Mine a Planet Guide — Beginner Walkthrough & Strategy

You spawn with a basic drone fleet that mines automatically: drones blast ore off the planet surface and it sells for cash. Redeem every active code first — the free Drone Pack, Time Skip, Strong Batteries and Super Alien Treat are a real head start, and the full live list lives on our codes page. Then spend cash on the three fleet-level upgrade stats named in the official description: Mining Power, Cargo, and Speed. For the exact order to spend in, follow the beginner upgrades walkthrough.

Drones are your only income source and they mine 24/7, even offline. Fleet size is a direct multiplier: every extra drone makes every global upgrade worth more. The Drone Index shows 11 rarity tiers, Common through Transcendent, with 31 of the 51 names confirmed from July 2026 footage — the full graded roster is on our drone tier list — and the official description additionally promises god-tier drones up to 1-in-25-trillion rarity. The only numbers published anywhere are band roll odds plus three fleet-level upgrade names; no per-drone stat line has ever been released. Treat ultra-rare rolling as a collection goal; consistent fleet-level upgrades pay the bills.

Planets are mined layer by layer, and deeper ore sells for more. The official description names two tiers — Azurite at the surface and Aurum in the depths — and says the range goes "beyond" Aurum. No official ore-value table exists, so compare ores by the sell value shown in your own game UI rather than any site's numbers; the ores page lays out the bands we have actually read.

Planet Evolution is the game's prestige-style macro system: a cinematic upgrade that transforms your planet into a bigger, richer world with higher-value ore bands. Community footage shows evolution resets depth progress in exchange for the richer world. Evolution costs escalate and are not published anywhere — read the exact requirement from your own game UI. The wiki entry collects what footage proved about the mechanic, and new evolution steps show up on updates.

Mine a Planet is built for idle play: the official description has the swarm auto-mining 24/7. How offline time settles — full rate, reduced, or capped — has never been stated, so treat a long absence as earning somewhat less than the same time online; that gap is this site's own conservative estimate, not a rate the game has ever shown, and nobody here has measured it. Before logging off, make sure Cargo won't stall your drones mid-cycle, and save Time Skips for after you've stacked fresh upgrades. The community also reports a Pet Aliens system that adds a passive cash boost; how it works is on the wiki.

Mutations enter your drones through CPU chips: buy one in the Gear Shop, apply it, and the drone carries that mutation until you swap it. Applying one also registers the discovery in the in-game Index → Mutations panel, which a July 17, 2026 recording of the full panel shows reading "Mutations Discovered 6/6 (100%)" — so the game itself currently counts six mutations. Each tile carries a value multiplier: Blizzard 1.35x, Ion 1.75x, Solar Flare 2x, Radioactive 2.25x, UFO 3x and JellyFish 3.25x. Here is the honest limit of that evidence: the panel shows the x-values but never shows what they multiply, and a separate weather banner reads "Drones can mutate - up to 3x value!", which does not reconcile with the 3.25x tile — so we keep both on record and refuse to state which stat the boost lands on. What the index does pay is explicit and worth more than the single terminal bonus older write-ups quote: filling it grants permanent cash milestones of +5% / +10% / +15% / +25% at 25% / 50% / 75% / 100% discovery. Chips are consumables — removing a mutation destroys the chip — so creators advise spending the strong ones only on your best drones, and our tier list is the graded answer to which rarities those are. Beyond shop purchases, footage shows a Solar Flare CPU chip as the Day 5 slot of the Daily Rewards calendar (Aug 26, 2026) and UFO Shards ticking up a 10-slot event collection, though what ten shards redeem for is still unread. Mutation crafting has only ever been previewed in update notes, never shown in-game, so no recipes are listed. For the dated chip prices and the weather map, read the mutations hub; for the hands-on apply-and-remove steps, see how to get mutations. Chip multipliers are a different lever from drone roll luck, which is what the luck calculator actually models.