Mining

From Hmtot

In Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, mining is a bit simpler and easier. Where previous games had you use a hammer and hoe in the mines until a time when the mines closed, ToT has an indefinite time limit, basing on long you're in the mines on how long your stamina lasts.

Mining

Before entering one of the two mines, the Ganache Mine, available from the start, or the Mt. Gelato Mine which you must be able to go to Mt. Gelato first, you must be sure to have a hammer and possibly some food that restores good amounts of stamina. The game will tell you if you forgot your hammer, because you won't get very far.

Traps

You'll encounter many traps in both mines. The farther you descend, the more traps there will be.

Cracks can be good and bad, running around a mine can sometimes reveal cracks in the ground, or they could be there from the start. Walking over one triggers either a geyser trap or a hole trap. Holes will send you down 1 to 9 floors of the mine, the number being completely random, while geysers send you up.

Gas explosions become especially often after around 15 floors, they are triggered just by your hammer smashing rocks and gemstones. They come in seven different colors which each do different things.

Color	Speed	What it does
Red	Fast	Lose Stamina
Blue	???	Paralysis for 10 ingame minutes
Green	Fast	Recover stamina greatly (Around 300)
Purple	???	Confusion (Direction randomly changes)
Black	???	Blindness (Can only see what your character touches)
White	???	Movement speed change (Either become very fast or very slow)
Yellow	???	Recover stamina (Around 100)