Getting alchemical ingrediants via mining.

[ssw22]

Tired of having the only place to get your alchemical ingredients be hirathia?
Tired of shopping for hours just to get a pile of salt to study?!
WELL NOW YOU CAN HELP YOURSELF!

Introducing the new skill: Geology!
This wonderful skill allows you to scour stones and walls for your much needed mental and physical health. You may find things such as: "Pyrite veins, salt deposits, shiny(er) gems, and much much more!"

How it would work:
As you mine the walls in the northern mountain or balor islet, you find minerals dropping at random intervals. With a minecart, you can easily store away all your precious minerals and bring them to be ground for materials.

Scenario 1.
Using Geology around the minerals or with them in your inventory would seperate them out based on color and/or composition.

(Metallic): May be gold, pyrite, or iron
(Powdery): May be a salt, or gypsum rock.
(Crystalline): May be a precious precious gem carrier.
(Earthy): May be coal, or mineral oil.

Taking these to a specific sorter can yield their identified components along with the stone.
Metallic: Just crush it using the crusher thing.
Powdery: Dissolve in water to gain salt and/or gypsum sludge. (/Mark Powdery Mineral, /useskill Geology water) A
Crystalline: Pry them off. (Set down the mineral and pick-axe it 'til something pops off)
Earthy: Press it for oil, crush it for coal. (Pressing the mineral is easy, just put it into a container, close it, mark it, then /useskill geology.)

Afterwards, you can take the exhausted minerals to the crusher for the remaining raw material (Gold, iron, coal, etc.)

Scenario 2.
In the mines, you'll see cracks along the walls. These are mineral veins and are commonly mined willy-nilly be adventurers <strike>looking to rebuild their house.</strike> Using geology in the area will tell you something specific about the nearby veins.
["The North wall appears to be fatigued." "The East wall appears to be composed mostly of a powdery white substance"]

"Fatigued" means no additional alchemical ingredients.
"White powder" means gypsum
"White, with a sandy texture" means salt
"Encrusted with red gems!" means rubies
"Encrusted with blue gems!" means sapphires
"Encrusted with colorless gems!" means diamond
"has a yellow vein running through..." means gold or pyrite
"menaces with green spikes" means emeralds
"breaks away easily, leaving behind a black, earthy substance" means coal
"leaks a thick liquid upon striking" means mineral oil

Scenario 3.
Take all your minerals and crush 'em, what pops out along with stone, coal, iron, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, and gold are other substances that can be identified using geology!

You'll get various powders, unidentified liquids, and strange substances that can be identified by using the geology skill.

[LightDamage]

Bring this on people!

[Felix_Xenophobe]

this would be amazing