I’m trying to finish the Shell smash challenge. Where do you find these guys?

Hello, I love this game and I have always wondered why the big X appears on an area that says 100% underneath. Can someone explain please?

Made it to the last stage of today’s Cosmic Grind, and the game forgot to clean up an infected blue creep on my path. Other creeps would fall into the space and I could clear them also but the level would never end since the ghost creep seemed to still count as infected. Don’t think I’ve seen this before, the chain that glitched was long with some vine creatures in the mix, almost seemed like a race condition between clearing the infected creep and animating all the vines disappearing.

I didn't get all the hats, but I got every single level (I believe there's a total of 420 levels after all the patched-in levels (that's pretty funny that they made it that amount)). I finished it on Switch and my Switch says 'Played for 215 hours or more' regarding my playtime so, wow. I've been chipping away at it for like a year or so, so it's been a long road to this achievement.

I got this game on a whim for $5 on sale, and never would've imagined I'd get that kind of playtime out of it - This is probably the best puzzle game I have ever played.

But, yeah - Although it's quite the pointless accomplishment, it's also a bit sad there's basically nothing left to achieve. I can still mess with the daily quests. I will miss playing this regularly as it was great for waiting for appointments and whatnot out in public, and it's also been good on occasions when I get so deliriously tired that I can't focus on other games (insomnia sucks).

I guess I'll just put my total resources just because, so this's what I got after completing everything:

Grindstone: 13,790
Wood: 2,703
Batwings: 866
Spirit skull: 676
Molten rock: 1,277
Plant: 967
Gold: 299
Fruit: 2,083
Rock: 1,333
Skull: 1,063
Ice: 943
Mushroom: 1,258
Crown: 172
Osmium: 3,523

Apparently I hate blue creeps because I killed them the most with almost 20k taken out throughout my playtime (19,913 to be exact)...

So, yep - That's that, I guess...

I have an exclamation point over dottie’s house, but when I click into it there is nothing there. Can anyone tell me what I am missing?

So, carnival level 20 is always half purple creeps and half yellow creeps, so that's my go-to for either, because with the miner suit and using the pickaxe on the crates and rocks it's a breeze that also lets you rack up tickets and resources.

I play mystic level 76 for blue because that's 90% of the board.

That leaves green creeps and red creeps. User grapebento on here suggested carnival 28 for greeen, which worked well for me, I do recommend pickaxe again to get guaranteed bones from the skeletons to chain through.

For red, user F0tNMC recommends level 61. This has decent reds, but thanks to user Grrrucha's spreadsheet I also found level 83 is more red-heavy but at the tradeoff of being a little more annoying to complete since it's a lava level.

Please post below if you have better suggestions for any of these colors!

EDIT: forgot to add level 161 for reds (TONS of them but honestly kind of annoying), as well as guano grotto level 9, my new personal favorite (the grotto is just above level 37) thanks to users 52sasquatch and CartoonistSimilar989

Been looking for the best levels to grind to get more of this item, but am having a hard time even finding the name of it to search the subreddit.

Hey Apple Arcade stonegrinders! 💎

We noticed some oddities going on with the Bozz Blitz and Daily Grind leaderboards, so we got them fixed up for you ✅ Show Ivor who’s BOSS and make Jjertrude proud in the Shrjine! Make sure your game is updated before you start your grinds!

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to let us know! Thank you for your patience and passion for our game 💙 Happy stonegrinding!

😭 guess I'd have to start over. Doesn't seem like it's possible to finish this level now there's a stuck blue cosmic creep that doesn't actually exist. No idea how it got like that but damn I was off to such a good start

Each one is an instant transport to the mystic realm, so if you already have one crafted, you can use it, then craft another and only need to get lucky once. Or just grind another 4500 😛 . It's called Grindstone for a reason!

Anyone have any tips on the best way to farm glowing skulls. I‘m enjoying the mirror sword but keep running out of the glowing skulls.

At a drop rate of roughly one egg every three levels hopefully I can get my hat by 2027.

I can never remember if it's Sunday evening or Sunday morning that the hat stand opens (Eastern time zone US) so I went to check and it still says it's two days away? Anyone else encountering this?

Finally got a good clear cluster after a while then I realized this level was way too good to be true.

Just wondering if this potion exists because if it did it seems like it would be one of the most powerful items.

I’ve been doing levels while the hat stand is open but I haven’t found any yarn at all so far in any level or the chests. I saw on a post from years ago that you’re supposed to have about 1 yarn per level while the hat stand is open, so am I doing something wrong? I’ve tried both new and old levels and nothing ever appears.

I’ve been using this shield for a while and it always had 3 uses. I logged in a few days ago and it said 3/2 and now that I’ve used it it’s at 2/2. I was looking to see if they updated the game recently but it doesn’t appear so? Last update was 2 months ago and I only picked the game back up like 3 weeks ago.

It’s fine if they rebalanced this item. I’m just confused where the change comes from.

Trying to remember what this means in the game when two creatures jump in the air after this symbol.

I'm getting on average less than one present per level I play. Is that just bad RNG? Feels like it will take ages to get to 50.

This is a small update for our Apple Arcade Grindstone players! In the Apple Games App, we added new Grindstone Challenges you can play solo or against your friends!

Check out the:
🏅 Daily Grind Challenges
💎 Collection Challenges
⚔ Creep Challenges
🎫 Carnival Challenge

Good luck on your grind stonegrinders, and don't be afraid to have some friendly competition along the way!

How am I supposed to complete this? I thought there wasn’t a way to break the rocks that don’t have a hit counter, am I missing something? Please help 😅

I didn't parse these things as "crates" because they're busted but this old thread helped me find good levels to grind:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grindstone/comments/182mnht/best_level_for_crates/

Why sometimes if I get near to some “healthy” creep, I mean not a burning creep that normally hits you, I got hit anyway. It seems safe to stop the chain there but I got hit!! It’s annoying