Its no secret that weve got lots planned for the future of Core Keeper, including content updates, quality-of-life improvements, and more! One thing were very excited about is expanding upon the lore of this ancient underground world. Traditionally, this has been something weve revealed and allowed the player to infer from objects, creatures, and settings in the game, but there are some stories still to be told. We recently happened upon the journal from a wayward Explorer, setting foot into the underground for the first time. Join us as we explore their story and perhaps even learn more about the underground than is currently known

Notes From the Underground #1 - Danger Around Every Corner!

As Rebecca Black once said, it's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday! We've no doubt you're looking forward to the weekend, but what about another Core Keeper community wrap-up first?

Mysterious Note

Aquarium & Terrarium

Wilderness Concepts

100 Days of Survival + BOSS BATTLES

Undertale Pixel Art

Gameplay:

• Gear can now be equipped from the hotbar by right-clicking.
• Made more crafting stations salvageable, including anvils and smelters.

Other:

• Save files are now checked for invalid tiles when loaded. This allows worlds that have invalid tiles, for example as the result of a bug or faulty mod, to be recovered by restarting the game.

Performance:

• The flame particles in the burning condition effect now update on a worker thread instead of the main thread.
• Urschleims particles are now correctly disabled on Low particle quality.
• The electric beam effect no longer updates when the effect doesnt appear on screen.
• Sprinkler animations no longer cause excessive memory allocations.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where switching quickly between crafting stations could cause the UI to become unresponsive until the game was restarted.
• Button hint icons no longer appear on the loading screen.
• Ore boulders no longer use the wrong ground sprites in the Dirt biome.
• Fixed an issue that made it look like crystal gemstones (Jungle Emeralds, Ocean Sapphires and Desert Rubies) were dropped, even though they werent.
• Fixed an issue with mispredicting tile destruction when using beam weapons.
• The inventory shortcuts information window can now be opened and closed more reliably.
• Ore boulder spawn rates no longer scale by Biome Chaos instead of Ore Density in the world generation settings.
• Replaced broken Abyss Trees in the Oasis Settlement scene that contains a Geyser in the Desert biome. This fix will only affect newly generated instances of this scene.
• Slime bosses jump attacks now destroy non-wall tiles like roots and fences.
• Map markers and pings are now correctly centered at the cursor position.
• Cross circuits now correctly light up even when the electricity power is very low.
• Azeos now creates ground tiles where they die to ensure the boss chest can always spawn.
• Stalagmites hidden under the ground no longer block roots from spreading.
• Galaxite Walls can no longer be placed on pits since they do not have a ground variant.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mold Cicada to drop a duplicate of itself when being broken.
• Fixed an issue where Lava Butterflies would consistently miss the player.

Playfab improvements:

• Improved Cartography Table to not cause lagging anymore when used.
• Fixed Epic join issues when recreating session ID.
• Added "Too many join requests" messages when spamming refresh button in "join session"- menu

It's the first of the month and we've been informed that there are just 7 more Fridays until Christmas! It certainly feels like the year is flying by, and we'll look back on 2024 fondly as the year we left Early Access, but we're also very excited for everything that's to come with Core Keeper.

Minor Update - Major Fun!

Staring Biome?

• wilderness so i could start DRILLING ASAP
• The Passage, to see what you'd come up with for early-game enemies in that zone. Maybe a Slime that looks like the crossview of an animal/plant cell?
• The beach, and I wonder if it exists some icy or crystal-like or space starry biome, I would love to start there too hahah
• The Super Mario Bros live action movie. Living overgrown fungus that is trying to help me. It opens up paths for me and collapses them behind me so I don't get attacked outside my local areas, and it makes bridges for me so I never get stuck.

Regular Base vs Halloween Base

Minor Update Exploration by Jade PG CRAFTED

Kaela Kovalskia Plays Core Keeper

• Fixed an issue where some scenes, most notably the Core scene, could regenerate in classic worlds.

• Fixed an issue that prevented mods from adding objects to the game.

Gameplay:

• Added 3 new minion tomes.
• Its now possible to resize the affected area of shovels, water cans, hoes, and of the Roofing Gadget.
• Crafting stations can now pick up materials from chests within a 10-tile radius (chests no longer need to be directly next to the crafting station).
• Mural doors (Melody, Worship, and Mold Doors) can now be destroyed.
• Signs can now display text visually within the world, and players can toggle between visibility modes.
• New Aquarium and Terrarium objects added for base decoration.
• New loot chest for Malugaz added.
• New Coral and Galaxite Doors added.
• Workbenches are now salvageable.
• There are now dungeons leading up to the fight against Azeos the Sky Titan, Omoroth the Sea Titan and Ra-Akar the Sand Titan.
• Shift clicking items within the player inventory now moves them to the first available hotbar slot.
• Its now possible to equip gear and items directly from the hotbar.
• Poison/Slippery Slime enemies now have neutral behavior and are no longer initially hostile.
• The Proficient Jewelry Workbench now has the option to select the Jewelry Workbench in its UI to allow for crafting earlier tiered items.
• The Distillery Table now has the option to select the Alchemists Table in its UI to allow for crafting earlier tiered items.
• Added boss damage bonus to character stat window.

Other:

• Wood Bridges are now hand-crafted items instead of being crafted in the Basic Workbench.
• A message is now displayed to communicate when enemy difficulty is scaled after a new player joins the session.
• The bottom wood root that gets attached to the Core when grown was moved one tile. It is now possible to plant it once again after it is broken.
• The cursor now stays centred at the same world position when zooming in or out on the in-game map.
• A simplified aim cursor now replaces the arrow when aiming with ranged weapons.
• Added square and cross-shaped patterns for naturally-spawning explosive walls.
• Minimap now shows nearby markers.
• Creative UI is now enabled by default in Creative mode.
• Added visual and sound effects when using permanent maximum health items for the first time to provide clear feedback when they are used.
• Increased randomness of unique dungeon placement for different world seeds. For example, the Glurch arena should no longer always appear south-west of The Core.
• The map biome title now updates quicker when moving between biomes that have already been encountered.
• Fixed a few text and translation issues.

Graphics:

• Wood Doors, Wood Fences, Wood Fence Gates and Robot Arms are now paintable.
• It is now possible to rotate Mannequins.
• Added visual cue for when minions are about to despawn.
• Updated minion count icon.
• Buckets now glow when carrying lava, sea water, or crystal water.
• Updated Azeos the Sky Titans visuals.

Game Balance:

• Rune Song sword rework:
• Buffed: heal on hit from 3 to 10;
• Added: 5% chance to gain a short 50% attack speed bonus;
• A secondary use attack that creates a trail that does damage, with 25% chance to stun;
• Removed: hp increase and chance to oneshot weak enemies.
• Fishing bait recipes have been updated to include critters.
• Adjusted spawn rate of Caveling Toilets in the Forgotten Ruins.
• Slightly adjusted damage caused by Orbital Turrets in the Shimmering Frontier.
• Slightly tweaked the amount of roots that naturally spawn in the world.
• Slightly tweaked the amount of Sledge Hammers that would spawn in the Metropolis area.
• Adjusted the prices of scanners and summoning items.
• Worm enemies now leave walls a bit slower.

Performance:

• Improved performance when initializing random number generators.
• Improved performance on boss systems.
• Reduced the number of empty entity archetypes that are created when the game loads. This improves performance when processing entities during runtime.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where the Large Harvest was not being applied properly.
• Fixed gray lines weirdly placed on top of Easter Egg Lamps.
• Fixed issue where some workbenches were showing the wrong rotation sprites.
• Fixed issue where some painted Wood Stools sprites were slightly misaligned.
• Fixed issue where the aggro range from Slime Bosses was a bit too small.
• The hint text when writing on signs is now correctly disabled when the sign contains any text.
• Fixed issue where minions would disappear before playing despawn animations.
• Directly interacting with placed levers or circuits should now properly update the state of these items on the server.
• Fixed & mitigated issues with colliders not getting enabled correctly around enemies after nearby spawns.
• Fixed several cases where dungeons would spawn too close together and partially overwrite each other.
• Fixed pedestals in a Temple scene in the Wilderness so that they're generated with the correct amount of items.
• The Crystal biome is now affected by the Ore Density world setting.
• Fixed pushback on parry not working.
• Chests that can float on water (Floating Titans Chest, Crydra Chest and Atlantean Worm Chest) are no longer misplaced for one frame when placed.
• Boss summoning items are no longer lost if they are broken the moment before the boss spawns.
• Minions should no longer be despawned as a result of other players spawning new minions.

It's finally here, Explorers! It's the start of our Halloween Seasonal Event. We hope you all have a great time in the underground as things take a turn for the eerie!

Our Halloween Seasonal Event Is Upon Us

Speaking of Halloween

A Good Base Must Have...

• "All my daughters pets and plants in it. She runs the farm. I just hunt down the monsters."
• "An overly complicated wood farm"
• "100 boss chests which each categorized for their item types, weapon, armour, offhand items, food, fish, crops, valuables, decorations, blocks, pets, animal, ores, bars, rings...."
• ."..a good organiz.... OMG the cow escaped... Oh no... she is eating the crops... We must neutralize it"

Who Is the Core Keeper Mascot?

Witch Hut

Fairy

BIG Base

It's the middle of October, Halloween is closing in, and it's time for another community wrap up. Have you got any terrifying weekend plans, Explorers? The Hive Mother could always use a little company!

Halloween Approaches!

We Love Embertails

Creative Mode

Azeos' Shadow

Fluffy Embertail

Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Core Keeper

Performance:

• The main thread no longer needs to wait for a worker thread job before updating the players condition effect visuals.
• Reduced lag spikes by decreasing the number of objects getting disabled in a single frame.
• Several bosses are now updated on a worker thread instead of on the main thread.
• Prevent colliders from being recomputed unnecessarily when objects spawn or are destroyed.
• Moved several main thread jobs to worker threads.
• Improved performance when there are a very large number of projectiles on screen.
• Cache information for in-game text components to avoid unnecessary recomputations.
• Removed several particle effects when the Particle Quality option is set to Low.
• Removed animator components on some projectiles that do not need them.

Bug fixes:

• The Ivy set bonuses are now applied correctly on ranged attacks.
• Writing a lot of dashes on a sign no longer causes the game to crash.
• Beam weapons should more accurately damage moving enemies.
• There is no longer a delay between when a boss spawns and when its maximum health is rescaled to match the number of connected players.
• Melee pets and minions can now damage Urschleims head.
• Placing a chest on top of a cross circuit no longer causes the interaction highlight to alternate between the two objects.
• Gamepads no longer vibrate when other players are using drills nearby.
• Toggling quick-swap with a torch when changing the selected item should now correctly swap back the initial slots swapped.
• Fixed an issue where small islands would spawn inside Omoroths boss arena, which sometimes interfered with the waypoint or spawn rune.
• Bridges in some custom scenes no longer create obsidian when broken.
• Equipment presets should now be correctly set locally for other players.
• Tentacles should no longer die after spawning on placed bridges.
• Vending machines can now be accessed from the sides.
• Stone lanterns and torches now emit light when placed on tables and pedestals.
• Passage fish is now correctly affected by the Master Chef skill.
• Snow Ground can no longer be crafted with a Christmas Workbench.
• Ore and walls are no longer generated underneath the Great Wall.
• Fixed so that you can buy +10 items with a gamepad.
• Text from the Core is no longer blocked by buildings.
• Players no longer enter beds or boats in creative god mode.
• Fixed chests not spawning in Ancient Battle Arenas if there aren't any nearby players the moment it completes. Should also fix enemies being left-over after the event.
• Fixed issue where chests inventory was not locally correctly updated when interacted by robot arms.
• Beam weapons should no longer be visually usable while sitting.
• Fixed an issue where some ranged weapons did not get their charge-up attack when in pvp.
• Fixed several issues when pausing the game before it had fully loaded.

Other:

• Mods no longer fail to download when the game is run through the Steam Linux Runtime. Most notably, this means mods can now be downloaded on Steam Deck.
• Dedicated server logs now contain more helpful information if the GPU or graphics driver lacks support for required rendering features.
• Updated dedicated server README with correct information on how to set ip and port.
• Game no longer limits the number of catch-up ticks run on dedicated servers.
• Game allows the dedicated server to run the world initialization before the first player runs. This could speed up the first join in some cases.

Playfab Refactor

• Improved overall stability of crossplay session connect / leave.
• Added reconnect session attempts for crossplay sessions, when a player loses internet connectivity.
• Fixed login and main menu UI overlapping in certain edge cases, when connection fails.
• Fixed various issues where network error messages would be hidden too soon.
• Fixed an issue where the session would end when a player with an outdated game version joins a host with the newest version.
• Fixed an issue where the session would be closed for all players if another player loses internet connection to a Microsoft Store host.

Non-Steam platform specific fixes:

• Fixed GOG text input having issues on controller.
• Fixed Microsoft Store username and image not showing at startup.
• Fixed Microsoft Store unnecessary errors on achievement handling.

Hi Explorers, it's been a hot minute since we had a community wrap-up and realised that we're overdue. Just a little reminder to all you wonderful Explorers who have recently submitted bug-reports, the community wrap-up is largely managed by Core Keeper's community team and has no impact on time spent working on the game by the developers! With that in mind, let's see what we've been up to...

Exploring the Wilderness

Halloween Seasonal Event

Before & After Screenshots

Core Keeper - GamingBolt's Final Verdict

Building Challenge by Owlunae

Smithy by Tito Bandito

All Achievements in 74hrs!

• Fixed an issue where dedicated servers would reject all connections if a prefs.json file was present in the server's save file directory.

Game Balance:

• Reduced the amount of crystals spawning during Azeos boss fight while 3 or more players are in the session.
• Adjusted spawn rates of mushrooms, destructibles, and locked chests.
• Reduce re-spawn of fireflies.

Bug Fixes

• Button hints no longer show up on the loading screen.
• Plants should now continue to grow even when no players are nearby.
• Projectiles should no longer damage befriended factions.
• Fixed visual position glitch when destroying placed objects.
• Ghorm's death sound now plays consistently.
• Seething Blade now properly shows a healing number when triggered.
• Tough Gang now properly blocks damage even without magic barrier gear.
• Dodos now eat critters from the ground.
• The Blacksmith skill from the Crafting tree now accurately calculates the required number of ingredients for crafting items.
• Minions are now considered as allies by the Cooking skill tree's "Smell of Food" buff and the Crystal Meteor Chunk's offhand item buffs.
• Fixed Sledge Hammers not increasing your gardening skill.
• Quitting while sleeping no longer grants you a permanent healing buff.
• Stormbringer no longer levels up your range skill.
• Fixed issue where attacks would fail at very high attack speeds.
• Electrical doors visual should now match collision.
• Hunger bar should not get stuck to display full amount.
• Player gravestone map markers no longer disappear after reloading the world.
• Well trained aim should now properly increase ranged damage.
• Salvaging multiple objects now displays an accurate summary.
• Should no longer be able to knockback during invincible frames in pvp.

Other:

• Added a Legacy fishing minigame toggle in the gameplay settings that allows enabling the old fishing minigame.
• The arrows shown next to categories in the creative UI now scrolls the list.

We added player vs player (PvP) combat to Core Keeper at 1.0, and its been an absolute blast hearing about all the fun and creative ways youve been using it to cause chaos in your games! Our community manager has also been spending a lot of time thinking about all the wonderful ways that PvP can be enjoyed in the game, and weve worked together to come up with a list of 5 PvP challenges that you can play in Core Keeper with your friends (or should we say enemies?) right now.

Last Explorer Standing

Labyrinth of DEATH

Battle on the High Seas

Capture the Flag

Hide and Slay

• Roots no longer continue spawning in explored areas in the crystal biome.
• Environmental objects will no longer continue to spawn right next to the world edge.
• Fixed an issue where objects would not be rendered after the player was killed by a hydra boss.

Another beautiful week has gone by and things have been as busy as ever with the Core Keeper community! We hope our friends in the Northern Hemisphere are all keeping warm as autumn sets in and that the shorter days just mean longer nights cozied up playing video games Also, not to be those guys but...we've just realised that it's Friday the 13th!

Seasonal Events Re-Cap!

Fullmetal Alchemist

Clay Caves Fact File

Autumn Vibes

Aminala's Scenes

's Map Art

Sylveo 's Flower Base

"Hey, you wanna help out a bit?"

Hi there, Explorers! We hope youre all having a great time in Core Keeper and that youre enjoying all the new content, features, and secrets in the underground. Weve been very grateful for all your feedback as we settle into 1.0 and address some of the bugs and stability issues youve been reporting. If youve got anything to report to us, you can do so via our bug report from here. While we cannot personally respond to each individual report, we do read every single one and we are spending a lot of time investigating issues and working on patches to address these. With that in mind, we wanted to take this opportunity to give you an idea of some of the key issues were aiming to address in the immediate future. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of everything were working on, its just a quick snapshot of some of the more pressing issues were looking into. We take all of your bug reports seriously and are working hard to address them. Any information you can provide on these issues is extremely valuable to us and will help us in our investigations. The details you provide along with the save files and logs you submit are very useful when it comes to helping us replicate these bugs, so please feel free to make your own bug report if you are experiencing any of the issues outlined below (or any issues in general, actually!).

Snapshot of What Were Working On

• The Maps Aint Mapping: There seems to still be an issue with maps becoming intertwined after deleting and recreating worlds in the same slot. This was partially addressed in the 1.0.0.6 stability patch, but well be investigating this further to ensure your maps are mapping.
• Cartography Table Crashes: The Cartography table is causing game crashes, which is not conducive to exploration.
• Cutscene Crashes: Weve had some reports of the game crashing right after the intro cutscene, preventing Explorers from starting new adventures.
• Invisible Items: Some placeable items are becoming invisible after the player dies/respawns. Wed all love to be able to turn invisible, but no item should have that much power!
• Surprise Spawns: Some items are respawning when the player quits/enters the same world after being previously broken, like natural wood roots, grass, and similar items. It goes without saying that these arent surprise gifts from a secret admirer and this shouldnt be happening.
• Enemy Spawns: Enemies are unintentionally spawning outside of enclosed rooms when their spawners are inside. This is enough to give anybody agoraphobia and it's not intended at all!
• Smithing Skill Issue: The Blacksmith skill is currently not working properly. The skill is supposed to decrease the amount of ingredients required to repair items and craft items in the anvil, but it currently only decreases the amount that's visible in the crafting recipe, while still using the original (non-discounted) amount of said recipe.
• Dodo Starvation: Dodos aren't eating bugs/critters from the ground. These guys are really determined to go extinct again, huh?
• The Power of Music: Music Doors (and other doors) sometimes dont work after being opened. Well be fine-tuning (get it?) these ASAP.

