" slightly too hard? I got those two different messages when mining.

"Slightly too hard to mine" and "Just slightly too hard to mine"

"just" means you're closer than if there's no "just".

[Jackwolf]

Whore. That's not an answer. >:

I'm a W4 farmer, damnit. I don't know anything about this mining crap.

[SacreDoom]

Whore. That's not an answer. >:

I'm a W4 farmer, damnit. I don't know anything about this mining crap.

JUST FUCKING GET 150 STR LIKE ME GODDAMNIT.

No seriously, get it.

Except for I dont have 150 str..

[Ginnungagap]

idk, by the way people already have 30+ int it's ridiculous

[Blxz]

idk, by the way people already have 30+ int it's ridiculous

Because jorb and loftars special friends start off with a special bonus

[SeanPan]

I also have this special bonus: its called 'fishing' and I have it under my adventure menu. It is a very secret and special skill.

[Blxz]

I also have this special bonus: its called 'fishing' and I have it under my adventure menu. It is a very secret and special skill.

OMG HAX!!!

EDIT: Actually, I'm just jelous that I can't seem to use fishing yet. If the server would restart maybe I could have some luck finding a string. Until then I stick with my hax verdict.

[Sevenless]

For the people who don't like math in this case we need a mining quality of +1 to +15. That means that the mining score before square root (tool times strength) for a 23 wall (8+15) is 529.

Now if we don't change the axe quality, you'll need a strength of 106 (529/5 = 105.8) to mine that wall. Yeah... that sucks doesn't it? It's an effect of the square root in the formula.

Alternatively, with 15 strength you'd need an axe of quality 36 (529/15 ~= 35.3) to mine the wall. Sounds a lot nicer... but it's still pretty brutal unless you get lucky on a stone node.

Ok, well... what if there's no mountain around? Quality 10 axe is easy to get, but it still needs 53 (529/10 = 5.29) strength to mine that wall.


Moral of the story? Go hunt a mountain for better stone asap and raise your survival, the tool quality changes the amount of strength you need by a *lot*. Also, get someone to make you a bear cape and a bear tooth amulet, they give you massive bonuses to your strength (very easy to get 55+ strength with just basic bear shit.