Gold ore
Rusty quartz with specks of gold in it. Underground it's deep, it's rare, and it's only in the faults.
Where to find it#
On the surface you can pan it out of gold-bearing gravel on the banks of small creeks, and once in a long while a rich seam up on the high ground turns out to be gold, about one seam in 25. Either one is worth keeping to yourself.
Underground, gold is only in the quartz veins along the faults. The faults are long straight cracks in the rock, and there are a few of them in every couple of hundred metres of country, so there's one within reach wherever you settle. One of them usually runs right out of a granite dome.
The deeper you go the better your chances are. Level 10 has about seven times as much gold as level 1. It's also about three times as common in the parts of a vein that are within about 110 m of a granite dome, so if you're picking a stretch of fault to work, I'd stay closer to the granite.
A lot of any vein is just plain quartz with nothing in it. If one spot comes up empty, don't give up on the vein, try a few metres along.
How much you get#
You get 1 gold ore per cell, and you'll know it when you hit it. The first person to strike gold ends up in the Lantern.
Which level#
You can find it on levels 1 to 10, and level 10 has the most.
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This is how much each level has across the whole map, compared to the best one.
What it's for#
- It's the money, once it's refined. Take it to a forge with a lump of coal and each one makes 10 gold. See Gold and trading.