Mining is the primary source of ores and gems for crafting and smithing in holoVillage. Equipment can be enhanced and customised through smithing, which is tied to the job ability trees.
How mining unlocks (confirmed)
- Craft a Pickaxe in Day 1’s starter crafting loop (small rocks and the cave entrance need it).
- The early-game cave dungeon is the Carrot Cave — first dungeon area, first combat encounters, first boss.
- The dedicated Sparkling Mines dungeon is the primary ore source mid-game (awards the Sparkling Mines Steam achievement on first discovery).
Cave dungeons in the game
There are several mining/cave-adjacent locations:
- Carrot Cave — early Cave Dungeon
- Sparkling Mines — Mine Dungeon
- Crystallized Ruins — Ancient Ruins
- Great Tree Ruins — Ruins Dungeon
- Achu Achu Volcano — Volcano Dungeon
Browse all 11 areas at /areas.
Item database
Browse the full items list for materials, sell prices, and which recipes/equipment each ore is used in.
What we don’t have data on yet
- Exact pickaxe upgrade tree (tier breakpoints, costs)
- Which ore appears at which mine depth
- Loot tables per dungeon floor
These details depend on community gameplay coverage and will be added as cited sources publish them.