Into The Hive Beginner Guide: Best Early Upgrades and Tips

Spending your first cash on the wrong gun wastes money you'll want later for the weapons that actually matter. This Into The Hive beginner guide walks you through the tutorial, the right order for spending your cash, and the combat habits that keep you alive. Get these basics right and every later mission gets easier.

What You're Getting Into

Into The Hive is a co-op PvE shooter on Roblox for 1–4 players. You drop into randomly generated caves, fight through insect swarms, finish your mission, and then make the run back to extraction. The terrain is destructible, so you can blast through walls to open new routes, deploy turrets to cover your squad, and dig your way out of trouble. Between missions, you head back to base to upgrade and customize your gear with Augments.

A few quick facts about the game:

• Created on Roblox by To The Earth's Core on October 21, 2026
• Servers hold up to 32 players, but each expedition squad is 1–4
• You can play solo or bring friends
• You can switch between first-person and third-person camera views

You can jump in from the Into The Hive page on Roblox.

Getting Through the Tutorial

The opening mission teaches the core loop. Rusty guides you through it, and you mostly just follow the blue line on the ground.

Image: Roblox / To The Earth's Core

1. Follow the blue line. If you lose track of your objective, look around for the line. It's easy to miss.
2. Mine when prompted. You'll dig through rock at several points. Get used to treating terrain as something you can break.
3. Shoot the first bugs and reload. The tutorial makes you reload mid-fight. Learn to track your ammo early, because bugs keep coming from multiple directions.
4. Place your guard tower. This is your first turret. It has its own HP, and it makes holding a position much safer.
5. Destroy the targets. You'll take down structures with HP to finish the objective.
6. Head to the pod. After the scripted ambush, follow the marker and step inside to complete the mission.

Once you finish this first mission, you can redeem codes from the Shop in the lobby.

Early Game Spending: The Right Order

Cash goes fast, and the weapon shop makes it tempting to buy the first upgrade you can afford. Don't. Follow this order instead:

1. Skip the 5,000-cash AR 02. It performs almost the same as the starting AR 01, so buying it wastes money you'll need later.
2. Upgrade your starting weapon. Hit the upgrade button on the gun you already own.
3. Spin for an Augment. Even a common Augment makes a real difference early on, so don't chase high rarities yet.
4. Log in on your second day. You get a free epic Augment. Slap it on your starter rifle without worry, because Augments can be removed and moved to a stronger weapon later.
5. Level your weapon to mastery level 4. This unlocks a second Augment slot.
6. Spin for armor. As with Augments, a common roll is fine for the early game.
7. Buy a 12K or 20K weapon. Once your upgrades, Augments, and armor are sorted, this is when a new gun is actually worth it.
8. Round out your loadout. Add grenades and turrets to cover crowd control and emergencies.

Combat Tips for Surviving the Swarm

The caves get messy fast. These habits will save you a lot of deaths:

• Hit shielded bugs from behind. Their back is the weak spot. A grenade also takes them out quickly, which is a great reason to keep one equipped.
• Shoot the legs on big spiders. Keep your fire on their legs until they lose them.
• Watch the walls and ceiling. Bugs burrow out of the walls and come through holes you dug yourself. The game's own tagline tells you to keep an eye on the ceiling, and it means it.
• Let your turret do the work. Drop a sentry before a fight starts and fight near it. Plant it close by, though, because you can't deploy it if you aim too far away.
• Expect an ambush on the way out. More bugs pour in during the run back to the pod. Stay on guard until you're inside.
• Set aim assist and graphics before you deploy. You can't change the aim assist setting mid-match. Lower graphics settings can help on weaker devices like tablets.

Once you're comfortable, there's a hard mode that ramps up the difficulty considerably. Get your gear upgraded before you try it.

Codes and Free Equipment Tokens

One code is currently active:

Code	Reward
HIVE1	1 Equipment Token

To redeem it:

1. Complete the first mission.
2. Click the Shop button in the lobby.
3. Type the code into the code box near the bottom of the shop window. Codes are uppercase.
4. Hit Redeem.

Equipment Tokens upgrade your gear, so cash them in early. Join the official Discord server and the To The Earth's Core Roblox group to catch new codes when they drop.

Game Passes Worth Knowing About

None of these are required, but here's what each one does:

Game Pass	Price	What You Get
Phoenix Armor	799 Robux	Permanent Phoenix armor set. Once per mission, when you go down, you get back up, nearby bugs are thrown back, and a shield dome covers you for 5 seconds
VIP	199 Robux	+50% Cash from missions, +50% Scrap, +25% Rank XP, and a VIP tag
Mastery Booster	199 Robux	Double Mastery XP on every weapon and piece of equipment, and half the Cash and ore cost for every equipment upgrade

The Mastery Booster pairs well with the early plan above, since it gets your weapon to mastery level 4 and that second Augment slot much faster.

FAQ

Can you play Into The Hive solo?

Yes. Squads hold 1–4 players, so you can go in alone or team up with friends.

Should I buy the AR 02?

No. It's nearly identical to the starting rifle. Put that cash into upgrades, Augments, and armor, then save for a 12K or 20K weapon.

Is it safe to put my free epic Augment on the starter gun?

Yes. Augments can be removed at any time and moved to a better weapon once you buy one.