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Gold diggers

Gold Diggers is a feature that is unlocked by using A Scrap of Paper, which is a guaranteed drop from Jake From Accounting.

It allows you to sacrifice some of your GPS to gain bonuses in various areas of the game. By paying one-off gold fees, you can unlock and level up Diggers. And by activating them, you can gain bonuses, in return for a constant drain on the GPS from your Time Machine, equal to 0.01% of the cost to unlock that level. You can only have as many Diggers active as you have Digger Slots. There are 12 diggers and 12 digger slots.

Types of Diggers[]

Formula key:

DiggerLevel = The level of the digger

GlobalBonus = The bonus applied to all diggers performance based on total bought levels

100% bonus is no effect. So basically, if you calculate the bonus to be 200%, that means the digger is doubling that stat.

The cost to upgrade or run each digger is 1.5x as much as the previous level for the first four (page 1) diggers, while it is 1.75x as much for the other eight (page 2 & 3) diggers.

Digger Effect Initial Unlock Cost (Gold) Initial Gold Drain (level 1) Effect Per Level Hard cap level
Drop Chance Digger Drop Chance 10 Quadrillion (1e16) 1 Trillion (1e12) ((150 + DiggerLevel) * GlobalBonus)% 1657
Wandoos Digger Wandoos Speed 10 Quadrillion (1e16) 1 Trillion (1e12) ((150 + DiggerLevel) * GlobalBonus)% 1657
Stat Digger Attack and Defence 10 Quadrillion (1e16) 1 Trillion (1e12) ((200 + (DiggerLevel^3)) * GlobalBonus)% 1657
Adventure Digger Power and Toughness 10 Quadrillion (1e16) 1 Trillion (1e12) ((110 + (0.5 * DiggerLevel)) * GlobalBonus)% 1657
Energy NGU Digger Energy NGU Speed 10 Quintillion (1e19) 1 Quadrillion (1e15) ((120 + DiggerLevel) * GlobalBonus)% 1188
Magic NGU Digger Magic NGU Speed 10 Quintillion (1e19) 1 Quadrillion (1e15) ((120 + DiggerLevel) * GlobalBonus)% 1188
Energy Beard Digger Energy Beard speed 10 Sextillion (1e22) 1 Quintillion (1e18) ((120 + DiggerLevel) * GlobalBonus)% 1176
Magic Beard Digger Magic Beard speed 10 Sextillion (1e22) 1 Quintillion (1e18) ((120 + DiggerLevel) * GlobalBonus)% 1176
PP Digger PP gain 10 Septillion (1e25) 1 Sextillion (1e21) ((110 + DiggerLevel) * GlobalBonus)% 1164
Daycare Digger Daycare speed 10 Septillion (1e25) 1 Sextillion (1e21) ((105 + 0.1 * DiggerLevel) * GlobalBonus)% 1164
Blood Digger Blood Gain 10 Octillion (1e28) 1 Septillion (1e24) ((150 + DiggerLevel) * GlobalBonus)% 1151
EXP Digger EXP gain 10 Octillion (1e28) 1 Septillion (1e24) ((105 + 0.5 * DiggerLevel) * GlobalBonus)% 1151

Global Digger Bonus[]

Diggers will give a bonus to all Diggers when you increase their maximum level, of 0.05% per level (additively across all diggers). So, to get this multiplier up as much as possible, always level up Diggers as much as possible, even if you don't have the GPS to use it or don't want to use the bonus in general.

The formula for the global bonus is the following:

Under 500 total digger levels: 0.05%*(Total Digger Levels) + (No TM Challenge Bonus) + (Party (set) bonus)

Over 500 total digger levels: 25% + 0.05%*(Total Digger Levels - 500)^0.7 + (No TM Challenge Bonus) + (Party (set) bonus)

Digger Slot Locations[]

There are 12 total digger slots, found via the following methods:

By the time you get access to equipment with high Energy and Magic bars in early Evil difficulty, your Beard progress is likely to be maxed out at all times, making the Beard diggers unneeded. Therefore, you only need to acquire 10 of the 12 possible digger slots to get full use out of the diggers feature.

Gold Diggers upgrades[]

There are several upgrades that improve different aspects of Gold Diggers:

4G's Sellout Shop[]

Name Effect Price (AP)
Digger Slots! +1 Digger Slot. 110,000 (first)

225,000 (second to sixth)

Perks[]

Name Effect Price (PP) Levels Difficulty
A Digger Slot! +1 Digger Slot. 25 1 Normal
Ooh, Another Digger Slot! +1 Digger Slot. 250 1 Normal

Items[]

Item Effect Source
Scrap of Paper Set +1 Digger Slot. Jake From Accounting
Party Set +5% Global Diggers Level Bonus. Interdimensional Party

Gold Digger References[]

Gold Digger Dialogue Box Refernce
Drop Chance Digger This dopey redhead says he's digging up graves on a quest to find his seven leaf clover. Giving him tons of gold every second will make some luck rub off on you, you're sure of it! At least, his robot buddy is trying REALLY hard to convince you that's how this works. Futurama Ep.3.10 - Luck of the Fryish
Wandoos Digger This weird old fellow named Gill Bates claims he can dig up infinite copies of Wandoos 98 from an old landfill to improve your Wandoos capabilities. Bill Gates
Stat Digger
Adventure Digger
Energy NGU Digger
Magic NGU Digger
Energy Beard Digger
Magic Beard Digger
PP Digger
Daycare Digger
Blood Digger
EXP Digger

See also[]

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