As a brand new Pickaxe Simulator player, your goal is not to chase huge damage numbers instantly, but to understand the basic loop of mining blocks, selling ores, upgrading gear, and unlocking new zones and worlds. This Beginner's Guide walks you through the most important decisions in your first few hours.
The very first step in any Beginner's Guide is to build a rhythm in the Starter Mine: break the weakest blocks quickly, sell often, and turn every coin into early upgrades. That means going from the free Wooden Pickaxe to the 50-coin Stone Pickaxe within your first few minutes, because that jump adds +10% coins, +1% ore luck, and +5 speed right away.
- Target the lowest‑HP blocks first instead of forcing the deepest layers right away.
- Sell as soon as your bag is full – steady cash flow gets you Stone → Iron (500 coins) → Golden (2.5K coins) quickly, and every upgrade stacks more coin multipliers.
- Complete basic quests as you see them; they often give resources that speed up your first few upgrades.
A simple Beginner's Guide rule is to alternate between buying stronger pickaxes and spending coins on training. If you only dump coins into one side, you either hit blocks too slowly or overkill weak blocks and waste potential. Use the early Common pickaxe ladder from the official Pickaxe list: Wooden → Stone (50 coins) → Iron (500 coins) → Golden (2.5K coins) → Diamond (10K coins) → Petal (40K coins) → Sunstone (250K coins) → Toxic Fang (1M coins).
- Use pickaxe tiers as checkpoints: every time you double your coin bonus, pause for training.
- After each new pickaxe, reserve some coins for 2–3 training sessions to raise your base Power.
- Recruit your first miner (Noob costs 250 coins and adds +15% coins/+5% ore luck) before you move into the mid-game worlds so block HP doesn't spike too hard.
- If a single block in your current zone takes more than 3–4 seconds to break, it's time to upgrade.
Many Beginner's Guides warn against rushing into new worlds too early. Pickaxe Simulator's egg worlds unlock in this order: Spawn (Common/Rare/Forest eggs), Moon (Black Hole/UFO/Garden), Frostlands (Sand/Snow/Lava), Ashlands (Sunny/Cave/Sakura), Desert (Beach/Aqua), Stud (Pixel/Farm). A practical rule is that in a new zone, your average time to break a block should not exceed 2–3 seconds for comfortable grinding.
- If blocks in the new zone take over 10 seconds each, drop back to the previous area and upgrade more.
- After unlocking a new world, immediately check its eggs and pets to see if switching your farming focus makes sense.
- Don't abandon old worlds completely; sometimes earlier zones are still better for consistent coin farming.
Once you reach mid‑game, plan each session around three growth axes and weave in the Gem-powered upgrades (More Coins has 150 tiers, Egg Luck 25 tiers, Golden/Rainbow Chance 20 tiers each) whenever you open gem chests.
- Pickaxes: always push toward the next meaningful upgrade instead of sitting on one tier forever.
- Training: use short breaks or AFK time to stack permanent Power until the current world feels smooth.
- Pets: keep replacing weak early pets with stronger ones from higher‑tier eggs.
If you follow one simple Beginner's Guide principle – "before you log out, upgrade at least one of pickaxe, training, or pets"– your account will keep getting stronger every session.