Motevault: idle digging

A drone digs through matter after the relics of a civilization hidden in the microverse. It takes time on every step, and the question the game keeps asking is where to send it.

FIELD RECORD
You are the archaeologist. The menu, the dig, the Collection, the store and the settings are the excavation paperwork: paper sheets, stamps, a depth ruler and find tags held by a punched hole. The twelve relics were drawn one by one, each from its own text.

HOW TO PLAY
Tap a cell and the drone digs one step there. The pit has 20 cells, with three layers in each: molecule, atom and quark. Every step opened raises production by 10%, and deep layers take longer, so the order you dig in matters. In the simulator that validates the economy, choosing well produces more than three times what digging in order produces.

THE PICKAXE
Tapping the cell the drone is digging takes seconds off the step: 1 on the molecule, 0.5 on the atom, 0.25 on the quark. Each hit chips the rock and shows the time taken. There is no limit on taps, but the deeper you go, the less your hand helps, and the game stays about where to dig.

WHAT MAKES THE CHOICE MATTER
• Vein: the cell with an amber crystal gives back Elements when the step ends.
• Dense rock: costs 50% more, and the drone takes longer on it.
• Echo: the violet diamond counts the relics hidden in the cell and the eight around it. Tap an open cell to light up the area.

REACTORS
Locking Elements in a reactor holds them for ten minutes and gives a bonus that no new universe erases. There are three slots.

INFINITE ZOOM
With three cells at the quark layer, you choose the cell where you dive. The pit starts over at a smaller scale, steps and Elements go back to zero, and you earn Civilization Points. The chosen cell pays more Points the more of its neighbors also reached the bottom, and the relics hidden in its area come down with you. The Points, the fleet and the Collection stay.

WORKSHOP
Points also buy drones, up to five, that dig other cells at the same time and carry on after the zoom. Every Point spent on a drone stops multiplying production: the trade is yours.

COLLECTION
Twelve relics, one story. Read in order, the pieces tell of someone down here who learned to dig, measured the world, wrote, built, looked into matter itself, found the passage and wrote that it was not to be crossed. The Collection carries across every zoom, and a relic you already have pays out Elements.

FIELDS AND SUPPORT
The store sells three digging fields, Mars, Titan and Europa, that change the pit colors and nothing else: speed and cost are the same in all of them. There is also a bundle with the three and a coffee to support the studio, which unlocks nothing. Whoever never buys anything plays the same game. The bundle charges the full price, even if you already own a field.

NO ADS, NO ACCOUNT
No ads, no premium currency, no sign-up. It plays offline, and the dig continues with the app closed: the store holds up to 8 hours with one drone, plus 2 hours for each extra drone. When you return, the game tells you what it earned. The network is only used by Google Play, for purchases and, just once, to ask for a review.

LANGUAGES
English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.