Gold Picker 2.0.0 is not a simple update. The whole game has been rebuilt from the ground up: a new engine, a new interface and a progression that goes much deeper than tapping a nugget. Every system has been designed to work together, so that each tap, each geode and each craft pushes the rest of your mine forward. Here is how it all works, and the full list of changes is at the end.
A brand new mine
The game is now organised around five tabs: Upgrades, Forge, Shop and Profile on the sides, and the Mine in the middle, always one tap away. The Mine is where everything starts. Each tap on the nugget earns gold, and the amount depends on everything you have built: your upgrades, the pickaxe in your hand, the artifacts you wear and your prestige level.
Some taps land a critical hit and earn twice the gold. Mining also uncovers things along the way: from time to time a tap drops a common material, and sometimes a whole geode.
Pickaxes
Your Standard pickaxe is always with you. It holds 5 uses and recovers one use every 5 minutes, even while the game is closed, so there is always something to mine when you come back.
To mine harder, you can craft better pickaxes at the forge: Iron, Gold and Diamond. Each one adds a fixed amount of gold to every tap and comes with its own durability. Every tap wears the pickaxe a little, and when it breaks, the next one of the same kind takes over automatically. When you run out, you fall back to the Standard pickaxe. Crafted pickaxes stack, so you can prepare a whole batch before a long session.
Geodes
Geodes are the heart of the new Gold Picker. They drop at random while you mine and wait for you on the Mine screen until you decide to open them. Nobody knows their rarity in advance: you find out by cracking them.
- Common: 3 hits, grey.
- Rare: 5 hits, blue.
- Epic: 7 hits, purple.
- Legendary: 9 hits, gold.
As you strike, the cave around the geode lights up with the color of the rarity it has reached, one hit ahead of the final result, so you know what is coming just before the last blow. Once the geode breaks, the rewards come out one by one: gold, materials of the same rarity, Miner Pass XP and, from Rare upward, gems. The rarer the geode, the bigger every reward.
The forge
The forge turns your gold and materials into pickaxes and artifacts. You start with one forge and can unlock up to six, one after another, by paying gold. Each forge runs one craft at a time, so more forges means more crafts in parallel.
Tap a free forge to open its craft menu and pick a recipe. Every recipe shows its gold cost, the materials it needs and how long it takes. Once the craft starts, the forge burns and a timer shows the progress, and you collect the result when it is ready. The best pickaxes unlock in order: you have to craft the previous one at least once.
Materials
There are 30 materials spread across four rarities, from an old bone or a broken cup up to a dragon scale or a star shard. Common materials drop while mining, every rarity can be found in geodes of the same rarity, and some materials can be bought in the shop with gold. Everything you own is stored in your chest, in your profile, grouped by rarity so you can see at a glance what you can craft next.
Artifacts and equipment
Artifacts are pieces of equipment crafted at the forge. There are 25 of them across five slots: helmet, chestplate, gloves, boots and amulet. Some add gold to every tap, others multiply what your miners produce, others raise your chance to find geodes. Choosing what to wear is a real choice: an active session favors tap bonuses, a long absence favors miner bonuses.
Artifacts wear out as you play: every 5 taps, each equipped artifact loses one point of durability. A broken artifact stays in its slot but its bonus stops working until you replace it with a new one from the forge.
Miners and offline earnings
Miners dig for you, every second, without a single tap. There are five tiers, from the Apprentice to the Excavator, and each tier produces much more gold than the previous one. You can hire as many miners of each tier as you can afford.
Your miners keep working while you are away. When you come back, a welcome screen shows how long you were gone and how much gold they collected. You can double this amount by watching an optional rewarded video. The time your miners can work without you is limited, and a dedicated upgrade extends it.
Upgrades
Upgrades are permanent improvements bought with gold. There are ten of them, grouped into five color-coded branches. Each upgrade has five levels and every level costs twice as much as the previous one.
- Mine: more gold per tap, a gold multiplier and a higher critical chance.
- Pickaxe: more Standard uses, faster recovery and more durable crafted pickaxes.
- Geodes: a better chance to find geodes while mining.
- Forge: cheaper crafts.
- Miners: higher miner production and a longer working time while you are away.
Prestige
Once you have mined a total of one million gold, you can prestige. You earn prestige points and your prestige level goes up. Each level raises a permanent multiplier on your gold per tap and on your miners, so every new run goes faster than the last. The more gold you mined during the run, the more points you earn.
- Reset: gold, miners, upgrades, crafted pickaxes, materials and extra forges.
- Kept: gems, artifacts, unopened geodes and Miner Pass progress.
