Hey Keepers,

Here is what's new for v4.2.2:

Balance and Changes

• implemented rolling save files. If your save file gets corrupted while writing, this means the game will fall back to the previous save and avoid losing the complete progress
• improvements and fixes to modloader
• fixed several bugs around side driller resource transportation

Bugfixes

• made loadout more resilient to remnant data from uninstalled mods
• fixed iron worms misbehaving in some cases when handled by assessor
• fixed lunar new year cave capturing mouse inputs, preventing keeper controls
• fixed badly formatted separators in hint popup and added hint about exiting battle mode to loadout only
• fixed probe supplement carrying over into next run
• fixed condenser visuals on reload
• fixed shredder stopped shredding after reloading run
• stag projectiles won't have particles now, if running with option "reduced particles". This means much better performance on some Mac Systems when the Stag shows up.

Dome Keeper Mod Jam The Winners!

Bonus Award: Best Solo Mod

Bonus Award: Cutest Mod

3rd Place: Immersive Soundscape

2nd Place: Spelunker Keeper

1st Place: More 2 Mine

A Special Surprise

Thank You, Keepers!

Dome Keeper Mod Jam is Officially Closed!

What Happens Next?

Important Reminder

Dome Keeper Mod Jam is Now LIVE!

How to Get Started

Quick Rules Recap

Important Dates

Pre-Registered Teams

Valentine's Art Contest - Winners Announced!

And the winners are

Luhase04

DATGESTRUEPP

Luk Maek

With the Dome Keeper Mod Jam just around the corner, we wanted to share some important details regarding team sizes, prize distribution, and AI art usage.

Team Size & Prize Distribution

• Teams are limited to a maximum of six members to ensure fair prize distribution. However, we want to stress that solo and small-team mods (1-2 people) are absolutely welcome!
• Monetary prizes will be awarded as a single lump sum per winning team. Teams will be responsible for splitting the prize among themselves, so we recommend nominating a team leader to handle this.
• Hoodies & Drillbert plushies will be provided for up to six members per team. If your team has more than six people, you will need to decide internally who receives the merch.

AI Art in the Mod Jam

Dome Keeper Mod Jam: Now a Competition with Awards & Prizes!

Competition Details:

• Mod Jam: 21st February 00:00 CET 28th February 23:00 CET
• Team Sign-up sheet will close on Weds 19th February to give us time to assign and set up teams.
• Submission Deadline for Awards: 28th February 23:00 CET
• Submission Hour: from 22:00 - 23:00 CET modding should cease and mods should be uploaded to Steam Workshop and tested. If you want to be considered for a prize please also submit your form.
• Award Show: Week after the event (exact date TBA)

Dome Keeper Valentine's Art Contest!

How to Enter:

Contest Dates:

The Prize:

How to Submit:

Hey Keepers,

We officially announced the mod jam -> Find out the details here. [/olist]
Concepts Anne made for the transport drone back for v4.0. A lot of cute ones, but the jellyfish one won :)

Changelog

Here is what's new for v4.2.1:

• added graphics option "reduced particles". This will massively improve performance for some systems that cannot run particles on the GPU, like older Mac's. This can also positively affect low end devices. Reduced particles affects mining, Assessor bundles and some monsters.
• fixed many broken fonts, especially with diacritics. They displayed incorrectly, mixing characters from two different fonts.
• many improvements and fixes for the modloader
• fixed maze map not being generated correctly and probably a lot of maps being wrong to some degree
• shredder won't slow down on last drops of large delivery
• probe now recharges individual charges with supplement
• added proper HUD element to repellent, now that its progress is not shown in wave timer anymore
• fixed dome ambience not actually playing
• added a lot of rain to world 7 and improved weather system by removing strange breaks between the same type of weather
• reduced performance impact of some audio effects
• fixed straight walls on Mac
• extractor less likely to push out resources if extracting quickly
• fixed dome collision settings that were allowing some drops to leave the demo, especially on tesla dome
• fixed error with sword fins on loading
• fixed several cases of resources staying asleep although the should fall down. Sleeping resources are a performance optimization and means they are not participating in physics
• avoid stuck input when switching form gamepad to keyboard
• slight loc improvement
• fixed keeper becoming invisible when sitting in station while wave is starting
• fixed seasonal chambers being generated in loadout mine
• added workaround for steam verification issue
• fixed loc changing twice when language is selected
• fixed world ambience playing in mine in loadout, if never entering dome
• droneyard now applies overcharge during battle to battle grid
• added missing condenser sprite
• fixed keepers not dropping drops when being removed, sometimes leading to strange situations in loadout
• fixed orchard root explosion reporting huge damage numbers

Have fun :)

[ 2024-12-19 08:30:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Merry Rawcember, Keepers! We hope youre getting into the festive spirit and enjoying the holiday season already. But just in case you need a good giggle, were kicking off the holidays with a special stream to make you laugh.
On Thursday, December 19th at 4:30 PM GMT / 5:30 PM CET, the incredible Nikoheart will be hosting a unique stream on his Twitch channel. We challenged him to play Dome Keeper with a drill, and hes only gone and figured out a way to do it! We have a feeling this is one you wont want to miss, so mark your calendars and join us in the chat on Thursday. Ill be there on the Raw Fury Games account, so do say hi as I love hanging out with this wonderful community.

Recap:

• What: Dome Keeper with a Drill Stream
• When: Thursday 19th Dec
• What Time: 4:30pm GMT/5:30pm CET
• Where: https://twitch.tv/nikoheart

Whats Going On:

When:

Where:

How To Join the Fun:

Submit Your Mod for Award Consideration: If youd like your mod to be reviewed for an award, in our Mod Jam Awards show, you can fill out the Google form to enter it for consideration. [/olist]

Want to Take Part but Need a Team?

Dont worry we got you:

If you want to join in but need a team to do so, you can use the Google form below to sign up to be placed in a team. Simply tell us what your contribution will be (art, writing, coding, sound) and we will pair you up with the other skillsets. We will also have dedicated channels in our Discord server where your team can meet and discuss your plans privately. Click HERE to be Put into a Team

Celebrate Your Creativity:

Well be hosting a special black tie award show in the server events channel on January 31st to celebrate the best mods of the jam. Dress up, bring some sparkle, and join us for a fun and glamorous evening as we honour the creativity and talent within our community.

Simple Rules:

• Check out the Dome Keeper mod policy before you start.
• Be creative and make something youd love to see in the game.
• Work alone or with friends, its up to you!
• Submit your mods to Steamworks by the deadline.
• Complete the Google form to enter your mod for consideration in our Mod Jam Awards show.

Recap:

• Discord: Join the conversation and get support from the community.
• Steamworks: Upload and showcase your mods.
• Google Form: Submit your mod to be featured in our award show.

Were so excited to see what you come up with! Keep an eye on our social channels for more updates and announcements. Happy modding, Keepers

[ 2024-12-13 13:02:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Festive Fun is Here, Keepers!

Whats Included?

Community Nights Join the Fun!

Daily Deal A Holiday Treat!

Dont Miss Raw Furys Rawcember!

Hey Keepers,

Changelog

• game is now not exported in DEBUG mode
• fixed and improved many things with modding and the ModLoader
• improved performance significantly for the light and the relic cables
• squidley now gathers resources that are closest to the dome (transport drones always did so)
• rocketlauncher now will restock, if getting the restock supplement during combat
• updated loc, improved some assignment descriptions
• fixed issue when changing locale inside loadout
• fixed cellar gadgets overlapping after reload if stationless probe was used
• fixed assignment map being identical if restarted after losing run
• fixed condenser water colors for double storage
• fixed spire supplement making its upgrade tree messy
• shield invulnerability upon depletion does not trigger again if shield is overcharded during battle
• added shorten cycles upgrade to provocation mode
• cleaned leaderboards, updated bans
• fixed wrong collision layer in assessor sphere explosion
• improved moddability by replacing some uses of preload with load

Hello Keepers,

Renewed shall be modding that was broken

Leading the pack

Mod Jam

Mod Support

Have fun :)

Hey Keepers, We just wanted to let you know that today weve released a brand new demo on Steam for Dome Keeper, so if you or a friend are yet to try out the game - then you can now, for free! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1650980/Dome_Keeper_Demo/

Relic Hunt

Guild Assignments

Hey Keepers,

Prestige

Modding

Future Plans

Changelog

Additions, Improvements and Changes

• started season 7 for prestige after vast balance changes
• massively improved performance. Also added option to render game at half resolution, which looks very similar but should run much faster.
• improved modding and made it compatible with v4 of Dome. You'll now get info in the modding popup about mods being incompatible due to not being updated to the latest version.
• added restart button to pause menu
• Anti Stall should work properly now
• drones don't bug out when resources are unreachable
• added overcharge tutorial
• improved visual clarity of tesla reticle
• brightness setting now works again
• fixed cases of extractor and converter pushing resources out of the map
• shredder now shreds faster when there are a lot of resources
• improved map generation for chambers, as sometimes they were placed too far from their ideal place, heavily affecting the runs difficulty
• chambers are a light source now too and can be seen through the vignette
• a ton of other bugfixes

Balance

• Engineer: changed Power Drill a bit. Slightly lower speedup than before, and the hardness mechanics is changed by simply buffing drill against hard rocks instead of treating the hard rock all as medium density rock.
• Assessor: Split has lower cooldown again. Spheres also get a global speed buff with the supplement.
• One way Teleporter: cooldown from 20s -> 5s. It now can also teleport items, gadgets and supplements.
• Laser: DPS increase, last stage 180 -> 210
• Tesla: changed base damage being higher early and lower late, last stage 180 -> 155. Slightly reduced quick shot strength and orb stun strength.
• Artillery: increased stun size of deafening blast a bit
• Repellent: Growth time 1.5 cycles initially, going to 0.9 with upgrades.
• Orchard: Growth time going to 0.9 cycles with upgrades. Increased buff strength and duration.
• Droneyard: Slightly slower drones initially and slightly higher upgrade cost. Slightly fewer battle drones overall.
• Furnace: increased wave delay, decreased how long resources last in burning.
• Spire: added supplement that slows down monster projectiles globally by 40%
• Chainsaw: increased damage, last stage 65 -> 80. Also fixed speed upgrade not doing anything.
• Drillbert: buffed drill strength. Drillbert won't get scared anymore during battles, if you have the supplement.
• Mushroom: Added upgrade to automatically consume mushrooms on flyby. Added upgrade to make mushrooms grow quicker in the dome.
• Resource Packer: 5s longer recharge by default. Upgrades now also make the packs shrink more. Added supplement that brings cooldown to 1.5s
• Shockwave: More expensive, slightly less damage and stun strength. Supplement cooldown addition 5s -> 8s and +1 stun strength
• Lift: now also speeds up the keeper when going downward inside it
• Missiles: Damage increased, last stage 200 -> 250
• Gadget Chambers in prestige don't go quite as deep
• Mineral Tree grows much faster

Hey Keepers,

Celebrating two year anniversary

So many updates!

Release

Halloween Update

The Assessor

Caves & Critters

Hard pressed

Springloaded

Drillbert Mode

Re-Assessor

Mod Support

Double Dome

Merry Christmouse

Lunar New Year

A Keepers Duty

v4.1 in October

Whats up for 2025

So, who likes fun?

• Drillbert was originally planned to be a tunnel digging machine similar to what you see in real life. Anne had the great idea of making it into a likeable animal instead. In the code it is still called Drillbot though.
• Dome Keepers jam version was called Dome Romantik, as a pun on Dorfromantik, which was very popular back then (and still is a great game from super nice devs).
• the biggest influences on Dome Keeper are Kingdom and Into the Breach. Most people expect games like Motherload or Steamworld Dig here, but i never had played them before making Dome.
• Dome Keeper inspired some other devs to make related games, like the recently released Feed the Deep. We are really happy about that and see it as a big compliment.
• There are 320 upgrades in Dome Keeper, with 35 supplements inside 37 tech trees.
  
• in june 2021 we celebrated the big milestone of having 100 people on our discord, for which anne made a special graphic. Later our composer Cameron got into the habit of making celebratory tracks for the next discord member milestones.
• i wrote a post-mortem of the game jam version of Dome Keeper
• As April fools in 2022 we announced to rename to Dome Romantic and switch direction more into a The Sims meets Space Mining. It said Build your bachelor dome and get to work in the mines of alien planets. Improve your mining skills, get elegant furniture and expand your dome. When everything's spiffy, invite your hot neighbor over for dinner, because it gets lonely fast in the domes. Don't forget to buy some curtains first, it's a glass dome after all.
  

So thank you for (with development time) 3 years of making us happy game devs! See you soon :)

Hey Keepers,

Balance and Changes

• added frames around icons for damage dealt statistic
• now differentiating between tesla quick shot, orbs and normal damage in damage dealt statistic
• anti stall is now disabled for defective weapon assignment
• added auto cannon to list of damage dealt entries
• auto cannon will only lead shots where appropriate and better deal with ticks

Bugfixes

• fixed mining summary popup being behind run finished popup
• fixed tech tree popup overlaying HUD with health bar
• fixed potential crash when having no pet selected in loadout
• fixed battle zooming in when anti stall was triggered, even though there were still monsters around
• fixed probe restoring charges on reloading

Hey Keepers,

Hey Keepers,

Balance and Changes

• fixed many nodes not being cleaned up properly, which could lead to really bad performance over time
• chosen difficulty is now remembered per assignment
• converter now spits out resources more slowly, gives them an impulse and makes them float so they don't drop down into the mine
• dome resurrection will now trigger before auto repair
• invulnerability from dome resurrection now shows proper effect
• improved minimap colors for resources in remote station
• made resource teleportation via teleporter quicker
• added resource teleportation cooldown to upgrade stats
• made hornet pause a less long mid air, when flying towards the dome
• improved layout of upgrade icons and numbers in damage dealt statistic
• removed bolter from projectile hell, removed breeder from heavy hitter assignment

Bugfixes

• fixed chainsaw going missing on reload
• fixed tesla orbs accidentally doing way too much damage
• fixed breeder immensely lowering the difficulty of a wave by limiting how many monsters can spawn
• fixed egg not hatching if it was not visible on screen for long enough
• fixed modloader exception when disable_all_mods is called when transitioning to godot4
• iron worms now account for shortened cycles in prestige
• fixed options always showing game options instead of last shown category
• fixed bug in cave tree seed when destroying tile it was rooting
• fixed issue when picking up cave bomb as assessor
• fixed resource teleportation not working for assessor bundles
• fixed battle drone release sound playing on master bus, ignoring all sound settings
• fixed iron worms bugging out when the tile they are attaching to is destroyed
• fixed damage statistics not being scrollable with controller
• fixed water from water cave not spawning at the right position
• fixed water cave having graphical error when moving far to the sides
• fixed crash in loadout when fighting monsters
• fixed bug with saving probe markers
• fixed side driller behaviour when in combat and when paused
• fixed hornet stabbing the dome from a distance if it was stunned on the last leg of its flight
• improved hitbox of phaser to play nicer with laser dome
• iron worm cage won't attach to tiles if it is carried
• improved shield position on arty dome
• fixed relic hunt run without monsters not ending properly on relic retrieval

Hey Keepers,

Balance and Changes

• made final wave harder again
• added additional resource sprites
• rebalanced how fast monsters can spawn after each other during one wave and made it faster for high difficulties
• battle drones now show up as damage source
• improved stall detection
• cascading impact will now only affect rock tiles, no resources
• increased iron worm cost slightly, removed prolonged production time for meticulous worms
• assessor bundles try to stay together a bit more when flying on their own
• fixed cave seed not growing into a small tree if not visible on screen
• water and iron cave now do not produce when game is paused. Water has up to 3 water now.
• multiplayerloadout will auto persist meta state on changes
• Intensive treatment upgrade of converter is now much faster
• chosen assignment is now displayed in tech tree
• tesla orbs stats are a fixed value instead of being a percentage of shot damage now
• if multiple monsters are inside a tesla orb, damage is spread across all monsters but stun applies fully
• made loadout part of the loadout mine a bit nicer
• delivery assignments do not have repeatable upgrades now, but one big upgrade
• made drone speed upgrades a bit more expensive and quick drones have fewer shots
• shockwave hammer supplement damage is now a modifier on the base damage, to avoid having a tiny hammer supplemented with great damage and low cooldown
• halved how fast squidley would gain speed
• small performance increase
• improved many sounds
• added missing icons, fixed some icon sizes, improved some icons
• increased battle drone range
• less health for bloater
• added pause as an option to keybindings
• assessor doesn't ignore the increased tile health in the dense iron assignment any more

Bugfixes

• fixed central marker not visible for assessor if bought via upgrade
• fixed crash that could happen when using resource packe
• larger mine area in mode config to compensate languages with long texts
• fixed telemetry popup not having focus on a button
• fixed exploit with manually mining tiles that are currently being mined by iron worms
• fixed scrap repair not being purchasable
• fixed accidentally offering to shred to 3 cobalt instead of 2, if three gadgets were offered
• fixed iron worms not showing up correctly in timelapse
• fixed intro music restarting when switching scenes while looping part plays
• fixed generation of split spheres not set correctly for one of the children, resulting in cascading impact working accidentally on child spheres
• removed old rotational mining code that was causing 4 fixed pixels on the assessor
• fixed conversion with 0.5 iron not working correctly (should consume one iron)
• name for fixed cobalt mode is back
• hardened loadout against non-existant keeper skins, so it won't crash if an old skin from a mod is persisted
• fixed shopping bag achievement triggering when using remote station
• fixed minimap rendering resource drops wrongly
• fixed local not switching completely when changing language in loadout stage
• fixed cheat detection limits not fitting provocation
• fixed unbreakable rock in loadout
• added missing patch notes for v4.0
• fixed bloater not actually shrinking faster if no monsters were around
• fixed resource teleportation being audible in the whole world
• fixed artillery station visual error on exitting station
• packed drop will now also properly shred and shrink
• fixed wrong message in assignments about possibly getting another badge if beating challenge mode without having played regular mode

There's never been a better time to get in on the Dome Keeper, Base Defending action! Dome Keeper has just dropped it's largest update ever and what better way to celebrate than with a sale and a fest? Dome Keeper and it's associated DLCs will be on sale from now until the end of the Steam Tower Defense Fest, so make sure to get in on the action before you lose your base! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/ https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/27954/Dome_Keeper_Deluxe_Edition/

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Hello Keepers,

tl;dr - whats new?

