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Genshin Impact

Best Characters For Mining

By
Jessica Dillon

If you have ever played Genshin Impact, then you know just how important it is to collect materials. Farming routes are always a popular topic, especially when it comes to ore. You need ore in order to do things like forge regional weapons and make furniture items for your Serenitea Pot. The only problem is that ore can be one of the most annoying items to farm in the game if you don’t have the fight team. Below we go over the best characters to use for ore mining in Genshin Impact and some easy tips for collecting the resource without having to slowly chip away at its health bar.

Diluc waiting outside his home, the Dawn Winery.

How to Mine Ore Easily in Genshin Impact

Ore generally is found in multiples, but they can be far enough apart that hitting them all at once is not possible. This is why using a **claymore-user **and their charge attack is the quickest way to sweep a large area of ore. Even if you’re trying to only get a single piece, you will find that using any other weapon type can take quite some time. While Iron Ore breaks pretty quickly, trying to farm Crystal can be a lengthy process. Below is every rock you can harvest in the game, where you can find it, and how hard it is to break

Ore Type Location Farming Ease
Iron Ore All Regions Breaks Easily
White Iron Ore All Regions Breaks Easily
Crystal Chunk All Regions Breaks Slowly
Magical Crystal Chunk All Regions Breaks Slowly
Starsilver Dragonspine, Mondstadt Breaks Slowly
Cor Lapis Liyue Breaks Slowly
Noctilucous Jade Liyue Breaks Slowly
Amethyst Lump Inazuma Breaks Slowly

Ore will respawn every 48 hours, and there is a huge surplus of resources in the game. This doesn’t count as much for the minerals that are located in specific regions.

Best Characters for Mining in Genshin Impact

The best way to mine is to place Ningguang in your party, as she will help you locate mining resources.

Character How to Mine
Zhongli Hold his elemental skill to instantly mine ore clusters.
Diluc Claymore-user, use his charged attack for quick cluster harvest.
Sayu Claymore-user, use her charged attack for quick cluster harvest. Needs four hits per ore and is the slowest claymore user.
Klee Deals explosion damage.
Chongyun Claymore-user, use his charged attack for quick cluster harvest.
Eula Claymore-user, use her charged attack for quick cluster harvest.
Razor Claymore-user, use his charged attack for quick cluster harvest.
Noelle Claymore-user, use her charged attack for quick cluster harvest. Her elemental skill is also great at sweeping up ore.
Dori Claymore-user, use her charged attack for quick cluster harvest.
Beidou Claymore-user. Needs four hits per ore, and is the slowest claymore user.
Xinyan Claymore-user, use her charged attack for quick cluster harvest.
Arataki Itto Claymore-user, use his charged attack for quick cluster harvest. Needs four hits per ore and is the slowest claymore user, this can be sped up with Ushi.
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Guide Information
  • Publisher
    miHoYo
  • Platforms,
    Android, iOS, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch
  • Genre
    Action RPG, Adventure
  • Guide Release
    31 October 2020
  • Last Updated
    31 July 2023
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