Eager to find out the latest news from the world of Prospecting? The game is growing pretty quickly, and it’s useful to know the most recent developments to chase up. That’s why we put together this Prospecting update guide, where we keep you up to date with changes as they arrive.
You can play Prospecting over on Roblox. If you want to find out more about the game, maybe check out our Prospecting pans guide.
Prospecting Update Guide
We’ll order each of the updates below.
6th Of December – Christmas Begins Update
Christmas Event
Check out the new Christmas area, around for a limited time.
Present Orders
A new Christmas activity for special rewards.
New Hourly Event
Candy Canes
New Mutation
New Shovel
New Pan
29th Of November – Equipment Mutations Update
Equipment Mutations
When crafting new equipment, there’s a small chance it will gain a special mutation.
Advent Calendar
Come along every day in December to get a special prize.
New Sluice
New Museum Quest
Rebalances
- Traveling merchant items increased.
- Bulk-selling is now possible for equipment.
- Firefly Stones can appear without Fireflies, but very rarely.
- Voidtouched buffed.
- Prismatic buffed.
- Diamond buffed.
November 22nd – MVP Update
MVP System
Vote for an MPV each week, and get some boosts to the servers.
Auto Panning
Pan automatically.
Travelling Merchant
The Travelling Merchant is now always active, and refreshes every day.
New Admin Abuse Event
Cookie Time.
Rebalances And Fixes
- Autosell can be set to Mythic.
- Fewer vines in Overgrown Grotto.
- Swamp water raised.
- Otherworldly Rign buffed.
- Top bar fixes for mobile.
- Treasure Map fixes.
November 15th – Marsh Update
New Location
The Fungal Marsh
New Pan
New Shovel
Quest Reworks
Improved Tutorial and Starter quests.
New Quests
New quests around Caldera Island.
Sprinting
You can new run by holding Left CTRL on keyboard, LT on controller.
UI Changes
November 8th – Swamp Update
Vault System
You can now store items outside your inventory in the Vault system to clear things up a little.
New Location
New Quests
New Equipment
Hide Equipment
- You can now select an option to hide your equipment from being visible to others.
Improved Tutorial
Improved Visuals
Rebalances
- Thunderstorm will no longer replace modifiers, it will only give ones to unmodified ores.
November 1st
- Mastery
- Complete certain tasks to unlock certain boosts, and special titles.
- Titles
- Select Titles in Settings. You can equip at ones you’ve unlocked.
- Crafting Cutscenes
- You’ll get a cutscene when you craft an item.
- You can now view your own nametag if you enable it in the settings.
- A mass unlock button added.
- Rebalance
- Loadout slots increased from three slots to five.
- New Inventory slot for locked items.
- You can now only own two of a type of limited stock item at a time.
October 25th Update – Halloween Part 2!
- New Halloween Merchant (Appears during Admin Abuse only.)
- Snowy Mountain Potion Merchant
- New Location
- Inventory Size increases.
- Purchasable items now have price above them.
October 18th Update – Halloween!
- Halloween Event
- New Location
- New Pan
- New Shovel
- New Relic
- New Totem
- New Blueprints
- Pumpkin Lord Blueprint
- Amulet Of Spirits Blueprint
- Ring Of Harvest Blueprint
- Halloween Quests
- Speak to The Reaper in Haunted Creek to get your Scary Mask and start frightening NPCs for candy.
Rebalances And Fixes
- Hide Quest button added.
- Hotbar order saves between servers.
- Drag equipping added.
October 11th Update
- New Feature – Runes
- Appear as quest rewards.
You can use these to get unique gameplay boosts.
- Appear as quest rewards.
- Crafting System Improvements
- You can now pin and track your crafting recipes, making it easier to determine if you have the stuff you need to make certain things.
- Early Game Changes
- Some early content was switched up to make the game more beginner-friendly.
- New Admin-Only Events For Admin Abuse
Rebalances And Fixes
- Daily Reward permanent luck increased to five per stack.
- Improved UI scaling.
October 4th Update
- New Location
- New Pan
- New Shovel
- New Ring
Rebalances And Fixes
- Firefly Stone spawn chance increase.
- Ad system has been added, allowing you to watch ads in exchange for temporary access to the Sell Anywhere feature.
- Fixed visual bugs with Abyss Gate.
- New merchant next to Abyss Entrance.
- Darkness death is now spookier.
September 27th Update
- New Enchants
- Seven New Enchants, accessible via the Oasis Enchanting Table. (Complete the Seed Of Light quest to activate this.)