• Fix multiplayer not being available if Google DNS is not reachable by ping.
• Mana regeneration is updated more frequently and with the correct amount.
• Deep pool talent should now correctly affect mana regeneration delay.

Game balance:

• Doubled the lifespan of minions.
• Reduced the mana cost of minions.
• Reduced the time it takes to combine Crystal Skull Shards.
• Reduced the cost of the Giant Slime, Ghorm and Hive Mother summoning idols.
• Reduced the effect of slippery movement.
• Improved boat and vehicle handling.

• Detecting which circuit elements need to update each tick is now much more efficient and runs on multiple threads if available. This can give a significant performance boost in worlds with very large circuitry setups.
• Fixed a bug that caused the entire game world to get loaded when entering a world, instead of only loading parts that are nearby to an active player. For large worlds, this fix both improves performance in the moments after the world is loaded, and reduces the memory requirements while the world is open.

• Enemies and objects are now correctly marked as destroyed if they reach zero health just as they are about to get unloaded because they are too far from any active player. This would previously cause several issues, including invulnerable enemies and ore boulders flashing on/off after having their resources exhausted.
• Fixed an issue where worm-like enemies couldnt be hit while their head was inside a wall.
• Starting a session with crossplay enabled should no longer decrease the audio quality when a bluetooth headset is in use.
• Scrolling through the hotbar is now disabled while quick-swapping to a torch, to avoid unintentionally rearranging items on the hotbar.
• The Glurch waypoint no longer spawns within view of The Core.
• The client now correctly predicts health after damaging walls, which previously could cause a visual glitch where the player was inside the wall for a few frames.
• Fixed an issue where pets would not gain experience from range player attacks.
• Fixed an issue where pets would not gain experience from minion attacks.
• Amoeba bombs no longer cause double explosion effects.
• Hatching an egg no longer shows the wrong inventory sprite for one frame.
• Leashes no longer go crazy when the player teleports using the rift offhand item or enters a minecart.
• Dynamite explosions now chain correctly.
• Dynamite Packs no longer drop several times after being destroyed by Ghorm.
• Fixed mannequin position glitch.
• Stone Turrets no longer spawn facing the wall in desert mazes.
• Entering the game while guest mode is active no longer makes the player immune to damage.
• Players added as admins no longer have inventory restrictions when guest mode is active.
• Dropped items are no longer attracted to guests while guest mode is active.
• Connecting with a new character to a server with guest mode enabled no longer breaks the intro sequence.
• Added missing user connected message translations.
• Trying to recreate the game ID before the backend Playfab login was successful no longer causes an error.
• Fixed an error when a client got disconnected while the player stats window was open.
• Added missing UI when receiving certain network errors.
• Fixed a bug where the connection error popup sometimes would not be displayed.
• Fixed a crash when trying to place some invalid objects.
• The Great Wall no longer reappears in some very old classic worlds.
• The Tome of the Dead item description no longer incorrectly claims that minions are targetable.
• Doors now correctly revert to their open/closed state if it is mispredicted by the client.
• Switching from mouse to gamepad while in a menu no longer leaves the menu with no selected option.
• Cattle are no longer visually behind the Feeding Tray when eating.
• Sledge hammers are now affected by the self-mending alloy skill.
• Fix some mods making the game unable to start.
• Steady Feet talent now correctly reduces slippery movement.
• Pets and minions now correctly attack vulnerable hydra bosses
• Removed loot drop delay from destroying single hit objects and enemies.

• The game audio now keeps playing if the game window loses focus, except when using the non-borderless fullscreen display option.
• Fixed several text and translation issues.
• Dedicated servers now accept general text as world seeds. They are treated identically to the seed you specify when creating a world in the normal game client.
• Updated dedicated server README with instructions for creating a world with custom world generation parameters.

Howdy there, Explorers! How are you all finding 1.0? We've loved hearing your feedback across X and Discord and you might have noticed a couple of patches from us recently to address some pesky bugs. Remember, you can always submit any game issues you're having to us here and we'll look into addressing them ASAP. Now, let's see what our community has been up to this week.

Core Keeper: Volume 2 Out Now on Spotify!

Not the Boreworms!

Dirt Biome Fact File

Fishing Fans, We Hear You!

Hartcore

Fan art by Knomz095

Best Backgrounds?

Be Still Our Hearts!

Marzipan's Favourite Outfit

• The host is no longer disconnected from their locally hosted single player world if they lose their internet connection.

Hey there, Explorers, and welcome to our first-ever post-launch community wrap-up! It's hard to believe that Core Keeper released in 1.0 just three days ago, and we're feeling overjoyed with all the amazing love and support we've gotten from our fantastic community. This is a very special community-wrap up post for several reasons, including...

We Broke Our All-Time Concurrent Player Record!

The Reviews Are In

Party at Fireshine

Lotta PC and Xbox Players at Launch!

Owlunae's Discord Emojis!

Beginner's Guide to Core Keeper

Best Pets - Ultimate Guide

Delirya's Base

• The area-of-effect attack by the ??? boss now correctly deals damage instead of healing the player.
• Fixed a bug where dedicated servers running classic worlds would generate obsidian instead of some tile types. Already affected terrain will repair itself after installing this update.

Its the moment weve all been waiting for. After two and a half years in Early Access, four new major content updates, and plenty of minor updates and seasonal events along the way, Core Keeper is out now in 1.0! Were thrilled to welcome you all to the underground, whether youre brand-new to the world of Core Keeper or a veteran Explorer ready to dive into 1.0. So, lets take a look at what to expect from todays 1.0 release! [previewyoutube=BDeKh18TLSI;full][/previewyoutube]

The Full Game

New Content for 1.0

Will I Still Be Able to Play My Old Worlds at 1.0?

What Happens if I Played Core Keeper During the Steam Free Weekend?

Whats Next for Core Keeper?

Gameplay:

• 3 new Hydra bosses. Defeat them all to gather the remaining soul powers
• Urschleim, The Passage boss. A challenge to be overcome.
• The ??? boss. The final boss of the current chapter of our story.
• Added two new combat playstyles: Mage and Warlock. These have been added to the game through new equipment, weapons, skills, talents and character backgrounds targeted towards these new playstyles.
• Fighting with a mage oriented setup focuses around consuming mana to deal great magical damage whereas the warlock playstyle engages in combat by summoning minions to fight their enemies!
• New biome: The Passage.
• The Passage is a dangerous place to enter at the edge of the world with roaming enemies and a big looming threat that will consume any adventurer in its path. But any adventurer that can survive the Passage will find great rewards to be obtained.
• New world generation.
• The game has a new world generation that will be used for any new worlds created and we strongly recommend players to create new worlds to get the full experience the game has to offer both during the 1.0 launch and moving forward.
• Old worlds can still be played as of now but are not intended to be supported long term. Following are the more significant improvements new worlds will offer:
• New worlds are no longer infinite, and even the outer biomes will have a maximal extent.
• This makes the world more dense with content and makes exploration more rewarding. It also allows the world to be more easily expanded with new areas in future updates.
• New worlds are now created using a seed.
• Worlds created with the same seed will contain the same generated terrain, and boss arenas and unique items will appear in the same locations. The exact location of non-boss dungeons and custom scenes may differ even if the same seed is used
• When creating new worlds there is now a new world generation parameters option that gives players control over key features, such as the amount of water and ore that is generated, how chaotic the biomes should be, and more.
• This will allow players to tune the world to their preference but also to create interesting challenges, can you defeat a sea world?
• The world layout has been improved with more structured tunnels, rivers, chasms etc to create a more interesting journey through the world.
• PvP. PvP has been added as an option that players can enable through the pause menu while playing a game. Teams can be assigned for every player in the pause menu as well to allow for team battles. Who will conquer the world of Core Keeper?
• The Hivemother statue has been replaced by a statue of Malugaz the Corrupted who is now the third story boss, while Hivemother has been changed into an optional boss.
• Along with this change the difficulty of Malugaz has been adjusted as well as the crafting options unlocked in the statues.
• Waypoints. These are a new method to teleport through the world. Can be occasionally found in key-locations.
• 53 new pieces of equipment.
• 8 new weapons.
• 1 new legendary weapon.
• 3 new Summoning Tomes that allow summoning different types of minions.
• Along with all the new items we have also changed the stats on some of the old items such as equipment, weapons and food to utilize the new stats that come with the new mage and warlock playstyles.
• 3 new items that permanently give more max health.
• 5 new fishes found in the Passage:
• Terra Trilobite.
• Litho Trilobite.
• Greenhorn Pico
• Pinkhorn Pico.
• Riftian Lampfish.
• 2 new pets:
• Pheromoth. The eggs can be found in the mold biomes within Azeos Wilderness.
• Snugglygrade. The eggs can be found in the Passage.
• 1 new cattle:
• Dodo. Dodos roam in the forests of Azeos Wilderness and eat insects to produce Eggs. The Eggs can be used to cook delicious Cakes.
• 1 new critter:
• Drape Ray. The Drape Rays can be found flying around in the Passage.
• 4 new enemies:
• Shrooman Brute. Located in the Dirt biome.
• Caveling Mummy. Located inside temples in the Desert of Beginnings.
• Sulfur Worm. Located in the Passage.
• Colossal Amoeba. Located in the Passage.
• 9 new figurines for the new enemies and bosses.
• 3 new materials found in the Passage:
• Pandorium Ore.
• Calcified Shell.
• Cytoplasm.
• 80+ new hand made scenes can be found in the world. Big thanks to our creative community in the creation of a large portion of these scenes!
• 7 new achievements.
• Two additional colors have been added to the paint brushes: Peach and Teal.
• Mining skill Self-mending alloy replaces Night vision
• Breaking a wall containing ore will replenish some durability of the mining tool.
• Gardening skill Feast for the eyes replaces Bottomless watercan
• Harvesting plants restores some hunger.
• New potions: Arcane Potion and Pact of Power Potion, increases magic damage and minion damage respectively. Can be crafted in the alchemy table.
• The fishing minigame has been removed to improve the experience based on player feedback. We will refine the fishing mechanic in future updates, with this as an interim step. Stats related to the minigame have been updated to other fishing stats, and opening the inventory will no longer disrupt fishing.
• Fishing skill Chewy Bait replaces Throwing Expert
• Bait has a chance of not being consumed when fishing.
• Fishing skill Anglers advantage has been changed to give increased chance of higher rarity fish to bite instead.
• A Giant Bug Brain now drops from RaAkar which can be used to craft the new Hydra Altar in the Solarite Workbench. The Hydra Altar allows crafting items to engage the new Hydra bosses.

Graphics:

• Improved the visuals of The Core and the statues surrounding it.
• Improved the visuals for tree trunks.
• Improved the visuals of multiple hairstyles while a hat is equipped.
• Improved the visuals of seeds by adding a bit of color to them to make them more distinguishable.
• Improved the visuals of the character creation UI.
• Added Integer Scaling display setting. When enabled, the game image is resized to perfectly align with display pixels, making everything super sharp ("pixel-perfect").
• Implemented a new indirect lighting solution that should be more accurate, faster and nicer looking.
• Upgraded screen-space ambient occlusion to have a softer look and a smaller performance impact.
• Improved the smoothness of the game camera when moving.
• Added Integer Scaling display setting. When enabled, the game image is resized to perfectly align with display pixels, making everything super sharp ("pixel-perfect").
• Implemented a new indirect lighting solution that should be more accurate, faster and nicer looking.
• Upgraded screen-space ambient occlusion to have a softer look and a smaller performance impact.
• Improved the smoothness of the game camera when moving.

Balancing:

• Food buffs that have a duration of 5 minutes have generally been increased to 10 minutes.
• Increased the duration of Enrage Potion, Keen Potion and Unusual Potion to 1 min.
• The health and damage reduction on walls as well as the mining damage done by mining tools has been balanced throughout the game so that it generally takes fewer hits to destroy walls in order to make the game feel less grindy.
• Reduced the amount of hits required to max out the mining skill.
• Reduced the amount of catches required to max out the fishing skill.
• Changed starving and well fed buffs to no longer affect movement speed and the damage and max health conditions has been merged into one condition to make it more readable. Max health reduction from starving is also reduced to be less punishing.
• Increased the damage gained from the Taking a step back and Charging in talents.
• Reduced the values gained from the talents Meticulous miner and Poison coated weapons.
• Increased the value gained from the Not so picky talent to make it more balanced versus the Healthy diet talent.
• Increased the amount of materials and potions gained from chests throughout the world.
• Increased the visibility distance of ores on the Core Iris offhand since the talent with the same effect has been replaced.
• The drop chance for valuables that are common to find has been reduced throughout the whole game to avoid bloating the player inventory too much and also to increase the chance of finding useful items such as equipment or crafting materials.
• Nature and Mold Walls no longer drop any valuables or other loot to avoid bloating player inventory.
• Increased the drop chance of the Cipher Parchment from Igneous the Molten Mass.
• Adjusted several items in the game such as the Glow Tulip, the Scholar set and the Fireball Staff to use magic related stats instead.
• Some weapons projectiles now bounce a few times on walls, objects and creatures causing the projectiles to deal damage and then change direction instead of being destroyed.
• Sticky Stick projectiles now bounce up to 3 times.
• Galaxite Chakram projectiles now bounce up to 4 times.
• Throwing daggers have a windup attack that adds up to 10 bounces.
• Moved some of the crafting options between the Alchemy Table and Distillery Table to allow accessing Keen Potion earlier in the progression and to group together the explosives crafting options. Also adjusted the materials required for some of the potions.
• Increased attack speed overall on equipment and consumables to be a more competitive stat.
• Reduced charge up time of portals to be half of its previous duration.
• Recall idols now drop from more destructibles throughout the world.
• Buffed damage of all melee weapons to make them more competitive with range weapons.
• Slightly increased the minimum amount of items bosses are dropping.
• The stack size has been increased to 9999 per item slot.
• Reduced the amount of hits it takes to max out the melee skill.
• Reduced the amount of melee damage gained from the Miners equipment set bonus.
• Mimites now have a very small chance to drop Jungle Emeralds, Desert Rubies and Ocean Sapphires. This is intended to allow players to get these gemstones even if they have fully exhausted the crystal biome in their world as the world is now finite.
• Small Sun Crystals now also have a very small chance to drop Jungle Emeralds, Desert Rubies and Ocean Sapphires in their respective biomes.
• Adjusted the durability of weapons and tools to better match their attack speed. An implication of this is that weapons and tools from old saves may become reinforced or not have full durability when starting the game after the update as they keep their current durability while the max durability has changed.
• Reduced amount of seeds dropped by destructibles in Azeos Wilderness and Desert of Beginnings.
• Increased amount of seeds dropped by enemies and crates in the Dirt biome.

Audio:

• Increased the volume of several ambient sounds.
• Changed the sound effect for harvesting crops.
• Improved audio for hitting explosive walls.

Bug Fixes:

• The game now uses a server-authoritative networking model with client-side prediction. This solves a slew of multiplayer bugs, especially when multiple players with poor network connectivity interact with the same objects.
• Fixed a bug where the text from the Core speaking would sometimes appear behind objects adjacent to the core.
• Fixed an issue where the shortcuts window would not show the shortcuts correctly in Thai.
• Fixed a bug where quick moving non-helm items using shift click would appear in the wrong slot for a few seconds in Skeletons before being corrected.
• Fixed a bug where the A Good Life achievement would trigger for other players instead of the player feeding the cattle.
• Fixed a bug where Mold Tree received its own shadow when under ceiling light.
• Fixed a bug where certain objects (mostly pillars and other square, shadow-casting objects) appeared very dark when under ceiling light.
• Fixed a bug where boss damage reduction would have no effect on some projectiles shot by bosses.
• Fixed a bug where no error message was shown when a non-existing Game ID was provided.
• Fixed a bug where a Game ID that was too short caused an error.
• Hoed nature ground no longer appears on the map just like other hoed ground types.
• It is now possible to open cracked eggs by right-clicking on them in the hotbar.
• Fixed an issue where map markers would sometimes not be positioned on a pixel perfect position causing them to render a bit weird.
• Fixed an issue where the wrong colors on player clothes would be shown when eating a Spooky Pop Candy.
• Fixed an issue where enemies would sometimes attack murals with melody signs.
• Fixed an issue where breaking the Crystal Snail shell would not drop any ore in casual mode worlds.
• Fixed a bug where players could dodge and parry at the same time causing unexpected behavior. Parry now takes priority over dodge.
• Players are no longer stunned if parrying an attack that would otherwise stun the player.
• Fixed a bug where conditions on creatures would show up while hovering them in the players inventory while in creative mode.
• Conditions that are triggered when mining wall blocks such as the Pick and run! talent no longer triggers if 0 damage is dealt to the wall block.
• Fixed a bug that made some areas in the Wilderness spawn with normal tilled dirt ground instead of tilled grass.
• Fixed a multiplayer issue that happened when players would use rotated beds, causing them to look like they were sitting on the bed.
• Removed an evil stray pixel that was present in the Lava Rock Block sprite.
• Fixed a bug that would cause certain tiles to be visible through water in the Water Well and in the Mold Well.

Other:

• The Cloaked Merchant no longer sells the Flintlock Musket but instead sells the summoning item used to resummon the ??? boss. This becomes available for purchase after defeating the ??? boss once.
• Can export and import worlds via mod.io.
• A loading indicator was added to the bottom right of the screen that appears whenever the game is loading.
• Credits have been updated.
• The wall category in creative mode has been renamed to block and the base building walls have been moved to the base building category.
• The craftable Skeleton decor now also has 2 slots like the Deceased Explorer.
• Added an inventory sort button to the players inventory UI.
• Players will now unlock the souls UI directly when talking to the Core after activating the statues and dont need to wait for the full dialogue to finish.
• Shrooman enemies no longer attack cattle.
• Added Ancient Coins to the creative mode under Other/Currency category.
• The scene containing the Thread of Fate is now guaranteed to spawn in the Desert biome for new worlds.
• Beach Blocks and Desert Blocks can now be put into the Glass Smelter.
• Improved the ordering of items in the creative mode UI.
• Implemented rumble on controllers to be triggered by several sources in the game.
• Items in the hotbar can now be used/consumed by right clicking on them.
• Made Glowbugs placeable on pits.
• Changed the tiles that the Grubzooka and Burnzooka can destroy.
• Ping value will show only the network round trip time to the host or server instead of the full processing and network delay.
• Reworked the pick-up system for a more stable animation when players pick up items.
• Added the option to show keyboard numbers on hotbar in the UI Settings.

• Fixed crash because of missing check in the boss summoning system.
• Fixed hang when overflowing some text fields like pet name and make sure the text field is not deactivated when moving the mouse away from it.
• Fixed crash caused by invalid memory access in netcode.
• Fixed authentication error due to Steam authentication ticket being invalidated prematurely.
• Fixed map not showing anything on some systems.
• Added a prompt to disable crossplay when some common errors are detected.

