By: Jackjones on 9/18/2024
Mining in Wurm Online is a fundamental skill which is required to gather resources for other primary skills, like Masonry, Smithing, and more.
Like all things Wurm, each vein or ore type has a specific difficulty that can you match with your skill level. Mining a less difficult vein at a higher skill will produce less skill gain chances.
Note: You only gain skill with a mining action if the ore / shards collected falls between the range of 1.01 to 39.99 in QL.
Using the Wurm Grinder you can pinpoint the optimal pickaxe QL (and/or vein target) based on your Mining skill and Pickaxe skill.
Most likely, you will see best gains using a “skiller” type pickaxe at 1QL with a high as possible CoC enchant. You want long action timers, so no WoA is needed.
You can save your high QL / imbued / runed / WoA enchanted pickaxe when you are mining for ore quality for imping lumps.
| Skill | Vein |
|---|---|
| 0-70 | Rock / Iron |
| 60-100 | Copper / Slate / Lead |
| 80+ | Silver |
| 90+ | Gold |
| 99+ | Sandstone |
Flattening a cave roof can produce up to 100 skill ticks per click, dependent on stamina. This is a method of AFK mining, with a long timer. I use this with alts to build Body Strength.