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Gameplay => Newbie Help (Start Here) => Topic started by: Ziljaden on July 20, 2006, 09:45:23 pm
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After searching for hours upon hours I've finally found and mined a full inventory of gold ore. Once I got back to town I found that the 21 gold ores that I had were only worth 240 tria :o. I could kill rats for that amount of time and make over twice that much from hides alone! I know that gold ore isn't worth an incredible amount, so I figure there is a way to melt the ore into gold ingots or something so that the gold becomes actually worth something.
Can anybody tip me off as to where/what I need to do to smelt the ore into something more usefull? Also if there is a command required it would be nice if someone would tell me that as well...
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Ask Harnquist for a task, and he may teach you some Metallurgy :} He'll offer training and a book, and then you can use the furnace by his shop to work with your gold.
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really you can smelt gold now? hmm. up to now i've only tried iron.
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Ah, then I am mistaken.. I have some other information written down, and it seems Steuben is correct. Iron and coal are the crafting materials of choice for now.
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can i have one of ure gold ores please XD... i need for a quest and i cant do much mining
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It'll be faster to ask in-game :P
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uh, I dont think you guys realize the real problem here.
Your 21 gold ores are not worth 240 tria in all, but for just one.
21*240= 5 040 tria.
You could buy a lot with that much.
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Hahah! I don't think anyone here thought to think that the original poster didn't realize this.. But that's probably the truest truth of what happened :)
It would be wise for Ziljaden to check this thread again!
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Well I hope he intends to as well. That was the first thing I noticed while reading the thread. When I saw your post I wa surprised you hadnt mentioned something lol :D
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Wow... I completely forgot about the aspect that it was only showing the price for one ore. :sweatdrop: I guess the price for gold ore has grown exponentially since I last played.
Thank you all very much, this has made things much, much easier for me ;D
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are they actually more valuable if you melt them? or does the price stay the same?
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As of now, you cannot melt gold, so as in golds case, no. Iron however (although I cant recall the exact selling price) does not become more valuable when made into molten iron. I think it still sells for 5 tria?
Either way, if youre going to be selling minerals, platinum is the way to go.
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Im sorry, but Platinum is gone my friend... :-[ Gold and the jewel-type minerals are the best for now. Maybe Silver, but i dont know how much that is worth...
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Iron ore can be melted and then cast into ingots which then sell for about 13 tria. Not much but more compared to the 2 tria or whatever for ore. Considering that one will mine and melt a lot of ore to produce the first steel stock, this at least gives one some recompense. When I try to melt gold ore in the furnace it says something akin to that I do not have enough skill to do it. It does not say that I cannot. Considering I am on Metallurgy 6, perhaps at 10 or 20 the gold can be made into ingots. That would be cool!