Dig & Clean Beginner Guide: The Full Loop in Five Minutes

Four steps, on repeat: detect → dig → clean → display or sell. Updates 1 and 2 added more places, gear and progression around that same core loop.

1. Detect

Equip the detector and walk the sandy area. It projects a light cone and rings onto the ground, and a buried item appears as a glowing spot. The dated late-game footage showed purple, orange and yellow high-tier markers.

2. Dig

Switch to the shovel, click the glowing spot, then click rapidly to fill the dig meter and pull the item out.

When the shovel was too weak in the reviewed beginner recording, the game showed:

“You need a stronger shovel to dig this!”

That attempt lost the item and immediately offered recovery for 249 Robux. The offer displayed the rarity as 1 in ???. In the same dated shop evidence, the Stone Shovel cost 29 Robux or 1.6K cash, so a permanent upgrade and a single recovery are separate spending choices.

3. Clean

Carry the dirty block to the CLEANING station table, equip the spray bottle, and spray until it is clean. The cleaned card reveals the item's name, weight, condition and rarity.

That reveal is why the sell-or-display decision belongs after cleaning.

4. Display or sell

• Museum: walk the cleaned item to an available pedestal. The August 8 footage showed per-second income cards; the August 19 footage showed discrete tourist-payment popups instead.
• Sell: talk to the merchant NPC at the SELL booth for immediate cash.

The recordings reviewed through August 20 do not establish whether the museum presentations changed with Update 1 or coexist. The museum guide keeps both dated observations.

Three costly early habits

1. Selling before cleaning. A dirty block hides its item name, rarity and condition. One August 8 example became a Dino Skull, Perfect, 1 in 2,937,020, valued at 1.5M after cleaning.

2. Leaving useful museum space unfilled. In the reviewed footage, museum displays generated income while the player hunted. Fill available space and replace weaker displayed cards as stronger finds appear; sell surplus when cash is needed.

3. Treating the recovery offer as the only route forward. The 249-Robux prompt rescues one failed dig. A stronger shovel addresses the power gate on later attempts and can be purchased with cash along the gear ladder.

What to upgrade first

Prioritize the shovel when failed digs are blocking extraction. The detector changes the quality of finds, while the spray or pressure washer changes cleaning throughput in the reviewed loop.

Full dated price tables and evidence conflicts are on the gear upgrades page.

Levels & XP after Update 2

The Update 2 changelog lists “Levels & XP.” S7 captured the release moment: after the Update 2 changelog appeared, the bottom-left HUD gained “LVL 1 (0/9 xp)” at 27:10.

S1 supplied additional single-recording early examples:

• level 2 displayed “(20/26 xp)”;
• level 3 displayed “(12/49 xp)”;
• “LEVEL UP!” banners appeared as the player advanced.

Those screens establish observed thresholds and progress displays, rather than a complete formula for later levels. S7's Highest Level leaderboard showed proton_violet — 231 within a day of Update 2; that top entry is a single-server, single-recording snapshot.

Level-gated content

S2 showed a Ranger NPC at the Sphinx Sands Pyramid door saying:

“Not yet! That door only answers to level 25 and higher. Keep digging.”

This is a single-recording dialogue read establishing a level-25 Pyramid gate in that session.

Where to go next

The observed map now follows a four-island luck ladder:

Island	Luck	Unlock
Home Beach	1×	Starting area
Shipwreck Cove	2×	1.1M cash
Sphinx Sands	4×	32M¢
Frozen Shores	8×	120M¢

Shipwreck Cove's cost comes from the August 8 read. The 32M¢ Sphinx Sands and 120M¢ Frozen Shores prices each come from one on-screen Update 2 travel menu. Multiplier source counts, a travel-menu name conflict and the early- and late-game purchase forks are documented on the islands page.

Codes

Both update changelogs listed matching code strings: UPDATE1 in Update 1 and UPDATE2 in Update 2. Redemption results and the current verified list are maintained on the codes page.