Atronic92's Shilo gem mining guide [updated 10/30]

[atronic92]

Shilo Gem Mining

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shilo gem mining is a fun way to level up your mining, crafting, and fletching. It might not be the fastest experience, but it is fun, you make a little bit of money, and best of all, it gives you a lot of time to read the forums. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requirements:

 

 

 

To get into Shilo Village it is required that you complete the Shilo Village quest. To use the Ardougne teleport, it is required that you complete the Plague City quest, and have a magic level of at least 51. You need 40 mining to mine gem rocks. I suggest that you have at least 20 crafting and 56 fletching to cut and fletch at least sapphires.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Details about experience:

 

 

 

Each time you mine a gem rock, you get 65 mining experience.

 

 

 

each time that you mine all 7 gem rocks you get 455 mining experience

 

 

 

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1) Making Preparations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before you even head to the Shilo village, or before you even log onto RuneScape, there are some preparations that you must make.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First, make sure that you are on a full or nearly full world. The more people in a world, the faster rocks respawn. But, make sure that you are the obnly person mining gem rocks on the world you are on, or it is not worth it at all. I suggest trying worlds 6, 9, 12, 18, and 22. If those worlds all have someone mining, just go down the list until you find a suitable world. Don't worry, you will only have to change worlds once or twice if at all to find an empty world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Second, set your private chat to off. There is a lot of time that you will be able to spend away from the RuneScape window if you follow this routine, and you don't need friends of yours getting angry when you don't respond to their messages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your chat settings should look like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Third, you need to make sure that you can hear what is going on even when you are not looking at the RuneScape window. Therefore, turn off the RuneScape music, and turn up the sound effects and area sounds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your sound setting should look like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) Getting to Shilo Village

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now you are ready to head for Shilo Village! But it isn't so easy to get there by walking across Karamja. Instead, use these directions to get to Shilo Village:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) What to withdraw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You only need to withdraw two things, a pick, rune preferably, and a chisel. Also, wearing a glory amulet with at least 1 charge can help you mine the gem rocks much faster, so it is a good idea to withdraw one of them as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4) What to do!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So... now you have a pick, you have a chisel, you made it all the way to the Shilo gem mine. But what now? This part of the guide will tell you exacly how this method of mining works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The basic routine:

 

 

 

1. Click on a gem rock. Wait until you hear your pickaxe hitting it to confirm that you are mining it, and then switch to another window to browse the Tip.It forums, because it might take a while to mine each rock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Repeat mining until you have mined all the rocks. I usually follow this pattern:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Head back to the first rock. By now, it should be glowing again. Repeat steps 1-3 until you have a full inventory of gems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Cut all your gems. First, click on gem #1. Then double-click your chisel. Next, click on gem #2 and gem #3. Again double-click on your chisel. Continue until all of your gems are cut. Some of them may have been crushed, just drop all the crushed gemstone in your inventory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Now, turn your gems into bolt-tips for a little fletching experience. Also, turning your gems into bolt tips requires you to bank less often, as they stack in your inventory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You may want to keep some of the regular gems for different uses, but definately turn all the Shilo gems into bolt tips. Personally, I like to keep emeralds, rubies, and diamonds, but its up to you if you even keep any. You probably want to move any gems that you keep to the bottom rows to get them out of the way. Remember, if you do keep some gems, bank once in a while. I usually bank when 2 and a half rows in my inventory have been filled with gems that I keep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Repeat steps 1-5 until you have reached you level goals. Now, this way of leveling may be a bit slower than other methods, but I find it really fun, because you get to read the forums at the same time, something that usually I can't do while I play RuneScape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special thanks go to these people for helping with this guide or suggesting things to add:

 

 

 

tzone92

 

 

 

superfly_rix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* I'm not sure if the fletching level is required to make bolt tips. I couldn't find the fletching level required for chiseling bolt tips anywhere on the 'Net, but that is the listed level requirement for fletching the bolts.

[jemathonical]

Very nice guide, too bad I'm not a member.

 

 

 

But still, very nice guide

[Clay2]

I like the guide, but could you include more information that I won't end up having to dig for. AKA, mining exp for each type of rock, crafting exp for each gem, average total exp for all 7 rocks and gems if done perfectly. That type of attention to detail is the difference between a guide in the forum and a AOW guide.

