The Metal Detector is a structure available from the start of the mine and is useful for finding treasure chests in your mine with its blinking light. You can buy and upgrade it from the Craft Center. The structure will later be upgraded with the Chest Collector (at 100km) and Chest Compressor (at 700km, see milestones). It can also be used to help locate the Orange Fish mineral deposit.
Levels[]
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1 | 1 Building Material, 5,000 Coltan | Helps find chests within the mine. Blinks when a chest is detected |
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2 | 4 Building Material, 20,000 Painite, 1,000 Black Opal | Displays chest locations on scrollbar. |
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3 | 20 Building Material, 10,000 Red Diamond | Displays chests and gold chest locations on scrollbar. |
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4 | 100 Building Material, 100,000 Californium, 100 Polonium-2 | Pressing spacebar will jump to the top most chest, mineral deposit/orange fish, and any monsters in your mine with a press of the spacebar (for PC). Gives option to jump to the next chest on mobile (with chest animation skip disabled). |
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5 | 500 Building Material, 1,000,000 Titanium, 10 Einsteinium-1 | Clicking anywhere on a level will open any chest on that level, unless a cave or mineral deposit is on the same level. Displays location of Orange Fish deposit with an orange line. |
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6 | 8,000 Building Material, 10,000,000 Lithium, 1,000,000 Hydrogen-1 | Natural chest spawns can be sent to the chest collector. Chests that spawn from the raining chests buff don't count as natural spawns, so are unaffected. |
Historical notes[]
In older version: Metal Detector has a 3% chance to be obtained from Golden Chest if you are between levels 1-250 and a 6% chance above level 250. It has a 1% chance of spawning from a normal treasure chest once you have reached level 250.