TerraMine is a GPS-based mobile game where every property you buy is tied to a real-world location. Each property generates TerraBucks (TB) — the in-game currency — and a trickle of passive USD income over time.
You walk around, stake unclaimed grid squares near you for 100 TB each, and every square you claim becomes a mine. Mines come in four types — Rock, Coal, Gold, and Diamond — each with its own earning rate and unique daily mini-game.
The core loop: claim squares near places you already go, run their daily mini-games to level them up, and watch your passive earnings grow while you live your life.
Every TerraAcre (TA) you claim is assigned a mine type at random when you purchase it. Mine type determines your earning rate and which mini-game you play.
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Rock
Memory Match
Baseline rate · Most common
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Coal
Miner Maze
1.5× Rock rate
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Gold
Gold Rush
2× Rock rate
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Diamond
Laser Blast
4× Rock rate · ~1% chance
You start with 1,000 TerraBucks — enough for roughly 10 properties at 100 TB each. Mine types are assigned randomly, so most of your early properties will be Rock. Treat Rock mines as your "rent base," and prioritize Coal, Gold, and Diamond for daily mini-games and boosts.
Strategy note: because Diamond is rare (roughly 1%), every Diamond mine you find is significantly more valuable than anything else. Upgrade these first, play their daily game without fail, and protect them during boosts.
Getting from zero to your first cluster of producing mines takes about 10–15 minutes. Here's exactly what to do.
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Install TerraMine from the
App Store or
Google Play and allow location access when prompted. Location is how the game knows which squares are near you.
2
Check your starting balance — you have 1,000 TerraBucks. Plan to spend most of it immediately; the goal is to get mines producing income as fast as possible.
3
Open the map and move or zoom to find unclaimed squares near your home, work, school, or any spot you visit regularly. Gray squares are unclaimed; colored squares belong to other players.
4
Tap an unclaimed square and confirm the 100 TB purchase. Repeat until you've built your first cluster. Squares near busy, high-traffic areas tend to get more visitor check-ins, which earns you extra TB.
Location strategy: your home and workplace are the two highest-value anchors because you'll physically be near them every day, which lets you check in on neighbors' mines and makes you discoverable to players passing through.
Each mine type has a unique daily mini-game. Playing these is central to leveling up your mines — higher levels unlock harder challenges and bigger TB rewards. You get a limited number of free attempts each day, with the option to watch a short ad for extra tries.
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Memory Match
Rock Mines
Match pairs of tiles before time runs out
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Miner Maze
Coal Mines
Navigate tunnels to reach the exit
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Gold Rush
Gold Mines
Connect a path to the pot of gold
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Laser Blast
Diamond Mines
Bounce a laser beam onto the diamond
Prioritize your rarer mines (Coal, Gold, Diamond) for daily play — the TB rewards scale with mine level, so a high-level Coal mine pays out far more than a Level 1 Diamond mine that you've neglected. Consistent daily play is what separates active players from passive ones.
Your mines passively generate USD earnings around the clock — even when you're not playing. The Earning Boost is the single biggest lever for accelerating those earnings.
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Earning Boost — Up to 20×
Multiplies your passive income by up to 20× for a limited time window. Stack free daily boosts and ad-reward boosts up to a maximum of 8 hours total.
You receive a set of free boosts each day, which reset at 4 AM EST. Each boost adds 30 minutes to your active boost window. You can extend your total boost time further by watching short rewarded ads in the app — boost duration stacks up to an 8-hour cap.
Best practice: activate your boosts when you know you'll be near your mines and physically active — you earn a 2× bonus on check-ins too while a boost is running, so combine boosts with a walk through your property cluster for maximum yield. The Earning Boost is only available in the TerraMine app.
TerraMine rewards real-world movement. When you physically walk near another player's mine and check in, both of you benefit — and the social layer is where much of the game's long-term depth lives.
Visitor earns
Bonus TB for checking in, with an optional message or photo that earns extra rewards on top.
Owner earns
TB every time a player checks in on your mine — high-traffic locations pay out without you lifting a finger.
Check-ins work on proximity — you need to be physically near the property to check in. This is by design: the game rewards players who actually visit the places they're playing from.
🔥 Streak bonus: check into mines owned by 3 different players in one day for +10 TB, 5 different owners for +25 TB, or 10 different owners for +50 TB. Only distinct owners count — checking into several mines from the same player only counts once toward the streak (though each check-in still earns its own normal reward). Streaks reset daily.
Friend strategy: coordinate with friends so each of you claims different "anchor" spots (your homes, workplaces, a park). Then plan occasional walks that loop through each other's clusters to farm mutual check-ins — with a streak bonus stacked on top once you hit 3, 5, or 10 different owners in a day, it's the fastest way to accumulate TB in the early game without spending anything.
The referral system is one of the biggest injections of early TB available to a new player — and it pays out for both sides of the deal.
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How Referrals Work
Share your personal referral code with a friend. Once they qualify (see below), both of you receive 1,000 bonus TerraBucks — effectively doubling the new player's starting budget and rewarding you for growing the community.
Daily cap: you can earn referral rewards for up to 5 referrals (5,000 TB) per day. After that, friends who join with your code still receive their own bonus, but you won't earn the 1,000 TB for them that day, so pace your invites. The cap resets at midnight UTC.
✅ Qualifying for the bonus: your friend needs to (1) sign up with your referral code and claim their first TerraAcre, and (2) come back and be active — check in on a mine or play a mini-game — on a different day than they signed up. Both conditions are usually met within a normal first day or two of play, but the bonus won't credit to either of you until they are — this is an anti-abuse check, not a bug, so don't worry if it doesn't show up the instant they buy their first property.
A simple growth plan for a new player:
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Join with a friend's referral code right away. You'll enter the game with 2,000 TB instead of 1,000 — enough for 20 properties on day one.
2
Spend your starting TB quickly to get mines generating passive income from the very beginning. Don't sit on it.
3
Refer one or two friends yourself. Each friend who buys land earns you 1,000 TB — fuel for your next expansion, and they start with the bonus too.
Find your referral code in the app under your Profile. Share it via Discord, text, or social media. You can find TerraMine's community on
Discord.