Mining Trade Skill Guide for New World

In the rich and resource-filled lands of Aeternum, success often hinges on the ability to gather and refine materials that are critical to the game's economy. Mining is one of the most essential trade skills, allowing you to extract valuable stones, ores, gems, and more from the environment around you. These materials are the backbone of crafting, allowing players to forge powerful weapons, armor, tools, and even consumables

In this guide, we'll cover everything you need to know in order to level up your mining trade skill efficiently, and how to get the most out of this trade skill.

Mining utilizes the pickaxe tool to gather stone, ore, and gems from mining nodes around Aeternum, which can be used to level almost every other profession in the game, and greatly increase the power of your character (and also providing you with new opportunities to make gold). Mining is most closely linked to the refining skill Smelting, in which you can use all the ore you mine to smelt into ingots for further crafting.

To begin your mining adventures, simply craft a Flint Mining Pick at any campfire or workshop after the initial game introduction. The only materials needed to craft this tool are Flint and Green Wood, making it an easy tool to quickly put together.

This trade skill scales solely with Strength, so we highly recommended that you focus on obtaining Strength on both gear and with your attribute selection, up to 350 for the final perk, if you are aiming to get the most out of your mining. If you are not a strength-based character at the time, you will still be able to get a lot out of mining, but it will be at a slower rate. Below is a list of the perks granted from Strength that benefit mining.

• 25 Strength: +10% Mining speed
• 50 Strength: +25 Encumbrance
• 100 Strength: +50 Encumbrance
• 150 Strength: -10% Decreased weight of mined items
• 200 Strength: +20% Mining speed
• 250 Strength: +10% Yield increase when mining
• 300 Strength: +25% Chance to fully mine an ore node with a single swing
• 350 Strength: +10% Chance at finding rare items while mining

A note about the 300-Strength perk is that it currently only applies on the first swing on the node, meaning you cannot interrupt your progress towards a specific node in hopes that your next swing auto-complete it.

Luck greatly increases your chance at getting rare materials from Mining. Stacking as much luck as possible on all of your armor, tools, and even consumables is the key to finding those legendary rare materials and gems. The apparel for mining is the Miner Gloves, Goggles/Hat, Pants, Shirt and Shoes, but the perk can also roll on any gear.

Gems are primarily found in Silver, Gold, and Platinum Veins, however can also be found in other nodes at a reduced chance. Some of the rarer resources used for end-game crafting, like Cinnabar and Tolvium can only be found in Orichalcum and Mythril Veins.

You are able to have a total of three houses currently in New World: Aeternum, and in each of those houses you can place up to five trophies. Placing a mining trophy in your house increases your mining luck globally and you may place a mining trophy in each of your three houses, which will stack the luck up even further. You are also able to permanently increase the power of these trophies by acquiring either Surveyor's Tools or Adamantine Dust. Trophies can be made by the Furnishing profession.

1. Minor Trophy = +500 Luck
2. Basic Trophy = +1,000 Luck
3. Major Trophy = +1,500 Luck

The best perks for your mining pickaxe can change depending on what you need. For example, as you are leveling up your mining skill, you may want the Prospector's Discipline perk, which grants increased mining experience. We recommend the following perks for your mining pickaxe.

1. Mining Luck
2. Mining Yield
3. Prospector's Discipline
4. Azoth Extraction

Armor	Drop Source
Miner Goggles	Open World
Miner Shirt	Open World
Miner Gloves	Open World
Miner Pants	Open World
Miner Shoes	Open World

If you are an avid miner, you may want to look for the Prospector's Burden perk, which reduces the weight of your ores, ingots, and pickaxes. Alternatively, the Quarryman's Burden perk reduces the weight of stone, blocks, gems and pickaxes. The Extra Pockets perk is also fantastic for all situations.

In addition to the mining yield perk at 250 Strength, you can also get more ore and rare materials by drinking the Powerful Proficiency Boost potion, made by the Arcana profession, which can increase your yield by up to 15%. You can also get additional yield on your crafted mining pick, as mentioned above.

Leveling mining in New World: Aeternum is fairly simple: the higher level required to mine the node, the more experience you will gain, generally. However, the difference in experience is not that great until the later levels (Starmetal and Orichalcum), and the speed at which you can gain experience is largely dictated by how fast you are capable of mining those nodes.

The 300 Strength perk that allows you to mine a node in a single swing makes those last mining levels go extremely fast, as mining orichalcum and mythril in one swing will net you massive experience.

Below is a list in order of from least to most experience gained from mining nodes. Keep in mind that the size of the node varies and determines experience gained.

1. Boulder
2. Iron Vein
3. Seeping Stone (Oil)
4. Silver Vein
5. Lodestone
6. Alchemy Nodes (Blightcrag/Earthcrag/Lifejewel/Scorchstone/Shockspire/Springstone)
7. Gold Vein
8. Starmetal Vein
9. Orichalcum Vein
10. Mythril Vein

There is a plethora of mining routes in New World: Aeternum, and your choice will largely depend on what you are looking to gather and how heavily populated your server is. Many of the objectively best routes may not be the best choices for you if multiple people are farming those areas, so we generally recommend finding somewhere you are comfortable running a consistent loop that you find not too contested.

This New World:Aeternum map is a useful resource that can be used to map out your own mining routes and find the locations of all mining nodes in the game.