This guide will be integrated in the original mining guide Soontm.
Mining Update 2026
This guide is used to have an overview on changes that were made to mining in 2026.
User friendly UI
The UI was reworked to be much more user friendly than how it used to be.
You can now click the button top right of your screen (if you didn't move that panel somewhere else): ** BUTTON IMAGE **
A more in-depth explanation will be featured once the guides are merged together.
More Levels
There were levels added but the experience required to reach the levels was lowered. Experience gained can be increased by several means (mining level, player skills, player focus, ...).
These things lead to a fair experience curve.
There are also new titles added for your mining levels:
Teleport/Mining Skills
Teleport options are now added. These need to be unlocked through the Player Skills part.
You get skill points, that you can allocate in the player skills UI to several options, by levelling up your mining level:
1 skill point every 5 levels (until level 100) + an additional skill point at levels 60, 70, 80, 90 & 100 = 25 skill points total.
After level 100 no extra skill points can be earned.
This means you can NOT unlock every mining skill (at the same time)
Options to allocate skill points include:
After that reset, every reset will cost 500 Gems.
More info on player skills in that guide (it also affects crafting & in the future maybe more).
Mini-game
There was a mini game added in mining.
The chance is very rare, but chance increases every time you do not get the mini-game. A kind of luck protection.
There are 2 kinds of mini-games, both revolve around timing. They will be explained on the UI for the mini-game (opens when triggered).
The difficulty of your minigame is randomly selected & your reward depends on your performance on the mini-game.
Column titles = quality of reward // your performance on the minigame
The Sun Core in Legendary Tier is a new released item used in Crafting, leading to Necrozma fusion item.
Auto-Pickaxe
Inside the Tools part of the Mining UI, you can enable or disable the auto-pickaxe setting.
It is unlocked at mining level 5 but is slower for balancing between using the auto-pickaxe feature & clicking the space button/screen multiple times.
Groudon / Infernal Sanctum
People probably wonder 'is groudon actually added now?'. The answer is... Yes!
He is added as a 24/7 legendary rarity spawn in the Infernal Sanctum. A safari like map that you can enter for 1/8/24 hour(s) after using a ticket.
These tickets can be bought at Blue Print Guru (inside the house on Route 111 (Desert) Mining Site Pass) for 7.5K/50K/150K after you reached mining level 150 (reaching this level triggers quest in quest tracker).
Spawns
New rewards for dark ores
There are 2 new reward inside the Dark Ores.
Mining Update 2026
This guide is used to have an overview on changes that were made to mining in 2026.
User friendly UI
The UI was reworked to be much more user friendly than how it used to be.
You can now click the button top right of your screen (if you didn't move that panel somewhere else): ** BUTTON IMAGE **
A more in-depth explanation will be featured once the guides are merged together.
More Levels
There were levels added but the experience required to reach the levels was lowered. Experience gained can be increased by several means (mining level, player skills, player focus, ...).
These things lead to a fair experience curve.
There are also new titles added for your mining levels:
| Mining Level | Title |
| 1 - 19 | Pebble Pidgey |
| 20 - 39 | Boulder Bulbasaur |
| 40 - 59 | Ore Oddish |
| 60 - 79 | Gem Geodude |
| 80 - 99 | Crystal Onix |
| 100 - 110 | Meteorite Mewtwo |
| 111 - 120 | Celestial Metagross |
| 121 - 139 | Cosmic Diancie |
| 140 - 160 | Primal Groudon |
| 161 - 1000 | Legendary Rayquaza |
Teleport/Mining Skills
Teleport options are now added. These need to be unlocked through the Player Skills part.
You get skill points, that you can allocate in the player skills UI to several options, by levelling up your mining level:
1 skill point every 5 levels (until level 100) + an additional skill point at levels 60, 70, 80, 90 & 100 = 25 skill points total.
After level 100 no extra skill points can be earned.
This means you can NOT unlock every mining skill (at the same time)
Options to allocate skill points include:
- Mining technique: Quicker mining
- Reward preservation: Safer mining
- Propsector Focus: Unlock the Prospector Focus options
- Travel Pads: The teleport options
- Mining Training: More Exp gain while mining
After that reset, every reset will cost 500 Gems.
More info on player skills in that guide (it also affects crafting & in the future maybe more).
Mini-game
There was a mini game added in mining.
The chance is very rare, but chance increases every time you do not get the mini-game. A kind of luck protection.
There are 2 kinds of mini-games, both revolve around timing. They will be explained on the UI for the mini-game (opens when triggered).
The difficulty of your minigame is randomly selected & your reward depends on your performance on the mini-game.
Column titles = quality of reward // your performance on the minigame
| Low | Medium | High | Legendary |
| Claw Fossil | Armor Fossil | Dome Fossil | Jaw Fossil |
| Root Fossil | Cover Fossil | Helix Fossil | Old Amber |
| / | Sail Fossil | Fossilized Fish | Cosmog Chest |
| / | / | Dracozolt Chest | / |
| / | / | Arctozolt Chest | / |
| IV Randomizer | IV Randomizer x2 | IV Randomizer x3 | IV Randomizer x3 |
| Pearl x3 | Big Nugget | Comet Shard | Pearl String |
| Heart Scale x2 | Big Pearl | / | / |
| / | Star Piece | / | / |
| Unallocated EV Reset | Unallocated EV Reset x3 | Ability Capsule | Ability Patch |
| / | Full EV Reset | Full EV Reset x3 | / |
| / | PP Up | PP Max | / |
| / | One Time Air Balloon x3 | / | / |
| / | One Time Focus Sash x3 | / | / |
| Lure | 5000 F | 10.000 F | Sun Core |
The Sun Core in Legendary Tier is a new released item used in Crafting, leading to Necrozma fusion item.
Auto-Pickaxe
Inside the Tools part of the Mining UI, you can enable or disable the auto-pickaxe setting.
It is unlocked at mining level 5 but is slower for balancing between using the auto-pickaxe feature & clicking the space button/screen multiple times.
Groudon / Infernal Sanctum
People probably wonder 'is groudon actually added now?'. The answer is... Yes!
He is added as a 24/7 legendary rarity spawn in the Infernal Sanctum. A safari like map that you can enter for 1/8/24 hour(s) after using a ticket.
These tickets can be bought at Blue Print Guru (inside the house on Route 111 (Desert) Mining Site Pass) for 7.5K/50K/150K after you reached mining level 150 (reaching this level triggers quest in quest tracker).
Spawns
| Sprite | Pokemon | Rarity | Time | Method | Level | EV |
| Rapidash | Common | All | Walking | 80-86 | 2 SPEED |
| Sandslash | Common | All | Walking | 80-86 | 2 DEF |
| Camerupt | Uncommon | All | Walking | 80-86 | 1 ATK, 1 SP_ATK |
| Marowak | Uncommon | Day | Walking | 80-86 | 2 DEF |
| Marowak-Alola | Uncommon | Night | Walking | 80-86 | 2 DEF |
| Coalossal | Rare | All | Walking | 80-86 | 3 DEF |
| Torkoal | Rare | All | Walking | 80-86 | 2 DEF |
| Heatmor | Very Rare | All | Walking | 80-86 | 2 SP_ATK |
| Rhydon | Very Rare | All | Walking | 80-86 | 2 ATK |
| Excadrill | Ultra Rare | All | Walking | 80-86 | 2 ATK |
| Groudon | Legendary | All | Walking | 80-86 | 3 ATK |
New rewards for dark ores
There are 2 new reward inside the Dark Ores.
- Moon Core (used in Crafting)
- Prismatic Core (used in Crafting)
