Mining

Mining
Type	Tradeskill
Trainer	Crafting Trainer
Target	Gathering

"The Miner excavates precious ores and crystals to be used by the Weaponsmith and Armorer."

Mining is one of the many Tradeskills in WildStar. The Miner uses a Laser Pickaxe to procure rare ores and gems from the landscape. Like all Tradeskills, Mining can be chosen once a Character reaches level 10.

How to Mine

Mining on Nexus is very simple, and takes only 4 easy steps:

1. Purchase and equip a Laser Pickaxe. Though techinically not necessary, as the player's weapon will do just fine, the proper tools will make the process much faster. A Tier 1 "Novice" pickaxe may be used for all types of nodes, but will be slower than the better versions.
2. Find a metal node out in the open world.
3. Face the metal node, and right-click it.
4. Wait for the mining channel to finish, then vacuum loot their ores, gems, and crystals.

Metal Wurms

This being Nexus, things are oftentimes not as they seem. In this case, metal nodes may actually be a gigantic worm made completely out of metal that will try to kill you. Metal wurms need to be attacked like any other mob, and as the player damages them, ores will fall off, like a pinata only deadlier.

Should the player succesfully murder the wurm before they are murdered, or it decides to flee, they will be rewarded with a:

Wurm Tunnel

Accessed by killing a metal wurm, or simply getting lucky, a wurm tunnel is a vast underground network filled to the brim with metal nodes ripe for harvesting. Players will have 2 minutes to gather as much as they can before the tunnel collapses and the player is shot right back up to the surface, just outside the entrance of the tunnel.

Resources

Level	Node	Materials	Tool
1	Iron	Iron Chunk Quartz	Novice Laser Pickaxe
2	Titanium Zephyrite	Titanium Chunk Sapphire Zephyrite	Apprentice Laser Pickaxe
3	Platinum Hydrogem	Platinum Chunk Diamond Hydrogem	Journeyman Laser Pickaxe
4	Xenocite Shadeslate	Xenocite Chunk Chrysalus Shadeslate	Artisan Laser Pickaxe
5	Galactium Novacite	Galactium Starshard Novacite	Expert Laser Pickaxe

Trainers

See Crafting trainer for trainer locations.