Update History

News banner at the top

A festival-style banner now appears at the very top of the game screen, so you can see what's happening right away.

• When Hot Time starts, a red banner shows up with the time left
• When maintenance is scheduled, an orange notice appears before it starts
• News from the team scrolls by in a blue 'News' banner
• While the banner is showing, the game screen moves down so nothing is hidden

Hot Time Events

An event that boosts the gold, EXP and drops you get in the field for a set time.

• If Hot Time gold and the ad gold boost overlap, only the bigger one applies
• Hot Time doesn't apply inside content like Daily Mines

Login notices

New notices pop up with a picture when you enter the game. Tap 'Don't show today' to hide them for the rest of the day.

Maintenance notices

• During maintenance you'll see an 'Under construction!' screen with the time left
• If you're in the middle of a run like a Daily Mine or raid, maintenance waits until it ends
• When only some features are paused, that menu shows a 'Under maintenance' notice

Shop event notices

• When a shop event starts, an event banner and time left appear at the top of the Cash tab
• A 'Event · Take a look' bar appears at the top of the Gold and Diamond tabs
• Products in the event get a tag next to their name

Send feedback

Leave a star rating and a short message in Settings → Game News → 'Send feedback'. We read every message and use it to polish the game.

Rate the game

Tap Settings → Game News → 'Rate the game' to go to the store rating page. The store rating window may also pop up now and then after a good moment in the game. Ratings give no rewards.

Contact

For questions that need an answer, like payments, accounts or errors, use Settings → Game News → 'Contact us' to send the website contact form.

Raid recommended power

Players told us that for well-progressed miners, all 10 raid bosses showed the same recommended power. We found the cause and fixed it. Each boss now shows its own recommended power, based on the mine where that boss unlocks.

World Boss

• Besides the usual World Boss time, a 'Surprise round' may open as a special event. Rewards arrive by mail a few minutes after it ends
• You can't be hit for 5 seconds right after entering
• If some of your damage hits the per-report cap, the result window tells you

Ranking flag

The 'Show my flag in rankings and guilds' option in Settings has been removed. Devices that turned it off before stay hidden. Your country is now decided from your SIM and region settings first, so your flag doesn't change while traveling abroad.

Notice Language

Game notifications now arrive in the language you picked in the game.

Shop

• Reduced stutter on the shop screen while mining
• Changed the cumulative purchase reward text to 'based on the actual amount paid'

• Other miners in the World Boss teleported, flickered, or vanished and reappeared
• You couldn't avoid the World Boss charge when standing near where the boss started
• Joining the World Boss late could knock you out right away with an AoE spell already in progress
• Your damage number in the World Boss briefly looked like it went down
• The game kept restarting after a balance update notice
• Blocked-entry messages showed twice in the Tower, Adventure, Raids and Infinite Mine
• Translation polish in many languages

Google Play Games

• Pixel Miner achievements now show on your Google Play Games profile
• Game stats like ores mined, miner level, raid boss kills, rebirths and world boss kills are recorded in Play Games
• Play Games quest rewards arrive in the save slot you're playing next time you open the game

Notices

You can read official notices right away under Settings → Game News.

Diamonds in the Shop

Tap the diamonds at the top and the Shop first shows the diamonds you have (tradable and untradable) and diamond top-ups.

Stat Guide

When you start, the game explains what Mining Power, Mining Speed, Critical and Codex help with and how to raise them, one by one.

Quit game

Press Back all the way or tap Settings → Quit game, and it saves your progress and asks whether to quit.

Raid Screens

• The raid map now shows today's rewards, extra runs and your power as cards at the top, with [+1 run] and [Available] buttons below
• After a raid win, the diamonds, tickets, gold, loot and gear you got show as icon slots. The first-kill bonus is shown separately

Some players created many new accounts to collect rewards and funnel them into one account. To keep the game fair for every miner, we changed the following.

Events Mail

• Event mail sent to everyone can be claimed only once per device
• Mail sent to you personally is still claimed per account, as before

Coupon

• Coupons can be used 24 hours after you sign up
• Guest accounts can use coupons after opening the 2nd mine or rebirthing
• The same coupon can be used only once per device

Market

• The first time you use the Market, you'll see its rules and a consent screen
• Mail rewards received on a guest account become tradable after you link your account

Balance Restart Notice

When the game balance is adjusted, a notice appears. Restart to apply the new values; you can check the current balance version in Settings.

