Digger 101

Digger 101 is a browser game about digging: sink a shaft, haul ore up, find relics from the nineties and upgrade your gear — from a shovel to an annihilator. The core waits at 1010 metres.

Free, no download, no sign-up. This is the standalone build — the full version on paradrew.com keeps a leaderboard for the community.

How to play

1. You dig down and sideways — with the ⛏ button or by pointing at the rock; walking never touches it. Digging up would bring the roof down: you climb out along the wall of your own shaft, by jumping, by deportation, or by cage.
2. Every action eats battery charge. Run the charge or the hull to zero and the descent is lost along with the cargo. Everything you bought and found stays with you.
3. Rock harder than your tool simply will not budge. Layers open up through purchases: shovel, pickaxe, jackhammer, diamond drill, plasma cutter, annihilator.
4. Ore fills the pack chunk by chunk. Reach the surface and it sells itself; the tokens go into modules in the terminal.
5. Cages at 200, 400, 600, 800 and 1000 metres unlock once you walk into them. The next descent can start from any unlocked cage, and riding up from one is free.
6. You cannot see what is inside the rock — neither ore nor gas. You find out when the block comes out, and gas then blows: the hull takes a hit and a whole square comes down, ore included.
7. Worms sleep in the hollows. They cannot dig, but they do run along your own tunnels — the way back is worse than the way down.
8. There is one shaft for the whole game, and it runs left and right without an edge. What you dug stays dug and mined ore never grows back: you can come back to your own face a week later.

Made by paradrew101 — more browser games live there.