How to Play Mine a Planet (Roblox Beginner's Guide)

One loop runs the whole early game: roll a drone, raise Drone Luck, deploy it on a dock, collect the ore it mines, sell, and pour the cash back into the boards. Every screenshot below was read straight from one 2026-07-21 gameplay video, and each caption deep-links the exact second.

1. 1

   Spawn into the hub market

   You land on a platform market, not a mining field. The left rail carries your INDEX book, GIFT and FEEDBACK buttons; the hotbar at the bottom starts with a Laser Pistol and any drone you already own (this account has Splashy Sam equipped); the cash counter sits bottom-left; and the top centre counts down "Next event in 6:47" to the map's next event window. The stalls ahead handle everything this loop buys and sells, and the hint along the bottom reminds you that you can fly: hold SPACE.

   

2. 2

   Find the roll station: Drone Luck, Drone Rolls, green button

   The roll station is two signs and one button. The pink sign sells Drone Luck, here 1x > 2x for $250; the red sign sells Drone Rolls, 1 > 2 for $300. A freshly rolled Choo-Choo Chip waits on a pedestal labelled Common, 1 in 3, $5 — that bracket is the game printing its own odds. What a higher Drone Rolls number actually unlocks is never spelled out in this clip; the same sign reads 2 > 3 for $3,800 by 3:12.

   

3. 3

   Press the button and read the result card

   Every roll lands on the lit pedestal as a card: name, rarity word, odds in brackets, and a cash figure. This one is Chuckle Chunk, Rare, 1 in 128, $3,000 — a step up the ladder from the Common 1 in 3 roll in the previous frame. The Drone Rolls sign in the corner still advertises 1 > 2 for $300, so one early rolls upgrade costs less than this single lucky result.

   

4. 4

   Deploy the drone: E Place Drone on a dock

   A purchased drone lives in your hotbar (slot 2 here, Choo-Choo Chip Lv. 2). Walk up to a dock and the prompt reads "E Place Drone" with the tooltip "Tap a dock to deploy it." The open card belongs to Grinny Gus — Common, Lv. 1, $151/ore, carrying an Ion mutation tag — with $72, REMOVE and RECALL buttons, and the green "Drone removed" toast above shows the swap in progress: take the weak drone off, put the better one on. Docks are slots, not decoration.

   

5. 5

   Collect what your drones mined

   Placed drones work on their own. Each dock accumulates an ore pile with its own cash label — $4,445, $1,270 and $3,429 across the three docks in this frame. Walk up to a pile and the prompt becomes "E Collect" with an Ore tag; one keypress banks the pile. No menu, no timer, no minigame: the loop only asks you to walk over and press E.

   

6. 6

   When the backpack fills, the game says so — twice

   Haul too much and the warnings stack: the top banner reads "Backpack full – upgrade your Jetpack at the Upgrade Shop", a second toast repeats "Backpack full – upgrade your Jetpack!" with a GO button, and the player model visibly carries an ore stack on their back. The game files the backpack under the Jetpack, and the Upgrade Shop sign stands right beside the SELL stall. Two seconds earlier, full docks also grow a "STORAGE FULL" tag under their price labels.

   

7. 7

   Spend on the fleet board: four levers, one wall

   The upgrade board prices four levers side by side: Mining Speed 3.5x > 4x for $1,600, Cargo 3 > 4 for $2,500, Dock Storage 36 > 48 for $2,200, and Dock Platforms 2 > 3 for $25,000. The same corner houses a Discard bin beside the Fuse Machine — the "Item discarded" toast fires mid-frame — so thinning out weak drones is part of the same stop. Every price here climbs as you upgrade; the numbers on your screen outrank any list, including this one.

   

8. 8

   Save for Planet Upgrade: Ore Value x3 > x4

   One tier above the fleet board stands the purple Planet Upgrade sign: Ore Value x3 > x4 for $7,000. It is the largest single purchase this clip shows during the loop, and the creator's narration treats it as the checkpoint worth saving toward ("upgrade the planet value"). The label is the promise; the recording never shows the moment the multiplier kicks in.

   

9. 9

   Sell at the stall and watch the payout toast

   Selling is one trip. Carry the haul to the SELL stall from the backpack step and the game reports the total in a green toast: "Sold +$2,223" here, while two more piles worth $476 and $136 wait on the docks behind. The cash counter bottom-left is the loop's scoreboard — every other number on this page exists to push it up.

   

10. 10

    Close the loop: compound cash into Drone Luck

    Three minutes after the $250 sign, the same board reads Drone Luck 15x > 16x for $27,780 with a green "Upgraded" toast, and the corner badge agrees: 15x. Drone Rolls has moved on to 2 > 3 for $3,800. That is the point of the whole loop — drones fund luck, luck rolls better drones — and the curve is steep: twelve to over a hundred times the 0:32 tags.

    

11. 11

    Boosters and CPU chips live at the Gear Shop

    The Gear Shop stocks the optional layer. Timed batteries sit at $500K (STOCK: 5), "Clean CPU chip — Removes a mutation from a drone." costs $1M (STOCK: 2), and "Blizzard CPU chip — Applies the Blizzard Mutation." is $10M (STOCK: 1). Every row carries a second price in blue tokens — 39 and 79 here — a currency the shop never names, and the footer counts "Restocks in: 2:59" beside a pay-to-skip Restock button for 49 tokens. Mutations get a page of their own; for the daily loop, this stall is where boosters come from.

    

12. 12

    One more system to know: Alien Pets

    The tour ends one stall over, at Alien Pets. "Normal Alien Treat" (+10% Stat Boost for 3m.) costs $1M with STOCK: 5, and the "Common Alien Ball" — "Capsule for catching wild aliens. Normal catch chance." — is $5M with STOCK: 4. Treats are timed buffs, balls are catch capsules, and this frame is deliberately the whole story here: throwing, catching and equipping aliens is its own illustrated guide, linked below.