Super Miners

Super Miners were added 24th of October 2022, as the main feature of version 0.40. Their building is located at depth 10, and so they are one of the first milestones.

Super Miners come from Ethereal (also called "Black") chests, in Common (35%), Uncommon (16.5%), Rare (7.5%) and Legendary (1%) rarities.

Ethereal chests can spawn (1/790 chance), be compressed from gold chests, or purchased in the shop with tickets (30 tickets each, this is seen by the community as a waste of tickets and definitely NOT recommended).

Each super miner can be leveled up with Super Miner Souls increasing their abilities. You can gain souls from scrapping super miners, from Ethereal chests and from scientists excavations.

Actions

Super Miners wander around your mines and perform many actions for you.

• Mining (mineral) - Increases miner speed at its depth by a %
• Mining (isotope) - Increases the number of isotopes mined on its depth by a %
• Buff - Every X minerals it mines it grants a buff.
• Drilling - Jumps on your drill and increases the mining speed by a %
• Seller - Automatically sells x amount of the selected mineral every second.
• Egg - Passively gains experience and levels up for free, increasing its scrap amount, (gaining you more super miner souls). Limited to a maximum of 4 eggs at the same time.
• Chest - Increases chest spawns on its current depth and 2 depths above and below.
• Deposit - Increases mineral deposit spawn chance by X and cap by Y.
• Booster - Increases the effect of the super miners it bumps into.
• Reward - grants a random reward every X minerals.

Costs

Slots

You can have several Super Miners at once. The first two slots are free, but you need to buy extra slots with Super Miner Souls. There is currently no limit to the number of Super Miners you may have at once. You can have more than one of the same type, just the same that you can have two copies of the same scientists.

If you get a new Super Miner, but you don't have an empty slot, the game will give you the chance to "make room", either by buying another slot or by scrapping an existing Super Miner. You can also scrap the new one, if needed. But that means that, at least at the beginning, saving enough Souls for an extra slot, if needed, is a prudent move.

here is the formula for the cost of each slot

round(((slot-1)^1.5)*log10(slot-1)*7)*5

the round function is "round to nearest integer"

(*though this table stops at 41, there is no limit for the amount of slots you can have, the only limiting factor is getting the miner souls)

Slot #	Cost	Slot #	Cost	Slot #	Cost
3	30	16	2390	29	7505
4	85	17	2695	30	7995
5	170	18	3020	31	8495
6	275	19	3355	32	9010
7	400	20	3705	33	9535
8	550	21	4075	34	10075
9	715	22	4455	35	10625
10	900	23	4850	36	11190
11	1105	24	5255	37	11765
12	1330	25	5680	38	12355
13	1570	26	6115	39	12950
14	1825	27	6565	40	13565
15	2100	28	7030	41	14185

Scrap

Super Miners can be scrapped for super miner souls. This depends on the miner's rarity. Upgrading a miner, just to scrap it, is not worth it (the cost of upgrade is always higher than the increase of scraps). It seems that at launch this was not the case, but was later patched.

Eggs scrap results are subject to a 40% bonus.

Scrap results (all but eggs)

Level	Common	Uncommon	Rare	Legendary
1	30	33	37	41
2	100	112	126	140
3	215	241	271	301
4	377	424	476	527
5	589	663	744	824
6	854	960	1078	1194
7	1172	1317	1479	1638
8	1545	1736	1951	2160
9	1975	2220	2493	2761
10	2463	2768	3109	3443

Scrap results (Eggs)

Level	Common	Uncommon	Rare	Legendary
1	42	47	53	58
2	140	158	177	196
3	301	337	380	421
4	527	594	667	739
5	825	928	1041	1154
6	1195	1344	1509	1671
7	1641	1844	2071	2294
8	2163	2431	2731	3024
9	2765	3108	3490	3865
10	3448	3875	4353	4820

Level up

Super miners have levels. All of them can reach a maximum of level 10, except Diana who has a max level of 5. Upgrade costs do not depend on rarity.

Level	Upgrade	Accumulated
2	135	135
3	220	355
4	315	670
5	410	1080
6	510	1590
7	610	2200
8	720	2920
9	825	3745
10	940	4685

Eggs

For the Egg Super Miners, who get experience for free, their requisites to level up are lowered the more experience they have (e.g. the Rare Egg, at half the way to lv2, costs only 67 souls). The current leveling up rate seems to be around 1 to 2 souls per hour, including timelapses, although this has been changed/hotfixed at least once since launch.

