Excavation

"Excavation is the act of digging up dirt to find treasures. By excavating the land you will find treasures. The more you do this the more treasures you can find."

XP Gain

To gain XP in this skill you must dig with a shovel in hand. Only certain materials can be dug up for treasures and XP.

Info

To look up stats in game type the following command in chat

/excavation

To bring up in game help type the following command in chat

/excavation ? [0-9]

Compatible Materials

Grass, Dirt, Sand, Red Sand, Clay, Gravel, Mycelium, Soul Sand, soul Soil, Snow

Giga Drill Breaker

Active skill, unlocked at Excavation level 10. Giga Drill Breaker is an ability with a cooldown tied to Excavation skill. It triples your chance of finding treasures and enables instant break on Excavation materials.

Usage

With a shovel in hand right click to ready your tool. Once in this state you have about 4 seconds to make contact with Excavation Compatible Materials this will activate Giga Drill Breaker. If a compatible block is not broken in this time, your tool will lower, and must be right-clicked again in order to reactivate this ability. Lowering the tool without breaking a compatible block does not trigger a cooldown period.

Archaeology

A passive skill, unlocked at level 15. Once unlocked, you may earn treasures as you excavate Compatible Materials, as well as earn Experience Orbs.

Run the command "/excavation" to see your current Archaeology Rank and Experience Orb chances.

Quote from the in-game help:

Every possible treasure for Excavation has its own skill level requirement for it to drop, as a result it's difficult to say how much it is helping you. Just keep in mind that the higher your Excavation skill is, the more treasures that can be found. And also keep in mind that each type of Excavation compatible material has its own unique list of treasures. In other words you will find different treasures in Dirt than you would in Gravel. Notes about Excavation:
Excavation drops are completely customizable so results vary server to server.

Archaeology Rank	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3	Rank 4	TBA
Required Excavation Level	Level 15	Level 25	Level 35	Level 50	TBA

Archaeology Drops

This section is an anecdotal list of drops you get from the following materials (no full list has been found):

	Level 5	Level 10	Level 15	Level 25	Level 35	Level 50	Level 65	Level 75	Level 85	Level 100
Grass Dirt Podzol	Glowstone Dust			Name Tag Discs (Cat/13)	Diamond Cocoa Beans	Sniffer Egg Mushrooms Pottery Sherds (Archer, Mourner, Danger, Sheaf, Flow, Guster)			Quartz
Sand Red Sand	Glowstone Dust			Name Tag Discs (Cat/13)	Diamond	Sniffer Egg Pottery Sherds (Shelter, Burn, Snort, Angler, Explorer, Heart, Heartbreak, Friend, Danger)	Soul Sand		Quartz	Gold Nugget
Gravel	Bone			Amethyst Shard Copper Ingot	Diamond	Gunpowder Pottery Sherds (Miner, Prize, Blade, Plenty)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Clay			Slime Ball	Name Tag Discs (Cat/13) Blaze Powder String	Diamond	Sniffer Egg Bucket Pottery Sherds (Miner, Howl)		Cobweb	Quartz
Mud	Glowstone Dust	Iron Ingot Copper Ingot		Name Tag	Diamond Cocoa Beans	Mushrooms			Quartz
Soul Sand				Blaze Powder		Pottery Sherds (Skull, Brewer)