Gatherables
Gold Vein
Mine gold ore with an iron pickaxe — the top of the coin chain, and a seam you get to work once a week
L$200
Citizens L$160 · save up to L$120 with a membership
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Watch it work
The product tutorial, start to finish.
Read it written up on the forum — the same walkthrough, with the numbers, and somewhere to ask.
The gold vein is a gatherable seam of gold ore. Take out an iron pickaxe, left-click, and it works like every other SL Colonies gatherable. Nothing else will open it, and gold takes no longer to mine than copper does.
Gold is the top end 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: gold is on the slow setting, back every seven days. That is one gather a week per vein, so a region that wants a real gold trade needs more than one seam in the hills. Long left click opens the owner menu, where spawn points let a gathered vein return anywhere on your sim in any rotation you like.