Mining

The core of the server. Ore comes from the shared mines - the column under your own land is a private tunnel of plain stone, useful for building material, not a source of ore. See Land for what is down there.

The shared mines

/mine opens the menu. Higher tiers are strictly richer - both in how much of the mine is ore at all, and in what that ore is.

Rules inside a mine

• No fall damage. Digging downward is the intended way to move through one.
• You cannot build. A mine's whole balance rests on how much ore its restock puts back; walling off a corner or placing and re-breaking your own blocks would break that.
• Ender pearls and chorus fruit do not work anywhere in the mines world - they were being used to skip the level gate by going over a wall.
• Deepslate needs a good pickaxe. Bring one to the Mythic mine.
• When a mine restocks, anyone inside is moved to the entrance rather than buried.
• If you log out inside and the mine resets while you are away, you are moved to the entrance when you return instead of waking up inside solid rock.

The Treasure MineNEW

A mine that is closed most of the time. Every few hours it opens for a short window, freshly restocked with the best ore on the server, and everybody is told at the same moment.

• The whole server is announced to when it opens, and again when it closes.
• /mine shows a live countdown - either "opens in" or "closes in".
• It restocks completely on every opening, so the window always starts on a full mine.
• When the window ends you are moved out automatically.

It is a race on purpose: one bell, everyone hears it, and there is only so much ore in the window.

Rare finds

Every block you break in a shared mine has a small chance to give something extra.

Neither drops from your private land mine, and neither drops in creative mode.

What ore is worth

Prices are not fixed - see the economy. Before a big sell, check /market: mining the thing that is currently in demand can be worth substantially more than mining the thing that everyone else just dumped.

The pickaxe skill treeNEW

/skills opens it. Three branches of 3 nodes each, 5 levels per node - permanent upgrades earned with skill points, separate from anything an enchant does.

• A node needs 3 points already spent in its own branch per depth level before it unlocks - no per-node prerequisites, just depth.
• Points come from levelling (1 every 5 levels) and prestiging (2 per prestige). Maxing every node costs 90 - nobody gets all of it, so the branches you pick say something about how you play.
• Respeccing costs 50,000 coins and resets every point.
• Efficiency and Rich Veins overlap the Haste and Fortune+ enchants and stack with them - an enchant lives on the item, a skill lives on you. Rich Veins and Prosperity share a combined 50% cap on bonus drops, so the two together can never exceed it.

Right-click a pickaxe to open the tree directly, off-hand empty.

Two trees, one pool of points

The tree above is the pickaxe tree, opened with /pickaxeskills. A second tree lives at /skills with two more branches:

• Luck - better Forge Token and Ancient Fragment finds, and a chance at lootbox keys while mining.
• Combat - more health, more melee damage, and a chance to heal on a kill. The damage and healing apply in dungeons and the PvE arena only, never in PvP or duels.

Both trees spend the same pool of points, and adding them did not add any new way to earn points - the 90-point full cost above already counts all five branches.

Ore Auto-Deposit

A one-time purchase from /pickaxeskills, not a skill node: 1,000,000 coins at Prestige 3+. Mined ore goes straight into your backpack instead of your inventory. Mutually exclusive with Auto Sell - whichever is switched on wins.