Digging

Digging
Crafting skill

Attributes			Skills
Primary		Constitution	Requires	Artisan
Secondary		Strength	Unlocks	Mining
Skill Progression
Level	Description
All	Tunnels digging speed
0	Can dig tunnels forward and downward
30	Slightly increased digging speed Can dig tunnel upward
60	Can reinforce mine walls with boards
90	Can harden mine walls (by building supporting beams)
100	Produced beams are more durable

Skill ID 16

Digging is one of the four tier 2 crafting skills in the Artisan branch. It allows to dig tunnels and reinforce tunnel walls. Level 30 of Artisan is required to learn this skill. To increase Digging past level 30, Artisan skill must be at level 60.

Skill Progression[ | ]

Lvl	Description
All	Tunnels digging speed.
0	Can dig tunnels forward and downward.
30	Slightly increased digging speed. Can dig tunnel upward.
60	Can reinforce mine walls with boards
90	Can harden mine walls (by building supporting beams)
100	Produced beams are more durable

Skill Abilities[ | ]

Lvl	Name	Equipment	Duration Min – Max	Entities	SStam	Cooldown
Lvl	Name	Equipment		Entities	SStam	Global	Orders
0	Dig a Tunnel Forward	Pickaxe	9 – 10	Soft terrain tile	40	n/a	n/a
0	Dig a Tunnel Downward	Pickaxe	9 – 10	Soft terrain tile	40	n/a	n/a
30	Dig a Tunnel Upward	Pickaxe	9 – 10	Soft terrain tile	40	n/a	n/a
60	Reinforce Tunnel	Primitive hammer, Mallet	Fixed: 20		n/a	n/a	n/a
90	Construct a Supporting Column	Primitive hammer, Mallet	Fixed: 30		n/a	n/a	n/a

1. Tunneling[ | ]

To start a mine, or change the height of a mine you use the Dig a tunnel/Dig a tunnel upward/Dig a tunnel downward commands. When tunneling you'll receive half of what ever terrain material is there, (rock/dirt) and half of what ever ore is there (if there is any ore)./ When starting a new tunnel, it's important to note a few things.

The new mine will LOCK all 8 Tiles around it from being terraformable. This means make sure your slopes are already set to the level you want them to be otherwise your mine entrance might have a big spike of rock, or be hard to get into.
When the new tunnel is created there will be a drop off of about 4 to 6 dirt levels (as of 10/8/14). The new resulting mine will be flat in the 1st tile.

Some tiles such as rock cannot be lowered, raised or flattened, but players can dig through these tiles and the action is mostly used for creating mine shafts in the world to have access to certain resources such as copper, iron, silver, and gold ores and it requires the player to have an equipped Pickaxe in order to remove one cube of ground material. Only non-ore materials can be dug by the player, although there are situations where a player collects small amounts of ore materials while digging soil or rock tiles. Digging the top tile will lock the 8 surrounding tiles from being modified and players have also an option to dig downward or upward which lower or raises the tile by .2 to .4, but the resulting dug tile will be flat. Dug pits and mine shafts decay over time which means that some tiles will be returned to their original state or some tiles on top of the tunnel might collapse inward. To mine ore from the tunnels Mining skill is required.

2. Tunnel Reinforcement[ | ]

Players can reinforce the walls of the tunnel in order to prevent them from collapsing.

Lvl	Name	Starting tool	Materials required
60	Reinforce Tunnel Walls	Hammer	4 x Boards
90	Construct a Supporting Column	Hammer	2 x building log

Recipes[ | ]

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References[ | ]

MMO: Crafting skills
Artisan	→ Construction	→ Masonry	→ Architecture
Mining	→ Materials Processing	→ Precious Prospecting	→ Jewelry
Forestry	→ Carpentry	→ Bowcraft	→ Warfare Engineering
Kilning	→ Forging	→ Weaponsmithing	→ Armorsmithing
Household	→ Farming	→ Cooking	→ Tailoring
Gathering	→ Herbalism	→ Healing	→ Alchemy
Hunting	→ Procuration	→ Animal Lore	→ Warhorse Training