Theres no better time to set off on your expedition into the underground, as were giving everybody the chance to try out Core Keeper for free with our Free Weekend! As if that wasnt exciting enough, were also giving all players the opportunity to get a head start with some of Core Keepers brand new 1.0 content ahead of the 1.0 update next week! Okay, you got us, our Free Weekend is actually starting on a weekday, but weve checked in with the folks at Steam, and they dont mind . From Thursday, August 22nd, to Monday, August 26th, you can play Core Keeper for free in a Classic World OR start your 1.0 worlds early to enjoy a whole host of new content including custom world generation, new enemies, equipment, armour, and more - all for free! Youll be able to play up to a certain milestone in any 1.0 Worlds created during the Free Weekend (more on this later), with the full content unlocking for anybody who owns the game on our official launch date of August 27th. We know how much youve been looking forward to the full game and weve been overwhelmed with the support youve shown on Discord, X, and in the Steam Discussions during development, which is why were so thrilled to be able to offer you this early look at 1.0 ahead of the full launch. Alternatively, If you want to enjoy all of the content currently available in our Early Access version, you can start a Classic World during the free weekend period. PLEASE NOTE: Classic Worlds will not be compatible with critical 1.0 content following the 1.0 launch on August 27th. A new 1.0 World will be required to experience everything the 1.0 update has to offer our Explorers. We have more information on this below.

Important Information About Core Keepers Free Weekend

What Happens to Early Access Worlds During the Free Weekend and at 1.0?

Gameplay:

• Added two new combat playstyles: Mage and Warlock. These have been added to the game through new equipment, weapons, skills, talents and character backgrounds targeted towards these new playstyles.
• New world generation.
• The game has a new world generation that will be used for any new worlds created and we strongly recommend players to create new worlds to get the full experience the game has to offer both during the 1.0 launch and moving forward.
• Old worlds can still be played as of now but are not intended to be supported long term. Following are the more significant improvements new worlds will offer:
• New worlds are no longer infinite, and even the outer biomes will have a maximal extent.
• This makes the world more dense with content and makes exploration more rewarding. It also allows the world to be more easily expanded with new areas in future updates.
• New worlds are now created using a seed.
• Worlds created with the same seed will contain the same generated terrain, and boss arenas and unique items will appear in the same locations. The exact location of non-boss dungeons and custom scenes may differ even if the same seed is used
• When creating new worlds there is now a new world generation parameters option that gives players control over key features, such as the amount of water and ore that is generated, how chaotic the biomes should be, and more.
• This will allow players to tune the world to their preference but also to create interesting challenges, can you defeat a sea world?
• The world layout has been improved with more structured tunnels, rivers, chasms etc to create a more interesting journey through the world.
• The Hivemother statue has been replaced by a statue of Malugaz the Corrupted who is now the third story boss, while Hivemother has been changed into an optional boss.
• Along with this change the difficulty of Malugaz has been adjusted as well as the crafting options unlocked in the statues.
• Waypoints. These are a new method to teleport through the world. Can be occasionally found in key-locations.
• Along with all the new items we have also changed the stats on some of the old items such as equipment, weapons and food to utilize the new stats that come with the new mage and warlock playstyles.
• New enemy: Shrooman Brute. Located in the Dirt biome.
• Mining skill Self-mending alloy replaces Night vision
• Breaking a wall containing ore will replenish some durability of the mining tool.
• Gardening skill Feast for the eyes replaces Bottomless watercan
• Harvesting plants restores some hunger.
• The fishing minigame has been removed to make fishing a better experience. Stats related to the minigame have been changed to other fishing-related stats throughout the game. Opening the inventory will no longer disrupt fishing.
• Fishing skill Chewy Bait replaces Throwing Expert
• Bait has a chance of not being consumed when fishing.
• Fishing skill Anglers advantage has been changed to give increased chance of higher rarity fish to bite instead.

Graphics:

• Improved the visuals of The Core and the statues surrounding it.
• Improved the visuals for tree trunks.
• Improved the visuals of multiple hairstyles while a hat is equipped.
• Improved the visuals of seeds by adding a bit of color to them to make them more distinguishable.
• Improved the visuals of the character creation UI.

Balancing:

• Food buffs that have a duration of 5 minutes have generally been increased to 10 minutes.
• Increased the duration of Enrage Potion, Keen Potion and Unusual Potion to 1 min.
• The health and damage reduction on walls as well as the mining damage done by mining tools has been balanced throughout the game so that it generally takes fewer hits to destroy walls in order to make the game feel less grindy.
• Reduced the amount of hits required to max out the mining skill.
• Reduced the amount of catches required to max out the fishing skill.
• Changed starving and well fed buffs to no longer affect movement speed and the damage and max health conditions has been merged into one condition to make it more readable. Max health reduction from starving is also reduced to be less punishing.
• Increased the damage gained from the Taking a step back and Charging in talents.
• Reduced the values gained from the talents Meticulous miner and Poison coated weapons.
• Increased the value gained from the Not so picky talent to make it more balanced versus the Healthy diet talent.
• Increased the amount of materials and potions gained from chests throughout the world.
• Increased the visibility distance of ores on the Core Iris offhand since the talent with the same effect has been replaced.
• The drop chance for valuables that are common to find has been reduced throughout the whole game to avoid bloating the player inventory too much and also to increase the chance of finding useful items such as equipment or crafting materials.
• Nature and Mold Walls no longer drop any valuables or other loot to avoid bloating player inventory.
• Increased the drop chance of the Cipher Parchment from Igneous the Molten Mass.
• Adjusted several items in the game such as the Glow Tulip, the Scholar set and the Fireball Staff to use magic related stats instead.
• Some weapons projectiles now bounce a few times on walls, objects and creatures causing the projectiles to deal damage and then change direction instead of being destroyed.
• Sticky Stick projectiles now bounce up to 3 times.
• Galaxite Chakram projectiles now bounce up to 4 times.
• Throwing daggers have a windup attack that adds up to 10 bounces.
• Moved some of the crafting options between the Alchemy Table and Distillery Table to allow accessing Keen Potion earlier in the progression and to group together the explosives crafting options. Also adjusted the materials required for some of the potions.
• Increased attack speed overall on equipment and consumables to be a more competitive stat.
• Reduced charge up time of portals to be half of its previous duration.
• Recall idols now drop from more destructibles throughout the world.
• Buffed damage of all melee weapons to make them more competitive with range weapons.
• Slightly increased the minimum amount of items bosses are dropping.
• The stack size has been increased to 9999 per item slot.
• Reduced the amount of hits it takes to max out the melee skill.
• Reduced the amount of melee damage gained from the Miners equipment set bonus.
• Adjusted the durability of weapons and tools to better match their attack speed. An implication of this is that weapons and tools from old saves may become reinforced or not have full durability when starting the game after the update as they keep their current durability while the max durability has changed.
• Reduced amount of seeds dropped by destructibles in Azeos Wilderness and Desert of Beginnings.
• Increased amount of seeds dropped by enemies and crates in the Dirt biome.

Audio:

• Increased the volume of several ambient sounds.
• Changed the sound effect for harvesting crops.
• Improved audio for hitting explosive walls

Bug Fixes:

• The game now uses a server-authoritative networking model with client-side prediction. This solves a slew of multiplayer bugs, especially when multiple players with poor network connectivity interact with the same objects.
• Fixed a bug where the text from the Core speaking would sometimes appear behind objects adjacent to the core.
• Fixed an issue where the shortcuts window would not show the shortcuts correctly in Thai.
• Fixed a bug where quick moving non-helm items using shift click would appear in the wrong slot for a few seconds in Skeletons before being corrected.
• Fixed a bug where the A Good Life achievement would trigger for other players instead of the player feeding the cattle.
• Fixed a bug where Mold Tree received its own shadow when under ceiling light.
• Fixed a bug where certain objects (mostly pillars and other square, shadow-casting objects) appeared very dark when under ceiling light.
• Fixed a bug where boss damage reduction would have no effect on some projectiles shot by bosses.
• Fixed a bug where no error message was shown when a non-existing Game ID was provided.
• Fixed a bug where a Game ID that was too short caused an error.
• Hoed nature ground no longer appears on the map just like other hoed ground types.
• It is now possible to open cracked eggs by right-clicking on them in the hotbar.
• Fixed an issue where map markers would sometimes not be positioned on a pixel perfect position causing them to render a bit weird.
• Fixed an issue where the wrong colors on player clothes would be shown when eating a Spooky Pop Candy.
• Fixed an issue where enemies would sometimes attack murals with melody signs.
• Fixed an issue where breaking the Crystal Snail shell would not drop any ore in casual mode worlds.
• Fixed a bug where players could dodge and parry at the same time causing unexpected behavior. Parry now takes priority over dodge.
• Players are no longer stunned if parrying an attack that would otherwise stun the player.
• Fixed a bug where conditions on creatures would show up while hovering them in the players inventory while in creative mode.
• Conditions that are triggered when mining wall blocks such as the Pick and run! talent no longer triggers if 0 damage is dealt to the wall block.
• Fixed a bug that made some areas in the Wilderness spawn with normal tilled dirt ground instead of tilled grass.
• Fixed a multiplayer issue that happened when players would use rotated beds, causing them to look like they were sitting on the bed.
• Removed an evil stray pixel that was present in the Lava Rock Block sprite.
• Fixed a bug that would cause certain tiles to be visible through water in the Water Well and in the Mold Well.

Other:

• A loading indicator was added to the bottom right of the screen that appears whenever the game is loading.
• Credits have been updated.
• The wall category in creative mode has been renamed to block and the base building walls have been moved to the base building category.
• The craftable Skeleton decor now also has 2 slots like the Deceased Explorer.
• Added an inventory sort button to the players inventory UI.
• Players will now unlock the souls UI directly when talking to the Core after activating the statues and dont need to wait for the full dialogue to finish.
• Shrooman enemies no longer attack cattle.
• Added Ancient Coins to the creative mode under Other/Currency category.
• The scene containing the Thread of Fate is now guaranteed to spawn in the Desert biome for new worlds.
• Beach Blocks and Desert Blocks can now be put into the Glass Smelter.
• Implemented rumble on controllers to be triggered by several sources in the game.
• Items in the hotbar can now be used/consumed by right clicking on them.
• Made Glowbugs placeable on pits.
• Changed the tiles that the Grubzooka and Burnzooka can destroy.
• Ping value will show only the network round trip time to the host or server instead of the full processing and network delay.
• Reworked the pick-up system for a more stable animation when players pick up items.
• Added the option to show keyboard numbers on hotbar in the UI Settings.

• Fixed an issue with mod loading causing mods to fail and resulting in potential crashes.
• Fixed an issue where the user admin setting would sometimes be assigned incorrectly.

Happy August, Explorers! Can you believe its launch month already? Naturally, were ecstatic, and were loving the positive energy and excitement youre bringing to our community spaces. As we approach full launch, there are a couple of things we wanted to communicate with you about PC 1.0.

We Strongly Recommend Starting a New World

Early Access Worlds Will Become Classic Worlds

Weve Added Two New Combat Styles to Master at 1.0

New Content Doesnt Stop at 1.0!

Were Updating Multiplayer to Support PC Crossplay

Help Us Test PlayFab Party!

Did we just enter 1.0 launch month? Yeah we did! We're beyond excited for PC 1.0 and can't wait for you to experience everything we've been working on. There's definitely a buzz in the community too...

Your Favourite Core Keeper Memories

What Makes a Good Base?

Seasonal Events

Hive Mother Concept

Ecllpze Plays Core Keeper

Mamfroth Fan Concept by Owluane

It's just under ONE MONTH until our 1.0 launch, Explorers! Tomorrow begins the actual 31-day countdown, and there's a real buzz amongst the community. We've shared some fun things with you this week and you've shared some of your incredible creations with us, so let's take a look.

Community Comments!

M.Othman

Mage & Warlock Info

WIN a Caveling Plushie

Dawson's Shrooman Brute

"CORE KEEPER New 1.0 Content Revealed!"

Clownin' Around with AniDen

If anyone is counting down, it's just over 5 weeks until Core Keeper launches in 1.0! We're already so excited and can't imagine how we'll feel this time next month. There's been some pretty cool community activity this week, let's get into it!

Pugstorm Interview with Dakon the Mad

Light Traveling

Core Keeper Controller Concept by POPeArt

Moderator Applications Are Still Open

1.0 Fan Art by Lem

Happy second week of July, Explorers! Every week brings us one step closer to 1.0, and we're hard at work putting those finishing touches on the game. The ongoing positivity and support from our community is making the run up to our full launch even more special, so let's take a look at what we've been up to this week.

Core Keeper Features Tournament

Shrooman Brute

Cooking Appreciation from Zombaekillz

Malugaz Fan Art

Owlunae's Daily Emote Countdown to 1.0

Happy July, Explorers. This is the month before our launch month, which is incredibly exciting for us! We've got plenty of community updates to bring you, so sit back, relax, and let's jump right into it.

We Want Your Bug Feedback over on Discord!

Caveling Plushies on Tour

What're You Looking Forward to at 1.0?

Take Part in the Core Keeper Features Tournament!

Picnic, Anyone?

Zennle's Base Build

How are we approaching the end of June already? It feels like only yesterday we were announcing Core Keeper's 1.0 date. We hope everyone in the Northern Hemisphere is enjoying a warm summer, we know we are! Let's take a look at what we've been up to...

New Spaces in the Discord!

Slime Flavours

Passage Preview

Ask and You Shall Receive!

Minion x Pet Combo

Orange Artwork by Lem!

Colour-Splash Challenge Winners!

Bug fixes:

• The automation system no longer causes significantly lower frame rate in very large worlds.
• Fixed dedicated server and client using the same file paths leading to problems when both were using mods.
• Fixed an issue where mobs could escape from enclosed spaces.
• Fixed an issue where traveling in a minecart next to a wall would cause the player to bounce around.
• Fixed an issue where dropped items would visually overshoot the player before being picked up.
• The movement speed reduction effect on the Sticky Stick no longer gets weaker when the stick is upgraded.
• Fixed an issue where adjacent wires visually did not connect correctly.

It's been a busy couple of weeks for us here at Pugstorm and Fireshine with the launch of our 1.0 content reveal trailer! We were thrilled to be a part of this year's PC Gaming Show and even more delighted to see such a great turn out of community members watching along with us in the Discord. Don't worry if you're just catching up, we're going to recap what's been going on.

Check Out Our 1.0 Content Reveal Trailer

Deep Dive into 1.0 Content

How Do You Defeat Ghorm?

PvP

Mage & Warlock

Colour Splash Challenge

This is it, Explorers, the BIG one! Were thrilled to announce that our 1.0 content trailer has just aired as part of the PC Gaming Show, which means its time to take a closer look at all the wonderful things coming your way on August 27th. If you dont want to see or hear about anything coming at 1.0, look no further, because here comes Core Keepers 1.0 content reveal! [previewyoutube=L4IVUApXbXU;full][/previewyoutube]

New & Improved World Generation!

Uncover the Secrets of the Core

Player vs Playervs Playervs Player

Welcome to The Passage

Mage and Warlock Combat Styles

Bosses, Enemies, Equipment, Waypoints, Pets, and more!

You might have noticed that weve been suspiciously quiet when it comes to revealing 1.0 content only sharing the teaser here and there across X and Steam. Well, theres been a reason for that! Weve got something very exciting coming up in this years PC Gaming Show and, trust us, you wont want to miss this. Premiering on Sunday the 9th of June at 9pm BST / 8pm UTC, this broadcast marks the PC Gaming Shows 10th anniversary, and were honoured to be a part of it. Were also really looking forward to seeing news and updates from our indie-developer peers across the industry. You can watch the event on YouTube and Twitch and enjoy an amazing showcase of new games and trailers.

Bookmark these links to tune in on YouTube here and Twitch here!

• Fixed an issue where dropped items would disappear while being picked up by the player.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a long-standing bug where objects played their placement animation every time they loaded in.
• Increased spawn distance of several graphical objects, most notably furnaces, to avoid them suddenly appearing too close to the player.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the appearance of an Obsidian Wall in a scene from the Dirt biome.
• Fixed an issue that would allow for duplication of an Ancient Gemstone in a scene from the City dungeons.
• Fixed an issue that would spawn a table inside walls in a scene from the Clay biome.
• Fixed an error occurring when a large bomb explodes.

Performance:

• Reduced the update frequency of several common operations from 30 to 20 updates per second. This performance improvement is especially noticeable on devices that previously couldnt achieve stable 30 FPS, and it also reduces the CPU load on dedicated servers by a third.
• Reworked part of the tile map update to be more efficient in general and also to do more work off the main thread, improving performance when the player moves around.
• Several improvements to the dungeon generation systems, including a complete rewrite of the algorithms used to place paths connecting different rooms. This reduces lag spikes when exploring the world, especially when encountering large boss dungeons for the first time.
• Removed several sources of memory reallocations when worlds were loaded from or written to files. These improvements both reduce lag spikes when doing autosaves, and they also remove potential increases in memory usage during long play sessions in large game worlds.
• Cache various object position values instead of looking them up every frame.
• Several improvements to how object data lookup is performed.
• Object sprites used to be spawned as soon as the server deemed they were relevant to a connecting player. This was a frequent source of lag spikes, as large numbers of objects tended to get spawned in a single frame. When possible, spawns are now spread out over multiple frames.
• Disabled inventory slot animators completely when no animations are active. This is most noticeable when the main player inventory is open.
• Removed overly cautious object lifetime checks.
• Plant pots now only recompute the plant sprite state from scratch when the plant type changes, instead of every frame.
• Light emitted from the player is now merged into a single light source.
• Looking up tile data for a single position no longer requires all tile data for the surrounding area to be copied.
• Save files are now compressed directly in memory instead of while writing to file, reducing the memory usage while an autosave is in progress.
• Removed expensive string processing during custom scene loading.
• Shadow updates are no longer processed in areas that are being unloaded.

Other:

• The Hide in-game UI option is now reset to Off (i.e., the in-game UI is shown) every time the game is restarted.

We're closing in on the end of another month, Explorers, and this month has been a big one! We announced the date of our full launch and console release, and there's been a buzz in the community ever since. Let's take a look at what's been going on.

Core Keeper's 1.0 Release Trailer

Malugaz Lore

Something Looks Different About The Core...

Can't Sleep?

Ssh, He's Sleeping

Pixel Art Passion

Ryan Adamic

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SnapDragon987

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed objects disappearing over time. When moving away from an object and back again, the server could previously get in a state where it consistently failed to spawn the object again on the client.

Its finally time for us to announce the date for our 1.0 update and console launch. Early Access has been a fantastic experience so far for us as developers. Weve worked hard to listen to your incredible feedback and develop the kind of game you want to play, and its hard to believe were approaching the end of this period and moving into 1.0. We wont keep you in suspense. Here it is, Explorers, we hope youre as excited as we are [previewyoutube=ga6q6vUluzE;full][/previewyoutube]

Core Keeper will be launching into 1.0 and on console on August 27th, 2024!

