Just a quick question, what would be the best way for me to train my mining at my current level?

 

Thanks

Granite

 

Powermine Iron

 

choice is yours, granite is faster

 

If you hate both of them do shooting stars. I did shooting stars from 60-81 or so. Don't use star clans though, else you won't get any xp

Anything else I could do to speed my exp up a bit?

Penance horn

Shooting stars are sweet

How would I go about training with shooting stars since they don't land very often? Do I just wait for one to land then mine it? Or is there a way to find lots of them per hour?

Star find is a good clan. Make sure to read their thread on the RSOF to understand terminology and such.

Solo them in worlds that star clans do not visit

 

If you use star find you'll get like 2k xp per star... I don't know why people recommend them. You could mine them every 2 hours and do some mining in between or whatever you want to do

There's also mining at clan citadels, which is good xp at that level.

Is it still the best mining xp in living rock cavens ?

Is it still the best mining xp in living rock cavens ?

Shooting stars/citadels/granite, no :P. But the best xp can be found in the Caverns, yes, concentrated gold. If you need xp in many skills, hunting effigies might be better.

LRC isn't the best xp but it is much easier due to the amount of AFK mining that can be done. That is exactly how I got 99 mining, conc gold with mining jujus

LRC isn't the best xp but it is much easier due to the amount of AFK mining that can be done. That is exactly how I got 99 mining, conc gold with mining jujus

What's the better xp then? Granite is about 90-95k, on par with gold, but no reason to do granite when congold is that much easier?

Most people do concentrated gold, but for pure mining granite is faster than concentrated gold. But concentrated gold is so much easier than granite that the small xp drop is worth it to most people. Although if you're superheating at LRC, thats obviously the superior method if you value smithing/magic xp.

 

To answer the OP's original question, granite is by far the fastest xp at your level. You can switch over to concentrated coal rocks at 77 for an easier time, but I'd recommend sticking it out at granite till 80 then going and doing concentrated gold.

LRC isn't the best xp but it is much easier due to the amount of AFK mining that can be done. That is exactly how I got 99 mining, conc gold with mining jujus

What's the better xp then? Granite is about 90-95k, on par with gold, but no reason to do granite when congold is that much easier?

 

 

Granite is faster xp, but much more boring. Some people can powermine and get the 99 faster, and some can't. Even though gold is much easier, granite is a good 30k xp or so faster I believe.

Concentrated gold with a dragon pick:

~95% accuracy

2.75 tick cooldowns

No ticks lost between rocks

No ticks lost dropping ores (if you low alch them)

2.75 ticks per ore

~2072 ores per hour

~134,600 xp/hour max

 

Granite with a dragon pick:

~90% accuracy

2.75 tick cooldowns

1 tick lost between rocks

1 tick lost dropping 3 ores (.33 per ore)

4.08 ticks per ore

~1323 ores/hour

~99k xp/hour if only 5kgs are mined, which is highly unlikely

 

You lose a lot of time at conc gold running between spawns, banking (if necessary), and dropping ores (if not low alching), so around 25% of the xp can be removed. Either way, concentrated gold is substantially better than granite.

Witht the new money pouch wouldn't alching the concentrated gold be better? you are saving one inventory slot.

Witht the new money pouch wouldn't alching the concentrated gold be better? you are saving one inventory slot.

As hedge just pointed out, conc gold is better regardless. This just pushes it a little bit further ahead of granite.

Well yeah I should've mentioned that low alch or dropping may be faster than granite. Personally I didn't try those methods out, I just banked all the ores and used jujus. With this I was about to get about 60k xp/h I believe, but with much less concentration.

Well yeah I should've mentioned that low alch or dropping may be faster than granite. Personally I didn't try those methods out, I just banked all the ores and used jujus. With this I was about to get about 60k xp/h I believe, but with much less concentration.

I like your pun :3

 

It takes 32 ticks by my count to bank. That's an extra 1.14-1.77 ticks per ore, depending on the amount of stuff in your inv. That's 3.89-4.52 ticks per ore, or 1330-1540 ores/hour, or 86.5k-100k xp/hour. That works out to 64.9k-75.0k xp/hour, if you adjust for running between rocks and waiting for spawns.

 

In order to beat the lowest possible xp/hour, your average xp/ore at granite has to be 49.0 xp. I don't have enough data on granite distribution to make any claims about that, however.

Hedgehog's assumption that there are no ticks lost between rocks is why concentrated gold is so high in his calculations I think. I'd say that alone, comibined with waiting for rocks to spawn after you've mined the three viable ones, would drop the xp rate below granite. I guess you could hop, but either way you're looking at some major delays.

Hedgehog's assumption that there are no ticks lost between rocks is why concentrated gold is so high in his calculations I think. I'd say that alone, comibined with waiting for rocks to spawn after you've mined the three viable ones, would drop the xp rate below granite. I guess you could hop, but either way you're looking at some major delays.

He already talked about losing xp from moving between rocks. With a gold mining cc however you can be sure to go to the right rock first, and it's not uncommon to mine for 10+ minutes straight at a single rock. I'd estimate under 10 rock changes per hour.

Ya, I was very conservative with that part. If anything, the delay between rocks at granite would exceed 1 tick, so the xp/hour there would be even lower, but I cbf grabbing that data :P