Mechanics

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Quartz - When going through quartz, you will gain a white health bar, known as a quartz shield. How much of the quartz shield you have depends on the size of your digger and how much quartz you've dug from the vein. The speed of this shield decaying depends on how much your digger is growing. The quartz shield will also decay slowly, even if you're not doing any digging. This shield acts like a second health bar. When you sprint, your quartz shield will not go away, instead, the main health bar will. However, when you hit lava, your quartz shield will be the first health bar to be affected by it. *Tip - If there are any diggers that are near you and are slightly bigger than you and you have a quartz shield, you should be able to take them out and gain a large amount of mass (assuming both your health bar and quartz shield are full.)*

Health bar - This is your health bar, which is colored in green and surrounded by a dark grey bar. Many things will affect the health bar, like lava.

Sprinting - You will be able to sprint by holding left click. This is to help killing other players. Your digger will move faster while left click is held, however, your main health bar will decay while you sprint. Your health bar acts as a stamina bar and a health bar at once, so be careful when you're killing an opponent; don't sprint too much, otherwise the opponent could kill you. *Tip - If you have only a bit more health than your opponent, don't hold left click but frequently click the left click in order to get closer to your prey. This is efficient if you need to keep a large portion of your health.*

Healing - You will be able to heal by holding right click. Healing makes your health bar regenerate faster, but makes your digger significantly slower. It is recommended you heal after hitting lava or killing a big player (doesn't matter if they're bigger or smaller). *Tip - Do not heal while chasing another digger, as it will make you slower and the opponent will have more chance of escaping you. ONLY heal when you have little to no health, and your opponent can kill you.*

Knockback - Knockback occurs when your digger collides with another digger. The bigger the other digger is, the more knockback you will take. This is most likely for preventing instant kills. Squad members can use this knockback and bump other squad members for more speed if the squad members are about the same size. This is efficient for catching prey in case the chaser is too slow. *Tip: If you are combatting a player with roughly the same size, try and take advantage of the knockback to knock the other player into lava so that you can kill them without killing yourself.*

Uranium- Uranium is an ore that gives 500 XP per pixel to your digger. However, the mass you gain from this ore quickly decay (in about two or three mintues). The decay is the most intense at the beginning of this effect, but relaxes towards the end of the effect. *Tip - If there are any diggers near you and you can kill them with the uranium effect, make sure to be quick, as the mass you have gained goes away quickly.*

Lava - Lava is an ore that frequently spawns on the map. When colliding with lava, a significant portion of your health will go away. This is helpful for other players in case they want to kill another player, or if the player is being chased by an opponent bigger than them. Lava gives 5 XP per pixel; some people willingly collide with lava to get more score when they are small. However, this is inefficient as it takes all of your health, and that digging is just easier. There are also lines of lava equally spaced out on the map, spanning from one side to the other. They are in a wavy pattern (you can not see this because your digger is too small.) *Tip - Try luring a bigger digger into lava for their mass, as lava removes their health. This works 60% of the time as the playerbase is stupid at times. This is efficient for massive players (~400k+), as it would be tedious for them to dig around the chunk of lava.*

Gold - Gold is the currency of the game that you need in order to buy skins. Gold is obtained from gold ore, which is scattered around the map just like every other ore. When striking gold, gold rains down on your screen. The gold also bounces one time (there is nothing to say except that the gold literally bounces). The collected gold will be added onto your gold count. You do not need to worry if you have collected gold in a run and disconnect, as the gold saves automatically. You do not need to die in order for your gold to be registered.

Amethyst - Amethyst is an ore in the game that increases the vision of the player, slightly increasing field of vision and allowing them to see further through the dirt. This is useful for many applications such as finding valuable ores, avoiding lava or spotting other players from a distance. This expanded vision decays over time to normal.

Mass Decay - Mass decay is when the mass of your digger decays over time. This is to balance the game so that players do not rule the leaderboard for a very long time. If you want to keep up with the leaderboard with the mass decay, you need frequent kills. Do not give up on chasing your opponent. Every second (1,000 milliseconds), you about 0.2% of your mass. E.g, if you had 149,000 mass, you would lose 298 mass every second.

Digging - Digging is an essential part of the game. To dig, you just collide with dirt, which is the main medium. Dirt gives you 1 XP per pixel. The more you dig at once, the slower you are. When you dig, transparent squares will appear and quickly float away (~0.3 seconds. Why do you need to know that, though?) on the area where your digger is digging.

Map moving - The map moving is to regenerate all ores. It grows and shrinks depending on the amount of players, and can move in any direction. That direction can change (there is an unknown algorithm for this). *Tip - If you go to the areas of the map where new dirt is appearing (somewhere at the map border), you will find gold more often. This is because no other diggers have visited that area, so no other digger has snatched the gold. This is a quick way to get gold, however, it gets boring quickly, and time flies faster when you're just playing the game normally.*