• New game mode: Guild Assignments
• New primary gadget: Droneyard
• 11 new gadgets
• Supplement upgrades for weapons and gadgets
• Prestige mode overhaul
• New world and 5 monsters
• thorough balancing and reworks on existing content
• New loadout menu in preparation of multiplayer

Important Notes

• There are some changes in Godot4 that fundamentally break the way mods where developed in the previous versions of the game. To avoid crashes caused by these changes we have decided to temporarily disable mods for A Keepers Duty. We've been talking with the great people over at the Godot Foundation who are actively looking into this matter. We look forward to reenabling mods as soon as it is safe. For the veteran modders who whish to charter these unstable territories: You can re-activate mods by adding the "--enable-mods" launch option.
• we are keeping the old version around on a branch called legacy-godot3. If you have serious technical trouble with this update, please let us know. You can keep playing on the old branch until we can fix it.
• In order to integrate the new systems and balance the game in a good way, we needed to make some changes to existing systems and upgrades. Youll see many new upgrades for gadgets and weapons, but also some that were removed. Some existing upgrades also got transformed into supplements, usually with a big buff.
• The loadout screen needed to be changed as well, to support all the new features and also multiplayer down the line. We understand that not everyone will like everything but please understand we are trying our best to improve the game, and this sometimes also means changing something you may have liked.

Whats the goal of this update?

The new content?

Guild Assignments

New Gadgets and supplements

Weapon supplements

Prestige mode overhaul

• Endless mode runs are too long, with the top runs going for up to 10 hours
• Fixed Cobalt modewhile different in theoryended up with the same strategies as Endless mode, where players wante to upgrade as fast as possible, and then only cared about avoiding damage as much as possible.
• The last part of a Countdown run did not feel very engaging, because youd get only a tiny amount of points compared to what you already had.

• removed Fixed Cobalt
• added Provocation Prestige Variant:
  Your score multiplier is falling with each cycle and can only be raised by increasing the wave strength. You start with 100 base per wave and can only raise it a bit. If your multiplier reaches negative values, the game is over. The idea is to challenge you to play on the edge of what you can handle monster-wise.
• changed the difficulty curve so that the ceiling of what you can handle in endless is reached earlier, preventing players from getting to wave 90+
• Countdown now ends simply after 20 cycles, even if your multiplier has not reached 0 yet. This way you dont have to wait through the least impactful part of the run.

New world and 5 monsters

Engine Port

• make console ports easier
• make multiplayer easier
• future proof the project. Godot 4 is just much better to work with.
• Support for right-to-left languages, i.e. arabic. The community on crowdin already translated arabic, and we are excited that they can finally make use of their hard work.

New Map Generation

Timelapse

Whats the status of multiplayer?

Final Words

Changelog v4.0 A Keepers Duty

New Content

Game Modes

• added Assignment game mode with 16 assignments. They come with special rules and are meant as a challenge to figure out a good strategy utilizing all the content. They also come with a challenge mode, if you really want to prove your skills. Completing assignments ears you badges from the Keeper's Guild.
• added Keeper's Guild reward shop, where you can spend earned badges on permanent benefits. Currently there are 12 rewards to unlock. Rewards are active across all game modes, not only in the new Assignment mode.
• added Keeper's Guild Badge rank, where you can see how mandy badges you and your friends earned
• replaced "Fixed Cobalt" prestige variant with "Provocation". Fixed Cobalt was barely played by anyone and the same strategy as used with endless mode was ideal there. This made the mode somewhat redundant. Instead, we added a variant where you can increase how strong the monster waves are in return for more points. That should be fun!
• implemented completely new loadout. This was necessary as the old loadout was not suited to support the new content plans, but more importantly it would not work with multiplayer. For multiplayer we needed something that supports multiple players making choices together. We can't reasonably support two different loadouts, so we opted for this one. Some things in it are better than before, but for controller or keyboard only it is probably a bit slower than the old loadout. Let us know if you encounter things that are irritating, feel unpolished or badly usable. It definitely can use some more improvements adn we closely listen to your feedback here. It will definitely stay, because we need it for multiplayer.

Supplements

• you might know supplements as these strong upgrades that you can get for your dome, that introduce new upgrades into the tree. We added a ton of them for this update. They can be found in supplement chambers after you unlock supplements with your guild badges. Generally they offer very strong upgrades. This is possible because they cannot be bought freely, but have to be weighed against each other.
• added 3 keeper supplements, one for each keeper and a shared one. The shared one is the one way teleporter from the cave. That cave was removed. It is much more interesting to have as a keeper supplement, especially since it is such a strong ability.
• added 4 weapon supplements, one for each weapon. Some are already existing upgrades retrofitted into supplements, but some are new ones.
• added 20 gadget supplements. Same as with weapons, some already existed. For each gadget we did what made the gadget as a whole more interesting. For example, the teleporter has its resource teleportation as a supplement now. This also means that it can be much stronger, teleporting resources much faster.

Gadgets

• added a total of 11 new gadgets. For reference, so far the game only had 11 gadgets! They are in no particular order: Remote Station, Drilling Rig, Furnace, Iron Worms, Mushroom Farm, Resource Packer, Suitblaster, Buzzsaw, Dome Armor, Shockwave, Rocket Launcer. They occupy different slots and help in different areas. They also finally do away with some gadget slots only having one option, like lift or spire, meaning there was no interesting decision to be had there.
• added a new primary gadget, the Drone Yard. It employs transport drones that help you bring back resources to the dome. For combat, it can use battle drones that fire projectiles at monsters, or parasitic drones that weaken monsters a lot.
• rework of all existing gadgets. For some gadgets the changes are tiny, for some gadgets the changes are very big. Blast Mining is much stronger and more useful now, with new upgrades and a rework of some existing upgrades. Same for probe, just as two examples.

Other

• added five new monsters, posing new challenges and extending the late game difficulty
• added a sixth world into the rotation for relic hunt and assignments. Worlds are a visual change, for variety only.
• added 3 new caves: Iron Tree Cave, Water Cave, Portal Cave.
• completely new map generation, more on that below
• we ported the game to a new engine version, in preparation of multiplayer and console ports. This comes with many benefits but also with some issues. The following things are related to this:
• support for right-to-left languages now, i.e. arabic
• keybinding should be sensical for non QWERTY keyboard now by default
• performance on some machines will be better, but will also be worse on others. We'll try our best to optimize when we learn there are issues, and find solutions to improve performance together.
• font colors are now using palette colors

Balance and Changes

Game Modes and Runs

• started season 6 of prestige
• changed difficulty curve of prestige, so that the games would not go quite as long and to compensate the new battle abilities
• Prestige Countdown will now end after 20 cycles always. This removes the last bit of the run that meant gaining very few points for a lot of effort.
• added timelapse feature to the game, where you can view your run as a minimap over time
• added detailed statistics that show you how many monsters per type you killed and what dealt damage and how much. We'll try to improve the differentiation of the damage sources a bit, right now it is a rough lense to look through.
• changed how long cycles are. They start out about 10s longer initially and will generally be longer early, but shorter in very late stages of the game.
• most gadgets keep working during combat now, so no lift stopping a cobalt delivery anymore. This is a big change, because suddenly it would be benefitial to stall waves, or to keep sitting in the station after a battle. Because of this, the countdown to the next wave will start even if you keep sitting in the station.
• if a battle takes too long at too low battle intensity, new monsters will spawn. This is to prevent stalling slightly, but it also makes sense in the world. 500 other monsters would not delay their attack only because there is a single flyer still fighting the dome.
• cobalt upgrade in prestige countdown now starts at a cost of 2 cobalt
• raised cheat detection values to absurd values. No more false positives because you are an insanely good player.

Map Generation

• maps will have much more interesting shapes now, instead of being always a similar blob
• biome sizes are balanced in size now, so that maps that are thin at the top do not have a huge disadvantage
• map sizes for prestige are balanced now. Before, the number of tiles in a map could vary a lot. Now the algorithm tries to bring it close to a given size, making it more consistent.
• totally new layout for maze maps that is crazy!
• the maps now have natural caves inside them, basically holes inside the rock
• the new map generation might take significantly longer than before. Let us know if it is a problem!
• rebalanced resource generation a bit

Domes and Weapons

• all upgrade costs have been reconsidered. Generally, late game upgrades will need a bit more iron.
• Sword Dome: 1000 hp -> 1200 hp
• Dome Supplement: Melee Damage Reduction 20% -> 25%
• Dome Supplement: Projectile Damage Reduction 20% -> 25%
• Dome Supplement: Electrified Surface 8 dps -> 10 dps, 20 dps -> 24 dps
• Dome Supplement: Thorough Combat Repair 300 hp -> 360 hp healed
• Dome Supplement: Dome Resurrection - instead of adding more hp to the maximum hp of the dome, it makes the dome invulnerable for 20s when triggered, or 30s after upgrading.
• Dome Supplement: Scrap Repair: 100 hp -> 75hp health reduction
• Laser: buffed laser damage and made it slightly slower
• Laser: added another stage to laser damage upgrades. Before maximum laser damage was 90 dps, now it is 180 dps.
• Laser: double laser is now a weapon supplement
• Sword: bomb stab is now a weapon supplement. This means you can also combine javelin with bomb stab.
• Sword: added another upgrade to long stab. In its subtree, it now also gets the ability to speed up on button press. It also can stab for much much longer, as it never retracts automatically after dealing some damage.
• Artillery: rotation speed 0.9 -> 1.0
• Artillery Monster Buster: buffed mortar damage and reduced time to reload
• Artillery Volatile Explosives: reduced time to reload
• Artillery: switched both rotation upgrades, so you can get the fast rotation earlier
• Artillery: added Deafening Blast supplement, which stuns all close monsters whenever you fire the mortar
• Tesla: removed perfect timing. This is now its weapon supplement.
• Tesla: buffed damage significantly from 30 -> 40, 45 -> 70, 60 -> 110, 80 -> 180. This is only possible due to removing perfect timing from the regular tree.

Keepers

• Engineer: Added power drill supplement, making drilling faster and enabling drilling through previously indestructible bedrock.
• Buffed Engineer drill strength: 6 -> 7, 14 -> 18, 34 -> 42, 62 -> 98, 240% -> 300%.
• Assessor: Added sphere supplement that destroys neighboring tile for every tile a sphere destroys.
• Slight increase in late stage iron cost for both keepers, slightly more increase for assessor
• Buffed Assessor repetable sphere damage: 240% -> 250%
• slightly buffed Assessor bundle duration: 25s -> 30s, 40s -> 45s
• rebalanced assessor battle abilities. Reflection is a bit better, the other two slightly longer cooldown with split spheres lasting longer.
• added one way teleporter as keeper supplement

Primary Gadgets

• Upgrade costs are all rebalanced. Battle abilities now each cost one cobalt instead of water.
• Changed overcharge mechanic: it now only affects battle abilities. The effect it had before was too convoluted and difficult to understand and predict, with too many special cases. All upgrades for overcharge have changed.
• Shield Electro Blast: the time bonus for using it after the shield depleted is a bit lower, but now you get a second use for it in one battle. Big buff!
• Orchard: you can get another use of a battle ability if you overcharge
• Orchard: Root explosion does less damage now, always 100 damage
• Orchard: the buff starts slightly weaker, but the upgrades improving it make it much stronger than before
• Added Drone Yard

Gadgets

• Reworked gadget slots a bit. The keeper suit is now a proper slot for gadgets, and only one gadget can go into it. This means you cannot have the probe and the prospection meter at the same time, for example.
• Upgrade costs are all rebalanced, with late stage upgrades costing more iron.
• Added Remote Station and supplement
• Added Drilling Rig and supplement
• Added Furnace and supplement
• Added Iron Worms and supplement
• Added Mushroom Farm and supplement
• Added Resource Packer
• Added Suitblaster and supplement
• Added Buzzsaw and supplement
• Added Dome Armor and supplement
• Added Shockwave and supplement
• Added Rocket Launcer and supplement
• Stun Laser: Reduced cooldown a lot and fire time a bit
• Stun Laser: stun strength 5.5 -> 6.0
• Stun Laser: area stun is now a supplement
• Auto Cannon: time between shots 2.5s -> 2.0s
• Auto Cannon: Machine Gun time between shots 2.0s -> 1.5s, 1.2s -> 1.0s, 0.75s -> 0.5s, 0.45s -> 0.25s
• Auto Cannon: Shotgun time between shots 3.0s -> 2.5s, 4.0s -> 3.3s
• Auto Cannon: added supplement that nearly doubles the rate of fire
• Blast Mining: slightly increased radius and decreased production time
• Blast Mining: added third stage of explosion radius upgrade
• Blast Mining: added supplement that grants you three mines instead of one in each production cycle. There was an upgrade like this before, but it would grant you three small mines. Now you can get three big mines, so a big buff :)
• Blast Mining: impact detonation now moves the center of the explosion into the direction of the impact. This makes blast mining way more useful.
• Blast Mining: improved behaviour when impact detonation is triggerd. There were many strange cases before, like it not exploding when it would fall on resources.
• Probe: reworked the whole tech tree and added a path that immediately completely reveals the rock, instead of placing markers
• Probe: added supplement that makes the probe recharge automatically and removes the station from the cellar, freeing that slot
• Teleporter: added two small upgrades
• Teleporter: made resource teleportation a supplement and buffed it.
• Lift: starts out with more orbs that go faster
• Lift: buffed orb speed and capacity upgrades, as well as keeper speed upgrade
• Lift: added supplement that removes the orbs and lets all resources float upwards automatically
• Condenser: Auto overcharge primary gadget is now a supplement
• Prospection Meter: added supplement that reveals chambers and has much higher range
• Drillbert: buffed drill strength
• Drillbert: added a supplement that adds two more drillberts
• Converter: rebalanced all conversions
• Converter: iron duplication is now a supplement
• Converter: added an upgrad with which you can queue conversions, so that conversion that do not take long do not suffer from you being at the dome rarely.
• Converter: added two different upgrades on how to improve water conversion
• Squidley, the resource tansporting squid from a cave, now gets faster the more resources it brought back to the dome
• gadgets like the auto cannon now lead their shots, making them much better at hitting moving (flying) targets

Monsters

• added Hornet
• added Breeder
• added Phaser
• added Bloater
• added Tormentor
• Driller changes: 800 hp -> 1400 hp, 32 dps -> 40 dps, weight 200 -> 350, minimum run weight 350 -> 850. Because the new monsters fill up some space on the difficulty curve, driller is now a proper late game monster.
• Bolter: 135 hp -> 150 hp, weight 80 -> 100, minimum run weight 200 -> 250. Effectively becomes slightly more late game.
• Scarab: 1150 hp -> 1200 hp, damage 20 -> 25, weight 450 -> 600, minimum run weight 900 -> 1200, fires about twice as many projectiles. Becomes a very late game monster and should keep posing a threat even with all the new combat gadgets.

