Mining, Lumberjacking and Skinning
Mining and lumberjacking are handled via “harvest banks”. Every harvest bank is filled with a dice rolled resource.
Chances
Depending on the region where the crafter is located, the dice roll chances are as following:
Level 1 on every Dungeon
40% Iron Ore/Logs
30% Shadow Ore/Logs
21,6% Copper Ore/Logs
4,2% Bronze Ore/Logs
2,8% Verite Ore/Logs
1,4% Valorite Ore/Logs
Level 2 on every Dungeon
25% Iron Ore/Logs
33% Shadow Ore/Logs
30,2% Copper Ore/Logs
5,9% Bronze Ore/Logs
3,9% Verite Ore/Logs
2,0% Valorite Ore/Logs
Level 3 on every Dungeon
10% Iron Ore/Logs
31% Shadow Ore/Logs
42,5% Copper Ore/Logs
8,3% Bronze Ore/Logs
5,5% Verite Ore/Logs
2,7% Valorite Ore/Logs
Everywhere else
75% Iron Ore/Logs
15% Shadow Ore/Logs
9,3% Copper Ore/Logs
0,4% Bronze Ore/Logs
0,2% Verite Ore/Logs
0,1% Valorite Ore/Logs
Additionally on every mine attempt a 50%/50% chance is given to aquire the resource type of the vein or, in dungeons, the fallback resource which is one type below the vein type. So if a player gets a Bronze mining vein, he will get (in average) 50% copper and 50% bronze ore out of it.
Outside of dungeons, the fallback resource is always iron.
Skill check
Also on every mine attempt, a skill check has to be passed to get resources (against the resource type - what defines the min and max skill for the skill check - see the table above). Here the resource type of the used tool provides a bonus (a valorite pickaxe gives 25% mining skill bonus as an example)
Harvest bank upgrades
There are 2 ways a harvest bank can be upgraded to the next better recource:
Luck: the more luck a player has, the higher are the chances that a harvest bank will upgraded to a higher resource. With 100 luck, the player has the doubled chance to upgrade the vein (relative to the chance the resource he tryes to update to has). Example: The player mines the first time on a fresh spot and gets a shadow vein. The chance for copper in a dungeon level 2 is 30.2%. So with 100 luck he has a 60.4% chance to upgrade the vein to copper. With 10 luck, he has a 6.4% chance to get the upgraded vein. This upgrade possibility is only given when the vein gets filled (so on the first mine attempt - not on every single mine attempt on an existing vein.)
Prospectors Tool: using a prospecters tool, a player can upgrade a harvest bank (once) to the next higher resource
Hidden resource gathering