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.
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 Stone Colours, 4 Stone Shapes, 4 Base Colours | All Same or All Different | 
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| Antimony | 14 | 5 Crystal Colours, 5 Crystal Shapes, 2 Base Shapes | All Same or All Different | 
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| Cobalt | 10 | 7 Stone Colours, 7 Crystal Colours, 7 Base Colours | 2 same base and one different, 2 same crystal and one different, 2 same stone and one different | 
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| Copper | 8 | 3 Stone Colours, 4 Stone Shapes | All Same or All Different
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| Gold | 12 | 3 Stone Colours, 3 Stone Patterns, 3 Crystal Colours, 3 Crystal Shapes | All Same or All Different
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| Iron | 7 | 3 Stone Colours, 3 Crystal Shapes | All Same or All Different
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| Lead | 9 | 5 Stone Colours, 4 Stone Shapes, 3 Crystal Colors | All Same or All Different: Same shape + same gem colour + different rock colour = work. different rock colour + different gem colour + different shape = work
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| Magnesium | 9 | 7 Stone Colours, 3 Stone Shapes, 3 Stone Patterns | All Same or All Different
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| Nickel | 13 | 4 Stone Colours, 4 Stone Patterns, 4 Crystal Shapes, 4 Crystal Colours (provisional) | 3+ All Same or All Different
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| Platinum | 12 | 5 Stone Colours, 5 Stone Patterns, 5 Crystal Colours, 5 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.
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| Sand | 7 | 7 Stone Colors | All Same or All Different
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| Silver | 10 | 5 Stone Colours, 5 Base Shapes, 5 Base Colours | 3+ All Same or All Different
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| Tin | 9 | 4 Stone Colours, 4 Stone Marbling Patterns | All Same or All Different
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| Zinc | 10 | 3 Stone Colours, 3 Base Shapes, 3 Crystal Colours | All Same or All Different
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