Dig to Escape Guide — All 3 Endings, Items & Prices

What Dig to Escape actually is

You wake up in a cell with a spoon. That is the entire starting kit. The spoon digs holes in the floor, the holes turn up junk, and the junk sells to other prisoners for Rolls — the in-game currency, which is literally toilet paper. Rolls buy better tools, better tools dig faster, and faster digging is what eventually gets you out. That loop is the whole of it, and it is why the game reads as simple for about five minutes and then stops being simple.

What complicates it is that digging costs energy. Your energy bar drains as you work, and when it empties you stop being useful. Food refills it, food comes from the kitchen at lunch, and lunch is on the game's clock rather than yours. So this is not really a digging game. It is a game about spending a limited day well: dig, sell, eat, upgrade, and get back underground before the useful hours run out.

Guards are the third pressure. They patrol the office, they turn up on the rooftop, and one of them can be seen falling into the mineshaft. Getting caught mid-escape sends you back, which is why several of the routes in this Dig to Escape guide are built around avoiding a guard rather than outrunning one.

The prison at a glance

There are six areas. The cell is where you start and where the floor gets dug. The mineshaft is the dark tunnel system underneath, full of minecarts and rock, and it is where the most direct escape route ends. The kitchen holds food and a crowbar, and needs a keycard to enter. The security room, also keycard-locked, holds a ladder. The vents connect areas once you have a ladder or something to break through with. The rooftop is the open-air exit at the top.

Three of those areas are gated behind purchases rather than skill. That matters for planning: if you want the rooftop route, you are really planning a shopping trip, not a dig.

Three endings, and how many players actually reach them

Dig to Escape has three escape routes, and Roblox badge data shows exactly how lopsided they are. The mineshaft route — awarded as the Dug To Escape badge — has been completed 12,329,274 times. The Janitor Ending sits at 1,362,677. The Rooftops Ending sits at 509,382.

Read as ratios, that is roughly eleven mineshaft escapes for every janitor escape, and twenty-four for every rooftop escape. The mineshaft route is not just the most popular one; it is the one the game funnels you toward. The other two require money, keys, and knowing where things are — which is what the rest of this Dig to Escape guide is for.

The rarest badge in the game is Archangel, awarded 33 times across a game with over 536 million visits. Whatever it takes to earn it, effectively nobody has done it.

Currency, trade, and the people who sell to you

Rolls are the working currency and they come from selling dug-up junk to prisoners. Three traders are worth knowing by name. Adam sells a Keycard and a +20 Storage upgrade. Rosa sells a Keycard and a +16 Dig Speed upgrade. Frozen Chef sells a Crowbar.

Prices are fixed and small enough to plan around: the Keycard costs 200 Rolls, or 19 Robux if you would rather skip the grind. The Crowbar costs 100 Rolls. Nothing else in Dig to Escape has a listed price, which means everything else is either found or given.

Storage is the constraint nobody expects. You start with a Small Sack, fill it in a few minutes of digging, and then have to walk back to sell before you can dig again. Adam's +20 Storage upgrade cuts that round trip roughly in half, which is why experienced players buy storage before speed.

What this Dig to Escape guide covers

The walkthrough page takes each of the three endings step by step, including the battery mini-game in the office and the guard sequence. The items page lists every tool, upgrade, trader, and location currently confirmed in Dig to Escape, with what each one does. The beginner guide covers the first in-game day: what to dig, when to eat, and which ending to attempt first.

Everything on this site comes from the game itself and from Roblox's public data. Badge completion counts are read directly from Roblox rather than estimated, and item descriptions reflect what has actually been observed in play rather than what the game files imply.

What the badge numbers say about Dig to Escape

Roblox publishes how many times each badge has been awarded, and for Dig to Escape those numbers double as a difficulty chart. Baby Wipes leads at 56,061,866. Back From The Dead follows at 40,548,662, which tells you plainly that dying is a normal part of the game rather than a failure state. Newbie Digger sits at 32,391,119 — effectively the count of people who have picked up a spoon at all.

Further down the list the numbers thin out fast. Drill Master has 135,155. See-Through Specialist has 68,868. Toilet Tyrant has 60,258, Prison Kingpin 54,330, The Earthbreaker 53,969. Lifesaver drops to 4,677 and Professional Noob to 1,522.

Against a game with 536,791,317 visits and a 97.8% like ratio, those tail numbers are the interesting ones. Most of what Dig to Escape asks of you is common; a handful of things almost nobody has done.

Is Dig to Escape still being updated

Yes. Dig to Escape was created on 10 November 2025 and last updated on 5 August 2026, with around 32,861 players in game at the time of writing and 535,994 favourites. A 97.8% like ratio across 536,791,317 visits is unusually high for a Roblox experience of this size.

That update cadence matters for a guide like this one. Items, prices and routes in Dig to Escape can change with a patch, so everything here is dated to what has been observed and is re-checked against Roblox's live data rather than left to go stale.

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