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Beginner guide

Mine a Mountain Beginner Guide

Start with the simple loop: climb as high as you can, mine crystals, sell them for cash, then upgrade the bottleneck that ended your run.

First session

What to do first

The safest early path is to learn when cold, mining time, or bag capacity is slowing your progress.

Step 1

Climb and test the cold

If freezing ends the run before you reach better crystals, warmth is the likely first upgrade.

Step 2

Mine crystals and sell

If rocks take too long to break, pickaxe upgrades should improve cash speed.

Step 3

Watch backpack capacity

If you keep returning to sell before freezing or mining speed matter, backpack capacity is the bottleneck.

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