Strategies

## FFA, TDM

### Grow

Keep digging to grow. Be wary of lava, small players move the fastest, resulting in less time to stop before hitting lava, and take the most damage per pixel of lava when hit. The player should wander to areas with less players, as there is a higher chance of finding valuable ores. If an enemy is closing in to a diamond ore and he is much bigger than you, don't seize the diamond, just run. If he is mildly bigger, you can try to seize enough diamond to become bigger than him--this is risky.

### Lava: A possible friend?

Lava is the second most common ore. It can be used defensively but the best way to use it is when you are being chased. If you find lava while being chased, dig a tunnel around it. The chaser will have to get rid of the lava to get to you. If he goes around the lava then go around yourself. If he is a noob then he may dig through the lava, allowing you to kill him. The only problem with this is if they are on a team. If so, a tiny teammate may come through and dig all the lava. Then you are screwed. Try to kill the tiny teammate before dying, to get revenge.

In TDM, try to stay near teammates who are quite large, they can keep you safe from larger enemies

When a player is near any ore except bedrock, the player will have an extended range of vision, making them see whatever is around the ore, including tunnels.

Keep digging until your score is 60k, unless there is easy target to kill. Always keep HP above 60%. Only fight when you have found a smaller enemy is in less advantageous condition. Try finding lava and make turns around lava to slow them down, if the enemy is less skilled and has much lower health, smash them.

At 170k, your score will start decreasing significantly. Alternate between digging solid areas and tracing tunnels to find prey. Always keep HP above 70%.

### Reaching the top

Alternate between digging solid areas and tracing holes to find prey. Do not stay at the edge of the world for too long, it is hard to escape. When two big players are fighting keep an eye on their HP, smash into them instantly if one of them wins with extremely bad condition, especially extremely big players may hit the lava. You can also steal kills and flee if you are fast enough. Try getting big headed top3 players as they go through lava at zero health, it works sometimes. Also, if you are being chased above 40-60k, if you dig your own tunnel, you will die. Currently, there are no strategies to avoid being killed by larger players in the 120k+ range (it is easier for them to dig the size difference between your fresh tunnel and their needed tunnel size. They will get you, no matter what you do)- this is one critical flaw in the game. If you are being chased by someone 95-105% your size with full shield, just give up, there is nothing you can do. If you are above 500k and there is someone larger than you chasing you, try digging around lava. If player goes around, you go around. If they're a noob, they might dig through the lava; this could get you 1m or more!

### As a hider

You will always see seekers in your FOV, even when they can't see you. Do not take the uranium, as it will expose you to other seekers. One tip that actually is incredibly useful and frustrating to the seekers: make a maze. Start with one tunnel going in one direction, and when you can no longer see the area in which you spawned, loop back. Make the loop wide, and keep doing this over and over. Then: run. Travel cautiously, as you may run into a seeker. If you do not run into any seekers, try digging perpendicular to an existing tunnel, then loop back so that the entrance of your tunnel is in your FOV; similar to the shape of a J. However, just make sure that you are far enough away from the entrance so that you cannot be seen by a seeker. If you do happen to run into a seeker, you have to move fast and be able to quickly maneuver through tunnels in order to escape.

#### As a seeker

Always start tracing hiders from their spawn base, or when you find their tunnel when digging. The player can choose if they want to take the uranium (green ore) or not. Be warned that if you take the uranium, you will be significantly slowed down, and while you are smaller, you are able to 1.) go faster, 2.) be able to slip through tunnels easily, and 3.) you will be much harder to find. The player's mass will not decay after taking uranium. Bigger size gives bigger hitbox resulting that the seeker can hit prey easily, while small size gives significantly less resistance.

## Battle Royale

Getting a head start is the key to winning this mode. Before a game starts, try respawning until you can see a rare ore (not lava though) on your screen. If this doesn't happen, boost immediately when the game starts to try and find a rare ore. If you can't find any quickly, you may as well suicide into someone and restart. If you find the top player, you can try and follow them, waiting for them to get low on health before you kill them. Once you're at the top of the leaderboard, simply chase down any players you see and avoid depleting your health too much.

Another approach for this would be to start in your spawn place and spiral outward. This is a more rational method to this.

## Maze

Keep digging to grow, in here you will see that bedrock is in the maze walls this mode is very similar to FFA, TDM. It is not wise to continuously dig into the walls, because it takes forever to get back out (the beginning of your 'cave' will be smaller than your size at the moment) *unless* you are trying to make a route to one path, then go through the wall to the other side. Getting 1 million in this mode is almost impossible.