Guide
Subterra Wiki
How everything works, in one place: digging, miners, pools, the free ways to earn, and getting your crypto out.
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Getting started
Subterra is a mining game. You dig ore in a shared mine, forge that ore into miners, and your miners earn SUBT and real crypto (Litecoin, Solana, XRP) every minute in a pool. Here is the fastest way in:
- Get your free miner. The starter quest on the Dashboard asks you to swing 25 times in the Mine and win 10 mini-games. Finish it and a free Copper Miner is placed and running for you.
- Join a pool on the Pools page: SUBT, LTC, SOL or XRP. Your miners only earn while you are in one.
- Dig in the Mine for ore, then craft more miners in the Forge.
- Collect free SUBT along the way: the Faucet, mini-games, ads, quests and your daily streak.
- Come back at least every two days so your miners keep their energy, and withdraw your crypto from the Wallet whenever you like.
SUBT and crypto
SUBT is the in-game currency. You earn it almost everywhere and spend it on pickaxes, bombs, room slots, crafting and the marketplace. Its site value is fixed: 10,000 SUBT = $1.
LTC, SOL and XRP are real crypto. Your miners earn them in the matching pool, and they are what you withdraw. You can also turn crypto into SUBT on the Exchange page (one-way, no fee, at the site rate).
The Mine and ores
- Size
- 250 × 250 tiles, shared by every player
- Reset
- A fresh mine every 30 minutes
- No pickaxe?
- Your hand digs 1–2 tiles per swing
- What you find
- Ore and buried pickaxes
- Each swing opens a hole the size of your pickaxe's power and uses one point of its durability.
- Ore you uncover is collected automatically, straight into your inventory.
- Buried pickaxes are collected automatically while you hold fewer than 3; past that, click one to claim it.
- Ore is spread evenly through the rock; there are no deeper, richer layers.
Ores
Twenty ores in five tiers. The higher the tier, the rarer it is. The minimum price is the lowest a unit can be listed for on the marketplace.
| Tier | Ores | Min. price |
|---|---|---|
| T1 · Common | Coal, Copper, Sulfur, Tin | 3 SUBT |
| T2 · Uncommon | Iron, Silver, Quartz, Nickel | 15 SUBT |
| T3 · Rare | Gold, Platinum, Cobalt, Beryl | 150 SUBT |
| T4 · Epic | Obsidian, Meteorite, Prismarine, Magmite | 750 SUBT |
| T5 · Legendary | Voidstone, Starcore, Aetherium, Riftstone | 3,000 SUBT |
Pickaxes and bombs
New players start with a Wooden Pickaxe. Better ones are in the Shop, found buried in the mine, or bought from other players. Power is the radius of the hole each swing opens and durability is how many swings it lasts. You can hold up to 3 pickaxes; a pickaxe you list on the marketplace keeps its slot until it sells.
| Pickaxe | Tier | Power | Durability | Shop price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Pickaxe | Starter | 1 | 25 | Free |
| Stone Pickaxe | Common | 1 | 25 | 150 SUBT |
| Bronze Pickaxe | Common | 1 | 55 | 300 SUBT |
| Copper Pickaxe | Common | 2 | 30 | 500 SUBT |
| Iron Pickaxe | Uncommon | 2 | 65 | 1,000 SUBT |
| Steel Pickaxe | Uncommon | 3 | 80 | 2,500 SUBT |
| Silver Pickaxe | Uncommon | 3 | 170 | 5,000 SUBT |
| Gold Pickaxe | Rare | 4 | 200 | 15,000 SUBT |
| Titanium Pickaxe | Rare | 4 | 350 | 25,000 SUBT |
| Diamond Pickaxe | Rare | 5 | 250 | 50,000 SUBT |
| Obsidian Pickaxe | Epic | 6 | 300 | 100,000 SUBT |
| Meteorite Pickaxe | Epic | 7 | 350 | 200,000 SUBT |
| Voidforged Pickaxe | Epic | 8 | 400 | 400,000 SUBT |
| Quantum Pickaxe | Legendary | 10 | 500 | 1,000,000 SUBT |
Bombs
Single-use: one throw clears a whole blast area at once. Bigger bombs clear a wider area.
| Bomb | Tier | Blast | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blasting Cap | Common | 5 | 150 SUBT |
| Dynamite Bundle | Uncommon | 8 | 750 SUBT |
| Seismic Charge | Rare | 10 | 1,500 SUBT |
| Magmite Charge | Epic | 17 | 5,000 SUBT |
| Riftbreaker | Legendary | 25 | 10,000 SUBT |
Miners and the Forge
Miners produce hashrate (H/s), and hashrate is what earns in a pool. Build them in the Forge:
- Craft: burn the ores in a miner's recipe. Tier 2 and up also cost SUBT.