Tell Us More About Whats Coming in 1.0!

Summer Update Details

Another month has gone by, which means we're creeping closer and closer to our 1.0 launch. While we've not announced an exact date for this yet, we can tell you that it is coming Summer 2024, which is very exciting and we're having a lot of fun working on brand-new content for 1.0. While we're putting all our energy into development, here's what's happening community side!

Which Is Your Favourite Pet?

How Many of You Use Mods?

Community Feature Fun!

Magic Mirror Standing Tall...

Building Challenges!

Fishing Zones

Caveling Minigunner

It's the last community wrap-up of April, which means we're well into spring now! We had both our Easter seasonal event and our Cherry Blossom seasonal event this month, making for a busy time in the underground.

Sayonara Scene Makers!

Desert Concepts

Screenshot Comparison

Sorry Snail!

Chess Keeper

• Carrock Rooks
• Heart Berry Horses
• Bomb Pepper Bishops
• Grumpkin Kings
• Lunacorn Queens
• Glow Tulip Pawns

Big Larva Fan Art

Time to Call it a Night

We're already flying through April and that means we're coming towards the end of our Scene Makers open community project and inching ever closer to our 1.0 release. We've not announced an exact date yet, but you can expect our 1.0 and console launch in Summer 2024, so keep an eye out for info and updates!

Three More Days of Scene Makers!

Atmospheric Railway

1.0 Teaser

Galaxite Bolders

Vondikall's Smelter Setup

Love of Automation

Desert Skylights

Howdy there, Explorers, we hope you're having a great week so far and that you're looking forward to the weekend. We went straight from our Egg Hunt seasonal event straight into our Cherry Blossom event, welcoming in the warmer weather and longer days of spring! Let's see what the Core Keeper community has been up to.

The Scene Makers Deadline is Approaching!

Did You Know That We Have an Instagram?

Map Concept Art

Building Challenges!

Hey Explorers and welcome to a very special community wrap-up! This week, we're celebrating our exciting Scene Makers community project, all the awesome activity we've been running, and the amazing efforts we've seen from you!

We're Still Taking Submissions for Scene Makers!

Molten Quarry Scene

Sunken Scene!

Caveling Camp Scene

Scene Makers Inspiration & F.A.Qs

Building Challenges!

Azeos' Wilderness Scene by Owlu, Sunny Owlux Enthusiast

Overgrown Grove by Huabun

Shimmering Frontier Research Lab by PK_PVP_

Sweet Potato's Sunken Sea!

Dubby's Mushroom Manor

Ivfivasu's Atlantean Worm Temple

We announced our Scene Makers open community project on Monday the 11th of March and, since then, weve had hundreds of entries! Were already going through your submissions, and were very impressed with what weve seen so far! If youre wondering what Scene Makers is, head on over to this post to find out more including information on rules and guidelines and how to submit. Weve had lots of questions about Scene Makers since we started the project from queries about what constitutes a scene all the way to people wondering how the scenes will fit into 1.0. So, we thought wed take a little time to today to talk to you about the inspiration behind Scene Makers and answer some of your F.A.Qs!

The Inspiration Behind Scene Makers

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I submit more than one scene?

Will you accept scenes built by more than one person?

Is my name guaranteed to appear in the Core Keeper credits?

Can I use mods to make my scene?

Are there any limits on the size of my scene?

Are there any limitations to the world my scene is built in?

Ive found a way to spawn in an item that isnt available in creative mode but does exist in the game, can I use that in my scene?

Can I build my scene in sub-biomes like the Mold Dungeon or the Molten Quarry?

I had a cool idea for a scene that uses a custom item/feature that isnt in the game, can I mod this in or leave a note for the devs to add it?

Can I use items from existing scenes in my scene, such as the Amber Boulder or the Beached Caveling Ship?

Im worried about other people copying my ideas!

It has been a BUSY week for the Core Keeper community! We launched Scene Makers, our brand-new open community project, and it's been an joy to see you all get stuck in. With that in mind, we're gonna jump right into the community wrap-up!

Let's Make a Scene!

Birthday Celebrations

Heading to Work

Death by Cuteness

Aminala's Base

Dandrake's Scenes

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where all keys would always show as pressed in the musical instrument UI.
• Fixed a bug that prevented interactions with large objects like the broken cryo pods.
• Fixed a bug where tile cracks would appear in incorrect positions.
• Fixed dll files included with mods not being loaded properly.
• Changed mod loader to wait calling mod initialization callbacks until all mods are loaded.
• Fixed a bug where moving nearby the core would sporadically cause particle effects to play as if the roots covering the core had been broken.
• Fixed a bug where lava would turn dark when placing some bridges on top of it (mostly visible with Glass Bridges and Metal Grates).
• Fixed a bug where objects like kelp in water would break while having a bridge on top of it.
• Fixed a bug where enemies would not take radioactive damage.
• Fixed an issue that allowed the player to place decorations on a thin glass wall.
• Fixed an issue which was showing the pale and dark blue kelp as a valuable and not as a snack in the creative mode UI.
• Fixed an issue where the Core Relief Tile from Metropolis could be hoed.
• Fixed the description of the "Rot Fish" item so it matches the triggered effect on consumption (reducing current health by 22).
• Fixed a bug where painted signs would get the wrong color sometimes after adding/removing text on them.
• Fixed an issue where elements of the player's UI were not hidden properly when using the toggle in-game UI functionality.
• Fixed message indicating pending mod changes not showing when no mods are loaded.
• Added an extra check to avoid generating very long paths as a stop-gap solution for the bug where the game generates stretches of the wrong biome where it really shouldnt.
• Dont show the mod warnings a second time when exiting to the main menu from a game session.

Performance:

• Reduced frequency of the system that detects habitable rooms.
• Removed an instance where the main thread would wait for a networking-related worker thread job to complete.

Other:

• Made an internal change to allow mods to override object properties.

• Fixed a bug where many light sources, most notably torches, would get completely disabled on low light quality settings.

Whether youve been with us since day one of Early Access or youre a brand-new Explorer on their first adventure in the underground, were inviting you to take part in Scene Makers, Core Keepers biggest open community project

We Want to Include YOUR Scenes in 1.0!

What Is a Scene?

What Were Looking For

Read the Rules & Submit Your Scenes Here

To take part in Core Keepers biggest open community project, all you have to do is submit your scene/s (and read the rules) here.

Were Looking Forward to Seeing Your Scenes!

Happy birthday to us and happy Language Update day too! It's a very cool week for us and the community, so let's take a look at what we've been up to.

It's Our 2nd Anniversary!

Don't Panic!

Sounds of The Shimmering Frontier

Shimmering Frontier Concepts!

Placement Plus

Link's Awakening in Core Keeper!

Good news, Explorers! Weve just dropped our Language Update, which means Core Keeper is now playable in French, Italian, Traditional Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese. Weve also included some bug fixes and improvements with this one that we hope will enhance your gameplay experience. These include updates to mod support by introducing notifications for mismatches between the game version and the version supported by mods, as well as performance changes that improve efficiency when it comes to data caching and memory allocation. For a full list of whats new, check out our patch notes here.

Your Requests Matter!

Happy Birthday Core Keeper!

Thank You for Another Awesome Year

Key Features:

• New languages added to the game
• French
• Italian
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Chinese (Traditional)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where a rock in the Desert of Beginnings showing drawings of Hunters would be invisible.
• Fixed a bug where the Core would appear on the map while in creative mode.
• Fixed an issue with the Materializer always playing spawn effects when entering the screen if any enemy spawned from it was active.
• Fixed a bug where Shroomans would not fully play their bump animation when hitting a player.
• Fixed an issue where the shortcuts window would sometimes go outside the screen in certain languages.
• If the player exits the game while dying or teleporting using a recall idol, the game now waits for the player to spawn before exiting to avoid issues previously occurring in these cases.
• Players can no longer fish while the inventory is open.
• The fishing line tension bar now looks correct if the map UI is open while fishing.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes the wrong wire on the Alien Event Terminals would light up during the event.
• Fixed a bug where Alien Event Terminals could be destroyed with bombs after completing the event.
• Fixed the description of the Glass Piece in the Glass Smelter.

Performance:

• Store unchanging parameters once per object type instead of once per object, thereby reducing the in-memory size of many of our game objects. In addition to reducing the games memory footprint, this more compact memory layout also makes processing the objects for various tasks more efficient.
• Process health changes in a more efficient way by storing them in a central location instead of having it attached to each game object.
• Data specifically related to saving the world to disk is now only checked periodically and when a new save is pending, rather than in every frame.
• Gravestones and boss chests no longer recompute their appearance every frame.
• Disabled a large number of particle systems (most notably for torches) when the particle quality setting is set to low.
• Moved part of the recomputation of tile appearances to a worker thread.
• General statistics for the tile types close to the player are now computed once on a worker thread and reused instead of being computed from scratch multiple times per frame.
• Improved performance for computing ambient sounds and cache the result to reuse for multiple frames.
• Objects that the player can interact with now only update if the player is sufficiently close.
• Changed how graphical object updates are called to avoid calling objects that dont need to update.
• Many UI elements now cache the data they display and do not update unless this data has changed.
• Created dedicated shader for the health and hunger bars to make them more efficient to render.
• Some features related to mod support are now skipped when no mods are installed.
• Refactored several systems to use the more efficient ISystem types available in Unity Entities 1.0.
• Removed several sources of managed memory allocations.
• Improved how objects that are synchronized between client and server are created.
• Game objects are no longer disabled all at once, which avoids lag spikes when leaving areas containing large numbers of objects.
• The player animator no longer runs in an expensive separate animation pass.

Other:

• A mod that fails to load will now abort the entire mod loading process and show an error message to the player. The player can choose to disable the mod to get rid of the error.
• A mod which doesnt explicitly support the current version will not load by default. The player will be shown a message where they can choose to disable the mod or load the mod anyway.
• The text in the main menu indicating how many mods have been loaded has been improved to be less obtrusive and also to show if there are any pending changes in what mods are loaded.
• Pet names are now hidden as well when choosing to hide character names in the UI settings.
• Changed some text input fields to use the * character to hide the input.

Can anybody guess why March is our favourite month? It might have something to do with it being our birthday! That's right, Core Keeper is turning two on March 8th, so get your party hats ready, Explorers.

Bye-Bye, Valentine's

Birthday Countdown!

Language Update Reminder

"This Sandbox RPG is a Hidden Gem..." by Dxmonick

Update from Owlunae

Alien Starship

Howdy, Explorers! This is the last community wrap-up of February. We can't believe how quickly 2024 is going, but that also means it'll feel like no time at all before we're at 1.0. Shall we see what's been going on in the community this week?

Random Acts of Kindness

Feelin' Cosy

The Age-Old Question...

Zaka's Stream Screenshots!

Owlunae's Seasonal Map

Happy Valentine's Week, Explorers! This week marks the end of our Lunar New Year event and the start of our two-week-long Valentine's event. We hope you'll enjoy the flower petals and love letters scattered throughout the underground this time of year. Of course, if that's not really your thing, you can toggle between or switch off Seasonal Events in the Gameplay Settings menu. Now, let's see what's been going on this week...

The Results Are In...

Amber Larva

We Love You!

Love Is In the Air

Mod Highlight: Mob Farming

Caveling City Concept Art

Japanese Temple

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where the Atlantean Worm would sometimes just keep moving in the north direction.
• Fixed correct materials to be gained when salvaging the Fang Necklace.
• Fixed an issue where Omoroth could be engaged before it was biting the bait.
• Fixed an issue where outlines of Go-Karts would sometimes be enabled when the player was not close to them.
• Fixed an issue where the Bambuck Kid would get stuck in its movement instead of playing its baah.
• Fixed an issue where the Bambuck would stand still for a longer duration than intended.
• Fixed an issue with Crystal Shard Club hitting a larger area than intended when charged up.
• Fixed an issue where Cattle movement would get stuck after breeding.
• Fixed an issue where Go-Karts would often not destroy roots in front of them while driving towards them.
• Fixed an issue where Merchants would restock their items when restarting a world.
• Pets and Cattle no longer block players from hitting Torches with their Mining Picks.
• Fixed a bug where some custom scene objects would not drop the intended loot.
• Fixed a bug where the Meadow sub-biome music did not play in Azeos Wilderness.
• Fixed a bug where walking through narrow tunnels in sub-biomes would repeatedly switch the music between sub-biome and main biome tracks.
• Loading a world with modded items stored in displays (e.g. on Pedestals) without the relevant mod installed no longer results in extremely low frame rates.
• Fixed an issue where Go-Kart tracks appeared behind the Go-Kart instead of underneath it.
• Fixed a case where a Timeout message was shown instead of the more correct Connection closed.

Were not sure if its because our Valentines seasonal event starts tomorrow or because weve been reflecting on our Core Keeper journey as we develop the 1.0 version of the game, but weve been feeling a little sentimental recently. Weve got such an amazing community and Core Keeper wouldnt be where it is today without your input and encouragement. We could spend all day listing the ways in which were grateful for our community, but our community manager [strike]demanded[/strike] recommended that we limit it to just four. So, without further ado, heres 4 things we love about the Core Keeper community!

1. Your Honesty

2. Your Creativity

3. Your Openness

4. Your Support

Another week has flown by and we're settling into February quite nicely. You might have noticed a couple of patches and hotfixes addressing some of your community feedback recently. We want to say a big thank you to everybody who makes reports using our bug report form and submits their logs, as this gives us the most important information when it comes to addressing fixes for the game! Now, let's see what else we've been up to this week...

Celebrating the Lunar New Year in Style

Cattle & Pets Pokmon Types

Guess the Fake Name!

• Cave Keeper
• Nethervein
• Underminer

Base Building with Aminala!

New Years Base

Changelog:

• Fixed a crash after receiving an error from the Discord rich presence integration during play. This happens if Discord quits while playing Core Keeper, but we have also seen reports of some players getting other errors with the Discord connection, often during early startup. If you were having issues with not being able to start the game, then this might mean that Discord rich presence will not be working and well investigate these issues further. Right now we are stopping the Discord integration on any error to avoid potential worse issues like adverse impact on game performance.

Bugs:

• Fixed a minor error when interacting with the Seasonal Merchant the first time.
• Fixed the Valentine chest to not look like a Solarite chest.
• Fixed the icon of Dark Stone Ground to not use the block version. This only affects players who had Dark Stone Ground in their inventory from before, as newly mined tiles should drop the block version.
• Add missing Lunar New Year season category in creative mode.
• Fixed an issue where the hoe would not harvest plants if there was a Red Envelope on the same tile as the plant.
• Fixed an issue where the emissive parts of the Furnace, Smelter Kiln, Campfire and Cooking Pot would render in front of other objects.
• Fixed an issue where meadow and dungeon-specific music looped indefinitely once triggered.
• Fixed an issue where Bomb Scarabs would be scaled up sometimes.
• Fixed an issue where the player would not get any experience from walking.
• Fixed a bug where the player would get more experience from walking than intended.
• Fixed a crash after getting some specific errors when initializing the connection to Discord.
• Fixed a bug where hitting with a broken Flintlock Musket would still push back the player.
• Fixed a bug where the Seasonal Merchant would have white eyes when no season was active.
• Fixed a bug where pets gained twice the experience when fed with Pet Candy.
• Fixed errors and potential crashes when breaking Easter Egg Flower Pots.
• Fixed jerky movement for other players when using boats.

This February, we've got two fun seasonal events for you, Explorers! We're kicking the month off with our Lunar New Year update, which is running right up until midnight on February 13th. We then swap over for Valentine's on the 14th, which will run all the way up until the 28th, making for a busy month. In the meantime, let's take a look at what's been going on in the Core Keeper Community!

Lunar New Year!

Games in Sweden Festival!

The Year Starts Again

Overgrown Temple

Preparing for the Midas Banquet

• Fixed Lunar season not triggering automatically based on date.
• Fixed object spawn on clients breaking when reaching the limit of maximum objects per type.

Our Lunar New Year update is now live! We hope youll have fun celebrating the Year of the Dragon in this seasonal event and minor content update. Collect Lucky Coins from Red Envelopes found across the underground and trade those in at the Seasonal Merchant for awesome decorative items such as Guardian Lion Statues, Paper Lanterns, and the Dragon Mask Helm. Show off your play time, party size, and current biome with an all-new rich presence across Steam and Discord. Were also introducing a game-changer for your base building experience with updates to the way wall and floor tiles work. Weve combined these two tiles into one smart tile (that changes depending on placement) to save on inventory space and streamline the building process. As of the Lunar New Year update, any wall tiles in your inventory will become combined wall/ground tiles. Ground tiles will remain the same as always in your inventory until placed out into the world, where theyll become combined wall/ground tiles when mined and picked back up again.
Check out our patch notes for a full list of whats available in this update. And, as always, wed love to see your seasonal bases and hear what you think of the update over on Discord, X, and here in the comments. Happy Lunar New Year, everyone.

Gameplay:

• Naturally spawned wall and ground tiles of the same type will now drop a shared block object instead when mined/dug up. This new type of block can be placed both as a ground and a wall tile depending on placement. These blocks will replace the natural walls that players have in their inventories but will not affect existing ground tiles that players have already picked up unless they place them out and dig them back up again.
• Workbenches can now also access items from diagonally placed chests when crafting.
• The Seasonal Merchant now has a new seasonal skin and new seasonal items for sale. The skin will revert to its original appearance after the event ends, but the items will remain available.
• Red envelopes can be found dropped on the ground throughout the world. Pick them up and see whats inside! Any envelopes left on the ground after the season ends will disappear and any picked up envelopes will be kept. The envelopes will continuously appear randomly in the world throughout the season.
• Lucky coins. These are used to buy new items from the Seasonal Merchant.
• Items sold by Seasonal Merchant:
• Guardian Beast Statue
• Paper Lantern
• Mystic Knot Tassel
• Wall Paper Lantern
• Cosmetic: Dragon Mask

Graphics

• Visual overhaul of the UI and buttons in the pause menu.
• Updated some armor loot sprites with newer graphics.
• The Core Keeper main menu logo has been updated with a new seasonal appearance.

Audio

• Tweaked volume levels of ambient audio.

