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Hold The Mine Guides
Hold The Mine is a roguelike survival and mine-defense game where you mine resources by day, build structures, use heroes and powers, then survive monster waves at night. This hub starts with decision-first guides for the parts that decide early runs: mining routes, building timing, hero use, perks, relics, failed-night recovery, and wave survival.
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Hold The Mine guides
Beginner Guide
Day/night loop, first-run priorities, mining route rules, building choices, hero timing, and wave recovery.
MiningMining Route Guide
Plan limited expeditions around resources that can become buildings, heroes, relic value, or survival before night.
BuildsBuildings and Heroes Guide
Choose building roles and hero support around wave failures without relying on unsupported tier lists.
UpgradesUpgrade Priority Guide
When to invest in buildings, heroes, perks, relics, mining depth, and run-saving pivots.
RecoveryFailed Night Recovery Guide
Turn a bad night into a next-day repair route before restarting or panic-pivoting the whole board.
SurvivalWave Survival Guide
How to diagnose failed nights, protect the surface, and prepare for stronger monster waves.
Failure checksCommon Mistakes Guide
Fix greedy mining, late spending, disconnected buildings and heroes, unclear pivots, and repeated wave failures.
ReferenceRoute Reference
Use one quick sheet to decide whether the next fix belongs to mining, spending timing, buildings, heroes, upgrades, or pivots.
Early AccessEarly Access Impact Guide
Translate day mining, night waves, buildings, heroes, upgrades, relics, and run pivots into safer route checks during the evolving release.
UpdatesVersion Watch
Use a player-facing checklist to decide which route choice to revisit after future mining, building, hero, upgrade, or wave changes.
First problems to solve
What matters first
Start with the questions that usually follow a failed run: what to mine first, when to stop digging, which upgrades matter before night, and how to avoid wasting resources on plans that do not help the next wave.
- Mine with the next wave in mind.
- Spend on one survival problem at a time.
- Use heroes to cover gaps, not to decorate the board.
- Pivot when perks, relics, buildings, or ruins change the run.
- Review failed waves before pushing deeper.
Guide picker
Which Hold The Mine Guide Should You Read First?
If a run just failed, start with the page that matches the first thing that went wrong. This keeps the hub from becoming another list of links and turns the next click into a recovery choice.
Reader route
Recommended reading order
Open first: Beginner Guide. Open Beginner Guide first, then Mining Route if daytime choices are messy, then Failed Night Recovery after the night that almost killed the run, then Wave Survival when you need a deeper wave diagnosis.
Common first mistake: staying in the mine too long and returning with resources that cannot be spent before the next wave.
Patch caution: Balance changes can shift day/night pressure, so use official pages and update notes before locking in one mining script.
Source context: Use the official links on this page for store or developer context; the guides here turn that public context into safer route decisions for Hold The Mine players.