Tutorial
Tutorial
Contents
Movement
a. Basics
b. Waypoints
c. Teleporters
Mining
a. Drills
b. How to Mine
c. Formats of Mining
d. Finding minable areas
e. Mining Tips
Mining World
Underground
Studios
Items
a. Ores
b. Chests and Gifts
c. TNT
d. Mining TNT
e. Demining TNT
f. Diamond Prox Scanner
Movement
Basics
1. Hold WASD keys to move in any direction or click on floor to move to that location.
There must be an open path to selected tile or you will not move.
2. Navigator
Press 'N' to open the Navigator.
Click "Show Active Studios" and a list of rooms will populate.
You can easily teleport to other people's rooms or caves by clicking Go!
Click "Show My Studios" and a list of your rooms will populate.
You can easily teleport to your rooms or caves by clicking Go!
Press 'O' to see Online users.
You can teleport to any online player's Home by clicking
'Home' next to their name.
Waypoints
Any online player can see and teleport to a waypoint.
To set a waypoint:
Left click on your avatar's feet to access the Options Wheel.
Click "Set Waypoint" to set a waypoint.
To go to a waypoint:
Click on the chat textbox to activate the chat:
the background of the chat will appear darker.
Click on the waypoint text.
Teleporters
Available for purchase under 'Fast Travel' in the catalogue.
1. Normal Teleporter
Once purchased 2 linking teleports will be placed into your bag.
To teleport, you must intentionally walk into the teleporter.
2. Sensitive Teleporters
Functions the same as Normal teleporters.
However, if you accidentally walk across it, you will be teleported.
Mining
Drills
Available under 'Drills' in the catalogue.
There are 4 types of Drills
1. Steel (10 uses)
2. Cobalt (50 uses)
3. Titanium (500 uses)
4. Diamond (1000 uses)
The top right of the screen displays the type of drill equipped
and amount of uses left for your drill.
You cannot unequip a drill once equipped, you will have to consume all uses.
How to Mine
1. Fast Method: To mine a block hold the W, A, S, or D key in the direction
of the unmined rock.
Keep holding the key after you have reached the rock. You will start to see the
rock descend as you mine it.
2. Slow Method: Standing next to an unmined rock, click and hold the rock with
the left mouse button.
You will start to see the rock descend as you mine it.
Formats of Mining
1. Single Block precision mining (recommended)
Mining each individual block separately - uses up 1 drill bit in the mining world and
5 drill bits in your underground.
Useful for mining specific blocks or valuable ores.
2. 3x3 fast mining
To 3x3 mine hold Shift while mining a block.
Mines a 3x3 area from the block you directly mine into - uses up 2 drill bits in the
mining world and 30 drill bits in your underground.
If you have less drill bits than needed, you will not be able to use this mode,
and will need to single block mine the last of the uses.
3x3 mining clears everything in the area, so you will not recieves possible ores from
any blocks except the one you directly mine into.
Useful for clearing out areas quickly, but it will destroy any ores that would
have been in the 3x3 area except for the block in the center.
You can press Shift + Enter to lock mining to 3x3 so you don't have to keep holding Shift.
The chat text bar will open so you will need to select Enter again before mining,
To return to single block mining press Shift again.
Finding minable areas
See Mining World.
Mining Tips
While mining you may encounter a shorter block known as an 'Unbreakable Wall'.
You cannot directly mine them,
however they can be destroyed with TNT.
Mining World
The mining world can be reached at any time by stepping into the
mining portal in your room.
You can also teleport to the Town in the mining world at any time by
opening the
Navigator by pressing N and then clicking the "Open World" tab.
Any unmined block is available to any player to mine.
However, it's encouraged to be curteous and mindful of other players' areas.
When you mine a block the blocks will have a tan shade to them to
represent your cave,
while other players blocks will appear gray to you.
The owners name of the floor you are standing on will always appears at
the top of your screen.
You cannot pick up items from other players caves or put items down in
anyones cave but your own.
Unlike the Underground, the Mining World has a limit to how many items
you can stack on top of each other.
Underground
Each player has their own Underground World. You’re the only player who can mine
blocks in your underground, so feel free to expand your base.
Beware that it costs many drill bits to expand your Underground World, and there are
no valuable ore to find.
Placing a ladder anywhere in your Underground World will lead to the public Mining World.
Placing a ladder on your floor in the mining world will lead to your personal
Underground World.
Each individual player has their own Underground. Other players' ladders will
lead you to their undergrounds.
The mining world is parallel to all underground worlds. So ladders will take you to
the same coordinates but in a different world.
Example: A ladder placed at coordinates (10, 10) in the Mining World will take you to
coordinates (10, 10) in the Underground of the player who owns the ladder.
The Undeground has virtually no stacking limits so you can stack many items on top of each other.
