Goldpanning Guide

So you want to gold pan and strike it rich eh? Well first thing you are going to need is to learn how to fish. The primary skill for gold panning is fishing secondary is Luck. The Magic number for fishing is 200(note:any fishing beyond 200 is pointless), after that you are for sure to get Large nuggets when present. Otherwise you might let it slip past your pan and miss it.

Once you get your skill in fishing set you'll need to either buy gold pans from a player or make them. If you decide to make them it cost 5000 gold per try and will give you either 50 or if exceptional when made will give you 100 pans. You will also need 100 Tinkering and begging to 80. Starting out it's well worth just to buy them and not worry about making them. You save very little by making the pans yourself 20gp per pan, which when in the scheme of things is a drop in bucket.

Once you get you pan your ready to go panning. You can Pan anywhere on a shoreline, but I would suggest steering clear of town area's as they will only give you small nuggets. 

When finished panning you'll have some nuggets and gems and maybe messages in a bottle (MIB). MIB's give SOS's which are like treasure maps. Nuggets you can sell at the Britain docks to the gold panner. 

Some tips on panning. Large nuggets are Static. which means if you find one best mark the spot and throw in a rune book as it will 95% of the time have a large nugget there again. All other resources in the game are random, like mining and lumberjacking.

Note:*  (luck doesn't affect nuggets. Only affects chance of getting MIB’s, the Luck gear here is optional)

Ideally you want enough clothes to give you +25 fishing if you have the 115 ps and 60+ fishing pole.

Items to look for:

+60 fishing rod. (est 800k-1m)

some +fishing clothing (+10 fishing clothing is expensive. you will get more bang for your buck if u go for 6,7,8)

Other info to take note of:

All nugget locations are Currently static  only resource in game  (to my knowledge that is not random).

Medium Spots will never have large nuggets.  

Sometimes there will be no large nuggets in a Large nugget spot. (been reports of Large nuggets inside guard zones. To my experience i’ve never found large nuggets inside guarded zones.) *reports indicate that a couple have found some large nuggets inside guarded zones.

To make life easier  when you can afford it buy gold pan storage(5m) and a jeweler’s keys(10m).   They will make your life a lot easier. When keeping your bag clean

-Aryel

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