- Fuse: combine two identical miners into one a level higher with 2.5× the hashrate (up to level 3). Fusing costs SUBT and some ore; the Forge shows the exact price.
- Scrap: break down a miner you can't use for half the ore and a tenth of the SUBT that went into it.
| Miner | Tier | Hashrate | Recipe | SUBT cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Miner | Common | 1,000 | 6 Coal, 9 Copper | Free |
| Tin Miner | Common | 1,800 | 10 Tin, 8 Coal, 6 Copper | Free |
| Sulfur Miner | Common | 2,500 | 14 Tin, 10 Coal, 9 Copper, 24 Sulfur | Free |
| Silver Miner | Uncommon | 5,500 | 7 Iron, 11 Silver | 2,000 |
| Quartz Miner | Uncommon | 8,000 | 9 Iron, 12 Quartz, 7 Silver | 3,500 |
| Nickel Miner | Uncommon | 12,000 | 12 Iron, 28 Nickel, 16 Quartz, 10 Silver | 5,000 |
| Platinum Miner | Rare | 28,000 | 5 Gold, 8 Platinum | 14,000 |
| Cobalt Miner | Rare | 45,000 | 7 Gold, 9 Cobalt, 5 Platinum | 21,000 |
| Beryl Miner | Rare | 65,000 | 9 Gold, 21 Beryl, 12 Cobalt, 8 Platinum | 30,000 |
| Meteorite Miner | Epic | 140,000 | 4 Obsidian, 6 Meteorite | 60,000 |
| Prismarine Miner | Epic | 220,000 | 5 Obsidian, 4 Meteorite, 7 Prismarine | 90,000 |
| Magmite Miner | Epic | 320,000 | 16 Magmite, 7 Obsidian, 6 Meteorite, 9 Prismarine | 130,000 |
| Starcore Miner | Legendary | 700,000 | 5 Starcore, 3 Voidstone | 250,000 |
| Aetherium Miner | Legendary | 1,100,000 | 3 Starcore, 5 Aetherium, 4 Voidstone | 350,000 |
| Riftstone Miner | Legendary | 1,600,000 | 3 Starcore, 6 Aetherium, 11 Riftstone, 4 Voidstone | 500,000 |
Mining Room and energy
A miner only earns while it is placed in your Mining Room on the Dashboard. Click an empty slot to place one.
- Room 1
- 10 slots, free
- Rooms 2–5
- 10 slots each, bought one at a time: 5,000 / 10,000 / 25,000 / 50,000 SUBT per slot
- Energy
- 48 hours per charge, shared by all your miners
- Recharging
- Free: every visit tops it back up, or tap Recharge on the Dashboard
If you don't visit for 48 hours your miners stop until you come back. You get a notification when they run dry. While nothing is placed, the energy clock is paused.
Pools
All your placed miners mine one pool at a time: SUBT, LTC, SOL or XRP. Every minute, each pool's reward is split between everyone in it by hashrate, so your share is your hashrate divided by the pool's total. You can switch pools once an hour.
Pool rewards are set by Subterra and change from time to time; the Pools page shows each pool's current reward and any recent change.
The Machine
The Machine turns what you don't need into something useful:
- Refine: any mix of ores from one tier into random ores of the tier above. One batch costs 10 (tier 1), 15 (tier 2), 20 (tier 3) or 25 (tier 4) ores, and each batch rolls its own result.
- Swap: two ores of a tier for one random ore of the same tier, never one of the ores you put in. Good for turning duplicates into the ore a recipe still needs.
- Burn: a pickaxe at 10% durability or less is scrap; burn it for SUBT. The free starter pickaxe has no scrap value.
Free ways to earn
You never need to deposit to play. Free SUBT comes from:
- Faucet
- 10 SUBT every 30 minutes, +0.2% per level
- Quick faucet
- 1 SUBT every minute, through a short captcha
- Mini-games
- 2–4 SUBT per win, up to 25 wins per game per day
- Ads
- SUBT for viewing each ad, once a day per ad
- Faucet: two faucets on their own timers. The quick faucet's captcha opens on adslab.me and brings you straight back with your SUBT.
- Mini-games on the Earn page: Reflex Tap, Ore Match and Quick Math. Every 5 wins in a game it gets harder and pays more, from 2 up to 4 SUBT a win, and an occasional captcha keeps bots out.
- Offerwalls on the Earn page: surveys, apps and tasks from partner networks, credited in SUBT.
- Ads: view a site for its timer and claim SUBT. You can also buy your own ad campaign with SUBT to advertise a site.
- Quests: six daily jobs (swing in the mine, watch ads, win mini-games) worth 10 to 100 SUBT each.
