The Leaderboard, three new perks, and a thank-you. • The Leaderboard. From your first session you're on it, under a miner name the game picks for you (reroll it with the dice). Laps count first, then deepest zone, then how far down the run you are. Once you've lapped the whole mine, the Goals tab becomes the Board: the top 10 and the miners around you. Connect Game Center if you'd rather show your Game Center name; it's optional. I built it so the late game has something to chase. • Three new perks for the long haul: Quick Step (move speed, 20 stones), Keen Edge (pickaxe power, 100 stones) and Field Notes (depth per ore, 100 stones). Every stone counts the same as the first. • Rich Veins now goes to 15 stones (three extra ore on every break). Prospector's Luck goes to 20, and past 100% a lucky strike can land two tiers deeper. • Gameplay stats. The game now sends me anonymous play stats so I can see where it drags and fix those parts. No name, no account, nothing tied to you, and you can turn it off in Settings. The privacy page says exactly what is sent. • A pass over the wording in the mine. Fewer dashes, more miner.

Three changes for the deep bands. • Research counts what you dig. Any ore at or above the one a piece of gear asks for now counts toward it, so an upgraded or deep strike never sets your research back. • Gear and depth tuning. Past Prismatic, gear research and gold costs, and each depth's research and gold requirements, are re-tuned. Gear you already own is untouched. • Easier to go deeper. The depth you need to dig before advancing through the Delve bands is lower.

Four small fixes from playing it myself. • The helmet lamp stays on the helmet. It could slip off during a perk glow, and for a second after opening the app the miner wore his old gear. • Taps land. Fast mining could swallow a tap on the shop or in Settings, and the page jumped back to the top. Both fixed. • The bottom of a band says what's left: how much depth to dig before the next Delve opens, then how many coins. The old dead-end note is gone; the mine keeps going. • The miner still says "that's not supposed to be up here" — just not every single time. • Perk sheets show the right caps: Haggler 11 stones, Prospector 5. • Gem pickups now say "coins". That number was the gem's sale price, not a gem count. The Overview tile reads "Lifetime Gems". Thanks to the player who wrote in. Keep the feedback coming.

Mastery, and the whole way down. • Perk Mastery: five Lodestones in one perk masters it, so every stone counts about triple. Ten makes it a Grandmaster. Stacking is the strong play now. • Two Lodestones per Delve, three for a Perfect Delve. If you had already Delved, you get the Lodestones you would have had: as many as your Delve number (up to six), waiting in your bank. • Bags fill again: the deep packs hold about a day of digging now, so auto-sell has something to sell. Your ore is untouched. • The bottom of a band tells you where you are: which band of six, what the next Delve opens, how much Delve cost is still to dig. The counter shows all eighteen zones, and you can keep Delving past the last one. • After a Delve, auto-sell comes back at 20M instead of 50M, and your unclaimed goal rewards are collected for you before the reset. • Helmets past 100% double-roll: every ore upgrades, and the extra is the chance it upgrades twice. Unknown ore from a band you haven't opened counts double for depth. Haggler goes higher and Rich Veins hits harder. Redeem codes in Settings.

The Deep Delve. The bottom of the mine was never the bottom. • Delving, TinyMine's prestige system: finish the known mine, hold the delve gold, and Delve Beyond. Research, goals, depth and perks stay. Coins and gear reset, and you start over at Pebble Path stronger. • Lodestones and perk cards: every Delve pays Lodestones. Spend them on any of nine permanent perks from the new Delve tab. Pick what suits how you play. • The Delve Pass ($1.99, one time): respec any perk, any time — trade a level back for its Lodestone and try another build. • Perfect Delve goals: each Delve deals four run goals in the Goals tab. Finish them all before you Delve for one extra Lodestone. • Six new bands of ore below Prismatic Brink, one per Delve, each its own place: a buried moon, an ember furnace, a starfield in the stone, the event horizon, a bright aether drift, and voidglass at the bottom. Each has its own gear set for the miner, with its own shine. • Perks show their work: coins fly from where the value came from to where it lands, with the amount named. Auto-sell does too. • Smoother flow: one explainer, one confirm, and an arrival straight into the new run.

Going deeper now lives in one card on the Overview tab, with a full-size Go Deeper button that is easy to find. New miners get a friendlier start: the miner points out selling, upgrading, and goals as each comes up, and a How to Play reference now lives in Settings.