Save small town Ozark!

Play as ArgentBot v2.02, an old rusty excavation automaton who's the only hope for the small rural town of Ozark! After Harold Pechengsky vanished deep underground, the town's last few residents jumped ship. Now Ozark is in danger of collapse! Dig deeper and deeper and bring back riches to rescue Harold and save the town! Buy, sell, recharge, and repair your way to mineral mastery! Inspired by Schulles' "Utopian Mining". Play it on Armor Games!

Quick Guide

Energy- Without energy, you can't mine and harvest minerals! Make sure to recharge often at the power plant. The deeper you go, the more energy it takes to mine, so make sure to upgrade your battery consistently.

Shop- Sell your ores at the shop after you fill up your case. You can disable/select which ores to sell as well.

Buy-Mart - Upgrade ArgentBot with all the newest gizmos listed below to reach deeper below the earth!

Upgrades:

  • Drill - Move and mine faster 
  • Chassis - Store more ores and take less damage
  • Battery - Recharge less often
  • Coolant - Dive deeper to find better and more valuable minerals

Controls:

  • Arrow Keys to Move
  • Z/C to Interact
  • X to quit
  • Hold S and F to reset game data

Tip: Hold X while mining for precise and efficient movement!

The game will save your progress, but tunnel layouts will be overwritten after each session. If you run out of ore just refresh the page for a fresh new underground!

Devlog

Version 1.7 

  • Raised Uranium and Galena Payout
  • Fixed a grid misalignment bug when traveling between underground layers.

Version 1.6

  • Reduced Early Upgrades by 40%
  • Reduced Energy Prices by 40%
  • Implemented persistent save data

Comments

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Im having a problem where I can't reset my game data

Im on chromebook if it helps. Im holding S and F keys on the keyboard and it wont work anybody know a fix

Hey googleyroll, if you now how to clear your cookies for this site, it should restart your games progress.

Thank you

can you update the bbs version to this one?

60:19 is my best time. i was going for under 60 and fell short 19 seconds

Very much enjoying the game, but I seem to have triggered a bug: I lost the ability to interact with people after the gypsum quest, though I could still interact with buildings.  It made it impossible to progress.

Also, the robot graphic would frequently become misaligned with its actual location, sometimes by more than entire cell.  This seemed to have something to do with drill upgrades and mining long channels.

This happened to me as well. The miner got misaligned by a cell to the right, and I think that misalignment causes the interaction bug too. It was after I got through the bedrock layer, upgraded my chassis to hold 15, and collected 15 gypsum for a quest. I went back up my tunnel from bedrock and when I was back in the previous layer I was visibly in my tunnel, but when I moved up I started mining the block to my left, and when I went right it acted like I was in my tunnel despite visibly being in the wall

I think I might have fixed your issue, though the bug was hard to recreate. Going between underground layers while not snapped onto the grid seemed to result in something similar to what you described and that was easily remedied.

Best time: 86:40

i just got 74:46!