- Daily streak on the Dashboard: claim once a day for 5 SUBT per streak day (up to 50 SUBT from day 10), plus XP, and a 50 SUBT bonus every 7th day. Miss one day and your weekly streak freeze covers it.
Mines
Mines, on the Earn page, is an optional SUBT game: bet 10 to 1,000 SUBT, reveal tiles without hitting a mine, and cash out whenever you like; each safe tile raises the payout. It returns 98% on average, so over time it costs more than it pays. Rounds left idle for over an hour are cashed out automatically. Mines winnings don't count toward the Earnings race. Play it for fun, never with SUBT you need.
Marketplace and shops
Marketplace
Buy and sell ores and pickaxes with other players on the Marketplace, priced in SUBT or crypto. Fees: 5% on SUBT sales, 10% on crypto sales. A price history tab shows recent sales, and ores have a minimum price per tier (see the ore table above).
Shop and Daily Offers
The Shop sells pickaxes and bombs. Daily Offers restocks every day at 00:00 UTC with that day's ore, miners for SUBT only, and discounted pickaxes and bombs.
Inventory
Your Inventory holds everything you own: pickaxes (with their durability), bombs, ores and miners. Worn-out pickaxes have a button straight to the Machine.
Levels, XP and badges
- XP comes from playing: swinging in the mine, winning mini-games, offers, your daily streak and more.
- Levels: level 2 needs 100 XP and each level after needs 10% more than the last.
- Level bonuses: +0.2% on faucet claims and +0.1% on FaucetPay withdrawals for every level above 1.
- Badges are earned automatically (checked every few minutes) and shown on your profile, grouped by category.
Weekly races and events
Two races run every week on the Race page. They reset and pay their top 10 in SUBT every Monday at 00:00 UTC, straight into your balance, with a notification.
| Race | What counts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th–10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hashrate race | Hashrate you add that week: craft, fuse or buy miners | 5,000 | 3,000 | 2,000 | 500 |
| Earnings race | SUBT earned from the Faucet, Ads, Quests, mini-games and offerwalls (not Mines, not deposits) | 2,500 | 1,500 | 1,000 | 250 |
The Events page shows contests such as the monthly referral contest, with its prizes, rules and live standings. The Leaderboard has the all-time rankings.
Referrals
Share your link from the Referral page. For every player you invite you get:
- First miner
- +100 SUBT when they get their first miner
- Deposits
- 5% of what they deposit
- Mini-games and offers
- 10% of what they earn there
- Pools
- 2% of their pool yield
In referral contests an invite counts once that player gets their first miner, one per signup location. Fake or farmed accounts are banned and don't count.
Wallet: deposits and withdrawals
Deposits
Top up SUBT from the Wallet with FaucetPay or by sending LTC, SOL or XRP from your own wallet (from $1). Deposits earn a bonus by size:
| Deposit | Bonus |
|---|---|
| $1 or more | +5% |
| $5 or more | +10% |
| $25 or more | +15% |
| $50 or more | +20% |
| Your first deposit | at least +20% (up to 50,000 SUBT) |
Withdrawals
- FaucetPay
- LTC, SOL or XRP, sent instantly, from about $0.10, plus your level bonus
- Straight to your wallet
- LTC, SOL or XRP from $1, 1% fee, checked and sent by hand
Every withdrawal sent shows on the public Payouts page, with on-chain ones linked to the blockchain.
Your account
- Profile: everyone has a public page with level, hashrate, rooms, badges and listings. Make it private in Settings and others see only your name and join date.
- Username: you can change it once every 30 days in Settings.
- Chat and notifications: the chat bubble talks to every player online; the bell collects prizes, sales and alerts. You can also turn on push notifications in Settings.
- What's new: every update is listed on the What's new page.
Rules
- You must be 18 or over.
- One account per person. Multiple accounts used for referrals, bonuses or contests get banned.
- No bots, scripts, auto-clickers or exploiting bugs.
- Keep your ad blocker off on Subterra: ads are what pay for the rewards.
- Chat: no harassment, slurs, spam or advertising.
Full details are in the Terms. SUBT has no cash value outside Subterra; treat the game as entertainment, not income.
FAQ
My miners aren't earning.
Check three things: they are placed in your Mining Room, their energy isn't empty, and you have joined a pool.
How do I get crypto out?
Mine in the LTC, SOL or XRP pool, then withdraw that balance from the Wallet: to FaucetPay from about $0.10, or straight to your own wallet from $1.
Why does it say "Ad blocker detected"?
Ads fund the rewards. Turn your ad blocker off for subterra.run and reload.
Where do I report a bug or ask a question?
Message @nayxio on Telegram.