Guides/Mining/Sand Mining

Overview

Gems (and coal) are acquired when ore stones in a mine are broken (by being used in 7 workloads). The size of the gem is random. There is some evidence to suggest that when more ore stones are broken in the same set and/or workload, the gem sizes on average tend to be larger; however, it's still perfectly possible to pull a Huge gem without exploiting this. Sand mines are thus valuable for gem mining, as it's easy to plan in such a way as to break 5+ nodes at once (assuming there are 5 different colors present in the field).

Below are some step-by-step guides for how to get the most gems per workload for various workload configurations.

For the basic mechanics of mining, please refer to the Mining Guide.

Workload Configurations

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For a workload distribution of 3 single colors, and then 2 pairs of colors, you can achieve the crumbling of all seven ore stones by following the pattern as laid out below:

Sets

1. A, D, G
2. A, B, C
3. A, B, E
4. A, F, C
5. A, 6, E
6. D, B, C
7. D, B, E
8. D, F, C
9. D, F, E
10. G, B, C
11. G, B, E
12. G, F, C
13. G, F, E
14. A, B, C, D, G This workload will crumble stones B & C
15. A, E, F, D, G This workload will crumble the remaining stones