Bugfixes

Hey Keepers,

Balance and Changes

• added 3 new caves (iron cave, water cave, portal cave)
• mac works again now
• added anti stall mechanic to prevent some exploits. The idea is that new monsters will spawn during the wave if you try to stall the wave for too long. It's not plausible that one monster would hang around for a dozen cycles with no new monsters showing up. Mechanically it is needed because stalling got more useful, as more things keep working during combat. Please tell if you unexpectedly see new monsters spawning, despite being in a normal combat situation.
• buffed laser damage
• slight overcharge buff
• improved loadout camera
• made loadout mine look nicer
• loadout now properly shows pets and primary gadget in dome
• small battle drone rebalance
• the countdown of the next monster wave will start soon after the current wave is done, even if the keeper is in the station (needed as otherwise sitting idle in the station would be an exploit, as many things now work during combat, like drones and the lift).
• teleporter now also teleports resources during combat
• squidley (squid from the cave) now gets faster the more resources it delivered
• bloater can now only make up about 10% of a wave
• phaser teleports a bit faster towards the dome
• more savegame sanitization, so fewer issues with changes and mods
• updated localisation and improved some texts
• stingers (short musical clips) when opening a chamber now respond better with a custom OST setting
• improved audio in various places
• added side driller tutorial
• added meaningful readable properties to dome armor supplement
• adjusted audible distance of tile destroy sound and transport drone
• disabled telemetry. It was cool and useful, but the current solution was too large and expensive - more than we really needed.
• re-enabled modloader, disabled all mods for profile when updating game-version

Bugfixes

• fixed rich fibre achievement to be able to trigger with the new balancing
• fixed music switching mid track in multiplayer-loadout
• fixed mining-summary positioning issue
• fixed packing drops in bundle sometimes dissolves bundle completelty
• fixed mining summary gif export logo position with long username
• fixed probemarker instantly disappearing cutting off sound
• fixed tech tree ui showing another stage of repeatable upgade even after it is maxed out
• fixed manually unpausing in furnace station
• fixed out-of-bounds elements breaking minimap
• implemented saveload of recorder, so timelapse fully works with reloaded save games
• fixed mining summary issues with controller
• fixed dome armor pulse effect
• fixed cablesegment shader having wrong colors

The Open Beta is coming to an end, and its all thanks to you! Thank you to everyone for your invaluable feedback and help with our Open Beta. At long last were at the point where were ready to release the update to everyone - and its coming to Steam this Thursday! A Keepers Duty will officially release on Thursday, July 25th, with a huge load of new content to enjoy! Our amazing Dome Dweller, Ren will have a small dev stream on the day of release around 20:00 CEST / 14:00 EDT / 11:00 EDT. Make sure you tune in and say hi! We hope youre all as excited to fulfill your duty as a Dome Keeper as we are!

Hey Keepers,

Balance and Changes

• added a nice theme to the exported gif
• fixed wrong cycle time. Accidentally the cycles were much too long, for example about 3 minutes on cycle 14, when it should have been 2 minutes.
• side drillers now have small indicators when they are blocked
• rocketlauncher now refills on individual level, not in full clip
• engineer power drill now handles the two highest tile hardness as if they were medium hardness and is a bit stronger in general
• oneway teleporter now has 20s fixed cooldown
• added some icons
• added more space for run modifiers due to longer localizations
• updated some texts

Bugfixes

• fixed many instances of indestructible rock getting destroyed. This should only be possible with the engineer supplement, in addition to how it worked with the central shaft gadgets.
• fixed assessor overriding bundlecentralmarker guild reward setting
• added meta data sanitization for rewards, skins and pets (important for changes and mods)
• fixed title music not looping if switching keeper
• fixed drill rig sounds not fading out correctly
• fixed drill magnetic casing not working on a drop that was previously picked up
• fixed side drills not being placed correctly when reloading
• fixed windows only lzw compression causing issues on mac
• fixed assessor orbs sometimes stationary after reload
• fully removed showmine and timelapse rewards
• fixed assessor receiving engineer supplement offers and vice-versa
• fixed relic chamber closed again after load
• fixed second domearmor upgrades not actually increasing max health
• fixed drilling rig able to reset to one side drill if buying side drill upgrade after getting supplement
• fixed some particles of bundle
• fixed pickedup resources not working correctly with gravitational lift and magnetic drill
• fixed assessor sphere persisting infinitely when loading a save where they were about to fade out

Hey Keepers,

Balance and Changes

• Fixed to opengl renderer as default again. Vulkan did not improve things as we hoped. You can still launch with vulkan if you enter this as the start arguments in the game settings "--rendering-driver vulkan"
• Added keeper supplements: power drill, cascading impact and one way teleporter. One way teleporter is now a supplement instead of a cave. The cave got removed for now. This is more interesting to play with i hope.
• rebalanced all upgrade costs. Iron costs for the late game went up significantly, as it seemed the upgrade cost got less meaningful when you have 50 iron in the bank. This is also a consequence of the game getting easier thanks to strong supplements. Feedback welcome, but give it a few runs to get used to it :)
• made gravitational lift 8x faster
• adjusted time between waves, so that there will be a bit more time in the early to mid game
• assignments: changed fixed time limit in minutes to cycles when possible, so that cycle based gadgets work more meaningfully (like furnace)
• rebalanced cobalt contribution. It was much too hard.
• fixed only one supplement being in the map in general
• rebalanced droneyard battle ability
• reworked rewards a bit. Statistics are now one reward and post run timelapse is available by default. Added central certical line as a reward as the community suggested. More suggestions welcome :)
• slightly buffed furnace supplement
• changed supplement of drill rig to something more useful and made drillers a bit faster
• some caves can now spawn multiple times, in theory
• weapon defect assignment rebalance. It was too hard on challenge mode.
• significantly improved performance of scanner cave application
• improved various texts
• added move-reminder when staying idle too long in the new loadout
• removed hud run modifier. It is obsolete due to the guild reward.
• bloater will vanish faster if it is the last monster
• made autocannon rate of fire visible in stats
• added some icons

Bugfixes

• fixed desync between killed monster counter and detailed statistics screeen sum
• keeper 1 cursor is always drill
• fixed anchor in gadget option
• fixed drillbuff time for mushroom farm seemingly sinking with first upgrade
• reduced guided bundle pull distance again, hopefully guided bundles stay together a bit better
• fixed vignette transition breaking after load
• fixed drops in bundle being negatively effected by magnetic drill
• fixed unspecfic explanation of drill upgrade property
• fixed techtree fully broken in arabic
• fixed some monsters not reaching the dome and getting stuck in world 2
• fixed white space around upgrade limits leading to missing upgrades
• fixed no hud in arabic
• maze modifier now correctly works with new generation
• fixed engineer thruster particles broken after swapping skin
• fixed saveload error when using bundle guidance
• packed resources within bundles now remain inside that bundle upon completion
• fixed drillbot treat not visible after load
• fixed station extension not revealing rock anymore
• fixed minedriller upgrades not loaded correctly anymore
• fixed custom gadget order broken
• fixed sound of extractor being audible on the whole map
• fixed assessor spheres vanishing on reload (this never worked before, big oversight)
• reroll option is disabled when using custom gadget/supplement order
• paused game after assignment is won to stop any remaining monster from attacking
• added sanitization pass for metastate on load to get rid of any old or unavailable settings and crashes

Hey Keepers,

Balance and Changes

• timelapse now exports as a gif
• battle drones will now vanish after a certain amount of shots fired. This was already present in the upgrade description, but wasn't implemented yet.
• fixed and buffed probe supplement, no auto recharge in normal tech tree for now
• added tutorials for new gadgets
• cobalt contribution rebalance (will actually change a lot with the next patch)
• drone dispatcher now smartly always dispatches the closest available drone to a drop
• added some icons
• automated conversion now spits out resources over a few seconds to avoid resources clipping out of the map
• improved image export of mining timelapse, so game won't freeze during export

Bugfixes

• fixed loadout ui disappearing in right-to-left languages
• disabled remote station sound effects, they were a bit annoying
• fixed gadgets being shredded when reroll was selected via keyboard
• fixed tile hit sounds having unlimited audible distance
• fixed assessor intro music not looping
• fixed mineview in run finished popup available without upgrade
• fixed probe recharging while paused or in battle
• fixed exit route pathfinding not displayed correctly
• fixed mushroomfarm wrong animation after load
• run stats now count monster kills in finale before relic explosion
• fixed only dome1 having zap-effects with dome armor reactive pulse
• fixed no bombtip on javelin with supplement
• fixed switching language resetting font palette color
• fixed extractor reinfesting same tile with worms multiple times when the tile has a different overlay
• fixed leaderboard highlighted color using wrong font
• fixed station extenion popup being left-bound instead of centered
• increased area for guild rewards to fit all rewards neatly in all languages
• fixed custom order for gadgets breaking popup
• fixed offcentered sword weapon features
• fixed no hover sound in main menu
• fixed battledrone being in front of dome
• fixed heal animation being wrong
• fixed squidley and transport drone picking up the same resource twice
• fixed mineraltree in upsidedown assignment
• added code to ensure floating drops don't get stuck for too long
• fixed converter and furnace use-action being triggered after quitting popup with keyboard
• fixed drillbot treats not saved correctly
• drill, lift and other mineshaft gadgets are now hidden during landing
• fixed teleporter leaving drops in broken state when picked up while absorbing
• added singular variation for additional gadget textww
• fixed relic-carrying music track turning on on it's own after dropping the relic
• fixed artillery not always remembering last rotation correctly when exiting during movement
• delay bar in wavemeter is now always displayed when the repellent is available
• fixed switch pro controller layout
• fixed showdown details not displaying final wave strength
• fixed flyer not correctly recognized in detailed statistics

Hey Keepers,

Balance and Changes

• changed to forward+ renderer
• added guild rewards
• added additional post run statistics, unlockable as guild reward
• added mining timelapse, unlockable as guild reward
• moved guild rewards to its own area in loadout. They affect all modes, so should not be part of the assignment configuration.
• made remote station minimap more useful, also showing drops and carryables
• improved colors of minimap
• creatures and clouds in world 7 are now animated
• added friend leaderboard for assignment badges
• significantly improved performance of swapping gamemode in loadout
• faster camera in loadout, added zoom stage
• improved hud to show amounts above 99
• added buttons to put gadgets to first or last entry in pro mode
• added 10 icons
• resource packer can pack carried resources
• assessor bundle reaches further and moves faster if guided
• increased how fast drilling rig will move downwards
• added domearmor adapting visually based on dome used
• removed rotated tiles that created an ugly mine look
• metastate is now saved to a new file in v4, so the manual rename of the backup metastate is not needed anymore
• improved sounds

Bugfixes

• fixed fonts across all languages
• fixed wrong loadout map on clean install
• fix crash if javelin has no bomb
• Fixed Mine texture, pixelization issues and crack texture error
• fixed tiles being rendered visible too far into the dark area
• fixed halfpixel offset and double pixels in mine rock graphics
• fixed resource shred looking different than before
• fixed keeper spark animation
• fixed black border around chambers
• fixed battle popup always showing hint for sword speedup
• fixed remote control station making resources-ui color gray
• fixed shield hud special icon positioning
• fixed seed and mineral tree in upside down
• fixed drillbot treat arrow
• fixed teleporter not displaying cooldown after using it while on item-cooldown
• fixed teleporter blue "active teleport" sprite remaining active on abort
• fixed relic switch chamber on after loading and extracting relic
• fixed seed having wrong center of mass causing weird movement
• fixed squidly positioning behind drone
• fixed teleporter charging effect sometimes remaining active when it shouldnt
• fixed relic music overlapping with level music
• fixed mine ambience music still disabled
• fixed shield active ability hud display inaccurate
• fixed remote station reveal not revealing caves
• fixed weird particles behind assessor
• fixed sorting of monsters when accessibility mode is on
• fixed keeper2 ammo achievment not working
• fixed "escape" not working on switch pro controller
• fixed being able to quit run won popup without unlocking something when possible
• fixed missile launcher floating in world 1 (by changeing ground layer)

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Hey Keepers,

Balance and Changes

• reworked sword long stab. You can now speed it up by pressing shift. Additionally it will never retract once its damage potential is used up. Instead you can keep flying and stab dozens of monsters, including the same monster multiple times.
• javelin is now back in the tech tree. Stab bomb remains as supplement and now works also with Javelin.
• adjusted upgrade costs of all primary gadgets to be the same compared to each other
• battle ability upgrades now each cost one cobalt instead of water
• reworked droneyard drone count upgrade. Instead of buying individual drones, you now buy them in increasingly large packs.
• balance pass across all gadget upgrade costs
• reordered suit blaster upgrades and decreased charge speed a bit
• minimap supplement doew not reveal the full map anymore, but only a bit more than you already see. Feedback very welcome, we are not done with it!
• updated localization
• changed showdown so that cycle based gadgets work well again
• slightly increased bundle duration of assessor for the first two upgrades
• slightly increased move speed while firing for laser dome
• improved sound for blast mine explosion
• improved various sounds. Feedback super welcome here, let us know if anything sounds good/bad/like it misses a sound :)
• teleporter can now teleport packed resources
• added fallback icon whenever the icon is missing
• added world ambience to 7, and a bloater ambience
• made supplement offer limited to 1 per slot when possible
• suitblaster now detonates at the point of activation not the delayed position
• disable cheat detection for open beta. Please remember we might need to wipe the leaderboard when the beta ends.
• upgrading the rocket launcher in combat instantly gives you the extra ammo
• lowered strength of wave that is triggered by relic from 450% to 300% of a regular wave

Bugfixes

• fixed label colors and improved them across all palettes
• fixed blast mine sprites being broken and slightly increased threshold for impact detonation
• fixed resources in artillery losing collision against each other when entering the dome
• drone from cave aka Squidley now looks like it was in v3
• fixed marker sprites in cave bomb being in the wrong color
• fixed packed resources counting as too many resources if carried by transport drone
• cartography now properly displays holes again
• fixed upgrade cost not being red when not affordable
• fixed droneyard overcharge
• fixed worm animation looping on gameover
• restricted manual "view-mine" boundaries
• fixed relic hunt modifiers not being applied correctly in some cases
• keeper movement input is now restored/recalcualted when leaving a popup
• fixed drill-part glitching through a block when mining the same tile at the same time
• fixed resourcepacker fx not preloaded causing stutter
• fixed missing droneyard icon in leaderboard
• fixed droneyard external sections clipping through dome
• fixed shield overcharge and last-stand effects not centered
• fixed missing monster outlines in loadout
• fixed stun laser turning on after game over
• fixed loadout hint containers being misplaced after changing gamemode
• fixed intro music stopping when moving from loadout to title
• fixed title music not being dependent on last played keeper
• fixed option panel jumping in size when switching categories
• fixed crash/errors on reload with laser dome
• fixed orchard root explosion not dealing damage
• fixed being able to start challenge mode of assignment if regular mode was not completed
• assignments now always play on brutal difficulty
• fixed assignement "restart run" issues with keeper positions
• fixed additional drills not passing through unminable blocks
• fixed exploit when leaving the game right after finishing a wave
• fixed mushroomfarm weird green particles on station
• fixed driller die animation leaving white pixels
• fixed cobalt bomb leaving pixels on screen
• fixed relic cables turning on again afterload
• double-ensured player cannot get out of bounds in loadout
• fixed teleporter particles active after aborting
• fixed remote station upgrade ui not fully disabled correctly
• fixed repellend overcharge not correct on reload
• fixed orchard overcharge not correct on reload
• fixed doublelaser positioning after load
• fixed teleporter missing charge vfx
• disabled achievements in new loadout
• fixed die animations of tormentor
• fixed run stats showing stats they should not show
• fixed artillery tutorial fonts
• fixed relic hunt end popup font
• fixed label style for changed properties in tech tree

The Dome Keeper - A Keepers Duty Public Beta is LIVE! As of right now all Keepers can opt in to the beta and access the full scope of the update. We invite you to play around with everything new with an understanding that this is not final. To answer some initial questions about the Beta and how to join it, please check our recently posted FAQ on Discord and Steam. If you missed the news about this update, please check our last fancy news post about it.
The new "Tormentor" putting his name into practice. There will be bugs, balance will need tweaking and you may encounter stability issues. If you do, please use the proper bug report and feedbacking channels on Discord or post to the Steam forums. At the end of the day, gathering such feedback and we appreciate all of you who choose to do so! Lets repeat what youll find in the update:

• Twice as many gadgets as before (from 11 to 22)
• Extremely strong supplement upgrades for all gadgets and weapons
• New game mode Guild Assignments with 16 different assignments
• New loadout menu (Multiplayer preparation!)
• Prestige overhaul with Provocation replacing Fixed Cobalt
• New world & monsters
• Balancing and improvements on existing content

Dome Keeper: A Keepers Duty is coming and is shaping up very nicely. This is our most ambitious update by any measure you throw at it and were thrilled to bring Keepers of every ilk a much improved replayability through new gadgets with over 100 new upgrades, supplements for all gadgets and weapons, a new prestige variant, a bunch of new monsters with a new world, big balancing changes and improvements on existing content and the brand new Guild Assignment game mode.
Assignments are interesting challenges, feeling quite different from regular runs and often need a smart build. Add to this an engine update from Godot 3 to Godot 4, a daunting task but one weve deemed necessary to ensure Dome Keeper is set for the future as this, among other things, enables us to add Multiplayer and youve got A Keepers Duty. What is hopefully made clear by reading this is that were bringing a lot of (positive!) change to Dome Keeper all in one go and while that is incredibly exciting, it inadvertently WILL also bring problems big and small. With more than doubling your options in each run, game balance will be all over the place. The engine upgrade can also bring a lot of technical issues that only happen on specific hardware. We have thus reached the conclusion to iron out the bulk of these issues together with you, our Keepers! Starting June 20th all players will be able to access the A Keepers Duty content through a Beta Branch on Steam. The main game app will remain as it is for some time but players who opt in to the Public Beta will have the full update available to them from that day. The update is content complete so all the things weve spoken of before are in place; what might not be is our usual level of balance and stability. We will add some smaller things in the next weeks too, like icons and new achievements.
Tired of carrying resources? The new primary gadget "droneyard" got you covered. Lets recap what is included in the update! This list is a little short now, but well provide a full changelog when the update is fully released later this summer.

