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Hold The Mine Guides

Hold The Mine is a roguelike survival and mine-defense game where resources gathered by day become the structures, heroes, perks, and relics that have to survive the next night.

Beginner guide Mining route Buildings and heroes Upgrade priority Failed night recovery Wave survival Common mistakes Route reference Version watch
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Hold The Mine guides

Beginner

Beginner Guide

Day/night loop, first-run priorities, mining route rules, building choices, hero timing, and wave recovery.

 Mining

Mining Route Guide

Plan limited expeditions around resources that can become buildings, heroes, relic value, or survival before night.

 Builds

Buildings and Heroes Guide

Choose building roles and hero support around the pressure that broke the previous wave.

 Upgrades

Upgrade Priority Guide

When to invest in buildings, heroes, perks, relics, mining depth, and run-saving pivots.

 Recovery

Failed Night Recovery Guide

Turn a bad night into a next-day repair route before restarting or panic-pivoting the whole board.

 Survival

Wave Survival Guide

How to diagnose failed nights, protect the surface, and prepare for stronger monster waves.

 Failure checks

Common Mistakes Guide

Fix greedy mining, late spending, disconnected buildings and heroes, unclear pivots, and repeated wave failures.

 Reference

Route Reference

Match a failed night to mining, spending timing, buildings, heroes, upgrades, or a run-saving pivot.

 Early Access

Early Access Impact Guide

See how day mining, night waves, buildings, heroes, upgrades, and relics reach the mine-to-night route.

 Updates

Version Watch

Follow changes to mining depth, spending timing, surface roles, upgrades, and wave pressure.

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.

  1. Mine with the next wave in mind.
  2. Spend on one survival problem at a time.
  3. Use heroes to cover gaps, not to decorate the board.
  4. Pivot when perks, relics, buildings, or ruins change the run.
  5. 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.

Your current problemRead firstWhy that pageUse next
The day/night loop still feels unclear.Beginner GuideIt connects mining, spending, hero roles, and first-night readiness.Common Mistakes
You keep mining but night still wins.Mining Route GuideIt helps lock one expedition target before digging deeper.Wave Survival
You know the wave problem but not where to spend.Upgrade Priority GuideIt turns the final pre-night spend into a focused lock-in choice.Buildings and Heroes
Buildings and heroes look useful but disconnected.Buildings and Heroes GuideIt decides whether the next fix belongs to board stability or hero cleanup.Upgrade Priority
A night just failed and you need the next-day repair.Failed Night Recovery GuideIt turns the failed wave into one repair route before a restart or panic pivot.Wave Survival

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.

After an update: if day or night pressure shifts, keep mining tied to the building, hero, relic, or repair the next wave actually needs.