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Here we go over how to make mining faster in New World. There are a few strategies you can use, and they all complement each other. This information is also covered in our Complete Mining Guide for New World. If you would rather see the entire guide for everything you could possibly need for gathering professions, check out these great guides:
- Complete New World Logging Guide
- Complete New World Harvesting Guide
- Complete New World Mining Guide
- Complete New World Fishing Guide
- Complete New World Tracking & Skinning Guide
Increase Territory Standing Reputation
The first option to make mining faster, or to make any gathering skill faster, is to choose this option when you rank up in reputation for a region. When you gain Territory Standing in a region, you are allowed to choose 1 of 3 upgrades, which differ each time. Sometimes you will have the option to “Increase Gathering Speed by 3.0%” while in the region. If you chose this, you can begin to stack these to significantly increase your gathering speed while in that region.
Upgrade Your Gathering Tools
Using a flint mining pick will only get you 100% harvesting speed. Sure, 100% sounds like a lot, but this speed is actually pretty slow. If you have some other gathering skills leveled already or some gold to spend at a trading post, you can craft an iron mining pickaxe pretty much right away as well. Crafting an iron mining pick axe will increase your harvesting speed to 125%-139% depending on the attributes you get.
For how to craft an iron pick axe, head to a work bench inside a settlement and use your engineering skill to craft one. The ingredients you will need are:
- 2 of Any type of leather
- 3 of Any type of timber / refined wood
- 12 Iron Ingots
Where To Get The Materials
You can obtain the leather from skinning animals. For this, you will need to have a flint skinning knife at the very least. You will kill and skin an animal, then take their hide to the tannery in town to turn it into leather. Alternatively, you can buy 1 leather from the Trading Post in town, they should be very cheap.
The same goes for 2 pieces of timber. You will need to take Green Wood into town and cut it into timber. Alternatively, go to the trading post and purchase 2 timber if you are looking for a quick turnaround and do not have the materials yet.
For iron ingots, you can find Iron Veins and use your mining skills to extract iron ore. Again, you will need a mining pick for this. You can go out and find these veins, mine the ore, then smelt them in town to create iron ingots. Of course, if they are affordable you may choose to buy them off the trading post if you do not already have these materials. Iron veins can be hard to come by unless you are specifically looking for them.
Once you have gathered the required materials, you can craft the iron mining pick in New World and your mining speed will be significantly faster! Scroll further down our New World Mining Guide to see where you can gather each type of material.
How To Obtain Each Tier of Upgraded Mining Pick Axe
The efficiency you gain when crafting your first iron mining pick does not stop there. There are 5 tiers of mining pick axes that you can utilize and upgrade to. Each tier will increase your mining speed, but higher tier picks are not fully required to mine higher level veins.
An important note to the base gathering speed listed below is that these are the base speeds. You can sometimes roll better speeds if you are lucky or use additional items/azoth which we will cover later in the New World Mining Guide.
| Tier | Pickaxe Name | Base Gather Speed | Craft Requirements |
| 1 | Flint Mining Pickaxe | 100% | 1x Flint 1x Green Wood |
| 2 | Iron Mining Pickaxe | 125% | 12x Iron Ingot 3x Timber 2x Coarse Leather |
| 3 | Steel Mining Pickaxe | 250% | 13x Steel Ingot 3x Timber 2x Coarse Leather |
| 4 | Starmetal Mining Pickaxe | 400% | 14x Starmetal Ingot 3x Timber 2x Coarse Leather |
| 5 | Orichalcum Mining Pickaxe | 625% | 15x Orichalcum Ingot 3x Timber 2x Coarse Leather |