Whats new:

• Twice as many gadgets as before (from 11 to 22)
• Extremely strong supplement upgrades for all gadgets and weapons
• New game modeGuild Assignments with 16 different assignments
• New loadout menu (Multiplayer preparation!)
• Prestige overhaul with Provocation replacing Fixed Cobalt
• New world & monsters
• Balancing and improvements on existing content
• New and improved map generation

What to expect from the Public Beta:

• Mods WILL break.
  • Currently the very fundamentals of Godot 4 are incompatible with how mods have been made in the past. This means that currently there is no known process for how modders can bring over their mods to the latest version of the game. We are however working actively with our modders and contributors of the engine to figure out how we can make this work as we really love mods. At this very moment we dont know for certain how this will develop even for the full release of the update.
• Updated language support
  • The move to Godot 4, among other things, will enable us to implement localization from languages that in the past were not possible, for instance Arabic which has a 100% complete (fact check) translation ready and made by fans. Read more about the fan localization project here: [Link Coming Soon]
• Current run save games will not transfer between versions
  • If you have a run going on you want to finish, best do so before switching to the beta branch, as run save games will not work. We disabled that intentionally, as we had some issues in the past with migrating ongoing runs (remember the unusable relic chambers with black rectangles around it?).All of your meta progression should be safe and your saves in each branch is retained in the files, in case you wish to hop between versions you CAN, all you have to do is rename your save file to be recognized by the game when you switch between versions [FAQ Coming Soon]
• Mac Support
  • We are on it, but right now we havent been able to export a running build for Dome after the Engine Port. It is supported in principle, so we are confident well get it to work eventually, but we need a bit more time.
• General bugs, balance issues and instability
  • Were very proud of the new update but bringing it to public beta is not for naught. The game is entirely playable but we urge you to expect balancing to be a bit off, bugs to occur and the possibility of things not being entirely stable. Please help us by giving us feedback and reporting any bugs you encounter. We listen closely to your feedback and now is really the best time to advocate for changes.

Big News, Keepers! Big news from Guild Headquarters has arrived: the largest content update yet is on the horizon, and is packed with loads of new content, adjustments, fixes and so much more! The most common desire from players and frankly from us devs too is to increase run variety and replayability. For many players, runs eventually start to feel quite samey, which is natural considering the limited breadth of content and loadout options. The main goal of this upcoming update is to increase replayability and run variety way beyond what youve seen so far. Major Changes:

• New gadgets and supplements
• New game mode: Guild Assignments
• New loadout menu
• Prestige mode overhaul
• New world & monsters
• Balancing and improvements on existing content

New gadgets and supplements

New game mode: Guild Assignments

New loadout menu

Prestige mode overhaul

• Endless mode runs are too long, with the top runs going for up to 10 hours
• Fixed Cobalt modewhile different in theoryended up with the same strategies as Endless mode, where players wante to upgrade as fast as possible, and then only cared about avoiding damage as much as possible.

• removed Fixed Cobalt
• added Provocation Prestige Variant:
  Your score multiplier is falling with each cycle and can only be raised by increasing the wave strength. You start with 100 base per wave and can only raise it a bit. If your multiplier reaches negative values, the game is over. The idea is to challenge you to play on the edge of what you can handle monster-wise.
• changed the difficulty curve so that the ceiling of what you can handle in endless is reached earlier, preventing players from getting to wave 90+ (this is also connected to tesla dome being very strong, but thats a separate thing)

New world & monsters

Balancing existing content

Playtest

Engine upgrade

Thats it!

Dome Keeper is on sale now! New recruits to the Keeper's Guild are always appreciated - and now's the best time to join up! From now until April 18th @ 10:00 PDT / 13:00 EDT / 18:00 Brit Time / 19:00 CEST, you can get Dome Keeper and all of it's DLC on sale! Keep in mind that all of these discounts also compound with the Deluxe Edition bundle discount!

• Dome Keeper
  • 50%
• Dome Keeper Soundtrack
  • 40%
• Dome Keeper: Engineer Gear Pack
  • 20%
• Dome Keeper: Assessor Gear Pack
  • 20%

Time to clean up that Steam Wishlist and take advantage of those discounts - it's the Steam Spring Sale! Right now you can save on Dome Keeper, all of the Gear Packs, and the Dome Keeper Soundtrack - so if you've been trying to get one of your friends to try our Dome Keeper, this is the best time to do it! The following discounts will be active from March 14 @ 10:00 PDT / 13:00 EDT / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET until March 21st @ 10:00 PDT / 13:00 EDT / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET:

• Dome Keeper
  • 50%
• Dome Keeper: Engineer Gear Pack
  • 20%
• Dome Keeper: Assessor Gear Pack
  • 20%
• Dome Keeper Soundtrack
  • 40%

Happy lunar new year, keepers! As we enter the year of the dragon, we wanted to do something special to celebrate. Starting February 6, you can find a special cave in the game that will reward you with a dragon egg. Dome Keeper will also be part of a Lunar New Year Sale, which ends on February 15th. The new pet will be unlockable until February 21 and will be a yearly event going forward, so make sure to get in there and find that Dragon, Keepers!

Changelog

• Added new seasonal content for Lunar New Year. As always, you can disable seasonal content in the options if you don't like it
  • added dragon cave and new pet
  • added lanterns to the Dome during Lunar New Year
• resurrect will now trigger before auto heal
• assessor reflector can sometimes let spheres through if too close to a wall. This works better now, but can still happen (try to not spawn the sphere within the reflector).

Greetings, Keepers, and Happy Holidays! Since were such great pals with the folks over at Kingdom, weve recorded a stream together! Join MissDeliana and Vicky as we explore what the two games have in common, and learn a thing or two about them as we play. The premiere starts today (December 20th) at 17:00 CET, and you can watch it right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1EHfj0l4_M Cant make it? No problem! You can watch the stream VOD afterwards on YouTube, and we will be playing the stream on the Store pages for both games over the Steam Winter Sale. And speaking of sales, we currently have a Kingdom x Dome Keeper bundle for sale, so consider this a gift idea for the upcoming Holidays: https://bit.ly/3TDtc26

Hey Keepers,

Changelog V3.1.3

• added mine view to prestige mode
• fixed long standing bug with external gamepads on steamdeck and with gamepads being detected twice. You need to activate "automatic detection of preferred gamepad" then. Up until now, on some controllers the sticks of the other gamepad would still create input events, messing with the directional control. This is now fixed and should work properly.
• fixed chinese languages having a wrong name in the language selection (referring to the letters instead of the language)
• fixed slots in caves and supplement chamber that take one resource actually also adding this resource to the inventory
• fixed prestige mode accidentally spawning way harder waves in the late waves (most notable at 50+)
• fixed artillery moving to the side when exiting while using mouse
• fixed custom cursor sometimes showing even if turned off
• fixed auto cannon shooting too low when aiming at worm

See you next year!

Dear Keepers, We know how much you love defense strategy, so this Rawcember weve carefully prepared a special present just for you - you can now get both Dome Keeper and Kingdom Two Crowns as a bundle, or separately at a discount! We hope that you will enjoy the other game, if you have already played one of them, or give a chance to both. This is a wonderful opportunity to test your strategy & defense skills and immerse yourself into unfamiliar but fascinating realms under the spice of the similar goal - in each game you must protect your base from the waves of enemies but to do that you have to explore and conquer unknown territories, find resources and manage your time. Were game developers which means that were big believers - and wed like to believe that if you loved one of the titles, youll also enjoy the other one! Check out the bundle here - https://bit.ly/3sY1EtK Kingdom Two Crowns info & discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/701160/Kingdom_Two_Crowns/ Dome Keeper info & discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/ Follow us on social media to never miss any updates! Kingdom: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Discord Dome Keeper: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Discord

Hey Keepers,

• keyboard only
• keyboard and mouse
• one stick gamepad
• twin stick gamepad

Changelog V3.1.1

• fixed some gamepads not working in menus anymore
• twin stick is now disabled by default and also set to disabled for every player, as a lot of people had difficulties with it. If you want to play with twin stick, you have to activate it again. Sorry for the invonvenience!
• fixed the battle popup also showing mouse key hint if mouse was not enabled in battle, but enabled in menus

Merry Christmas!

December is here, Keepers, and its time to get festive! The star at the top of the tree that is this merry update is mouse support. We know that there are many of you out there who prefer a combination of mouse and keyboard as you play, so this gift is for you! You can configure the controls in the options for a perfect fit. Way better than knit socks, right? How are they always the wrong size, and so itchy? Anyway, moving on. Our next set of gifts are for all of you who enjoy seasonal events as much as we do: we brought Christmas cheer to the dome! Not only have we given the main title music a festive makeover, weve also added a brand new skin for the Assessor as well as a special pet, and these can only be unwrapped for the duration of December. Remember to make sure that you have seasonal content enabled in the options! Weve also made some small tweaks and added sounds for the pets, to make sure you are welcomed back to the dome properly. Read the changelog below for a full list!

What you need to know

Changelog

• Added support for mouse controls, configurable and re-bindable via Options
• Added twin stick support for gamepad
• Added various Christmas themed bits:
  • New unlockable pet and skin for the Assessor (find a gift chamber and win the run to unlock them)
  • New themed title music
  • Snow weather happening across all maps
  • Drillbert skin
  • As always you can turn all this off via options
• Added sounds for pets when you return to dome
• Improved snow weather effect
• Assessor spheres now also play resource-dependent sounds
• Assessor bundle moves twice as fast when using bundle guidance
• Made some parts of the game easier to mod by making dictionaries variables instead of constants

Greetings, Keepers!

7 major updates for free as well as 23 patches.

Hey Keepers,

Fair Competition (prestige only)

Being Political

Changelog V3.0.2

• removed flags from language select
• language names are now in their respective language, instead of all being in english
• cleared known cheaters list
• added a long panel about fairness, rules and exploits when you start a run in prestige mode while you also got pro mode unlocked
• fixed auto repair not working during the final relic hunt battle
• fixed shield's last stand not preventing the start of the relic bomb
• whitelisteda mod for prestige (Among Tick - AshAxolotl

Thank you and a happy Halloween!

Hey Keepers, time for another hotfix! Despite resolveing some issues, we are also listening to your feedback on the new domes. Tesla is at a slightly strange spot right now, where it can be very very strong later on, but initially does not feel great, especially if you don't combine all abilities. It just got a slight rebalance with this patch. Artillery on the other hand is great fun to use already for many people, but a bit too strong. We are seeing winrates that are a good bit above the other domes. While that is not forbidden in general, the domes should be a bit closer together in balancing, so this is an attempt to improve it. We'll continue to listen for feedback on balance, and improve as much as we can. Likely the next patch won't be in october, as right now it seems we better wait for some more feedback, prestige runs and telemtry data.

Changelog V3.0.2

• fixed a very deep layer being indestructible despite looking like normal dirt
• tesla reticle slowdown only sets in right before finishing the charge
• tesla now has a second quickshot upgrade and two instead of three perfect timing upgrades. This makes perfect timing less important and quickshot more useful. Second quick shot upgrade deals 120% of base damage, from initial 60%.
• slightly increased tesla base damage to compensate for lower buffs from perfect timing
• limiting maximum size of tesla dome's electro orbs. They can still be charged higher to remain for longer, but their size is hard capped now (still very large).
• reduced spire's targetting time from 0.5s to 0.2s (reload time is unaffected)
• reduced artillery mortar damage by 10% on later upgrades
• reduced direct hit damage bonus on artillery splash upgrade line
• slightly reduced rate of fire on artillery machine gun
• better visibility for artillery mortar aim line
• fixed prospection meter not detecting power core chamber or relic switch chambers
• made orchard roots explode in short succession after each other instead of all together
• fixed electro orbs not doing damage while keeper is outside of dome
• updated localisation
• better font for vietnamese
• fix small visual error of tesla dome in loadout stage
• no points will be deducted in prestige, even if the multiplier reaches a negative value
• fixed relic switch chambers looking inactive on reload, after activating them before
• fixed kept gadget getting lost if not immediately starting a new run
• removed small arc effects from the reticle after auto aim is bought
• added custom supplement order for prestige pro mode
• vignette will show up later the deeper the map is
• whitelisted three mods for prestige (Ste - Prestige Quick Restart, Nanimonull - Tech Tree Loop Select, Kana - Hello There)

Hey Keepers, Ren here, i made a big mistake! I accidentally omitted the fixes we made vor v2.6.2 and v2.6.3 from yesterdays v3.0. That means that some of the things that were fixed before broke again. I now pulled the fixes over to the current build and got v3.0.1 ready. Please let me know if you experience any issues. Best reported on our Discord Server, as it's easiest to share files there. Generally this is important: [olist]

[previewyoutube=_z4HEQMgzQM;full] [/previewyoutube] Greetings, Keepers! The Keepers Guild is thrilled to announce that the Double Dome Update is live and available now! This means that you now have access to not one but TWO new domes: the Tesla Dome and the Artillery dome, as well as the new Dome Supplements system. Quick warning: if you played with mods before, your game might crash with this update due to the mods not being updated for 3.0 yet. The safest route is to unsubscribe from the mods via steam and then test what mods are already working. The Artillery Dome wields the greatest fire power of any dome to date, and is sure to make short work of any monster when used right. It comes equipped with a mortar firing high explosive shells as well as a fast firing anti air machine gun. The Tesla Dome is nothing short of electrifying, literally, and it is the only dome that allows you to aim freely in both dimensions. With this dome you can place Electro Orbs around your dome for defense and zap those monsters before they even reach your dome. Did you ever wish that you could use Dome Hardening on the Sword Dome instead of the Laser dome? With Dome Supplements, you can! Weve removed some of the dome upgrades from the Tech Tree, and replaced them with Supplements which are additional upgrades that can go into already existing upgrade tracks for your dome. You find these supplements by uncovering a new chamber containing a power core, similar to how you would find gadgets. This update is, of course, packed with a lot more than the headliners! (You can read more about the domes and the dome supplements in our previous dev diary by the way!) We have several fixes in the mix and our Prestige players will be happy to know that with this update we also move into Season 5 of Prestige Mode. There is a full changelog further down in this post with all of the details, of course. Oh and another thing: if youve changed your dome ability control key bindings you might find that they have reverted back to the default after updating. Since we added the Artillery Dome we needed to make room for the secondary fire ability in the keybindings, and if the keybindings have been changed from the default that could cause a conflict.

Changelog

• Added Artillery Dome
• Added Tesla Dome
• Added custom sprites for all primary gadgets per dome
• Replaced cobalt branches in dome tech trees with a new system, the dome supplements
• Added a new chamber type, the power core chambers. Retrieve the core inside to receive a supplement.
• Added 6 dome supplements
• Added run modifier that lets you get 3 dome supplements instead of only one
• Added "mine view", where you can watch the mine you dug out after finishing a run and even show the resources you missed
• Added run modifier that lets you play completely without monsters
• Added classic "Dome Romantik" palette (orange, blue, purple)

• Improved how orchard shields are spaced across domes, adapting better to different dome shapes and sizes
• Orchard root explosion won't remove other roots anymore
• Improved orchard shield destruction effect

• Gamepad auto switch option now also works for steam deck, resolving some issues of inputs being unresponsive
• Improved positions where domes are shot at
• Relic switches can now be activated immediately after uncovering, no need to wait for the animation
• Stingray is back to the old animation, does not look squished anymore
• Assessor can now collect again when in cellar
• Changed gadget chamber placement to be less predictable
• Prospection meter does not target rooted resources anymore
• Auto cannon and stun laser won't target burrowed monsters anymore
• Teleport won't trigger if you or the moveable portal are still inside the dome
• Improved visuals of the shield battle ability "electro blast"
• Updated localisation
• Improved some sound effects
• Changed run modifier "double iron" to simply increase the iron in the underground by 50% and no increase in upgrade cost

• Cycle time: increases slightly slower the larger the dugout mine is
• Orchard: halved how quickly moving uses up the orchard buff
• Orchard: increased initial buff strength and decreased growth time
• Orchard: slightly buffed orchard shield hp (120->130)
• Shield: very slightly decreased max strength (6.6%)
• Scarab: slightly increased health
• Repair: depends slightly less on dome health
• Auto repair: is not a standalone upgrade anymore but instead comes for free with the inventory upgrade
• Engineer: buffed drill strength of the last drill upgrade
• Engineer: slightly buffed the speed upgrades
• Engineer: slightly buffed the second carry strength upgrade
• Assessor: buffed the sphere base damage to be a more viable mining option, especially in the deeper layers
• Assessor: slightly buffed the upgrades for minimum speed when carrying or collecting
• Assessor: slightly decreased effectiveness of contact mining, with the last stage being weaker and rock hardness still having a small impact. It was faster than the engineer in deeper layers, but really spheres should be the main mining tool for the Assessor
• Assessor: slightly changed costs of some upgrades, 2 iron more or less

• Fixed stag shooting too much if hit by sword and stunned while walking
• Fixed some resources not getting revealed initially when picking up scanner from cave
• Fixed vignette not showing up for cobalt bomb, if you disable the vignette in the mine
• Fixed all worlds showing up in some cases, irrespective of unlocked ones

With Dome Keeper celebrating its one year anniversary, we really wanted to make something special. So instead of just adding a new dome, we decided to double up and add two! In this dev diary, we are going to take a deeper look at both the Artillery Dome and the Tesla Dome as well as the new Dome Supplement mechanic, all coming in the Double Dome update on October 5th! Like with the keepers, we want every dome to feel really different, to set them apart from each other and offer more variety in gameplay. The goal is to have them offer new challenges and make you as a player approach battle differently with each dome.

