====== Gold Panning ======

**Gold Panning** is a gathering activity that runs off the **Mining** skill. Instead of swinging at a mountain face, you sift the water's edge — any river, lake or coast — for **gold nuggets**, gems and **Rough Stones**.

Nuggets are not a crafting resource. They are traded up through **Harry Johnson, The Gold Panner**, into larger nuggets, Gold Bricks and eventually bank checks, or handed in against **Gold Panning Orders** for gold, Rough Stones and a chance at an Epic item.

See also: [[mining|Mining]], [[rune-crafting|Rune Crafting]], [[resource-orders|Resource Orders]].

===== The Gold Pan =====

  * Gold Pans are crafted by tinkers, under **Tools** in the tinkering menu.
  * Requires **40.0 Tinkering** and **4 Iron Ingots**.
  * A standard pan holds **50** finds. An **exceptional** pan holds twice that, **100**.
  * A failed sift costs nothing — only successful finds consume a use.

==== Pan Settings ====

The pan carries the same right-click menu as a pickaxe:

  * **Set to Ore** — nuggets only.
  * **Set to Ore and Gems** — allows a sift to wash up a classic gem in place of a nugget.

The setting is **shared with your pickaxe**. Changing it on one changes it on the other.

The Ore and Gems mode only produces gems once you have read **//Mining for Quality Gems//**.

===== How to Pan =====

  - Stand **within 2 tiles** of the water, **on foot**.
  - Double-click the pan.
  - Target the water.

Your character bows to the water and a splash marks the sift.

Each stretch of water holds **5 to 10 nuggets** and refills in **10 to 20 minutes**, so keep moving along the shore rather than working one spot dry.

===== Nugget Tiers =====

Nugget size is gated by your Mining skill. **Skill bonuses from jewellery count** toward these thresholds.

^ Nugget ^ Mining Required ^
| Small Gold Nugget | 95.0 |
| Medium Gold Nugget | 110.0 |
| Large Gold Nugget | 120.0 |

===== Extra Finds =====

At **100.0 base Mining** and above, a sift can turn up more than a nugget:

  * **Rare gems** and **Delicate Scales** (an imbuing ingredient) alongside your nugget.
  * **Rough Stones**, now and then, as you sift.

Rough Stones come up **far more often from the pan** than from mining or chopping wood, which makes panning the fastest route to them for [[rune-crafting|Rune Crafting]] and Bio-Engineering.

A Rough Stone found while panning **completes the //Mine a Rough Stone// daily task** (see [[daily-tasks|Daily Tasks]]).

===== Trading Nuggets =====

**Harry Johnson, The Gold Panner** greets you with tips as you approach. Drop nuggets on him to trade up:

^ You Give ^ You Receive ^
| 10 Small Gold Nuggets | 1 Medium Gold Nugget |
| 5 Medium Gold Nuggets | 1 Large Gold Nugget |
| 3 Large Gold Nuggets | 1 Gold Brick |
| 2 Gold Bricks | 20,000 gold Bank Check |

Harry takes **whole lots only** and hands back any remainder, so you can safely drop an entire stack on him at once.

===== Gold Panning Orders =====

Right-click Harry Johnson and choose **Talk** to receive a **Gold Panning Order Deed**. The deed is **blessed** and asks for a set quantity of one kind of goods:

^ Goods Requested ^ Quantity ^
| Small Gold Nuggets | 80 to 200 |
| Medium Gold Nuggets | 25 to 60 |
| Large Gold Nuggets | 12 to 40 |
| Gold Bricks | 3 to 8 |

The deed's tooltip shows how many you have gathered so far.

==== Filling an Order ====

  - Double-click the deed and target matching nuggets or bricks **in your own backpack**.
  - Part stacks are fine — the deed takes what it needs and leaves the rest.
  - Goods on the ground or in other containers are **not** accepted.
  - When the order is full, the deed reads **Order Fulfilled**.

==== Turning In an Order ====

Drop a filled deed on Harry and he pays you on the spot:

  * A **Bank Check**, plus **Rough Stones**. The bigger the order, the better the pay.
  * Unfilled deeds are handed straight back.

==== Epic Items ====

With **100.0 base Mining**, every filled order also carries a chance at an **Epic item**, with larger orders more likely to hold one. The **Double Epic Chance** perk doubles that chance, and Harry lets you know when it happens.

Epics come from **handing in orders**, not from sifting.

==== Infinite Use Shovel ====

Every order you turn in also has a small chance of Harry parting with a **blessed Infinite Use Shovel** along with your pay.

==== Order Cooldown ====

  * Harry writes **one order per half hour**.
  * Turn in a filled order and you may take a new one **at once**.
  * Cast one aside unfinished and you wait the full **30 minutes** for another.
  * Your first order is available right away.

===== Perks =====

The **Double Harvest Amounts** perk doubles what you pull from gold panning, alongside mining, lumberjacking and fishing. See [[perks|Perks]].

===== In-Game Guide =====

Type ''[welcome'' to open the in-game guide. Gold Panning is covered under **Gathering**, including the pan, the nugget skill tiers, the extra finds, trading with Harry Johnson and the panning orders.

===== History =====

Gold Panning was introduced in the **09/08/2026** update. See [[shard-updates|Shard Updates]] for the full entry.