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Bog Iron Ore

Bog iron from the fens: a regional, lower-grade iron ore.

Overview

Bog Iron: dark iron-rich lumps with rust-red staining bleeding into the wet ground.

Bog Iron Ore is extracted from bog iron deposits with the Mining skill. You need Mining 10 to extract it, but you can Examine and discover it at any level.

Where it is found

Southern Fenlands.

Rust staining like this marks iron across the Southern Fenlands.

What a miner can tell

Iron precipitated by the fen waters — a regional iron, lower grade than mountain ore. Slightly stubborn to break.

Use

Bog iron from the fens: a regional, lower-grade iron ore. Smelting and smithing will come with the planned Smithing skill.

See also Bog Iron, the weapon and armour material.

Current values (development — subject to change)
ValueCurrent
Mining level to extract10
Experience per ore30
Strikes per ore5
Ores per deposit6
Deposit respawn (s)25

These are provisional playtest values.

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