Idle RPG Beginner's Guide to Miners Settlement: Tips, Tricks, and Strategies for Rebuilding Your Village and Defeating Your Enemies

You have been summoned to be a hero in a remote village. An ancient war has left the village in ruins, and it is your responsibility to assist in its reconstruction, unification, and protection. Along with numerous animals, personalities, and creatures, you will be equipped to the teeth with strong weapons that you will be able to build from the finest metals... or so we hope. Will you, in any case, fulfil that prophecy?

Polish developer FunVenture, creators of Almighty: Idle Clicker Game, brings you a new journey through a distant land. As the title implies, Miners Settlement: Idle RPG is an idle role-playing game with crafting elements, quests, collection, and exciting battles. While Miners Settlement is fundamentally simple, it can be a little perplexing for newcomers at first. After reaching a certain point in the game, particularly when you first begin, you may feel a little disoriented.

However, adventurers need not fear, since the scribes of Level Winner have some wisdom for you to take on your journeys! We'll show you how to quickly earn money, navigate the dungeon, and (as of this writing, at least) obtain the mighty Demonic Pickaxe. If you're just getting started on your quest to save the village, check out our beginner's guide to Miners Settlement below for some helpful tips and strategies!

1. Adhere To The Quests

Miners Settlement, like any other RPG, features a mission list. However, what is the rationale for this?

For a long time, quest lists served as a mechanism for propelling the player along through a storey in a variety of video games. While many other modern games (particularly RPGs) lack quest systems and instead operate on a sandbox level, those that do feature quest systems are just as enjoyable, especially when they frequently reward the player, as in Miners Settlement.

Completing tasks here rewards you with gems, a premium currency used to purchase blueprints (or schemes) necessary for advancement in the game. Apart from plans to fulfil, certain quests reward you with Crystal Shards (more on this later), money, or other useful goods. The game begins with a slew of objectives for you to perform.

Regrettably, there will come a time throughout the early game when the tasks will dwindle. You may become disoriented and/or confused, especially if you are new. What are you to do now, without quests to guide you?

Here's a guaranteed method for advancing in the game.

2. Visit The Stone Cave Often

Pay A Visit To The Stone Cave Frequently, Minecraft has popularised mining games. Since then, games such as Terraria, Portal Knights, Cube World, Trove, Starbound, Block Fortress, and Craft the World have followed, with some of them maintaining a healthy following to this day. That is to say, Miners Settlement was undoubtedly inspired by Minecraft.

As if it wasn't obvious from the title, Miners Settlement's primary focus is on the mine, or in this instance, the Stone Cave. The Stone Cave may be called the village's beating heart.

Without it, you would be unable to progress or construct new structures, obtain additional gear, or increase your overall strength. This is why it is critical to pay frequent visits to this vast cavern of minerals and riches. Apart from that, as you progress inside the cave, more opportunities and tasks will become available for you to perform.

The Stone Cave is an edifice with multiple levels. It contains eleven layers, with one functioning as the surface and another as a passageway between cultivating mundane minerals and precious jewels. These levels are inhabited by a variety of creatures that create products that can aid you in your quest to save the community (in order):

• Snails – Wood
• Crabs – Stone
• Bats – Coal
• Rats – Iron
• Cave Snails – Gold
• Rabbits – Platinum
• Worms – Tanzanite
• Chickens – Emerald
• Moles – Ruby
• Ducks – Jade
• Pigs – Insatiable Ore
• Buffalos – Insatiable Stone

These gathering areas can be left alone or tapped to assist your animals in mining. Naturally, if your fingers become tired, you can use the auto clicker. There is one catch to this: you will require a stronger pickaxe to mine better ores. However, we will shortly tell you how to unlock those.

Increasing the yield per material by improving these pets in the Trainer's House. Increasing the number of pets improves the rate at which they gather, while improving their quality raises the amount of resources harvested each time.

However, in the early stages of the game, particularly the first few days, there are at least three critical creatures on which you must concentrate your efforts.

3.Concentrate Initially On Snails, Rats, And Ducks

Any crafting, mine-exploring RPG (well, almost all of them) will have a handful of things that are frequently used and virtually always farmed.