• Pressing Back in the mailbox claimed a notice mail instead of closing the window
• Pressing Back in Saver Mode showed the quit window instead of waking the screen
• Rare and Uncommon gear showed 'Epic!' when obtained
• Lv.50 spirit art overflowed its box and covered the name and effect
• Notifications covered window titles while a window was open
• The Achievements count only included claimed achievements
• The Star Core description showed old spirit growth numbers
• New players were guided to the Achievements menu before it was unlocked
• Mail titles, the next-unlock line and the Codex chip text were cut off or overlapped
• The Adventure tab opened with the next stage card half cut off
• The notification permission and terms windows appeared together at the 2nd mine
• The Market stayed locked even when another save slot met the requirement
• The balance number on the title screen updated late
• On the Arabic save slot screen, the Delete button covered the slot name
• Translation polish in many languages

Pixel Miner first met you while it still had a lot of rough edges. The very generous diamonds from treasure chests and dimensional rifts were a kind of buff - our thank-you to the early miners who came first and played a game that wasn't polished yet.

Thanks to you playing and telling us about every issue through inquiries and reports, we've been able to shape the balance and fun of the game little by little. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Now that the game is finding its footing, we're bringing the diamond supply back to the level we originally planned. This change is to build a mine you can enjoy for a long time, so we hope you'll understand. We'll keep repaying you with an even more fun mine!

Treasure Chest & Rift Diamonds

Treasure chests and dimensional rifts gave far more diamonds than every other source, which made diamonds lose too much value. So we've greatly reduced the diamonds from these two.

What stays the same

• Gold, gear, protection ticket and dimension shard rewards from treasure chests and rifts are unchanged
• Diamonds from other sources such as ores, raids, daily mines, attendance and achievements are unchanged
• Diamonds you've already received stay as they are

Progress records

• Your progress is now kept more safely
• We removed 'Restore from backup' from Settings. If you need your progress restored, contact us and our team will check and help you

Internet connection

• If your connection drops, the game pauses and shows 'Your internet connection was lost'. It resumes on its own when you reconnect
• If you aren't reconnected within 60 seconds, you return to the title screen
• You can't enter the game without an internet connection

Spirit giant ores

Many of you reported 'I have to restart the game every stage, so it doesn't feel idle'. We found the cause and fixed it.

• The ore a spirit targets won't break until the spirit lands on it
• If the targeted ore is gone, the spirit flies to another ore nearby
• Fixed spirit ores barely appearing with fast-mining miners or teleport gear

Auto mining

• When the boss appears in your frontmost mine, your miner goes after it even from far away
• Fixed the next mine not opening because the miner chased spirit ores or treasure chests away from the boss

Game time

• Fixed idle rewards and the daily reset being delayed a long time when the internet briefly dropped right after returning to the app

Miner level cleanup

In 1.3.1, old mastery (★) carried over as levels above Lv.200, so some levels showed over 1,000. We've cleaned this up.

• Levels were recalculated from the experience earned in older versions (rebirths and mastery), generously so players with many rebirths don't lose out
• Levels you raised yourself after 1.3.1 stay as they are
• You'll see what changed once in a notice when you log in
• This run's ore hardness is matched to your level too, so progress doesn't get stuck

World Boss

Market

• Untradable diamonds from ads, the World Boss or ranking rewards can't be used to buy Market items
• The purchase screen also shows the diamonds you can use at the Market

Gear

Gear and bag slots are separate for each miner. If you switch miners, the previous miner's gear is just hidden, not gone.

