Dig or Die review, tips and walkthrough

Right, a 3-in-1 combo - let's get right to it shall we?

This game reminds me a lot of Minecraft in many ways. After all, the game seems to be based on Minecraft. However, I like the twist the game provides and definitely the faster mining speed.

The crafting part seems a bit lacking though.

Tips:

1. Where to find what?

• Blue flower 

This flower can only be found on the continent on your leftmost. It is tricky to reach there though, as you'll need to construct a platform at the very edge of the the continent you are on and leap across... with the help of your shotgun acting as a propellant of course.

One of the types of bridges you can build to get to the other side. I used something quite different though. Either way, as long as it works - it works :)

But before you attempt anything, just remember to press F5 to quick save your progress before you took that "leap of faith".

• Gaz

The third crafting machine will require the ore Gaz which can only be found on the continent your wrecked spaceship was on. Jump around while you're on the surface to spot any floating islands, then construct a tower that can bring you to the top. Use the best construction block you have - which would probably be reinforced concrete blocks.

You'll need lots of them (both blocks and Gaz) so be sure to collect or craft as many as you can.

• White flower

This is perhaps the easiest "rare" object to collect. Head east (right) to a very tall mountain, climb to the very top, and collect all the white flowers.

• Copper 

You can first get them by collecting scrap metals and converting them to copper. However, once you have your level 2 resource harvesting gun, you can mine for them underground. There are loads, so don't worry.

• Coal 

You can mine for them using a level 2 resource harvesting gun. Found in the underground zone in between the copper and the aluminium. However, sometimes, especially when you get to the deeper areas, you can find all 3 resources together.

• Aluminium

Found only in the deepest areas of the underground. Will require a level 3 resource harvesting gun.

Harvesting aluminium

• Black Tiger Fish Skin

Another pretty tough-to-collect item and you'll need to take a "drop of faith" this time around. Dig your way to the very bottom where the bottom part of the map seems to drop off into an abyss or a very wide chasm. This is in fact the cavern at the very bottom where you can find the Black Tiger fish you need.

As usual, press F5 before taking that fall (just in case), but basically, you should find yourself dropped into an underground ocean. Kill as many fishes as you need to grab 10 skins, construct a sturdy tower to bring you up caves again. Be sure to bring along lots of reinforced concrete blocks or at least enough materials to craft these blocks.

Or... you could just set up a teleporter near to your base and bring along another teleporter for use when you drop down into the flooded caverns.

• Gems - red and blue

The yellow fireflies drop blue gems; the red fireflies drop either a red or a blue gem, while the blue fireflies drop blue gems. Not 100% drop rate.

• Tooth

You can get them by killing the wolves. Like Gems, it's not a 100% drop so you might need to farm a bit.

• Spiked Skin

You can get these by killing the porcupines in the game. Like Gems and Tooth, it's not a 100% drop so you might need to farm a bit.

• Wood - they are everywhere on the surface

2. Never leave your crafting machines behind. Bring them along with you at ALL times. After all you don't exactly have an inventory limit, so why bother trying to save space?

3. Always gather more resources than what you expect you'll need. You'll never know, right?

4. Reserved for future addition.....


I've completed the game pretty quickly despite having an OCD that forces me to collect every ore vein that I see even though I already have hundreds of them.

Also, I'll try to get screenshots and put them up later on - just so you know where you can find the stuff you need :)