Click a shovel and see what comes up. Sell the haul, buy another shovel, dig a little deeper. Dirt near the top, relics a long way down.

Dig, sell, dig again

Every shovel you own is one more click waiting to happen. Dirt and gravel near the surface, then iron, silver, gold, gems and the occasional relic as the pit drops through one layer into the next. Everything you pull up is sold on the spot, and every coin goes straight back into the ground.

Put a crew on it

Soon you own more shovels than you can swing, so you hire helpers who walk over and swing them for you. A prospector stakes out ore signs on the ground, from a faint trace to a full motherlode, and shovels working a marked pit have much better odds of turning up something rare. A motivational speaker fires the crew up: quicker on their feet, back to work sooner, and shovels that start digging on their own.

Spend all of it

The supply shop is where the gold goes: sharper edges, springier handles, better drilled helpers, deeper cuts. Every upgrade makes the next dig pay a little more, which pays for the upgrade after that.

Grow a skill tree

Digging levels you up, and levels pay out skill points. The tree spreads across three branches: Fortune for what the ground is worth, Industry for how fast the crew works, Craft for how far down you get. Minor nodes nudge, major nodes matter, and every branch ends in a keystone worth saving up for. There are never quite enough points for all of it, so lean into the branch that suits the way you dig.

How deep can you get?

There is no bottom, only better ground. The last thing the game asks of you is to dig as deep as you can.