[Mining] NPC gems

[TimberWolf]

Rumor has it you can now mine up NPC gems...I know we can get the larger gems from mining, but I have never gotten the small npc gems.

AM I doing something wrong...what do I need? Is there a Book I need to read like there is for rock or sand?

 

[Basara]

Yeah, there's a book for it, that requires SA to use.

It can be bought from one of the gargoyles to the immediate east of the main public soulforge in the Royal City.

 

[TheGrimReefer]

Does This Book Also Mine The Gems Using Iron Beetle?

 

[CassieDarksong]

Somewhat related question, not sure if it's just been a few bad runs wtih RNG or what.

Several days now I've mined for a couple hours straight with the shovels set to gems. Not once during this did I get a larger rare gem (Fire ruby, blue diamond, etc.). Does it matter which mining type it's set to to get the rare gems? I got a lot of the NPC type gems, but none of the others. It was kinda disheartening.

 

[Basara]

Cassie: It shouldn't affect it.

Typically, the large gems fall in addition to your dig; the small ones TAKE THE PLACE of the ore you would dig (enough that I can now carry 1-2 extra tools to the field for a mining session as gems are the same weight as an ingot). As I've gotten a large gem from digging up a granite before, it should work the same way for the small gems and a big one.

I got 4 large gems and about 150-200 small gems my last trip out, with my human miner (number of drops are uncertain, because humans can get two small gems from one dig, just like with ore - plus I killed several ore eles for 2 more gems each).

 

[Jander]

I was out giving my newly bonded fire beetle a test drive this morning and I started digging up large gems. I have the book in the bank waiting to GM mining. With my +5 gloves on my mining was 100.3. I found it interesting that I wasn't digging up a lot of colored ore and ended up getting 5 gems in 30 minutes of digging.