# Idle Cave Miner — Completely destructible mines!

> Idle mining and crafting game with destructible mines and team building. (iPhone/iPad app by Cold Hours, Unipessoal LDA.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-cave-miner/id1550645417 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Cold Hours, Unipessoal LDA](https://appshunter.io/developer/1489742371)
- Category: Games, Simulation
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 1,539 App Store ratings · 44 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 104 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, European Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2022-11-23
- Data updated: 2026-09-05
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-cave-miner/id1550645417/reviews.md

## What is Idle Cave Miner?

Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Tap to mine gold, diamonds, and other resources in a completely destructible, intractable mine. Assemble your team of miners to try to reach as deep as possible, find the best combination using each miner's strengths and abilities as a starting point for your strategy. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.

IDLE CAVE MINER FEATURES:

Smelt, Craft, and Refine Ores:
- Craft cool new Items to mine deeper than ever and find new rare ores and gems!
- Upgrade your forges to increase their speed and efficiency when smelting rare ores or refining beautiful gems!
- Use the items you crafted to permanently boost the stats of your team of miners!

Build your own team of Miners:
- Unlock cool and unique new miners to mine for you and help you progress deep within the mines!
- Upgrade your miners with items you crafted to take them to the next level of mining efficiency!
- Idle away as your miners work for you, giving you profits you've never seen before!

Multiple Mines:
- The mine upgrades with you, the further down you go, the more the mine shifts to accommodate new unique and fun environments!
- Unique mines to explore, each with their own resources for you to obtain, whether those are rare ores to be smelted or unique gems to be refined!
- Farm these mines to get resources to become stronger than ever and progress in the main mine, giving you access to new and interesting new ores and gems!

Endless upgrades:
- Upgrade everything about your favorite miners, building an increasingly strong team to progress further than you've gone before!
- Prestige to receive powerful rewards that allow you to go deeper than ever into the unknown depths of the mines!
- Gather permanent upgrades that remain with you when you prestige, allowing you to breeze through what was previously impossible!

Lots of missions and achievements:
- Complete fun achievements to unlock cool rewards!
- Participate in daily, weekly and monthly missions that give you increased rewards based on their difficulty level!
- Check your game's stats at any moment to view your overall progress and other fun statistics!

Other cool features:

- Cloud Saves!
- Online Leaderboards!

Lovers of interactive destructible digging and crafting games won't be able to put down this addicting idle mining and crafting game. Embark on an epic tap adventure, explore the mines and find new and exciting ores and gems!

## Key features

- Mine gold, diamonds, and resources
- Craft items and upgrade forges
- Build and upgrade a team of miners
- Explore multiple unique mines
- Prestige for powerful rewards
- Complete missions and achievements

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Auto Tap | $7.99 | one-time |
| Efficient Bundle | $19.99 | one-time |
| Progress Bundle | $14.99 | one-time |
| Miner Maya | $6.99 | one-time |
| Miners Orion and Leon | $9.99 | one-time |
| Starter Bundle | $9.99 | one-time |
| Miners Pedro and Appa | $9.99 | one-time |
| Skip All Ads | $4.99 | one-time |
| 2600 Gems | $19.99 | one-time |
| Miner Kemo | $6.99 | one-time |
| Triple Prestige Rewards | $5.99 | one-time |
| 1200 Gems | $9.99 | one-time |
| 550 Gems | $4.99 | one-time |
| 12000 Gems | $79.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Idle Cave Miner?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 No forced ads
- 🚀 Smooth gameplay
- 💡 Interesting idle mechanics
- 🎨 Cute visuals
- 🤝 Responsive developer

**Cons**

- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🔍 Lack of tutorial/explanations
- 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
- 🔋 Drains device battery
- 🕰️ Slow offline progress

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Forge speed upgrade not working as intended
- Restore purchases button giving free gems
- Game freezing and crashing on some devices
- Offline progress issues

**Most requested features**

- More miners/characters to unlock
- Customizable loadouts for miners
- Expanded progression systems
- Dungeon/boss battles
- Chinese language support

## Recent user reviews (10 of 44)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-cave-miner/id1550645417/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Good

*2026-07-16*

Good

### 3/5 — Very nice game

*2025-07-08, version 1.11.2*

В основном все прекрасно, однако много доната и страдает автосохранение. Вышел из игры - потерял 2-3 минуты прогресса. Для тех, у кого мало времени и заходят только ради наград, это будет ужасным багом.

