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Stone shards
[[File:miningaction.jpg|500px|thumb|right|A Miner at Work]]
'''Mining''' is the skill of excavating [[rock stone shards]] and [[ore]] veins.
== Method ==
: Activate a pickaxe and '''right click''' the rock or cliff, select '''Mining''' > '''Tunnel'''.
Each tunneling action has a chance to create a [[rock stone shard]]. After a number of [[rock stone shards]] are created, usually 9, the message {{event|inline|You will soon create an entrance}} will appear. A [[rock stone shard]] or two later, and an entrance will be created.
* Tunnels can not be opened if the north-west corner is more than 4 dirts below [[Water#Water level|water level]].
** skill = 90+ no variance
* When connecting two mine shafts, the direction of the mining is irrelevant; one floor will connect to the other floor and ceilings will likewise connect.
* Each action will produce one rock stone shard.
* All items mined from the cave wall will appear in a pile on the ground on the tile you're stood; this often includes items such as [[salt]] and [[gem]]s, all of which are found randomly.
* It is not possible to create an exit from the inside if there is dirt covering the planned exit, this must be fully uncovered and bare just as If you were to create an entrance from the outside.
* When removing a rock tile adjacent to a section of the mine which has been modified as such it's important to know that the floor of the new section connecting the modified corners will match up (providing you didn't mine up or down), but the ceiling will not. The ceiling will take the standard height.
* You can fix slopes with [[Concrete]]: one concrete will raise one corner, the equivalent of 1 dirt or 1 mine action.
* Mining ceilings for rock stone shards is much faster than mining on a wall tile, this can be used to your advantage when not wishing to extend a mine, but shards are required.
* When mining the ceiling to high you will receive the message {{event|inline|You cannot reach the ceiling}}.
* When mining the floor too low, (with an already high ceiling, before hitting the water level) you will receive the message:{{event|inline|Lowering the floor further would make the cavern unstable}}.
=== Surface mining ===
Surface mining is the action of shaping external rock or cliff faces to prepare an area for tunneling, adjusting terrain for other uses or simply for aesthetic reasons. To mine on the surface, all adjacent corners of the tile must be clear of dirt. When mining into water the maximum depth permitted is -25 from the water level. To mine the surface rock, first '''activate''' a [[pickaxe]]. While standing on the corner you wish to modify, '''right-click''' on the rock of cliff tile, select '''Mining''' > '''Mine'''. It may take one or more actions to lower a single dirt level of rock. Border [[slope]] depth may be seen with a pickaxe activated just as with a [[shovel]].
:Slope reduction: {{event|inline|You mine some rock stone shards.}}
:No reduction: {{event|inline|You chip away at the rock.}}
! Tile type !! Mining By-Products
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| [[Rock]] || [[Rock Stone shards]]
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| [[Rock salt]] || [[Rock salt|Rock salt shards]]