Wood and stone play a significant role in several renditions of the genre. For instance, while Redstone is one of Minecraft's most valuable elements, you'll begin with coal, wood, and stone. The most critical items you will require here in Miners Settlement are wood and iron. This is accomplished by upgrading the Snails and Rats.

The aim of wood and iron is to enable the fabrication of primarily daggers and swords. Certain things in the game will require these fundamental resources, and thus forging refined wood and refined iron will assist you in obtaining further equipment and refined cash.

Iron is expensive, but by auto-mining while you do something else (e.g. cooking, cleaning, reading, dining, watching TV, etc. ), you can increase your production of iron ores. Take note that auto-mining does not take place in the background.

Ducks are another vital animal that should be upgraded. To boost your Ducks, you must increase your Jade production. While Jade is a rare and expensive resource, it also has the highest drop rate for Enhancement Stones. While these unique stones are found in other mines, they are critical components of the Portal Scrolls (the use of which we will discuss later).

With prices increasing with each upgrade, how precisely do you recoup your investment? The solution here is a straightforward method demonstrated in the tutorial.

4. Sell Material Selectively

The Old Man sends you to the market and instructs you to sell everything in sight. Cha-ching! You've acquired a sizable sack of coins! However, you will be need to re-harvest the stuff. This may appear to be a smart idea at first, but trust us when we say that you will require the material.

Rather than selling the full stack you've harvested, hit the "Sell" button to the right of "Sell All" to retain portion of it. The default value for these materials is 10% of the current amount of material. If you prefer to increase this amount, you may do so using the slider, though we do recommend exercising caution. We don't want you to be without the materials you require.

In connection with the previous item on this list, we highly advise you against selling wood and iron. While jade is OK, wood and iron are two of the most critical materials you will want very early on.

As previously stated, these are critical components in the manufacture of daggers and swords, which are then upgraded to more formidable weapons. As you move farther into the game, your priorities for selecting which materials to sell will shift, but this is entirely up to you.

Going from shop to shop, from the dungeon to the hamlet and back, and particularly when traversing the mines' various levels, can feel a little tiresome, doesn't it? Let us dispel that sense of tedium.

5. Reconstruct Portals And Use Them To Your Advantage

Walking or running around is a regular occurrence in a large number of RPGs. Occasionally, characters are granted mounts to aid in their transit between locations. Occasionally, they are awarded Town Portal Scrolls that allow them to instantly teleport back to their home base.

Town Portal Scrolls are an absolute essential in the backpack of each traveller. Rather than wasting time fighting random encounters, the adventurer can just whiz past them and safely return to town.

The principles of a Portal are identical in Miners Settlement, except that instead of using the Portal Scroll randomly, you must first create the Portal Arch. After constructing the Portal, it must be activated with a Portal Scroll.

Then, you'll need to select which Portal you'd like to connect your newly-opened Portal to. As is the case with the majority of RPGs, using this Portal will result in both Portals dissipating and the procedure of generating a new Portal having to be restarted. To be clear, the Portal Arch does not perish.

Making a Portal Scroll is not a simple task. The scroll requires all of the colours Enhancement Stones obtained in the Stone Cave. After acquiring the necessary number of Enhancement Stones, you should be able to construct your own Portal Scroll. It's how you use this that's tough. At times, you may feel as though traversing the mines or travelling from town to dungeon and back is tedious.

Utilize the Portal Scroll sparingly. For instance, you're attempting to beat the Dungeon Fortress's minions spawning times and have a large haul of loot that you don't want to reroll (we'll discuss this later). This is the ideal opportunity to activate the Portal Scroll and zip across town in order to beat the clock. There is no fuss, no haste, and no worries!

Dungeon Fortress does have an intimidating ring to it, doesn't it? That is correct. However, do not let its name scare you; your boldness will pay off handsomely!

6. Fight In The Dungeon

The Dungeon is both a villager's worst fear and an adventurer's gold mine.

