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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.

Cb minemenu.png

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 Aluminum cb.png
Antimony 14 5 Crystal Shapess, 4 stone Shapes, 2 Base Shapes All Same or All Different Antimony cb.png
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 Cobalt cb.png
Copper 8 4 crystal shapes, 4 Stone Shapes All Same or All Different


Copper cb.png
Gold 12 3 Stone shapes, 3 Stone text Patterns (see ore stone menu), 2 Crystal Shapes, 3 base shapes All Same or All Different


Gold cb.png
Iron 7 3 Stone shapes, 3 base Shapes All Same or All Different


Iron cb.png
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


Lead cb.png
Magnesium 9 6 Stone shapes, 3 Crystal Shapes, 3 Base Shapes All Same or All Different


Magnesium cb.png
Nickel 13 3 Stone Shapes, 3 Text Patterns (see ore stone), 3 Crystal Shapes, 3 Base Shapes (provisional) 3+ All Same or All Different


Nickel cb.png
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.


Platinum cb.png
Sand 7 7 Base Shapes All Same or All Different


Sand cb.png
Silver 10 5 Stone Shapes, 4 Base Shapes, 3 Crystal Shapes 3+ All Same or All Different


Silver cb.png
Tin 9 4 Base Shapes, 4 Crystal Shapes All Same or All Different


Tin cb.png
Zinc 10 3 Stone Shapes, 3 Base Shapes, 3 Crystal Shapes All Same or All Different


Zinc cb.png


Ore Stone, Crystal and base shapes


Crystal Shapes gem names Stone Shapes Stone Names Base Shapes Base Names
Mixedcrystal.png Mixed Crystals Longshards.png Udder Stone Boxedbase.png Boxes Base
Longshards.png Long Shard Bowlstone.png Bowl Stone Fracturedbase.png Fractured Base
Longbranched.png Long Branched Ovalstone.png Oval Stone Roundedgebase.png Rounded Edged base
Longsmooth.png Long Smooth Stackedstone.png Stacked Stone Bowlstone.png Round stone base
Rawcrystal.png Raw Crystal Facetedcrystal.png Round Stone Angledstone.png flat base
Shards.png Shards Angledstone.png Angled Stone Longbranched.png Mounds Base
Facetedcrystal.png Faceted Squasedstone2.png Squashed Stone Rawcrystal.png Flat Oval Base