Digs and Storms

Deep flags, the digs that bring them up, and the storm that clears the flags nobody started.

About 1 signal in 12 is too deep to dig on the spot. If there is room, the dad plants a red flag there instead. Tap a flag to start digging it: that takes real time, and the deeper the flag, the better what is down there. Your spade decides which flags you can dig, how fast, and how many can wait at once.

Shallow

10 min at full speed
Holds uncommon or better
Needs the Plastic Spade or better

Deep

45 min at full speed
Holds rare or better 1 time in 3
Needs the Garden Trowel or better

Deeper

2 h at full speed
Holds rare or better, always
Needs the Treasure Spade or better

Deepest

4 h at full speed
Holds epic or better 1 time in 3, and the best legendary odds in the game
Needs the Legion Dolabra or better

Storms

Every 6 hours a storm sweeps each place and clears every flag nobody has started digging. A dig already running is safe. That is the reason to check in: start your digs before the storm. The book's Digs chapter shows when the next one comes, and in its last 15 minutes, while you have flags waiting, a red countdown chip shows under the buttons at the top right.

High Tide at Boardwalk Beach: the water comes up the sand, Dad stands in it with his detector held up, and the flags float off.

High Tide

Boardwalk Beach: the waves roll up the sand.

Dust Storm

Neon Motel: a pink haze rolls through.

Tumbleweed Stampede

Tumbleweed Gulch: a herd of tumbleweeds rolls down main street.

Spring Tide

Skull Cove: the lagoon floods right up to the cliffs.

Moat Flood

Castle Moat: the drawbridge drops and the moat spills over its banks.

Ash Fall

Ashfall Forum: the volcano puffs and grey ash settles.

Blizzard

Frostbite Tundra: a whiteout rolls across the snow.

Triceratops Stampede

Dino Sands: a herd thunders across the sand.