MMORPGs usually provide players with a vast game world where they can explore and enjoy their own game time. Although fighting, upgrading, and advancing the main line are also important, we can also try to develop more leisure modes in the game to make ourselves more leisurely.

Among the many game modes in New World Aeternum, mining is undoubtedly a perfect combination of leisure and combat upgrades. Because you can collect ores through it and experience the work of miners in the game; you can also use the collected resources to upgrade your various equipment and weapons to make yourself stronger.

However, the mining system of New World Aeternum is a relatively complex game mode. If you want to use it with ease and avoid wasting extra New World Coins in it, you need to understand all aspects of it. Based on this, we will provide you with some useful suggestions.

How To Mine?

To mine ore in New World Aeternum, you first need to equip a mining pickaxe and then approach the resource node to interact with it. Each node has a corresponding “difficulty level”, which is related to your mining proficiency.

At the beginning, players can only mine ordinary stone, which is the most basic level 1 material. Then, when your mining level reaches level 25, you will unlock the first official ore, iron. After that, you will unlock more metal ores that can be used to make equipment, as well as precious ores for making accessories such as rings, pendants and necklaces.

There are two independent mining branches in the game: one focuses on collecting ores for smelting, and the other focuses on collecting stones for stone cutting. Both are also part of mining trade skill. Players can mine stones and ores to upgrade the skill faster.

How To Upgrade To Mine Faster?

The speed and efficiency of mining is related to the player’s Strength attribute and its perks. Therefore, in order to mine more efficiently, players should invest most of the relevant points in Strength, and if possible, it is best to get all Strength attribute-increasing equipment to unlock all its perks. This will not only allow you to mine faster but also increase the amount of ore you can carry.

In addition, if you have a mount equipped with a stamina reduction amulet and upgrade the mount skills, you can effectively reduce the time spent traveling between mineral resource nodes and improve mining efficiency.

Another good way to get extra mining speed and upgrade faster is to get a better mining pickaxe. Mining pickaxes are divided into 5 levels, and the higher the level, the more gathering speed bonus they provide. On the other hand, having a full set of miner’s clothing will also greatly enhance the player’s chances of getting better special materials when mining.

Finally, remember to equip the bag with Prospector’s Burden and Miner’s Luck perks when mining, as these will reduce the weight of ore and mining tools and increase your chances of getting special items when mining.

What Are The Best Mining Areas?

When your mining level is in different ranges, the suitable mining area is also different. Based on this, we have listed the various mining areas suitable for different level ranges.

1. Mining Levels 0-100

This area is Monarch Bluff area, North toward Devil’s Quarry, and is where you’ll find lots of Iron, Silver, and even Gold and Starmetal, as well as a lot of Alchemy Stone.

The nice thing about this area is that the ore veins spawn fairly quickly, so you can quickly mine ore here to level until you reach level 100. If you want, you can also stay around this area and farm all Starmetal veins for some extra experience.

2. Mining Levels 100-125

Windsward area includes the coast, pirate bay, and the north of the temple of Amrine. In this area, you’ll be able to find multiple platinum and Starmetal veins, but if you want to continue to level up quickly, head to Great Cleave above Brightwood, as there are more Starmetal veins there, and mining them will allow you to level up more efficiently.

If the player follows Braided Hills route, they will find another 12 to 15 Starmetal veins, and then head northeast to the Hollowing area to find at least 10 more.

3. Mining Levels 125-150

This area is between Sharptooth Pass and Edgeflow, where you will find 20 to 25 platinum veins on mine. Once you have mined them, you should continue to Edengrove and then to the center of the map. Next, in the triangle formed by Genesis of Malevolence, Spite, and Malice, you can find many platinum veins.

4. Mining Levels 150-205

This area is located southwest of Ebonscale Reach, near Dynasty Landing area, and players need to search for veins on the surrounding islands. Once the player has exhausted the 20 veins found in this area, they can continue to fast travel to the area between Thunder Cradle and Palewind Terrace, as there are also many veins there.

At this level, we recommend that you carefully plot an effective route and calculate the ore generation rate, because at this stage you can mine Orichalcum, which takes the longest time to generate among all the mineral resources in the game.

It takes 17 to 24 minutes for a small vein of Orichalcum to regenerate, 21 to 30 minutes for a medium vein, and 24 to 34 minutes for a large vein, which all long time. So you can plan your game schedule in advance and use the time waiting for Orichalcum to regenerate to do other explorations.

The above are the precautions for mining in New World Aeternum, as well as some methods to upgrade mining skills. I hope these contents can help you. Thank you for reading.