Digging and blasting

You dig with bare hands. There is no shovel and no pickaxe: earth is dug away, rock and gold are blasted.

The digger tunnels diagonally downwards at 0.5 pixels per tick, like the original.

Digging

1. Start: press E. The digger digs diagonally downwards in the facing direction.
2. Change direction: left and right turn the digging direction in 45° steps: diagonally down, horizontal, diagonally up, straight down. S stops.
3. Automatic: if there is nothing to dig in the diagonal direction, he continues horizontally. If he hits something that cannot be dug, he stops.
4. The tunnel is about 22 pixels high, smooth and round. Underground it leaves dark tunnel background, at the surface it becomes sky.

What can be dug?

Material	dig	blast	gives
Earth	yes	yes	earth chunks (only in chunk mode)
Sand	yes	yes	trickles down
Coal	yes	yes	coal, automatically every 300 px
Sulphur	yes	yes	sulphur, automatically every 200 px
Ashes, ice, snow	yes	yes
Rock	no	yes	stones
Gold	no	yes	gold nuggets
Ore	no	yes	ore
Crystal	no	yes	crystal
Granite	no	no	indestructible, explosions turn it into rock

Chunk mode

Press E again while digging and earth chunks drop out (every 200 px). From Private, chunk mode can stay on permanently.

Blasting

An explosion in a gold vein: the earth flies, the gold stays behind as nuggets.

Buy flints at the base or make them in the chemical lab. Throw with Q, light with E E.

Explosive	Value	Strength	Notes
Flint	5	18	explodes on impact
T-flint	4	20	timer, 60 ticks after lighting
Super flint	10	30
Tera flint	30	40	from Ensign (Blaster)

An explosion removes all blastable material in its radius. Gold, rock, ore and crystal turn into objects you can collect. Granite becomes rock.

Caution

Flints also hit your diggers and buildings. Damage comes from hits, explosions, fire, acid and suffocation, but not from falling.

Getting the gold up

A digger carries a single nugget. The lorry does more: it holds 50 objects, is grabbed (S S) and pushed, and rides the elevator. At the home base gold sells automatically.