Eight focused guides, one player question each: pick the page that matches your current blocker instead of reading a generic walkthrough.
Use this hub as a task chooser that states exactly which focused guide solves your current question — beginner first run, Skill Tree, cash, buried chests, the eagle, pickaxes, drones versus turrets, or leaderboards.
A mountain is blocking your sun rays, and flattening it is the whole game. You mine block-built layers for Cash, spend Cash in the Skill Tree on three upgrade tracks — Player (swing damage, speed, reach, Auto Mine), Drones (automated miners that work while you move), and Turrets (orbiting beams) — and progress up and inward through the mountain's layers, which one September 2026 guide put at 89 layers and 534 meters of height. Buried chests hide Gems (50 per chest in dated records) that buy permanent pickaxes in the lobby store, from the Stone Pick up to the 396-Gem Storm Hammer; an eagle periodically strafes the work site behind a red warning strip; and completing the mountain reportedly pays 400–500 Gems. Since September 25, 2026 there is a second map — the Moon, opened by what the developer called the biggest update since launch, with a new enemy and a faster Mountain. Every guide below carries its checked date (2026-10-20 for this hub) and keeps reported numbers labeled as reported.
Each summary says what the page answers and which documented facts it leans on — no guide asks you to trust an unranked guess.
Mine, measure, compare one change, then choose the next task.
The first-hour route in order: mine your first blocks by hand, take the $1 Damage I upgrade the moment it is affordable, buy Drone I at $5 to automate while you move, then measure a blocks-per-minute sample before deciding anything else. Ends with the two awareness checks every new player needs — chests are interior finds, and the eagle's red warning strip means leave, not hide.
Choose a speed or cash goal and test one change against a baseline.
How to test one upgrade against a measured baseline instead of trusting a guessed tier order. The three tracks (Player, Drones, Turrets) are documented with dated snapshot costs — Damage I $1, Drone I $5, Turret I ~$23, Auto Mine ~$200 — and the page walks a before/after comparison you can repeat after any patch.
Measure cash per minute and decide when to repeat or move on.
Cash is the in-run currency that buys every Skill Tree upgrade, so the guide teaches a clean cash-per-minute measurement: fixed interval, same route, before and after exactly one change. Includes the payback test — an upgrade is worth testing when its cost divided by your measured gain per minute is short enough to recover in a session.
Track what is reported about pickaxes and compare a change cleanly.
The lobby Pickaxe Store spends Gems (or Robux) on permanent tools. The documented September 1 roster runs from Stone Pick to Storm Hammer (396 Gems, with a 5% chance to outright destroy a struck block), and the guide's comparison method keeps prices, procs, and time claims separable instead of treating one screenshot as a spec sheet.
Compare reported worker roles without treating unknown stats as ranks.
Drones mine while you move; turrets orbit the mountain and beam blocks from range. Drone I was the cheapest automation in the documented economy ($5 versus ~$23 for Turret I), but sources disagree on which line wins at scale — so the page ranks roles and measured results, not rumors, and flags the eagle-defense dispute explicitly.
Check global-ranking claims and record your own dated observation.
Separates what leaderboards can prove from transient server activity, and shows how to record your own dated observation. Useful before chasing a rank with a pre-Moon-setup run: the September 25 update changed mountain speed, which changes every pace-based record.
Record a chest encounter while keeping unknown locations and rewards explicit.
Chests sit inside the mountain's internal layers and surface as you mine. Dated records put a chest at 50 Gems; the documented search method is to clear layers cleanly and scan newly exposed interior faces, using the F-key prompt on PC. Spawn tables, timers, and ownership rules stay honest about what no source publishes.
Record cues and outcomes without claiming an unconfirmed timing pattern.
The hazard guide: the "EAGLE INCOMING!" alert, the red flight-path strip, contact damage, and the only supported counterplay — move fully outside the warning zone and let drones or turrets keep mining. No verified timing pattern, damage value, or turret counter exists, and the page explains how to record your own encounter instead.
Guides decide; these pages verify the ground they stand on.
The Moon update (September 25, 2026) touched mountain speed and added a map and enemy — any guide number captured before that date is labeled as a pre-update snapshot, and pace-dependent advice deserves a fresh measurement first.
