Mining to Metal Guide
“I thought a thread for the sole purpose of providing clear information about getting the various metals might be a good idea, post what you know and i’ll update the OP, correct me if there is anything wrong or i’ve missed something/additional info.
There are a lot of combinations to get to the same material result with different tools/catalysts. If you find a new way: post it and I'll add it.
Also if you can tell which methods give high yields, medium yields and low yields i’ll add some reference onto the method.”
“I thought a thread for the sole purpose of providing clear information about getting the various metals might be a good idea, post what you know and i’ll update the OP, correct me if there is anything wrong or i’ve missed something/additional info.
There are a lot of combinations to get to the same material result with different tools/catalysts. If you find a new way: post it and I'll add it.
Also if you can tell which methods give high yields, medium yields and low yields i’ll add some reference onto the method.”
This thread was meant to be a copy and rework from the OG ‘mining to metals guide’ from MO1 forums, since all of that got deleted and this guide was super good for new players I decided to find it, copy what I can find and rework to today's standard. When I started editing it all I decided to add a lot of new information and other important data for both newer and experienced slag haulers. So I edited a lot of the information from the old post and added a lot of new information to make it up-to-date with today's standards and information available. There is still some information in this guide that is still sadly missing but I will do my best to find it all and place it here. Eventually I will be also adding extra parts for leveling of skills, information regarding best towns / areas to mine and extract at, etc. (I do this when I feel like it so please be patient as to when those updates will happen). Additionally I tried my best to keep some of the original text still in-here as a form of tribute to those that released the information back in the dark ages of mortal online.
Keep it in mind this will be edited a lot in the future when I have time.
Useful links:
- www.mortalonlinemap.info/emulator/?contentarea=emulator - bread and butter for every slag hauler (it's a part of the mortalonlinemap), it has everything you need for extraction and refining also check out ‘reverse search’ it tells you how to get a specific material from all the different sources
- www.mortalonlinemap.info - the most important tool for anyone that plays this game, on the top right corner check out: filters so you can filter your map for specific items for example ‘Stone Resources’. Tools - everything that's important is there, check out ‘book finder’ to see in what towns you can get the book you were looking for. Additionally if you click on any city on the map; on the right side it will tell you what tools, resources etc are available in that town.
- https://mortaldata.com/ - character builder for your builds it has everything you need to make your character; including clades, all of the skills etc,. This page also has the builder for weapons, armors, bows, shields and pet equipment.
Basic knowledge and build advice:
Slag Haulers require a lot of skill points in profession skill tree, so if you are thinking about becoming one you need to keep in mind that if you want to be able to extract and refine EVERY material in-game it will be difficult to take a second profession and if you do take up a second profession 1 of the 2 professions or both will be limited to what you can do. Additionally certain races and builds have access to more skill points in their profession due to their stats and/or clades, for example humans and mages.
I will only list the most important/major clades for that race that affect our profession, for example I’m not mentioning Oghmirs ‘Strong Back’ or Alvarins ‘StoneseerI’ or ‘Stoneshaper’ that technically affect our builds but are not that important or are completely irrelevant for the most part.
- Oghmir: They are the best slag haulers in the game due to their clades;
Metallurgist - 3% bonus when extracting (this clade affects all of the extraction process and YES it gives us extra yield every time we extract materials)
Ironmaster - 3% bonus when refining (this clade affects strictly refining process when using refining oven)
Metalsmith - decreases metal material usage by 6% when crafting (although this clade does not affect mining, extraction or refining it’s a super good bonus clade if you are considering adding extra profession to your build that uses metal, for example weaponsmithing, armor crafting, pet armor crafting, shield crafting etc)
- Alvarin: They make second best slag haulers in the game due to the clade:
StoneshaperII - +10% additional yield when mining (it’s a very self explanatory clade basically making your mining experience 10% faster than others to get the same result which is great both in short term and in the long run)
- Human: I list humans as a 3rd best option for slag hauling due to their high pool of profession skill points and generally high amount of stats in-general, although none of their clades affect slag hauling like the clades I mentioned above they make great crafters and slags even without them.
Educated - +10 skill levels in all lore skills (example after reading a book fully most builds would have about 70/100 points in that skill, as a human you have automatically 80/100 and if you are a human mage basically just after finishing reading the book you can end up with 90/100 with a lore which is huge especially at the start of your career in slag hauling and ESPECIALLY with crafting using end-game materials such as tungsteel, t. Messing, cronite or oghmium.
Artisan - 50 skill points points in the profession tree (self explanatory, in simple words it gives you more room for a second profession)
Scholastic - your book reading speed is increased by 20% (it's a nice free clade for any human build, I’m mentioning it here because as a slag you will have to read about 100 different books and some take hundreds of hours to read)
Catalysts can be obtained from numerous sources, mainly from extraction, vendors or can be found in the wild as a pickable (for example ‘Bor’ is only obtainable as a pickable). Certain materials can be obtained from many sources, for example ‘calamine’ which can be purchased from magic vendors, found in the wild and extracted from amarantum, pyroxene and red bleckblende. Using different catalysts or even different quantities can partially or completely change the results of our extraction process.
Examples of how to get most popular catalysts through extraction:
Examples of how to get most popular catalysts through extraction:
- Coke is obtained from baking(thermal appliance) Coal(Material) with Coal(Catalyst)
- Coal(Material) is obtained from Crushing/Grinding Calx
- Calx Powder is obtained from crushing/grinding Calx Pile
- Saburra Powder is obtained from crushing/grinding Saburra Pile
- Granum Powder is obtained from crushing/grinding Granum Pile
- Sulfur can be obtained from baking malachite with coke
Extraction Tables
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