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Mining Guide
February 11, 2026 at 09:51 PM
New article: mining guide with ore locations, processing chains, and Moonlit Forest progression
Mining is one of the best ways to make money in Starsand Island, and you need ores for most crafting upgrades. Almost all ores are found in the Moonlit Forest. Bring a pickaxe every time you go in. Resources there respawn every day at 8 PM.
The first ore you find. Available right away in the cavern behind the Damaged Door near your home, and throughout the Evernight Forest (first area of the Moonlit Forest). Copper Ores look like brownish-orange rocks.
Found from Evernight Forest onward, becoming more common in the Gate of Life area. Gray-colored rocks.
Bright yellow rocks, easy to spot, and abundant throughout the Moonlit Forest from Evernight Forest onward. You will need a lot of Fluorite because it is used to repair camp waypoints in the forest. It can also be used as Slingshot ammo in a pinch.
Processing chain:
Fluorite → Radiant Corestal (Furnace)
Radiant Corestal → Radiant Crystal (for advanced tools)
Radiant Corestal is needed for several early equipment blueprints: the Feeder (3x) and the Jam Maker (2x), among others.
Green-tinted mineral nodes in the Moonlit Forest. Less common than Fluorite and Copper, so keep an eye out. Available from the Gate of Life area onward.
Processing chain:
Quartz → Quartzite → Glass Brick (Furnace) → Glass (Cutter)
Glass unlocks a range of crafts, including the Jam Maker, which turns fruit into Jam for better sell value.
Darker gray rocks, similar to Tin but noticeably darker once you know what to look for. Found in the Dreamfall Garden, the fourth area of the Moonlit Forest. You need to shoot down a broken wall with your Slingshot to open the path there.
Iron Ores respawn daily, so you can farm the Dreamfall Garden each trip.
Processing:
Iron Ore → Iron Ingot (requires Furnace II)
Furnace II is unlocked by progressing with Zerine's crafting questline until you get the Workshop II and Furnace II blueprints. You can either build a new Furnace II or upgrade an existing Furnace I. Furnace II also unlocks Gold Ingots, Magnets, and Alloys.
An advanced mineral found deeper in the Moonlit Forest. You need a pickaxe better than the Impulsive Pickaxe to mine it.
Build multiple Furnaces. Once you are processing Copper, Tin, Fluorite, Quartz, and Iron, a single Furnace is a bottleneck.
Furnaces need Charcoal, which comes from Wood. Stock up on Wood before ore-processing days.
Selling smelted bars is one of the fastest money-making methods. You can process them further, but the time cost usually is not worth it compared to just selling the bars.
Dump remaining stamina into mining at the end of each day if you have nothing else to do.
