Miner
The Miner is the gathering profession of the rocks. With a pickaxe in your tool slot, you break ore veins scattered around the map and collect:
- ores (Copper Ore, Iron Ore, Gold Ore) and Coal, which the Researcher uses for affinity balls and the Shiny Radar;
- evolution stone shards, which the Researcher turns into stones;
- fossils, which the Researcher revives as Pokémon;
- rare finds such as Everstone and Star Piece.
How to mine
- Get a pickaxe. Every pickaxe is crafted by the Artisan (the Rusty Pickaxe from Artisan level 5) or bought from another player on the Global Trade Station. No NPC sells pickaxes.
- Wear the pickaxe in your tool slot.
- Find a vein. Veins appear at random spots near wild Pokémon, all over the map, caves included (never in protection zones or inside houses).
- Click the vein (or choose Mine from the right-click menu). You need to be right next to it.
Your character strikes the vein for a few seconds while a progress bar fills. If you step away, mining is cancelled with nothing spent. Before you start, the game checks the pickaxe's level, your Labor and your bag space: if anything is missing, you are told and nothing is spent.
Each vein can be mined once. Whoever finishes first takes it, the vein disappears and another one appears somewhere else a few minutes later. A vein nobody mines moves somewhere else after 45 minutes.
What each vein gives
- One common material, among those your level has unlocked and your pickaxe reaches. Your pickaxe's own ore is the most common.
- A chance at a rare find, on top of the common one: 5% + 0.5% per Miner level, plus the vein's bonus (table below).
Then the vein costs 10 Labor, the pickaxe has a 20% chance to lose 1 durability point, and you earn Miner experience.
Pickaxes
Only the pickaxe and your level decide what a vein can give. A better pickaxe reaches rarer materials, takes a little longer per vein and gives more experience.
| Pickaxe | Miner level | Time per vein | Durability | XP per vein |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rusty Pickaxe | 1 | 3 s | 50 | 2 |
| Sturdy Pickaxe | 10 | 3.75 s | 75 | 4 |
| Reinforced Pickaxe | 25 | 4.5 s | 100 | 6 |
| Master Pickaxe | 40 | 5.25 s | 150 | 8 |
Every pickaxe breaks when it reaches zero and cannot be repaired. Each new pickaxe uses the previous one as an ingredient at the Artisan.
Veins
A vein's colour shows how rich it is, which depends on the level of the wild Pokémon in the area where it appeared. A richer vein only raises the rare find chance: it never locks any material.
| Vein | Appears near wild Pokémon of level | Rare find bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Ore Vein | below 12 | — |
| Rich Ore Vein | 12+ | +2% |
| Lustrous Ore Vein | 25+ | +4% |
| Moonlit Ore Vein | 50+ | +6% |
Now and then a vein appears one step poorer or richer than its area.
Materials
| Material | Level | Lowest pickaxe | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Ore | 1 | Rusty | Common |
| Coal | 3 | Rusty | Common |
| Leaf Shard | 6 | Rusty | Rare |
| Iron Ore | 10 | Sturdy | Common |
| Water Shard | 13 | Sturdy | Rare |
| Fire Shard | 17 | Sturdy | Rare |
| Thunder Shard | 21 | Sturdy | Rare |
| Gold Ore | 26 | Reinforced | Common |
| Helix Fossil | 30 | Reinforced | Rare |
| Dome Fossil | 33 | Reinforced | Rare |
| Everstone | 37 | Reinforced | Rare |
| Moon Shard | 42 | Master | Rare |
| Old Amber | 46 | Master | Rare |
| Star Piece | 50 | Master | Rare |
Rare materials only come from the rare find. Among them, shards are the most common and the Star Piece is the hardest to get.
Labor
Mining spends Labor, a pool of points shared by every character on your account. Each vein costs 10 points. The maximum is 2,000, and you get 1 point back every 30 seconds, online or offline. Botanist harvesting draws from the same pool.
See the ranks and what each profession makes in Professions.