Minethings tips and tutorials

Minethings Beginner's Guide:

Minethings: Mining items or mining gold?

You need to start with switching your mine to mining gold. Mining gold is better than mining items because the starter market has an enormous amount of excess items. A yellow starter item will usually take a long while to sell, and will only be sold for 1g. Mining gold on the other hand, will earn you 1-4g each time, with no waiting for items to sell. Higher tier items are worth more than higher gold finds; for examaple, 600g gold find is equivalent to a purple item which would sell for 1500g+, but I believe mining gold is much better at the beginning.

Speed up your mining speed, it's all about buckets per hour! (bph)

The first things you need to buy are equipment items that will help you mine your gold faster. You should get a full set of flimsy mining Equipment. This will speed up your mining significantly, and more finds = more gold. You will start out at a mining speed of 30 buckets per hour, after bought the flimsy mining equipment set and maybe the cheap green items (Standard Cart, Standard Tool belt and Standard Hardhat) you're mining speed will have increased to 40 buckets per hour (bph)!

Minethings Melds

After you increased your mining speed by buying the flimsy/standard equipment you should start working on getting 10 melds. With each meld you get an extra hour of 'Battery time', which is especially very useful if you can't login every day. The reason for getting 10 melds is to be able to start working! But more on that later :)

Choose your Minethings profession

Once you have made 10 melds you face the difficult choice of choosing which profession to take - but don't worry, you can change your profession freely later on. A mistake that a lot of new players make is to choose for the pirate profession. Consequently, they get stomped on by the better equipped and experienced players and are forced into debt by guards and bounty hunters. It is a good idea to become a Guard when you're first starting.

Speed up your mining speed some more

The next thing you should do is save up for the more expensive (standard) equipment. If you can get your BPH up you will be getting more finds. A full standard set of equipment is pretty expensive for a new player, but it is worth it.

Start saving up some serious gold

When you've reached this point, it's time to start saving up. There are two things that you should save up to buy. The first is a good vehicle, probably a sidecar motorcycle, which will cost you around 450-600g. You can use this to hunt and earn some extra gold, run it empty and you wont lose anything, or use a few yellow weapons; though you will probably lose the weapons, you could potentially earn more gold. The second thing to save up for is another starter mine, This will take you a long time, since starter mines sell for around 2800g. If you are not very patient, you can buy credits. If you are patient, save, keep using your sidecar, and eventually you will get there.

You're next steps in Minethings

Once you've gotten your second starter mine, you will effectively double your income. Now you are finally able to afford more stuff. Remember, that you will need to buy a whole new set of equipment for the new mine. Now you might want to buy some vans to transport goods as you can earn a bit of gold doing this. Remember to bubble if you want your cargo to get through (bubbling = sending multiple vehicles at once, with the van that holds the goods in the middle)., and do not risk anything too valuable in your vans. Then you have to save your gold again. This time, you can either buy another starter mine, or save 3000g, sell 1 starter mine and buy a music mine. A music mine is much better than a starter, you can sell the items for a lot more. Note: If you get a music mine, mine items not gold. Each mine you get will increase your income even more, allowing you to buy more and more stuff. When you have your third starter or a music mine, you can increase your vehicle fleet, get more melds, buy some ships and risk it on the high seas or save for another mine. Try and gradually upgrade your equipment to hardies, and get better mines. By now you should be doing very well, have fun and enjoy playing Minethings (and be patient ;) )