Mining Race

"Finish Orders to get Tools to dig for Mined Treasure!"

## Description

As completing Orders you can get more Tools to mine the tunnels in the playboard and get Mined Treasures, that give Explore Points for the ranking. To get new Tools you need to complete Orders, that usually require to deliver products, gathering resources or adding new dragons.

This minigame usually is active for 6 to 7 days and you compete with other players and clubs. You enter the ranking after you get the first Mined Treasure and then you compete with a group of 20 players. You can also see the global ranking, with all the players of the world, and the ranking of your club in the global ranking for clubs, if you are a member of one.

The rewards are usually gems, gold, energy, fertilizers, watering can, lightning tickets, enhancements and decorations, and depend on how many Explore Points you gained while playing. At the end of the minigame you can also gain extra rewards depending on the ranking in your group of players and on the club ranking.

### Playboard

The playboard looks like the image on the side and comprises the following sections:

* The main playboard in which you can see the rocks and the tunnel excavated.
	+ The rocks can be grey or brown, depending on how much hammers you need to use to remove them: one for brown ones and two for grey ones.
	+ The inaccessible rocks are left in the shadows and you can see those in which there are treasures because there are pieces scattered in the square.
	+ There are some bottles here and there with resources, like gold, stones, ...
	+ Under the rocks you can see the time left and the Explore Points.
* The Tools window on the right in which you can see the number of Tools of each kind available and a green button with "Get Tools" written on it.
	+ There are three types of Tool: hammer, bomb and dynamite.
	+ If you tap on the green button you can see 4 different orders to get new Tools. By tapping on one of the orders, you can see the details of the order and decide if you want to trash or complete it.

A series of tabs down the left hand side of the board:

* 1st (controller): where you can access the tunnel playboard.
* 2nd (chest): this is where you can find your rewards. As of now, there have been two rewards systems used before and after April 2021:
	+ *Treasure chests*: you earn prizes as Explore Points increase and at the end of the game, clicking on these will give you your prizes.
	+ *Dragon Merge Pass*: you earn prizes as Explore Points increase, but you can get them during the event. The rewards are of two kinds:
		- *Normal Rewards*: they consist mainly of energy, gold, a few gems, some boosters and some decoration.
		- *Gold Merge Pass Rewards*: they can be obtained only after buying the Gold Pass with real money. They are the same as the normal rewards, but with increased quantity and quality.
* 3rd (podium): where you are ranked in the group you are playing against (determined randomly by the game).
* 4th (globe): where you are ranked in the world against all players in the game.
* 5th (trophy): where your club is ranked in the world against all clubs in the game.

## How To Play

To play the minigame you need to do mainly three things:

1. Finish Orders to get Tools
	* You can dig the playboard only if you have Tools
	* You can see the quantity of available tools on the right of the main playboard: under the three of them you can see also a green button and open a window to access the Orders to get new Tools.
	* In the Order Tools Window you can see four different Orders:
		+ Each of them lets you have a different amount and kind of Tool depending on the Order.
		+ There are different types of Order: some require to gather resources, that will remain in your storage; some asks to add new dragons of different levels; some require to deliver resources, that will disappear for your storage forever.
		+ You can always delete the Orders that you can't complete or you don't want to deliver: another will come in 1 hour or immediately by spending 11 gems (the price reduces with time).
		+ You don't need to complete them in a certain amount of time and you can complete them more than one at once.
		+ After completing an order, a new one will come immediately.
2. Use Tools for digging
	* There are three types of tools:
		1. *Hammer*: it digs only one brown square at time, to dig grey ones you need two of them. It's the only way to begin a new row and go down in the mine: if you want to do so, you need to use an hammer on one of the squares under the rope. You may want to begin another row on a brown rock or on a one that has pieces of gems in it.
		2. *Dynamite*: it digs one row completely if it is made of brown rocks, but stops at grey rows. You can use it to begin new rows only if one of the squares under the rope is empty.
		3. *Bomb*: it digs a three per three square around the place you put it in. It clears at the first attempt also grey rocks, even if they aren't damaged.
	* You can use Dynamite and Bomb only on empty spaces in the playboard, while Hammer is used only on rocks.
	* To go down and have new rows to dig, you need to use Hammer on one of the rocks under the rope in the bottom section of the playboard.
	* To get Explore Points you need to discover Mined Treasures, so the objective is to clear the rocks where you can see pieces of gems, that usually are orange, grey and yellow.
	* The rocks that are darker can't be removed: the only ones available are those near the empty spaces.
3. Earn Explore Points
	* To earn points you need to collect the gems that are hidden in the rocks. Each color of gem gives a different amount of Explore Points.
	* While you explore you can also find some bottles, that gives resources and gold.
4. Get Rewards
	* You can collect the rewards in the chest tab. Between the rewards are also gems, energy, gold, picture portrait, boosters and Enhancement center.

To see an example of how this minigame works, you can watch this tutorial from Pusskal Play on YouTube: Mining Race gameplay.

### Table of Points given

Each different gems give a different amount of points: you can see them in the table below.

 Grey
 Yellow

## Tips and Tricks

* You don't have to clean all the tunnel board, you can just clear the squares that have bottles or pieces of gems: those will give points. After clearing them, empty one of the rocks under the rope and proceed in the exploration.
* You don't need to complete all the orders, you can trash them, especially if they require to deliver rare or time demanding resources.
	+ Try to complete gathering orders: the resources harvested will remain in the storage
	+ When adding Eggs for dragons, try not to merge them immediately because is likely that a quest asking for adding a Dragon will come in the next days.
	+ You don't have a limited time to complete the orders and you can also do more than one at once.
* Try to use hammers on brown squares because grey ones require two of them to clear it.
* Try to use bombs on as much squares as you can, for example in the middle of a three per three square that has only the top middle and the middle square cleared.
	+ Bombs can clear grey rocks at the first attempt.
* Try to use dynamite on rows with all brown squares, because the grey ones can't be destroyed with only one and the clearing action stops at grey squares.

## Pics

Here are some images of all the tabs of the minigame playboard:

Main PlayboardTreasure ChestsDragon Merge PassPackage to buy the Gold Merge PassRank in GroupRank in WorldClub Rank in World

Here are the images from the tutorial:

Using HammerUsing BombsUsing DynamitesGetting Explore PointsGetting ToolsInformation OrdersClosing Orders window

## Dates Run

* 2021/04/29 02:00 - 2021/05/06 02:00 UTC (changed treasure chests to dragon merge pass)
* 2021/08/06 02:00 - 2021/08/13 02:00 UTC