- Sluice Upgrades
Rebalances And Fixes
- Sluices buffed as a whole.
- Buffs for some early game equipment.
- Geothermal Geode base chance buffed.
- Mobile UI improvements.
- Icon scaling on mobile improved.
- Inventory text scaling on mobile improved.
September 20th Update
- New Mechanic – Excavations
- Start an Excavation at an Excavation Site in Snowy Mountain or the Volcano Island and earn Relics over time.
- New Events
- Nimue’s Blessing
- Geode Shower
Rebalances And Fixes
- Guaranteed Event every 30 minutes.
- New location markers for Quests.
- Museum stat requirements increased.
- Geodes are now easier to pick up.
- Vineheart rate increased.
September 13th Update
- Overgrown Grotto
- level 15+
- Accessible from Crystal Caverns, requires the Icebreaker Shovel and Dragonflame Shovel to open.
- Deeproot Spring
- Accessible from Overgrown Grotto after cutting the vines in the entry tunnel with Enchanted Scissors.
- New Pan
- New Shovel
- New Sluice
- New NPC
- New NPC Quests
- Cutting Through (Gives Enchanted Scissors)
- Spirit Of The Grotto
Rebalances
- You can now rename loadouts.
- Void is no longer a naturally occurring event. This means the Galactic Pan and Galactic Shovel are no longer available through normal means.
September 6th Update
- New Main Questline Quest
- Go to Steve at Rubble Creek after completing the first two Rubble Creek quests.
- Geodes
- These will appear randomly, and give ores when opened.
- New Modifier
Rebalances And Fixes
- Totems and Relics now stack in your inventory, making things a lot less cluttered.
- Panning made a bit less laggy for lower-end devices. You can also now replace the ore models while panning if it’s still not working well for you.
- Ore auto-lock.
August 30th – Museum Update
- Museum
- Use the Museum to display Ores.
- New Event
- New Feature
- Collections now display modifiers you found, too.
Rebalances And Fixes
- Caldera Island optimizations.
- Chances of obtaining Exotic and Mythical finds increased.
August 23rd – Void Update
- The Void
- Spawns every 3 hours or so, or through a relic from the Traveling Merchant. This area has a randomized loot pool, with any non-exotic ore potentially available.
- New Modifier
- New Limited Equipment
- Weekly Quests
- Better Tutorial
Rebalances And Fixes
- Magma Forge Rebalances
- Relics are now sellable.
- Large-scale general optimizations.
- Backpack fixes.
August 16th – Snowy Update
- New Area: Snowy Mountain
- Accessible after Volcano Island. Advance beyond the second island to access this area.
- New Pans
- New Shovels
- New Sluice
- New Quests
- New Equipment
- Blueprints Feature
- Magma Forge
- Used to merge five-star equipment.
- New potions at the Traveling Merchant.
Rebalances And Fixes
- Relics are now sellable.
- Cryogenic Preserver is now a Charm.
August 9th Update
- Travelling Merchant, arrives 45 minutes on the hour in one of a few locations around the map, and sells rare items.
- Quest tracker book added.
- Daily Quest, refreshes every 24 hours.
- Auto Sell option.
- Auto Lock option.
Rebalances And Fixes
- Travelling Merchant duration increased.
- General bug fixes.
2nd August Update
This small content update dropped on the 2nd of August.
- New Shovel
- New Pan
- New Sluice
- New Event
- New Merchant on Volcano Island
- New quests.
- New shop AI.
Rebalances
The Volcano Awakens
This update dropped on Saturday, the 26th of July.
Content
Here is where we put any major additions to the content of the game. New areas, new equipment, new quests, and such will all go here.
- New Map Expansion Area
- Volcano Island, accessed after fixing the Lighthouse on the mainland.
- New Ores
- Event System
- New events appear every hour. These include the following:
- Meteor Shower
- Mythic River
- River Rapids
- Solar Flare
- Waypoints
- A fast travel system that lets you move around the map more easily.
Rebalances
Any changes to the game balance, buffs, nerfs, changes in how things work, these all go in this section.
- Rarity of Luminium reduced. (You should be able to get is easier now.)
- Dragonflame Pan side reduction lowered, stats buffed.
- Phoenix Wings is now a Charm.
Fixes
Any bug fixes or minor tweaks to how the game plays will go in here.
Upcoming Update
The next update for Prospecting is supposed to be a larger content update, compared to the relatively tame one we got last weekend, so keep an eye out for a lot of new additions and maybe even another location.
