Mines

Dig through 30 floors of rocks, gems, and treasure chests in the cave on the east side of town.

The Mines are a cave on the east side of Craven’s Hollow that leads down through 30 floors of rocks, gems, and chests. You always start on floor 1 and work your way down, and everyone on a floor sees the same rocks.

A supply crate beside the cave entrance sells the Red Flame, which lights up the dark floors. For how to swing a pickaxe, see Mining.

What You Can Do Here

Getting Around

• The ladder down to the next floor stays hidden until someone on that floor breaks the right rock. It can be any rock on the floor, so sometimes the way down needs a stronger pickaxe. The ladder also appears when every rock on the floor is broken.
• The exit ladder takes you back up one floor. On floor 1, it leads out to the cave entrance.
• Every floor has an elevator that takes you straight back to the surface.
• Only one player can mine a rock at a time.
• Broken rocks grow back in the same spot after about 2 minutes, sooner when more players share the floor (down to about 30 seconds). The spot where the ladder appeared stays clear.

Reshaping

The mine reshapes every 10m. The clock in the bottom-left corner counts down to the change, and a warning appears shortly before. When the timer runs out, everyone still inside is sent back out to the cave entrance. The rooms, rocks, ladders, and chests are all new after each change.

Floors and Darkness

The deeper you go, the darker it gets and the rarer the rocks become.

Equip a Red Flame to brighten the path around you. It costs 1,000 gold at the supply crate or from Maya.

Rocks

Stronger rocks need a better pickaxe. The deeper floors also hold more of the rarer rocks.

Rock	Gives	Where it appears	Pickaxe needed
Stone	1-2 Stone	Every floor with rocks	Any pickaxe
Copper	1-2 Copper	Every floor with rocks	Any pickaxe
Iron	1-2 Iron	Floor 4 and deeper	Copper Pickaxe or better
Gold	1 Gold	Floor 7 and deeper	Iron Pickaxe or better
Emerald	1 Emerald	Floors 11-12, 16-18, and 22-24 only	Iron Pickaxe or better
Crystal	1 Crystal	Floor 11 and deeper	Steel Pickaxe or better
Sapphire	1 Sapphire	Floor 13 and deeper	Steel Pickaxe or better
Ruby	1 Ruby	Floor 13 and deeper	Steel Pickaxe or better

Rare Cores

Now and then, a rock drops a rare core in place of the usual find. Each core only starts dropping at a certain depth.

Core	Starts at	Drops from	Chance per rock
Cinderchip	Floor 7	Any rock except Stone	About 1%
Pyreshard	Floor 13	Gold, Emerald, Crystal, Sapphire, and Ruby rocks	About 1%
Heartcoal	Floor 19	Gold, Emerald, Crystal, Sapphire, and Ruby rocks	About 0.5%
Magmacore	Floor 22	Emerald, Crystal, Sapphire, and Ruby rocks	About 0.5%
Emberheart	Floor 22	Emerald, Crystal, Sapphire, and Ruby rocks	About 0.2%

Pickaxes and furniture are crafted from these finds. See Pickaxes and Materials.

Chests and Treasure Rooms

Old chests sometimes turn up on ordinary floors, more often the deeper you go. Whoever opens a chest first takes its finds, so it is gone for everyone else on that floor until the mine reshapes.

Chests on floors 11-29 also have a small chance of holding 1 crystal, the premium currency. It is about 2% on floors 11-19 and about 2.5% on floors 21-29.

Floors 10, 20, and 30 are treasure rooms. They have no rocks, and each one always has a chest waiting after every change. On floors 10, 20, and 30, the ladder down is already open.

Who You Meet

Nobody works in the mines, but other players share each floor with you. A supply crate beside the cave entrance sells the Red Flame. See the supply crate stock.

See Also

• Mining
• Pickaxes
• Materials
• Maya