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Farming games often have a progression system for a variety of activities, whether you’re cooking, farming, or mining. Since many farming games also fall into the life simulator genre, it’s not surprising that you have to gather materials, including ore. Resources are needed for crafting, upgrading tools, and helping others.
Some farming games make it easy and predictable to gain the necessary ores. Others, likeHarvest Moon: The Winds of Anthosrequire more dedication to obtain ores. The nature of the game, and the stamina mechanics, mean you have to plan your mining trips to get the ore you need.
Lenctenbury Village Mine For Early Game Gold Ore
Gold ore isn’t easy to come byduring the early stages of Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos, sincemanaging stamina and food make it a laborious process.The good news is thatyou can get gold from the very first area, Lenctenbury Village.
To get to the Lenctenbury Mine,travel north from the restaurant. There will be some glowing torches to let you know that you’re in the right place.
While it’s difficultwhen you’re in the first 30 layers of the mines, gold gets easier to find after that. Your best bet if you need any amount of gold ore in the early game is toget to levels 30-50 in the mine, with the best chance being between levels 40-50.
you may sometimesfind gold ore from digging in the circled areasof the mapwhen you use the dowsing function in the mine. The dowsing function will show youall the areas with an anomaly such asore, pitfalls, and ladders.
Bronze and gold ore nodes look similar,so always try mining the node a couple of times first,to see which one you’re getting. You’ll save some stamina if you leave the bronze andcontinue advancing to other floors of the mine.
Lilikala Mine
You may encounter a gold ore node on levels as early as 11-20, butit’s more likely for them to show up regularly after floor 30. In the Lilikala Mine beginning levels, you have a better chance of getting gold fromdigging in the circled areasyou see from dowsing.
The Lilikala Mine entrance isdirectly north of the waypoint for the Great Pier. You’ll need to ascend the grassy hill, andthe entrance is hidden behind a small plateaulandform.
Mining past floor 70 becomes quite difficult, with a much greater likelihood of encountering pitfalls. This isn’t a good level to mine for gold, soit’s better to stay between floors 40-60 for the best results.
Herbstburg South Mine
The Herbstburg South mine allows you to find gold ore, but withsimilar to slightly less frequency than in the Lilikala mine. You’ll begin to see gold ore clustersaround level 35 and beyond.
Once you reach floors 45 through 60 the gold ore you’ll find is comparable to what you’ll find on similar levels in the Lilikala mine, soyou cango to whichever one is closest. Your gold ore haulwill give you around 20-30 oreif you’re able to mine floors 40-60.
Herbstburg South Mine is quite a bit south, andslightly to the east of Herbstburg Village. It may be difficult to see on the map if you zoom out too much, asit’ll be the waypoint furthest to the right on the map for that region.
You can find a lot of gold orebetween floors 71 and 80,and there will be a significant increase in the number of boulders you will need to smash, dowsing circles, and falling rocks. It meansyou’ll be using up a great deal of staminawith all the digging you’ll need to do, and will be going through food a lotunless you’re just mining a few floorsrather than all nine or ten levels.
Unless you have other ores or gems you want to collect,it’s preferable to stay around levels 51-60.Your gold mining will be significantly easierand will save a lot of time.
Providence North Mine
If you’re lucky, you’ll find some gold ore clusters in the Providence North Mine around floor 28, but levels71 and onward have more frequent gold, and there arefewer pitfall tiles to deal withat those levels than either Herbstburg South Mine or Lilikala Mine.
you’re able to reach Providence North Mine by traveling north from the town of Providence. You’ll have tofix a bridge first, and then you’ll travel past an area known asGiant’s Waterfall.
If you just want to get gold a little faster,mining one of the other minesto around levels 40-50 may be preferable.It takes a lot of time and food to get to level 71, soif you decide to mine here for gold, bring plenty of supplies.
Zimagrad may be one of the trickiest towns to findand navigate at first, but the mine is great for gold ore mining. If you’re really lucky,you may even find goldas early as level 11.
Zimagrad West Mine is at the extreme northern part of the map, and traveling past the Providence North Mine will take you eventually there.
You won’t need to mine any farther than levels 30 to 40 before you find a plethora of ore,but the levelsare more difficult to mine. There are more pitfalls to worry about, soyou’ll be doing a lot of digging to avoid them.
The number of pitfalls might be too inconvenient, so you may prefer one of the other mines instead. If you decide to mine here but haven’t already unlocked the shortcuts to the different mining levels,you may want tostay a night or two to make progress.
Foot Of The Volcano
The Foot of the Volcano isn’t technically a mine, but it does contain gold ore clusters. These are readily accessible, but the area requires you tobeat the heat with some cooling foodsor drinks to prevent rapid stamina loss.
You can reach the Foot of the Volcano bytraveling east of the piers in Lilikala Village. The volcano is large and easily visible, so it should be easy to spot once you’re in the Lilikala region.
You’ll haveplenty of options for mining gold ore, and the mines are spaced out across the map nicely. You’re sure to have a nearby mine wherever you are, and once you’ve been to one, be sure toactivate the waypointso you can teleport any time you want.
