The mines never sleep.
The buried world keeps producing while you are away.
20092020Reborn
The original persistent economy // rebuilt
From the ashesof the ashes of Yellowstonecomes MineThings 2.
Yellowstone buried one civilisation. Time buried one of the web’s strangest games. We dug it up twice.
The slow-burn economic and social experiment that began in 2009 is back—restored, expanded and alive.
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Your first Meld1 min 15 sec
Equip your miner. Find Things. Make Melds. See how trade and travel help your collection.
Open film in a new tabRead the essentials
Make Melds. A Meld is a completed collection. Equip your miner with tools, give your mine time to work, then return to see which Things it found.
Complete a recipe. For example, the Common Sunday Meld needs one Common Bolt and one Common Sneakers Thing. With spare copies stored in Hearthwick, open Your Things and choose Meld. The recipe consumes its pieces; you keep a permanent achievement.
Open specialisations. More Melds unlock more roles. Merchant opens at 10 Melds; Manufacturer opens at 50. Switch roles when your plans change.
Trade and transport. Each city has its own stock and prices. Buy missing pieces, sell spare Things and use Fleet to load a vehicle or ship. Things stay in their city until a transport carries them elsewhere. Journeys take real time.
World statusOnline after a six-year silence
The market remembers.
Things exist somewhere. Scarcity, distance and player prices matter.
The world has teeth.
Travel armed. Weather, pirates, ghosts and creatures share the routes.
A little more of the world
Big plans.
Strange company.
Meet the world you can grow into, and a couple of its personalities.
The little world kept growing20 sec
A glimpse of the places, machinery and ambitious plans waiting beyond your first mine.
Open film in a new tabSerif and the Pet Snake30 sec
A small interview. A growing world. One fairly modest wish: more players.
Open film in a new tabA web original, unearthed
Not a reboot with the serial numbers filed off.
Restored from the original code, artwork and community records. Built to keep growing.
- The experiment begins. A persistent world of mines, local markets and player-made value appears on the web.
- The machinery stops. The original service closes, but its codebase and community memory survive.
- The world digs back. Old systems return. Maps connect. Events unfold live. The next chapter belongs to its players.
Archive signal // recoveredGeography is gameplay
One world. Many cities. No universal price.
Mine where the things are. Trade where they are scarce. Fit a vehicle or ship, load the cargo and cross routes that can be profitable, dangerous—or both.
Aso region mapDistance creates opportunity.
- Dig weird.Thousands of things, from useful machinery to glorious nonsense.
- Trade smart.Player markets turn location and rarity into a living economy.
- Travel prepared.Customise transports, carry cargo and survive what waits between cities.
- Change the story.Factories, professions, chat and world events make every miner consequential.
The next chapter needs miners
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Your free welcome pack
Your welcome pack includes a yellow Camel, a starter Search Plane, a Green Dwarf, Tin Shield, Tin Turbo Engine, Tin Radar, complimentary Equipment Mine and Vehicles Mine rentals, 5 ASO and a 100 ASO casino voucher.
You need 10 Melds before you can send your plane searching for far-off lands.
- Persistent mining
- Player-run markets
- Connected worlds
- Live events