The Artillery Dome

The Tesla Dome

Dome Supplements

• Reduce melee damage (also buffed with this update)
• Reduce projectile damage
• Combat repair (also buffed with this update)
• Electrified hull that hurts melee monsters(basically thorn damage if you know you hack and slash games)
• Dome resurrection, where instead of being destroyed, the dome fully restores and even gains additional max health
• Scrap repair, with which you can repair your dome for iron, but lose max hp when doing this (max hp can be restored once)

The one year anniversary of Dome Keeper

[previewyoutube=nFH6JOWiXBU;full][/previewyoutube] Greetings, Keepers! We have received word from the Guild Council that another update is dropping soon. We are thrilled to announce that we have not one but TWO brand new domes coming your way on October 5th! No shade thrown on the Laser Dome or the Sword Dome, but isnt it about time we had more options? Well we agree, and thats why were excited to bring you two new domes: the Tesla Dome and the Artillery Dome. The Tesla Dome is equipped with powerful electrical abilities, and the Artillery Dome features a powerful mortar and an anti-airgun as well! Both offer new, exciting ways to deal with the attacking waves of monsters that threaten your dome. Were also introducing a major change in upgrades for your domes in the form of Dome Supplements! With this new mechanic, you can add new upgrades to your dome tech tree during your run. So instead of upgrade paths like Hardening being a fixed part of the laser dome, now you can make your choice freely among a bunch of similar supplemental upgrades Keep your eyes peeled for an upcoming dev diary soon, where we will go more in-depth on the new domes as well as the Dome Supplements system to come. In the meantime, come on in to the Bippinbits Dome Keeper Discord Server, its the number one place to discuss Dome Keeper and also a pretty nice place to hang out while we wait for the update to drop.

Hey there, Keepers! It is Gamescom week, and well be right there on site in Cologne, Germany, more specifically at the Indie Booth Arena. If you are there, make sure to come visit our booth to get a hands on look at split screen multiplayer! Yes, you read that right: multiplayer is coming for Dome Keeper. We cant yet say exactly when it will be ready to be released into the wild, but as you will be able to see in our booth at Gamescom, it is coming along really nicely. You will find us in Hall 10.2. Besides multiplayer, we also have something very special at our booth only: Drillbert plushies! We only have a very limited amount however, so we will require you to overcome a challenge to get one. For those of you at home that arent able to swing by, you can still get some Gamescom related Dome Keeper content. Well be part of a couple of livestreams over this week, the first one happening already tonight at 20:00 CEST! Make sure to tune in to the Awesome Indies Showcase to see Ren talk Dome Keeper at https://www.twitch.tv/gamescom.
Make sure to also check us out on Friday, when well be part of the Indie Arena Booth stream, at 12:45 CEST! You can watch the stream on the Gamescom twitch channel but also on the official Indie Arena Booth twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/indiearenabooth. Thats all for now! If youd like to follow our Gamescom experience AND chat with other great community members, wed love it if youd join the official Dome Keeper Discord server!

Hello, Keepers! Thank you for your reports around some issues with worlds in palettes. We have two bugs fixed with this patch that could cause you to play the same world over and over again, and also let you play worlds you didn't unlock yet. Please let us know if you see any other issues like that.

Changelog V2.6.2

• fixed worlds already showing up in relic hunt that you hadn't unlocked yet
• fixed getting stuck playing the same world and palette over and over again after some specific game loading situations
• if some mod content was used in the loadout screen and the mod was later unsubscribed to, it should revert to default options instead of showing an empty space now

Hello, Keepers! We have a small patch for you today with some tweaks and fixes for our latest update. Thank you everyone for your feedback and for reporting any bugs you find as you play!

Changelog V2.6.2

• Fixed achievement "Thorough" for mining map completely not triggering
• Fixed assessor not being able to pick up dropped gadgets inside dome
• Fixed music cycles being one-off
• Fixed prestige score hud showing 0 as total when multiplier was zero (for countdown)
• Fixed prestige score hud adding a plus sing in front of negative changes (like +-2 instead of -2)
• Fixed exploit around friendly mode
• Fixed some false positives of cheat detection in countdown mode
• Modding: updated mod loader to v6.1
• Modding: fixed existing upgrades appearing twice if they were changed through a mod
• Modding: better support for adding your own game modes
• Modding: whitelisted HelloWorld-RunLogger and Ste-Petmagotchi for prestige runs

Greetings, keepers! Its been just a bit over a week since we released the V2.6 Mod Support Update, and were thrilled to see how much you all have enjoyed it so far! Were grateful for all of the feedback weve received so far, its thanks to you all that we are able to continue making Dome Keeper as good as can be! And, we cant wait to see what sort of mods our amazing community will come up with going forward. We suspect that you might be interested in knowing a bit about what sort of content we have planned for the future of Dome Keeper, so lets dig into it!

Multiplayer

Double Dome

Far Future

Making more Dome Keeper

Soundtrack update

Thats all, for now

Greetings, Keepers!

Changelog V2.5.1

• fixed crash if drillbert mode was selected
• fixed issue where difficulty for prestige was taken from last relic hunt run, unless friendly mode was used
• fixed "shorten cycles" of Prestige mode also applying to how fast monsters spawn after each other

Greetings, Keepers! We have a brand new update for you today, officially adding mod support to Dome Keeper. Thats right: Steam Workshop support is IN! Weve also made some tweaks and improvements here and there, including adding a Friendly Mode variant of Prestige Mode. It was requested by the community from people who enjoy improving their score, but found the very high difficulty of Prestige mode too punishing. Friendly Mode comes with a lower difficulty for a less intense run, where you just compete against your own score and those of your friends who also play that mode. We hope youll enjoy it! A full changelog can be found further down in this post. Look at that mole man go!
Back to the topic of modding! We highly recommend that you head on over to Steam Workshop and check the Mole Man Keeper mod out, created by community members Ategon (music, art, code) and Leif (code). Its really well made coming with its own tech tree and OST, and just a lot of fun. You can easily see what a different concept it is - exactly the exciting things we hope to see more of with modding! A really neat way to transport resources in the Mole Man Keepermod!
If you like what they made, go on and join Ategons Discord server to keep up to speed with what hes working on (like his own game Vuladune)! Thats not all though! Bippinbits has two new team members: Raffa and Fio. Raffa already made a mod called the Hydra Launcher, which is a strong combat gadget that also looks fantastic, as you can expect from him. Hes already working on adding a mod for a new combat focussed mode, so stay tuned! HAIL HYDRA!
If you want to learn more about making mods yourself, head over to the Dome Keeper Wiki: https://dome-keeper.fandom.com/wiki/Mod_Developer_Guide We are working on the documentation and will be expanding it in the coming days. Raffa offered to provide full time mod maker support the coming week, so if you want to get into modding definitely come to our Discord and let him support you.

Changelog

• Added mod support via Steam Workshop
• Added "Friendly Mode" to Prestige. It is Prestige on a lower difficulty, where you can beat your own scores and those of your steam friends instead of competing globally
• Improved visuals for the Relic Hunt cables and hopefully solved all missing cable bugs
• Added themed cursor, which can be turned off in the options
• Improved Teleporter animation
• Improved Assessor icons
• Fixed some issues around monster movement, especially around drillers not slowing down or stopping on Repellent skills. Behaviour can be slightly different than before.
• Restructured title stage menu to make space for modding (and multiplayer eventually)
• Fixed Assessor spheres very rarely not pausing correctly
• Reverted bad Sword Dome shield battery graphics (will get new sprites eventually)
• Fixed assessor sphere explosion also running when paused
• Raised upper limit of maximum monsters per wave to 400 from 100
• Refactored the "shorten cycles" upgrade inPrestige, as it had various bugs and exploits
• Fixed Wither ability of Repellent making monsters permanently weaker if reloading while it is active
• Game will now save automatically only after a wave is beaten, not both before and after a wave
• Improved cheat detection, especially with false positives
• Fixed Assessor explosions having no sound upon reload
• Fixed Assessor explosions not pausing properly when game is paused

Greetings, Keepers!

Changelog V2.5.2

• added brightness slider and accessibility option to remove vignette effect when deep in the mine
• fixed cheat detection marking some legit runs as cheated
• fixed Assessor bug on Intel 620 graphic cards, where a lot of elements went invisible
• improved bundle decay effect, so it gets clearer when it runs out
• changed Pioneer Pack to Engineer Booster Pack with two new songs
• updated localisation. Thank you very much everyone who helped on crowdin, it's great work!

Hey, Keepers! If you haven't bought the Pioneer Pack yet, this is your sign to do so! We're adding 2 new songs to the pack on June 1st and we're also increasing the price to match the recently released Assessor Gear pack. (And yes, you get the songs even if you buy it before we adjust the price!) The Pioneer pack currently contains the Hardened Suit for the Engineer and the Vigilant Owl pet and, as mentioned, starting June 1st it'll also contain 2 new songs for the Engineer soundtrack. These packs are meant to be a way for our players to support continued development of Dome Keeper, while also getting some cool cosmetics (and music!) in return. Get the Pioneer Pack here: https://bit.ly/3MF3QgN

Greetings, Keepers!

Changelog V2.5.1

• Massively improved performance for the Assessor, especially for Mac and older hardware. There was a shader that was causing issues, and we replaced it with something more efficient.
• Resource distribution for iron and water is now close to what it was in v2.4. We reduced it a bit too much for v2.5, making the game harder unintentionally. Sorry about that!
• Mineral Tree won't have resources that you cannot pick up anymore
• Fixed so that cobalt cave does not generate for fixed cobalt mode
• Fixed some tutorial icons being offset
• Fixed missing translation of a shield upgrade

[previewyoutube=uK6H0eNJSu4;full][/previewyoutube] Greetings, Keepers! Today we bring you the Re-Assessor Update. In this update, we are giving the Assessor a complete rework that should make it a lot more fun to play, starting Season 4 of Prestige Mode as well as adding a new modifier to it and more! "Pro Mode" is a prestige mode modifier aimed towards those of you who are aiming to get the highest scores. It gives you the option to choose an order of caves and gadgets when starting a Prestige Run. This modifier unlocks when you get the achievement for winning a Prestige Mode run with a score of 1000 points or more. Alongside this patch we have also released a Booster Pack (containing a new suit for the Assessor, a brand new pet and two new Assessor songs for the soundtrack!) that you can purchase to support the continued development of Dome Keeper, so make sure to check that out! We are also making sure that Drillbert mode stays. We saw that you as a community really enjoyed it, so we decided to make it permanent! That means that you can now unlock Drillbert mode as you would any other type of modifier in Relic Hunt. Hooray! Read the full change list below!

Change list

• Got a complete rework to make it more fun and remove a lot of friction from the controls.
• Spheres are now shot by hitting the shoot key while moving into a direction, instead of holding it and aiming in a direction. This makes shooting feel much more fluent.
• Picking items up is now consistent in controls, being bound on the use key by default (as "using" often means "picking up" with gadgets and caves). The controls are automatically reset to this default, so please change as you like (but note that you should keep use and collect on the same key, ideally).
• Bundle is now the default mode of shooting resources. Ability to shoot single resources is gone. While it was fun, it was too unreliable and slightly redundant. To shoot a bundle, just move in a direction and press the shoot key.
• Rotational mining is gone. Instead you now push against the rock to remove it. This has the same gameplay, but you don't need a sphere to mine and it's less tedious.
• Assessor now has the option of 3 sphere abilities: reflect, split and explode
  • Reflection is now a stationary field that can be placed, instead of being an ability you have to time perfectly. While the old way was fun too, it didn't stay fun if you kept reflecting spheres for 2 hours.
  • Added sphere explosion ability, which lets spheres in your vicinity explode, removing a lot of rocks around them.
  • Reflect, split and explode each got one improvement upgrade in the tech tree.
• Rebalanced reload times, with a repeatable upgrade to get more spheres and a repeatable upgrade to extend the sphere lifetimes.
• Added a free pet and skin, in addition to the Assessor Gear Pack (which also has a pet and a skin.)
• Added 3 achievements for the new skills and updated the older ones.

• Started season 4.
• Added "Pro Mode". It's a prestige modifier aimed for the keepers competing for the highest scores. Until now they had to restart their runs often until they had their desired gadget and cave combination. To avoid this unproductive repetition, you can now choose an order of caves and gadgets when starting a run in pro mode. Pro Mode unlocks when getting the achievement of winning prestige with 1000 score points.
• All highscores can now be seen on the title screen. This panel can be hidden if it bothers you.
• Added upgrade to lower time until the next wave, to get rid of joyless waiting after you mined the whole map. Everything is sped up, including the converter, mineral tree and shield.

• Drillbert mode can now be unlocked as a regular run modifier!
• Reduced blast mining upgrade cost, increased last stage blast radius and lowered initial production time.
• Teleporter will now just stabilize instead of trying to float back to the position it was dropped at.
• Mineral Tree from the seed cave has changed root mechanics, which especially impacts prestige. Previously it was best to build a very sophisticated setup of connected cobalt for the tree to grow in. This was a ton of work and quite RNG dependent, which was no fun. Now the tree only grows roots within a radius of 3.5 tiles (fraction is important for diagonals) and can only grow one cobalt in total.
• Mineral tree now drops resources that are not picked up after a cycle. This way it can also work with lift or resource teleporter, and generally requires less attention.

• Added Catalan, Estonian, Slovakian, Hebrew and Filipino as community translated languages (incomplete right now - if you want to help translate Dome Keeper into your language: check out the link in the language selection panel in the options!). Please reach out if the fonts are not great, we need some help with it (ideally with a suggestion for two fonts, one being monospaced and the other not). Thank you to everyone who helped translate it! We will have support for Arabic once we can upgrade the engine from Godot 3 to Godot 4 this year.
• Added button to show all relevant previous tutorials in the pause menu
• Rebalanced cobalt distribution across all maps. Previously it was pretty much equally spaced out, but now it gets more sparse the deeper you go, to compensate for how your mining ability gets more powerful.
• Added different sky backgrounds per world when landing.
• Achievements are now checked upon startup, so if you have something unlocked/completed but are missing the achievement, it should automatically pop up on startup.
• Reworked relic bomb animation (the old skull is back!)
• Improved handling of the laser when using a gamepad. It should now respond more directly to the stick movements.

• Fixed teleporter looking deactivated after keeper teleports.
• Sword does not try to reflect rocks anymore.
• Driller is reachable by longest swords again.
• Improved shield hud visuals, with ability duration not hiding shield state.
• Very slightly changed timing on when scarab switches phases.
• Improved some UI sounds.

