Blast Mine is a minigame that you can play to earn more gold while improving your mining and firemaking skills.
Item Requirements
Before you can begin using the Blast Mine, there are certain items that you need to acquire first. You will need your Dynamite noted in your inventory, Stamina potions, a chisel, and a tinderbox. Additionally, you should also wear a full Graceful outfit. In regards to accessories, an Explorer’s Ring will aid you in this challenge as well as a Xeric’s Talisman.
Most new players to the Blast Mine might believe that it is necessary to carry a pickaxe. Although many guides available on the Internet have depicted that a pickaxe is necessary, it is not required.
You can carry the pickaxe in your hand if you desire, or have it in your inventory. However, you can use it to obtain the rarest forms of ores in the mine. For example, you can try to improve your Mining skill and level it up to level 85. At this level, you can acquire the Runite ores, which are high-profit resources. Regarding this item, it is useful to carry a pickaxe in your inventory, particularly the Dragon pickaxe.
The Runite ores can be smelted into the Runite bar, which is the most profitable item when smithing. Nevertheless, you should also be at least level 85 in your Smithing skill to do this. Therefore, it can be quite tedious to try this money-making approach because you will need to improve your Mining and Smithing skills first if you want to mine Runite ores and then smelt them into Runite bars. You might think that it is a tough mission, but it can be worth it in the end.
Other players try to approach the Blast Mine by using a Mud Staff. If you have a high Agility level, opt for other items instead of Stamina potions and craft Astral Runes for other forms of profits. Ultimately, it depends on what you want to dedicate your time while visiting the Blast Mine and how much time you can do so.
How To Play Blast Mine
First of all, you will commence in the Blast Mine by using your noted Dynamite on the Bank chest. You will begin in the middle part of the bank and start to chisel. This way, you will excavate the hard rock load up the cavity. From this point forward, you should move to the left and continue chiseling and excavating away. The reason that we are excavating in this order is that you will want to light afterward with the Dynamite. Thus, it is much easier and faster to light the Dynamite from the left to the right if you begin to build it or excavate from right to left.
Once you have finished a row of two or three, you will place the Dynamite in the cavities, light them up, and then move away clockwise to the mine’s other wall. Continue excavating while the Dynamite blows up and releases some items found in the wall. This process will help you dig up the items faster in the mine. Follow the same steps. Excavate from right to left, load up the cavities with Dynamite, and then move left to right to light them up.
Remember to avoid taking damage from the explosion. When you light up the Dynamite, a red area will appear on your screen, which depicts the danger zone of the explosion. If your characters stay within the red zone, you can take damage or even die from the explosion. For this reason, you should always be careful and move away quickly from the explosion to avoid the aftermath. However, if you are caught within the explosion zone, you take between 30 to 15 damage. Either way, after the Dynamite has exploded and release various items in a specific zone, you can begin to pick up your rewards.