Mining
Take a pickaxe into the mine, break rocks for stone, metals, and gems, and learn how the mine works.
Mining means breaking rocks in the mine with a pickaxe to collect stone, metals, and gems. You use them to craft better tools and furniture, and you sell the rest to Kalt at the Farmers Market.
Getting Started
You need a pickaxe first. Kevin gives you a free Scrappy Pickaxe during the story quest The Old Cave. Pickaxes are not sold in any shop. You craft every other pickaxe at a Crafting Bench, and each upgrade uses up the pickaxe one tier below it. See Pickaxes for the full list and recipes.
How It Works
Enter the Mine
Walk to the cave on the east side of town and choose Enter Mine. A supply crate beside the entrance sells the Red Flame.
Mine a Rock
Equip your pickaxe and walk up to a rock. Press Space (X on a gamepad) when the moving marker is in the highlighted zone. Every hit cracks the rock, and a hit in the middle of the zone is stronger.
Break It Before Time Runs Out
Land enough hits to break the rock before the timer ends. A miss lets the rock recover a quarter of its strength. When it breaks, collect what drops.
Find the Ladder
Keep breaking rocks. When the right rock breaks, a ladder to the next floor appears. The game tells you with “A ladder appeared!”
Go Deeper or Head Home
Climb down for richer rocks, or take the elevator on any floor straight back to the surface.
Pickaxes and Rocks
Stronger pickaxes break rocks in fewer hits. Some rocks need a stronger pickaxe before you can mine them at all. If your pickaxe is too weak, the game tells you.
| Rock | Pickaxe needed |
|---|---|
 Stone |
Any pickaxe |
 Copper |
Any pickaxe |
 Iron |
Copper Pickaxe or better |
 Gold |
Iron Pickaxe or better |
 Emerald |
Iron Pickaxe or better |
 Crystal |
Steel Pickaxe or better |
 Sapphire |
Steel Pickaxe or better |
 Ruby |
Steel Pickaxe or better |
Gold and Crystal here are ores from the mine, not money. Rocks on deeper floors can also drop rare cores. See Mines for which rocks and cores appear on each floor.
Floors and Ladders
The mine has thirty floors, and you always start on floor 1.
- The ladder down is hidden until the right rock on that floor breaks, or until every rock on the floor is gone. The right rock can be any rock on the floor, so sometimes the way down needs a stronger pickaxe.
- The exit ladder takes you up one floor. On floor 1, it leads out to the cave entrance.
- Every floor has an elevator that takes you straight back to the surface.
- Everyone on a floor sees the same rocks. If someone is already mining a rock, you have to wait for them to finish.
- Broken rocks grow back in the same spot after about 2m, sometimes as a different kind of rock. The more players on a floor, the faster they return, down to about 30s. If a floor is mined out, the ladder down appears, so you can head down or wait for the rocks to return.
Reshaping
The mine reshapes every 10m. A timer in the corner counts down to the change, and a warning comes first. Then everyone still inside is sent back to the cave entrance. Afterward the rooms, rocks, ladders, and chests are all new.
Darkness and the Red Flame
The deeper you go, the darker the mine gets. Hold a Red Flame to light up more of the area around you. It costs 1,000 gold at the supply crate by the cave entrance or from Maya. Equip it like a tool.
Chests and Treasure Rooms
Old chests sometimes turn up on your way down, more often on deeper floors. Whoever opens a chest first takes what is inside, so it is gone for everyone else on that floor until the mine reshapes.
Floors 10, 20, and 30 are treasure rooms. They have no rocks, and each one always has a chest waiting. Do not confuse mine chests with the Hidden Treasure Chests around town. See Mines for what each treasure room holds.
Tips
- The ladder down can hide under any rock. If it is under a rock your pickaxe cannot break, a better pickaxe or another player can open the way, or you can wait for the next reshape.
- Craft your next pickaxe from the stone, metals, gems, and cores you bring back.
- Sell extra ore to Kalt, but keep what your next recipe needs.