Performance

• Ported many common game objects to our in-house sprite rendering solution, including chests, torches, and crafting stations. This results in less stuttering when they load in, as well as better rendering performance.
• Made sweeping changes to the game hierarchy, which describes the relationship between game objects. Most objects now have a much smaller hierarchy, and its structure no longer changes every time a new object appears on screen. Each object type also resides in a dedicated hierarchy, reducing the number of recomputations needed when an object changes position.
• Made several improvements to our conversion system in order to reduce load times. We also no longer create large numbers of object types that never appear in-game. The latter reduces overhead when scheduling jobs, in turn making it more worthwhile to move small work loads to worker threads.
• Tweaked some custom scenes to avoid creating extra game objects that had to be converted separately each time a world was loaded.
• Fixed sudden lag spikes from the memory manager allocating a large number of new objects if the number of objects on screen exceeded the preallocated amount. Objects exceeding the preallocation are now created on-demand.
• Tweaked memory pool sizes to reduce allocation of unused objects. In particular, there are no longer multiple hidden copies of bosses.
• Many particle systems are now pooled separately from other game objects and are only claimed when a game object wants to display the effect. This reduces the number of particle systems kept in memory at any given time.
• The player character displayed in menus such as the in-game inventory and the character selection screen no longer has a large number of unused particle systems.
• Removed several managed memory allocations that caused the garbage collector to run more frequently than necessary.
• Reduced the in-memory size of many of our game objects. In addition to reducing the games memory footprint, this more compact memory layout also makes processing the objects for various tasks more efficient.
• Replaced our custom Translation component with the LocalTransform component introduced in Unity Entities 1.0. This removes the need to copy positional data multiple times each tick.
• Used more efficient constructs from Unity Entities 1.0 when looking up entity components in jobs.
• Rewrote key game systems to use the Burst compiler, which improves their performance and reduces overhead when scheduling worker thread jobs.
• Animator components no longer look up the properties they animate twice when a new object appears on screen.
• Values in the condition effect UI are now cached to avoid updating them from scratch every frame.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where ranged weapons would hit objects like torches and bushes.
• Fixed correct terms for cooked food in Spanish.
• Fixed a commonly reported bug where baby cattle would never grow up.
• Newly allocated objects no longer run their initialization logic twice.
• Fixed an error in the calculation of the additional damage gained from melee and ranged damage increase stats as well as the Well-Trained Aim and Miners Strength talents.
• Fixed an error in the calculation of the damage value shown in the stats window. Special thanks to Toozy for helping us find this issue!
• Fixed a bug where Slime pets would repeatedly bump into the Hive Mother rather than attack.
• Exiting the game in Azeos battle arena no longer causes the boss to briefly appear while the game fades out.
• Fixed a bug where the Halloween seasonal coins would not behave correctly outside the Halloween season.
• Fixed a bug where crystal water buckets spawned via the creative UI did not place any water when used.
• Fixed a bug where drill sounds would not play after moving away from drills and then moving back to them again.
• Seeds that can be planted on tilled dirt ground can now also be planted on tilled meadow ground.
• Fixed a bug where the Burnzooka would not pierce Meadow Walls.
• Fixed a bug where projectiles that can pierce through walls would sometimes not pierce through painted versions of the same wall.
• Fixed an issue where Sunrice and Lunacorn would sometimes not be fully grown in Crystal Biome areas.
• Fixed an issue where Omoroth could be summoned when the player had too low fishing skill for the Sunken Sea water.
• Fixed an issue where walls would be destroyed with a small delay sometimes, typically happening when destroying walls in two hits.
• Fixed hardcore characters being killed permanently if using the Im stuck option to respawn and then immediately exiting the game.
• Tweaked the collider for the radiation crystal to better reflect their in-game appearance.

Other

• Rich presence for Steam & Discord. Allows players to display their current Core Keeper game activity directly on their Discord and Steam profile.
• Planter Boxes can now be rotated.
• Removed swing anticipation from attacks.
• Added your character's name to chat logs.

It's the last Friday of January and it feels like this month has really flown by! We've had a great one this week with an exciting new announcement. Don't worry if you didn't spot our Lunar New Year update reveal, we'll recap below.

Lunar New Year Update Coming January 31st!

Do You Play Core Keeper on Steam Deck?

Hartcore

Cats and Roses

Rainbow Council Bedrooms!

You might have noticed a little bit of a buzz from our Chinese-speaking community over the weekend. Thats because Core Keeper appeared in the BiliBili Annual Games Fest on Friday, showing off some of our Lunar Update content alongside a small teaser for 1.0! Were now pleased to announce that Explorers can jump into our Lunar Update on January 31st to enjoy some spectacular seasonal content themed around the Lunar New Year!

Seasonal Content & Permanent Features!

It's time for another community wrap-up! This week we've got some very cool concept art to show you as well as some cool stuff we've been playing around with in our own games. We're also creeping closer and closer to our Lunar Update, and we're sure you'll spot some more info about that very soon! Until then, let's take a look at what's been going on in the community.

Zen Garden

Early Character Designs

Welcome to the Hatchery

Merchant Mall

Popofroggy's World!

Glurch Art

We hope your years are off to a fun start, Explorers. We know we've been busy working away on our next update, the Lunar Update, which is due in February. In the meantime, we've been sharing some fun Core Keeper facts on Steam and our social media channels!

5 Things You Might Not Know About Core Keeper

Failed Titan

Battle Arena!

Heart Berry Garden by Luke@

Fruits in Lem's style!

With lots of new Explorers joining us thanks to the Steam Winter Sale and our 1.0 and console launch coming this year, we thought it might be helpful to share some handy hints for beginners and veterans alike. From simple shortcuts to interesting game mechanics, here are 5 little things that you might not know about Core Keeper!

1. A List of Shortcuts

• Quick sort your inventory = Press R.
• Quickly add items from your inventory to existing stacks in chests = Press Q or use the quick-stack button in the chest UI.
• Quick sort/stack items in a chest = Use the sort button in the chest UI.
• Select 1 item from a stack = Right click (holding right-click will also quickly add more items to your hand).
• Select half a stack of items = Hold the left shift key and right-click the items.
• Select stacks of 10 items = Hold the left ctrl key and right-click (keep clicking to add lots of 10).
• Quick switch to torches = Hold the left shift key.

2. Quick Cooking & Easy Crafting

3. Enemies Can Hunt You

4. Play Seasonal Events Any Time of Year (Or Switch Them Off Entirely!)

5. Browse and Install Mods From the Main Menu

It's the first community wrap-up of the year and we're very excited to be getting back into the swing of things here at Pugstorm and Fireshine! Our awesome community shared so much fabulous content with us over the holidays, and we can't wait to show it off here. We'll also be recapping on some of the things we shared that you might have missed.

Echo of the Past - Orchestra Edition

Particle Spawning System

Switch Screenshot!

Hot Chocolate by the Fire

Merry Christmas from Navanav!

Mini Christmas Design by Wednesday

Santa's Library Speed Build

New Year Pixel Art by SnapDragon987

All of us here at Pugstorm and Fireshine Games would like to wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a fantastic New Year! We shared some of our Christmas plans with you in another Steam post and were pleased to report that we are very much in the swing of festivities right now. Whether youre celebrating Christmas or just taking a little break this December as the world slows down, we hope youre having a great month and get lots of opportunities to play video games. Heres a little recap of some of the Core Keeper activity you can look forward to in the new year, including our full 1.0 launch and console release.
As a reminder, Core Keeper is coming to Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, and there will be boxed editions available. Oh, and our 1.0 launch will, of course, include a major content update for you to enjoy! Finally, we wanted to share with you this gorgeous live orchestra version of Echo of the Past as a little Christmas treat. [previewyoutube=k2N3xXOi1q0;full][/previewyoutube] We cant wait to bring you plenty of underground adventures in 2024, heres to an amazing new year!

Happy holidays, Explorers! We hope youre all having a fantastic December, whether you celebrate Christmas or are simply looking forward to the start of another year. Weve had an absolutely fantastic 2023 working on Core Keeper, and were beyond excited for our 1.0 and console launch in Summer 2024. In case you missed it, weve put together a little timeline of our Early Access journey so far, including all our major and minor updates, crossovers, and seasonal events.
Weve put a lot of love into Core Keeper this year and weve got plenty more to work on as we approach 1.0, but its also important for us to take some time to unwind over the Christmas period so that were well-rested for the new year. With that in mind, were pleased to report that the Pugstorm teams Christmas vacation starts tomorrow! You can find out a little bit more about some of our plans below, and well be back on the 2nd of January full of energy to crack on with dev work!

Fredrik Prntare - Chief Executive Officer & Game Director

Sven Thole - Chief Operating Officer & Development Director

Julian Seifert-Olszewski - Lead Artist & Art Director

Herman Appelgren - Game Developer

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where Ghorm would sometimes deal damage to players even if they did not appear to be hit.

Bug Fixes:

• Ensure that local Windows/Linux usernames are not included in automatically submitted crash reports.
• Fixed the generation of the Caveling Merchant room to not contain water beneath the ground tiles, which were colliding with mobs as well as making the water edges disappear.
• Fixed translations for new Access Type category in mod UI.
• Fixed an issue where signs reverted to default color when off-screen. This was a purely visual bug, and any previously painted signs will regain their appropriate color.
• Changed the dedicated server to not try to load the mod UI asset. Didnt break anything, but this was causing a bunch of nasty error messages in the log.
• Added a check to avoid getting an error for some modded objects.
• Fixed a bug where melee knockback chance was applied to ranged weapons as well.

From major updates such as Paws & Claws and The Shimmering Frontier to the addition of our Mod SDK and, of course, the announcement of our 1.0 and console launch, 2023 has certainly been a BIG year for Core Keeper! And thats not to mention a whole bunch of smaller updates and seasonal content in between. Weve got one more minor content update to round the year off for you, Explorers: the aptly named Year-End Update! Playable now, this update includes a handful of fun additions including a new enemy for the Clay Caves, new decorative items, and a community-requested feature in the form of signs with customisable text! Read the full patch notes here.

Important Information on Mod Support

We're Looking for Mod.io Moderators

2024 and 1.0 F.A.Qs

Gameplay:

• New Foe Emerges: Clay Burrower found in the Clay Caves
• Customizable Signs: Erect signs to display your own messages. Interaction is required to read and customize these texts. Craftable in the Carpenter Workbench.
• Arrow Sign. Craftable in the Carpenter Workbench.
• New decorative items found in the world:
• Skull Effigy.
• Brute Sign.
• Metropolis Sign: Same customizable features as the regular sign, but with a flair!

Graphics:

• Improved animations for Table Saw. Unique animations when cutting different types of wood.
• New artwork for explosives deposits found in the world. These are now called Thermite walls.

Balancing:

• Chance to harvest extra plants is no longer capped at 100%. Instead, going over 100% gives a chance to harvest more than one extra plant.
• Increased hit box size of Nilipede segments, making them easier to hit.
• Reduced the crafting cost of all Go Karts.
• Walls containing ores will now sometimes drop 2 ores instead of 1.
• Slightly increased light radius of Decorative Torches.

Audio:

• Tweaked volume levels of ambient audio.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed not being able to exit the world when running at very low (<15) fps.
• Fixed a bug where the game would become unresponsive during the Cores wake-up dialog when German was selected as the in-game language.
• Baits can no longer be salvaged for cheap scrap parts.
• The Omoroth bait can no longer be repeatedly salvaged for infinite scrap parts.
• Fixed a bug where the railway scene in the Forgotten Ruins sometimes generated with objects hovering mid-air.
• Members of allied factions no longer prevent the player from falling asleep in a bed. This, most notably applies, to Slimes when the King Slime set bonus is active.
• Fixed a bug where cooked food containing Deepstalkers was missing part of their names.
• Fixed some custom scenes that contained invisible tiles that could not be removed nor replaced. Save files where such tiles already exist will have them removed and replaced with the original tile from the procedural generation when the world is loaded.
• Fixed a bug where the player couldnt move after a Cattle died that the player was interacting with.
• Fixed a bug where Nilipede enemies would not be hittable if the head segment was not in vision of the player.
• Fixed a bug where the game failed to restart properly. For example, after choosing the restart option after installing mods.
• When installing a mod, its dependencies are now also installed immediately without having to restart and return to the mod UI.
• Cattle that are stuck on invalid tiles, such as water, or inside walls are now removed.
• Fixed a rare bug where the equipped pets stats would get displayed on all inventory items.
• Santa's Little Helper now only accepts cooked food in the crafting input slot, preventing confusion from previously ineffective items.
• Fixed an issue where dressers reverted to default color when off-screen. This was a purely visual bug, and any previously painted dressers will regain their appropriate color.
• Resolved a bug causing the core's wakeup effect to repeat unintentionally.
• Corrected an issue with the 'enabled' setting on mods not being saved properly.

Other:

• Made in-game UI more robust to texts containing characters not present in the font for the active language.
• Updated description on Drills, making it clearer how to use them.
• Various localization and language fixes.
• Updated game credits to recognize all new contributors.
• Added opt-in support for mods to have elevated system access. Elevated-access mods have increased access to resources outside the game like user files and internet. For the best experience, install only from reputable sources.
• Added an Asset tag to mods that can be used to disable script loading entirely. Use this for mods that only contain non-script assets.
• There is a change in how we detect modded objects, which means that if you have custom objects from a mod before version 0.7.0, these might not work. If you have started the save with the old modded object with version 0.7.0 or later this is not an issue.
• Added an option to log in to mod.io with your Steam account in the in-game mod UI. Just choose the Steam option when prompted to log in and it will automatically log in using your current Steam user.
• The Main Menu now shows the number of mods that have been installed and loaded. The mods are only loaded at start meaning this number will only change after a restart.

Performance:

• Updated our Unity version from 2021.3 to 2022.3. This brings several incremental performance improvements from the Unity engine into Core Keeper.
• Updated the Unity Entities framework, which lies at the heart of most of Core Keepers backend, from version 0.51 to 1.0. In addition to giving some immediate performance benefits, it also gives us new tools we can use to further improve performance in future game updates.
• Increased the maximum number of worker threads from 4 to the number of CPU cores. This value was previously limited to reduce overhead costs from creating and managing multiple threads, which is no longer an issue. The impact of this change is noticeable but not massive, since performance on most platforms is limited by the main thread.
• Improved performance of several systems, most notably the one that updates in-game conditions.

We think it's safe to say that November has been a BIG month for Core Keeper! We announced our 1.0 and console launch (coming Summer 2024), which has been a big talking point for the community! In case you missed it, you can watch our announcement trailer below.

1.0 and Console Announcement Trailer

Nominate us for the Labour of Love Steam Award!

Delicious Curry!

Core Keeper: Coming to Switch in Summer 2024!

Get 33% off Core Keeper in the Steam Autumn Sale!

Crystal Invasion!

Under Construction

Larva Equipment

Its time for this years Steam Awards, Explorers, which means we must be approaching the end of 2023! Its been an amazing year for Core Keeper with lots of updates, new content, community activity, and more. Youve been behind us every step of the way, showing your support and sharing your feedback so that we can develop the kind of game we know youll love. In fact, we think its pretty safe to say that Core Keeper is a labour of love from us devs

Which is why we hope we can count on your nominations for Core Keeper in this years Steam Awards Labour of Love category!

Core Keeper Early Access Highlights

Early Access Launch

Our First Seasonal Event

Dedicated Servers & Improvements to Multiplayer

The Sunken Sea

Cozy Caverns, Spooky Seasons, and a Terraria Crossover

The Desert of Beginnings

Christmas Content, Quality of Love, Anniversary Celebrations, and more!

Paws & Claws and Creative Mode

Mod SDK

The Shimmering Frontier

Announcing Our Console and 1.0 Launch!

Mark your calendars, Explorers: Core Keepers full 1.0 launch is coming in Summer 2024! After a vibrant Early Access phase, we are excited to unveil the complete game. The exact release date is still under wraps, but we can't wait to share this next chapter with you. Stay tuned for more adventure! Alongside our 1.0 release, were excited to announce that Core Keeper is also coming to consoles in Summer 2024! Launching on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, the console versions of the game will include all content from both the Early Access phase and the 1.0 update. Stay tuned for more updates on the console versions in the future (including info on a physical edition!) but for now, check out our latest trailer. [previewyoutube=5Mj3g880qbE;full][/previewyoutube] Core Keeper launched in Early Access in March 2022. Since then, weve had 2 million downloads and brought you four major content updates, alongside several smaller content updates, multiple seasonal events, a crossover event, patches, and hotfixes. Weve enjoyed a whole host of community activity too; from in-person events like Twitchcon and Gamescom to online competitions and even our Caveling Plushie campaign. Along the way, we won Best Social Game 2022 at the TIGA Games Industry Awards and Best Debut in the 2023 Swedish Game Awards; and we were nominated for the 2022 Golden Joystick Awards Best Early Access Launch and Most Entertaining at the Gamescom Awards 2023. The acknowledgement from our industry peers and the support of our community has been absolutely amazing and has only made us more passionate about bringing you the best possible version of the game. "Two million downloads!? That's a lot of Explorers! And guess what? We are just warming up. It's been an incredible journey from the early access release to this point, and looking ahead to the Core Keeper 1.0 launch on consoles and PC next year feels like we are on the cusp of something even greater. The whole team is energized, and we can't wait to show you what's next. Keep those mining picks at the ready; we are digging into an exciting future together!" - Fredrik Prntare, Chief Executive Officer and Game Director at Pugstorm. Weve listened to your feedback every step of the way and it is an absolute joy to develop Core Keeper for such a wonderful community. Weve got lots more in store for you before we hit 1.0 too, including our Year-End update, our Lunar seasonal event and content update, another language update, and more. You can see exactly whats in store for Core Keeper by taking a look at the roadmap below.

Happy Halloween, Explorers! Okay, we know it's not actually Halloween for another 4 days, BUT we're getting into the spirit of things early with our Halloween Seasonal event now live and with some creepy new content. Let's see what's been going on in our community spaces this week!

New Roadmap Just Dropped!

Creepy Content

Fun Facts!

Living in the Shimmering Frontier

Have You Used the Materializer Yet?

Yevli's Halloween Base!

Twifyre's Meeting Room!

Joshua's Happy Meal

Its almost Halloween, a time for scares, sweets, tricks and treats and weve got a treat just for you, Explorers! Weve updated our Halloween Seasonal Event with a little new content to keep things creepy. Starting from today, you expect some new additions to our Halloween event, from new items on offer from the Seasonal Merchant (wholl be sporting a bone-chilling new look) all the way to new crafting options at the Samhain Workbench. This minor content update is perfect for horror lovers or those who enjoy a more macabre vibe in the underground.
As with all our seasonal events, our Halloween event recurs at a specific time every year, but you can enjoy Halloween content year-round by toggling the event in the Gameplay Settings menu. You can also switch off seasonal events entirely if you prefer to just play the base version of the game. We hope you have a terrifying time this Halloween, and we look forward to sharing new announcements and information with you soon over on our official Twitter and Discord channels. Until then, its back to the lab to work on more experiments MWAHAHA. What's that? You want to see what we're working on? Well, since you asked, here's an updated roadmap!

