Mining
Teldaria adds four custom ores to the world: Noctium, Emberium, Celestium and Sylvarium. Each one spawns in its own set of biomes, so finding a particular ore means travelling to the right part of the map. The ingots they make go into nearly every Mining Recipe, including the gems, rare gems and runes you socket into your gear.
The Four Ores
The ores are listed from most to least common. Each has biomes where it spawns often, and a second set where it turns up less frequently.
| Ore | Main biomes | Less common in |
|---|---|---|
| Noctium | All ocean biomes | Plains, birch forests, flower forests and cherry groves |
| Emberium | Deserts and badlands | Savannas, beaches and mushroom fields |
| Celestium | Snowy slopes, snowy taiga, frozen peaks and ice spikes | Snowy plains, snowy beaches, stony peaks, windswept hills and dark forests |
| Sylvarium | Jungles, lush caves and dripstone caves | Forests, windswept forests and meadows |
Noctium is the easiest ore to stock up on. Sylvarium is the rarest, so expect to spend longer in the jungle for it.
Where to Dig
Every ore comes in a stone version and a deepslate version, and each sits at its own depth. The rarer ores also need a better pickaxe.
| Ore | In stone | In deepslate | Pickaxe needed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noctium | Y 20 to 70 | Y -55 to -25 | Iron or better |
| Emberium | Y 15 to 65 | Y -64 to 8 | Diamond or better |
| Celestium | Y 38 to 98 | Y -26 to -14 | Iron or better |
| Sylvarium | Y 0 to 21 | Y -34 to 8 | Netherite |
What the Ores Are For
Mining a custom ore gives you its raw ore. Smelt the raw ore to turn it into an ingot, which is what the recipes use.
The Mining Recipes page lists all 58 Miner recipes. Open the same list in game with /mrecipes. The custom ores show up in three ways:
- Storage blocks. Nine raw ore of one type make a Raw Ore Block, and nine ingots of one type make a Custom Ingot Block.
- Gems and runes. 31 of the 42 gem and rune recipes need a custom ingot. Emberium appears in the most recipes and Sylvarium in the fewest.
- Levels. Gem and rune recipes unlock with your Miner job level, from level 5 up to level 75. The storage blocks and charms have no level requirement.
- Upgrade Stones. Four of the Upgrade Stone recipes need a Custom Ingot Block: Emberium for Fatal, Noctium for Legendary, Celestium for Transcendent and Sylvarium for Mythic.
Gems and runes never drop from mobs. Crafting them from these recipes is the only way to get them.
The Miner Job and Gathering Skill
Regular mining pays out in two separate systems:
- The Miner job pays you for mining vanilla stone and ores, and its level is what unlocks the gem and rune recipes.
- The Gathering skill earns XP for each block you break, at a fixed rate per block. Its perks include extra drops, tool durability savings and a Haste streak while you mine.
The custom ores pay into neither: mining them earns no Miner job money and no Gathering XP. Mine them for the ingots, and level Miner and Gathering on regular stone and ores.
See Also
- Mining Recipes — every recipe the custom ores feed into
- Custom Plants — the wild plants, which are also biome specific
- Jobs and Skills