How do you get the number of mining nodes on the minimap?

[Tastyfrog]

I'm kinda new at lua, and im not sure how to find out how many nodes there are.

[Duugu]

You can't query this.

[Tastyfrog]

ok... how does gatherer recognize them..

[Miralen]

gatherer uses a data base that was built and merely places icons of where you can expect to find ore/herbs/treasure chests (been awhile since ive used it not sure if it still does treasure) thus allowing you to make a route and sometimes the ore is there and other times it's not.

[Shirik]

Not exactly true.

Gatherer monitors the game, watching where you've mined before, and then marks them as expected points in the future. It is possible to load a database of known items ahead of time, as well, but this is not required. How gatherer tracks this is beyond my knowledge just because I've never actually looked at the code, however I would guess that it watches for the "Mining" spell cast start event and then records the player's current location.

[Seerah]

so... what is "not exactly true" in response to?...