Jacob Waltz The Mining Instructor
Jacob Waltz The Mining Instructor is the NPC Mining instructor in the Mountains near New Haven, and is part of the New Player Quests. He offers players with less than 50 in the Mining skill the chance to train Mining to 50, and earn Jacob's Pickaxe.
Quest Dialog
The Delucian's Lost Mine
Description
Find Jacob's Lost Mine and mine ore there, using a pickaxe or shovel. Bring it back to Jacob's forge and smelt the ore into ingots, until you have raised your Mining skill to 50. You may find a packhorse useful for hauling the ore around. The animal trainer in New Haven has packhorses for sale.
Howdy! Welcome to my camp. It's not much, I know, but it's all I'll be needin' up here. I don't need them fancy things those townspeople have down there in New Haven. Nope, not one bit. Just me, Bessie, my pick and a thick vein of valorite.
Anyhows, I'm guessin' that you're up here to ask me about minin', aren't ya? Well, don't be expectin' me to tell you where the valorite's at, cause I ain't gonna tell the King of Britannia, much less the likes of you. But I will show ya how to mine and smelt iron, cause there certainly is a 'nough of up in these hills.
*Jacob looks around, with a perplexed look on his face*
Problem is, I can't remember where my iron mine's at, so you'll have to find it yourself. Once you're there, have at it with a pickaxe or shovel, then haul it back to camp and I'll show ya how to smelt it. Ya look a bit wimpy, so you might wanna go buy yourself a packhorse in town from the animal trainer to help you haul around all that ore.
When you're an Apprentice Miner, talk to me and I'll give ya a little somethin' I've got layin' around here... somewhere.