Township: How to Complete Professor's Experiments Mining Tasks

To complete mining tasks during the Professor's Experiments event in Township without running out of equipment, hold all pickaxes, dynamite, and TNT in your barn until mining challenges activate, then trigger the See the Light booster from the Laboratory before digging. Combining your mining sessions with overlapping daily objectives or calendar events ensures you hit point milestones with minimal tool waste.

Stockpiling Mining Tools

Mining between event tasks depletes equipment that takes days to replace. Build a working inventory before opening the mine shaft:

• Keep all trains moving: Continuously load and dispatch all available train lines. Completed train deliveries are the primary steady source of pickaxes, dynamite, and TNT.
• Hire the City Market dealer: If train deliveries fall behind, purchase dedicated orders of pickaxes from the dealer every hour to rapidly grow your reserves.
• Protect tool storage in the barn: If barn capacity becomes tight, sell off excess building slabs or fast-growing crops. Never sell mining tools to free up inventory space.

Aim to amass roughly 150 pickaxes, 40 sticks of dynamite, and 25 TNT barrels before committing to an intensive mining push.

Coordinating Task Overlaps and Event Calendars

Professor's Experiments divides objectives into short daily tasks and larger ongoing tasks that unlock on a weekly schedule. Mining objectives generally require reaching depth milestones, detonating explosives, or collecting specific ores such as copper, silver, gold, and platinum.

Do not clear a single task the moment it appears if a related task is on the horizon. If an ongoing task requires extracting ore while a daily task requires digging down 15 meters, completing them in the same session credits both goals simultaneously.

Whenever possible, align your runs with recurring mini-events:

• Ore Galore: Doubles all extracted ore, effectively cutting the tool cost of ore-collection tasks in half while supplying foundries with double raw metal.
• Ruler of the Mine: Adds tiered progression rewards and Town Cash for reaching excavation milestones alongside your experiment points.

Digging with the See the Light Booster

Never dig blind during major event milestones. The See the Light booster, activated in your town's Laboratory, reveals all ore veins, hidden chests, clay deposits, and fossils concealed behind two to three layers of unexcavated earth.

Because the booster runs on a 24-hour timer, activate it only when your tool reserve is fully stocked and your target tasks are live. Once active, direct your equipment based on the obstacles revealed:

1. Basic Pickaxes: Clear soft dirt to open direct routes toward illuminated ore and chests.
2. Dynamite Sticks: Detonate horizontal stone lines blocking access to illuminated veins instead of striking hard rock multiple times with picks.
3. TNT Barrels: Place into 3x3 areas densely packed with silver, gold, or platinum ore to claim all materials in a single blast.

Reinvesting Milestone Perks

Earning experiment points unlocks temporary passive perks that feed directly back into your town's production loop. Claim each perk as soon as it unlocks to benefit ongoing tasks:

• Spacious Railcars and Faster Trains: Increases transport capacity and reduces round-trip times, accelerating the delivery of fresh mining tools.
• Barn Expansions: Provides temporary storage overhead, allowing you to hold massive stockpiles of ore and building supplies without stalling farm and factory operations.
• Coin and Order Boosts: Increases coins earned from helicopter orders, generating the funds required to keep the City Market dealer on contract.

Direct surplus metals from completed mining runs into your foundries, then use the resulting ingots at the Academy of Industry to permanently boost train turnaround times and factory efficiency.