“Prehistoric Farm best shovel” is the kind of query a guide site loves, because the answer looks like a table and a table looks authoritative. We do not have the table, and this page is about why — plus how to generate a real one from your own game.
What is actually established
The official description confirms that digging is the core activity, that it happens on islands, and that the dig meter’s green zone produces a better find. It says nothing about tools. Not their names, not their costs, not their effects, not whether upgrading one is even possible.
That absence is not us failing to look. The experience page is the primary source for this game, and shovel upgrade prices are explicitly among the things it does not contain. A list of five shovels with ascending prices would have to come from somebody’s screenshot, somebody’s memory, or somebody’s imagination, and from the outside those three look identical.
Test an upgrade properly
If you want to know whether a tool is worth buying, the measurement takes one session and beats any table you could read.
- Baseline first. Before you buy anything, time ten complete dig cycles — spade in to fossil in inventory, including the walk to the next spot. Note the average.
- Note your hit rate. Over those ten digs, count how many releases landed in the green. The dig trainer is for practising this; your real game is where you measure it.
- Buy the upgrade, then repeat exactly. Same island, same approach, ten more cycles.
- Compare the right number. What matters is fossils per minute, not seconds per dig. A tool that digs faster but misses the green more often can easily be a downgrade.
- Convert it to time. The earn rate calculator turns a before-and-after into an hourly figure, which is the only form in which “worth it” has a meaning.
What would put a table on this page
Either Project Mirvy publishing tool costs and effects, or an in-game shop screen that two editors can read the same way on the same day, with the date recorded. At that point this page gains a sortable table with a column for where each number came from.
Until then, the practical advice does not depend on the missing numbers: buy the cheapest meaningful upgrade available, measure the difference yourself, and spend the rest on whatever extends your reach to new fossil islands. Reach tends to matter more than throughput in games built around completing sets, because a set you cannot start is worse than one you finish slowly.
Sources: official Roblox experience page for Prehistoric Farm — digging description; the same page is confirmed not to list shovel upgrade prices (captured 11 October 2026).
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is the best shovel in Prehistoric Farm?
To be announced. No shovel list, tier order or upgrade cost has been published by Project Mirvy, and a 'best shovel' claim needs all three to mean anything.
Do better shovels change the dig meter?
Unknown. It is a reasonable guess that a tool affects dig speed or the green band, and a guess is all it is — the official description does not connect tools to the meter at all.
How much does a shovel upgrade cost?
Unpublished. Shovel upgrade prices are specifically listed as not present on the official experience page, so any figure you see elsewhere came from somewhere we cannot check.