Tapping

Click upgrades used to live apart from drills: for a weak player a tap decided everything, for a strong one it meant nothing. Now a tap follows your own mining rate.

One tap = shards from 3.3 seconds of your passive mining × (1 + 10% × click level)
Minimum 1 shard per tap, multiplier capped at ×5 on level 40

So the tap grows on its own when you buy a drill or raise a building. Click upgrades only amplify what you already have.

Setup	Power	Shards/h	Tap at lv 0	Tap at lv 40
wooden drill only	0.02	6	1	5
bronze drill	1	300	1	5
bronze + iron, 3 building levels	5	2,400	1	5
mithril and extras, 5 building levels	70	42,000	11.67	58.33
every drill, 10 building levels	200	180,000	50	250

Upgrade cost

A level costs 20 × (level + 1) CROWN. Above level 40 upgrades are closed: the multiplier already hit ×5.

Click level	Multiplier	Level cost, CROWN	Total spent, CROWN
1	×1.10	20	20
5	×1.50	100	300
10	×2	200	1,100
15	×2.50	300	2,400
20	×3	400	4,200
25	×3.50	244	5,021
30	×4	745	7,525
35	×4.50	2,274	15,169
40	×5	6,939	38,494

Daily limits

Your daily tap allowance grows with you: the higher your mining power, the more taps. Click upgrades multiply it on top — +5% per level, exactly double at level 40.

Taps per day = power tier × (1 + 5% × click level)

Mining power from	Roughly	Taps/day (click lv 0)	Taps/day (click lv 40)
0	bare hands	3,000	9,000
1	bronze drill	4,500	13,500
4	iron drill	6,000	18,000
15	steel drill	9,000	27,000
50	mithril drill	13,500	40,500
130	royal drill	21,000	63,000
300	drills + miners + buildings	30,000	90,000

Mining power is the same figure as in the game header: drill × buildings × boosts. Buy a drill or raise a building and the limit grows by itself. Per day, taps give at most as much as your passive mining gives in the same day: once you hit the max, only the mine keeps working. So click upgrades do not raise the income ceiling, they cut the number of taps needed to reach it (+10% per tap per level) and raise the tap limit (+5% per level). Rate is limited to 8 taps per second and the daily cap is sized for human hands (about an hour and a half of tapping at most): auto-clickers gain no edge.

The daily CROWN pool is fixed, so taps redistribute shares between players rather than printing new CROWN.

Why everyone sees different numbers

The counter above the shaft shows two things: “Taps: done / daily limit” and “shard cap used NN%”. The tap limit is personal because it depends on mining power and click level. Example: power 150 with click level 3 — tier 21,000 × 1.15 = 24,150 taps; power 300+ with click level 20 — 30,000 × 2 = 60,000 taps.

The second ceiling is shards: per day, taps cannot mine more than your passive mining yields in the same day. An upgraded click makes every tap worth more, so this ceiling is reached with fewer taps. Once “shard cap used” hits 100%, taps stop giving shards and stop moving depth, even if the tap counter still has room. Both counters reset when a new game day starts.

Depth has nothing to do with the tap limit: every 5,000 metres add +5% to shard mining, not to the number of taps. But the higher your passive mining, the higher both the shard ceiling for taps and the value of each tap.

From the chat: “I got 34,500 taps but only tapped 16,533 and the limit is used up”

That is correct. The tap counter is the upper bound set by power and click level, while the second ceiling — shards — ran out earlier for this player: with an upgraded click every tap is worth a lot, and 16,533 taps yielded as many shards as the mine produces passively in a whole day. After that taps stop giving shards until the next day and the line reads “shard cap used 100% · daily max”. Some players need to tap for a long time, a strongly upgraded one takes the daily max in half an hour. Both ceilings reset at 22:30 Moscow time.

Wheel boosts and the cap

During a “Mining ×N” wheel boost every tap gives its normal value plus an extra. The normal part counts toward the daily cap, while the extra from the boost is counted above the cap and is not cut by it: catch a ×5, tap, and you get more than the daily max. To keep auto-clickers from abusing it, the extra above the cap is limited to 20% of the cap per day. The tap line shows it as “boosts over the cap +N%”. Even when “shard cap used 100%”, taps under an active boost keep giving the extra until that reserve is used.