Falling Pickaxe Bonus Buy: Four Doors, Four Prices

What a Bonus Buy Actually Buys

A bonus buy buys durability, and nothing else. Each card states it plainly. The reel is guaranteed to land on a Wooden Pickaxe with 100 points, a Stone with 150, an Iron with 200 or a Diamond with 400.

Read on 14 Oct 2026; the maker can change a screen without saying so.

That matters because the reel's fifth outcome is a Cross, which hands you nothing at all. Buying removes that outcome from the round. What the card promises is the tier and its durability, and it says nothing at all about the blocks waiting below.

Bonus Buy Price per Durability Point

That price is arithmetic you have to do yourself, and the client never does it for you. At a 30.00 base stake, the Wooden door costs 89.70 for 100 points, which is 0.90 per point. Stone costs 169.50 for 150, or 1.13. Iron costs 253.20 for 200, or 1.27. Diamond costs 315.00 for 400, or 0.79.

So the ladder runs backwards. The cheapest hits on the screen are in the most expensive door, and the worst value sits in the middle at Iron, which costs 61% more per point than Diamond does.

Why Depth Changes the Sum

Depth changes the sum because the shaft gets richer the deeper it goes, so a longer round is a richer one as well. Our recorded session showed thin dirt and stone near the top and dense redstone and gold seams further down, which is also what the maker's own description promises.

That is the real argument for the Diamond door. Four hundred points is enough to reach the dense layers with hits to spare, and a Workbench down there repairs the tool outright rather than lifting it one rung. Still, none of this is a return figure, and we would not dress it up as one.

Reading the Buy Screen in the Demo

Read the buy screen in the demo in this order: the four prices, the two stake limits under them, and then what each card promises. It opens in the free demo, which makes it the cheapest screen in the game to study. Open it, set a base stake you would actually use, and write the four numbers down. We priced the doors this way and then played the session at the base stake instead, so nothing on this page is a report of a bought round.

Do that once and the multiples stay with you. The cards always read 2.99, 5.65, 8.44 and 10.50 times whatever the slider says. At a 10.00 stake that is 29.90, 56.50, 84.40 and 105.00, and the game server sends the same four multipliers at launch.

What the Client Never Shows You

Pixmove publishes one return, 95%, on its own pages, and no screen in the game states a return for any door. The figure does exist inside the product. The launch reply from the game server carries a short list of the four doors, each with its price multiplier and the text 95%.

So all four doors carry the same stated return as the game itself, and a player learns it from the traffic or nowhere. Read that twice, because it cuts both ways. In return terms the four doors stand level. None is worse either, on the only figure the product carries.

What We Would Not Buy

The one door we would not buy is Iron at 253.20, and we do not recommend it. It is the worst value on the screen by the only measure the screen gives you, and the step up to Diamond costs 61.80 more for twice the durability.

The honest position on all four is the same. Every screen in the client leaves the door returns out. Our own session ran at the base stake rather than through the buy screen, so a measured figure of our own is missing.