However, when scrapped, they don't give more scraps for being "almost up a level". Thus, when opening Ethereal chests (with the chance of getting a better Super Miner, requiring you to scrap one of the existing ones), it's possible that it's worth paying the cost to upgrade the egg before, if it's low enough, in case you need to scrap it. This is a modified version of the "scrap" table shown above, showing the increase in souls gained by scrapping. Thus, when your eggs are below this amount to next level, and you're going to open Ethereal chests, it's profitable to level them up beforehand. You cannot level them after you open the Ethereal Chest.

The Legendary egg gives more Souls on scrapping than you put on leveling it, even if you straight up level it to max. It's not much, however (a total gain of 77 souls).

Souls to level	Common	Uncommon	Rare	Legendary
2	98	111	124	138
3	161	180	203	225
4	227	256	287	318
5	297	334	375	415
6	370	416	467	517
7	446	500	562	623
8	522	587	660	730
9	602	677	760	842
10	683	767	862	954

Super Miners and abilities

Autosellers

These miners automatically sell an amount of a mineral of your choice every second. Generally they are not very desirable.

Name	Icon	Rarity	Ability
Master Mined		Legendary	Automatically sells 25-250 of the selected mineral every second and auto sells any mineral that significantly breaks capacity (25,50,75,100,125,150,175,200,225,250)
Tyler		Uncommon	Automatically sells 13-133 minerals every second (13,26,39,53,66,79,93,106,119,133)
Rocket Pockets		Rare	Automatically sells 18-180 minerals every second (18,36,54,72,90,108,126,144,162,180)
Taylor		Uncommon	Automatically sells 13-133 minerals every second (13,26,39,53,66,79,93,106,119,133)
Anonymous		Common	Automatically sells 10-100 minerals every second (10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100)
Gustavo		Common	Automatically sells 10-100 minerals every second (10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100)

Special

These Super Miners have special, user-activated, powers. Skill Super Miners can be Shift clicked in the super miner UI to cast their skill.

Name	Icon	Rarity	Ability
Diana		Rare	Every 50k-60k minerals mined by Diana grants a 500%-700% Miner Speed Potion buff for 1m Moves depths every 6 mins Minerals per Level:[50000, 52500, 55000, 57500, 60000] Buff per Level:[500, 550, 600, 650, 700]
Thoth the Wise		Legendary	Every 75k-150k minerals mined by Thoth the Wise grants a 15-150% Relic Effectiveness buff for 5m Moves depths every 6 mins Minerals per Level:[75000, 82500, 90000, 97500, 105000, 112500, 120000, 127500, 135000, 142500, 150000] Buff per Level:[15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120, 135, 150];

Mining speed

These miners increase your mining speed in a certain level. They move every 6 min.

Name	Icon	Rarity	Ability
Chester		Legendary	Increases mining speed at depth by 3150%-12450% Moves depths every 6 mins
Gaston		Legendary	Increases mining speed at depth by 3150%-12450% Moves depths every 6 mins
Juggernaut		Legendary	Increases mining speed at depth by 3150%-12450% Moves depths every 6 mins
Broski Bruh		Legendary	Increases mining speed at depth by 3150%-12450% Moves depths every 6 mins
Chuck		Rare	Increases mining speed at depth by 2300%-9100% (2300, 3450, 4400, 5250, 6000, 6700, 7350, 7950, 8550, 9100) Moves depths every 6 mins
Friendly Purpa		Rare	Increases mining speed at depth by 2300%-9100% (2300, 3450, 4400, 5250, 6000, 6700, 7350, 7950, 8550, 9100) Moves depths every 6 mins
Jar Head		Rare	Increases mining speed at depth by 2300%-9100% (2300, 3450, 4400, 5250, 6000, 6700, 7350, 7950, 8550, 9100) Moves depths every 6 mins
Sparklina		Rare	Increases mining speed at depth by 2300%-9100% (2300, 3450, 4400, 5250, 6000, 6700, 7350, 7950, 8550, 9100) Moves depths every 6 mins
King Orange		Rare	Increasing mining speed at depth by 2300% (2300, 3450, 4400, 5250, 6000, 6700, 7350, 7950, 8550, 9100) Moves depths every 6 mins
Gembo		Uncommon	Increasing mining speed at depth by 1650% Moves depths every 6 mins
Sir Minesalot		Uncommon	Increases mining speed at depth by 1650% Moves depths every 6 mins
Su		Uncommon	Increases mining speed at depth by 1650% Moves depths every 6 mins
Rubble		Common	Increases mining speed at depth by 1250% Moves depths every 6 mins
Walter		Common	Increases mining speed at depth by 1250% Moves depths every 6 mins
Bruce		Common	Increases mining speed at depth by 1250% Moves depths every 6 mins
Jess		Common	Increases mining speed at depth by 1250% Moves depths every 6 mins
Autumn		Common	Increases mining speed at depth by 1250% Moves depths every 6 mins
Sasha		Uncommon	Increasing mining speed at depth by 1650% Moves depths every 6 mins
Rose		Common	Increases mining speed at depth by 1250% Moves depths every 6 mins

