Some beginner questions

[Ordack]

Hi, i have some questions about game:

How i can open more crafting options? i am on floor 170 and don´t have more options. (i can upgrade my builds)

How i can "travel" to others zones? (i assume is a progression)

i check some Steam screenshoot, and the UI not is the same on my game. Could it be because of the language?

Those red names on miners are players?

Thanks and best regards.

[Bammbulance]

You'll find another vendor deeper down, I'm down to floor 400 and have 2 vendors you do not have yet (And some other stuff).

The red names are players who have donated money (Their reward is to have a miner with their name).

Another tip, never sell your Isotopes. I found that out too late and am finding it hard to buy the next line of stuff as they take so long to build up!

[Kαrp]

Get level 3 manager and lvl 5 metal detector asap.

Never sell your isotopes. Never. No exceptions. Just don't sell them.

Prioritise digging fast until you reach km 300 (or floor 300). At km 300, theres the underground city. After km 300 you are gonna occasionally find monsters and every 100 km, (km 400, km 500, km 600, etc.) you are going to find bosses.
Bosses completely halt your mining unless defeated, so make sure you upgrade your weapons to a comfortable level before prioritising digging fast again. Monsters give a good chunk of money when defeated too so its a good addition to get something back from leveling your weapons.

For drill upgrades :
There is a little dude robot-dude at 225km. You are gonna get your next upgrades there.
You can also buy upgrades at the trading post for a certain price occasionally and you can also get different drill upgrades from golden chests with a small chance. After you are done buying all your upgrades from the little dude robot-dude, up until km 1000 there is no more upgrades vendor and you are going to need the last upgrade (the rocket parts) to fly to moon. Up until km 1240 (where i am at) theres no more upgrades vendor, excluding the first set of moon parts at the km 1 on W2 (world 2 - moon) although im not sure about that first set of parts, i have bad memory haha.

For underground city :
My tip is to upgrade oil well to 8000 storage asap. You are gonna need it a lot.

More general advice :
When you die you lose nothing so don't be afraid to try fighting if you are unsure of victory.
You can lock certain values on mineral storage so when you "sell all" you still keep some (you get that from manager lvl 3 i believe ;) )
If you want to tryhard this, be active. Hella active. Chests are going to be spawning left right and center and you want ALL. OF. THEM. Gosh, 95% of my progress is from opening chests lmao. If i have 1000 hours played, then my total in game hours is 10.000 hours from time skipping while opening those chests haha.

Relics :
Honestly, do whatever the fk you want with those. In my playthrough i have found them a bit useless. I just a whole lot of golden shovels for dem moneyyyyzzzzz and a few cookies for buying slave miners for dirt cheap haha. *Sparkly distraction relic is utterly useless* They reduce the buying price of the blueprints only. Not the crafting price. I got most my blueprints from golden chests or trading posts (trading posts price dont go lower either) so you might wanna skip those if they seem tempting.

I hope these tips helped you and I hope many more beginners read this and be helpful to them as well.

[Ordack]

Thank you very much for your replies.

@n3cr0sman Everything has been very clear to me, thanks for the tips, I am at km 213 and I will try to do what you recommend.
Now I know how to continue, thank you very much for your time, your words have been very helpful.

I would like to give you a longer answer, but my English is very bad, excuse me.

Thanks and best regards.

[Finkle]

*Sparkly distraction relic is utterly useless*

Sorry, but later in the game when it costs money or each upgrade this item does lower the out of pocket cost to upgrade your equipment. It makes it kind of nice to drop that $1.5 quin upgrade cost of vacuum packed cargo down below $900 quad.

[Kαrp]

Unless the relic is changed, and by that I mean sparkly distraction reduces the crafting price as well (i had it tested when i was still early on and buying from the little robot dude) then i still stand by my statement. Last time I had bought a blueprint was the 50m cargo which i needed a lot at the time (I was still around 300km or whatever and now im at 1242km) after that, i have bought exactly *zero* blueprints. everything has been from trading posts (10%) and the rest has been golden chests. It's still a bit useless to me unless golden chests dont give me any better blueprints and Im forced to buy them.

[frerouche]

It reduces crafting price. And you should never buy blueprints from trades as you're just gonna have to pay again to craft. You're also very likely to get the blueprints from golden chests long before you have the money to craft them anyway.