New features:

• Seasonal Merchant takes on an eerie new look
• Pumpkin coins dropped from goodie bags. Used to buy new items from the Seasonal Merchant.
• Items sold by Seasonal Merchant:
• Samhain Workbench
• Eerie Chest
• Skeleton Decor

New Items:

• New crafting options in Samhain workbench:
• Twisted Roots Torch
• Candle Stack
• Eerie Rug
• Eerie Wall
• Eerie Floor
• Eerie Dresser
• Eerie Table
• Eerie Stool

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a commonly reported bug where pet names and talents couldnt be assigned.
• Fixed mod assemblies with a dot in the name not being loaded properly.
• Fixed some materials in mods not being replaced with the correct ones after load.

Bug Fixes:

• Larvas spawning from a Cocoon that in turn spawned from a Materializer will now also act as temporary spawns that dont drop loot.
• Fixed so the outline indicating an enemy spawned from a Materializer shows for Cocoons as well.
• The set bonus on the Ranger set is now working as intended.
• Fixed a bug where any item could be put into the Upgrade Station by shift clicking the item.
• Fixed a bug where the Wood Bow would not deal more damage when charging it up.
• Fixed issue with Atlantean Worm getting an undefined position.
• Fixed a visual bug where the displayed damage values were not taking into account certain conditions and random damage variability. The actual damage dealt is unchanged.
• Fixed an issue with the Atlantean Worm boss causing only the head to deal damage on impact and not any of the other segments.
• Fixed a crash and unpredictable behavior when dying to the Atlantean Worm after killing at least one worm segment.
• Avoid excessive temporary memory allocations during game and world initialization.
• Fixed the UI becoming unresponsive when loading a world containing objects from an uninstalled mod.

Balance changes:

• Crystal Snails will no longer destroy any other tiles than Crystal Walls and Gleam Wood Roots and they will also no longer traverse water or pits by spawning Crystal Ground in their path. This change is intended to help avoid having the Crystal Snails affect player bases while still allowing them to roam around fairly free within the Crystal Biomes.

Happy Shimmering Frontier launch week, Explorers! What else can we say other than "check out all our awesome Shimmering Frontier content"?

Prepare to Battle

Upgrade Your Tools!

Baby Cattle!

Be Careful When Using the Obliteration Ray!

We're Still on Sale

Shimmering Frontier Poster by Lem

Shrooman Wiggle!

TARO's GIANT BASE!

• Fixed crash happening when cattle produces item

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Sunken Sea water looking broken during Valentine's season.
• Fixed a bug where tiles with bridges would behave in an unexpected way after a Crystal Snail would move over them.
• Fixed bug where Atlantean Worm boss would not have any segments except the head moving around.
• Fixed cattle health being affected by World mode setting.
• Fixed an issue where some items were drawn to the wrong part of the map UI.
• Removed an error log message that was printed each frame, causing performance issues.
• Fixed a bug where a specific tree in a unique crystal scene would drop too many of the new rare gemstones as it unintentionally scaled with the amount of players in the game.
• Fixed a bug with Alien Tech Chests from the new combat event not stacking after picking it up the first time.
• Fixed an issue where cattle could not be placed in the world after put in cattle cages.

• Fixed not being able to enter world while in Cherry Blossom or Valentine season.
• Fixed crash happening sometimes when a creature is chasing a target.
• Fixed dedicated server not working with a relative -datapath set.

Introducing the Shimmering Frontier, a glimmering new biome for you to explore! Grab your mining picks and stock up on provisions because youll want to spend plenty of time uncovering the mysteries of these crystalline caverns. From digging up the dazzling new Solarite Ore all the way to testing out your combat skills in one of our new ancient battle arenas, we cant wait for you to discover all the new content thats coming with this major update. [previewyoutube=6eHr9KPlM-Q;full][/previewyoutube] Keep an eye out for new enemies in the form of crystal-mimicking Mimites, insectoid Nilipedes, and GIANT Snails roaming this biomeand be extra careful that you dont accidentally wander into a field of radioactive crystals unless youve got yourself a Radiation Suit of course. Dangers lurk as you delve ever deeper into this subterranean world, but with a little help from the new Upgrade Station, you can ensure your equipment is up to the challenge. Mining your way through the underground just got a whole lot easier too, thanks to the Hand Drill, which allows you to move and dig at the same time, and the all-new Obliteration Ray, which is exactly as cool as it sounds. Its never been easier to forge a path and uncover the resources youll need to thrive in the underground. Especially with new crops, fish, recipes, and the Livestock Workbench (improved Cattle transportation, anyone?).
If building a cozy autumnal base is more your vibe, then youll love the 40+ new decorative materials and items that weve added. Oh, and youll be pleased to know that weve balanced enemies so that, for the most part, they can no longer destroy defensive base-building options such as doors, fences, and crafted walls. No more frantic mining while youre out gathering resources wondering if youll come home to find a Big Larva has busted into your base. Weve said it before, but the Shimmering Frontier biome is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this update. Weve added over 50 new pieces of equipment throughout the whole game and plenty of new content to our existing biomes including a new species of cattle that you can find in the Sunken Sea. Be careful if youre travelling by boat, however. Theres something lurking deep below the waves, and its even meaner than Omoroth!
We could spend an eternity walking you through all the wonderful new additions to the game, and you can certainly get an idea of whats to come in our patch notes, but we think the best way to learn about all our new content is to discover it for yourselves! We hope you have a blast playing through this major update and we hope youll tell us all about your adventures in the Steam Discussions, on Twitter, and over on the official Core Keeper Discord. Oh, and dont forget to let your friends know that Core Keeper is currently available at a whopping 33% discount as part of the Fireshine Games publisher sale! Theres never been a better time to bring your friends on an underground adventure, so head on over to our Steam store page to pick up the game now. Hurry because this discount ends on October 9th.

Major Updates:

• New biome: The Shimmering Frontier. The Shimmering Frontier can be found in any direction far out in the world.
• Atlantean Worm boss: Confront the aquatic leviathan!
• New types of challenging events can be found in The Shimmering Frontier. Complete them and be rewarded!
• Upgrade Station. Crafted at the Scarlet Workbench, this station allows players to upgrade the item level of equipment, tools, and weapons making them stronger. This allows players to use a much larger variety of equipment setups, as lower-level items can become competitive with late-game items, but at a cost of upgrading them.
• Over 50 new pieces of equipment!

Gameplay:

• 3 new enemies:
• Orbital Turret.
• Mimite.
• Nilipede.
• 1 new roaming creature: Crystal Snail.
• 1 new species of cattle: Kelple. Kelple is a turtle-like cattle that roams the beaches in the Sunken Sea and eats kelp to produce Kelp Dumplings.
• Cattle breeding. Cattle can now breed to spawn baby cattle. A baby cattle will spawn when two cattle of the same type have eaten enough food over time and are near each other. The new baby cattle are:
• Moolin Calf.
• Bambuck Kid.
• Strolly Poly Nymph.
• Kelple Hatchling.
• Materializer. An object acquired from the new event that allows the player to weave free matter into a temporary living being. Find it to discover what that means!
• A new radiation-themed Merchant that sells new unique items. The merchant may sell an important item for the new boss!
• New tools:
• Roofing Gadget. Allows the player to either create roof tiles to block light or break a hole in the ceiling to let light shine down.
• Hand Drill and Scarlet Hand Drill. Allows the player to move while digging and hits much faster than a mining pick. Has lower durability than a mining pick, however. Can be found in item drops in the world.
• Obliteration Ray. Exactly as cool as it sounds. Well let you discover this one yourselves!
• Livestock Workbench. Crafted at the Basic Workbench. Allows crafting of the Feeding Tray and some new items:
• Leash. Can be attached to a cattle to make it follow the player.
• Cattle Transport Box. Allows the player to pick up cattle, keep them in their inventory, and place them out elsewhere. The box is consumed in the process.
• Over 50 new pieces of equipment! We have added a lot of new equipment throughout the whole game. We have, for example, added new equipment drops to all the first three bosses to make them more rewarding to defeat. There are also many new equipment pieces that drop from destructibles, enemies, chests, and so on in most biomes.
• 10 new weapons.
• Solarite Ore. Can be found in walls and various other ways in the Shimmering Frontier.
• Gleam Wood. A new type of wood that only grows in the Shimmering Frontier.
• 3 new rare materials used for upgrading equipment to higher item levels that are found in various ways in the Shimmering Frontier.
• Jungle Emerald.
• Ocean Sapphire.
• Desert Ruby.
• 2 new plants:
• Sunrice.
• Lunacorn.
• 5 new fish that can be caught in the Shimmering Frontier.
• 2 new cooked food types.
• 1 new potion sold by the new merchant.
• Solarite Workbench with some new tools and base building options.
• Solarite Anvil with new equipment and weapons.
• New pet: Prince Slime. Drops from King Slime.
• 3 new critters found in the new biome.
• 10 new valuables.
• 4 new figurines.
• Over 40 new objects that can be crafted or found to be used in base building and decoration.
• A new Wooden Spike Trap can be crafted in Basic Workbench to give players an option for early defense of their base.
• 6 new achievements.
• 6 new hairstyles.
• Meadow ground can now be used for seed planting and gardening.

Other:

• An item level is now shown on equipment, weapons, and many tools. The item level is an indicator of how powerful the item is, and item levels can be upgraded at the new Upgrade Station.
• Your character will now call out a message to indicate when you are hitting indestructible objects, objects immune to damage, or objects that will take a long time to destroy.
• Red Slime Blobs will now sometimes find their way to players.
• Regular and Red Slime Blobs will no longer damage cattle.
• Renamed Land Kelp, Potted Land Kelp, and Tall Land Kelp to Land Algae, Potted Land Algae, Tall Land Algae.
• Improved portal charging text to make it clear that the player only has to wait.
• Changed the text for some of the lanterns to make it clear that theyre not equipped in the offhand slot.
• Melee weapons can now hit plants, bushes, and tall grass.
• Increased the quantity of bombs when dropped as loot.

Graphics:

• Implemented a new water shader.
• Implemented water wave/foam simulation.
• Improved shading for 3D geometry (ground + wall tiles).
• Improved Ambient Occlusion on Medium/High settings by taking directional light information into account. This makes AO appear less muddy in areas with strong directional, indirect lighting and should improve overall visual quality.
• Added new Caveling Brute emote animations.
• Adjusted the party hats position on the head to better suit all hairstyles.
• Adjusted destroy particles for certain objects.
• Added destroy particles to some objects that previously were missing them.
• Figurines that cannot be put into the new Materializer object now have differently colored bases.
• Additional audiovisual feedback for certain buttons in the character-creation screen.
• Tweaked the shadow position for torches.
• Adjusted the effects for explosive deposits.
• Improved healing effect for enemies & bosses.

Audio:

• Goats will now make random baah sounds.
• Adjusted the audio for jellyfish destructibles.
• Improved sfx for when a locked chest appears.

Balancing:

• Slightly reduced inertia of boats making them a bit faster when turning around.
• Stats on several equipment and weapons have been slightly rebalanced.
• The maze that contains the Clear Gemstone can now spawn up to three times in the world to match the amount of Chipped Blades that can be found.
• Reduced the amount of enemies that spawn in groups in multiplayer.
• Enemies can generally no longer destroy defensive base building options such as doors, fences, and crafted walls. Previously, this was based on tiers of enemies and base building options, but this has been simplified to avoid having to rebuild all walls and doors in a base for the purpose of defense. The different base building options are now mainly intended for just decorative differences.
• Slightly reduced the slowness from the Encumbering presence talent.
• Reduced the health of Omoroth's tentacles. The tentacles now also despawn after a longer duration.

Performance:

• Procedural generation of dungeons is now spread over multiple frames. This reduces stuttering when exploring new parts of the world.
• Sharing maps using the cartography table now only transmits map sections that changed since last time the table was used. This reduces the bandwidth requirements and the time delay before the updated map is visible.
• Various performance improvements throughout the code base.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where equipment set bonuses like the King Slime set and the Larva equipment set would impact factions in the wrong way. The intention was only to become friends with Slimes and Larvae. which has now been fixed. Previously, the player would also become friends with allies of the Slimes and Larvae.
• Fixed a bug where salvaging items without durability, most notably jewelry, did not give back any raw materials.
• Fixed a bug where some seed types could drop distinct variations that would behave identically but not stack with each other.
• Clicking item slots in the inventory while traveling in a minecart will no longer sometimes select the wrong slot.
• Fixed an issue where locked chests would not spawn when mining with Sledges.
• Fixed an issue where objects destroyed by a Sledge would not be automatically pulled to the player if the player was too far away from the destroyed tile or object.
• Fixed a bug where the damage buff from consuming cooked Tornis Kingfish was not indicated with a UI icon.
• Pets no longer collide with other creatures.
• Fixed a bug where deleting user-placed map markers would sometimes delete the wrong markers.
• Fixed a bug where rotated Glass Smelters didnt have an outline when selected.
• Fixed an issue where the sound effect for a charged-up weapon would not play for other players.
• Fixed a commonly reported issue where the great wall would reappear when the game was restarted.
• Fixed the value in some buff texts to not have a negative sign, as the description of the buff already indicated it as being a negative effect.
• Fixed a bug where lava would spread over regular water instead of creating solidified lava ground.
• Fixed mod checks on connect not working properly.
• Fixed formating in popup message when missing a required mod.
• Fixed missing mod name in popup when missing a required mod.
• Various performance improvements throughout the code base.
• Fixed a memory leak when there were too many wall particles on screen.
• Fixed a number of visual errors in the in-game Mod UI.
• Various performance improvements throughout the code base.
• Fixed bug hindering a mod from loading assemblies.
• Fixed unresponsive UI when using characters not present in the Korean font.

With the launch of our brand-new Mod SDK and our next major update just over a week away, now is the perfect time to start your underground adventure in the world of Core Keeper! Especially since were currently part of the Fireshine Games publisher sale, meaning that you can pick up the game at a whopping 33% discount. If someone you know has been waiting for the right time to try out Core Keeper, then they wont want to miss our biggest sale to date, so tell your friends! Head on over to our Steam store page to take advantage of this offer now, but hurry, this discount ends on October 9th.
Whether you prefer playing single-player or in groups of up to 8, the mysterious world of Core Keeper is waiting for you and your pals! Will you focus on levelling up your skills or building the perfect base? Perhaps youll spend all your time on a tour of the underground! Will you pick a range of backgrounds for a balanced party or maybe build a team of all fighters for the ultimate boss-battling adventure?! With a seemingly endless world to explore, its always a good idea to recruit a friend or two to lend a hand. Check out our latest trailer below for an idea of what you can expect in our next update (coming October 4th). Make sure youre following us on Twitter for all the latest news and announcements and join the Core Keeper community over on Discord. [previewyoutube=9JUQYpWrbDY;full][/previewyoutube]

• Fixed crash when saving newly spawned objects.
• Fixed a crash when firing a projectile after switching between two worlds without restarting the game.

• Fixed a bug where water wells and the wash basin didnt refill watering cans.
• Fixed a bug where electrical doors didnt rotate to match the surrounding walls.
• Fixed an issue where the player might be ejected from a vehicle if they tried to enter right after placing it.
• Fixed a crash caused by having too many objects on screen simultaneously.
• Fixed an issue where the game would start even if crucial initialization steps failed, causing unpredictable behaviour and crashes.
• Fixed graphical effects that were missing for some attack animations.

• Fixed a bug that prevented glass shaders from rendering
• Fixed wrong material used for modded SpriteRenderers
• Visual fixes to in-game Mod menu
• Fixed error in particle shader

Introducing the Shimmering Frontier (previously known as the Crystal Biome), a glistening and glimmering new update coming to Core Keeper on October 4th 2023! Plus, Core Keepers Mod Software Development Kit launches today! [previewyoutube=9JUQYpWrbDY;full][/previewyoutube]

A Shiny New Update: The Shimmering Frontier

Our Mod SDK Is Out Now!

What Is Mod.io?

What About Multiplayer?

Other:

• Mod SDK support.
• Mod.io integration.
• Removed excessive logging when loading configuration files.
• Changed Unity scripting backend to use Mono instead of IL2CPP.

Bug Fixes:

• Added some missing item descriptions in creative mode.
• Updated some item descriptions to reflect new use cases.
• Fixed a bug where the built-in Steam browser would open the Discord app every time the game was started after the feedback option on the start menu had been clicked.
• The Easter Pillar can no longer be placed in the same spot where another pillar has already been placed.

It's time for another Core Keeper community wrap-up! Let's jump right in with a summary of what we've been up to...

Our Mod SDK is coming on September 20th!

Anyone Else Experiencing a Heatwave?

We Won "Best Debut" at the Swedish Game Awards

Let There Be Light!

Exploring in Spanish

Poly Powered Automation?

3D Glow Tulip by Awkward Comrade

If youve been hanging around the official Core Keeper Discord, you probably already know that Core Keeper has an active and talented modding community. You can find plenty of mods across the internet, from auto-fishing to tile placement, but there hasnt been any official mod support for Core Keeperuntil now!
After collating feedback from the modding community, were delighted to announce that we are launching a Mod Software Development Kit (SDK) for Core Keeper on September 20th 2023. The Mod SDK will offer players a standardised way to create mods (via Unity) and install them directly from the game menu using a Mod.io integration. As a brand-new tool, the Mod SDK may have some initial limitations, which we are aiming to expand over time. We hope the Mod SDK will open up the world of Core Keeper mods to even more Explorers and we cant wait to see what you create come September 20th!

Happy September 1st, Explorers! We've just launched our Spanish Language Update and we're now creeping into Mod SDK territory, which is very exciting. We'll have more details on the exact date for the software development kit soon. Until then, let's see what the community has been up to.

Halloween Excitement

5 Core Keeper Facts!

We Had an Amazing Time at Gamescom!

The Water of the Future

Figurine Collection

We want to say a big "Hola" to all our Spanish-speaking Explorers and welcome you to our community with the arrival of Core Keeper's Spanish language update! We had so many requests for this one, and were very excited to be able to offer Core Keeper in European Spanish as of right now. We hope you all enjoy diving into the underground, mining resources, upgrading your equipment, fighting our colossal bosses, building bases, playing in multiplayer, and more. And don't forget that we recently added an all-new Creative Mode for those of you who love building and decorating your very own worlds.

Don't Forget to Vote for Core Keeper in the Gamescom Awards

Localisation

• Spanish translations implemented in the game.

