Doodle Digger

⛏️ About Doodle Digger

Doodle Digger is an idle mining clicker where every click chips gold off a rock in the center of the screen, and a combo meter rewards clicking in a steady rhythm rather than randomly -- chain clicks quickly and each hit lands for more.

Four upgrades reshape how efficient your mining gets: Sharper Pickaxe adds flat gold per click, Auto-Miner adds passive gold per second (and visibly adds another miner to the scene), Lucky Vein adds a percentage chance for a 3x critical hit, and Steady Hands raises your maximum combo multiplier ceiling. The mine itself is visually layered -- Dirt, Stone, Crystal Cave, Lava Vein, Gold Seam, Diamond Core -- and once you've dug deep enough, Reforge Pickaxe lets you prestige: resetting your progress back to the surface in exchange for a permanent bonus that speeds up the next run.

How to Play

1. Click (or tap) the rock to mine gold -- each hit chips away at it directly.
2. Click in a steady rhythm to build your combo meter; a higher combo multiplies the gold from each subsequent hit.
3. Spend gold on Sharper Pickaxe (+1 gold per click), Auto-Miner (+0.5 gold/sec and an extra visible miner), Lucky Vein (+3% chance per level for a 3x critical hit), and Steady Hands (+15% max combo multiplier per level).
4. Watch the background shift through mine layers -- Dirt, Stone, Crystal Cave, Lava Vein, Gold Seam, Diamond Core -- as a rough sense of progress.
5. Once you've dug deep enough, use Reforge Pickaxe to prestige: you restart from the surface, but keep a permanent bonus that makes the next run faster than the last.

Combo upkeep matters as much as raw upgrades early on -- a broken combo resets your multiplier, so a slower, steadier click rhythm often out-earns frantic clicking that keeps breaking the chain. Lucky Vein's critical chance stacks with your combo multiplier rather than replacing it, so investing in both together compounds faster than maxing either one alone.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does the combo meter work?

Clicking the rock in quick succession builds a combo meter, and a higher combo multiplies the gold you earn from each hit. Breaking your click rhythm resets the combo, so steady, consistent clicking earns more over time than sporadic bursts.

What does Reforge Pickaxe (prestige) actually give me?

It resets your gold, upgrades, and mine depth back to the surface, but grants a permanent bonus that makes your next run mine faster and earn more than the previous one did -- it's meant to be used repeatedly as you dig deeper each cycle.

What's the difference between Lucky Vein and Steady Hands?

Lucky Vein adds a percentage chance per level for any click to land as a 3x critical hit. Steady Hands instead raises the ceiling on your combo multiplier, so your normal hits scale higher the longer you keep a clean click streak going.