The Assessor is quite a powerful keeper - however, it seems that it just isnt that much fun to play. So we decided to rework the Assessor into something more enjoyable, so that they dont remain benched in your next Prestige run. Something that is very important to us for Dome Keeper is that every element in the game should be different in a meaningful way in comparison to already existing elements of the same type. For example: the laser dome. It shoots a laser beam! While we could just add another dome that moves a gun across its hull and shoots bullets, it would in essence really be the same thing. It might look different, but it would play the same and pose the same challenges when thinking about how to deal with the different monsters. The same is true when it comes to keepers. Keepers should differentiate themselves on three levels: how they move, how they mine, and how they carry things. When it comes to movement, the Assessor isnt really that different to the Engineer. Mining though is quite different. Instead of the drill, the Assessor uses Kinetic Spheres and these have two functions: the rotation mining where you destroy rocks by rotating the spheres in front of you, as well as the ability to bounce the spheres between tiles like pinballs.
The difference in mining technique forces you to think more strategically about how to mine. With the Engineer you could go in any direction without planning ahead, while with the Assessor you must first create the right environment for your spheres to be as effective as possible. Thats the fundamental idea of the Assessor: setting interesting constraints on the mining so you have to be smart on your approach. Carrying things is also quite different. When you pick things up as the Assessor they float around you in a sort of energy field, and then you can shoot these items out in the general direction of your dome. You can upgrade this ability to make the resources float together in bundles to shoot more items at a time but you cant upgrade your carrying capacity - which means that you really have to think about how to transport your resources back to the dome. While it worked on a mechanical level, this was in all honestly quite tedious and clumsy to play. It also ended up having a lot of unfun downtime. If you had shot your Kinetic Spheres, you were basically just waiting around for them to finish bouncing around as you didnt have any other way to mine in the meantime. In addition to that, the way you shot your resources back towards the dome wasnt quite accurate enough. Another important ability for the Assessor is the Sphere Reflection. It enables you to let the kinetic spheres bounce against your keeper, meaning you could in essence use that to mine in one specific direction. While very useful, the way it functioned was entirely timing based.You, as the player, had to hit a button at the exact right time for the sphere to bounce off of you, which made it a very tedious technique in the long run. All of this led to the Assessor not getting used much by you. We knew that the basic idea could work well, so it was clear that we had to make it much more fun to play!

Enter the Re-Assessor

We have news from the Guild Council for you, Keepers! It is our pleasure to announce that the 2.5 Re-Assessor Update is coming to Dome Keeper in the first week of May! So get ready to re-assess the Assessor. This update focuses first and foremost on improving gameplay for the Assessor. While the Assessor is a powerful keeper on paper, gameplay wise there has been a lot of room for improvement. Weve overhauled it completely, making it stronger and much more fluent and fun to play, while staying true to the original idea and what was interesting about it. More on that in an upcoming dev blog purely focused on this topic! This update will also feature a new Prestige Mode variant for those of you who enjoy the challenge: Prestige Pro Mode. Once youve gotten the High Score Achievement, Prestige Pro Mode gets unlocked. Prestige Pro Mode is not its own mode, but provides more options to your prestige runs. You can choose a preset order of gadgets that you'll encounter and caves, so you never have to restart your runs because you didnt meet the caves or gadgets you wanted.
No more hoping for the seed cave, decide your own future! The best of you also had the luxury problem of having the mine completely dug out and then waiting for monsters for 20 cycles. To eliminate this idle time, you also get access to an additional upgrade that lowers the cycle length in steps, down to a few seconds. This should make the waiting time in between waves disappear, if you like. Oh, and speaking of Prestige Mode, with this patch were also starting season 4!
Making the monsters angry. In addition to the Assessor rework and Prestige Mode Pro, we are of course also including various other fixes and tweaks like for example having the Leaderboards accessible right from the title screen and the skies being different in the landing intro depending on which world you are in. We are also adding a way to revisit all past tutorial popups, something that was requested a lot. A full list of patch notes will as usual be available once the update is rolled out. We are also releasing a purchasable Booster Pack alongside this update. The Assessor Gear Pack contains a new suit for the Assessor as well as a brand new pet(!) and 2 new Assessor songs. Purchasing this pack helps support Dome Keeper development, and adds no new gameplay features. The pack will cost 2.99, and you can wishlist it here. In addition to the pack, there will also be a new Assessor suit and pet for everyone, for free! Until then, come on in to the Bippinbits Dome Keeper Discord Server, its the best place to discuss Dome Keeper and a pretty nice place to hang out while we wait for the update to drop.

[previewyoutube=BnEDbFnOAOM;full][/previewyoutube] Greetings from the Dome, Keepers! Today we have a very special treat for you: Drillbert mode! In this brand new game mode, you will start equipped with one Drillbert and blast mining, with the possibility of getting more Drillberts as you go. You unlock this game mode by. Um, sorry but I cant seem to find in my notes how to unlock it. Oh well, youre a clever bunch. Im sure youll figure it out. Maybe ask Drillberts mom? Her name's Madrillda, by the way... Youd better hurry up though, word has it that Drillbert Mode is only around for a limited time. More about Drillbert mode:

• You start with one Drillbert and the possibility to get plenty more
• You will not be able to upgrade any mining abilities
• You start with Blast Mining to help set up the right structures for your Drillbert friends to do their work

Greetings, Keepers!

Changelog V2.4.3

• Run modifiers for Relic Hunt will now unlock one by one. Each time you win Relic Hunt and have two or less other new things unlocked, a run modifier will unlock too
• Double Iron Mode now gives a bit more iron and also more water
• Fixed countdown variant in prestige not always being unlocked by default
• Flames in the Blast Mining station now show up in an exponential time, which gives better feedback as to when the next bomb is ready
• Relic bomb will now again kill monsters that are not actually hittable
• Fixed prestige showing nan when the score is negative
• Mouse is now fully functional for choosing a gadget

Hello Keepers

Changelog v2.4.2

• fixed repellent delay achievement not triggering
• fixed crash when assessor shoots bundle into resource teleporting teleporter
• fixed drillbert sometimes staying scared after wave was over
• implemented limit on number of times a repeatable upgrade can be bought. This is set now for the Spire upgrade that would eventually become a negative.
• not showing lock icon for upgrades that have multiple predecessors, but only need one to unlock. A bit cleaner this way.
• fixed autoheal crashing the game when playing fixed cobalt
• added sound to auto heal and impact recuperation
• not spawning punisher monsters in automation mode anymore

Have fun :)

Hello Keepers

Changelog Hotfix v2.4.1

• fixed cheat detection marking runs on fixed cobalt cheated if they lasted above 20 cycles
• fixed time between waves not being correctly influenced by difficulty
• fixed diver not dying when hit with repellent's toxic fumes
• fixed maze and long cycles not working together
• added back strong repair for fixed cobalt mode, was missing by accident (50% heal instead of 15%)
• implemented workaround to fix invisible relic switch chambers (long standing rare bug) that prevented finished a relic hunt run
• spire burst now has 6s recharge time instead of 8s

Have fun :)

Greetings Keepers! Update 2.4 is HERE, and it is packed with goodies for all of your domekeeping needs! The free 2.4 Springloaded update brings three completely new gadgets to add to your arsenal: the Spire, the Autocannon and the Prospection Meter as well as multiple reworks and updates to existing ones. On top of that, the update introduces tons of new quality of life and game balance improvements to the game. Dome keeping has never felt so good before, thats a promise! [previewyoutube=azE1zlQhevI;full][/previewyoutube] Weve been teasing that update for a long enough time in our previous posts, so well cut to the chase: you will find below the full patch notes to get all the details on everything new featured in the 2.4 Springloaded update:

Changelog v2.4

• Added a defensive gadget called Spire, which can deal well with monster projectiles
• Added an offensive gadget called Autocannon, which behaves like the stun laser but is all about dealing damage
• Added a mining gadget called Prospection Meter, which displays the distance to the nearest resources
• Probe can now detect caves and chambers
• All primary gadgets got rebalanced, especially their battle abilities
  • Orchard shield and roots now persist between waves
  • Shield got more hp and reflection and electro blast got big buffs
  • Repellent wither now does not flat out reduce HP from all monsters, but makes monsters take much more damage while it lasts
• Drillbert and Drilliam are now much better at drilling and the upgrade branch is now changed slightly
• Added an upgrade for Drillbert which shows you the direction to Drillbert, when carrying a treat
• Drillbert is now scared when monsters come instead of going to sleep, to better show the difference between the two states
• Added slot visualisation for gadgets, so that you can see where each gadget goes upfront. You usually can only use one gadget per slot (so no stun laser and auto cannon together)
• Added an upgrade to the Teleporter, to be able to teleport with a lot of carryables (like blast mines or Drillbert treats)
• Rebalanced converter upgrades and conversions to offer more useful options
• Reworked and improved the stun laser with a lot of new upgrades. Removed the damage option as this is now Autocannons job
• lift orbs now always cost 1 water and 1 iron, and never increase in cost

• Added two new run modifiers: HUD and Automation
• Countdown is now the default mode for prestige. The old standard mode is now called endless.
• Changed prestige difficulty to not take collected resources or gadgets into account at all
• Rebalanced relic hunt difficulty slightly, so amount of collected resources factors in less
• Cobalt upgrades now increase in cost in prestige countdown, so that it wont stretch the run for too long

• Added additional stab damage to most of the sword blade upgrades, so upgrading the blade has a stronger positive impact on the stab
• Improved Javelin visuals and feel
• Increased Javelin damage
• Buffed impact recuperation
• Increased slice damage for all blade upgrades
• Increased base health and additional health points from upgrades

• Domes now have an auto heal upgrade, that will heal the dome if it is about to be destroyed but you still have cobalt
• Domes now have a wave warner upgrade, that will let you know when its about time to head back to the dome because a wave approaches
• Domes now have an upgrade that shows you the shortest way back to the dome. The shortest might not always be the fastest, but you cant get lost this way
• Added telemetry, which helps us balance the game and focus on the things that will improve it the most. Telemetry means capturing some in-game events and sending them to us, so we can better understand how you play. For example, we can see how often each upgrade is bought, and thus can buff upgrades that are rarely used
• Added the option to manually choose gamepad icons in-menu (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo). Controllers are often detected as generic devices, so your operating system cannot detect that it is a PS4 controller, for example - and thus not automatically pick the right icons

• To avoid unwanted relic bomb triggers in relic hunt, it will will only launch when hp reaches zero, and wont trigger if auto repair can still happen
• Fixed enemies staying stunned for the whole duration of repellents slowdown abilities, after going into full stun once
• Fixed scarab sometimes surviving the relic bomb like a badass
• Fixed worm rock not properly being removed after being blocked with sword
• Fixed key hints for use key binding always showing E, irrespective of actual binding
• Fixed some glyphs not updating to changed keybindings without reloading the game
• Fixed numbers in tech tree being unpleasantly offset for languages with non-western fonts
• Added more stats to the leaderboard submission to help with cheat detection
• Fixed scanner cave not revealing first biome
• Gadget drop will not get resources stuck anymore, if you deliver it to the dome with a lot of resources
• Fixed gadget chamber not opening after reload, if game was saved while it was opening
• Fixed big tick not properly playing its explosion sound when hitting the dome
• Fixed Drillbert treat turning invisible when Drilliam is unlocked
• Orchard shield now dissolves when dome is destroyed
• Invulnerable monsters will not be affected by any stun or damage ability (caused various issues like big ticks being invulnerable because they were stunned underground by repellents paralysis)
• For shield, fixed additional battle ability duration not being added after overcharging but depleting the overcharge part of the shield
• Fixed shield gadget reflection ability not catching some projectiles reliably
• Fixed beast animation getting messed up when stunned while jumping onto the dome
• Critter worms will now vanish if their tile is destroyed
• Tree seeds will also grow if they were about to root on a tile that then gets destroyed
• Probe impulse and marker now properly react to game pause and persists in the game save
• Fixed the big input icon in the pause menu not immediately switching, if input method was changed
• Drillbert treat will now better catch up with Drillbert, if hes speeding past it
• Fixed language select panel in some locales never setting focus to language buttons, being unable to switch the language without the mouse
• Fixed repeatable upgrades not marking resource cost as red, when it would be too expensive
• Fixed save getting broken if saving after sword dome impact recuperation triggered
• Fixed gadget choice popup sometimes staying outside of screen, if multiple gadgets are brought to the dome simultaneously
• Fixed pet duplicating on reload when one hatched from an egg and one was brought with you
• Triggers can now be properly bound to actions
• Fixed faulty animation of diver when it hits the dome while the dome is invulnerable
• Fixed sword pad still reflecting projectiles after dome got destroyed
• Fixed shield hud not updating battle ability display when wave ends

• Slightly better carry capability of engineers first carry upgrade
• Orchard now shows additional battle ability use from overcharge in HUD too
• Reduced driller damage by 20%
• Slightly reduced lasers stun capability
• Last health upgrade of laser dome increases health less, but is also cheaper

The Guild Council is excited to announce that the 2.4 Springloaded Update is in final testing and will roll out for all Keepers on Tuesday, March 7th. Along with the new gadgets and improvements revealed in our earlier posts, weve got one more thing to share. With a couple big changes, this update brings us to Prestige Mode season 3! To start with, Countdown becomes the default mode, and the old standard mode has been renamed Endless. This makes prestige points a relevant resource sink from the start. We aim for Prestige to be a fundamentally different experience from Relic Hunt. In the current model, players mined to max upgrades first as they would in Relic Hunt and then go for prestige points. This also led to high scores being a function of endurance for runs lasting several hours. Countdown generates tough decisions on resource spending and risk taking to get a better score.
We also removed collected resources and gadgets contributing to the difficulty in prestige. For a competitive mode, this was not having the intended effect. Starting with Season 3, difficulty scales up solely on the passed number of waves. We are excited to see the impact on the meta from this change combined with the new gadgets and other rebalancing steps. We will know it is working if we see more than repellent with wither on every top score. Good player telemetry information will be super valuable to improve the balancing across the board, be it upgrade costs, monster strengths or battle abilities. Weve had a great time working on this update, and by that, I mean playing it on the daily. There are also a lot of little touches in there we think you will appreciate. We hope you enjoy it too. Now back to work, where we are already into development on the next update.

Greetings Keepers, Fresh reports have arrived from the final stages of preparation for the Springloaded update! Details include revised info on several existing gadgets and notes that the R&D team also put their time into engineering a number of exciting Dome and device updates. The Guild put together the following brief to help in preparation for the coming new deployments:

Gadgets

All Domes

• Adaptive Wave Warner
• Auto Repair
• Exit Route

Sword Dome

We Need You

With gadgets set to star in the free Springloaded Update - oh, had we mentioned that it will be free? Yeah, it is :) Anyway, this makes the perfect time for a deeper look at gadgets in the design of Dome Keeper. Gadgets add variety to Keeper strategies. The primary gadget selected at loadout sets up a major element of the run ahead. Secondary gadgets found in the mines open up new tactics in the middle of the game. These offer interesting options affecting offense, defense, transportation, and information. When designing gadgets, we look for creative ideas that boost one of these areas, or create a whole new way of thinking about it. New gadgets also need to be unique. They need to give players a whole new dynamic to play right in the middle of a run. Starting with the Springloaded update, Keepers will be able to find three new gadgets buried beneath their domes.

The Autocannon

The Prospecting meter

The Spire

Incoming reports from scouts point to changes for gadgets on upcoming deployments! The Guild R&D department has given the codename Spring Loaded Gadgets to this information. Readings from Dome sites beyond the next update show advancements to the known existing gadgets and three devices never seen before now. Two gadgets are unlike anything we have in the current catalog, and the third at first got misidentified as the stun laser. A closer examination of the readings showed they are not consistent with that gadget - it must also be something new. Additional data and analysis is needed. Along with these exciting discoveries, evidence of improved versions of existing gadgets is being evaluated now. It seems the R&D team has also been working on a number of improvements to the standard gadgets as well as other core Dome components. This preliminary report is only the beginning - please await further updates as we continue to collect more information and research.

Happy Base Building Fest, Keepers! We celebrate the joy and happiness of setting up a solid base and protective dome with 25% off! We are counting on you veteran Keepers who have survived and thrived on the frontier to support the aspiring new Keepers joining every day now might be a good time to share some of the accumulated knowledge! Play the game however you want, if you happen to face difficulties; here are some tips from the Guild to get you started:

• Use your first few runs to get the hang of it and earn some unlocks. Get to know the tools at your disposal and then move on to bigger maps and higher difficulties. With that suggestion in mind, let's look at some of the considerations Keepers face on their runs.
• Use the pre-drop choices of dome and primary gadget to suit the way you like to play. Sure, experienced Keepers love to argue about the best loadouts. That doesn't necessarily make them your favorite. The Guild works day in and day out to make sure that every combination offers a good way for a Keeper to work their run the way they want to.
• Once on the surface, things start to happen pretty quickly. After the first level of resource gathering and basic defense upgrades, plans tend to change on the fly. Don't overlook the active combat ability of your primary gadget. It can come in handy during almost any attack wave.
• Secondary gadgets, found through digging, add another layer to the strategic choices a Keeper must make. They provide support for specific aspects of dome management. This gives you flexibility based on what you find. For example, get the Elevator and consider whether its resource transport function will allow you to upgrade other areas before taking the increased carrying capacity.
• You never know what combination of resources, gadgets and caves you'll find on each run. Finding the path to success is what Keepers do. Before you know it, you'll be facing challenging scenarios and coming back to discuss the finer points of dome building.