• A 'Miners' Gear' button above the bag in the gear window: see every miner's equipped gear and bag on one screen and switch right away with 'Use this miner'
• Added a note to the bag expansion window that bag slots are separate for each miner

Other conveniences

• The enhance button turns gray when you don't have enough gold
• In the EXP mine, when a miner above Lv.200 fills the score for one run, a notice appears and the remaining crystals give gold (it used to show only '+EXP 0')
• You can receive all gear from mail even when your bag is full

• The miner disappearing or freezing in place if an error occurred during Drill King's 'Drill Tank'
• Errors that could occur while using Little Kongi's 'Bean Bomb' or Mining Robot MK-2's laser
• The 'connection lost' notice sometimes showing even when the internet was fine
• The 'Miners' Gear' window staying open after closing and reopening the menu

Miner Level Cap Removed — Beyond Lv.200

• Levels keep going past Lv.200 — +1% mining power and gold for each level above it
• The bonus follows the highest miner in that save slot and applies to all miners
• Miner levels are kept when you rebirth
• Old mastery ★ convert 1:1 into levels above Lv.200
• A new 'Level' tab in the rankings

Open the Next Mine

Map quests are now called 'Open the Next Mine'. The goal card title also shows the name of the mine you will open next.

• Each mine has different first two goals: mine ores · collect a mineral · open treasure chests · break spirit giant ores (from the 5th mine)
• Fill the first three goals and '★ The boss gate is open! ★' — the boss is the final gate
• Each mine shows a request from a local at the top of the goal card
• All goals fill as you mine normally, including auto mining and idle play
• A goal you have filled stays filled even if switching miners lowers your mining power

Mineral Refinery · Mineral Museum · Star Core Crafting

Minerals and materials that just kept piling up now have a use. Find them in Craft [Legendary ▶ Refinery·Museum] and [Unique ▶ Star Core].

• Refinery: 20,000 spare minerals + Gold → 1 Protection Ticket (10 per day)
• Museum: donate 1K · 10K · 100K · 1M of each mineral for ★1–★4 — each ★ gives a permanent +0.05% mining power and gold, plus 2–20 Gems
• Star Core Crafting: 100 Gems + materials that had no use → Star Core (once per day per material)
• Also 10 Star Dust from the Endless Mine + 50 Gems → Star Core (5 per day)
• 30,000 of each recipe mineral is kept aside, along with materials for exclusive gear you have not made yet

Guild Shop 2 · Guild Blessing

• Guild Shop 2 (personal coins): Star Core 150 (3/week) · Endless Key 100 (2/week) · 10 Raid Loot 120 (3/week)
• Guild Blessing: spend 200 personal coins for +10% gold and drops for all guild members for 2 hours (once a day per person, stacks up to 12 hours)

Exclusive gear slot

Exclusive gear now has its own 'Exclusive' slot, separate from the weapon. Weapon-type exclusive gear gives a separate mining power multiplier (about x1.1 at +0 up to about x1.7 at +70), and its exclusive skill works as before.

• On your first login after the update, equipped exclusive gear moves to the new slot, and the emptied slot gets a Legendary item at the same enhance level (up to +50, not tradable)
• Exclusive gear no longer drops from bosses — craft it in Craft [Legendary ▶ Exclusive Gear] with memory minerals, gold and miner Lv.180
• The 3 starter miners still get one guaranteed from their first map boss, and the 4 gem miners get theirs the moment they are unlocked
• Collect 3·6·9·12·15·18 exclusive items for codex rewards (+5% permanent mining power in total · 1,000 Gems)

Enhancement changes

• Failures drop the level from: +20 → +10
• From +30, enhancing needs 2 Protection Tickets
• Gear above the new cap is set to the cap on first login, and the gold, tickets and loot spent on those extra levels are refunded

Mythic·Unique growth curve

• Mythic gear now starts stronger than Legendary +50 at +0 (same as before at +80)
• Unique·Ancient gear starts stronger than Mythic +30 of the same slot (same as before at +100)
• Each Unique·Ancient enhance attempt uses 2 Raid Loot from that range's boss

For new miners

• New players go straight into the game without the slot screen
• Strike damage x4 for your first 30 ores and x2 up to 60
• A shower of gold on your first ore, and a Fine Pickaxe on your 5th
• Easier first mine (ores 100 → 60, coal 12 → 5, mining power goal x0.6)
• A notification when idle rewards are full (9 PM–8 AM moves to 8 AM, can be turned off in Settings)

Gear drop changes

Fixed Legendary gear pouring out in late mines. Gear from map bosses, raids, the shop and passes is unchanged.

