# Gold Mining

**Gold Mining Quests** can be performed by groups of between 1 and 6 Heroes at a time.  Heroes can be queued to begin questing as soon as the Stamina of the currently questing Heroes is expended; however, all Heroes in the group will stop mining as soon as any one Hero's Stamina reaches zero. Once a group of any size enters the mine, additional miners cannot be added to the group. Additional Heroes will be queued and will not commence their quest until one Hero in the previous group reaches 0 Stamina, causing the entire group to stop mining, or until the player ends the mining quest early.

The amount of **gold** generated by a miner is based on each Hero's **STR** and **END** scores, **mining** score and on whether the Hero has **mining** as their main profession. Each Hero calculates rewards separately, even when questing as a group.

Heroes with **mining** as their main profession expend 1 Stamina every 10 minutes, and all other Heroes expend 1 Stamina per 12 minutes. However, if a group of Miners contains Heroes that do *not* have **mining** as their main profession, all Heroes in that group will expend at the 1 Stamina per 12 minutes rate. It is important to strategically group miners to achieve maximum rewards.

Mining quests also have a chance to reward Heroes with **Soul Shard**<mark style="color:red;">,</mark> **Naudiz**,  and **Golden Pet Egg**. Item drop rates are increased by varying combinations of **STR**, **END**, the **mining** stat, and the **mining** gene.

### Level 0 base item drop rates:

&#x20;    **Naudiz**, - 0.3% per 5 Stamina expended, boosted to 1.5% with **mining** main skill&#x20;

&#x20;    **Soul Shard** - 7%  per 5 Stamina expended, boosted to 10.75% with **mining** main skill

&#x20;   **Golden  Egg** - 0.02% (per 10 Stamina spent)


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