Greetings Keepers

Changelog v2.3

• fixed monsters not getting hit by laser, if there is a projectile between monster and laser
• fixed destroyed projectiles still catching the laser, allowing projectiles behind it to pass through
• scarab won't flash white when invulnerable and hit
• fixed squidley getting stuck when trying to carry off a resource that is in the lift, but pushed onto an impassable ceiling

Have fun :)

Greetings Keepers

Changelog v2.3

• toned down the stag - 1000hp -> 800hp - 10 dmg air projectile -> 8 dmg air projectile - 100 dmg ground projectile -> 80 dmg ground projectile
• toned down the scarab - 1200hp -> 1000hp - 40 dmg -> 25 dmg - only goes invincible once
• increased sword dome health by 25%
• reworked the Javelin. The sword now reappears immediately after shooting, and you are never blocked from moving the pad after shooting. The tradeoff is you can no longer control the Javelin in flight. To keep the timing, the charging does take slightly longer. To improve feedback on charging being finished, it no longer charges linearly and ends with a sound and animation.
• buffed sword fast stab damage across all upgrades
• fixed orchard shield not actually protecting from stag and scarab projectiles
• orchard shield now also blocks worm rocks
• tree seed won't grow on indestructible tiles anymore
• halfed the cost increase of buying lift orbs repeatably
• fixed gadget duplication exploit via saving and reloading in the right moment
• fixed crash when switching between some audio devices
• fixed rare crash when reloading save and the squidley cave has been found
• fixed stag and scarab projectiles not getting reflected by sword dome
• increased damage and size of explosion of projectiles that got reflected by sword dome
• fixed scarab getting stuck outside of screen
• improved the timing of the scarab losing its arms
• fixed stun laser sometimes not targetting stag
• fixed stun laser sometimes wobbling in place instead of targetting an enemy

Hey, Keepers! It's been an amazing 3 months since the first Dome dropped. We've seen over 300,000 Keepers make planetfall, retrieve countless relics and set some really impressive high scores. Plus, your masterful skills have been seen by more than 4.3 Million Twitch viewers, watching 3 Million hours of Dome Keeper. Incredible! Your enthusiasm has been inspiring, and given us more energy than ever. We've released the Assessor Keeper, Caves & Critters, and Hard Pressed updates, and more. Thanks to you, this is just the beginning! We've got big plans for 2023 to turn our hopes and dreams into reality.
Were planning various and multiple types of content, gameplay additions, and tweak/balancing updates in various sizes, from smaller to epic ones. Well go into more detail about upcoming updates next year, however, wed like to celebrate 2023 by teasing our first epic project for 2023: Multiplayer! Yes, we know you've been asking for it and we're committed to making it happen. It's a huge project - the goal is to include both co-op and versus modes. To make sure we deliver a great experience well need your input along the way. Itll take awhile, and well have lots more to share along the way. For now, we're taking a few days off to enjoy this special moment and get ready for the amazing year ahead.

This is it, Keepers. Voting in the Steam Awards is now open and we hope you will cast a vote for Dome Keeper for Most Innovative Gameplay. We are still completely over the moon to be one of the five nominees. Your support means so much to us. Dare we hope to take home the Award? A Keeper can dream. In our excitement we thought, how else can we celebrate? Someone mentioned the Winter Sale so we decided to go for a 30% off offer. You, the community made this all happen and we have really awesome plans for the year ahead more on that soon. [previewyoutube=EIMuS6_ZW-8;full][/previewyoutube] It's always more fun to share good times. So invite a friend to join the Keeper ranks on this epic journey. Were gonna need everyone of them. These Domes wont keep themselves.

Check your inventory, Keepers! Weve created presents to add to your holiday cheer. Trading Cards, Badges, Emoticons, and Backgrounds. If youve played, you will likely find you already have a card or two (or more, up to 5). Play the game and trade to build out a full collection to proudly represent for the Keepers Guild wherever you go around Steam.
Again, thank you for your nominations to the steam awards. Here are some community items to celebrate the occasion!

When we got the news from Steam it took a minute to sink in. Your game has been nominated for a Steam Award! - Most Innovative Gameplay. Its a moment we wont forget. And lets be honest, its really ours together because this all comes from your support and recognition of the game. We are truly humbled and honored. [previewyoutube=8NHergfsj7w;full][/previewyoutube] From the early times on Discord, through play tests, to meeting you at game events, and to the many enthusiastic pieces of feedback today, your involvement makes Dome Keeper the game it is. Your enthusiasm and inspiration fuel our search for and experimentation with innovations to create the game experiences that make Dome Keeper really fun, and the results start the circle over again. We are grateful for this Keeper community, look forward to adding to its ranks, and seeing where we go together. We look forward to sharing our plans as we have so much more in the works.

Changelog 2.2.14

• Stag and Scarab projectiles no longer explode mid-air when pausing game
• Stag fires single projectile with combined damage amount instead of two separate ones, visuals slightly improved
• Adjusted final wave balance to be more viable on smaller runs, and slightly increased time between monsters
• Fixed Miner mode not displaying if Miner mode was the only unlocked Prestige mode variation

Keepers! Your growing skills look ready to take on greater challenges. So they shall be put to the test. Extended runs have taken Keepers to ever greater depths. This has not gone unnoticed by the denizens of the planets. Even their strongest attacks have needed somethingmore menacing. [previewyoutube=P0h1ckmPsOs;full][/previewyoutube] Consider this an alert from the Guild. We have identified two new monsters coming and they are unlike any seen before. Look for new forms of attack from these menaces and be well prepared to bring down these formidable opponents.
With the tuning since launch and addition of the menaces, the time has come to archive the scoreboards and conclude Season 1. Today, Season 2 begins with a fresh set of leaderboards, including the new Mining variant. We also moved Prestige mode to its own unique world. There are no relics to hunt here, only the challenges of becoming the best Keeper you can. In addition, we created a new unlockable Miner variant for Prestige to help Keepers hone their mining skills. This option offers a simulation without enemy attacks to allow time for experimentation with techniques. To keep the sense of time, the wave timer will run with the prestige score banking at the end of each cycle. After 20 rounds, the simulation ends. How high will the best Keepers score? Wait, there's more...next week! Fun things, big news, and after the Guild Council planning meeting last week, exciting updates on things to come in the year ahead. Happy Keeping! - the Council

Changelog v2.2

• added two very strong, late game monsters: the stag and the scarab
• added a new prestige mode variation named "Miner", where you dig for 20 cycles without monsters
• added a new world that is exclusive to prestige
• added seasons to leaderboard. We had so many changes to balance already, and with the new monsters we start season 2. Season 1 scores are still visible in the leaderboard an via steam
• improved map generation, so that resource distribution is closer to what it was before the last change especially for prestige mode
• fixed rat animation when he's stuck in a corner
• stingray will now fly at lower heights, to differentiate more from flyer
• improved stingray death sound
• showing friends highscores in prestige by default, but remembering your last choice

Dome life gives Keepers their own unique perspective on the worlds theyve seen. Their PDAs and notepads filled with sketches can be found around most every Dome. The Guild has seen some pretty fine work pinned up around the walls and figures this holiday, as part of Rawcember, let's celebrate the art these Keepers create. Starting now and running through 12 December were inviting Keepers to share their Dome Keeper art with us as a reply in this Twitter thread this Twitter thread. Then on 13 December we will select 10 entries to receive a copy of Dome Keeper ready to gift to a friend and a special Discord role as Fan Art Fest 2022 Winner. Winning entries will capture the best look and/or references of Dome Keeper, decided by a jury of people from the game team. Beyond that, the format is anything that your creative vision desires. Please see Raw Fury General Competition Terms and Conditions for details on this information.

Greetings Keepers

Changelog v2.1.17

• fixed crash when scanner cave was used while drop was still being placed into socket
• added new intro monsters getting landed on
• fixed worm spawning outside of map
• fixed shield overcharge being white. It's now back to the way it was before.
• fix lag spike when fog in the overworld would spawn

Greetings Keepers

Changelog v2.1

• fixed crash when squid picked up bundled resource
• fixed wave timer not running on reloading game
• never switching to mouse and keyboard controls, when playing on Steam Deck
• fixed drone cave turning into a rock tile after reloading the savegame twice
• fixed squids moving into rock and sometimes getting stuck, when the scanner cave was activated before

One of our favorite parts of being a Keeper comes from that moment while digging when the next piece of buried treasure becomes visible. It could be that sigh of relief from a cobalt deposit to make dome-saving repairs. Then there are the unknown gadgets and the anticipation bringing them back to see what we have found. And then there are caves. Their unexpected rewards add another incentive to mine one more block because who knows what might be there. Caves hold so many fun opportunities (well, at least only fun ones for nowmuhahaha) that we figured, hey, lets mix it up and add some more fun things to the game. Now, you might ask, wait, why not make these new gadgets? Gadgets have multiple elements to them that can be developed in unique ways in the tech tree. This also makes them figure into your resource use decisions. Caves, on the other hand, are a power up (note to us, quad damage cavemmm!). When you discover a cave, you get its reward and that instantly becomes part of your moment-to-moment play, while not changing the upgrade path youre on. [previewyoutube=B7jI8zTL280;full][/previewyoutube] So, yeah, four new caves are waiting to be discovered. With the new caves you can

• make tunnels in all directions
• expand your vision
• improve your bedrock scanner to see beyond
• unleash a caged squid

Changelog v2.1

• added 4 new caves
• added critters, small creatures roaming the mines. They can be disabled via options.
• shield can now be overcharged during battle
• changed how double laser affects movement speed and damage
• improved Assessor movement
• smaller Assessor rebalances: spheres reload a bit faster, some upgrades are a bit cheaper, re-arranged some upgrades to access sphere split earlier. Deeper changes will come in a later update, thank you for all the feedback!
• improved all icons for Assessor
• Assessor now always shoots at full force
• Assessor can now pick up things from caves with the pickup button. Not ideal yet, but slightly more consistent.
• translated thousands of words across many languages
• fixed dome sometimes being destroyed before invulnerability on shield depletion was able to take effect
• shield hud now also shows overcharge status and ability duration
• fixed last bomb upgrade for sword long stab not having an effect
• divers will now spawn again
• fixed butterflies only coming from the left side
• improved all monster energy projectile sprites
• improved resource distribution in maps slightly, in preparation of bigger maps

Keepers! Thank you for all your support, ideas, feedback, and camaraderie as part of the Keepers Guild. While we are hard at work developing new content for the game, there is something only you can help with - The Steam Awards. We are hoping you will nominate us for

Most Innovative Gameplay

Hey Keepers!

Wave Designer

Snippets

Do we even need snippets?

The Bug

Fixed

v2.0.15

• fixed monsters of the same type only coming from the same direction within a wave.
• less lopsided waves - some of it is ok and interesting, but it's a bit less random now
• divers will spawn again
• fixed rare crash when starting a new game or loading an old save

That's right, Keepers, Dome Keeper is now 20% off for the Midweek Madness sale! Have you been waiting to get digging? Then here's your time to get going! With our new Assessor Update, there's even more new content for you to enjoy. Now's the time to dig, survive and be kind to Drillbert; he needs his rest. [previewyoutube=5ceaxt_jgX8;full][/previewyoutube]

Dome Improvement: Meet the Assessor!

Greetings, Keepers!

Self assessor-ment

Jeepers Keepers

Changelog

• - added the Assessor, a new keeper based around control of gravity. Also comes with a completely new OST and 4 Achievements.
• added a new monster, the Stingray. It's a lowest tier flying monster, bringing a bit of variety early on, replacing the flyer in some worlds.
• improved sprites for Rockman
• buffed orchard: - Root explosion deals a fixed, high amount of damage. - Fruit buff upgrades are much cheaper. - Shield last for much longer and is a bit cheaper.
• more community translated languages now available
• reworked sword impact recurperation and added visual effect for when it's active. It will now activate during the battle, as soon as the damage threshold is reached.
• added alternative tooltips for other controller types than xbox. Automatic detection should work for Playstation and Switch Pro controller.
• improved sprites for keepers in loadout screen
• added option to set how often music plays
• improved colors of orchard fruit in HUD, for better readability towards the end
• improved animations for unlockable screen
• improved some worm and sword sounds
• wave counter and inventory now cost 1 water

Dome Improvement: Gadgets Galore
Although we've already spent time talking about the primary gadgets you'll encounter in Dome Keeper, how about a little more information about the other gizmos and gadgets you'll come across, too? Sure, you get to choose your primary gadget before you kick off each new Dome Keeper run, but there's also an incredible smorgasbord of tools and gadgets hidden in the rocks below your dome. Here's a rundown of some of the types of gadgets you may find, and what benefits they bring Inspect-our Gadgets As well as the minerals and resources your Keeper needs to make upgrades and keep your dome in tip-top condition, beneath the surface you'll uncover secret chambers that contain helpful little gadgets, too. Bring one back to your dome, and you'll get a choice: select one of two randomized gadgets, or sacrifice it for two extra cobalt pieces and what you choose can make a big difference to your run! Take Blast Mining, for instance. Drag it - or fling it! - to your preferred spot and it'll detonate, instantly excavating an area and saving you a lot of time. Alternatively, you can upgrade it so it digs out a long tunnel instead of a small square.
How about a Lift that sounds handy, right? Set one up, gather your resources, and you'll be able to send them back to the dome, giving you extra precious time to keep digging whilst the elevator does the heavy lifting literally! A Teleporter, on the other hand, enables you to move quickly back and forth between the mine and the dome, cutting down your traveling time which - let's face it - can be the difference between life and death in Dome Keeper! What's that? You'd rather send back resources and fly home the scenic route? Well, you can do that, too, via an upgrade available in the Teleporter's tech tree for that matter, every found gadget has its own upgrade pathways, too.
That's not all, though! We have a Condenser - a nifty machine that auto-magically generates water, which can be used to overcharge your primary gadget - and a Converter, which does exactly what it says on the tin and lets you convert excess materials, which is particularly useful if you're running low on one resource but have more than you need of another. There's even a Probe that sends out an electronic impulse to show you exactly where nearby resources are hiding, saving your Keeper time and effort and ensuring your digging pattern is much more targeted. Last but definitely not least: have you met Drillbert? He's your super cute dino pal who loves to dig and will scratch away wherever you place him, leaving you free to drill someplace else, essentially doubling your chances of unearthing something valuable. When he hits a dead-end he'll take a brief nap until you reposition him. You may even discover that he'll dig a little faster if a tasty treat or two is up for grabs!
Because each tech tree offers plentiful pathways and branches to upgrade your gadget, there are many, many ways to customize your gadgets, with every branch specially designed to address a particular aspect of the game: traveling time, resource management, getting materials back to the dome, and so on. Use them together, though in synergy and you'll open all kinds of neat shortcuts and ideas, making every run feel fresh and rewarding. Make sure you're following Dome Keeper on Twitter or join our Discord and tell us all about your favorite gadgets, including your wishlist for the future! And don't forget: Dome Keeper is out now! Until the next one, Keepers - Dome Sweet Dome!

Greetings Keepers

Keepers! To celebrate the MIX showcase, we thought we'd share with you our beautiful accolades trailer! We super appreciate all the kind words [previewyoutube=5ceaxt_jgX8;full][/previewyoutube] If you haven't picked up Dome Keeper yet, now's the time! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/

Hey Keepers!

v1.5.17

• fixed movement with gamepad stick slowing down unpredicatably. There were some other quirks around movement speed, but now it should all be fine.
• skeleton cave won't spawn in Prestige anymore. Unlocks like worlds, difficulties, pets or modifiers are not available for prestige, so generating the cave in Prestige was misleading.
• fixed skin selection not properly remembering last used skin
• small balancing change of laser strength 3 with double laser. Combination was OP and probably still is, so the total damage and stun is reduced a bit.

Keepers, it's spooky season!

