Mining Update with EXP/Leveling Released!!
 

Hello Ol'Westerners! I come to ya'll today to announce the release of a huge update for Mining! A huge new cave system has been added with new rocks which give you a certain mineral based on which rock you're mining. Each rock requires a different level. You gain exp as you mine to level up, in addition to the mineral you receive. There are also several new pickaxes. Each pickaxe requires a different mining level as well.

Please watch this video for a basic tutorial and overview of the new mining!



Pickaxes:

• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....ooden-icon.png
  Wooden Pickaxe
  Required Mining Level: 0
  Health: 500
  Buy Price: 150 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....-iron-icon.png
  Iron Pickaxe
  Required Mining Level: 15
  Health: 600
  Buy Price: 200 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....-gold-icon.png
  Gold Pickaxe
  Required Mining Level: 40
  Health: 800
  Buy Price: 250 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....amond-icon.png
  Diamond Pickaxe
  Required Mining Level: 70
  Health: 1000
  Buy Price: 400 gralats

Rocks:

• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....rock_rocks.png
  Rocks
  Required Mining Level: 0
  Sell Price: 4 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....ock_copper.png
  Copper
  Required Mining Level: 10
  Sell Price: 5 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....grock_iron.png
  Iron
  Required Mining Level: 15
  Sell Price: 6 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....one_silver.png
  Silver
  Required Mining Level: 20
  Sell Price: 7 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....stone_coal.png
  Coal
  Required Mining Level: 30
  Sell Price: 8 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....grock_lead.png
  Lead
  Required Mining Level: 35
  Sell Price: 9 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....grock_gold.png
  Gold
  Required Mining Level: 40
  Sell Price: 10 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....one_gypsum.png
  Gypsum
  Required Mining Level: 50
  Sell Price: 13 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....e_sapphire.png
  Sapphire
  Required Mining Level: 60
  Sell Price: 14 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....dense_ruby.png
  Ruby
  Required Mining Level: 65
  Sell Price: 15 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....se_emerald.png
  Emerald
  Required Mining Level: 75
  Sell Price: 16 gralats
• http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....se_diamond.png
  Diamond
  Required Mining Level: 85
  Sell Price: 17 gralats

The new caves are in replace of the old ones, just left of the Saloon. To start out, purchase a wooden pickaxe from the usual mining shop locations or within the mines themselves. Other pickaxes are also purchasable in the mining shop within the caves. When you mine a rock, you become the owner of that rock and nobody else is able to hit it! If you don't mine your rock for 5 seconds, it is now a public rock and can be taken over by anyone else!

Also, be sure to not stand in the same spot for too long, or else you'll be hurt from falling rocks. Bats are also known to roam the mines and have been seen to attack non-moving players. The mines are a dangerous, yet fun, place to be! The highest level you can be right now is 99. I plan to increase the level later on so that new rocks and pickaxes can be added. Other minerals and pickaxes could also be added in the future, it just depends on how everybody likes the mining!

Come down to the mines and become a master miner!

such runescape

this update looks fun though, might have gj to you guys for working on it!

Looks really grindy but that's cool. Perhaps you could have npcs that assign you a mining daily where you sell x amount of ores for a premium price just to help overcome the dauntingness of it all or even perhaps gain an extra bit of exp on handing in of the task. Judging straight from the video, you should display the amount of exp left to level up as well.
That's a really nice level up animation btw :) Nice update!

Cool! :3

Thanks everybody!

Perhaps tasks can be added later on! Great idea:)

Say /miningexp to see your current EXP and EXP remaining
Say /mininglevel to just see your current mining level

I plan to make a GUI for EXP display later on.

Update: New caves have been added so that there are more rocks available. All four pickaxes are now on sale as they should be

This is a pretty huge revamp to the mining system that we faced in the past. Now you can mine for specific ores that you wanted in crafting. Great Job Alpho, 2 thumbs to this :D

Thank you!

