Gatherables
Copper Vein
Mine copper ore with an iron pickaxe — the first metal in the chain that ends with coins stamped in a player's own name
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The product tutorial, start to finish.
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The copper vein is a gatherable seam of copper ore. Take out an iron pickaxe, left-click, and it works like every other SL Colonies gatherable. Nothing else will open it, and it takes the same time to gather as any other vein.
Copper is the front of the coin chain. The smelter turns the ore into ingots, the smith turns ingots into bags of blank coins, and a coin mint presses a player's own symbol onto the blanks — which is how currency with somebody's name on it ends up in every colonist's HUD.
For owners: copper is one of the two quick veins, back long before silver or gold. Long left click opens the owner menu, where spawn points let a gathered vein return anywhere on your sim in any rotation you like. Leave that feature alone and it comes back exactly where it stood.