Mining (skill)

Mining is a skill that increases the player's mining damage by +1 per level, up to a maximum of +100 at level 100.

Mining experience is gained by damaging wall blocks and walls, at a rate of 1 experience per hit.

Talent tree[]

Talent	Effects	Tier
Efficient excavation	+2–10% mining damage	1
Meticulous miner	+3–15% chance to gain an additional ore from walls containing ores	2
Self-mending alloy	Gain +2–10 durability on your tool, when breaking walls containing ores	2
Miner's strength	+2–10% of mining damage added as melee damage	3
Mine, mine, mine!	+3–15% mining speed	3
Explosives engineer	+4–20% explosives damage	3
Pick and run!	+4–20% movement speed boost for a short duration after mining a wall	4
Archaeologist	+0.2–1% chance to drop a valuable item from any mined wall	4

The player must deal at least 12 damage per hit to gain experience.
The Great Wall and Obsidian Walls do not grant experience when hit.
Sledge hammers will only give 1 experience per hit, no matter how many tiles were struck.

Diggy Diggy Hole • "Gained 100 skill points in mining"

Reach level 100 in the Mining skill.

1.0.0.1:
- The amount of experience needed to reach level 100 has been decreased from 100035 to 59978.
- Night vision has been replaced with Self-mending alloy.
- Meticulous miner now only gives +3% per point instead of +5%.
0.2.83b2b4a: Introduced.