PROFESSION GUIDE · 1 TO 300
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MINING · PRIMARY (GATHERING)

1-300 skill tiers, trainer recipes, difficulty thresholds, and camping items.

Client data read on 2026-10-29 · client build 1.60.1.70685 · Published 2026-10-23

Overview & Skill Tiers

In World of Warcraft: Forever, the camping system expands the Cooking fire into a Basic Campfire where nearby adventurers can rest and gain benefits from profession camp features.

Once a profession reaches skill level 20, players acquire initial campsite items through starter quests or trainers, while items requiring skill 140 drop in dungeons.

APPRENTICE Skill 1–75 Requires Level 5
JOURNEYMAN Skill 75–150 Requires Level 10
EXPERT Skill 150–225 Requires Level 20
ARTISAN Skill 225–300 Requires Level 35

Camping System Features (Mining)

Camping Equipment Required Skill Function
Lodestone Skill 20 Mineral lodestone used to ground and stabilize expedition camps.

Resource Nodes & Skill Thresholds

Resource Node Min Skill (Orange) Yellow Green Grey Primary Zones
Copper Vein 1 25 50 100 Starting zones, Durotar, Dun Morogh, Elwynn Forest, Teldrassil, Tirisfal Glades, Mulgore
Tin Vein 65 90 115 165 The Barrens, Westfall, Loch Modan, Silverpine Forest, Redridge Mountains, Ashenvale
Silver Vein 75 100 125 175 The Barrens, Westfall, Loch Modan, Silverpine Forest, Redridge Mountains, Hillsbrad
Iron Deposit 125 150 175 225 Arathi Highlands, Thousand Needles, Hillsbrad Foothills, Desolace, Badlands
Gold Vein 155 180 205 255 Arathi Highlands, Badlands, Thousand Needles, Hillsbrad Foothills, Stranglethorn Vale
Mithril Deposit 175 200 225 275 Badlands, Tanaris, Searing Gorge, The Hinterlands, Stranglethorn Vale, Feralas
Truesilver Deposit 230 255 280 330 Badlands, Tanaris, Searing Gorge, The Hinterlands, Winterspring, Burning Steppes
Dark Iron Deposit 230 255 280 330 Searing Gorge, Burning Steppes, Blackrock Depths
Small Thorium Vein 245 270 295 345 Un'Goro Crater, Felwood, Burning Steppes, Winterspring, Eastern Plaguelands, Silithus
Rich Thorium Vein 275 300 325 375 Winterspring, Silithus, Eastern Plaguelands, Burning Steppes, Western Plaguelands

Trainer Recipes Directory (33 Recipes)

Trainer skill requirements are server data not stored in the game client files.

Recipe / Product Stops Orange Turns Grey Reagents Required
Find Minerals — —
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Smelting — —
None
Mining 1 1
None
Lodestone 20 25
1x Rough Stone1x Copper Bar
Copper Bar 25 70
1x Copper Ore
Tin Bar 50 75
1x Tin Ore
Bronze Bar 65 115
1x Copper Bar1x Tin Bar
Mining 100 125
None
Silver Bar 100 125
1x Silver Ore
Mining 125 150
None
Iron Bar 130 140
1x Iron Ore
Rock Garden 140 145
2x Heavy Stone1x Iron Ore1x Silver Bar
Mining 150 175
None
Steel Bar 165 165
1x Iron Bar1x Coal
Gold Bar 170 185
1x Gold Ore
Mithril Bar 175 175
1x Mithril Ore
Dark Iron Bar 230 230
8x Dark Iron Ore
Truesilver Bar 230 230
1x Truesilver Ore
Thorium Bar 250 250
1x Thorium Ore
Azerothium Bar 275 275
2x Pitchblende1x Coal
Molten Foundry 300 300
5x Thorium Bar2x Dense Stone1x Truesilver Bar
Heavy Thorium Bar 300 315
1x Heavy Thorium Ore
Elementium Bar 310 320
1x Elementium Ore10x Arcanite Bar1x Fiery Core3x Elemental Flux
Item 234003 315 330
2x Enchanted Thorium Bar2x Large Obsidian Shard

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