fastest way to raise mining skill

[Snowy Sprout]

To take Mining skill from 0 to 10 in the fewest in-game days, what are the best strategies?

Assume these days don't have to be the FIRST days in the game. So you could have upgraded tools, or bus unlocked, or whatever. But if you've ignored Mining skill so far and suddenly want it to be at 10 ASAP what is the fastest way there?

[Snowy Sprout]

I know you get extra Skill points for mining the light gray rocks that take extra hits in the mines. I know you get extra points for mining ores.

I'm not sure whether you get skill points for destroying boulders. I know you don't get any skill points for any rocks that break but don't drop anything.

I think you get more skill points for rocks that are outside of the mines, such as on the farm or in the quarry.

I don't know whether there's a bonus for anything in Skull Cavern, but I know you can't even go in without first hitting the bottom of the regular mine first.

[Stardustfire]

mineing is normaly the first skill that reaches 10, and that total by itself without focusing on it.
ever do 5 mine levels at rainy days, dont wasteing money on bombs, and in no time mineing 10 is reached while the normal mine is complete opened on top.

you dont go into the skull caverns without maxed mineing.

[FilthyGorilla]

Skull cavern dives, preferably early to mid spring spring.

Those ore nodes give large sums of xp (50) and iridium spawns in large quantities on deeper runs which ensures lots of xp.
You only need to mine 300 iridium nodes (~600 ore without miner and ~900 with) to get the 15000 mining xp needed for level 10. You'll also mine gems which give between 16-150 xp.
On a recent mobile run I did once I completed the mines on day 5 I spent the rest of the day diamond resetting for level 6 mining the first day in the mines. That's obviously not as effective on any other platform but diamond farming is a viable xp and monetary source as long as your journal buffering is good.

[red255]

yeah if you got access to the dwarf and bombs, or other ways to make bombs you can probably speedrun mining skill pretty easily either in skull cavern or otherwise. lemme check the wiki

fastest way is to get a bunch of crystallariums somehow and clone quartz to buy bombs from the desert merchant maybe? does that make sense? if money is not an option.

[Snowy Sprout]

You can't go into Skull Cavern until you hit the bottom of the regular mine first though.

So how do you hit floor 120 of the regular mine as fast as possible?
Generally I can only get 5-20 floors in a day with regular mining with an ordinary pick.

[Snowy Sprout]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

mineing is normaly the first skill that reaches 10, and that total by itself without focusing on it.
ever do 5 mine levels at rainy days, dont wasteing money on bombs, and in no time mineing 10 is reached while the normal mine is complete opened on top.

you dont go into the skull caverns without maxed mineing.

I don't find mining skill the first to max to level 10 in most of my playthroughs. Usually for me it is fishing first, then farming, then mining or forage.

[FilthyGorilla]

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

You can't go into Skull Cavern until you hit the bottom of the regular mine first though.

So how do you hit floor 120 of the regular mine as fast as possible?
Generally I can only get 5-20 floors in a day with regular mining with an ordinary pick.

On mobile, save resets.
PC, predictor.

Generally though mass stock up on food early in the save, that means fishing every day, saving iridium chub and selling everything else to buy salads, coffee, etc.
Pause whenever you aren't mining and whenever you need any mental break whatsoever, pause buffering saves so much time.
Go after clusters of rocks and then individual, while you might sometimes be unlucky and waste time going back for rocks, you'll usually get a ladder.
Have a chest and furnaces at level 0 and use those every 5 floors to stock up, get rid of, and smelt resources.
Pass out in the mines, don't die, passing out loses practically nothing, if you're playing at all optimally you'll have no money on hand basically ever and you'll be levelling up at least once a day for the first week(s), eliminating both consequences of passing out.
Task overlay, do two, three, many things at the same time to save time in each, monster attacking you? hit it, mine, hit it again, mine, and so, don't go out of your way for resources, you can always revisit the level.
Know your skill and work around it, not everyone is great at mental multitasking and even less so for certain things like task overlay.

Doing all this stuff on a standard play through I usually finish the mines in 3-4 days of mining, even less if I upgrade my pickaxe one or more times, I usually aim for steel as a powerful enchanted steel pick is basically an iridium pick.

[Decrepit Old Man]

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

You can't go into Skull Cavern until you hit the bottom of the regular mine first though.

So how do you hit floor 120 of the regular mine as fast as possible?
Generally I can only get 5-20 floors in a day with regular mining with an ordinary pick.

Best thing you can do is upgrade your pick whenever possible, then go mining on any extra luck days or use this trick when you level up any time then pass out when you wake up you don't lose any energy from passing out and if you have no money you won't loss any money, so as long as you have the level up you can go straight to mine from asap to 2am

[red255]

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

You can't go into Skull Cavern until you hit the bottom of the regular mine first though.

So how do you hit floor 120 of the regular mine as fast as possible?
Generally I can only get 5-20 floors in a day with regular mining with an ordinary pick.

buy bombs and go ham? if you got jade (from a crystallarium) you can buy staircases pretty easily to decend rapidly thru anything.

[Dimensional Traveler]

DIG!

[chronchie]

I suggest just breaking any rocks/nodes you see. On your farm, in the mines, etc. I'm not sure if breaking rocks with bombs will add to your skill but I would definitely recommend trying it out as it can save a lot of time

I recommend maybe also going to the earlier floors of the mines as they have a high abundance of rocks with easy/minimal monsters

Another important thing to add: Not all rocks give experience but all light gray rocks always do. Nodes give more experience compared to rocks.

Hope this can help <3

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

You can't go into Skull Cavern until you hit the bottom of the regular mine first though.

So how do you hit floor 120 of the regular mine as fast as possible?
Generally I can only get 5-20 floors in a day with regular mining with an ordinary pick.

usually it is best to upgrade the pickaxe as you're reaching the new area, since needing to hit the iron nodes is better done with a copper pickaxe than with a normal one for efficiency. The same with steel on gold nodes and once you've enough for gold, obviously upgrade the axe another time.

If you don't want to upgrade it for whatever reason, then it is propably better to stick to copper area, given that minging nodes wich are 2 level above your pickaxe just wastes enormeous amounts of energy with minimal gain. Also try to focus those days where it either rains, so that you can go in full energy (if you doesn't do anything else than mining, then this doesn't really matter) and/or on high luck days, so that the ladder will be easier to find on top of getting more nodes to begin with.

[Snowy Sprout]

Originally posted by chronchie:

I'm not sure if breaking rocks with bombs will add to your skill

I do know that rocks broken with bombs do add to your Mining XP!

I did a whole run once using only bombs and never using a pick, and my mining levels did keep going up.