Where to Farm Tin Ore

The best place to farm Tin Ore is Westfall, where Defias Worker (level 16-17) drops it at 5.1%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 682 sources are ranked below by drop chance.

Best zones:

The 15 zones with the best source; every source is listed below.

Zone	Sources	Best source	Level	Drop%
Ashenvale	42	Tin Vein		100.0%
The Barrens	74	Tin Vein		100.0%
Hillsbrad Foothills	31	Tin Vein		100.0%
Redridge Mountains	41	Tin Vein		100.0%
The Deadmines	12	Defias Squallshaper	19-20+	99.3%
Silverpine Forest	27	Sickly Refugee	19-20	99.3%
Scarlet Monastery	21	Armor Crate		33.3%
Wailing Caverns	11	Large Battered Chest		8.3%
Westfall	38	Malformed Defias Drone	23	6.3%
Gnomeregan	13	Large Iron Bound Chest		5.6%
Razorfen Downs	9	Large Iron Bound Chest		5.6%
Duskwood	34	Solid Chest		5.3%
The Stockade	8	Large Iron Bound Chest		4.2%
Darkshore	26	Battered Chest		3.8%
Wetlands	36	Solid Chest		3.8%

All sources, by drop chance:

Vanilla reference — from the 1.12 world data, not yet confirmed in Forever.

Source	Level	Zone	Spawns	Side	How	Drop%	Map
Tin Vein		Ashenvale	941		Mining	100.0%	map
Tin Vein		The Barrens	60		Mining	100.0%	map
Tin Vein		Hillsbrad Foothills	28		Mining	100.0%	map
Tin Vein		Redridge Mountains	12		Mining	100.0%	map
Defias Squallshaper(elite)	19-20+	The Deadmines	15		Drop	99.3%	map
Sickly Refugee	19-20	Silverpine Forest	13	Horde only	Drop	99.3%	map
Armor Crate		The Barrens	21		Contains	33.3%	map
Armor Crate		Scarlet Monastery	6		Contains	33.3%	map
Foreman Silixiz	22	The Barrens	1		Drop	15.0%	map
Armor Crate		The Barrens	28		Contains	14.3%	map
Large Battered Chest		Wailing Caverns	18		Contains	8.3%	map
Malformed Defias Drone	23	Westfall	1		Drop	6.3%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		Gnomeregan	10		Contains	5.6%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		Razorfen Downs	10		Contains	5.6%	map
Large Solid Chest		Gnomeregan	10		Contains	5.6%	map
Large Solid Chest		Razorfen Downs	10		Contains	5.6%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		Scarlet Monastery	8		Contains	5.6%	map
Large Solid Chest		Scarlet Monastery	8		Contains	5.6%	map
Solid Chest		Duskwood	78		Contains	5.3%	map
Alliance Chest		Hillsbrad Foothills	7		Contains	5.3%	map
Defias Worker	16-17	Westfall	28		Drop	5.1%	map
Defias Digger	15-16	Westfall	40		Drop	4.9%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		The Stockade	19		Contains	4.2%	map
Large Solid Chest		The Stockade	19		Contains	4.2%	map
Battered Chest		Westfall	120		Contains	4.0%	map
Battered Chest		Darkshore	109		Contains	3.8%	map
Solid Chest		Wetlands	109		Contains	3.8%	map
Alliance Chest		Hillsbrad Foothills	19		Contains	3.8%	map
Alliance Chest		Silverpine Forest	16		Contains	3.8%	map
Alliance Strongbox		The Barrens	4		Contains	3.8%	map
Gibblesnik(rare)	28	Thousand Needles	1		Drop	3.7%	map
Solid Chest		Alterac Mountains	64		Contains	3.3%	map
Alliance Chest		Alterac Mountains	12		Contains	3.3%	map
Alliance Strongbox		Alterac Mountains	8		Contains	3.3%	map
Horde Chest		Arathi Highlands	4		Contains	3.3%	map
Digger Flameforge(rare)	24	The Barrens	1	Horde only	Drop	3.2%	map
Nefaru(rare)	34	Duskwood	2		Drop	3.2%	map
Kobold Digger	12-13	Westfall	7		Drop	2.8%	map
Gravelsnout Surveyor	29-30	Thousand Needles	5		Drop	2.7%	map
Compact Harvest Reaper	40-41	Stranglethorn Vale	1		Drop	2.4%	map
Naraxis(rare)	27	Duskwood	1		Drop	2.4%	map
Undead Excavator(elite)	17-18+	Westfall	23		Drop	2.2%	map
Miner Hackett	29	Hillsbrad Foothills	1	Horde only	Drop	2.1%	map
Leech Widow(rare)	24	Wetlands	2		Drop	1.9%	map
Riverpaw Miner	14-15	Westfall	8		Drop	1.9%	map
Master Digger(rare)	15	Westfall	1		Drop	1.8%	map
Boulderheart(rare)	25	Redridge Mountains	1		Drop	1.8%	map
Defias Miner	17-18	The Deadmines	47		Drop	1.7%	map
Defias Strip Miner	18-19	The Deadmines	27		Drop	1.7%	map
Hillsbrad Miner	26-27	Hillsbrad Foothills	37	Horde only	Drop	1.7%	map
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Needed for:

Recipes:

Recipe	Profession	Needs
Smelt Tin	Mining	1x

Drop% is the rate recorded in Forever once a source has been looted ten times; a greyed figure is the vanilla 1.12 chance from the world data (vanilla reference — from the 1.12 world data, not yet confirmed in forever). Spawns counts the source's spawn points in the world data. "Side" names which side can kill the NPC when the other finds it friendly. The lead picks the best chance among sources that are not a rare spawn and have at least three spawn points.