Ore

Ore
Vital statistics
Size	1 x 1
Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills.<br>The default skills every hearthling starts off with, Oral Tradition, Primitive Tools & Wilderness Survival), are ignored.	Mining
Object(s) Required	Cave Entrance or Mine Hole
Produced By	Mining Tool
Required By	(1) Slag
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Ore is the general material you receive from mining walls in Caves or Mine Holes that contain metals. It must be smelted in an Ore Smelter to extract the usable metal, although it sometimes smelts into Gneiss (which is affected by your skills, see below). Ore is a type of stone, so it can also be used as pavement and to build with.

How to Acquire

Ore is obtained by mining in a Cave or Mine Hole built over a metal node.

Note

• The chance of the Ore becoming a bar/nugget is calculated at the moment the ore is mined. The following skills increase this chance: Metal Working, Tunneling, Metallurgy, and Deep Artifice. The mining process does not affect the quality of the resultant bar/nugget at all.
• Ore also counts as stone and can be stacked into existing stone stockpiles, so be careful you don't accidentally use it up in recipes or construction.

List of ores

Ore		Vein	Found on Level	Smelts into	Smelt chance	Note
	Cassiterite		1	Bar of Tin
	Malachite	Greenish Color		Bar of Copper
	Chalcopyrite			Bar of Copper or Bar of Cast Iron	12%?
	Heavy Earth		1	Bar of Cast Iron	6%	Also called Ilmenite.
File:Iron ochre.png	Iron Ochre		1	Bar of Cast Iron	12%	Also called Limonite.
	Bloodstone			Bar of Cast Iron	25%-30%	Also called Hematite.
	Black Ore			Bar of Cast Iron	30%	Also called Magnetite.
	Horn Silver			Silver Nugget or Bar of Cast Iron
	Galena			Silver Nugget	5%-10%
	Silvershine			Silver Nugget	20%	Also called Argentite.
	Direvein			Gold Nugget or Gold Pebbles	10%	Also called Petzite.
	Schrifterz			Gold Nugget or Gold Pebbles		Also called Sylvanite.
	Leaf Ore			Gold Nugget or Gold Pebbles	25%	Also called Nagyagite.