Update: Now you can check your level quickly from the Stats menu. A separate menu will be added later for levels, but this is how it will be for now.
http://i.imgur.com/wMmyA6F.png

I really like it. More fun stuff to do! I suggest making it so you're only able to mine one rock at a time, so people don't start hogging all of them. It isn't really necessary though since I level up fast enough as it is.

How many hits does the diamond rock take from the diamond pickaxe at max level?


Also, please make your next project involve making sub-factions mean something.

Great job on this Alph! Producing amazing work as always :)

Amazing!! Can anyone tell me how good it is for money earning now? Too lazy to do calculations :p

Well, the higher level you are, the more you can mine the rare rocks and sell them. So if you get all the way up to diamond then you can mine as much diamond rocks as you want. Each diamond sells for $17.

:p

I'm still doing the bug job, hopefully they can update more bugs XD With higher price of course.

Also, if ya'll are confused where the caves are, it's just in the old mining cave location.
http://olwestcachecloud.quattroplay....velocation.png

Kudos to you, Alpho; this is amazing(as always) Hopefully there will be more exciting updates to come in the future :D

biggest mining nodes in graal universe right here.

Alpho is taking huge and first steps for Graal honestly. :) His projects are amazing.

Another awesome addition to Ol'west, I love this game more and more :p

holy crap...I already knew about this like two weeks ago, the game glitched while I was in the spar arena and then at the top of the screen it said somewhere along the lines of: "Congrats! You have reached level one in mining!" Then it slowly disappeared into the background...was going to post about it but decided against it

Dude, good job Alpho. you are truly the pinnacle of this games success :D
Keep up the amazing work!

Thank you everybody! Remember, I'm always open to feedback! If you have any ideas, I'm all ears!

What do you mean?

Pretty much every mining implementation I've seen on Graal uses a 32x32 image for their mining nodes/rocks.

Not trying to bash or anything, but isn't this from UN??

no.

Ah alright. Yeah, I didn't want to keep anything like what we or any other server has really had before.

Really? I'm sure I've done this type of mining before. And it's on UN. There's a mine and many type of rocks that requires higher levels to mine.

True

I haven't seen that before. I got this idea from Runescape.

I think you'd be amazed what goes on behind the scenes of dev servers.

I've been there and witnessed.

Mining is just addictive to me, it always was and always will be :shy:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...path-prefix=nl

http://i.gyazo.com/b3bba434698e3c2d1b8e4016d77d5618.gif

See the similarity :o

Haha ye so I guess ol west isn't different

You could make a separate game about mining, thats how much content there is

Can't see it in mine

Alpho do you think the pickaxe is a little bit of expensive? :/

In my opinion it's not expensive since you make profit with every pickaxe you buy.

That's cool. Just looks like it's based off the idea behind Runescape's mining as well.

Do you still come on Era, to do scripting and all? :o

Good job Alpho :D

Also you guys might want to change the current 'rock' image :P it's brown but maybe change to grey? Same color as the big rock

Is it true that you got something at lv 99? :o......

level 99 is the max level and no reward for such an achievement would be silly ofcourse :quiet::blush:

Oh.........
Can you also tell me how to check my level? x-x

Commands:
/mininglevel (Checks what mining level you currently are)
/miningexp (Checks how much experience you have and the amount you need to acquire for the next level)

Yes, but not as often as before because I have a lot more work on Ol'West now.

Yes of course :)

Yep. All of this will be in a GUI soon, and the chat commands will be disabled, though.

Update: Gypsum has been moved to it's own cave, Gypsum Caves, located above the church. It's also on the map.

looking forward on upcoming updates for Mining

Next update, auto mining please.

Thanks!

what happens when you get to level 99

What happens at 99 and is there a way of finding out who is highest level so far??we should of had a race with a reward for first 10-20 players, like a recipe

To those of you that are curious about the level 99 reward, we will announce something soon.

Also, I've changed the HP of the bats which spawn in the mines from 50 to 15 so that they're less annoying.