Mine Idle Clicker prestige and rune tree explained: what you keep and what resets
When to prestige in Mine Idle Clicker, exactly what you keep and lose, how milestones work and how to spend XP in the rune tree.
Magikon Games · 4 min read ·
Prestige is the heart of Mine Idle Clicker. You reset the run and get a permanent global multiplier in return. If you are new, start with the beginner guide first.
Prestige requirements
The Prestige screen shows three goals for the current run: the coins you earned, the blocks you broke and the missions you completed. When all three are met it says Ready to prestige!. The multiplier affects your clicks, your coins per second and your run gold.
What resets
- Coins and run gold
- Helper counts (the unlocks stay)
- Your era, back to the start, and the active difficulty, back to Surface
- Active run missions and mission pass progress
- The chest queue, run-bought chests and the temporary gold boost
What you keep
- Crystals, XP and the whole rune tree
- Permanent upgrades and fragment shop purchases
- Inventory items and equipped pickaxes
- Achievements, unlocked difficulties and defeated bosses
- Your prestige count and helper unlocks
Extra rewards
The base item level goes up by 1 every 3 prestiges, so dropped and forged items start stronger and weaker gear catches up. Every 5 prestiges you reach a milestone with an extra buff, including a jump in the global multiplier. The Milestones Track shows how many prestiges are left. Prestiging at the End of Times, the last era, adds an Obsidian Bonus for fragments and crystals, so push to the final era when you can.
The rune tree
Runes are bought with the XP you collect from broken blocks, and they are never lost on prestige. Click a node to level it up. The tree starts at the Runic Core, which unlocks the branches, and the nodes fall into four categories: Gold, Experience, Combat and Special. The lines run in four directions: Wisdom, Combat, Inventory and Automation.
Examples from the tree: Wisdom gives +5% XP per block per level, and Gold Vein gives +5% coin earnings per level. Put points where your run is slow: more XP makes the tree grow faster, more coins speed up everything else.
When to prestige
Prestige as soon as progress slows down, not when it stops. Because the multiplier, your gear and your runes stay, every new run is faster than the last. Then go back to the game list or play Mine Idle Clicker again.