Mining and Smithing

Metallurgy, Mining, and Smithing Systems

Gathering and refining metals forms the primary economic backbone of early to mid-game progression. Smelting and Smithing operations require different tool setups: smelting ore requires a nearby furnace, whereas smithing refined bars requires both an anvil and an equipped smithing hammer.

Tools

Hammers and pickaxes cannot be crafted. Players can purchase a basic iron smithing hammer for 10g from Blacksmith Stalls, while high-tier tools like the Dwarven Smithing Hammer must be farmed from bosses. Mining is governed by Mining Power, which is compiled from equipped pickaxes, mining gear, active potions, and socketed Gems.

Pickaxe Tier	Required Level	Mining Power	Buy Price	Sell Price	Sourcing Methods
Copper Pickaxe	1	10	0g	0g	Default Starter / Mining Stall (Town 1)
Bronze Pickaxe	1	44	40g	28g	Mining Stall (Town 1) / Drop: Skeleton Miner (5%)
Iron Pickaxe	10	122	40g	168g	Mining Stall (Town 1)
Steel Pickaxe	20	259	60g	672g	Mining Stall (Town 1)
Dwarven Pickaxe	30	50~	2,000g - 5,000g	1,400g	Drop: Bandit Mercenary Boss (5%)

Smelting Pipeline

The smelting and refining pipeline maps raw mined ores to refined metal bars:

Bar Type	Level Req.	Raw Ingredient Composition	Cycle Time	Base XP Yield	Stall Value
Bronze Bar	1	1x Copper Ore + 1x Tin Ore	3s	15 XP	4g
Iron Bar	10	2x Iron Ore	4s	30 XP	14g
Steel Bar	20	1x Iron Ore + 1x Coal Ore	5s	55 XP	28g
Mithril Bar	30	1x Mithril Ore + 2x Coal Ore	6s	155 XP	140g
Gold Bar	40	8x Gold Ore / Gold Dust	15s	800 XP	700g

The speed of smelting and forging scales dynamically with the player's total efficiency. Crafting duration is calculated using the following formulas:

$\text{TotalEfficiency}=1.0+(\text{CraftingSkill}\times 0.01)+(\text{CraftingPower}\times 0.01)$ $\text{FinalDuration}=\frac{\text{BaseDuration}}{\text{TotalEfficiency}}$

Optimal Methods

At level 40, smelting Gold Dust provides an optimal high-tier refining option, yielding up to 433,548 XP and 379,354 gold per hour. In early levels, players can exploit vendor margins by purchasing raw bronze, iron, or steel bars from stalls, smithing them into helmets, and selling those helmets back to vendor shops to generate consistent early gold:

Production Tier	Recommended Item	Hourly Experience	Hourly Net Profit	Method Parameters
Bronze (Level 1+)	Bronze Helmet	57,092 XP	2,854g	Buy raw bars from Town 1 vendors, forge, sell back
Iron (Level 10+)	Iron Helmet	116,756 XP	8,756g	Steady early-game progression method
Steel (Level 20+)	Steel Helmet	251,428 XP	57,142g	Highly optimized, low-risk gold-making loop
Mithril (Level 30+)	Mithril Sword	826,666 XP	-218,666g	High-speed XP method utilizing pre-banked bars
Mithril (Self-Mined)	Mithril Sword	826,666 XP	848,000g	Optimized method requiring self-mined ore