Skill
Mining採掘
Makes digging faster, so exploring gets easier and easier. The first skill worth leveling on purpose. Mining is one of the 12 skills in Core Keeper and needs 59,978 XP to reach level 100.
Excavating walls increases your mining damage.
In-game description
How Mining XP is gained
You gain XP when you mine walls and ore, but only when a hit deals more damage than the wall's hardness (its mining damage reduction). 1 XP per hit that deals 12 or more damage to a minable wall.
Tips for leveling Mining efficiently
- Hitting a wall that is too hard to damage gives no XP. Mine walls your current pickaxe can reliably chip away.
- Digging the ground or blowing up walls with bombs gives no XP. The Great Wall, Obsidian Blocks and Silicate Blocks give none either.
- A new pickaxe lets you dig wider areas faster, which speeds up leveling a lot.
- It rises naturally while you expand your base or gather ore.
XP needed to level up Mining
Total XP from level 0. Each level needs more XP than the one before it, so the last 25 levels take the longest. Every 5 levels give 1 talent point, and reaching level 100 gives 5 more (25 in total).
| Level | Total XP | Talent points |
|---|---|---|
| Lv.25 | 2,071 | 5 |
| Lv.50 | 7,533 | 10 |
| Lv.75 | 21,947 | 15 |
| Lv.100 | 59,978 | 25 |
How to level skills efficiently →
Mining talents
Spend the talent points you get from leveling up on these talents. Each effect is "value per point × points spent" (values from the talent data in the game's configuration files). You cannot fill every talent, but you can reset the points for 200 Ancient Coins and spend them again.
| Talent | Effect (per point) |
|---|---|
| Efficient excavation | +2% mining damage |
| Meticulous miner | +3% chance to gain an additional ore from walls containing ores |
| Self-mending alloy | Gain 2 durability on your tool, when breaking walls containing ores |
| Miner's strength | +2% of mining damage added as melee damage |
| Mine, mine, mine! | +3% mining speed |
| Explosions engineer | +4% explosion damage |
| Pick and run! | +4% movement speed boost for a short duration after mining a wall |
| Archaeologist | +2% chance to drop a valuable item from any mined wall |
Max-level icon
When a skill reaches its maximum level, its icon turns gold.
Normal
Max level
Mining guides and articles
How XP is gained per action and the leveling tips are from the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) "Guides/Skill experience" and "Skills" pages (based on Core Keeper 1.3; CC BY-SA 3.0), written up in our own words. Skill names, descriptions and talent names are the game's official English. XP totals are calculated with the skill level formula in the game's program (Pug.Other.dll), the level cap and talent points come from the game's constants (Pug.Base.dll), talent values come from the game's configuration files (Conf/Talents) and the 200-coin reset cost from the game's program, Core Keeper 1.3.0.6. Core Keeper and its images are © Pugstorm. This is an unofficial fan site.