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Getting started

Undermine Squad runs right in your browser at undermine-squad.com/spielen. No account, nothing to install. It plays best on a computer with keyboard and mouse.

Start of “The Basics”: a digger on a meadow with trees
“The Basics”: one digger, some wood and a meadow full of trees.

Your first round

Section titled “Your first round”
Main menu: title and description of the selected scenario with the golden Play button on the left, five scenario cards at the bottom, navigation, install button and language switch at the top
The main menu: pick a scenario, press Play.

  1. Open the game. The main menu lists the scenarios on the left and the start, goal and rules of the selected one on the right.

  2. Pick “The Basics”. The tutorial walks you through everything in ten lessons: walk, jump, dig, chop trees, build a hut, raise the flag, elevator, windmill, sell gold.

  3. Controls. You play with WASD or the arrow keys, E digs, Q throws. If you know Clonk from back then, switch to the original layout in the settings.

  4. Go. Walk a bit, jump, and dig into the earth with E. Top right shows crew, material and money.

What you see on screen

Section titled “What you see on screen”
A round in Goldmine: crest and energy top left, scenario and time top centre, crew, wood, money, menu, wind and goal top right, the action bar at the bottom
A round in Goldmine with every display.
Area Content
Top left crest, name, rank and energy of the selected digger, plus the crew bar
Top right crew (e.g. 1/1), most important material and money
Goal display progress of the goal, e.g. “Gold: 23 of 40 sold”
Playfield the world in pixel art; a small arrow marks the selected digger

Saving and continuing

Section titled “Saving and continuing”
  • Automatic: The running round is saved every 3 minutes and when you leave it (Pause → Main menu, closing the tab). In the main menu, Continue picks up the latest save. When you win, lose or end the round, its autosave is discarded.
  • Three slots of your own: In the pause menu Esc → Save pick slot 1 to 3. An occupied slot needs a second click to overwrite.
  • Saves: This tab in the main menu lists all slots with preview, play time and date. Load or delete them there.
  • Loading restores the round exactly as it was: landscape, buildings, diggers mid-action, base material, power, fire, enemies and goals.
Pause menu with play time, goal and the buttons Resume, Save, Settings, Report a problem, End round and Main menu
The pause menu (Esc): save, settings and report a problem.

What next?

Section titled “What next?”

Undermine Squad 0.1 · „Clonk“ is a registered trademark of Matthes Bender. Undermine Squad is an independent game.