Each role-playing game has a fantastic dungeon. These colossal, ancient fortresses are home to the undead, goblins, spiders, trolls, orcs, rogue warriors, demons, rats, slimes, and bats, as well as a variety of other nefarious creatures intent on protecting their hoards of loot from the fearless adventurer. Miners Settlement is home to a magnificent Dungeon Fortress that lies directly across a bridge on the town's boundaries.

According to in-game legend, the Dungeon Fortress was previously ruled by the Dragon King, who was subsequently relegated to the lower levels of the Stone Cave following the land's great earthquake. Now it is up to you to prevent the Dungeon Fortress from unleashing its evil minions against the community.

The Dungeon Fortress provides items required for quests as well as items required for equipment and potion crafting. These items, however, do not come easily, since you will have to battle the monsters therein to obtain them. Making Healing Potions, for example, takes flesh from Rats and slime drops from Slimes (which you will need to bring into the dungeon lest you desire to die).

Naturally, as you progress through the Dungeon Fortress' levels, you'll encounter larger, more hazardous monsters and even more dangerous Dungeons.

For a time, the dungeon's monsters are limited. This means that they spawn in groups of four or five and then die for a brief while. A countdown will display beneath the cleared floor, indicating how much time you have left until the monsters resurrect. Consider yourself dead if you remain there after suffering severe injuries and the creatures spawn.

Occasionally, you'll find that monsters drop a variety of various items. The little item symbols beneath the fight screen illustrate this. If the Rats do not appear to be dropping meat, the dungeon should be rerolled.

7. Reroll Dungeon Monsters For Better Loot

You have chosen to take on the Goblin Captain! However, based on the stuff he drops, he does not appear to drop... anything. You wish to harvest Leather, but the Goblins are refusing to drop it. Drops of slime? They are closely guarded by the Slimes. Meat? That is correct; we discussed it only a paragraph ago.

What is occurring? This indicates that the RNG is not providing you with what you desire. You return to the Dungeon Fortress repeatedly just to wait for the timers to reset. Is there anything you can do to rectify this? Yes, there is, and that is to reroll the Dungeon's riches.

While not limited to the Dungeon Fortress, rerolling loot is highly beneficial if you're looking for a certain item. This is especially advantageous if you possess sufficient strength to overcome the Goblin Captain. If you're fortunate enough to survive the hordes of enemies before him, he drops a Covered Shield. This shield can assist you in gaining sufficient defence to take on a greater number of monsters than usual and in surviving against the more strong ones.

To reroll the Dungeon, you must first engage in combat with a monster. While you are engaged in combat, a red X should show in the top-right corner of the screen. Tap this and you will immediately be transported back to the village.

This will result in all enemies you've slain respawning and changing their treasure. A word of caution: retreating to the village does not replenish your health, so if farming for Health Potions is your primary objective, you're better off waiting if the RNG is harsh.

Combating the initial hordes might get tedious. To combat this, it's past time for you to update your armaments.

8. Forge Better Items As You Play

Equipment upgrades are a necessary component of any RPG. While upgrading is not progressive in nature like levelling up, it does assist the player in ensuring that their efforts in defeating the next boss or finishing that one difficult quest are not in vain.

The Miners Settlement has a way of convincing you to upgrade your weaponry. You'll notice this immediately if your life diminishes far more slowly than the monster you're fighting. After completing several early tasks, you'll be presented with two distinct swords: the Elven Sword and the Sword of the Lost King.

Elven Swords are necessary for the Necromancer's Altar task and are simpler to craft. While the Sword of the Lost King is not difficult to craft, it is more powerful and can be used to farm the Dungeon Fortress as well as progress to higher levels. With the newly discovered items, you'll be able to improve your shield, craft another Elven Sword for the Necromancer's Altar task, and properly obtain those pesky Health Potions.

Occasionally, you may be required to attend the Airport, as things are distributed for free every couple of hours or so. This is critical if you wish to upgrade your gear. As you move deeper into the game, the quality of the gear schemes and things you obtain will improve.

Keep checking back frequently to ensure you receive these potent products as soon as possible. If it's weaponry you're after, spend your gems in the Goblin Silo on the East side of town, just before crossing the bridge to the Dungeon Fortress.