[noname713]

I have to disagree with your cutting method...in my opinion, it's better to have your chisel in the bottom right corner and place the gem you want to cut just left of the chisel. This way, you can cut all gems of that type while moving your mouse across just two spaces instead of all over your inventory. When you're done with that type of gem, just switch it with another type and repeat.

[superfly_rix]

nice little guide here. but i few things you may like to add.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

glory: helps a whole lot. i 1 hit nearly all gem rocks while wearing mine(fully charged)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

boots of lightness: not a biggie but helps if you bank fairly often like me.

[atronic92]

Thank you for the feedback :D. I'm happy to see that it's mostly postive. But then again the constuctive criticism helps even more. Anyway, I am aware of the problems that have been addressed, and I do plan to add more to the guide when I get home from school today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the way, this is the first guide I've made.

[DeadPolkaDots1]

Good guide, the pictures make it up. I agree that you should give us more insight into what the exp is from cutting and mining.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall, good guide! :D

[atronic92]

I have now expanded the guide, adding an experience table and suggesting to use a glory amulet.

[hellbellz]

Wow! Excellent guide. Could you tell how much XP we get per rock/gem? That'd be great to your guide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8/10

[ikraz66]

it may be a good idea to bank some of the cut shilo gems without making bolt tips (especially the jade ones since you need blurite bolts to fletch them). That way you could sell the gems in tai bwo wannai for fast trading sticks!

[atronic92]

that is an option, but the idea behind cutting them into bolt-tips is not to make bolts, but to make you not bank as often. Still, fast trading sticks is a good idea.

[vlad_the_old]

Nice little guide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't forget that for some people the quickest way to Shilo Village is the gnome glider down to Karamja (south east corner of your map), use the agility shortcut just south west of there, then head west into Shilo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I must say I am surprised you have time to read the forums while doing this. When I go there to stock up on gems, by the time I have mined all the rocks, cut the gems, made some bolt tips and dropped any crushed gemstones - its time to mine the rocks again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Probably not a guide to be picked for AoW, but a nice little player guide to introduce players to mining at Shilo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You could add more detail about various routes to Shilo - dont forget alternative methods - Glory ammy and grapple shortcut, charter ships, fairy rings etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In order to cut the gems into bolt tips, you need the crafting level to be able to cut the gems. (I think you get fletching experience for cutting them into bolt tips). The exp. you get for cutting the bolt tips is rather small. I believe one of the crew is currently working on cutting enough gems to be able to get accurate information on the exp gained from making bolt tips from each gem type. So if you want to put some work in on gaining this information, I am sure they would appreciate it.

[Sp00nLord]

You need the level to make the bolts for making the bolt tips, I needed 42 to be able to cut pearl bolts at least, maybe its different for the gems however. Nice guide. =)

[vlad_the_old]

Ok here is some information from the RS Knowledge base. (Pretty much what you already have in your table).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please be aware that the information there is not always accurate!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seems the ability to cut the gems may be based on your fletching level rather than your crafting levelÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâæ (so that would mean if you did not have the necessary level to be able to cut a gemstone, you may still be able to turn it into bolttips ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ seems a bit suspect to me!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FL = Fletching Level to make bolt tips

 

 

 

FE/G = Fletching Experience per gem

 

 

 

TB = Type of bolt to attach tips to

 

 

 

FE/B = Fletching Experience per bolt tip attached

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opal - FL= 11 FE/G = 1 TB = Bronze FE/B = 1.6

 

 

 

Jade - FL = 26 FE/G = 2 TB = Blurite FE/B = 2.4

 

 

 

Red Topaz - FL = 48 FE/G = 3 TB = Steel FE/B = 3.9

 

 

 

Sapphire - FL = 56 FE/G = 4 TB = Mithril FE/B = 4.7

 

 

 

Emerald - FL = 58 FE/G = 5 TB = Mithril FE/B = 5.5

 

 

 

Ruby ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ FL = 63 FE/G = 6 TB = Adamantite FE/B = 6.3

 

 

 

Diamond ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ FL = 65 FE/G = 7 TB = Adamantite FE/B = 7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The number of tips from each of the gems here is 12

[atronic92]

Thanks for the help with experience. It looks like my table is only off regarding fletching experience earned from cutting a few of the gems. Its not a particularly important error, so I'll change it next time I updated the guide.