• Skeleton Suit
• Spooky Underground
• Flaming Skull Pet

• Added a pet, a new cave, and decorations for Halloween. Only available until the 13th of November, but unlock permanently if you get it now. You can disable seasonal content via options if you prefer "vanilla".
• Fixed pet and egg not saving properly
• Improved many sounds
• Gamepad bindings now also got alternative key bindings and the axis can also be bound (stick or trigger)
• Laser strength 3 and double laser are not mutually exclusive anymore
• Pets don't duplicate on reload anymore
• Skin unlocks are now also listed when showing what was unlocked this run
• Fixed keeper slowing down when moving the stick and then pressing and releasing d-pad in the same direction
• Fixed prestige maps just stop at a fixed depth, instead of fading out naturally
• Fixed double iron modifier not being remembered to be selected previously
• Fixed lift not going through the middle of indestructible parts where there was no border tile
• Added animation for sword dome in the loadout screen. Also added a dummy monster to show the sword's impact better.
• Shield reflection stage 2 from 2s to 3s
• Sword fast stab 2 adds 20 instead of 10 damage to the stab
• Sword stab cooldown change for bomb upgrade goes from +3s to +1s
• Sword stab last bomb upgrade now has 3 charges instead of 2
• Sword javelin upgrade adds 40 damage instead of 50
• Orchard roots now spawn 6 and 12 roots, instead of 4 and 8. Additionally, it lasts for 12s and 24s, instead of 10s and 20s. This is only a small step, orchard needs some more serious buffs or additions.
• Removed empty Drillbert upgrade

Hey Keepers!

v41.5

• fixed some tiles being indestructible, that should not be. This affected resources sometimes beind inside in border tiles, but also unreachable chambers.
• lift can now pass through indestructible terrain, so should be viable on all maps
• fixed laser sound playing permanently in some cases
• added option to detect used gamepad automatically. If you got problems with a gamepad, try changing this setting.
• repeatable drill upgrade of the engineer is now much stronger, going from a 50% to a 120% increase
• fixed long probe marker retention being overwritten if purchasing an upgrade with shorter retention
• reduced probe auto recharge time from 0.8 to 0.5 cycles
• disabled HDR, so there should not be any effect on monitor brightness anymore
• orchard root now pauses properly
• exploit of reloading the game to "roll" higher yields from tiles should not work anymore
• fixed a "fixed cobalt" run causing that no cobalt would spawn in next run
• reduced amount of very hard and very soft rock a bit (effectively lowered the increase from last patch to 50%)
• fixed all "fixed cobalt" runs markes as cheated, if the cobalt multiplier was bought
• removed some false positives from the cheat detection

Hello Keepers!

v41.4.11

• fixed cheat detection having a lot of false positives. Old highscores might be gone now, as they falsely got flagged as cheated. This will be a thing we continuously improve, so more and more cheat/exploit runs are caught. We also clean the leaderboards from time to time.
• added "double iron" run modifier for relic hunt as a challenge to your logistic setup. It doubles both the iron cost of upgrades as well as the iron amount found underground.
• automatically switching to larger font sizes, when playing on steam deck
• fixed big ticks going into a state of being stunned and invincible, when caught in an orchard root while burrowing
• fixed stun laser trying to rotate underneath the dome
• fixed maze and long cycle modifier being incomptible
• memory upgrade of probe is now not exclusive to the other higher tier upgrades
• changed condenser code slightly, possible fixing an issue with it stopping production
• possibly fixed teleporter teleporting to the same place where it started
• pet will now not wildly jump positions if out of sight
• controller vibration will now only happen if controller is actually used
• fixed orchard and repellent charging up in the initial grace period, where no monsters spawn
• reduced number of monsters that can be on screen at the same time, more so for hardest difficulty
• punishers are much more effective now, and won't trigger when not intended
• fixed controller not vibrating, if any given vibration would go over 100%
• focus continue button in main menu, if it is available
• increased the density spread, so more tiles belong to the extreme hardness stages
• increased difference between hardness 2 and 3, raised hardness 5 a bit and lowered progression between biomes slightly
• fixed map being cut off when zoomed out in 16:10
• changed font for hungarian
• prestige scores of 0 won't be uploaded anymore
• fixed mode button not switching correctly to the button left of it, for some languages
• reduced drillbert drill upgrade costs a bit

Keeper Friends, Introducing an upcoming new addition to your Keeper options, The Assessor. Their distinctive helmet and protective cloak provide more than good fashion. Each is part of the cutting-edge technology the Assessor employs for elegant operations. They dont need to get their hands dirty, there are far more advanced ways to perform the work.
An experimental energy field generator developed by the science branch of the Keepers Guild provides their power. Able to bend the very gravity around them, the Assessor effortlessly glides through the world around them without the need for a cumbersome jetpack. That energy holds mining applications as well. Focused into a powerful orb, it packs the ability to tear apart rocks. By launching the orb, its force becomes unstable and grows more powerful, ripping apart the surfaces it hits. Each rapid impact amplifies the effect, enabling rapid excavation in tight spaces. To collect resources the Assessor reverses the polarity, using the field to draw free ores up for carrying. Not that they must be taken all the way to the Dome manually. A skilled Assessor uses the projection capabilities to fire resources back into the Dome without needing to go all the way there. All in a days work for the Assessor, who is ready to get back to some welcome rest with their loyal companion the Seahorse. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/

Hello Keepers!

Build 41.3.7

• Full patch notes below:
• Added accessibility option to always highlight monsters with an outline
• Orchard fruit buff cannot be stacked anymore, but repeated use will refresh the buff
• Added missing sword dome tutorial popup
• Allowing bind of pick up and drop to the same key again, as in the Dome Romantik prototype
• Added huge map for relic hunt
• Showing up to 3 unlocks now, instead of 2 at most
• Improved controller detection, which might solve issues with some models being unresponsive
• Added information on which rule in the cheat detection was triggered, allowing us to improve it in the next patch, after seeing what causes the false positives
• Lift now starts with an additional orb, and more orbs cost 1 water instead of 2
• Teleporter won't teleport resources during battle anymore
• Fixed repair indicator on health bar sometimes staying visible after closing the tech tree
• Fixed vibration setting from options not being applied
• Fixed keeper not moving if exiting the station with an already rotated joystick
• Fixed keeper being stuck in pickup mode if the station was entered holding the pickup key and use and pickup being bound to the same button
• Fixed one instance of the cheat detection triggering erroneously
• Fixed some small errors in the savegames
• Fixed issue where final battle music was playing after the wave was over, overlapping the win music
• Fixed condenser, converter, and drillbert achievements not counting properly, if the game was saved and reloaded
• Improved blue underground biome color to be more distinct from grey
• Rendering all percentage values without digits after the decimal point in the upgrade tree
• Improved rock texture for medium rock hardness
• Fixed unlock potentially getting lost if immediately exiting the game upon unlock
• Selected gadget in keep gadget popup is now animated, for better visibility
• Fixed button focus in loadout stage not jumping from gadget to mode as expected
• Reduced condenser production delay on overcharge from 0.75 to 0.5 cycles

Keepers,

Again, thank you so much for your support! - Bippinbits and Raw Fury

Hello Keepers! A patch is out now that squashes some pesky bugs and adds in controller vibration and an anti-cheat system, to name a few! Full patch notes below:

Version v41.2

Keepers! Wow. Thank you so much for all the support you've given us! This game has been a long time in the works and we are so thrilled to be able to finally share it with you! Right now, we're focusing on making Dome Keeper the best it can be, before moving on to all the exciting things we have planned! We're hearing your feedback and will be working super hard on squashing any bugs, with a hotfix coming tomorrow to kick it all off! For known issues please see the discussions thread and to report issues please visit: https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 If you haven't had a chance yet, you can grab yourself a copy at 10% off here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/ [previewyoutube=UgbaE75yYPU;full][/previewyoutube]

Keepers! We are so thankful for all of your support and you've been patient, but the wait is over... the time has come to step up and save your dome! [previewyoutube=UgbaE75yYPU;full][/previewyoutube] All your excitement for the game, first with the demo and then the amazing streams and videos, gave us such a boost in the push to launch! With the release today, Dome Keeper finally lands for you to begin perfecting your Keeper skills. Defend your dome from wave after wave of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival miner, Dome Keeper. Use the time between each attack to dig beneath the surface in search of valuable resources and artifacts use them carefully to choose powerful upgrades and bonuses. Set on beautifully crafted pixel art alien planets, Dome Keeper offers a captivating atmosphere, music tracks fusing melodic and synthetic creations together with a sense of wonder that meets the jet age making you want to come back for more.

Features:

We've already told you a little bit about your primary gadgets, what inspired us to make Dome Keeper, and even given you a tech-tastic breakdown of how our color palette works. Today as we creep ever closer to launch day we're going to tell you more about the modes coming to Dome Keeper!
You've already played Relic Hunt mode: that's the classic mode we've all been enjoying with the Dome Keeper demo. And when Dome Keeper finally releases on September 27, 2022, you will also get to play Prestige mode and that's what we're going to talk about now! Seeing is Prestiging In Prestige, you score points by sending home as many resources as possible before your dome falls or you safely leave the planet. In addition to the upgrades you've already encountered in the demo, in Prestige there'll be a few additional options to consider, too.
See the bottom left of the screen? That's a little scorecard. It's here you'll be able to keep track of the Prestige points you amass each time you successfully tackle a monster wave. There are three things it keeps track of your Base Prestige per wave, and the Prestige per Wave Multiplier - both of which can be increased - and your Points total. This means that if you have a Base Prestige of 4, a Prestige per Wave Multiplier of 10, and successfully fight off a wave of enemies, you'll get 40 points added to your score. Simple!
Only you can decide when to buy upgrades or when to send resources back home, and both choices with their own dilemmas. Keep the points, and you'll be able to keep making those all-important upgrades, but your home planet won't be getting the resources it needs. Send them home, however, and you won't be able to make as many upgrades but you may become a bonafide hero to the folks back home. And how can you become famous amongst the other Keepers in the Keepers Guild (that's right: theres a guild!) if you're not a hero first... am I right?! What does Prestige mode mean for gameplay? Crucially, Prestige is not for faint-hearted Keepers. Whereas survival is usually all we're hoping for when a Dome Keeper monster wave strikes, in Prestige you need to think about combat strategy, investing in your gadgets, and sending resources home, too. With every wave becoming ever more challenging, you'll find yourself forced into making increasingly more difficult decisions about whether to power up or score points. Therefore, we reckon Prestige mode is best suited to more experienced Keepers. When you take on the challenge, though, you'll be able to see how you rank against the other Keepers in a global leaderboard. That's right; Dome Keeper lets you compete against your friends and other Keepers all across the world, as well as check out their stats and preferred builds. We can't wait to see what builds and battle abilities you'll be using when you top the rankings! These won't be the only two modes coming to Dome Keeper, by the way. An additional mode - Migration - is also on the way. During development we realized we wanted to do something even bigger with Migration, so instead of squeezing that in for release day, we've pushed it post-launch so that we can take our time with it and ensure it's ready for you (it'll be worth the wait, we promise!). Make sure you're following Dome Keeper on Twitter or join our Discord and tell us all about your favorite gadgets and modes, including your wishlist for the future! And don't forget: Dome Keeper is out on September 27, 2022. Until the next one, Keepers - Dome Sweet Dome! PS. Dome Keeper is now available to pre-purchase here on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/

Keepers! Dome Keeper is now available to pre-order! As a thank you, as well as a 10% discount, pre-ordering will get you the Pioneer Pack which includes TWO cosmetic items: a hardened suit, and a vigilant owl pet!
What is Dome Keeper I hear you ask? Defend your dome from wave after wave of hostile attacks in this roguelike survival miner. Use the time between each attack to dig beneath the surface in search of valuable resources. Use them carefully on powerful upgrades to help you stay alive and make it to the next world. Dig Drill tunnels beneath your dome in search of precious materials. Watch the time, you need to get back to the dome and be ready when the next wave of attack comes. How deep will you get this time? How much can you carry back? Defend Take control of the defenses and fend off the alien attacks. Air and ground, slow and fast, the attackers must be prioritized and dealt with before they tear your dome apart. Develop Use your mineral harvest to gain powerful upgrades; improve the strength of your weapon, make your drill more powerful, increase the speed of your jetpack, and research other improvements. Find artifacts to give an extra boost to your survival odds. [previewyoutube=WZplRH4PB6E;full][/previewyoutube] Secure your pre-order here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/

Dome Keeper's combat looks simple, and that's by design. Move your weapon, attack, and knock out the baddies. Easy, right?
How you fight isn't quite as straight-forward, of course, because as we talked about last time you'll quickly have to master the art of prioritization, learning which enemies you need to tackle first to minimize damage. We didn't stop there. Battle abilities for primary gadgets add another option to your combat tactics. Here's a little more about how they work and why they'll be different from the gadgets you've been playing in the demo (which is back, by the way: give it a try if you haven't played it yet!)

Tech-tree-tastic!

Charged Up

Attention Keepers! We hear you! Youre excited for Dome Keeper and want more. Hey, we have the same hard time putting it down so who are we to say, no? The demo is back! We do have a couple of quick notes! A lot of work has been going into the full game, including some changes. We think Keepers will enjoy a long career so we moved some ideas into post-launch content, which we have big plans to bring you more of, and we have new things in store for you on launch day! Were excited for you to start your Keeper career on September 27th!

As a thank you for all your support, over the next few weeks we'll be sharing behind-the-scenes peeks at how Dome Keeper is made. This week, we explore the influences and inspirations behind Dome Keeper's key design choices.
The idea for Dome Keeper or Dome Romantik, as it was called once upon a time came via the three-day Game Jam Ludum Dare 48 and the theme "Deeper and Deeper". Just three days later, Dome Keeper was born! While it made sense to pick a mining game for the theme, it was important to us that the mining had a purpose, too. We also didn't want mining to be the only thing you did, either

Product of our own design

Monstrous design

As a thank you for all your support, over the next few weeks we'll be sharing behind-the-scenes peeks at how Dome Keeper is made. This week, Bippinbit's Ren offers a tantalizing technical breakdown of our game's striking color palettes and how we make every world feel distinctive. Like a lot of things in life, sometimes it's the tiniest details that make the biggest impact. Take the colors used in Dome Keeper; we already know that its striking art style makes it stand out for all the right reasons, but did you know that every world has its own particular mood and atmosphere (pun intended, of course), too?

Color me excited!

Worlds apart - making Dome Keeper's worlds feel distinct

Until the next one, Keepers - Dome Sweet Dome!

You heard it right, this is not a drill! Dome Keeper is coming to Steam on September 27th! Prepare yourselves to dig deep and discover the secrets of the underground, fight off aliens and uncover precious relics to save your dome! We can't wait for you to get your hands on the full game, thanks for all your support so far! Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/

Hey Keepers! It's been fun to watch you all play and love Dome Keeper, share your stats, your play styles and the progress you've made on your games! We are so excited for you to get your hands on the full game! In preparation for this, the demo will be taken down on the 5th of September at 00:00 PDT as we'll be adding the finishing touches to Dome Keeper to make it the best it can be. This is not a drill, Dome Keeper is coming. More info soon! Join our Discord or follow us on Twitter and share your longest runs with us! MORE NEWS: We had a great time at BitSummit - thanks again to those who came to see us! The fun doesn't end there though, we'll be at Gamescom at the end of the month at the Indie Arena Booth and we can't WAIT! Speak soon :)

Dome is where the heart is, but these ones aren't just pretty to look at! To help you get ready for Dome Keeper's release later this year, here's (almost) everything you need to know about your dome's defenses and how you can best utilize your harvested resources to improve your base and fight to survive! While we're sure you'd like nothing more than to rest up and chill out after a hard day's mining, in Dome Keeper your downtime is dometime. Rather than putting your feet up, you'll be fending off waves of alien attackers instead. The good news is, your valuable mined resources can be used to make all kinds of nifty upgrades to your dome to tackle even the biggest and baddest beasts. Here's a breakdown of the domes you'll get to play at launch and a sneaky peek at some of the defensive choices you'll have.

Laser Dome

Sword Dome

??? Dome

Hey Keepers! BitSummit was last weekend and we had a blast! We were so happy seeing how many of you enjoyed Dome Keeper, so if you were there, thank you! Here are some snaps

Speak soon!

Hey Keepers! Were thrilled to announce that Dome Keeper will be at BitSummit this weekend! Were so excited to show off the latest demo - come and check it out if youre attending!
Also, ICYMI, one of the tracks in Dome Keeper features on the Black Screen Records Sounds Of Summer vinyl compilation! Find out more here: https://twitter.com/blackscreenrec/status/1554135783635910656 Thanks for reading and we'll hopefully see you at BitSummit!

Hey Dome Keepers,

Thank you for being amazing!

Hey Keepers, i'll stream a few rounds with the new

Sword Dome

Hey Keepers, i'll stream a few rounds with the new

Sword Dome

Hello Keepers,

Have fun with all the amazing Demos :)

Hey hey, i hope you had a chance to play the Demo already, because i'd like to play a round and talk with you about it! We can also go into what the future holds for Dome, or how we got here in the first place. We'll just hang out, have a good time and try to not get our dome smashed.
See you then :) -Ren

Hello Keepers,

Have fun :)

Hello there!

Start is 19:00 UTC, here on Steam, for about an hour.

Dome gets a Publisher

How it happened

What this means for Dome

What this means for us

Hello keepers of the dome

PAX

Demos

the wtf part

Have a good time

Hi there!

Steam celebrates the finest games made in germany for 3 days, starting right now. Of course we joined the party with Dome Romantik! For the first time, you can publicly play the Demo, to get a feel for how the game plays. So, let's not waste time and get to it :) In the mean time, we are working on a major graphics overhaul for Dome, coming later this year.
Follow us on Steam or join our Discord, to see where we are headed with this. Have fun in the event :)

We were very busy improving and expanding Dome Romantik, and will launch a first alpha test with our community on our discord. The demo will feature a ton of new, unlockable gadgets for the dome, having a big impact on how the game plays. Many visuals are improved and over 60 upgrades will give you something to think about in the tech tree. If you'd like to play this early demo version and contribute with your feedback, please come over to our discord (news section of Dome Romantik)! Check out the first trailer, if you haven't :) [previewyoutube=9jK4qb6p6Kc;full][/previewyoutube] This is how a built out dome can look right now.
If you'd like to play but don't use discord - tell me! Maybe we can also do it here, if enough people are interested. After all, we only wanna have some fun like these guys :D
Cheers! PS: What do you think about the name "Dome Keeper"? The game isn't romantic at all so far, i fear!