There is so few copper and iron ores in mines..

[Vanessa]

I am in my first summer and have spent all my gold buying ores from the merchant because there are so few of them in the mines..I reached level 60 and still cant get 11 bars to make a sprinkler..

[Scapegoat]

Not knowing how much you do or don't know about the game....
The mines can be split up into three categories: Levels 1-39, 40-79, and 80-120. You can find copper in 1-39, iron in 40-79, and gold in 80-120.
When hunting for ores, I'll usually use the elevator to check out levels 10, 20, and 30 for copper, 40, 50, 60 for iron, and levels 80, 90, 100, 110 for gold. Since ores don't spawn on a level that has an elevator, I choose those levels specifically because they each have a staircase given to you.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Vanessa:

I am in my first summer and have spent all my gold buying ores from the merchant because there are so few of them in the mines..I reached level 60 and still cant get 11 bars to make a sprinkler..

Umm.. what? There's tons of ore in the mines.

However: Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't. You have to go back, and run the mines repeatedly. As Scapegoat said, use the elevator, check the different floors. Also, RE-check them, because they're repopulate if you from floor "A" and then to floor "B" and then back to "A" again.

There's also a Mining perk that will give you extra Ore per node. I suspect that most guides recommend taking Geologist and then either Excavator or Gemologist, but I usually take "Miner" and then "Prospector" personally.

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Skills#Mining

[Lurlex]

Nakos is correct ... there's tons of ore in the mines. What's more, higher floors inside of an ore's range have a higher concentration of ore nodes than the lower floors do. So, you're going to see a lot more copper ores between 20-39 than you will between 1-20, for example.

Check the TV fortuneteller every day. Good luck days are your golden time. You can also boost your luck a lot with food, more than the daily random chance can give you.

How often do you mine?

[milkygirl]

Originally posted by Vanessa:

I am in my first summer and have spent all my gold buying ores from the merchant because there are so few of them in the mines..I reached level 60 and still cant get 11 bars to make a sprinkler..

To add to what the others have said, your daily luck has an effect on how much ore you find in the mines. If you're always going on a bad luck day (you can find out your daily luck by watching the "Fortune Teller" option on the TV in your house) you'll find less ore.

That being said, I usually get about 100 copper ore going from clearing level 15 to level 30 in the mines. Same for iron doing floors 40-55. Admittedly that's a full clear of every floor, but still...

[Vanessa]

Originally posted by Lurlex:

Nakos is correct ... there's tons of ore in the mines. What's more, higher floors inside of an ore's range have a higher concentration of ore nodes than the lower floors do. So, you're going to see a lot more copper ores between 20-39 than you will between 1-20, for example.

Check the TV fortuneteller every day. Good luck days are your golden time. You can also boost your luck a lot with food, more than the daily random chance can give you.

How often do you mine?

Hmm xd.. I have been around 5-6 times in 2 months for sure..I am at level 55 now and died once at 58.xd

[Vanessa]

Originally posted by Scapegoat:

Not knowing how much you do or don't know about the game....
The mines can be split up into three categories: Levels 1-39, 40-79, and 80-120. You can find copper in 1-39, iron in 40-79, and gold in 80-120.
When hunting for ores, I'll usually use the elevator to check out levels 10, 20, and 30 for copper, 40, 50, 60 for iron, and levels 80, 90, 100, 110 for gold. Since ores don't spawn on a level that has an elevator, I choose those levels specifically because they each have a staircase given to you.

I come from Time of Portia where there are no small ores and I kinda hate it now or actually I am bored and prefer to farm and chop wood to sell most of the time..This game is amazing..Portia is great too but it has stolen soooo many things from Stardew valley that I can safely name it a copy-pasta with some improvements though xd

[Alizaibid]

I think the "luck" factor matters too for finding ores in the mines. Just watch the oracle every morning, and i usually go to the mines when the oracle said the spirit is in a good mood or better.
If luck still not on your side, why not try the skull cavern. I think there's more concentration of ores even on early floors

[Lurlex]

Originally posted by Vanessa:

Hmm xd.. I have been around 5-6 times in 2 months for sure..I am at level 55 now and died once at 58.xd

I think that's part of your problem right there. 5-6 times in two game seasons is not much mining at all. In that phase of the game, where I really need to upgrade tools, I'd estimate I mine at least twice a week, if not more. This still gives me plenty of time to schedule fishing days when I feel it's a good time, gather wood, and even socialize with the town.

A mining day should be as close to an all-day affair as your other farm duties (I mean mandatory things, like watering crops) will allow. Rainy days are great for going to the mine.

[Myakka_23]

Originally posted by Scapegoat:

Not knowing how much you do or don't know about the game....
The mines can be split up into three categories: Levels 1-39, 40-79, and 80-120. You can find copper in 1-39, iron in 40-79, and gold in 80-120.
When hunting for ores, I'll usually use the elevator to check out levels 10, 20, and 30 for copper, 40, 50, 60 for iron, and levels 80, 90, 100, 110 for gold. Since ores don't spawn on a level that has an elevator, I choose those levels specifically because they each have a staircase given to you.

Thank you

[I Kinda Fail]

Originally posted by red255:

I can normally get about 100 iron or gold from a day of mining in the mines, though the 1.3 patch slowed it down a bit. mines no longer refresh every time you enter them but instead refresh every hour or something per floor?

copper is somewhat rare, and I generally either purchase it or get it in the skull mines.

I wouldn't waste it on sprinklers too much. its needed for kegs and tappers for making more kegs.

In 1.3, it reset every 10 minutes. In 1.4, the mines reset every time you leave the mine. (Meaning, go up the ladder - not leave the cave.)

[Fresh Guy]

Try checking the luck every day

[SGT. D]

Originally posted by Lurlex:

Rainy days are great for going to the mine.

Yeah, rainy and good luck combined with a bonus from the right food and there's no way you can leave the mine with less than a hundred of whatever you're after, plus a backpack full of everything else you find down there.

[Vanessa]

Originally posted by The Dark Tyger:

Originally posted by Vanessa:

Portia is great too but it has stolen soooo many things from Stardew valley that I can safely name it a copy-pasta with some improvements though xd

I wouldn't say Portia has stolen any more from SDV than SDV "stole" from Harvest Moon. I mean, there are plenty of similarities, but also enough differences that I'm baffled how you feel you can "safely" call it a "copy-pasta" in any sense. They're 2 games in the same genre. It's like calling Halo a "copy-pasta" of Doom.

I agree..I didnt mean it even in the sentence I said there were ''improvements''in Portia but they are more like differences..Both games are special on its own and must have in my opinion..My apologies!