The pit is where you go to mine Rare Earth. Rare earth can be exchanged for a number of things, most notably McCarty Frags, Carbon Nanotubes, Modules, Module Enhancement, Module Promotion, and Module Modifiers. You can slo save up your rare earrth for unlimited amounts of Resources, Nova Econ or Mil points, or Marks of Glory.
Pit Levels
There are 9 Pit levels, with differeing havest rates. To be able to access the higher levels, you need to defeat the pit monsters.
| Level | Harvest Rate |
| 1 | 14.4k/hr |
| 2 | 18.0k/hr |
| 3 | 21.6k/hr |
| 4 | 25.2k/hr |
| 5 | 28.8k/hr |
| 6 | 34.9k/hr |
| 7 | 42.1k/hr |
| 8 | 50.7k/hr |
| 9 | 61.2k/hr |
Golden Pickaxe
This is a new addition in March 2023.
The Golden Pickaxe provides a 20% boost to your resource gathering speed in the pit. It also grants bonus rewards during the month based upon total rare earth gathered.
| Rare Earth Gathered | Basic Pickaxe Reward | Golden Pickaxe Reward |
| 50,000 | 1x 30-min Speedup | 20x Promote Choice Box II |
| 250,000 | 10x 1* Gear Enhance Material | 5x 30-min Speedup |
| 500,000 | 10x 1* Chip Enhance Material | 2x Enhance Choice Box |
| 750,000 | 10x 1* Module Enhance Material | 2x Promote Choice Box |
| 1,000,000 | 2x 100 VIP Points | 10x Lesser Resource Box 10x 60-min Speedup |
| 1,250,000 | 10x Marks of Glory | 20x Marks of Glory |
| 1,500,000 | 1x Gear Pomoter | 2x Enhance Choice Box |
| 1,750,000 | 1x Chip Pomoter | 2x Promote Choice Box |
| 2,000,000 | 1x Module Pomoter | 10x Lesser Resource Box 10x 60-min Speedup |
| 2,250,000 | 500x Diamond Box | 10x Lesser Resource Box |
| 2,500,000 | 10x Gear Refiner | 20x Gear Refiner |
| 3,000,000 | 10x 1* Gear Enhance Material | 2x Enhance Choice Box |
| 3,500,000 | 10x 1* Chip Enhance Material | 2x Promote Choice Box |
| 4,000,000 | 10x 1* Module Enhance Material | 2x Promote Choice Box II |
| 4,500,000 | 10x Hero Skin Frag | 100x Hero Skin Frag 500x Diamond Box |
| 5,000,000 | 1x 30-min Speedup | 5x 60-min Speedup |
| 5,500,000 | 1x Gear Pomoter | 2x Enhance Choice Box |
| 6,000,000 | 1x Chip Pomoter | 2x Promote Choice Box |
| 6,500,000 | 1x Module Pomoter | 2x Promote Choice Box II |
| 7,000,000 | 2x 100 VIP Points | 10x Lesser Resource Box 10x 60-min Speedup |
| 7,500,000 | 10x Marks of Glory | 20x Marks of Glory |
| 8,000,000 | 10x 1* Gear Enhance Material | 2x Enhance Choice Box |
| 8,500,000 | 10x 1* Chip Enhance Material | 2x Promote Choice Box |
| 9,000,000 | 10x 1* Module Enhance Material | 2x Promote Choice Box II |
| 9,500,000 | 500x Diamond Box | 10x Lesser Resource Box 10x 60-min Speedup |
| 10,000,000 | 10x Gear Refiner | 20x Gear Refiner |
| 11,000,000 | 5x Lesser Resource Box | 5x Enhance Choice Box |
| 12,000,000 | 5x Lesser Resource Box | 5x Promote Choice Box |
| 13,000,000 | 5x Lesser Resource Box | 2x Promote Choice Box II |
| 15,000,000 | 30x 100 VIP Points | 100x Hero Skin Frag 10x 100 VIP Points |
Choosing a Pit Field
Choosing your maximium field level or one below is a trade-off. The higher you go the faster you mine, but the more likely you are to be attacked (reducing your haul, and slowing you down). I tend to choose one level below to maximise the number of times I complete gathering, and minimise losses. It also makes it easier to Raid others and steal their rare earth.
You only need to defeat the pit monster once to access a field.
Once you enter a pit field and mine – you are bound to that field for a period (I think it’s 2 days), before it lets you select again.
Mining Within a field
Once you are in a field, you will have lots of levels to choose from. I start by choosing Section 5,000 in the chooser, and let th enumber revert to the total sections. In the example below – 1,293 sections. Now these 1,293 sectionsare shared by your battle group (not the entire game population as used to be the case), so your experience of eakness or domination will vary over time.
If – after looking at the end you don’t see an empty lvel, or you are too lazy to browse (and we all are), you can choose “Auto-Occupy” – which will look for a vacant field and fill it (assuing one is free). NOte Auto-occupy is made available once you attin VIP level 7.
There is also a battle report option so you can see who you have beaten, who has been you, and exact revenge.
You can also quickly browse through the levels, and find “weak” players with a darker color badge.
You can attack these, and if you defeat them you will steal a percentage of their gathered ore.
When you click on the mine site, you will see a summary of occupant, time remaining to mine, and rare earth gathered – and the number ticks up in real time.:
I you choose Steal, you are presented with your usual troop screen. In my case I senta run of Shooters to steal the ore and occupt the mine.
I stole 20% of their ore, and am now accupying the site. The mining starts again with a new occupy timer., and a 2hour recall block. After 2 hours, I can recall the troops and get everythign I hvae gathered so far, to remove the risk of having it stolen. Then occupy again, this a a good strategy to maximise the rare earth gathered, and minimise losses.
