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.
April 25th Update
Enchants just got better.
Dredge Master Changes
Dredge Master quests now give set rewards on reaching certain milestones. It also gives random relics.
Loadout Changes
Loadout limit raised to 10.
Enchant Changes
Higher tier pant enchants now work on the pan’s stat percentage, so they remain more viable into late game content.
Minor Changes
You can now mute other players’ work sounds.
Vault sorting fixes.
Treasure spawning in walls fixed.
April 18th Update
No longer Easter!
Easter Event Ended
Easter is over for the year.
Potion Shop
You can now find a Potion Shop in Meteor Valley.
Enchanting UI
A new Enchanting UI should make it easier to add Enchants.
Museum Changes
Museum Loadout now up to 10.
Vault Access
There are now more Vault Access spots around the regular map.
Dredge Master Changes
Some scaling rebalances.
Prospector MVP Changes
No longer buffs capacity, boosts Luck more instead.
General Optimizations.
April 11th Update
Longer Easter!
Easter Event
The Easter Event has been extended by a week, so there’s more time to get the limited stuff!
New Runes
- Annihilation I
- Annihilation II
Dredge Master Changes
Dredge Master quests adapted to scale more with level. You can now reroll Dredge Master quests once per day.
Totems
You can now bulk buy your totems.
Inventory Optimization
There should be less inventory lag now.
Vault Limit
The Vault Limit is now 2000 with upgrades.
April 4th Update
More stuff for the new location.
New Area
- Meteor Valley has been extended with Astral Caverns.
New Sluice
- Starblossom Sluice
New Ores
- Meteoric Gold
- Celestium
New Quests
- Fallen Crate
- Meteor Guardian
New Mastery
- Meteor Valley
New Event
- In Meteor Valley
March 28th Update
Easter is here!
Easter Event
Easter is here! Time for the Egg Hunt. You can find Eggs out in the world, or hiding underground in your excavations. Take these to the Event Shop and trade them in for new Easter items.
New Items
New items, found in the Easter Shop.
- Easter Sluice
- Friendship Totem
- Bunny Ears
New Event
Egg Hunt – Hourly event that considerably increases the spawn rate of eggs.
New Passives
Passives for Starcrusher and Nebula.
Balances
Level cap raised.
March 21st Update
The new area has arrived!
New Area
Meteor Valley – More content on the way for this area in following updates.
New Equipment
Starlight Wings
New Quests
Six new quests.
14th March
New area next week!
New Rune
- Eternity
Two New Mutations
- Granite
- 1.35x
- +24 Dig Strength,
- +6 Shake Strength
- Overclocked
- 1.35x
- +10 Dig Speed
- +10 Shake Speed
2x Luck Event
A short period of double luck!
Minor Changes
Some reworks to the camera.
Most quests now have short quest descriptions.
Changes to the Robux shop.
Rebalances
No rebalances today.
Fixes
General bug fixes.
7th March
Another smaller content update.
New Accessory
New ring unlocked by completing 100 Dredge Master quests.
(If you’ve already done over 100 of them, then you’ll need to complete another to get the reward.)
New Enchants
Three new enchants for Shovels.
Balance Changes
Umbite Ring buffed.
Minor Changes
- Setting to hide popups on new finds.
- Improvements to mobile UI.
- Reduced panning lag spike.
- Minor optimizations.
- Bug fixes.
27th February
New area on the way, in the meantime there are a few quality of life changes.
Collection Changes
Collections now show the best place to find an opre.
Unvisited Areas now hidden.
Totem Stacking
You can place a Totem on another Totem to extend the duration of the event.
Quest Improvements
Some of the quests are now easier to understand.
Balance Changes
Enchanted Ruins drop rates adjusted.
21st February
A new important NPC.
New NPC
The Dredge Master
Provides infinite, level-appropriate quests. Completing the quests provides a Luck boost.
Backpack Changes
You can now see the full value of selling your inventory by checking your backpack.
Fixes to the Valentines Pan.
14th February
Valentines day update! Not a huge event, but there is some new stuff to do.
Valentines Mini Event (And Event Currency)
Collect the new currency, Heart Crystals, by triggering events for other people, or my selling particular ore. (This didn’t work in autosell previously, but that appears to be patched as of the last time we checked.)
New Shovel
New Pan
New Event
Rose Rain
A new event for the duration of Valentines. Happens hourly.
New Totem
7th February
New areas, and no more modifier selling mistakes.
New Quests
2 New Quests
New Location
Excavation Site E
Modifier Lock
You can now lock specific modifiers so you don’t accidentally sell them.
Level Up VFX
Small Bug Fixes
31st January
Just a few extra things.
New Event
Modifier Surge
New NPCs
More wandering NPCs added.
24th January
A small content update.
New Ore Modifiers
New Waypoint
- Timelocked Sanctuary
17th January Update – Overgrown Grotto Rework
Bigger content update with major changed to an area.
Expansion
Overgrown Grotto has been expanded, with a lot more content. There is a new depsoite, and new quests.
New Equipment
Other Changes
- Swamp Fog buffed.
- Progression server matching in early testing.
10th Of January Update
Quests!
New Quests
7 new quests.
New Equipment
1 new piece.
Wandering NPCs
These characters walk around the area.
- Ambient Sounds.
- Inventory optimization.
- Title gradients.
3rd Of January 2026 Update
New Year, new update.
Event Changes
Christmas event is over.
Museum Changes
Museums now have loadouts.
Other players can now visit your museum, and you can visit other players’ museums.
New Deposit
Mid-game volcano deposit.
New Equipment
New Quest
Storage Upgrades
You can now upgrade your Vault Storage using Meteor Shards.
General optimizations.
20th Of December – Timelock
New Location
Timelocked Sanctuary
Opens only at certain times. (fifteen minutes before the turn of the hour, and fifteen minutes after).
New Quest
New Equipment
New Rune
Misfortune Rune
New Enchants
New Shovel Enchants
Other Changes
- Rubble Creek and Fortune River are looking a bit more festive!
- No repeat mayors from week to week.
13th Of December – Christmas Part 2
Christmas Equipment
New gear with a festive flavour.
Present Delivery
A new way to earn Ornaments by delivering gifts.
Small Changes
- Hotbar order now saves when leaving.
- Small Rune tutorial added when first acquiring a Rune.
- Iridium now appears a bit smaller in the pan.
- Better eruption VFX.
- New Modifier
- New Swamp Event
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
- Rotwood Swamp
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
- Excavation Site D
- Inventory Size increases.
- Purchasable items now have price above them.
October 18th Update – Halloween!
- Halloween Event
- New Location
- Haunted Creek
- New Pan
- Pumpkin Pan
- New Shovel
- Pumpkin 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
- Abyssal Depths
- 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
- Lifetouched Pan
- New Shovel
- Lifetouched Shovel
- New Sluice
- Lifetouched Sluice
- New NPC
- Old Druid
- 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
- Crystalline
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
- Blizzard
- New Feature
- Equipment Loadouts
- 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
- Voidtorn
- 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
- Volcanic Eruption
- New Merchant on Volcano Island
- New quests.
- New shop AI.
Rebalances
- All sluices buffed.
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.
- Fixes to Dig Speed.
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.
