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- Pickaxes you can own and equip. Each equipped pickaxe boosts your mining upgrades.
- The Vault (/vault): a new panel to view and equip the pickaxes you own. Auras, cosmetics, effects, and pets are previewed there as coming soon.
- Ore Codex milestones now reward real pickaxes, not just shards. Every ore has its own signature pickaxe to chase.
- The Apex: catalog every ore in the Codex to claim the ultimate pickaxe, the one that pushes your upgrades beyond their normal maximum.
- A server-wide announcement now fires when a player claims The Apex Pickaxe.
- Your equipped pickaxe now shows on your character for other players to see.

- Retuned the endgame rank requirements (Sovereign, Untouchable, Mythic) to better match real mining pace.
- Overhauled the Luck upgrade's cost curve, keeping it from trivializing the climb.
- Recalibrated Ore Codex milestone targets to real mining speed.
- Hovering an ore in the Codex now shows exactly what each milestone rewards, including pickaxe bonuses.
- The upgrade menu now shows the bonus your equipped pickaxe adds to each upgrade.

- New Ore Codex: a personal collection log that tracks every ore and block you mine, opened any time with /codex.
- Discover each ore by mining it for the first time, then climb 12 milestone tiers per ore by mining more of that type.
- Earn shard rewards at every codex tier you reach.
- A live progress bar on each ore card shows how close you are to your next milestone.
Bigger rewards beyond shards are planned for the highest tiers, so it is worth chasing the rare ores early.

- Referrals are here. Type /referral (also /refer or /invite) to grab your personal invite code or enter a friend's.
- When a friend you invited reaches Apprentice, you both earn a reward, shards and a booster, claimable right from the panel.

- Quick-switch tabs on the inventory and boosters panels, hop straight from one to the other without closing out and retyping a command.
- Boosters now show what they earned you. When a Shard Boost or Sell Boost runs out, chat shows the total extra shards or cash it brought in over its run.

- Typing a command that does not exist now points you to /help instead of a dead end.

- Missions: complete short objective sets while you play (break blocks, mine ore, sell, buy upgrades, claim a daily) for shard rewards.
- Some missions roll as 2 or 3 challenge combos for bigger combined payouts, plus a chance to drop a free booster.
- Chain Reaction: a brand-new pickaxe ability. Rare chance while mining to bore a tunnel ahead, then chain a cone of collapsing block-spheres out to the sides, with a wisp darting to each one before it blows.
- New achievements for completing missions (your first, then 10, 25, and 50 total).
- Friendly wellness reminders that slide in during longer play sessions.

- The rank-up screen again marks a requirement as done (dimmed and crossed out) once you hit it, so it is clear what you still need.

- Redeem codes: a new /redeem panel where you can enter reward codes to claim shards, cash, and boosters. Watch our Discord, that's where codes drop.
- Auto-Sprint: a free toggle on the Sprint upgrade that keeps you moving at full run speed without holding the run key (once you own Sprint).

- New pickaxe upgrade: Black Hole. A rare chance while mining to tear open a black hole that drags a huge sphere of blocks into the void, with a swirling vortex you can spot from across the mine.
- New pickaxe upgrade: Earthquake. A rare chance while mining to split the ground open, sending fissures cracking through the rock around you while the broken blocks tumble and pile into the cracks as rubble.
- Both new upgrades have their own icons on the pickaxe wheel, which is now completely full.

- Leaderboards are now live, with boards for Total Sold, Top Prestige, and Biggest Sale in the hub.
- You can now see your own rank on each board even when you are not in the top placements.
- A one-time Early Access welcome screen for new players, including a look at what is coming next.
- A shard bonus for finishing the getting-started tutorial.

- Revamped Mine 6.
- Sell, sold, and other feedback sounds now play as standard game audio instead of seeming to come from a fixed spot in the World

- Removed a stray white block that could appear in a mine and hurt performance on some machines.
- Fixed an issue where shards from some rewards could not be spent on pickaxe upgrades.

Block breaking is now instant when you join another player's game, not just for the host.