Color Blind

A Tale In The Desert offers Color blind mining to individuals by placing a GM call. Once enabled you will be able to work the mine in color blind mode. Besides the Menu shown below some ore stones will have text descriptions to complete the complexity of harder ores.

General Description of Mining

• Anyone can see what type of Ore Mine it is. These mines do not crumble so there is no repair cost.
• When dowsing, 'Unrecognizable ore' means the required Perception is double your current rounded up. That's the current theory.
• Work the Mine, here we use the Color blind hotkey [C] to get the first set or new set of ore stones. This option will only show up if you have a GM enable Color Blind Mode for you.
• Minimum number of Ore Stones in a successful Workload for any ore is 3 Ore Stones chosen.
• Gems and coal are produced when one of the Ore Stones crumbles. When a specific Ore Stone has been selected in a correct workload 7 times it crumbles.
• "All same or all different" means that each set needs to be either of the same or of a different type. E.g., the crystal shape could be all flat or 3 different shapes.
• "Some same and some different" means that each set must contain a pair and one different from the pair. E.g., the crystal shape could be 2 flat and 1 short shards.

Ore characteristics

Ore Type	Number of Ore Stones in a set	Varying Characteristics	Characteristic Rules for a Successful Workload	Color Blind Mode
Aluminum	9	4 Crystal shapes, 4 Stone Shapes, 4 Base shapes	All Same or All Different
Antimony	14	5 Crystal Shapess, 4 stone Shapes, 2 Base Shapes	All Same or All Different
Cobalt	10	4 Crystal Shapes, 4 text colors (see ore stone menu), 4 Base shapes	2 same base and one different, 2 same crystal and one different, 2 same stone and one different
Copper	8	4 crystal shapes, 4 Stone Shapes	All Same or All Different
Gold	12	3 Stone shapes, 3 Stone text Patterns (see ore stone menu), 2 Crystal Shapes, 3 base shapes	All Same or All Different
Iron	7	3 Stone shapes, 3 base Shapes	All Same or All Different
Lead	9	4 Base Shapes, 4 Stone Shapes, 3 Crystal Shapes	All Same or All Different: Same shape + same gem colour + different rock colour = work. different rock colour + different gem colour + different shape = work
Magnesium	9	6 Stone shapes, 3 Crystal Shapes, 3 Base Shapes	All Same or All Different
Nickel	13	3 Stone Shapes, 3 Text Patterns (see ore stone), 3 Crystal Shapes, 3 Base Shapes (provisional)	3+ All Same or All Different
Platinum	12	5 Text Colors, 5 text Crystal colors, 5 text patterns, 4 Base Shapes	Some Same and Some Different: If mining 3 orestones, 2 must have same stone color and 3rd be different; 2 must have same base shape and 3rd be different, etc.
Sand	7	7 Base Shapes	All Same or All Different
Silver	10	5 Stone Shapes, 4 Base Shapes, 3 Crystal Shapes	3+ All Same or All Different
Tin	9	4 Base Shapes, 4 Crystal Shapes	All Same or All Different
Zinc	10	3 Stone Shapes, 3 Base Shapes, 3 Crystal Shapes	All Same or All Different

Ore Stone, Crystal and base shapes

Crystal Shapes	gem names	Stone Shapes	Stone Names	Base Shapes	Base Names
	Mixed Crystals		Udder Stone		Boxes Base
	Long Shard		Bowl Stone		Fractured Base
	Long Branched		Oval Stone		Rounded Edged base
	Long Smooth		Stacked Stone		Round stone base
	Raw Crystal		Round Stone		flat base
	Shards		Angled Stone		Mounds Base
	Faceted		Squashed Stone		Flat Oval Base