Mining

Hold a pickaxe and click a rock. Every rock holds five to fifteen ore and you work it until it is empty, and it is back eight seconds later, so a cluster never runs out. A vein is a swing every three seconds and never empties at all, which makes it the place several people can share. Now and then an ore comes with a gem: rubies from copper, tin and emerald, sapphires from diamond and dragonstone, topaz from onyx and starfall, opals from eclipse, nova and singularity. Coral (65) grows on Cabin Coast's cliffs beside the starfall. The two rarest rocks are in Agility's secret rooms: the glacier heart (95) in the Glacier Vault, one to three ore before it's out and back after a minute, and the ancient fossil bed (99) in Rex's Ossuary, which takes a glacier pickaxe (Smithing 95). At 99, Bronny the Foreman in the Yard sells the Prospector's cape: 20% of ore comes up double, and gems turn up a quarter more often.

Read the Mining guide — how to actually get going with it, and what to watch out for.

On this page: What you can train on · Tool · Quests · The tool ladder · The cape · Levels

What you can train on

Tool

Bronze pickaxe, Emerald pickaxe, Diamond pickaxe, Dragonstone pickaxe, Onyx pickaxe, Starfall pickaxe, Eclipse pickaxe, Nova pickaxe, Singularity pickaxe, Glacier pickaxe, Celestial pickaxe, Voidforged pickaxe, Penumbra pickaxe, Stormward pickaxe, Chrono pickaxe: hold it in your weapon hand.

Quests

The tool ladder

The cape

At 99: The Prospector's cape from Bronny the Foreman, in the Yard, 99,000 tickets.

Levels

Levels go from 1 to 99, then prestige from 100 to 120: level 10 is 1,154 xp, level 50 is 101,333, 70 is 737,627, 99 is 24,744,922 and 120 is 298,461,130. To learn past 80 a skill needs its 80 gate opened once (50,000 tickets and a partner skill). Nothing is ever lost or reset.