ARCHAEOLOGY
Archaeology games online — a shared dig, not a lecture
Archaeology games usually hand you a trowel and a cutscene. FieldHunters hands you a coil and a field other people are already on. The fiction is metal detecting: signals, scrap, spoons, and the odd piece worth keeping. It is not a museum label and it is not a quiz. The collection is what you dug. Duplicates sell to the Museum for coins.
The Archaeologist pass is a name, not a degree. It is the $24.99 month that lends the gold coil — twenty-five seconds a hole instead of bronze's fifty — plus luck, an unlimited bag, no field ads, and the monthly hunt. Explorer, at $9.99, lends silver. Neither pass unlocks a ruin the free hunter cannot walk. There is one ground.
How a dig works
FieldHunters is one shared field in the browser. No download. You walk the Common Fields, the coil sings, you dig. Other hunters see the same spots. Several people can work one hole. The first to finish keeps the find. Dig time is the coil: bronze, the free one, takes fifty seconds; silver forty; gold twenty-five; mythic fifteen. Seeing a signal first does not mean you keep it.
Most holes are artefacts. Keep them, or sell duplicates to the Museum for coins. Now and then a hole is a sealed chest. What is inside is real bitcoin on your Treasures balance, shown in bitcoin at the rate of the moment. We do not publish the odds or the size of a chest. There is no wager and no entry fee. There is also no promise that a session pays.
Passes
Free play is the full game on the same dirt. A pass does not open a private map. Explorer is $9.99 a month and lends the silver coil, more luck, a larger bag, and no field ads. Archaeologist is $24.99 a month and lends the gold coil, still more luck, an unlimited bag, no field ads, and a seat in the monthly hunt jackpot. When the pass lapses, the lent coil goes with it. Coils you bought by the hole stay until they are spent. Bronze never runs out.
Two purses, and they do not mix
Coins come from selling artefacts to the Museum. They buy coils by the hole, outfits, and curios. They do not withdraw. Treasures are real bitcoin, credited when a sealed chest opens in the ground. Only Treasures can leave the game. Money you spend in the shop — card or crypto — buys the row you pressed. It does not turn into bitcoin, and it is not a deposit you can cash back out.
If you want the race and the chest, rather than the collection, read treasure hunting games.