Flametal Ore Vein

Flametal Ore Vein

A spire of flametal ore on the back of a lavaiathan sunk in the lava.
Biome	Ashlands
Type	Natural feature
Per World	Up to 100
Enemies	-
Boss	-
Loot	Flametal Ore
Entry	Black Metal Pickaxe

A Flametal Ore Vein is a column of Flametal Ore rising from the lava of the Ashlands on the back of a Lavaiathan. You mine it with a Black Metal Pickaxe or better, but the Lavaiathan can sink at any hit and take the rest of the ore with it.

Where to Find It

The game makes up to 100 attempts to spawn a Lavaiathan in each world, in the Ashlands at altitudes of 10 to 1,000 m. They are placed when the world is generated and are gone for good once they sink. Many stand out in the lava, and you need Basalt Bombs or a tamed Asksvin to reach them. Some lie close enough to land that you can mine them from the shore.

What's Inside

Every vein is the same spire of 27 nodes. Each node has 100 health and tool tier 3, and only pickaxe damage hurts it. Every hit on a node has a 1% chance to disturb the Lavaiathan, which makes a noise. Twenty seconds later it starts to sink for good. It first rises a little, then speeds up to about 0.6 m a second, slows again after about 50 seconds and is fully under within 75 seconds. Any nodes you have not mined go down with it.

Loot

Container	Item	Image	Amount	Chance
Ore Node	Flametal Ore		2-4	100%

Notes

A fully mined vein drops about 82 Flametal Ore.
The Black Metal Pickaxe deals 49 to 64 damage, so a node takes 3 hits at quality 1 and 2 hits at higher quality. With the power of The Elder (+60% pickaxe damage) it deals 78 to 102, and a quality 4 pickaxe breaks a node in one hit.
A Battering Ram deals 600 pickaxe damage at tool tier 5 over a small area, so it can break several nodes at once.

All Ashlands Locations

Location	Type	Description
Ashlands Ruins	Structure	Broken grausten walls and towers scattered across the Ashlands.
Charred Fortress	Structure	A walled Charred stronghold under a green beam of light, holding the bell fragment altar.
Charred Ruins	Structure	Tall grausten ruins overgrown with ashvine, where ash crows gather.
Dvergr Charred Tower Ruins	Structure	A grausten tower ruin patched with dvergr woodwork and held by Ashlands Dvergr.
Fader's Altar	Boss altar	The coliseum of the Emerald Flame, where three bells summon Fader.
Flametal Ore Vein	Natural feature	A spire of flametal ore on the back of a lavaiathan sunk in the lava.
Monument of Torment	Structure	A charred stone spawner that keeps releasing Charred Twitchers and Charred Warriors.
Mysterious Location	Point of interest	Three unique grausten sites, linked by vegvisirs, that hold the pieces of the sword Dyrnwyn.
Putrid Hole	Dungeon	A cave of rotting flesh guarded by one Morgen and packed with molten cores and pots.
Sulfur Arch	Natural feature	A black grausten arch flecked with orange, with sulfur rocks hanging underneath.
Tomb of Lord Reto	Dungeon	A dark cave under the third Mysterious Location, home to the miniboss Lord Reto.
Volture Nest	Point of interest	A nest ringed with asksvin carrion, with voltures overhead and eggs hidden beneath it.

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