Mining guide: enchants, the tree and where to mine

Which enchants to take, how to set the Mining Tree, and where to mine. Map 5 balance is new, so treat the picks as a starting point.

Pick a goal

• Energy while you are still enchanting and prestiging a pickaxe.
• XP while you are under the day's level cap. At the cap, mining pays 50% increased Ancient Energy.
• Money when you want cash. See the money guide.

Your first 10,000 blocks each day pay 100% increased XP, energy and ore. Only blocks you break yourself count. /buffs lists every bonus you have.

Enchant order

Take these in order when they show up on the Wormhole ring.

1. Efficiency. 8% increased mining speed per level. Your starting pickaxe already has it maxed. On a new pickaxe, max it first.
2. Super Breaker. Max it.
3. Fracture.
4. Energy Collector. 10% increased Ancient Energy per level.
5. Feed. One level. It keeps your hunger up so you regenerate health.
6. Powerball. Its blocks pay like blocks you mine yourself.
7. Momentum, if you mine in long sittings.
8. Lucky, once you have two or more proc enchants. 10% more chance per level for every proc on the pickaxe.

• For money, move up Ore Magnet (20% more ore per level), Shatter and Transfuse.
• For shards, take Shard Discovery.

The Godly enchants, Warp Miner, Earthquake and Energy Battery, come from enchant orbs, not the Wormhole. Full list: Pickaxe Enchants.

What each proc pays

Powerball and Earthquake are for energy and XP. Shatter is for money. Only the Residual Knowledge prestige perk and some tree nodes give Shatter blocks energy and XP.

The mining tree

You get one point per mining level, up to 100.

• Use auto-spend until you know the tree: /miningtree auto energy, xp, money or mixed. New players start on Energy.
• Switch preset when your goal changes. Refunds and resets are free. A preset replaces your whole tree, keystones included. XP under the cap, then Energy or Money at the cap.
• Take Proc Chance and Mining Speed nodes on any build: 1.6% and 1.8% per small node.
• The Extract Tax wheel only helps if you extract out in the mines. Extracting in a safe zone is already free.
• Auto-spend never takes a keystone. Pathing to one by hand turns auto-spend off.

Full text: Keystones & Notables. From Ascension I the tree adds mining classes.

There is no mining armour. Armour is for combat.

Keeping your speed

• Efficiency is the base.
• Momentum gives its full 10% per level only when its timer is full: 45 minutes, about 5,400 blocks. It resets after 15 minutes idle.
• Speed caps at one block per tick. /buffs shows at speed cap when more speed does nothing.

Mines too dark? Raise Brightness on Java, or use /fullbright on Bedrock.

Where to mine

• The highest mine you can enter, with a pickaxe of its tier. Energy per block rises from 16 on coal to 236 on ancient debris. Buy the next pickaxe in /shop when your level allows. See The Mines.
• Calcite Caverns from level 100, with a diamond pickaxe or better. Calcite sells for $10.94 each, pays 225 energy and counts double for prestige. A Netherite pickaxe pays 2x there. You get 10 minutes a day. Mine your /calcite threshold and tomorrow's time goes up 3 minutes.
• Meteorites pay ore and energy on every swing, to anyone who hits them.
• Rented pickaxes (/rentals). The server fee is 20% on the best tier the cap allows, 10% one tier below, nothing below that. The rental ends if you idle 15 minutes, log out or die.

How you lose energy

• A full pickaxe stops mining. Spend it at the Wormhole or /extract, which is free in a safe zone.
• Energy on the pickaxe drops when you die, and PvP is on in the mines. See Death & Item Loss.

Next

• Pickaxe prestige guide: when to prestige and which perks.
• Vaults of Plouton guide: the doors in the ore wall.
• Mining: the reference page.