Studios
Prefabricated studio layouts can be purchased from the catalog.
Pess 'C' to open the catalog, then click on the 'Rooms' tab.
Once you buy a studio it will appear in your backpack.
You will need to mine out a large area to fit your studio.
You can place the studio like any other item.
Once your studio is placed, you can right click on the studio walls to access
the Pick up, Move, Sell, and Rotate options.
Rotating the studio will enable or disable being able to walk through the bottom
portion of your studio.
Studio doors are purchased separately. Once you place a door, you can type a room
name into the chat. This will add your room to the Navigator.
Some prefabricated studio layouts are only available through contests.
Items
Ores
Hovering your cursor over a rock will tell you what type of ore is
in the rock or if it's an 'Unbreakable Wall' or 'Stone'.
Blocks with ores will drop small, medium, or large ore onto the
newly exposed floor.
Right click on the ore to pick up, move, sell, or rotate it.
You can sell items directly from the ground or from your bag.
Different ores sell for different amounts with Dirt being the
cheapest and
Diamonds being the most valuable.
Ore Name |
Ore Sell Price |
Small Dirt pile |
1 |
Medium Dirt pile |
2 |
Large Dirt pile |
3 |
Small Aluminum Ore |
11 |
Medium Aluminum Ore |
12 |
Large Aluminum Ore |
13 |
Small Ruby Ore |
14 |
Medium Ruby Ore |
15 |
Large Ruby Ore |
16 |
Small Sapphire Ore |
17 |
Medium Sapphire Ore |
18 |
Large Sapphire Ore |
19 |
Small Emerald Ore |
20 |
Medium Emerald Ore |
21 |
Large Emerald Ore |
22 |
Small Coal Ore |
25 |
Medium Coal Ore |
30 |
Large Coal Ore |
35 |
Small Quartz Ore |
40 |
Medium Quartz Ore |
42 |
Large Quartz Ore |
44 |
Small Amethyst Ore |
46 |
Medium Amethyst Ore |
48 |
Large Amethyst Ore |
50 |
Small Iron Ore |
60 |
Medium Iron Ore |
65 |
Large Iron Ore |
70 |
Small Silver Ore |
75 |
Medium Silver Ore |
85 |
Large Silver Ore |
95 |
Small Gold Ore |
100 |
Medium Gold Ore |
150 |
Large Gold Ore |
200 |
Small Diamond Ore |
5000 |
Medium Diamond Ore |
7500 |
Large Diamond Ore |
10000 |
Chests and Gifts
To open a gift or chest, right click on it in your backpack.
Gift Boxes contain common CaveJam original items.
Click here to see Gift Box contents
While mining you will find Small and Large chests.
Small Chests contain common CS items.
Click here to see Small Chest contents
Large Chests contain rare CS items which cannot be bought from the catalog.
Click here to see Large Chest contents
TNT
Small TNT blows up a 13x13 area in the mining world and
a 5x5 area underground.
Large TNT blows up a 17x17 area in the mining world and
a 9x9 area underground.
If you hit yourself with TNT, you will lose 5% of your dB.
If you hit someone else with TNT, they will lose 5% of
their dB and be teleported to the Town.
When you hit a player they will drop gems depending on
how many decibels they lost:
Lost 255000 dB or more = Giant Gem
Lost 30000 dB or more = Large Gem
Lost 7500 dB or more = Medium Gem
Lost 5000 dB or more = Small Gem
Blowing up TNT creates a cave in the mining world and in
your undergrounds at the same coordinates.
Mining TNT
Mining TNT mines a 19x19 area.
It does not cause damage to any player.
Demining TNT
Demining TNT unmines a 19x19 area.
Can be rarely found inside naturally formed caves.
Can be used on areas in the mining world which contained
rare ores to respawn them. Ore scanners are a great way to
find out which ore used to be at any location.
Demining TNT is the only way to put back rocks in your undeground.
It does not unmine the tile directly underneath itself.
It does not cause damage to any player.
Diamond Prox Scanner
Ore scanners can be used to find valuable ore hiding behind unmined rocks.
Double clicking the Diamond Proximity Scanner will scan for
diamond ore within 20 blocks of the scanner in one axis.
The green arrows around the diamond scanner display the axis
in which you are scanning.
The scanner will display the number of blocks away the nearest diamond is.
Things to note:
The cost to use the scanner is 1000 dB,
so we recommend you only use it if you think there are diamonds nearby.
The scanner also detects diamond ore that has already been mined.
If there is no diamond within range it will return 00.
Example:
You initiate a scan on the X axis and it displays 10.
You rotate the scanner and initiate another scan.
It will scan the Y axis and display 04.
The diamond will be located at (10, 4) (-10, 4) (10, -4) or (-10, -4).
Tip: You can narrow down the coordiantes by moving the
scanner and initiating a third scan.