Mining Tree Keystones & Notables
The Mining Tree has four keystones, one in each corner of the web, and nine effect notables at the ends of its branches. Each costs one point like any other node, and you have to path to it. The text below is each node's own tooltip.
Auto-spend never takes a keystone. You can hold more than one.
Keystones
A keystone changes a rule of mining and carries its cost in the same node.
Midas Vein
Every Shatter you set off gilds the ore in a one-block shell round its crater. Your gilded ore pays 4 times the ore, whatever breaks it. Ore you break by hand gives no mining XP.
A money keystone. You need Shatter on your pickaxe for it to do anything, and you give up the XP from your own swings.
Glint Seeker
100% more chance to find shards and jewels. 30% less energy from mining.
Trades energy for shards and jewels.
Kiln Heart
Your Shatter blocks pay 4% of a hand break's energy and XP. Your Shatter blocks pay no ore.
Shatter blocks normally pay ore only. Kiln Heart swaps that ore for a share of energy and XP, which adds to the share from Residual Knowledge. Notables that pay like Shatter lose their ore too.
Deep Cut
Nothing sets off your Shatter, Powerball, Earthquake or Super Breaker, from any source. Every ore you break by hand also breaks the ore behind it, which pays like a hand break.
Turns off Shatter, Cataclysmic Shatter, Powerball, Earthquake and Super Breaker completely, including procs from another source such as Second Chance. In return every swing breaks two ores.
With no Shatter, Ripple never fires and Midas Vein gilds nothing but still takes your hand-break XP. Kiln Heart, Hot Rubble and Lesson in the Rock only pay through Rockfall, Jewel Burst and Shardfall.
Effect notables
| Notable | Tooltip |
|---|---|
| Insight | 8% more mining XP. |
| Ripple | A moment after your Shatter, a ripple runs round the crater's floor and breaks a ring of ore just outside it. Pays like Shatter. |
| Ore Wisps | Ore you break by hand has a 0.5% chance to free a wisp that orbits you. Increased proc chance applies. At 5 wisps they dive into the ore one by one, each breaking a small cross. Wisp blocks pay and drop shards and jewels like your own breaks. |
| Rockfall | Every 250 ore you break by hand, three boulders crash onto the ore near where you aim, each breaking a ball of ore. Pays like Shatter. |
| Echo Swing | Every 300th ore you break by hand, a ghost pickaxe swings 5 times into the ore ahead of you, each swing breaking a 3 x 3 slab one block deeper. Pays like a hand break. |
| Hot Rubble | Your Shatter blocks pay 1% of a hand break's energy. |
| Lesson in the Rock | Your Shatter blocks pay 1% of a hand break's XP. |
| Jewel Burst | When ore you break by hand gives you a jewel, the ore around it bursts in a 5 x 5 x 5 cube. Pays like Shatter. |
| Shardfall | When you find a shard, a shard falls from above onto the ore where you aim and breaks a 3 x 3 x 3 cube of it. Pays like Shatter. |
What "pays like" means
- Pays like a hand break: the block gives the ore, energy and XP it would give if you mined it yourself.
- Pays like Shatter: the block gives what one of your own Shatter blocks gives. That is ore only, plus whatever energy and XP share you have from Residual Knowledge, Kiln Heart, Hot Rubble and Lesson in the Rock.
Those shares add together. On Shatter they pay on the one you set off, never on Cluster Bomb or Shatterstorm blasts.