Hey, can I get your discord? I have a question about your game

8 days after a few attempts!

strategy was to get 3 guys then max out energy and put a few upgrades in strength (3-4), get more guys and drink a lot of coffeeee :D

8 days! Super fun game. I think a 7-day is possible, but it would require a lot of luck on early days (especially day 1, need two miners days 1).

Strategy:

• Re-roll until the first three days are +worker, +worker, +energy.
• Priority is upgrades, but rock is limiting early on. Don't save resources if you can buy a useful upgrade or another worker.
• +speed upgrade is useless for trying to minimize days.
• Coffee is very powerful. Coffee is probably worth it if you can get to copper and more than pays for itself if you can get to silver. ALSO: coffee can be bought and used at the end of a round - never buy coffee in advance.
• Because deeper metals are so much more expensive than earlier metals, all that matters is getting to deeper levels. Therefore, chance for 2x resources and more minerals spawned is not worth it (more minerals actually slows down progress). Clover can be worth it if you have extra cash lying around.
• Day 5: silver
• Day 6: gold
• Day 7: platinum -> max workers and get as much energy + strength as possible.
• Day 8: I got to the emerald cave without even using coffee that day (barely).

Fun little game to figure out.

12 days first try. 9 days second try

Once each worker digs up about 100$, start buying coffee (around once you hit copper)

AFTER buying upgrades at the end of the day, buy as many coffees as you have workers to get an extra "day".

More resource spawns can sidetrack your miners. Also rock and iron end up being the limiting resource for more dig power.

I'm wondering if it is possible to finish in day 8. The max gold I got on day 1 is 76.

Maybe day 1 80 gold is possible with:

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10 days first try! I think I got pretty lucky with the iron spawns on the first day haha

my only miner who reached the emerald depth was digging on the furthest right tile and ended up falling through the world forever

Excellent game! The use of one-way-exchange in a duel currency system, the nostalgic well timed SFX, the understandable and pretty competent behavior AI for your little dudes, it all adds up to a well polished and enjoyable experience. Thank you Wired Pixels for making this!

Nice!

Really cool short game! I finished in 9 days!

Good

is 12 days any good?

15 days! but I didn't use the coffee til day 7 or 8 cause I didn't know what it was for. The little question mark tool tips didn't do anything when I clicked on them. Not sure if they were meant to show a description or hint. On Mac and Firefox if that makes a difference. 

Short and sweet!
Did it in 13 days first try, there's still optimization out there. Plenty of times I missed the early upgrades by a few resources.
And the big cheese of buying the coffee after initially running the day, buying upgrades and then using it.
For those playing after me, coffee stacks (it will affect multiple miners if you got multiple) and the clover is just 1 per day.
The moment coffee starts paying for itself is when it starts snowballing hard.

Fire, I love idle games.

Great game. Short but really enjoyed it. Is what s... 20 days to the emerald cave. Couldn't have done it without coffee which is pretty realistic.