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| == Usage == | | == Usage == |
| The pickaxe is the primary tool used in [[mining]] [[ores]], but the prospector's pick or propick is the primary tool used to detect/locate ore deposits. | | The pickaxe is the primary tool used in [[mining]] [[ore Deposits|ores]], but the prospector's pick or propick is the primary tool used to detect/locate ore deposits. |
| | | * To prospect: press the left mouse button with the propick in an active hotbar slot to "hit" the [[rock]]. When the block breaks, a sample is taken. A detailed description of the prospecting process is available on the [[mining]] page |
| * To prospect: press the left mouse button with the propick in an active hotbar slot to "hit" the [[rock]]. When the block breaks, a sample is taken. | |
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| ===Prospecting Process===
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| The prospecting pick can '''only''' be used on [[rock]] blocks. To prospect, a player must break 3 [[rock]] blocks in 'close' proximity to "sample" the area for ores. These blocks must be located a '''minimum''' of 3 blocks apart (blocks '''between''' samples) and a maximum of 16 blocks apart. It is possible to sample three blocks within a square, or in a line where the last sample is 8 blocks away from the first sample. Upon breaking the third valid sample block, displays the densities of all the ores in the chat window based on the '''first''' of the three blocks prospected (broken).
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| ====Prospecting "Too Close"====
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| If a player breaks a block that is too close to another previously sampled block, the game dialog (displayed in the chat window) will repeat the request for that sample number. ''However'' the game registers the faulty sample as a hit and begins the prospecting block count for the player's next hit from the last hit ''whether the sample was faulty or usable''. To take a new sample, players must prospect at least 3 blocks from the faulty sample block hit, even though the action did not count toward the prospecting total.
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| ====Prospecting "Too Far"====
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| If a block is prospected that is too far (over 16 blocks) from the initial sample, the game dialog (displayed in the chat window) will display a message stating that this sample is too distant to be used with previous samples taken. The game will convert this last block hit into a new starting sample. Thus when prospecting, if blocks are broken "too far away" from each other, the consequence is that a player must restart the process of sampling.
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| ===Prospecting Results===
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| To Interpret the information, one must understand that this tool '''does not detect the actual presence of ore''' blocks; but detects the '''chance that ores are present'''. The game generates ore density maps whenever a chunk is generated, which determine the *chance* for ores to appear. Even if a player removed all the ores from a chunk, the propick reading would remain the same, as mining does not change the ore density map. Additionally, a prospecting pick will '''not''' detect quartz, rock salt, or surface copper.
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| The display is based on the '''first''' of the three blocks prospected (broken). The game reads the chunk density map and displays the densities of all the ores in the chat window. These values reflect the potential density, not the actual ore.
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| From most to least dense the categories are: Ultra High, Very High, High, Decent, Poor, Very Poor. This is followed by a number in parentheses, which is parts per thousand or 'PPT' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille per mille] - note there are two zeros below the slash, ‰, as opposed to a normal percent sign, %, which has one zero below).
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| Different ores will demonstrate drastically different density descriptors for the same PPT ‰; reading. For instance:
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| * Common ores like Deep Copper, Coal, and Sulfur will have Very High densities at around 18‰; and Very Poor below 5‰
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| * Rare ores like diamond and emerald will be Very High at around 1.0‰ and Very Poor at 0.2‰
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| ===Prospecting for Ore Fields===
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| Prospecting results should be similar for 4 chunks in an area because the ore densities are created from a density map generated with the world, at a resolution of approximately 32 blocks. The ore densities will tend to have a more concentrated 'center' and then decrease when moving towards the circumference. So when locating a low density reading of any desired ore, try taking other prospecting samples some distance away in other directions, to find an area with a higher reading. With enough sampling a player can locate the center of the ore field, which often span a great many chunks. It is easiest to use this to find a good region, and then explore caves within that area.
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| ''Note: the prospecting pick only detects ores above a certain threshold. Players will occasionally find ore deposits in a region when the prospecting pick did not indicate the ores are present. Such 'undetected' occurrences are very rare.''
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| === Harvesting === | | === Harvesting === |
