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Here is my money making mining tutorial, dont know if there are any around like this one but this method works good for me in making money besides doing the boring making and remaking characters in windurst.

First off you need some gil, preferably 2-5k Gil would be the nicest.

Create a Character In Bastok, you can create it on our server without a world pass for those of you that do not know, all you have to do is type in the server name under world. You can make any race, or whatever it does not matter at all. Go through the blah blah blah intro and /logout from that character.

Next Step log on to your character that has the money and Send it to your new character. /logout of that character.

Next log back onto your new character go get your money.

Goto the Bastok Mine Area on the Map, and Goto the Store that has the little bag on it. Your going to have to cross a bridge to get there, its not too hard to find, go into the back of the store and find the owner, the name starts with B dont remember what it is right now. Buy as many mining picks as possible, and go ahead and drop all of your equipment that you have, you will not need weapons or armor or any of the sort as only one thing aggro's you, and it doesnt really matter if you die.

Next step go into the Zeph Mines and goto the rough area. Run around the mines pressing TAB looking for mining spots, when you reach one go into your inventory and select the pickaxe to use. Some spots you can use inbetween 1-7 times from my experience thus far. Keep only ZINC, STEEL, and ESPECIALLY DARKSTEEL ORE. Zinc goes for around 300 gil a pop, the steel for 600 gil, and darksteel a whopping 8000 Gil! You also can keep Silver Ore, which goes for around 300-400 Gil. For each mining pick you can at sometimes get around 1k gil for it, which is not shoddy at all, especially when they only cost 208 gil at the store. Just keep on going around til your out of inventory or picks. NOTE: There is only 1 monster that aggro's that I have found as of yet and it was the Giant Amoeba, so try to keep back a little from it. So now your inventory is full, you will want to goto the auction house, the quickest way ive found is to just get yourself killed in the mines by attacking monsters heh, that way you dont have to waste a run after your fingers might be sore already. Goto the Auction House and set up First Darksteel, then Steel, then Zinc or Silver. You can either wait around like 15 mins or so, or deposit your ore in your completely new open mog house and go back out. But the ore sells FAST so you might want to just stick around. I have found up to around 15 or more Steel, and around 10 or more Zinc. thats 10k right there. If your lucky you might even get inbetween 1-2 Darksteel per 1 or 2 hours, which is an enormous money boost. This may take some time from your leveling but this way you can fund your Advancement

Hope this guide is helpful to those who use it, if it is used, please tell me how it goes for you and if you like it.

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