How to Mine Diamonds
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Anyone ever figure out the last level? It really doesn't seem possible.
If you go directly right from the source, digging and laying a belt along the way on both sides where you can, you have $660 left over (really $510 since you'll need a $100 miner and a $50 generator). Crossing the gap would cost $480 in belts alone, leaving only $30 to spare. But that only buys three supports, and you need a whole bridge.
You could just let the diamond fall to the floor below using gravity, eliminating the need to build a bridge. But you need to dig through the rock first, and then build an elevator at some point to lift it back up (which costs at least $600). I've experimented with letting the diamonds spill down a stairstep slope without using a belt (since you only need to transport one to win), but that gains you 1-2 tiles at most, and needs some (unpowered) elevators to help tip them any further.
The core problem is that the bare minimum of a miner, a generator, and enough belt to move horizontally from the source column to the goal column leaves only $640, and that's not enough to both dig through the intervening rock and lay a route that is seamless in terms of transport (let alone power).
And now I see this old Reddit thread where two people mention solving it with cash to spare using a bridge -- including a screenshot of one of the designs. But when I try to build the exact same thing I run out of funds before being able to lay down a complete line of belts across it (or a miner). Almost $500 short. Maybe some kind of bug that accidentally cut the budget for the last level?
Fun game!
I like it - it's like Lemmings but with diamonds and conveyors....
How many levels are in the full version?
When you buy you get access to a 643 bytes file. Is that a Steam key?
Just 10 levels in the full version, I want to add more.
It's a zip file, you can uncompress it by clicking on it in a computer, inside there is an html file that is a web page, open it to play the full game.
The restart button should restart the level you are at instead of going to the menu. Also, try to add a small margin to the diamonds produced in the level vs the required to complete it. I was 219/220 diamonds in level 4 and it was rather frustrating.
Same, I stopped there due to that.
Also, it doesn't save?
Well, apparently you can just click any level at any time. Great! And now it's clear why level 4 only has 219/220 required diamonds. That's the end of the demo. There are no more levels.
There's no exit-level button (well, 'Restart' IS that), and if you try any levels past 4, you're stuck and have to refresh the page.
There doesn't seem to be much game here yet.