Mining Ore Question

[Sinpurge]

If I need an Iron Pickaxe to mine Iron Ore now how do I get the first Iron Pickaxe? Am I forced to kill skeletons until I get enough scrap?

[Fabraus]

you dont need an iron axe, you need the bigger stone pickaxe and hit the walls

[Fabraus]

pickaxe*

[Sinpurge]

Excellent. Thank you, but why aren't my guys doing the wall busting thing if they've got the big pickaxes too?

[🎇TYPHOON🎇]

Because you forgot to give them torches, so they can see the wall they're supposed to be "busting"?

[Aurelius]

I believe the relatively new "ore deposits" in the cave require an iron pickaxe to mine. They have more ore per location than the previous deposits.
As before, the reddish-tinted walls on the cave can be mined with stone pickaxes.
Thus, you can begin by mining the walls, gather enough iron to improve your tools, then get the richer deposits.
If your folks aren't mining at all, check their status via the villager menu. Their storage may be full, which will be indicated in their individual status and the "settlement issues" list, and if they're lacking torches they'll list it in their individual status and articulate it when they're running around. " I need torches to mine" or something like that.
I'm not sure if manually placing torches in the new wall pillar receptacles will remove this "need" from the villagers or not.

[hotlinedavid]

Originally posted by Sinpurge:

Excellent. Thank you, but why aren't my guys doing the wall busting thing if they've got the big pickaxes too?

Hi, this is a bug that occurs when a villager has a lower tier pickaxe and a higher tier pickaxe in his inventory at the same time. It will cause him to get stuck harvesting a cave wall forever. The issue will be addressed in the next update, in the meantime please avoid giving your mine workers low tier pickaxes.

[Sinpurge]

No. I Confirmed that they didn't have Higher tier axes. They simply weren't doing it. Because the logical question in the first place is "Do they have the proper gear" which the higher tier pickaxes would have been, which weren't being produced because Iron wasn't being produced.