Mine a Planet

Mine a Planet Ores — Azurite, Aurum & How Ore Value Works

Mine a Planet ore guide: officially named ores, what each source confirms, and how to read your own values. No invented ore rates.

Last updated: 2026-07-27

How many ores are in Mine a Planet?

Skydog Games has never published an ore list. The only two ores named anywhere official are Azurite and Aurum, and they appear in a single line of the Roblox store description: ore bursts off in tiers, "from Azurite to Aurum and beyond." That sentence tells you three real things — Azurite sits at the shallow end, Aurum sits far down the ladder, and the phrase "and beyond" means the developer is deliberately hinting at tiers past Aurum without naming them. Everything else about ores in this game is unpublished: no full tier list, no cash values, no drop weights, no depth boundaries. If you have landed on a site showing you a neat table of fourteen ores with exact prices, that table was invented. We would rather show you two verified names and teach you to read the rest off your own screen than pad this page with numbers we made up. Ore value is set by depth and by planet evolution, the timing for which is on how to make money, and the step-by-step planning lives in the evolution calculator.

  • Azurite — the starter ore, named in the official Roblox game description
  • Aurum — the deepest ore named officially, from the same sentence
  • "And beyond" — the developer's own wording, confirming unnamed tiers exist past Aurum
  • No official ore-value table, tier count, or depth map has ever been released
  • Ore names visible in-game will always beat any list on a wiki, including this one

Every officially named ore

OrePositionWhat is knownData basis
AzuriteSurface layersThe ore every player starts on. Its sell value is unpublished — read it from your own game UI.Official game description
AurumDeep layersThe highest ore named by the developer. Value unpublished; reached after significant depth or evolution progress.Official game description
Tiers beyond AurumUnknownConfirmed to exist by the phrase "and beyond" but never named, priced, or shown in any official material.Official game description (implied)

How ore value actually works

Two mechanics drive what your ore is worth, and both are structural rather than numeric — which means we can describe them honestly even though the numbers are hidden. The first is depth: your planet is a voxel sphere mined layer by layer, and ore sitting deeper sells for more than ore near the surface. That is why a fleet that chews through shallow blocks quickly can still earn less than a smaller fleet working a deeper face. The second is planet evolution, the game's prestige step. Evolving unlocks higher-value ore bands and a larger world, which is the only documented way to change which ores are available to you at all. Community footage shows evolution also resetting depth progress, so you re-mine from the top with a better ore ceiling — a trade of short-term output for a higher long-term rate. Neither mechanic has published numbers attached, so the practical approach is comparative rather than absolute: note the sell value your game shows for the ore you are on now, evolve or dig deeper, then compare.

  • Deeper ore sells for more — depth matters more than raw block-breaking speed
  • Planet evolution unlocks higher-value ore bands and a bigger world
  • Evolution also resets depth progress, per community footage — a prestige trade, not a free gain
  • A full cargo hold stalls a drone completely, so hauling capacity caps what deep ore is actually worth to you
  • No published values exist for any of this — compare against your own numbers

How to read your own ore values

  1. 1Open your planet and look at the ore band your drones are currently working — the block colour changes as depth increases.
  2. 2Watch the cash counter over a fixed stretch of time, such as one full minute, without changing anything else.
  3. 3Note that figure, then let your fleet reach the next band down and repeat the same one-minute measurement.
  4. 4Compare the two numbers. The ratio between them tells you what the deeper band is actually worth to your specific fleet, which is the number that matters — not a generic table.
  5. 5Feed both figures into the fleet income calculator to project them out to hourly and daily income, and to test whether more drones or a higher multiplier closes the gap faster.

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