Mining

Mining is a profession that can be mastered in BlackTalon, allowing you to gather several kinds of ores and crystals from all different sorts of places. As all other professions, mining requires energy to be performed.

Getting started

Tool Dealer Kevin

To get started, you will need a Giant Hammer, which is sold by Kevin, located at east of the main city's temple. Once obtained, use the Giant Hammer to break some stones that look like these: . Once you get enough stones you can craft your first pickaxe, the stone pickaxe, that will allow you to start gathering your first ore: copper.

Craft your pickaxes in this station, located at -2 from temple

Mining mechanics

Mining Animation

In order to mine, you will need to right click the tool at hands and left click at the desired vein. Doing that, assuming that your pickaxe is strong enough to mine the vein, an animation will start that will indicate the task progression, which means that you will need the animation to complete in order to gather the ores. If you move during the animation, the gathering will stop and you will not receive any ores.

Crystal being highlighted

If you're finding yourself unknowledgeable of what can be mined, you can right click your mining tool and left click at yourself or anything that's not a vein to highlight mineable veins within your screen.

Tools, ore veins and crystals

Currently, there are six types of ore veins, five types of crystals and six tiers of mining tools, which will be listed below.

Improving your mining tool will not only allow you to gather better materials but also improve the amount of materials gathered in a single node.

You can find ore veins and crystals spread out throughout BlackTalon hunt areas.

Note: the tools, ores and crystals are organized in crescent order from the top, which means that the next tier will be able to mine all ores and crystals from the previous tiers.

Tool	Image	Mineable Veins	Mined Ores	Mineable Crystals
Giant Hammer			Small Stones	None
Stone Pickaxe			Copper Ores	None
Copper Pickaxe			Iron Ores
Iron Pickaxe			Silver Ores
Silver Pickaxe			Gold Ores
Gold Pickaxe		All of the above	All of the above

Crystal	Image	Mined Crystal	Required Tool
Large Sapphire Crystal			and above
Large Emerald Crystal			and above
Large Ruby Crystal			and above
Large Amber Crystal			and above
Large Amethyst Crystal			and above

Note: You cannot mine the same vein or crystal more than once.

Special Nodes

Sometimes a special ore vein or crystal will spawn instead of the normal one, with a 5% chance. Mining these special veins and crystals will yield you five times the amount.

Special Indicator