Isotopes

Name	Icon	Rarity	Ability
Zaouli		Legendary	Increases the number of isotopes mined at depth by 1250%-5000% Moves depths every 6 mins (1250,1900,2400,2850,3300,3650,4000,4350,4650,5000)

Drill Speed

Name	Icon	Rarity	Ability
Stomper		Legendary	Increases drill speed by 25%-100% (25,40,50,55,65,75,80,85,95,100)
Sax		Rare	Increases drill speed by 20%-75% (20, 30, 35, 40, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75)
Forest		Rare	Increases drill speed by 20%-75% (20, 30, 35, 40, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75)
Aayla		Uncommon	Increases drill speed by 15%-55% (15,20,25,30,35,40,45,45,50,55)
Stefi		Uncommon	Increases drill speed by 15%-55% (15,20,25,30,35,40,45,45,50,55)
Gertrud		Common	Increases drill speed by 10% - 40% (10,15,20,25,25,30,30,35,35,40)

Eggs

These Super Miners passively accumulate levels, increasing their scrap amount. You can have a maximum of 4 active. Once they reach max level, their sprite changes into a 'hatched' version of the egg.

Name	Icon	Hatched Icon	Rarity	Ability
Ethereal Egg			Legendary	Passively gains experience and levels up for free, increasing its scrap amount
Gold Egg			Rare	Passively gains experience and levels up for free, increasing its scrap amount
Arcane Egg			Uncommon	Passively gains experience and levels up for free, inreasing its scrap amount
Silver Egg			Uncommon	Passively gains experience and levels up for free, inreasing its scrap amount
White Egg			Common	Passively gains experience and levels up for free, inreasing its scrap amount

Chests

These ones increase the rate of chests spawning, and can bypass the chest cap up to 2x.

[v0.44 change] Chest Spawning Super Miners now have a spawn cap of 2200% across all Super Miners (2 legendary level 10 orange fish). Anything over 2200% is instead converted to a reward multiplier on all chests. Of course there is still a benefit to having more than 2 legendary level 10 chest super miners.

Name	Icon	Rarity	Ability
Orange Fish		Legendary	Increases the chest spawns on 5 levels (its level and 2 above and below) by 630%-1110% Moves depths every 1 min (630,740,820,880,930,980,1020,1050,1080,1110)
Dino Rider		Rare	Increasing the chest spawns on 5 levels (its level and 2 above and below) by 460% Moves depths every 1 min (460,540,600,650,680,720,740,770,790,810)

Mineral Deposits

[v0.44 change] The Mineral Deposit super miners were buffed by adjusting how mineral deposits spawn. Previously the spawn rate capped the amount that could spawn to 1 every 30 seconds. Multiple can now spawn per 30 second tick.

Name	Icon	Rarity	Ability
Old King Coal		Legendary	Increases mineral deposit spawns by 80%-750% and increases the maximum number of mineral deposits in the world by 1-4. Moves depths every 6 mins
Gramps		Rare	Increases mineral deposit spawns by 50% and increases the maximum number of mineral deposits in the world by 1 Moves depths every 6 mins
Scuzz		Rare	Increases mineral deposit spawns by 50% and increases the maximum number of mineral deposits in the world by 1. Moves depths every 6 mins

Miscellaneous

Name	Icon	Rarity	Ability
Jeffrey		Legendary	Increasing mining speed at depth by 3150%. Automatically sells any minerals mined Moves depths every 6 mins
Booster		Legendary	After colliding with other super miners it boost their effects by 25%-250% for 1m Moves depths every 30 seconds (25,50,75,100,125,150,175,200,225,250)
Goldalf		Legendary	Every 141000 minerals mined by Goldalf grants a random reward Moves depths every 6 mins Loot 20% of: Money, SM souls, Buff 17.5% of: Minerals 7.5% of: Ticket[if tickets < 50] 15% of: 20xBM Note: Goldalf minerals required per reward no longer scales down with level. Instead the mineral, money, and super mineral souls rewards scale with level. Building materials will no longer be granted as rewards if you have no structures to level up.