Alaska Gold Fever Walkthrough — How to Repair Tools

This Alaska Gold Fever walkthrough follows the order that keeps a new prospector solvent: learn the mining loop, survive the cold, then turn cash into tools and camp upgrades before chasing large mines. No official chapter list has been published, so the steps below come from the game's Steam description, community route notes, and developer replies rather than a scripted mission order.

Opening hours: a practical order of play

Begin with the tutorial missions and the day-one claim. Break rock, carry dirt to water, sift it, and sell the result so you can replace your starting pan. The community wiki's opening advice is to keep a wood, fire, and food loop running, to wear warm clothing before glacier routes, and to delay distant claims until the pan is upgraded. Follow the town signs closely, because the layout is dense and easy to get lost in.

A simple order for the first sessions:

• Finish the tutorial missions and learn the pickup, bucket, and sifting controls.
• Work the day-one claim until you can afford the pan upgrade.
• Buy warm clothing and keep fuel and cooked food in your pack.
• Refine your findings into bars and sell them at the bank.
• Travel to a medium mine for flakes only once the basics are done.

Mid-game: mines, camp upgrades, and workers

Once basic tools are in place, widen your range. Medium mines pay in flakes and reward a working sluice, while large mines are where nuggets appear. Buying a mine lets you upgrade its camp with workbenches and furnaces, though Steam replies warn that workers can be hired only at the Mountain Mine. The Scrooge achievement, which needs 1,000 sifted nuggets, is a large-mine task; the developer's answer is that any big mine like Mountain Mine will do.

Tool repair and durability along the way

Durability is the quiet constraint on every route. Hard rock eats tool life, and repairs use material such as magnetite that players report running short of. Repair from the inventory before a long tunnel run instead of waiting for a break, and remember that a recent hotfix left some players unable to repair weapons even though tools still repaired.