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About Idle Cave Miner
Idle Cave Miner is a free‑to‑play idle simulation where you manage a team of miners, craft items, and upgrade forges to extract ores and gems. Progress is measured by depth, resources, and a variety of statistics shown in‑game.
The game offers multiple evolving mines, cloud saves, offline play, Steam achievements, leaderboards, and a prestige system that grants permanent upgrades after resetting progress.
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Crafting and Smelting
You can craft items that let miners dig deeper and refine ores into gems. Upgrading forges increases the speed and efficiency of both smelting and refining, which raises the amount of resources you receive.
Crafted items also give permanent stat boosts to your miners, so each upgrade directly improves the idle output of your team.
- Upgrade the forge before expanding the miner roster to avoid resource bottlenecks.
- Prioritize items that increase miner stats for the biggest idle profit gain.
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Miner Team Management
You unlock a variety of miners, each described as cool and unique, and you can equip them with crafted items to raise their mining efficiency.
The miners work automatically, generating profits while you are idle, and you can continuously upgrade both miners and their equipment.
- Balance the number of miners with forge upgrades to keep resource flow steady.
- Equip the strongest items on miners that spend the most time in high‑yield zones.
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Mine Exploration
Mines evolve as you descend; the deeper you go, the more the environment shifts to provide new resources and unique ores or gems.
Farming each mine supplies the raw materials needed for crafting, forging upgrades, and further progression.
- Target mines that contain rare ores to accelerate forge upgrades.
- Re‑visit earlier mines after upgrades to access resources that were previously unavailable.
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Prestige System
Prestiging resets your progress but awards powerful rewards and permanent upgrades that stay with you after each reset.
These permanent upgrades reduce the difficulty of earlier challenges, allowing deeper runs to be reached more quickly.
- Prestige after you have collected a solid set of permanent upgrades to maximize their impact.
- Track which permanent upgrades give the largest boost to mining speed and prioritize those.
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Missions and Leaderboards
Daily, weekly, and monthly missions provide increased rewards based on difficulty, and completing achievements unlocks additional items.
Online leaderboards let you compare progress with other players, while cloud saves keep your data safe across sessions.
- Choose missions that match your current upgrade focus for efficient reward collection.
- Check the leaderboards regularly to gauge your standing and set new goals.
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