### 1/5 — Hate the updated forge layout

*2025-05-19, version 1.11.2*

Instead of having all metals and gems ready to be crafted at once, now its all compacted into 5 slots below level 250. What a low blow honestly

### 3/5 — Not a game

*2025-04-29*

This is planned progression. The element of choice has been dwarfed in order to generate infinitely dwindling content. There are better places to dwell. (Fun fact: There are only 3 english words beginning with "dw")

### 5/5 — Brilliant Game!

*2025-04-27, version 1.11.2*

You can buy miners upgrade them to get you ore, you can tap on the screen to mine, you upgrade your mighty mining finger too to mine faster, this game has tons of levels to unlock and tons of stuff to enjoy! It’s my favorite game. And the price to pay for no ads is awesome too I got a wonderful deal where I paid 19.99 to remove ads get 500 gems as to boost my progress with and 7.99 for auto clicker 15 clicks a minute! The price is right and this game is extremely fun I love it! Oh I don’t know if we have TNT but it be nice to use TNT possibly have miners that use explosives and drills too. Please add explosives and drills for miners to use but maybe we get miners that use explosives and drills when they get leveled up but it just a suggestion lol I just started playing it it’s a wonderful game game thank you for making it! 😀

### 5/5 — Super fun

*2025-02-14, version 1.11.2*

I really love this game and I see myself playing it a lot I do wish u can have it so you can put different loadouts of different miners on each mine and other things cool but better but I love it 10/10

### 5/5 — More miners plz

*2024-07-21, version 1.11.1*

More miners plz I’m max already

### 5/5 — No forced ads, great idle game

*2024-01-02, version 1.8.1*

I’m going out of my way to show appreciation for not shoving ads down my throat. Need more developers like you. 

Getting mild stardew valley vibes. I like it.

### 5/5 — Love it

*2023-12-21, version 1.8.1*

I just love the game it is sooooooo gooood yeah

That’s it it’s really good!!!!!

### 5/5 — One of the best simple idles!

*2023-12-19, version 1.8.1*

Feels good to progress, even without paying anything, and no forced ads. It's a simple but fun concept with forging and the new abyss providing some more fun ways to progress alongside the standard prestiging and leveling up. There's definitely some improvements that could be made, but the developer actually talks on discord and cares about the game, and it's a great small little community!

## Frequently asked questions about Idle Cave Miner

### What is Idle Cave Miner?

Idle Cave Miner is an idle game focused on mining resources, crafting items, and assembling a team of miners. Players tap to mine various resources, strategize with their miners' abilities, and progress through destructible mines.

### What are the key features of Idle Cave Miner?

Key features include smelting, crafting, and refining ores; building and upgrading a team of unique miners; exploring multiple mines with distinct environments and resources; endless upgrades for miners and progression; and completing numerous missions and achievements.

### How does monetization work in Idle Cave Miner?

The game is free to download and play, but it includes in-app purchases and advertisements. Players can choose to make purchases to enhance their gameplay experience or progress more quickly.

### What kind of content can I expect to find in the mines?

The mines are destructible and contain a variety of resources such as gold, diamonds, rare ores, and unique gems. As you dig deeper, the mine environments change, offering new challenges and discoveries.

### Can I play Idle Cave Miner offline?

While the description mentions cloud saves and online leaderboards, it does not explicitly state whether the game can be played offline. However, many idle games offer some form of offline progression.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.11.4 — 2026-08-14

Version 1.11.4

- Fixes and Improvements

### 1.11.2 — 2024-08-26

* Version 1.11.2 *
- Added the abyssal hand
- Added 7 abyssal gems
- Added gem grading
- Updated most relics
- Quality of life changes
- Fixes and Improvements

### 1.11.1 — 2024-06-23

* Version 1.11.1 *
- Added the abyssal hand
- Added 7 abyssal gems
- Added gem grading
- Updated most relics
- Quality of life changes
- Fixes and Improvements

### Version 1.11.0 — 2024-06-22

* Version 1.11.0 *
- Added the abyssal hand
- Added 7 abyssal gems
- Added gem grading
- Updated most relics
- Quality of life changes
- Fixes and Improvements

### 1.10.1 — 2024-05-04

* Version 1.10.1 *
- Added new skins
- Added new items and transmutations
- Special forges can forge regular gems
- Birds now give small amounts of coal
- New rewards for weekly quests
- Fixes and Improvements

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