Mining Trade Skill Guide (2024)

Last updated on Mar 19, 2023 at 13:24by Lemoni1 comment

On this page, you will find our in-depth guide for the Mining Trade Skill inNew World, where we cover everything from basics to advanced farming tips forrare materials.

Mining utilizes the Pickaxe tool to gather stone, ore and gems from miningnodes around the world, which can be used to level almost every otherprofession in the game and greatly increase the power of your character, or beturned into a huge Gold profit. Mining is most closely linked to the refiningskill Smelting in which you can use all the ore you mine to smeltinto ingots for further crafting.

To begin your mining adventures, simply craft a Mining Pickaxe at anycampfire or sanctuary after the initial game introduction; it uses similarmaterials to the Flint Sickle that you craft shortly after the introduction(Flint and Greenwood), and then you are ready to mine.

This Trade Skill scales solely with Strength, so we highlyrecommended that you focus on obtaining Strength on both gear and with yourAttribute selection, up to 300 for the final perk, if you are aiming to get themost out of your mining. If you are not a Strength-based character at the time,you will still be able to get a lot out of Mining, but it will be a slowerfarm. Below is a list of the perks granted from Strength that benefitMining.

• 50 Strength: +10% Mining speed
• 100 Strength: +20 Encumbrance
• 150 Strength: -10% Decreased weight of mined items
• 200 Strength: +10% Mining speed
• 250 Strength: +10% Yield increased from mining
• 300 Strength: 25% Chance to fully mine an ore node with a singleswing

A note about the final 300-Strength perk is that it currently only applieson the first swing on the node, you can no longer jump to try and proc thisperk again as of patch 1.1.

Luck greatly increases your chance at getting rare materials from Mining.Stacking as much Luck as possible on all of yourgear/tools/food buff is the key to finding those legendary rare materials andgems. The apparel for mining is the Miner Gloves,Goggles/Hat,Pants, Shirt and Shoes,but the perk can also roll on any gear.

Gems are primarily found in Silver, Gold, and Platinum Veins, however canalso be found in Iron, Starmetal and Orichalcum, at a reduced chance. Some ofthe rarer resources used for end-game crafting, like Cinnabar, Tolvium, and Void Ore can only befound in Orichalcum Veins.

You are able to have a total of 3 houses currently in New World and in eachof those houses you can place up to 5 trophies. Placing a mining trophyin your house increases your Mining Luck globally and you may place a miningtrophy in each of your 3 houses, which will stack the Luck up even further.You are also able to permanently increase the power of these trophies byacquiring either Surveyor's Tools or Adamantine Dust.Trophies can be made by the Furnishing profession.

1. Minor Trophy = 500 Luck
2. Basic Trophy = 1000 Luck
3. Major Trophy = 1500 Luck

The best perks for your Mining Pickaxe can change depending on what youneed. For example, as you are levelling up your Mining skill, you may want the Prospector's Discipline perk, which grants increased mining experience,however once you are at 200 Mining skill you will likely want to drop that forsomething else. At 200 Mining we recommend the following perks on your Miningpick:

1. Mining Luck
2. Mining Yield
3. Gathering Alacrity

Armor	Drop Source
Miner Goggles	Open World
Miner Shirt	Open World
Miner Gloves	Open World
Miner Pants	Open World
Miner Shoes	Open World

If you are an avid miner you may want to look for the Prospector's Burden perk, which reduces the weight of your ores, ingots,and pickaxes. Alternatively, the Quarryman's Burden perk reduces theweight of stone, blocks, gems and pickaxes. The Extra Pockets perk isalso fantastic for all situations.

In addition to the Mining Yield perk at 250 Strength, you can also get moreore and rare materials by drinking the Powerful Proficiency Boosterproficiency potion, made by the Arcana profession, which canincrease your yield by up to 15%. You can also get additional yield on yourcrafted Mining Pick, which is great.

Leveling Mining in New World is fairly simple: the higher level required tomine the node, the more experience you will gain, generally. However, thedifference in experience is not that great until the later levels (Starmetaland Orichalcum), and the speed at which you can gain experience is largelydictated by how fast you are capable of mining those nodes.

The 300 Strength perk thatallows you to mine a node in a single swing makes those last Mining levels goextremely fast, as Mining Orichalcum in one swing will net you massiveexperience. Below is a list in order of from least to most experience gainedfrom Mining nodes; keep in mind that the size of the node varies and determinesexperience gained.

1. Boulder
2. Iron Vein
3. Seeping Stone (Oil)
4. Silver Vein
5. Lodestone
6. Alchemy Nodes (Blightcrag/Earthcrag/Lifejewel/Scorchstone/Shockspire/Springstone)
7. Gold Vein
8. Mountain Elementals (Bears)
9. Starmetal Vein
10. Orichalcum Vein

There is a plethora of mining routes in New World, and your choice willlargely depend on what you are looking to gather and how heavily populated yourserver is. Many of the objectively best routes may not be the best choices foryou if multiple people are farming those areas, so we generally recommendfinding somewhere you are comfortable running a consistent loop that you findnot too contested.

This New World map is a usefulresource that can be used to map out your own Mining routes and find thelocations of all Mining nodes in the game and much more.