A Game About Digging A Hole 100% guide

The achievement unlocks when you reach the treasure chest at the bottom. That ends the game.

The final cave holds giant moles, and you can't use any tools down there. The way through is reported to be the left-hand passage in the first mole room and the middle passage in the second. Wait until a mole faces away, then sprint past to the chest, since moles lose interest once you get far enough away. Running is fiddlier on a controller than on a keyboard, so take the turns carefully. Being caught at the chest is part of the ending, so that's expected.

Afterwards, let the credits finish.

The achievement unlocks when 50 ores have been destroyed in total.

When your inventory is full, any further ore you dig up is destroyed and the screen says "ORE DESTROYED". Fill your three slots on the surface, then keep digging the top layer until 50 have been destroyed. Ores destroyed this way don't count for Stonemason, so the two can't overlap. Dying in a fall while carrying ore is not the method. The full-inventory pickup is what counts.

The achievement unlocks when your total earnings reach $20,000. It counts money earned, not money held, so spend freely, and every sale in this world counts toward it. Surface stones only sell for about $1 each, so this counter barely moves until you're selling deep ore. The real work is in Deeper Digging below.

Use the money tile now if it works, so you can fund the upgrades. It won't move the Moneymaker counter.

The achievement unlocks after 100 stones have been collected. Stones are the white rocks, mostly found in the top layer.

They must actually go into your inventory, so sell or empty out whenever you fill up. Stones only sell for about $1, so any income here is a bonus.

The achievement unlocks after 4,000 digs with the shovel. Drill digs don't count.

Do the stationary farm first, while you still have the unupgraded starting shovel, because that's the only tool this method works with. It's a long hold, so buy battery upgrades beforehand, and leave the shovel itself completely unupgraded:

1. Before buying any shovel upgrade, stand on grass and aim down at it.
2. Hold RT, adjusting your angle until the digs keep registering.
3. Check the garage tracker to confirm the count is rising.

Ordinary digging also counts with any shovel tier before the Drill, one shovel action per RT press. So if you stop farming early, you can buy shovel upgrades and finish the count while digging the upper layers for stones and keys. Keep the battery topped up. Only buy the Drill once this pops.

The achievement unlocks when you open the crate in the garage, which takes two keys found in the same world.

The keys spawn at random places in each world. Players usually find one at roughly 15 to 25 meters down and the other at roughly 35 to 45 meters, almost always within the first 50. They're often on opposite sides of the garden, but can be on the same side.

The item detector switches on by itself whenever a hidden object is within a few feet of you. That can be a key, but also a chest or a hidden room. If it's silent, nothing is in range yet. When it lights up, follow the strengthening signal until you uncover what it found, and keep searching if it turns out not to be a key. Sweep wide across the upper layers instead of digging only one shaft. Once you have both keys, take them to the garage crate and open it. The crate gives you useful gear, including a dynamite upgrade and a one-use teleporter.

Find both keys before starting any New Game. Starting one rerolls the world and you'd have to start over.

The achievement unlocks after five rainbow ores have been collected.

Rainbow ore only spawns in Achievement Mode worlds, never in the first story run. It glows with cycling colors. It doesn't sell, and don't expect the item detector to point you to it. Spawns are random per world and often come in clusters. Check visible caverns between roughly -15 and -45 m first, where finds are most often reported. Then widen the search to cavern openings and the walls of your hole at other depths. These are reported tendencies, not guaranteed spawn depths. Some worlds have very few.

1. Collect any you see while working through the top layers.
2. Then widen the hole as you go down, looking around every cave pocket and hot rock between roughly -5 and -100 m.
3. Rainbow progress normally carries between Achievement Mode worlds on Xbox. If this world looks dry, you don't need to clear all of it. Finish your other World 2 work, then keep hunting in a fresh Achievement Mode world, and check the garage tracker after the restart to confirm your count. If it has reset, collect all five in that current Achievement Mode world before you restart again.

Save at the book after each find. Rainbow ores broken by the drill or dynamite are reported to still count, so check the shelf before you go hunting for one you think you lost.

The achievement unlocks after 100 sticks of dynamite have been thrown. They don't have to hit anything.

Dynamite costs $100 a stick, so the full count is about $10,000. If the throws don't chain, reselect the dynamite before each one. Use money tile funds or ore sales, and throw them at the large rocks you have to clear anyway while widening the shaft. That doubles as prep for Long Fall.

If the tracker shows 100 or more and nothing has popped, throw a few more, save, and restart the game.

The achievement unlocks after a single unbroken fall of at least 4 seconds. Dying when you land is fine.

Drops from ground level often stop at around 3.8 to 3.9 seconds. You need extra airtime from the jetpack, plus a shaft wide enough that you never brush a wall or loose dirt. Touching anything ends the fall. The garage shelf shows your best fall time, for example 3.9/4 sec, so you can see how close you are.

1. Dig a shaft through the middle of the garden all the way down until it opens into the well at the bottom, the entrance to the mole area, around -100 m. Leave nothing in the way of the drop. Make it far wider than you think it needs to be, and clear off any ledges and specks. The corners have unbreakable walls, so stay central.
2. Empty your inventory, because the landing will probably kill you.
3. Drop a few meters into the hole, then hover over the center. Boost straight up and release the jetpack just before the height ceiling, so you coast upward and then drop back down through the shaft. This extra height is what gets you past 4 seconds.
4. Don't touch the jetpack again once you've let go. Using it during the drop breaks the fall.
5. If the shelf still shows under 4 seconds, widen the shaft and try the boost again. If you keep stopping at about 3.9 seconds, start from the shed roof instead for extra height, then fly out over the center of the shaft and drop.

If the shelf shows 4 seconds or more but nothing has popped, restart the game and redo the fall.

The achievement unlocks for any run that reaches the treasure within 30 minutes of starting a New Game, including the first story run. The time is checked at the chest, and the garage tracker shows your last completed run time. If it doesn't pop right away, go back to the main menu and press Continue on the finished save, or start Achievement Mode. This world is only the fallback if World 1 was too slow.

1. Start a New Game. The timer starts here. Skip any cutscene the game lets you skip.
2. If the money tile works, cash in straight away. Buy the shovel line through the Drill, then strong battery and jetpack upgrades, then a few lamps and some dynamite. With a fully upgraded kit, the run is reported to take around 10 minutes.
3. Without the tile, the minimum is the shovel upgrades leading up to the $600 Drill upgrade, the Drill itself, and battery upgrades. An efficient route can get under 30 minutes, but it isn't guaranteed, so expect to need a few tries.
4. Dig one narrow, straight shaft downward. Ignore side caves, mine-shaft chests and money bags unless one is right in your path.
5. Sell before you enter the mole area. Then take the left passage in the first mole room and the middle one in the second, sprinting when the moles face away. Tight movement past the moles is the hardest part of this on a controller.

Play the run in one go, without pausing or sitting in menus. Nobody has confirmed whether the timer is in-game time or real time.

If you're caught early or the clock is clearly past 30 minutes, start another New Game. A short run costs less than trying to salvage a long one. It's also not confirmed whether reloading a save restores your earlier time, so don't count on it.