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 a game class-type referring to one of the following 18 game-objects:

 Black Ore ₍₂₎  Bloodstone ₍₂₎  Cassiterite ₍₁₎  Chalcopyrite ₍₂₎  Cinnabar ₍₂₎  Direvein ₍₂₎  Galena ₍₁₎  Heavy Earth ₍₁₎  Horn Silver ₍₁₎  Iron Ochre ₍₁₎  Lead Glance ₍₁₎  Leaf Ore ₍₂₎  Malachite ₍₁₎  Meteorite ₍₂₎  Peacock Ore   Schrifterz ₍₂₎  Silvershine ₍₁₎  Wine Glance ₍₁₎ 

⁽ⁿ⁾: (Superscript) Number of items in that type-group.
_(n): (Subscript) Number of crafts that specifically require this item.

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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 Slag (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.

Quality

The Ore(and Stone) quality based on node and is softcapped by a tool used(Pickaxe, Stone Axe etc.) and hardcapped by the miner's Masonry skill.

Notes

• 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.
• 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. Ore stockpiles, and ore in stone stockpiles, count as Soil when landscaping.

List of ores

As of World 14 (not all have been rediscovered, and new ones may have been added):

Ore		Vein	Found on Level (and deeper)	Smelts into	Smelt chance	Real name
	Cassiterite		1	Bar of Tin	30%
	Lead Glance		1	Bar of Lead	25%	(also called ... Yep "Galena".)
	Wine Glance		2	Bar of Copper	10%	Also called Cuprite.
	Chalcopyrite		3	Bar of Copper (8%) or Bar of Cast Iron (4%)	12%
	Malachite		4	Bar of Copper	20%
	Peacock Ore		7	Bar of Copper	~30%	Also called Bornite.
	Cinnabar		3	Quicksilver	12%
	Heavy Earth		3	Bar of Cast Iron	6%	Also called Ilmenite.
	Iron Ochre		4	Bar of Cast Iron	12%	Also called Limonite.
	Bloodstone		5	Bar of Cast Iron	20%	Also called Hematite. (Seems a bit of a mismatch)
	Black Ore		6	Bar of Cast Iron	30%	Also called Magnetite.
	Galena		3	Silver Nugget or Bar of Lead	5%-10%	(also called ... Yep "lead glance".)
	Silvershine		4	Silver Nugget	20%	Also called Argentite.
	Horn Silver		4	Silver Nugget	30%	Also called Chlorargyrite.
	Direvein		6	Gold Nugget or Gold Pebbles	10%	Also called Petzite.
	Schrifterz		6	Gold Nugget or Gold Pebbles (50%/50%)	35%	Also called Sylvanite.
	Leaf Ore		6	Gold Nugget or Gold Pebbles	25%	Also called Nagyagite.
	Meteorite		Outside	Bar of Metiron	??	Also called Plessite.

Game Development

• Loose Velvet (2023-06-22)◎ >"Ore Quality variance now takes effect per tile, rather than per piece of ore. This means that, all other things being equal, all ore from any single mine tile will be of uniform quality."