Mining Simulator

A little bit about the game!

Mining Simulator is a simple little game where you have fun and mine resources that you can sell to gain money to upgrade your pickaxe!!!

Disclaimers:

The trailer is currently out-of-date and is not accurate to what is currently in the game, I will update it as soon as I can but I want to wait until a later update like release 1.0

Current Features:

- A save function

- 13 Types of ores.

- 9 Things you can craft.

- a basic settings menu with sound controls

- and more features coming soon

- you can sell stuff at the shop

- Pickaxe durability

- A pickaxe shop

- Ore health

Update Log:

Alpha 0.01:

Added crafting, settings, save feature, quit button, dynamic hot-bar, and 3 ores, Iron, Coal, and Gold!

Alpha 0.1:

Added more sounds and that's about it!

Alpha 0.1.2:

updated the way sounds play and added the sell station!

Alpha 0.1.3:

Added a person at the sell station and added full controller support for all type of controllers!

Alpha 0.1.4:

Added menu sounds and music!

Alpha 0.1.5:

Added particles when you break stuff!

Alpha 0.1.6:

Added the Smelter MK 1 to the game and updated the way crafting is, so basically to craft press c and then once you have enough resources craft the smelter MK1 then walk up to the smelter and press E to smelt your ore chunks into more valuable ingots!

Alpha 0.2:

- Added diamond and emerald ores.

- Added uncut diamonds and uncut emeralds.

- Added cut diamonds and cut emeralds.

- Added cut diamond and emerald crafting recipe.

Alpha 0.3:

- Updated the way ore spawning works.

- Added a new rare ore called Dyminite that has a 0.5% chance of spawning.

Alpha 0.3.5:

- Added a credits thing in game.

- Added a new pickaxe.

- Added some trees.

Alpha 0.5:

- Updated the credits.

- added pickaxe durability.

To repair your pickaxe you will need to sell your ores at the sell station and that will automatically repair your pickaxe.

Alpha 1.0:

- Added three new pickaxes Gold, Diamond, and Dyminite

- Added ore health

- Added a shop to buy the new pickaxes

Alpha 1.1:

- Added Lightning ore and Lightning Chunks

- Added Lightning pickaxe

Beta Snapshot.1:

- Added Purblu ore, Ruby ore, and blue crystals plus their respective crafting recipes

- The first Beta Snapshot is here

Beta Snapshot.2:

- Added Green Crystal and Red Crystal

- Put the new area behind a $2,500 in-game currency paywall to make progression better

Beta 1.0:

- Updated logo

- Updated credits

Beta 1.1:

- added ruby pickaxe

- fixed the roof on the shop

- fixed the price on the lightning pickaxe

Beta 1.2:

- Major graphical changes!! 

Beta 1.3:

- Added day/night cycle

Beta 1.4:

- Added new sky shader with realistic clouds.

- Added flashlight for the night time.

Beta 1.4.1:

- Quick hot fix for the day/night cycle

Beta 1.5(Demo Release):

- Added fire to the smelter MK 1

- Fixed credits

Beta 1.6:

- Added Kriytine ore, chunks, ingots, and pickaxe

- Added a new shader to the lightning ore(included in demo)

- Added fun settings(included in demo)

Beta 1.7:

- Added dev console and a few commands

- New commands: test, give_money {int}, set_item_amount {int}, sell_items

Beta 1.8:

- Added a few new commands

- Added mobile support

Beta 1.9:

- Added new area, the Mountain

- Added Smelter MK 2

- You can now only smelt Kriytine, and Dyminite ingots in the Smelter MK 2

Beta 1.10:

- Added new song "Mining Dyminite"

- Added splash texts

Beta 1.11:

- Added weather

Beta 1.11.1:

- Fixed a major bug where the game wouldn't load

Beta 1.12:

- Added weather commands

- Updated first two maps

Snapshot 1.0:

- Added resolution slider

- Added "Potato" graphics mode

- Added fullscreen mode

Release 1.0:

- Added tutorial

- Added player statistics

Release 1.0.1:

- Fixed tutorial bug that I realized was there today like 12 hours after the update so sorry about that

- Added hours played to player statistics

- Added new song "Peaceful Song"

Road Map:

May-July 2026:

I plan on getting as much of the game complete in this period, like adding new crafting recipes, smelters, new ores, new pickaxes, and more!

Credits:

Concept art: AgentHamz

Controls:

Mine: Left Click

Crafting: C

Movement: W, A, S, D

Sprint: Shift

Jump: Space

Pickup Object/Interact: E

Menu: Esc

3rd Person: F5

Hot-Bar: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ,0

Flashlight: F

Console: `

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