Not out yet
Not out yet. In the development build; not in the 0.6.0 download.
Magic Sight is the way you find ore without already holding a sample. Switch it on from the H wheel, pick the ores to watch, and the ones within reach glow through the rock while you dig. It grows as you mine the ore it shows you.
You have it from the start. No item is needed. Dowsing Goggles make it stronger, and mining with it trains the Sight skill (see Character growth).
First working example
- Open the H wheel and click Sight. The action bar says it is on.
- Dig down. Copper, iron, amethyst and coal are open from the start, and you can watch three at a time.
- Ore close to you is outlined block by block, each ore in its own colour. Farther ore shows as a soft haze: one four-block cell for each patch, never single blocks.
- Mine a glowing ore. The Sight skill rises, and Arcana rises a little with it.
- Click Sight again to turn it off, and your tuft refills.
To change what you watch, right-click Sight on the wheel. Locked ores are dimmed and say what level opens them. There is also a key, Magic Sight: on / off, unbound until you set it in Options, Controls.
What it shows, and what it does not
- It shows ore only. Never chests, spawners, mobs, players, lava, caves or gas. You still dig carefully.
- It never loads a chunk and never marks your map.
- Every two seconds the server looks around you for the ores you chose and sends their positions.
- Ore you break loses its outline at once. Its haze clears at the next look.
- Ore placed by other means, such as a piston or an explosion, can take up to about 20 seconds to show.
Tuft cost
Each look costs a little tuft. Starting out, three ores at 12 blocks cost about 0.4 tuft a second. Tuft refills at 1 a second, so you can leave it on while you mine.
If you cannot pay for a look, Sight dims: the glow clears, the wheel says so, and it returns by itself when your tuft does.
| Change | Effect on the drain |
|---|---|
| More reach | Costs more |
| Each extra ore watched | Costs 40% more |
| Sight level 25 | 25% cheaper |
| Goggles worn on the head | 20% cheaper |
| Arcana | The same discount it gives a spell |
The Sight skill
Sight is a skill from 0 to 50. It rises when you mine an ore that Sight was showing you, outlined or hazed. It pays twice the ore's value, the same as Mining, so coal and copper pay 6, iron 10 and diamond 50. Arcana gets half of that.
Only ore that counts for Mining counts here:
- Ore you placed by hand pays nothing.
- Ore mined with Silk Touch pays nothing.
- Leaving Sight on while idle pays nothing.
- Amethyst pays nothing, because budding amethyst regrows and could be farmed.
What a level gives:
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Reach | 12 blocks plus 1 a level, and 16 more at level 50 |
| Outline radius | 6 blocks plus 1 a level, never past the reach |
| Ores watched at once | 3, and one more at levels 10, 25 and 50 |
Which ores open when
The level only decides which ores the filter offers. It is not a wall: every ore is still findable by digging and by the Goggles' lens. Nothing requires Sight.
| Sight level | Ores you can watch |
|---|---|
| 0 (start) | Copper, iron, amethyst (geodes), coal |
| 3 | Tin |
| 4 | Gold |
| 5 | Redstone, lapis |
| 8 | Lead, zinc, silver |
| 12 | Diamond, emerald |
| 15 | Quartz |
| 18 | Uranium |
| 25 | Chromium, nickel |
| 35 | Cobalt, manganese |
| 40 | Ancient debris |
Amethyst means geodes: it looks for budding amethyst and clusters. A block you built never lights up.
Dowsing Goggles amplify it
Goggles worn on your head change Sight in three ways:
- 8 blocks more reach, and 4 more blocks of outline.
- 20% less tuft drained.
- Their lens sample is watched as well. It takes no slot, and it works even if that ore is not open to you yet. Put a diamond in the lens at the start, and diamonds show.
Only goggles on your head amplify Sight. The Dowse key still pulses goggles you hold or wear, as before. The goggles themselves are in the 0.6.0 download. Their link to Sight is new.
The Dowsing Rod stays in the game but is no longer the way to find ore.
If it does not show what you expect
| You see | Why |
|---|---|
| Nothing glows | Sight is off, dimmed for lack of tuft, or no watched ore is within reach |
| An ore is dimmed in the filter | Your Sight level has not opened it yet |
| Cannot choose a fourth ore | You can watch three at a time until level 10 |
| Mined glowing ore and got no XP | You placed it, used Silk Touch, or it was amethyst |
| Far ore looks like a cloud | That is haze: one cell for a patch, not single blocks |
Not done yet
Vein shapes (the whole vein outlined), richness readouts, hazards such as lava and gas as a filter, saved filter profiles, and a server rule to turn Sight off or cap its reach.