Exciting news, Explorers! We're delighted to announce that we're one of the finalists in the "Most Entertaining" category at the Gamescom Awards. Every year, the Gamescom Awards honour the outstanding games, expansions, exhibitors, announcements, and trailers that are presented at Gamescom 2023. As an Early Access game, we're extremely proud to be in the running alongside some truly awesome titles for this award. The Gamescom Awards are voted for by the public, and we'd love it if we could count on your vote for Core Keeper in the "Most Entertaining" category! Voting is now open, and you can cast your vote here. But hurry! Voting closes on 22nd at The winners are set to be announced on Friday the 25th of August, meaning there are only a few days of voting left. We hope you're enjoying playing Core Keeper as much as we're enjoying developing it, and we want to take this opportunity to say a BIG thank you to our wonderful community for your continued support while we work towards the Crystal Update and beyond. You can find Core Keeper playable at the Fireshine Games booths in the Indie Arena (consumer hall 10.2) at Gamescom this year. Whether you're a brand-new Explorer or a veteran of the underground, you can stop by to get hands-on with the game and pick up some of our awesome new merch! VOTE HERE: GAMESCOM AWARDS 2023 VOTING

Wondering what's going on in the world of Core Keeper? Then you won't wanna miss our weekly wrap-ups! Let's take a look at what we've been sharing this week, as well as some of the awesome stuff our community has been sharing with us!

We're going to Gamescom 2023!

Glowbugs Galore!

Discord Emojis

Cozy Little Kitchen

Terraria Pixel Art

Knights Templar Pixel Art

Thats right, Explorers, Core Keeper is going to be at Gamescom 2023! Were delighted to announce that you can come and play Core Keeper over at the Fireshine Games booths in the Indie Area (consumer hall 10.2). Whether youre brand new to Core Keeper or a veteran of the underground, why not stop on by, sit down with the game, and pick up some exclusive merch? Well have a lovely little selection of goodies for you to get your hands on, including T-shirts, stickers, notebooks, and more!
As if that wasnt exciting enough, we also wanted to remind you that...

Our Mod SDK Is on the Way!

Welcome to another Weekly Community Wrap-Up, Explorers! We can't believe how quickly the weeks go by, it'll be Christmas before we know it. Speaking of Christmas (though, we suppose we've got Halloween first), we wanted to remind you that all of our in-game seasonal events can be accessed at any time through the Gameplay Settings menu. You can even toggle these on/off if you'd rather not experience them at all throughout the year!

Mini-Moolin

Desert of Beginnings Concept Art

Which is Your Favourite Day of the Week?

Colourful Cat-Creatures!

Hive Mother Drawing by Wither503

Workshop Area by

Caveling Plushie World Domination!

Welcome to the "in the mountain" inn!

It's the first community wrap-up of August and also the month that our Spanish Language update is due to launch. Keep an eye out for this, Explorers! We've not got lots to say this week other than check out all the awesome Core Keeper content you can find across the web:

White Whistle

New Fish or New Plants?

Check Out Our Soundtrack

Starlight Nautilus

Boat Base!

The Great Escape

Core Keeper Short Film

Hey there Explorers, it's not long now until we head into a brand-new month where you can expect our Spanish Language Update! We're very excited to be bringing you Core Keeper in European Spanish and we can't wait to welcome lots of new people to the Core Keeper community. Speaking of our community, let's dive right into the weekly community wrap-up!

This Barbie is Playing in Creative Mode

Guess That Achievement!

• Title "How Now Purple Cow?" and it's of course maximum affection level
• My Moo best friend
• Cattle Moo-ving is a little bit tedious: Transfer "X-amount" of cattle near player-crafted home.

How Do You like to Travel?

Going Green

Bambuck on the Loose

They're Here!

Did you know that, in Sweden, its customary to take four weeks of vacation time in the summer? The Pugstorm team is enjoying a little bit of vacation time right now to give us a chance to rest and recuperate, but our community manager, Bridie, is on hand to share with the weekly community wrap-up as always! We hope you enjoy this weeks update, and were looking forward to jumping straight back in to continue working on the Crystal Biome and more.

Go-Karts

Crystal Biome Ore Teaser

Blast from the Past

Hallowtines? Valenween?

Sea Merchant Cabin by DK92

Glow Tulip Animation by MissBarbare

Pikachu Lamps by Paulaizm

Picnic by

We recently ran a creative mode competition over on Twitter where we challenged you to build a world, base, or creation around the theme of Enchanted Waters. We had some amazing submissions from community members all over the world, and it wasnt easy to pick a winner! We saw some amazing uses of Core Keepers map, lighting, and mechanics that were blended to create truly beautiful worlds. After a lot of deliberation, we were able to narrow the video submissions down to one clear winner, which well be sharing below. Before that, however, we also wanted to share some of our favourites from the runners-up (in no particular order).

Wizard Otters Submission

Yuzuriha Sakuras Submission

s Submission

Garden Plus Submission

The Winning Submission by soumu.

Have we really had two major updates since the last time we added to our Creature Compendium? With lots of new mobs dotted around the underground, were long overdue a look at some of Core Keepers monsters. Well be covering the creatures added from The Desert of Beginnings and beyond here, so dont forget to check out parts one, two, and three for earlier mobs.

Caveling Spearman

Caveling Skirmisher

Caveling Assassin

Bomb Scarab

Lava Butterfly

Lava Slime

Honourary Mention:

Royal Slime

It's the first Friday of July, and that means its time for another Weekly Wrap-Up! 2023 is going by very quickly, and we're on the road to August for our Spanish Language update. Let's take a look at what's been going on with the Core Keeper community this week.

Mod Support Survey

The Hatchery

Sledge GIF

Steam Summer Sale

Pixel Art

Titans Chambers

Calling all modders! Were working hard dedicating our efforts to enable official mod support for mod creators through our Mod Software Development Kit, which we are currently aiming to release in September. The Mod SDK will help modders create and distribute mods for Core Keeper, giving players a standardised way to add and install mods to the game. The official solutions we are pushing might be a bit limited at the start, but we still want to give creators all the tools they need to implement their own solutions while making mod support as stable as possible. We may introduce changes during the game's early access and beyond after the Mod API's launch that could cause mods to temporarily stop functioning as intended until they're updated, but we will be as open as possible about this and try to avoid this where possible. Our goal is to roll out the Mod SDK while enabling (as opposed to hindering) current mod efforts, so we are reaching out to the modding community to get a better understanding of the ways you are creating mods and to hear your thoughts on our plans for introducing mod support for Core Keeper. With that in mind, weve created a short survey that we are asking members of the modding community to fill out by 23:59 BST on July 12th . Fill out the form here. Your feedback will be incredibly valuable in the implementation of Core Keepers Mod SDK, and we cant wait to hear from you!

Did June fly by for anybody else or was that just us? It feels like only yesterday we released the Paws & Claws update, but here we are with an updated roadmap, getting ever closer to the Spanish language update and the Crystal Biome. Lets take a look at whats been going on community-wise this week!

Get 20% off Core Keeper

Does This Make Us Slime Ranchers?

Moolin? More Like BOOM-lin!

Have You Entered Our Creative Mode Competition Yet?

The Hive Mother: Chunky Yet Funky

Were Gonna Be at TwitchCon, Paris!

Is the Sledge a Good Weapon? Well

Save the Moolin!

When You Cant Play, Doodle!

Other:

• Added missing Localization Template file to Windows build.

Happy Friday, Explorers! We had a pretty big week this week with some cool announcements regarding the future of Core Keeper. Weve also been loving all the amazing Cattle / Pet fan-art weve been getting from the community over on Twitter and Discord. We hope youre all excited for the weekend and that youll share even more of your amazing fan art and screenshots with us on your preferred social media space!

New Roadmap

Check Out Our OST Playlist on YouTube

Creative Mode Competition

Performance Satisfaction Survey

Marbled Meat

GemBug Cattle Suggestion by Talena Brandon

Ancient Forge by Insider

Shark Pet by Yina

Good news, Explorers! Weve just updated our roadmap for the rest of 2023 and beyond. From new language support all the way to info on the Crystal Update, find out what youve got to look forward to below and view the full image version of the roadmap at the bottom of this post.

Spanish Language Update - August

Modding SDK 0.1 - September

Crystal Update - Autumn

Year-End Update - Winter

Additional Language Support - 2024!

Heres to the Future of Core Keeper!

Summer is in full swing, Explorers, and we hope youre having fun doing lots of different activities alongside playing Core Keeperthough wed never hold it against you if you were just playing Core Keeper! Heres a little look at what weve been sharing with the community this week.

Treat Yourself!

Ocean Base

What Kind of Cattle Would You Like to See?

Your Cattle Concepts!

Character Art by yina

• Reverted the change Procedural generation of new terrain is now spread over multiple frames. due to problems with procedural spawning on dedicated servers.

Other:

• Changed how cooked food is stored in the save files. Existing save files will get converted when they are loaded for the first time. After this point, they will not be compatible with previous game versions.
• Several performance improvements for the water spreading system. In particular, this should in significantly reduced load times for worlds where large sections of the Sunken Sea biome have been explored.
• Cattle are no longer affected by aura effects such as Malugaz burning set bonus, and summoned creatures like the Ghost Scholar Caveling from Phantom Spark will no longer attack Cattle.
• Update README for dedicated server with missing information since previous updates.
• Dedicated server will now parse human readable values as well as the corresponding integer values for setting world mode and season. So, instead of setting -season 1 or -worldmode 1, you can use -season Easter and -worldmode Hard as well.
• Trying to load save files created using a recent game version into earlier, incompatible game versions will now result in an error message prompting the player to install the new update.
• The maximum object ID for ingredients used in cooked food has been increased from 10,000 to 65,535. In particular, it now supports the 32,76865,535 range that is reserved for items added by mods.
• Enemies that spawn in groups chasing down players will no longer destroy objects in their paths while chasing down the player.
• Fixed translation issues in descriptions for certain weapons and pets.
• Procedural generation of new terrain is now spread over multiple frames. This, together with some other performance improvements, should significantly reduce stuttering when exploring new parts of the world.
• Upgrade Sentry SDK version to 1.2.0. Used for error and crash reporting.
• Avoid calling a Steam function which could cause severe lag spikes for some players.
• Game will avoid spamming log messages because of unknown objects.
• Allow extending the version string used for detecting version mismatch with the launch option -versionsuffix followed by the suffix to use.
• Enemies that accidentally end up on a tile they cant stand on are now removed after a short delay.

Bug Fixes:

• Creatures like cattle, critters and enemies should no longer escape through fences and other blocking objects.
• Fixed an issue where murals that could be opened would sometimes block the player from digging and placing ground blocks around the mural when it shouldnt.
• Fixed an issue with pets being able to damage cattle.
• Larvas will no longer die when they walk close to a fence.
• Caveling Skirmishers no longer quickly sidestep from side to side if they temporarily lose line of sight to their target.
• Fixed the eyes to be glowing red again for some Caveling types where the eyes had turned black.
• Playing certain melodies with the instruments will no longer cause the player to freeze.
• Fixed a bug where the Sticky Toy pet talent would increase enemies movement speed instead of slowing them down. The amount slowed by the talent and Jr. Orange Slime was also slightly rebalanced.
• Fixed an issue where entries could be incorrectly overwritten or duplicated in the previously joined servers drop-down menu.
• Fixed a bug where pets would disappear after pausing the game while the pet was running to its owner.
• Fixed keys opening UI elements like the map not being disabled while naming pets.
• Fixed minor grammatical error in the description of Omoroths Necklace.

It's that time again, time for another community wrap-up! We've been busy bees ever since the Paws & Claws launch, and we've been taking lots of time to read your feedback and suggestions over on the Core Keeper Discord server and in the Steam Discussions. We've also shared lots of fun things over Twitter, and we've been keeping an eye out for all the wonderful stuff you've been sharing with us too.

We Hit our Caveling Plushie Funding Goal!

Underground Zoo

Achievement Teaser

Guest Mode

Adorable Build by Zombaekillz

Core Keeper with Friends with TripleAGaming!

Tomie's "Zoo"

Hey there Explorers, we just wanted to say a BIG thank you to everybody who has supported our Makeship campaign and helped us to create our Caveling plushie! We're already 100% funded, which is very exciting, but you can still put in an order to get your hands on this cuddly Caveling, which wont be on sale anywhere else after the order cut-off date.

Remember, the cut-off date for orders is May 31st and the plushie ships worldwide!

Its been two weeks since our Paws & Claws update launched, and youve been busy exploring the Meadow sub-biome, hatching eggs, and levelling up your animal companions. Its been a real pleasure to watch the community jump right into this update, and it brings a lot of joy and meaning to the work were putting into Core Keeper. Weve had plenty of questions about the development of this update and a couple about what the future holds for pets in Core Keeper, so we got together and went through some of your frequently asked questions to give you a little insight into our thoughts regarding Paws & Claws!

Did you have plans to add pets to the game when you first launched Core Keeper in Early Access?

Why did you choose the animals and cattle that you did?

What are your favourite pets?

Can you give new players any advice on finding or hatching pets?

What community requests were added with this update?

Whats your favourite new feature from the Animal Update?

What was the most challenging part of developing the Animal Update?

Will there be more pets/cattle in the future?

Will we ever be able to ride cattle? Will there ever be a rideable mount?

What's up, Explorers! It's time for another community wrap-up. Weve had an awesome week hearing all your cool feedback on Paws & Claws, and you can expect a little bit of behind-the-scenes stuff from us in a Steam post next week, so keep an eye out!

Potted Plants

Pet Candy

Plushie Pre-Orders

Steam Sale!

R.I.P. MooMoo

All Unique Map Colours by QueenUnderscore

We launched our Paws & Claws update this week, so you can imagine how exciting things have been from a community perspective!

Paws & Clawsand so much more!

Creative Mode Preview

Incubator Teaser

Fanhare Flavours!

Well, Thats One Way to Clear Out an Area

Name that Tune

Pre-Order Your Caveling Plush

Every Pet Ultimate Guide

Celebrating Paws & Claws

NullShadows New House

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where items such as the Soul Seeker would sometimes disappear when quickly swapping back and forth to place a torch.
• Fixed possible invalid access when playing an instrument.
• Fixed pet name and talents data being corrupted sometimes on unexpected disconnects. Any corrupted pets old data is lost sadly, but setting any name on a corrupted pet will cause it to be recreated with new talents and skin.
• Fixed an error when placing a rotated Gold-edged Table which in turn caused the sun to make a visit in players bases.
• Fixed errors happening sometimes when navigating in the cook book UI using a controller.
• Fixed error when another player connects while standing on a pressure plate.

Balancing:

• Reverted the material costs for the Iron Equipment set to use fiber instead of wool to not block progression for players struggling to find goats.

Bug Fixes:

• Cave in events will no longer happen close to the Core as it was not intended.
• Fixed a bug where no loot or loot from the wrong tier would appear in chests found in the melody mural rooms.
• Rocks falling from cave-in events can no longer be dug up using a shovel as it was not intended.
• Furnaces and other crafters now work correctly with automation setups.
• Several missing reference errors have been fixed, preventing crashes.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when petting a pet that was just unequipped.
• Fixed an issue where painted objects like the chests would sometimes get the wrong painted color when loaded.

- Fixed potential loss of recent inventory data on world exit. - Fixed error when exiting a world while having a weapon that has a secondary use equipped.

Hatch a host of colourful companions, build your dream base in Creative Mode, jam to new tunes from Stardew Valley and Valheim, and more in Core Keepers Paws & Claws Update! [previewyoutube=qQJ5udt581o;full][/previewyoutube] Exploring the underground is fun, but its even more fun with a furry friend by your side (or perhaps a feathered friendor a slimy one?). This free major content update brings oodles of new features, mechanics, items, music, and more. With 5 species of companion pets each with multiple colour variations to accompany you on your journey, plus 3 breeds of cattle, the underground is looking more alive than ever. Em-bark on an adventure with the scrappy Subterrier; turn the heat up in battle with the fiery Embertail; surprise your enemies with the darling-but-deadly Fanhare; enjoy the perks (or should that be pecks?) of travelling with the timid Owlux; and discover the oozy abilities of the various Jr Slimes! You can also make friends with the adorable Moolin, Bambuck, and Strolly Poly that can be found wandering the Dirt, Meadow, Nature, and Stone Biomes to reap rewards such as Milk, Wool, Plate Armour, andMeat. Weve done our very best to ensure players wont have to start new worlds to play the Paws & Claws update, but you may find you discover new content a little quicker in fresh worlds. Oh, and did we mention that you can name and pet the animals?

Lets Get Creative

New Instruments and Sheet Music

Decorative Items, Random Events, Community-Requested Features, Optimizations, and More!

Get Your Hands on Our Caveling Plush Toy!

Core Keeper is on Sale until the 22nd of May

NEW FEATURES

Main Features:

• Pets have been added to the game! These adorable creatures can be obtained by finding a Pet Egg in the world and placing it in an Egg Incubator to hatch into a Cracked Egg. Once hatched, the Pet can be added to the new Pet Slot in the character window, spawning beside the player. Not only do Pets provide companionship, but they also help the player in combat by fighting enemies and boosting the player with buffs. As they gain combat experience, Pets will level up, making them stronger and unlocking talents that allow the player to customize the Pets combat capabilities. Each Pet has nine randomized talents as well as several different skins, making every Pet unique. And, yes, the pets can be petted.

  There are 5 new pets in the game:

  
  
• Subterrier: The egg for this dog pet can sometimes be unearthed from the depths of the earth, hidden away in obscure locations across the world.
• Embertail: A mysterious merchant, known only as the Slime Merchant, is said to possess the egg of this cat pet.
• Owlux: The egg for this bird pet is said to be a rare find, some say it can only be found in certain types of crates scattered throughout the world, but which ones remain a mystery.
• Fanhare: Those who seek the egg of this bunny pet must venture into the Azeos wilderness, where the flowers themselves may hold the key to finding it.
• Slime pets:
• Jr. Orange Slime: The egg has a chance to be found only after facing off against the monstrous Glurch the Abominous Mass.
• Jr. Purple Slime: The egg has a chance to be found only after defeating Ivy the Poisonous Mass, a dangerous foe that lurks in the shadows of the Azeos Wilderness.
• Jr. Blue Slime: The egg of this slippery slime pet can only be found in the depths of the Sunken Sea, guarded by Morpha the Aquatic Mass.
• Jr. Lava Slime: The egg of this fiery slime pet is rumored to be hidden within the Molten Quarry, guarded by Igneous the Molten Mass.
• Three different types of Pet Candy of different rarities can be found throughout the world, typically in chests, destructible crates and as drops from bosses. Feed Pet Candy to a Pet to boost its experience.
• Cattle have been added to the game! These gentle creatures can be found throughout the world in the new Meadow sub-biome as well as in the Forgotten Ruins and Desert of Beginnings. They can be fed plants such as Heart Berries and Glow Tulips, either by hand or by placing them in the new Feed Tray. Cattle can also eat plants directly from the ground, so be careful not to let them loose in your garden! Feeding the Cattle will, in turn, allow them to produce different resources over time such as Milk or Wool.

