To purchase all upgrades, you will need about $19,750 in cash collected and 149 orbs. You should have enough knowledge of the game by then that ignoring the last bit of the game before doing the 4-star run shouldn’t hinder you at all. You can even quit out as soon as you unlock that achievement, without finishing the game, and proceed to the 4-star run. All of them will be pointed out in the detailed step-by-step guide below for the speedrun, though, so feel free to simply enjoy your first playthrough, and only worry about getting the Fully Loaded achievement at this time. If you prefer, you can also keep the video guide for the game’s Secret Areas handy, so that you can nab all of those on your first playthrough as well. It also means that you will be much more familiar with the mechanics of the game, the dangers of the spike magnets that are plentiful once you get down to Vectron, and the general strategy for hitting as many mineral deposits as you dig down as possible, without wasting too much time digging sideways or climbing back up to reach an out-of-the-way deposit. There are a finite number of orbs in the game, and if you buy a lot of teleporters, you can actually use so many orbs that buying all upgrades becomes impossible.ĭoing your first playthrough casually to obtain enough cash and orbs to purchase all upgrades means that you don’t have to worry about that achievement during your speedrun.

Unfortunately, this makes the achievement for maximizing all upgrades, Fully Loaded, significantly harder to obtain, and potentially missable. In order to make the 4-gold-star speedrun as easy as possible, you will be buying teleporters quite frequently. Even though you could technically get the full 1000gs in a single playthrough, I do not advise it, and for one main reason: Teleporters. As soon as you get a few upgrades, though, it all becomes child’s play. The game is very simple, although some of the mechanics might be tricky early on. For your first playthrough, I would highly advise just playing through the game at your leisure.

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