# Boosters
**Boosters** are consumable items that temporarily enhance your mining operations. They provide short-term advantages but must be used strategically, as only one can be active at a time.
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Whenever you **consume a Booster**, **all your Miners** gain **Addiction Ticks**. Each Booster adds a specific number of ticks, and these ticks accumulate over time. The more Boosters you use, the more your Miners become addicted.
This creates a **trade-off**: Boosters temporarily increase your efficiency and rewards, but they come at the cost of long-term sustainability if not managed wisely.
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## What Are Boosters?
Boosters are **temporary buffs** that improve aspects of gameplay such as:
* Mining speed
* Reward rates
* Resistance to negative effects
* Drop chance for Addicted Artifacts
* Luck when opening chests
Each Booster is **time-limited** and **single-use**.
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## Booster Rules
* Players can **purchase or earn** Boosters.
* Only **one Booster can be active** at a time.
* Activating a new Booster **cancels the previous one immediately**.
* Each Booster **consumes one inventory slot** when acquired.
* Boosters cannot be paused — their timer runs in real time.
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## Booster Examples
| Booster Name | Effect | Duration |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------- | -------- |
| Quick Digging Gel | +30% Mining Speed | 30 min |
| Artifact Magnet | +10% Addicted Artifact Drop Rate | 1 hr |
| Iron Gut Tonic | Immunity to Poisoning | 45 min |
| Chest Cracker Oil | +25% Chest Opening Speed | 20 min |
| Black Powder Brew | +15% Reward Quality (Rocks and Chests) | 1 hr |
> More Boosters will be added over time as the game evolves.
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### Addiction Tick Impact
If you don't clean your Addiction Ticks regularly, the **cost to reset a Miner's productivity** increases. The formula is:
> `Reset Price × (100 + Number of Addiction Ticks)%`
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A reset price of 8 tokens with 5 Addiction Ticks becomes:\
`8 × (100 + 5)% = 8 × 1.05 = 8.40 tokens`
### Detox With Uranium Drops
To manage Addiction, you can **purchase Uranium Drops**, which **clean your Miners’ Addiction Ticks**. Using these wisely is key to maintaining a high-efficiency team without letting reset costs spiral out of control.
### Strategic Use
* Use Boosters to **power up your farming temporarily**
* Stack powerful builds for **high-risk/high-reward runs**
* Plan Detox periods using Uranium Drops to **balance out Addiction**
By managing Addiction carefully, players can optimize their **resource farming**, **Relic drop rates**, and **economic progression**, while still maintaining control over cost and Miner performance.
> Addiction transforms power into responsibility — use it wisely ⚖️
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