The Caves

## Introduction

"**Welcome to the cave! You can use companions to do the digging for you. These companions will uncover items that will appear in your storage slots. The best part is that these companions will continue to dig even if you are not present in the room or logged in. When you come back, you can collect the items they have found."**

The Caves is a place where you can dig along with at most 5 of your digging companions. In September of 2021, Grumpy Mayor showed a list of updates on The Meow Playground Blog where he introduced the Caves with the description "A new area where you can place a new type of companion - a digging companion, to dig for you."

## Information

* Digging companions can be used in The Caves
* Digging companions will always dig for you in the background even when you are offline or not in the Caves
* The Caves are next to (on the right of) The Mine in the Meow Town Map.
* The blue Caves button shows up as under "Your Rooms" in the Meow Town sidebar
* Digging companions are required for progression, although it can be entered even if you do not own a Digging Companion
* **Status : Released :)**
* The max digging level is 50

## Mechanics

* Every player will have a Cave Level. Digging a certain "distance" will advance your cave level.
* Your digging distance (how far you have dug all time) is determined by your digging power.
* Equipping more experienced digging companions can allow you to dig faster and increase your Cave Level and Digging Distance faster.
* Digging Companions have multiple "experience" levels in ascending order (Little, Experienced, Master). The higher the experience level, the higher the digging power it gives.
* Cave Levels increase the "quality" of rewards. For example, you can find diamonds beyond level 10.
* Digging Companions can be "equipped" only in the Cave. Unlike regular companions, multiple digging companions can be simultaneously equipped. (However, maximum only 5)
* Certain Digging Companions will also give a bonus
* Each digging power equates to 0.2 digging distance per minute.
* However, digging companions do not "dig" in the literal sense, rather, they merely advance your digging distance and find items.
* The digging companion will occasionally find items, that can be collected with a green button. However, the rate of finding items is very slow, and it is not a replacement for manual digging.
* You have a certain amount of inventory storage to store items. Items of the same type do not "stack" even if they are the same, and take up an inventory slot each.
* By default, each player has 6 inventory slots. This can be increased by spending Diamonds.
* Each storage slot purchased doubles the cost of the next slot starting from the second extra slot, which costs 5 Diamonds (except for the first extra slot, which costs 1 Diamonds)
* This is the only place where Gems can be found.
* The Miner/Cave Mining Awards User Room will increase chance of finding items.

## Other Information

* On release it was possible to increase storage with Diamonds (which was never functional), was removed in a later update, and finally added back in August.
* The background image of the Caves changes with digging level. There are a total of 5 backgrounds.

The cave on the town mapThis was when caves first came outThe button to collect your rewards added in August.