Having gone to the mines in the NW corner of Upper Sanctuary, I observed miners, found exposed ore, and was told by the smith that appropriate tools were available "in town". I didn't see any tool denoted as being for mining in the wares offered by the dwarf in the bazaar. I chose light hammer, which happens to be the weapon specialty of my character, but "using" the exposed ore didn't result in a mining attempt, hitting it with the hammer resulting in messages that I could not damage it with that, and I couldn't find mining in my craft menu.

Request hints.

I imagine I've got the wrong tool. In that case, what tool did I observe the miners using?

Hey! I'm no longer a "thrall"! I ran away; I'm free now.

Mining isn't in place, and there is no crafting right now anyway.

I regret to learn that. One post I found, https://efupw.com/efu1-forum/topic/45/45/general-information-read-me-first/index.html?amp;highlight=mining , indicated there would be, and I assumed it would be in the context of a good crafting system, such as what is available at www.dawnofdestiny.ca . I'm really seeking a server with rich RP _and_ good crafting. EFU certainly has the rich RP. Dawn of Destiny has good crafting, but few participants.

I guess I'll keep looking...

Check from DMs. That is all I can say.

Unfortunately, if one of your prerequisites for a server is crafting, then you wont be satisfied here, as it has for the most part been intentionally left out. Maybe you'll be drawn in by the RP anyway and have a good time, who knows.

Misleading word there, I've removed it. Apologies.

We plan on having a crafting system eventually actually, but it won't be mining/resource gathering but rather more using found components to grant minor enhancements to items.

Personally -- I've had very negative experiences with crafting. With a limit to 40 players on at any given time, it seems like it'd be a waste of a slot to have one of those players repeatedly clicking on an ore placeable. Maybe I'm wrong, if the player base feels strongly about this I'm sure we'd reconsider.

I dont think there needs to be a crafting system in at all, or in my opinion a enchantment system, if your going to get a magic item DM should give it to you beacuse you've earned it. Not beacuse you have enough gold to have it.

Personally, I don't know. So far I have trusted the DM's, on more than a few 'controversial' ideas, and it has always worked out great. But I can't seem to shake off the feeling that I would be missing something if there were no crafting/mining-system in place. The most logic place to mine would be the Underdark, and I think it could lead to a lot of interesting things.

Only I do think a limit should be set to it, instead of a Clan of Dwarven pooping out 5 Masterwork Fullplates per day.