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The short answer

Mining is a gathering profession in WoW Forever. Gathers ore and stone and smelts bars for Blacksmithing and Engineering. It adds 3 campsite objects to the new Camping system, and the Legacy perk Bountiful Harvest boosts gathering. It pairs best with Blacksmithing or Engineering.

What Mining does in Forever

Role

Gathers ore and stone and smelts bars for Blacksmithing and Engineering.

From Blizzard

The Legacy perk Bountiful Harvest increases materials gathered from mining, herbalism or skinning.

Mining recipes and skill-up checker

Enter your skill to see only recipes that still give points. Orange always gives a point, yellow usually does, green only sometimes and grey never. Some endgame recipes stay orange past the 300 skill cap.

15 recipes

RecipeSkill-upLearnReagentsCategory
Smelt Copper 25 47 70 — 1× Copper Ore Smelted Bars
Smelt Tin 50 62 75 — 1× Tin Ore Smelted Bars
Smelt Bronze ×2 65 90 115 — 1× Copper Bar, 1× Tin Bar Smelted Bars
Smelt Silver 100 112 125 — 1× Silver Ore Smelted Bars
Smelt Iron 130 135 140 — 1× Iron Ore Smelted Bars
Smelt Steel 165 165 165 — 1× Iron Bar, 1× Coal Smelted Bars
Smelt Mithril 175 175 175 — 1× Mithril Ore Smelted Bars
Smelt Gold 170 177 185 — 1× Gold Ore Smelted Bars
Smelt Dark Iron 230 230 230 — 8× Dark Iron Ore Smelted Bars
Smelt Truesilver 230 230 230 — 1× Truesilver Ore Smelted Bars
Smelt Thorium 250 250 250 — 1× Thorium Ore Smelted Bars
Smelt AzerothiumNEW 275 275 275 — 2× Pitchblende, 1× Coal Smelted Bars
Smelt Heavy ThoriumNEW 300 307 315 — 1× Heavy Thorium Ore Smelted Bars
Smelt Elementium 310 315 320 — 1× Elementium Ore, 10× Arcanite Bar, 1× Fiery Core, 3× Elemental Flux Smelted Bars
Smelt Obsidian-Infused Thorium Bar 315 322 330 — 2× Enchanted Thorium Bar, 2× Large Obsidian Shard

Skill colors, reagents and recipe items come from the game client. The skill at which a trainer teaches a recipe is server data and is not listed here; Learn shows the skill printed on the recipe item. Nothing here has been tested in game yet.

Mining campsite objects

Place these at a campfire to give nearby players a buff or a workspace. See how Camping works.

ObjectSkillHow you learn itMaterials
Lodestone20Trainer or camping NPC (skill 20)1× Rough Stone, 1× Copper Bar
Rock Garden140Blueprint: Rock Garden2× Heavy Stone, 1× Iron Ore, 1× Silver Bar
Molten Foundry300Blueprint: Molten Foundry5× Thorium Bar, 2× Dense Stone, 1× Truesilver Bar

Mining FAQ

How many Mining recipes are in WoW Forever?

15 recipes in beta build 70009, of which 2 do not exist in Classic Era. 0 are taught by a recipe item; the rest come from trainers or other sources.

What does Mining pair with?

Blacksmithing or Engineering. Gathers ore and stone and smelts bars for Blacksmithing and Engineering.

What campsite objects can Mining place?

Lodestone (skill 20), Rock Garden (skill 140), Molten Foundry (skill 300). The first is learned at skill 20; the others come from Blueprint recipes.

Related

Compare all professions, plan a campsite, and check the tradeskill challenges and Bountiful Harvest perk in the Legacy planner. Read the Blacksmithing guide. Read the Engineering guide.

  1. Official Deep Dive panel recapChecked 2026-09-26
  2. WoW-Forever.online client data, build 70009Sep 24, 2026