Silver Ore

Silver Ore

Unrefined silver. Needs to be refined in a smelter.
Type	Ore
Biome	Mountain
Location	Silver veins in Mountain
Weight	14
Stack	30
Teleport	No
Crafting Station	-
Crafting Materials	Cannot be crafted
Spawn ID	`spawn SilverOre`

Until Bonemass gives up its Wishbone, most Silver Ore stays hidden under the mountainside, and that is what makes silver a tier rather than just another rock. Look for it in Silver Veins in the Mountain.

How to Get It

Wear the Wishbone while you walk the Mountain and listen for the ping, then dig down to the silver vein buried under the snow; now and then a vein breaks the surface as bare grey rock. You need an Iron Pickaxe or better to break one, so the Swamp has to be behind you for the iron as much as for the boss. Bring Frost Resistance Mead or wolf gear, expect Wolves and Drakes at your back, and remember that the ore cannot go through a portal.

Notes

Like other metals, it can only go through a Portal Stone, not an ordinary Portal.
Drakes and Obsidian both appear from 100 meters up, so finding them means the 120 meters that Silver Ore needs is close.
A Cart is hard to use on Mountain slopes, but it still saves extra trips.
Silver Ore is the heaviest of all the ores.
Neither a Stone Golem nor an Antler Pickaxe can break it.
The Smelter turns it into Silver at one bar every 30 seconds while burning one Coal every 15 seconds, so each bar costs two Coal. It holds 20 Coal and 10 ore at a time, and it stops working if its smoke has nowhere to escape.