Hints, Tips, and Tricks

* **Don't be afraid to Trigger a Big Bang as soon as your digging slows down.** Your inactive fossils will become active, and with more active fossils you'll go farther after restarting due to the damage bonus per active fossil.
* **BUT before triggering a Big Bang, make sure to go as far as possible through your unlocked planets.** When digging on Earth slows down, go to the Moon, Mars, and so on. Doing so will give you more fossils from each planet, as well as allow you to continue digging with upgrades aquired wih moonstones, marstones, and so on.

* **Higher planets earn more gold per second, so try going in reverse order.** To accelerate the game, try to get to the highest planet you can as soon as. With some gold and enough helpers, you could get to Mercury and let that run for a while. Then, once progress slows down, you can go back and mine on Mars, the Moon and finally on Earth.
* **Don't rush for the core samples (reward for finishing a planet) as soon as.** Core layers have a LOT of HP, so you'll want your moonstone and marstone bonuses maxed out to aid you before attempting anything this big.

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* **Don't forget about gold and helper upgrades.** Stronger helpers will have more DPS so you'll get through the layers faster. More layers give more gold (including offline), allowing you to further upgrade your helpers DPS.
* **Tap those worms!** You'll get free diamonds for things like research, extra gold, and rubies during Boss Battles.
* **Do your research for amazing bonuses.** Save your diamonds for research, upgrade, and reap the benefits.
* **Watch ads.** They may be annoying and take some extra time, but there are 54 separate bonuses that you can obtain just from watching ads in the game, not to mention extra boosts you get like extra diamonds, damage, or gold.

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* **While the prospector is asleep, you get extra bonus helper damage.** Don’t be afraid to squish worms! Even if you miss the first tap, it won’t wake the prospector, as he needs three consecutive taps to wake up. And always attempt to use your prospector's special skills - these will not wake him either, so you should be fine.
* **Also, make sure to use the prospector's special skills before quitting the game if the timer cooldown is nearly or completely at 0.** It could be a small wait for a potentially big gain, so don't forget to use those abilities! Offline income is calculated based on your income when you left the game, so if you activate your abilities, you’ll continue earning money offline at that same rate!
* **The "Cool It!" prospector skill starts working right away.** The other prospector skills don't have to be spent or finished for the "Cool It!" to have its effect. So as soon as you've started all five other skills, don't be afraid to use this one too. But make SURE you've definitely started the other skills first to not accidentally waste the "Cool it!" ability! "Cool It!" is affected by "Skilly Skills", use this to decrease your cooldowns even further.

* **Gold you get while AFK is NOT calculated cumulatively from all planets.** So e.g. if you quit on Region 10 of the Earth, you'll have much less income waiting for you once you're back, than if you'd quit on Region 10 of the Moon.