Rifle274: I'm pretty new to the gothic series, and I just came to the old mine for the list from Ian. I tried mining the rocks scattered around the mine, but my character just stands there not getting anything from it? Is this on purpose?
I'm not sure if it was intentional but you can hack away at the ore all day and nothing happens (other then he without a name getting blisters :) ). I'm playing Gothic 2 now and one can mine and can learn better techniques (less chance of gold splinters flying everywhere and more chance of multiple gold nuggets. I haven't tried mining for magic ore, though. I suspect mining just fell between the cracks in Gothic1.