Raid Loot · Exchange

• Victory loot from the first 3 bosses (Volkar · Crystalis · Venova): 3 → 5
• The extra loot for every 10 raid wins now caps at +5
• Choose which boss's loot to pay with at the Exchange — early-boss loot gets about 25% off (loot received from Supplies gets no discount)
• New 'Loot Swap': 3 loot + 30 Gems → 1 loot from a later boss (70 per week)
• [Exchange] · [Raid Crest] · [Supply] buttons under the raid map

Daily Mines — Gem·Special Mine

Mine 40 ores to collect all of the day's rewards. Ores after that give a small amount of gold. Rewards are based on the deepest mine you have ever opened.

Rift Shard

• Up to 30 per day from Rifts (3 per Rift), anything over the cap becomes 2x gold
• New Rift Shard Exchange: 50 → 5 Protection Tickets (3/week) · 100 → Star Core (2/week) · 200 → Epic+ chest (1/week)

Other changes

• Rebirth laps now get a little longer each time
• Earring mining speed adjusted to 80%
• Dismantling Legendary gear gives 4 ticket shards (was 1)

4 Memberships

• All four memberships give ad rewards without watching ads
• The monthly share piles up in the Membership Box every day (even when you are offline)
• While Total Membership is active, 2x speed boost time is saved instead of used

New products · Better packs

• Season Pass Plus ₩29,000 (₩19,000 with Premium): Premium + 10 instant levels + 200 Protection + 200 Raid Loot + Plus rewards
• Spirit Growth Bundle ₩33,000: 4 Spirit Tickets to pick any spirit · 60 Star Cores · 1,500 Gems (once a month)
• Miner's Vault ₩99,000: 20,000 Gems · 800 Protection · 1,000 loot · 60 Star Cores · 2 Spirit Tickets · 3 Legendary gear (once a month)
• Starter Pack (₩3,300): 800 Gems · 30 Protection · 3h of 2x speed
• 7-Day Pack (₩9,900): 2,000 Gems · 150 Protection · 2 Legendary gear · 8h of 2x speed · 1 random spirit
• Growth Packs now appear once ever at points where you tend to get stuck, with 2–3x more inside
• New ₩500K · ₩1M tiers in Total Purchase Rewards

Account · Convenience

• Free 'Daily' shop rewards are once per day per account
• Fixed overlapping or cut-off UI on foldables, tablets and split screen
• World Boss: leaving before you fight no longer counts as your entry, you can see other miners fighting, and the damage ranking panel is new

• Ad rewards (such as extra raid entries) sometimes not given after watching a full ad
• Market seller flags flickering
• Gear odds in the Daily Mine gem entry window not matching the actual odds
• A display error in the odds window before buying the 7-Day Pack
• 2x speed time from cash packs being cut off at 24 hours
• Closing an offer window with Back also closing the window under it
• Fixed various other issues and improved stability

World Boss 'Succubus of the Mine'

A live boss that appears every night from 9 to 10 PM (Korea time). All miners chip away at one shared HP bar together. You can join once you unlock the 4th mine.

• From 6 PM the time left shows on the home screen, and you can enter from 8:50 PM
• You can enter once a day. If you lose all your lives, you can revive with Gems (100 → 200 → 400)
• 8 patterns: pickaxe swing, charge, bats, skeletons, charm, clone summon and area magic. Dodge the area magic by standing inside the blue circle!
• Below 35% HP she goes berserk — her patterns speed up, but she takes 1.5x damage
• Fight for at least 1 minute and stay to the end to get rewards. If you leave on your own, there are no rewards that day
• Rewards arrive by mail the next day (settled at 10:10 PM)

Refine — extra options for Mythic and Unique gear

Mythic and Unique (including Ancient) gear now each get one extra option slot. Open and change it in the new [Refine] sub-tab of the Equipment tab.

• Open a slot: Mythic 500 Gems · Unique 1,000 Gems
• Change the option: Mythic 50 Gems · Unique 120 Gems — only the option type is rerolled; the ★ level stays
• Options: 16 for Mythic · 20 for Unique, all with equal chances
• Each change has a 2% chance of ★+1, guaranteed within 200 tries (Mythic up to ★3 · Unique up to ★5)
• You can check the odds in 'Drop Rates' in the game

Hell Mine — Preview

A 'Hell Rift' has opened at the top of the raid map. It's a new raid for miners with 10 rebirths; for now you can only preview the 3 hell bosses. Entry opens in the next update.

