To mine, you need to have a Pick Axe or a Hammer. These can both be bought from Merchant Geres (in Juno) or Merchant Tino (in Dratan) for 1,000gold each. Males use Pick Axes and females use Hammers. There are three male and three female classes, so there are three different Pick Axes and three different Hammers. Before you buy one, click on it to make sure that it's for your class type and not just your character's gender.

Once you have your Pick Axe or your Hammer you need to find a mine. There are two mines along the east border of Juno and many, many small ones in Dratan. To see exactly where the mines are, please look at the maps on the Gathering page.

There are two kinds of resources in a mine. One is called an Ore Vein and the other is called an Ore Mine. If you ask someone about the difference between them, you will most likely be told that they produce different kinds of stones. This is not true. Both resources produce the same stones. So if they both produce the same thing, why do they have different names? To help you differentiate between the type of resources that they are. Ore Veins are temporary resources. They will wear out and disappear after about 10 minutes of being gathered from. Ore Mines, on the other hand, are permanent resources. These stay forever. Since Ore Veins are temporary resources, they will produce stones for you faster than Ore Mines will. Because of this, Ore Veins are the best to mine from if you are active at the computer. If you are going to go AFK for more than 10 minutes, then Ore Mines are best.	Ore Vein
	Ore Mine
There are three different stones you can get:

Flawed Stone (Low-grade stone)

Imperfect Stone (Medium-grade stone)

Quality Stone (High-grade stone)

	To mine from an Ore Vein (or Ore Mine), click on it. The window on the left should pop up. As you can see, it is asking you to choose between random production and selective production. If you choose to mine randomly, you will have a chance of receiving any of the three different kinds of stones in any order.
	If you choose to mine selectively, then you will have to specify which stone type you want. Many people mine selectively because they say that they do not want or have no need for the other two types of stones. However, what they don't realize is that selective mining is much much slower than random mining.

Mining skills allow you to mine stones faster. You may learn these skills from the Professional Miner NPC. To learn the skills or raise your skill level, talk to the Professional Miner and select option 1, "Learn skills." Here's a table showing the amount of SP needed to learn each level of the Mining skill.

Mining skill division			Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
Basic Mining			Free	4 SP Req: Level 4 char	14 SP Req: Level 5 char
Advanced Mining			36 SP Req: Level 5 char	71 SP Req: Level 5 char	126 SP Req: Level 5 char

Total cost of mining: 251 SP

The higher your skill level, the more stones you will mine in a set amount of time. This chart will show you how much you can mine with a whole tool on Ore Veins.

The Tables Below are being redone gathering new data, it will be posted ASAP- however mining is a slow process, especially taking time now to not instantly max the skill, but to get results for each level of mining.

	Basic Mining			Advanced Mining
	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
	43-43	66-66	59-59

Here's a chart of the approximate amount you can mine (Selectively) from an Ore Vein before the vein vanishes with each level of the Mining skill.

	Basic Mining			Advanced Mining
	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
	4	6	9			14
	3	3	7			9
	2	2	5			6

Please thank Kissker and Noru for their help with this page!