Gold panning

to get the gold out of your mats you have 2 options the wave table, or a basin and pan, at the start the wave table is out of the question, it is way too expensive to buy with the $450 you start with.

at the start of the game in the tent there is 2 buckets, a basin, and a gold pan. to pan for gold you need a bucket, a basin, and a gold pan. first you fill up the basin with water. next you fill up the bucket with water, then you take one or 2 of the mats and wash them in the same bucket, after that you put the pan on a flat surface and pour out the concentrate in the bucket, then you press [e] on the basin to go into panning mode, finally you use [right click] and [left click] to move the pan up and down, [a] and [d] to rotate the pan left and right, [w] and [s] to rotate the pan forward and backwards, and move the mouse to move the pan left, right, forward and backwards, and [left shift] to switch between picking and panning mode. you have to move it down to fill it with water then up to bring it above the surface, then carefully shake it around then carefully rotate it to dump the water but not the gold, then repeat this a few times until you have all the gold revealed, 1 or 2 times is almost always enough, then pick the nuggets out, then dump whatever is left.

now for the wave table, it is a lot simpler to use, for hog pan mats (and i think full sized mats) you just wash 1 or 2 in a bucket of water then dump the bucket in the wave table, now for the mobile wash plant you take the bucket of concentrate and dump it in the wave table.