Mine A Planet Beginner Guide: All Codes, Index Rewards, and Aliens

Mine A Planet is a Roblox idle-mining game where fleets of laser drones chip apart a voxel planet and haul ore back for you to sell. The systems that decide how fast you grow are your drones, your dock platforms, and a short list of early upgrades — while side systems like the index, aliens, and UFO events quietly multiply everything else. Here’s the order that gets a beginner earning quickly.

How to set up your first drone in Mine A Planet

Your whole economy runs on drones, so the first job is getting one rolling on a platform.

1. Find the drone roll machine — Walk over to the drone roll machine on your planet to start building your mining fleet.
2. Roll and buy a drone — Press E to roll for a drone, then buy the one you land on.
3. Unlock a dock platform — Spend your early cash to unlock a platform so the drone has a slot to mine from.
4. Assign the drone — Place your new drone on the open platform and it begins mining ore automatically.
5. Recall to swap later — When you roll something stronger, recall the old drone and assign the replacement in its slot.

Early upgrade priorities that grow income fastest

Cargo is genuinely useful, but dock storage matters far less if you play actively and sell your ore regularly rather than letting it stockpile. Some players push Mining Power, Cargo Capacity, and Drone Speed first, treating raw stats as the main bottleneck — that route works, but rolling and seating more drones is the faster engine for a beginner, so let the video order anchor you and treat the stat-first path as a preference rather than a fix.

Building a drone fleet that actually earns

Drones are your income engine, so almost every early decision should feed them. Each drone can be upgraded, and upgrading raises the money you earn from every ore it mines — a single well-upgraded drone quietly outearns a shelf of neglected ones. Because they generate cash on their own, they deserve to stay near the top of your spending list from the very first minutes.

Keep every platform you’ve unlocked filled — an empty slot is income you’re throwing away. When you compare drones, look at the actual stats, not just the rarity color; a flashier drone isn’t automatically the stronger one, and the numbers are what mine your ore. Save premium consumables like Strong Batteries and the Super Alien Treat for high-stat drones you plan to keep long term — burning them on weak starter units is wasted value.

Index rewards give permanent cash bonuses

The index is a system many beginners skip. Every time you discover a new drone, you fill in more of it, and as your index grows it hands out permanent cash bonuses that lift your earnings for the rest of your playthrough. Whenever you unlock a drone you haven’t seen before, open the index and check — there’s often another lasting reward waiting.

Aliens, shiny relics, and UFO shard events

As you explore, you’ll start finding shiny relics. Place one in the center area and interact with it to obtain an alien. Aliens act as companions that grant passive bonuses — some raise your drone speed, others boost mining speed or give you extra income — and you activate one by placing it on a platform. Equipping stronger aliens is one of the cleaner ways to lift your whole operation’s efficiency.

During UFO weather, fly around collecting UFO shards. Bank enough and they convert into UFO tokens, which you spend in the special UFO shop on alien balls — the item used to catch wild aliens around the map. Catch one, place it on a platform, and its bonuses go live. Other players can grab the same shards you’re chasing, so a faster jetpack makes the whole event far easier to win.

Free rewards and codes to claim early

Redeem codes through the Settings menu, opened with the gear icon at the top-right of the screen. Together the codes above hand out Strong Batteries, a Drone Pack, a Super Alien Treat, and a five-minute time skip — a real head start on a new save. Codes like these can expire quickly, so enter them the moment you start rather than saving them for later.

Beyond codes, check the standing reward systems on a regular basis. Claim your playtime rewards, collect your daily rewards, and never miss the update rewards that drop with each new patch, like the current in-game update event. Each one is a chunk of free cash and resources for almost no effort.

A fast early-game routine to follow

Claim codes and free rewards

Redeem active codes and grab your playtime, daily, and update rewards first.

Roll and equip drones

Roll new drones and put your highest-stat units in every active slot.

Unlock more platforms

Buy extra dock platforms so more drones mine at the same time.

Mine while drones work

Shoot ores yourself instead of standing idle to pull in extra cash.

Upgrade priority stats

Feed money into drone rolls, platforms, planet value, and mining speed.

Check the index

Open it after each new drone for a possible permanent cash bonus.

Use your aliens

Place your strongest aliens on platforms to stack passive bonuses.

Collect UFO shards

Fly around during UFO weather and bank shards for tokens.

Upgrade equipment

Improve your jetpack and pistol whenever you can afford it.

Beginner mistakes that slow you down

Don’t stand around AFK while your drones work when you could be manually mining for extra cash, and don’t ignore the index bonuses that quietly pay you forever. Finally, resist pouring valuable consumables into weak starter drones, and stop overvaluing dock storage when you’re already selling ore actively — that upgrade money almost always does more elsewhere.

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