Apart from obtaining weapons and armour schemes, you'll also gain access to improved picks. While pickaxes, like other items in the game, have a progression tree, there is a way to obtain the game's most powerful pickaxe: the Demon Pick.

9. Use Crystal Shards For Trade At The Airport

In RPGs, inns are frequently used interchangeably with save points. Marf the Innkeeper has other intentions for Miners Settlement.

Apart from keeping the firm afloat, she also provides lodging for travelling traders. The traders board caravans that you fill with the goods they trade, and they depart town for a time. When the durations run out, returning to Marf's inn will allow you to get the currency used to compensate the traders, or at the very least a portion of what they earned: Crystal Shards.

These dark-red shards are extremely valued in far-flung regions. Indeed, the daring sky merchant Navi would gladly exchange your Crystal Shards for chests containing components for weapon, pick, and pet ideas.

One scheme sticks out significantly from the rest, and that is the Demon Pick scheme. As of this writing, the Demon Pick is the game's most powerful pick, allowing you to mine the Stone Cave's most difficult resources with maximum efficiency.

To obtain this, you must first continue sending caravans out to earn Crystal Shards. Following that, spend all of these by unlocking the chests prepared by Navi at the Airport. While they are limited to ten chests every day, you should be able to obtain the Demon Pick within the first few days of gameplay.

While the Blacksmith does sell pick schemes in his shop, you're better off paying for the complete of the Demon Pick if it's down to the final few bits and you can't wait any longer.

After all is said and done, there is one final, self-evident point that we have been neglecting up to this point.

10. Watch Ads For Lots Of Stuff

And the most obvious thing we've overlooked thus far is the advertisements!

Today, advertisements are ubiquitous, and it's a fact that many of us struggle to accept. They can be bothersome and a waste of time, but in many games, particularly mobile games, they can be highly advantageous to the player if the player is aware of how much time they spend watching them.

While advertisements provide an alternate revenue stream for game creators, the player should view them positively: as a break from the game. Are you tired of fighting monsters and travelling back and forth between town and Dungeon Fortress? Do you continue mining your Jade for the Enhancement Stones while grumbling as you march down the Stone Cave's shafts? It's time to relax and watch some advertisements.

Advertisements can assist you in claiming additional rewards from Navi and chests from the Trainer's House. However, you're better off employing advertisements to improve the yield and speed with which your pets gather. You should see a snail icon in the lowest portion of your screen.

By tapping the snail, you should be presented with an interface that allows you to expedite your creatures' collection. Each pet will require an ad watch, so save this for when you're going to go to bed or put the game down for the day, not when you're actively playing the game and mining for these materials. Spare no expense now; lavish bonuses on all your pets.

To summarise, moving through Miners Settlement needs a great deal of patience and commitment. As you begin, the most efficient way to progress is to complete your tasks. If you have completed all of your objectives, proceed to the Stone Cave and unlock additional floors until you reach the bottom. To optimise your material yield early on, snails, rats, and ducks are your primary targets.

Upgrading these will cost money, and selling some of the material you harvested will be necessary; however, do not sell them all at once, as you will use some of them along the way. As you walk through the hamlet, to and from the Dungeon Fortress, or through the Stone Cave, make sure to reconstruct Portal Arches so you can easily travel through space (just remember to bring the Portal Scrolls).

If you're looking for equipment materials, go no further than the Dungeon Fortress's creatures. Similarly, if you are unable to obtain the goods you require, reroll loot by abandoning combat and returning to the settlement. Ensure that you recuperate completely before returning. If you feel as though the Dungeon Fortress, or any Dungeon, is kicking your buttocks, be sure to enhance your equip through crafting.

The Airport may provide you with improved equipment schemes. Finally, do not avoid watching advertisements. Ads will be able to improve your dogs' productivity and provide you with additional material and other benefits wherever they appear.

We did not include everything there is to know about Miners Settlement, merely enough to get you started. The game is chock-full of hidden mysteries, and believe us, we wouldn't want to ruin the surprise. Get out there and explore; be the hero your village so desperately needs!

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