What you can afford, by milestone
For each Gold total, the dearest item in each line that it covers. Everything here is arithmetic on the reported price list.
| Gold | Shovel | Detector | Spray / washer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,000 | Stone Shovel — 1,600 | Copper Detector — 500 | Rubber Spray Bottle — 900 |
| 100,000 | Gold Shovel — 45,000 | Gold Detector — 28,000 | Steel Spray Bottle — 100,000 |
| 1,000,000 | Cobalt Shovel — 650,000 | Jade Detector — 1,000,000 | Metal Pressure Washer — 1,000,000 |
| 9,000,000 | Sandstone Shovel — 9,000,000 | Sandstone Detector — 7,500,000 | Garnet Pressure Washer — 5,200,000 |
ReportedThese are prices, not recommendations.
An opinionated route — buy this before that — needs someone to actually play the game and measure how a run splits between digging, cleaning and selling. We are writing that after we play, not before. Sphinx Sands’ unlock cost is published (2,500,000 Gold); Shipwreck Cove’s is not, on the locations page.
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