Best Hole Protection
How best-hole protection works, what it costs in Stars, and when to use it to safeguard your strongest black hole.
Overview
Best hole protection is a Star Shop purchase that shields your strongest black hole from PvP raids for a full 24 hours. It's essential once you hold valuable late-tier holes.
A single raid can permanently destroy your top earner, so protection acts as cheap insurance. Think of it as a small Star cost that prevents a catastrophic loss of progress overnight or during PvP windows.
Protection vs Other Defenses
How best hole protection compares to the base shield and other defenses, and why you'll eventually want both running together for full coverage.
Use both together for layered defense, since each covers a different scope and duration of protection that the other simply can't provide on its own.
| Defense | Scope | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Best Hole Protection | Top hole only | 24 hours |
| Base Shield | Whole base | Seconds to minutes |
| PvP Off | Prevents all raids | While toggled on |
Why Protection Matters
In PvP, raided holes are destroyed permanently with no way to recover them after the fact. Losing your Omega Hole to a raid can erase hours of merging and stall your entire rebirth push for days.
Best-hole protection removes this risk for your single most valuable hole. At the cost of a few Stars, it's far cheaper than rebuilding a top-tier hole from scratch, which can take a very long time.
Always apply protection before going offline or during intense PvP periods, when raids are most likely and your holes are most exposed to attackers looking for valuable targets.
When to Use Protection
Three situations where protection is non-negotiable if you want to keep your best hole safe from permanent loss.
Apply it proactively before a loss happens, not reactively after a raid already cost you a top earner you spent hours building.
Before Going Offline
Shield your top hole so raids can't destroy it while you're away from the game and unable to defend.
Holding Late Tiers
Protect Omega-tier holes the very moment you build them, before you do anything else with your Stars.
Rebirth Push
Guard your power earners during a 500M power push so a single raid can't derail your entire rebirth attempt.
Protection Routine
A simple routine to keep your best hole safe around the clock without thinking about it each time you log off.
Make this a habit before every logout, and re-apply protection as soon as a 24-hour window expires to avoid any gap in coverage.
Identify Your Best Hole
Find your highest-tier hole to protect, since coverage applies to only one single hole at a time.
Buy Protection
Purchase protection from the Star Shop using the Stars you earned from the Sun and codes.
Apply Before Logout
Activate it whenever you stop playing, especially overnight, when raids are most common and most damaging to your progress.
Renew Regularly
Re-apply every 24 hours for continuous coverage of your top hole, so there's never an unprotected window for raiders to exploit.
Protection Tips
Quick pointers for keeping your best hole safe around the clock, every single day you play.
Treat protection as a recurring cost of doing business at the late tiers, not an optional extra you can skip to save a few Stars.
- Earn Stars for protection via the Sun and codes so you never have to spend Robux on it.
- Pair protection with the base shield for full coverage of both your top hole and the rest of your base.
- Prioritize protection once you reach mid tiers and beyond, since that's when individual holes become too valuable to risk losing.
- Re-apply protection the moment a 24-hour window ends, so there's never a gap where your best hole is exposed to raids.