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
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.
Mining mechanics
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.
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 five 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.
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.
