Essential Mineralogy

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Essential Mineralogy icon.png Essential Mineralogy
"Essential Mineralogy is the first step toward a greater knowledge of the mineral Kingdom, and allows you greater success when searching for minerals."
Requirements:
Skill(s) required:
Proficiencies required:
675 Mines & Mountains icon.png Mines & Mountains
200 Sparks & Embers icon.png Sparks & Embers
Skills Unlocked:
Crafts Unlocked:
Builds Unlocked:
None
Others Unlocked:
None

In-Game Text

"And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had..."

-Samuel 17:40, King James' Bible

Many are the forms, shapes and qualities of the minerals, rocks and stones available to the Pilgrim in the New World.
Essential Mineralogy is the first step toward a greater knowledge of the mineral Kingdom, and allows you greater success when searching for minerals.

Excavation Skills

Skill Benifit
Essential Mineralogy icon.png Essential Mineralogy Find more Flint icon.png Flint, Granite icon.png Granite, Lime icon.png Lime, Smooth Stone icon.png Smooth Stone on the ground.
Quarrying icon.png Quarrying Dig icon.png Dig Stone Boulder icon.png Stone Boulders from a Quarry icon.png Quarry or Mountain icon.png Mountain.

Dig icon.png Dig Lime Boulder icon.png Lime Boulders from a Lime Pit icon.png Lime Pit .

Granite Excavation icon.png Granite Excavation Increased chance to Dig icon.png Dig Granite Boulder icon.png Granite Boulders from a Quarry icon.png Quarry or Mountain icon.png Mountain.
Ambitious Excavation icon.png Ambitious Excavation Higher chance to Dig icon.png Dig up Granite Boulder icon.png Granite Boulders.

Higher chance to Dig icon.png Dig up bigger Lime Boulder icon.png Lime Boulders.

Mining icon.png Mining Mine icon.png Mine Ore Boulder icon.png Ore Boulders from inside a Mine Entrance icon.png Mine Entrance.

Foraging Skills

Skill Benefit
Acute Tree Harvesting icon.png Acute Tree Harvesting Pick more resources from Tree icon.png Trees.
Botany icon.png Botany Find more Any Plant icon.png Any Plants in the wild.
Essential Mineralogy icon.png Essential Mineralogy Find more Stone icon.png Any Stones in the wild.
Exploration icon.png Exploration Find more of all Foragables in the wild.
Flowers & Berries icon.png Flowers & Berries Find more Any Flower icon.png Any Flowers and pick more Any Berries icon.png Any Berries.
Foraging icon.png Foraging Ability to use the Forage icon.png Forage Foraging Movement.
Hiking icon.png Hiking Ability to use the Wander icon.png Wander Foraging Movement.
Indian Tracking icon.png Indian Tracking Find more Any Plant icon.png Any Plants in the wild.
Mushroom Hunting icon.png Mushroom Hunting Find more Any Mushroom icon.png Any Mushrooms in the wild.
Nuts & Seeds icon.png Nuts & Seeds Find more Spruce Cone icon.png Spruce Cones and Stray Chestnut icon.png Stray Chestnuts in the wild.
Seafood Chef icon.png Seafood Chef Find more Oyster icon.png Oysters in the wild.
Slug Hunting icon.png Slug Hunting Find more Virginia Snail icon.png Virginia Snails in the wild.