Miner Pass, Season 1: Gold Rush
The Miner Pass is the season pass of Gold Picker. Season 1, Gold Rush, has 30 tiers. You earn pass XP simply by playing: mining, opening geodes, crafting and completing quests. Every tier reached unlocks a reward on the free track, and the Premium track adds a second reward on each tier.
Miner Pass Premium is a one-time purchase for the season:
- No automatic ads for the whole season. Rewarded videos stay available if you want them.
- One free geode every day, on its own page. Missed days do not stack.
- +10% on all Miner Pass XP.
- The royal cosmetics: frame, avatar, banner, title, particles, lanterns and, at tier 30, the Royal Nugget.
Quests and events
Quests give you goals for every session, and their rewards arrive automatically when you complete them. Daily quests renew every day, weekly quests every Monday, and new seasonal quests unlock every week during the season. Events are time-limited, with their own quests, rewards and a bonus for completing them all. The first one is the 8Bit event, with its own nugget and particles to win.
Profile and cosmetics
Your profile brings together your stats, your equipment, your chest and your locker. The locker holds every cosmetic you own: nugget, particles, avatar, frame, banner, title and decorations, each equipped in one tap.
Your FORCEFORE® account
You can sign in with your FORCEFORE® account or start right away as a guest and link your account later. Your progress is saved on your device at all times and synchronized to the cloud whenever you are online. If the connection drops, the game keeps working and synchronizes again as soon as it comes back.
Full list of changes
Gameplay
- [NEW] Critical hits that double the gold of a tap.
- [NEW] Common materials can drop while mining.
- [NEW] Iron, Gold and Diamond pickaxes, craftable and stackable.
- [NEW] Pickaxe selector on the Mine screen, with durability shown under the pickaxe name.
- [NEW] The Standard pickaxe recovers its uses while the game is closed.
- [NEW] Geodes with a rarity revealed by the number of hits.
- [NEW] Up to six forges, unlocked with gold.
- [NEW] 30 materials across four rarities.
- [NEW] 25 artifacts across five equipment slots, with durability.
- [NEW] Recipes that let you choose which material to spend for an ingredient.
- [NEW] Five tiers of miners.
- [NEW] Ten upgrades in five branches.
- [NEW] Prestige with a permanent multiplier.
- [NEW] Offline earnings with a welcome back screen, doubled by an optional rewarded video.
Season, quests and rewards
- [NEW] Miner Pass Season 1 "Gold Rush", 30 tiers, free and Premium tracks.
- [NEW] Daily Miner Pass geode with its own page.
- [NEW] Daily, weekly and seasonal quests with automatic rewards.
- [NEW] Countdown before the next batch of seasonal quests.
- [NEW] Notification when a quest is completed.
- [NEW] Time-limited events, starting with the 8Bit event.
- [NEW] 19 achievements, from your first tap to your tenth prestige.
Interface
- [NEW] Five-tab navigation with the Mine at the center.
- [NEW] Tutorial on first launch.
- [NEW] Chest with materials and items views, grouped by rarity.
- [NEW] Cosmetic locker in the profile: nugget, particles, avatar, frame, banner, title and decorations.
- [NEW] Animated reception screen for every purchase and reward.
- [NEW] Upgrades you can afford are highlighted.
- [NEW] Recipes you cannot craft yet stay visible, greyed out with the reason.
- [NEW] Gold per second and the share of each miner tier shown in the Upgrades tab.
- [CHANGED] New visual identity: low-poly cave, new icons and effects.
- [CHANGED] The locker only shows the cosmetics you have unlocked.
Shop
- [NEW] Gem packs, gold packs paid with gems and material packs paid with gold.
- [NEW] Optional rewarded video with a mystery reward: gold, a geode or an artifact.
- [NEW] Miner Pass Premium available in the shop.
Account and saves
- [NEW] Sign in with your FORCEFORE® account, or play as a guest and link your account later.
- [NEW] Cloud save synchronization.
- [NEW] The game keeps working offline and resynchronizes when the connection is back.
- [IMPROVED] Purchases and rewards are delivered once and only once, even after a crash or a lost connection.
Settings and accessibility
- [NEW] Separate settings for music, sound effects, visual effects and vibrations.
- [NEW] Reduced motion option.
- [NEW] Advertising privacy options in the settings.
- [NEW] English and French languages.
Requirements
- Android: Android 7.0 (Nougat) or later, on phones and tablets, through Google Play. 64-bit ARM, 32-bit ARM or x86_64 processor. About 60 MB for the download.
- iOS: iOS 13.0 or later, on iPhone and iPad, through the App Store.
- Connection: needed to sign in, synchronize your save, use the shop, the Miner Pass and quests. Mining, the forge and upgrades also work offline.
- Purchases: in-app purchases go through your Google Play or App Store account.
Thank you for mining with us. See you in the cave!
The FORCEFORE® team