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Mining Camp

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Small Mining Camp
Medium Mining Camp
Large Mining Camp

Mining camps produce new varieties of metals, not seen before this tale. For more information on how to prepare to build a mining camp, please refer to the page on prospecting

Supplies, Strategy and Info

  • Learn the Prospecting Technology at a University of Thought, must be at least a Level 16.
  • Make a warehouse to hold your supplies and get ready for prospecting. 200 Prospecting Kits + Focus food lunches + materials for several small, medium and large mining camps + Supply of many different citrus fruits + Supply of the different metal bars + Supply of different cooking ingredients. Now to the why.
  • Each calendar month on the 4th day, a new set of food type, metal bar and citrus fruit is required by each region. Players test with a construction site in each region and populate the Regional Mining Camp Materials List. (See below)
  • Look at the Regional Mining Camp Material List, note how many days are left for that list to be true, see what sets of food type/metal bars/citrus you have (usually your fruit is the main determiner) to see which regions you can build mining camps in for determining the region/s you will prospect in.
  • Remember to grab enough mats for several mining camps of each size. The prospecting information will give you deben amount of metal. To make wise use of mining camp mats, a good rule of thumb to know which size mining camp to build might be:
    • Small mining camp for up to 100ish deben metal.
    • Medium mining camp for 101 to 400ish deben metal.
    • Large mining camp for 400+ deben metal.
  • The smaller the mining camp, the slower it takes for all the metal and cuttable gems to be depleted. A Large Mining camp on a higher Deben site might take up to a week to deplete. So a Large Mining camp on a small 100 Deben site would finish quickly but be a waste of mining camp materials.
  • WARNING: Be aware that someone could encroach on a small or medium mining camp and build their small mining camp next to yours and so take part of that metal and cuttable gems amount that you first saw when you prospected it. Positioning, like with mines, might prevent others from doing that but most rely on politeness that other players will respect your prospecting work.
  • A mining camp receives not just the metal, but also cuttable gems.
  • Go to your chosen region with a Prospecting Axe, Mining Camp materials, corresponding Construction Site materials, Prospecting Kits and Focus Food Lunches.

Construction Costs

There are three sizes of camps


Costs depend on size and location

Material Small Medium Large
Wood 25 25 25
Canvas 1 (2) 1 (2) 1 (3)
Rope (for Construction Site) (4) (4) (8)
Shovel 5x Q2000 5x Q4000 5x Q6000
Large Crude Handle 2 2 2
Region-specific Metal Bar 3 6 9
Medium Diamonds 5 10 15
Region-specific Cooking Item 15 30 45
Region-specific Citrus 2 4 6

Random item by regions

Random items change every 30 real days. The current requirements (as of 4th June 2018) is:

Region Metal Bar Cooking Item Citrus
Abydos  Iron Butter Sweet Amanatsu
Akhetaton  Lead Grilled Cabbage Small Grapefruit
Ammonium  Lead Grilled Cabbage Small Manderin
Arabia  Antimony Jugs of Cows Milk Long Lenat
Arsinoe Zinc Camel Meat Long Buddha's Hand
Asyut  Aluminium Grilled Fish Long Grapefruit
Axum  Copper Grilled Peppers Long Lemon
Bahariya Oasis  Gold Eggs Sweet Calamondin
Bernike  Magnesium Grilled Onions Small Lenat
Bitter Lakes  Aluminium Grilled Fish Reddish Shangjuan
Blemmyes  Strontium Grilled Carrots Flat Calamondin
Blue Nile  Copper Grilled Peppers Sweet Corian
Buhen  Magnesium Grilled Onions Flat Tangerine
Cyrenne  Gold Eggs Greenish Coralfruit
Dakhla Oasis  Gold Eggs Greenish Grapefruit
Damot  Tungsten Mutton Sweet Etrog
Dunqul Oasis  Copper Grilled Peppers Sweet Coralfruit
East Kush  Copper Grilled Peppers Large Kumquat
East Sinai  Titanium Beef Reddish Tangerine
Elephantine  Gold Eggs Long Amanatsu
Faiyum  Tin Honey Small Calamondin
Gebel  Zinc Camel Meat Sweet Lemon
Giza  Tin Honey Tangy Buddha's Hand
Hamim  Copper Grilled Peppers Large Mandarin
Herakleopolis  Zinc Camel Meat Small Lenat
Hermopolis  Magnesium Grilled Onions Small Buddha's Hand
Kerma  Silver Grilled Garlic Flat Sudachi
Kharga Oasis  Gold Egg Flat Citron
Lahun  Tungsten Mutton Sweet Amanatsu
Meroe Desert  Antimony Jugs of Cows Milk Flat Buddha's Hand
Meshwesh Delta  Aluminium Grilled Fish Flat Lenat
Napata  Lithium Grilled Watermelon Large Kinnow
Naqada  Aluminium Grilled Fish Reddish Corian
Nabta Playa  Gold Egg Flat Citron
Nubia  Titanium Beef Long Pummelo
Philae  Magnesium Grilled Onions Small Orange
Pwenet  Tin Honey Sweet Grapefruit
Red Sea  Iron Butter Long Kumquat
South Sinai  Iron Butter Sweet Grapefruit
Suez  Copper Grilled Peppers Tangy Citron
Swenett Strontium Grilled Carrot Sweet Kinnow
Thebes  Lithium Grilled Watermelon Tangy Buddha's Hand
Timna  Aluminum Grilled Fish Tangy Grapefruit
Upper Egypt  Copper Grilled Peppers Greenish Grapefruit
Wadi Natrun  Strontium Grilled Carrots Greenish Iyokan
West Kush  Magnesium Grilled Onions Large Citron
West Sinai Titanium Beef Small Buddhas Hand
Western Desert  Tungsten Mutton Tangy Lenat
White Nile  Strontium Grilled Carrots Tangy Kabosu
Zau  Platinum Coconut Meat Flat Lenat

Previous Months Requirements:

Mine Camp Output

When placing a mine, prospect to see how much ore is in the deposit. Later, check the output and compare to the original.