Tbh I was a lil confused about what digging through the dirt was doing for me. It looked kinda like how digging the dirt does on dig-dug, but I couldn't tell if it was helping me at all. The game requires a good bit of strategy to be good at. I'd be interested in seeing what the skill ceiling of this game would look like.
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if you mean the brown trail behind the player it's just a sort of bread crumb and visual effect. The map kind of solves the bread crumb problem though.
Once you get outside of the ring och rocks there are a few golden upgrades to be found, like range, pickup range and initiative, letting you kill the crazy frogs. There are a few puzzlew, and the rest is random rooms of varying difficulty and density. I didn't get as far as i hoped with procedural generation.