Mining for Ores

In the mountain area is a mine you can explore. You'll need a Hammer before you can do any material collecting inside the mine. At the beginning of the game, head back to town to talk with Hanna. After that you can talk to the other villagers to receive the tools they will give to you. For the Hammer, return back to the mountain and introduce yourself to Andrea, who will be standing next to the entrance of the mine.

The mine is available all year long and in any weather. When you enter the mine you'll find a small room with a rock or two. Smash the rocks with your hammer to collect a piece of ore. The type of ore that is available depends on what floor of the mine you are on. To descend into the mine, keep yourself in Tool mode and tap on the ground to use your Hoe. Eventually you'll find a staircase down to the next floor of the mine. Each staircase takes you down ONE floor; you can't skip floors by finding a pitfall to hop down.

Time does NOT move forward while you are in the mine.

The mine is 100 floors deep. The rooms become larger the farther down you go, so it will take more effort to find the hidden staircase down to the next floor. You will need to bring food with you to eat to restore your stamina hearts as you use your tools to break rocks and dig for stairs. Some easy food you can bring are:

• Boiled Egg = 1.5 hearts
• Great Boiled Egg = 2 hearts
• Ultimate Boiled Egg = 2.5 hearts
• Supreme Boiled Egg = 3 hearts
• Legendary Boiled Egg = 3.5 hearts
• Fried Egg = 1.5 hearts
• Great Fried Egg = 2 hearts
• Ultimate Fried Egg = 3 hearts
• Supreme Fried Egg = 3.5 hearts
• Legendary Fried Egg = 4 hearts

Once you reach floor 61, the mining nodes will give you two ore instead of one. If you happen to collect 99 of a specific type of ore, the extra ore will be automatically transferred to the storage within your farm house. Remember that your bag is limited to 99 in a stack and your house storage is 255. Anything more than that will be destroyed.

The ore itself is not worth much money but by processing it at Brutus' Blacksmith, you can sell the refined metals and gems for a lot more money. He'll require 3 ore and a fee to create refined metal, but he only needs 1 gem ore plus his fee to refine into a gem.