How to use Ore Chute?

[Enter the Wang]

I'm up on the gantry mining and don't want to climb down. I have parked the mine car under the chute exit at the bottom. I'm practically crawling into the mine chute entrance up top. Whenever I drop ore it just appears on the catwalk.

Is the Ore Chute cosmetic only?

[Pixie]

Have to put in a cart and then push it with the little train. So all your profits go into diesel, game so realistic XD

[Enter the Wang]

How profitable is mining really? There's a recipe to convert 5 x iron ore with charcoal into a metal slab, but that's all I've found so far. I really don't see the point of it compared to looting.

[SirSlaughter]

Originally posted by Enter the Wang:

How profitable is mining really? There's a recipe to convert 5 x iron ore with charcoal into a metal slab, but that's all I've found so far. I really don't see the point of it compared to looting.

I'm still learning the recipes, but with what I have so far I believe it would be pretty easy to make money from turning iron ore, limestone and charcoal into steel. From there you could make excellent quality steel watches pretty easily.

I'm not sure if you learn furnace recipes from magazines, but if you do then it might be worth subscribing to some of the magazines by calling the publishers through the pay phone.

From what I've seen it seems like there's likely a few ways to turn mining into money, or at least be able to create more advanced materials needed for tenement upgrades. One thing I would avoid is selling the ore, the returns seem terrible and possibly in the negative if you use the train and pay for diesel. More so if you sell ore mined on one of the claims, as they seem to give less than 1/30th of the cost of a pickaxe in OC instead of RM out of a full pickaxe worth of ore (albeit I wasn't mining under the influence of mushrooms so it's possible the returns are better with their buff).

[Jawnycat]

Yeah the claims seem to be scams, at least the one I did a load for. 50RM on the readout on the unloader, he paid me 30oc for the receipt which, obviously, does not even cover the gas on the minitrain, let alone the entire pickaxe to mine it, yet alone the entry cost of 500RM for the licence. It's such a huge scam, and so nonchalant about it I couldn't help but laugh.