New Miner 'Drill King'

A transforming robot miner with a giant drill. Unlock it for 7,500 Gems.

• When selected: Mining Power +25% · Boss Damage +20%
• Just unlocking it (owned bonus): Mining Power +15%
• Exclusive weapon 'Drill King's Crown Drill' · exclusive skill 'Transform! Drill Tank' — every 16 seconds it turns into a drill tank, charges forward and smashes nearby ores with a spinning explosion

New spirit art and follow motion

All 5 stages of all 5 spirits have been redrawn. They now follow your miner, moving left and right.

Equipment tab — [Bag] [Upgrade] [Refine]

The Equipment tab had too many buttons on one screen, so we split it into sub-tabs.

• The bag shows 5 slots per row, so you see more at once
• Sell, Lock and Engrave are now inside 'More' (fewer accidental sales)
• Epic or higher, +10 or higher, and engraved gear need two taps to sell
• Removed the 'Great Success!' effect that played at every +20·40·60·80 upgrade (only +100 remains)

Craft — grade row, 'Can craft' first

Pick from the grade row at the top (Legendary ▶ Mythic ▶ Unique). What you can craft now sits at the top with a gold frame, and items that are almost ready show a progress bar. A red dot means you can craft it right away.

Codex — mines as cards at a glance

Instead of one long list, the 20 mines are shown as cards. Tap 'N rewards to claim ▶' at the top to jump straight to them.

Right-side menu — gathered into 'Menu'

The long column of buttons on the right is now gathered into one 'Menu'. Pin the buttons you use often with ★ to keep them on the right (up to 5).

Raid — new confirm window · S-shaped map · lives

• New boss confirm window: big boss art, recommended vs. your combat power gauge (easy · fair · tight · hard), reward slots and a pattern summary
• The raid map is laid out again along an S-shaped path in boss grade order
• Raids and the world boss show your remaining lives as hearts. When only one is left — heart-pounding!

New Spirit tab screen

The 3 companion slots are slimmer; pick a spirit to see its effects and materials on one big card. Hold the Level Up button to level up continuously (evolving needs its own tap).

Ranking — 30 per page up to 1,000th · flags

• Use ◀ ▶ at the bottom or swipe the list sideways to see ranks 31 to 1,000
• Country flags now appear next to nicknames. You can hide your own flag in Settings → Account

Ad rewards with Gems too

Most ad rewards can now also be claimed with Gems. 3 times a day; the price goes 1x → 2x → 4x (except the Gem and Special daily mines).

Shop · Payments

• 4 Miner Memberships: Gem, Raid and Spirit Memberships (1.5x speed) · Total Membership (2x speed); the monthly share builds up in your storage every day
• Settings → Payments now has 'Manage subscription (cancel)' and 'Restore purchases'
• Monthly Gem pass and monthly raid supply now pay out days you missed when you next log in

A safer game

• Report or block other miners' chats, nicknames and guild names (unblock in Settings → Blocked miners)
• Swearing and ad posts are filtered before they're posted
• Event and offer notifications go only to those who agreed (Settings → Notifications). Notifications from 9 PM to 8 AM need a separate agreement
• Random items show their odds before you buy
• Shortcuts to 'Business info' and 'Game news → Update History' in Settings

Raid difficulty rework

Fixed raid bosses falling in seconds as you get stronger. Bosses now keep a minimum fight time based on your firepower. Later bosses have faster patterns and fewer lives.

Spirit effects — boss-focused

Spirit effects now help you most against bosses and in raids. They approach the Lv.50 maximum as they level up. Materials use 20% fewer Star Cores, and each spirit uses its own element minerals.

Hats & Boots — useful even past the cap

The part of Crit Chance above 100% and Move Speed above its maximum is no longer wasted; it turns into another stat. It grows more slowly toward the end.

• Reduced stutter during 10x upgrade and hold-to-upgrade
• Fixed the Craft window lagging while mining
• Reduced slowness when opening the Codex
• Fixed raid hearts (♥) showing as blank boxes on some phones
• Fixed gear that was already gone still being sold or locked in the 'More' window
• Fixed various other issues and improved stability