Iron Ore Deposit

Mining node · power 4 · 25–50 lives · back after 60–120 s · every 15 s at base

Coins an hour407Priced100%

Strategies

What you do when a node runs out. Each way counts the best one you tick on the calculator.

Stay

387coins an hour · 75 gathers

Gather its 37.5 lives: 1,705 s.
Wait while it comes back: 90 s.
A round: 1,795 s for 37.5 lives.

Server swap

404coins an hour · 79 gathers

Gather its 37.5 lives: 1,705 s, then swap: 15 s, the cooldown.
Go round 2 servers of the 11. Back on the first, it ran out 1,735 s ago, past its 90 s respawn: no wait.
A round: 3,439 s for 2 × 37.5 lives.

RouteCounted

407coins an hour · 79 gathers

2 nodes, 37.5 lives each: 1,705 s at each.
Round the loop: 33 blocks in 5.9 s at speed 100, sprinting.
Back at the first, it ran out 1,710 s ago, past its 90 s respawn: no wait.
A round: 3,415 s for 2 × 37.5 lives.

We assume a server swap puts you back on the same spot next to the node, and that each server's node is its own, so it's full on the next server. A swap takes 15 s, the game's cooldown. A node's respawn counts from when it runs out, and other players aren't counted. Travel is 4.3 blocks a second walking and 5.6 sprinting at speed 100, a jump as sprinting; swimming counts at 2.2, Minecraft's usual: we don't have data yet on swimming speed on Isles.

The route: 2 Iron Ore Deposits

The quickest loop of 2 we found on the map, found with the route finder (swimming and jumps on). We try loops of 2 to 6; this one gathers the most at your stats.

1 → 217 blocks (17 on land)3 s
2 → 117 blocks (17 on land)3 s

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Drop	Chance	An hour	Price	Coins an hour
Raw Iron	66%	52.2	4	209
Stone Pebble	17%	13.4	3	40.3
Raw Coal	17%	13.4	3	40.3
Rough Pearl	1 in 101	0.8	150	117
Guild Delver Gloves	1 in 10,101	under 0.1	0	0
Total, priced drops only				407

Counted with your typed mining stats: efficiency 0, luck +0%, chance 33%, Specialist 0. Change them on the calculator.

How it's worked out

A gather try every 15 s with your efficiency (0) and Specialist level (0): 15 s at base, never faster than 7.5 s.
33% of tries succeed: 79 successful gathers an hour without a break. Each node lasts 25–50 of them (37.5 on average), then comes back after 60–120 s (90 s on average). Route · 2 nodes, the best of your strategies here: 79 an hour.
Luck adds extra drops: 0% more of each, 1 a gather. Loot bias would raise the rare ones: set yours on the calculator.
Each drop an hour times what a merchant pays for it. Drops without a price count as nothing.

Rough Pearl and Guild Delver Gloves are rare drops and count at their average: over a short session you may get none, or more. We count a life for each successful gather; we don't have data yet on whether a failed try takes one.

What would earn more here

+10 efficiency+221 an hour
One more Specialist levelnothing more
+10% luck+40.7 an hour
+10% chance+123 an hour

Plan it in the skill planner

Most items don't have a merchant price on the wiki yetOnly 208 items have one so far. Coins an hour count only the drops we have a price for, so a way can be worth more than it shows here. Each result says how much of what it drops is priced. Prices are what a merchant pays, entered by players and checked before they go live.

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