  There are 3 new Cattle creatures in the game:

  
  
• Moolin. This cow-like creature can be found in the Meadow sub-biome and produces Milk when fed plants.
• Bambuck. This goat-like creature can be found in the Meadow sub-biome and produces Wool when fed plants.
• Strolly Poly. This roly poly-like creature can be found in the Forgotten Ruins and Desert of Beginnings biomes and produces Strolly Poly Scales when fed insects.
• Both Pets and Cattle can be named by the player in their respective UI.
• New sub-biome: Meadow. Can be found in the Dirt biome and Azeos Wilderness.

New Items:

• Egg Incubator. Used to hatch Pet Eggs. Can be crafted at the Copper Workbench.
• New item: Bucket! Allows players to fill it with water or lava and then place that water or lava in another pit or water tile. Can be crafted at the Iron Workbench.
• New Glass base-building items that can be painted. Light passing through will catch the painted color of the Glass. The following Glass objects can be crafted at the new Glass Workbench. - Glass Wall. - Thin Glass Wall. - Glass Floor. - Glass Bridge.
• Glass Smelter: Can turn any sand tiles into useful Glass.
• Added a new Wonky Minecart as a cheaper alternative to the regular Minecart for early game progression.
• New item: Sledge Hammer. Damages walls and objects in an area in front of the player. Great tool for digging out larger areas of walls. There is a Sledge Hammer for every tier in the game, and they can typically be found in destructibles and locked chests throughout the world that correspond to their tier.
• New instruments: - Drumkit, crafted at the Music Workbench. - Piano, crafted at the Music Workbench.
• A new type of unique scenery has been added where the player will find a mural with some mysterious runes carved into it. Perhaps an instrument may help unlock it! Several unique instances of this type of scenery can be found throughout the world.
• New Valheim - Meadows music sheet. Has a small chance to drop from Ancient Crates mainly found in the Forgotten Ruins biome.
• New Stardew Valley - Spring (Its a Big World Outside) music sheet. Has a small chance to drop from Overgrown Wooden Crates and Flower Vessels mainly found in Azeos Wilderness.
• New Paint Brushes: Orange, Cyan, Pink, and Grey. This means all paintable objects can be painted with these new colors!
• New decorative objects: - Wooden Pillar. Can be painted and is crafted at the Carpenters Table. - Wash Basin. Can be painted and is crafted at the Carpenters Table. - Floor Pillow. Can be painted and is crafted at the Loom. - 10 new decorative Potted Plants. Can be found throughout the world.

New Mechanics

• Creative Mode has been added as a new mode for worlds. Creative Mode worlds are empty and allow players to spawn any item they want from the Creative Mode UI to unleash their creativity.
• Casual mode has been added as an alternative to standard and hard mode for worlds. This mode allows players to enjoy the game in a more relaxed setting where monsters have less health and deal less damage.
• Guest mode has been added. Guest mode can be enabled in the pause menu while running a game. Enabling guest mode means that any non-admin player in the game cannot interact with the world, and creatures will not interact with them, but they can move around in the world to view it.
• Combat improvements:
• Using the Shield right before being hit by an enemy will now parry the attack meaning that it blocks all damage while also stunning non-boss enemies.
• Several weapons now have a secondary function that can be used by holding the right mouse button or left trigger:
• Axes, increases the hit area and damage.
• Wood bow, deals more damage.
• Other bows and Scholar Staff, shoots several projectiles.
• Spears, increases hit reach and damage and launches the player forward.
• Fireball Staff, creates an explosion on impact.
• Blow Pipe, pierces targets.
• Flintlock Musket now pushes back the player a bit when used.
• Cave-ins are a new type of event that may happen as the player is exploring the Dirt, Clay and Stone biomes. A cave-in will cause rocks to fall down from the ceiling, creating holes in the ceiling and damaging any creature or player in the way of the rocks. The rocks that appear on the ground can then be destroyed by the player for a chance to gain some loot. Cave-ins will not happen in player bases.
• Dangerous Explosives Deposit walls now spawn throughout the Dirt, Clay and Stone biomes. Hitting such a wall will trigger it and, after a short duration, cause it to explode. The explosion will destroy any adjacent walls and damage any creature or player that doesn't watch out! Other adjacent Explosives Deposit walls will also explode causing a chain reaction of explosions. Explosives Deposit walls can also be crafted by the player in the Alchemy Table. These walls will not appear in already explored areas in existing worlds.
• Lanterns are no longer considered an offhand but have their own slot in the character equipment. Any currently equipped lantern will be moved to the new slot, freeing up the offhand slot to be used for any other offhand item.
• The map now displays world coordinates and distance from the centre of the world in the top-right corner. The coordinates and the distance are based on the cursor position on the map.
• Stalagmites, Jellyfish, Corals, Water Lilies, and other similar objects found in pits and water can now be picked up using the shovel and then placed elsewhere.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Balancing Improvements:

• Many crafting options in the Workbenches and some other crafting buildings have been changed to make several systems available earlier in the game. Some examples of more significant changes are:
• A new Copper Workbench has been added in between the Basic Workbench and the Tin Workbench.
• The Railway Forge and Electronics Table have been moved to the Copper Workbench.
• The Automation Table has been moved to the Tin Workbench.
• The material costs for a lot of objects have been changed.
• Certain items have been adjusted to require Wool or Strolly Poly Plates to be crafted.
• A Wood Hoe has been added to the Basic Workbench and all previous Hoes have had their tile size increased to cover a larger area.
• The Wood Armor can be crafted directly in the Basic Workbench and both the Wood and Copper Armor sets have had their material costs decreased.
• Anvils now contain their previous tiers in their crafting UI.
• Increased amount of Copper Ore found in the Dirt biome and also added some Copper Ore to be found in the Clay and Stone biomes. This change is intended to reflect the amount of additional Copper Bars needed to craft many of the Railway and Electronic components that now cost Copper Bars instead.
• Increased the drop chance of all boss trophies.
• Increased mining damage of all bombs and both mining and explosive damage of Crude Bombs.
• Food Rations now give a heal over time effect.
• Reduced health of enemies and bosses in hard mode worlds.
• Increased drop chance of the Oracle Card "Aura" from digging spots.
• Slightly increased the movement speed of the Explorer Backpack.
• Slightly reduced health of Clay and Stone Walls.
• Reduced the duration of poison effects.
• Guardians Potion now costs Slippery Slime instead of Poison Slime.
• Reduced the cost of Go-karts and they now also require some of the new resources produced by the Cattle.
• The glow stats on the Crystal Meteor Chunk and Core Iris have been reduced or replaced with other stats due to lanterns having their own slot now.

Quality-of-Life:

• A lot of objects can now be rotated!
• An information window with helpful hotkeys can be toggled by pressing S on keyboard or left stick on a controller while having the inventory open. The information window is automatically shown the first time a player interacts with a chest. This is only shown automatically once after starting the game for the first time.

Art and Animation:

• An alternative version of the Radical Rabbit Ears has been added. Which is called Radical Rabbit Headband.
• Added a Ranger background that can be selected for new characters.
• Updated colors of red, purple, white and black paintable Chest sprites.
• Updated colors of red, purple and black Bed sprites.
• Updated colors of black Paintable Floor & Wall sprites.
• Updated colors of some of the paintable Lamp sprites & lit sprites.
• Adjusted color of light emitted by purple and black Lamps.
• Adjusted color of light emitted by purple Christmas Light Decoration
• Updated color of black Lit Floor sprite.
• The placement icon will fade out after five seconds if no input is done.
• Added new white and pink Cherry Tree sprites to add slight visual variations among multiple trees.
• Adjusted visuals of status effects on Caveling Brute and Core Sentry to better match their size.
• Plant/Grass wobble animation now depends on the horizontal direction to the entity triggering it.
• Tall Grass wobble animation now has more weight to it.
• All bosses now have updated death animations.
• Visuals for the slime slow-down particle effect has been adjusted.
• Some adjustments to the Puffungi ripe animation.

Audio:

• New damage and destroy sound effects for tiles and environmental objects.
• New biome music added to the Meadow sub-biome.
• Made adjustments to certain attack sounds for weapons.

Graphics:

• Implemented a new highly optimized sprite rendering and animation system. This allows for much more efficient drawing of many sprites and solves previous limitations where some animations were turned off to save on performance (notably for plants). Porting old content to this system takes time, so not everything is using it right away, but some objects that take advantage of the new system include plants, Pets, Cattle and some objects that are commonly found in large numbers (grass, bushes, some trees).
• Disabled the pixel upscaling filter when the game window is at or close to the internal rendering resolution, which fixes a bug where the game was very blurry under these circumstances.
• Added a startup argument for manually disabling the pixel upscaling filter (-nopixelfilter). Note that, while this may make the game appear sharper, it also (by necessity) disables the smooth sub-pixel camera movement the game normally uses, which can make the camera feel jerky. It can also introduce aliasing/pixel crawl if your window resolution is not evenly divisible by the internal render resolution (480x270).

Other:

• Walls of different types will no longer have a seamless transition between them but instead there will be a border between the walls, as we believe this is overall more appealing to players.
• Cooldowns are now always shown for weapons, previously the cooldown only showed up on the weapon if it was longer than one second.
• Slime Bosses will now fight any creature that threatens them and not just the player.
• Walls no longer take a minimum of one damage but instead take zero damage if the player does not have enough mining damage.
• Improved targeting logic of nearby interactable objects allowing more accurate targeting using the mouse or joystick direction.
• Added options to keybind equipment loadouts. The keybinds are not set by default but can be set in the Controls settings.
• The repair and reinforce buttons have been separated from the salvage window to their own window to more clearly distinguish salvaging and repairing items.
• Changed German translation of Pants from Beinzeug to Hosen.
• Fixed a typo across all Galaxite items that said otherwordly instead of otherworldly.
• Enemies will now generally be better at fighting against bosses overall in the game as an implication of the Pets being implemented, as the Pets share a lot of combat code with the enemies.
• A chat message now appears when a Titan Soul is gained by the player.
• Using a Hoe or planting seeds will no longer kill critters if the Squash Bugs option is turned off.
• The crafting time for buildings, such as Furnaces, are now serialized. This means that the crafting duration will no longer reset when restarting the game.
• Wall and ground cracks now appear immediately, regardless of network conditions.
• Increase the network priority of the Bomb Scarab to fix movement not updated fast enough when ping is high and/or there are a lot of them.
• The delete option for worlds and characters has been moved to be beside the respective save slots instead of being done through a separate menu in the settings. To confirm deleting a world or character, the player must now hold down the delete option for a little while to avoid accidentally deleting a world or character.
• Added an explicit version check when connecting to other players and servers, to avoid unexpected behavior. Previously it could still work if the versions were close enough.
• A client that experiences an unexpected disconnect will now try to reconnect automatically before giving up and exiting the game.
• Added a networkSendRate parameter to ServerConfig file which allows setting a network packet send rate, which is lower than the server tick rate. This will lower network bandwidth usage at the expense of network latency.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where Tentacles spawning around the player in the Sunken Sea would spawn on tiles other than water.
• Fixed an issue where the screen shake would trigger for all players when Azeos was flying over any player.
• Instrument particles from the Piano UI no longer appear when the UI is disabled.
• Fixed an issue where a gap would appear between Bridges and ground when having Slime on top of the bridges, resulting in something that looked like black lines appearing on the Ground Slime.
• Fixed an issue where the player would hit the wall instead of the object hanging on the wall when standing close to the wall.
• Fixed a bug where the player would sometimes change its facing direction in the wrong direction when placing large objects.
• Added description and name for the Mold Cicada that was missing.
• Fixed a bug where creatures such as Cavelings would initially start sleeping at the exact same time after starting a game.
• Fixed a bug where the fishing requirements for the water in the Desert biome was not correct.
• Fixed a bug where the exclamation emote icon would show when the character said that fishing skill was too low.
• Fixed a bug where players could sleep even when Poison Slime Blobs were nearby.
• Fixed an issue where healing beams from Caveling Scholars and Azeos Crystals would not be visible at certain angles.
• Fixed a bug where the chat message would show the wrong amount of materials gained when salvaging reinforced items.
• Fixed Boss statues blocking a bit too much, which was causing pathing issues around them.
• An empty character is no longer created if exiting the game from the character creation menu after starting to create a character.
• Fixed a bug where water did not continue to spread to areas that had not yet been procedurally generated.
• Fixed not being able to connect to games with a fairly small amount of packet loss.
• Fixed bug where pressing aborting a join game attempt might make further attempts fail with an unknown error message.
• Fixed Ra-Akar Energy Projectiles getting stuck on players if the player successfully dodged the projectile hit.

Did you know there are just 5 days to go until Core Keepers Paws & Claws Update? Weve been super busy getting everything prepared for this major content update, and weve been sharing lots of little teasers and fun things over on Twitter too!

Caveling Plushie Twitter Giveaway

Watch out for Hungry Cattle!

Discord Emojis

Meadow Music

Take a Stroll Through the Stone Biome

Im Smeeeeelting

Whats Your Favourite Idea? Ours is Being Creative!

Keep That Core Tight!

The Armory

Its been a BIG week for Core Keeper! We announced the date for our next major content update Paws & Claws (AKA The Animal Update), and weve been sharing plenty of teasers and previews because were so excited.

Paws & Claws Date Announcement

Core Keeper Plush Toy

Were Adding a Bucket!

Moolin and

Valuables Museum

Zeldas Lullaby

Fantastic Fan Art

Its the one youve all been waiting for, Explorers Core Keepers Paws & Claws Update will be coming your way on May 10th 2023! This major content update features a brand-new Meadow sub-biome complete with cattle, as well as hatchable animal companions to help you on your adventure. With plenty of new mechanics and features for you to uncover, as well as new decorative items and materials (like glass!), we know youre gonna have a blast with this one. Players can also expect improvements to combat and a whole host of community-requested features such as more rotatable objects and the coveted bucket. Dont take our word for it, though, check out our trailer below! [previewyoutube=J3AHHSdTaHk;full][/previewyoutube] Theres a lot of enjoyment to be had when exploring the underground, but we think the idea of having living creatures that follow the player and interact with the world around them breathes even more life into the game! The entire team had so much fun working on this update, and were really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this one. There are just two more weeks to go until you can frolic with the Moolin, raise your very own pet pal, build a base made entirely of glass, and paint the town pink (or one of the other new paintbrush colours well be introducing).

Animal Companions

Subterrier

Embertail

Fanhare

Owlux

Jr Slimes!

Introducing Creative Mode

Our First Piece of Official Merchandise

Changes to the Pricing of Core Keeper

Just 2 Weeks to Go!

It's time for another weekly community wrap-up. We've shared some fun stuff on social media this week and observant Explorers might even spot some of the new content you can expect with our Animal Update in our posts. Our wonderful community has also been at it again sharing awesome builds, map art, and fan art!

Secret Lab in The Desert of Beginnings

"Nobody cared who I was before I put on the mask"

What Core Keeper Food Would You Like to Try in Real Life?

Smelting Room, Terraforming Warehouse, and a Cemetary!

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work!

Hey there Explorers, we've been reading the comments on our previous weekly wrap-up posts, and we're glad to see that you're enjoying them. We know not everybody follows us on Twitter or is a member of the Discord (though we'd love for you to join us in those spaces if you want to!), and we definitely didn't want you lot over here on Steam to miss out on any fun content or teasers. Speaking of teasers...

Introducing Moolin

Bistro in the Sand!

Core Keeper Throughout the Seasons

Brain of Cthulhu Map Art

Easter Update Playthrough with 2DKiri and Mystery

Animal Update Speculation from Dakon The Mad!

This week was a fun one with the launch of our 2023 Easter seasonal event, and plenty of you went out of your way to let us know how eggcited you were for it (that's the last time we use that pun this year, we promise). It's been a busy one, with plenty of updates and community content, so let's jump right into this week's wrap-up!

April Fools' Day

April...Cools Day?

Which Came First, the Chicken (Suit) or the (Easter) Egg?

Easter Fan Art by Lem!

Birthday Cake!

Behold the Mighty Glurch!

Time Island: A Base for All Seasons

Get ready, Explorers, its time for Core Keepers second-ever Easter seasonal event running from today until the 16th of April! Many of you will remember that The Great Egg Hunt was the first seasonal event that we ever revealed for Core Keeper, and we loved watching you uncover all the exciting seasonal content. Your community feedback inspired us to not only allow players to keep any Easter Eggs they found once the event ended, but it also played a part in our decision to enable players to toggle seasonal events in the Game Settings menu! We like to think our seasonal events have only gotten bigger and better since the very first Great Egg Hunt, so when the time came to repeat our Easter event, we knew that we wanted to add some new content to bring it up to par with what youve come to expect from us. While we might not always update recurring seasonal events with new content, were sure youll have an eggceptional time egg hunting in the new Chicken outfit or the Eggcellent equipment set! If that wasnt fun enough, weve added a whole host of decorative items for Easter including the Easter Garland, Easter Meadow Table, Easter Egg Lamp, and more! Check out our patch notes here.
If this is your first time taking part in The Great Egg Hunt, then youre in for a treat! Get hunting by digging your way through the Dirt Biome, combing the Clay Caves, fighting your way across the Forgotten Ruins, and ambling through Azeos Wilderness until youve got enough Easter Eggs to craft the mysterious Golden Egg. Dont eggspect to find those Easter Eggs just lying on the floor though, Explorers youll have to take a more aggressive approach when hunting them down. From here, its up to you to uncover the secrets of the shiny Golden Egg! We cant believe its been over a year since our very first seasonal event, and we hope you have a blast egg hunting while were hard at work on the Animal Update, Crystal Biome, and beyond! As always, we hope youll join the fun over on Discord or tag us in your seasonal screenshots on Twitter.

NEW CONTENT

New Features:

• The Seasonal Merchant now has a new festive skin and new seasonal items for sale. The skin will revert to its original appearance after the event ends, but the items will remain available.
• The Easter Crafting Table can be acquired from the Seasonal Merchant.
• The Large Golden Egg is now sold by the Seasonal Merchant.
• Certain tiles have started to bloom and now have flowers on them. These tiles will revert to their original appearance once the season ends.

New Items:

• New decorative environment items can be crafted at the Easter Workbench, including:
• Easter Garland
• Easter Egg Lamp
• Daisy Flooring
• Easter Pillar
• Easter Egg Flower Pot
• Easter Meadow Table
• Easter Meadow Stool
• Easter Pedestal
• New vanity equipment sets can be crafted at the Easter Workbench, including Chicken equipment set and Eggcellent equipment set.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Graphics:

• The Core Keeper main menu logo has been updated with a new, seasonal appearance.

Balancing:

• The drop chance of Easter Eggs from enemies has been increased.
• Infected Cavelings and Mold Tentacles will no longer drop Gray Easter Eggs but only drop Green Easter Eggs.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where regenerating maps would create slightly larger saves on each start. Regeneration typically happens for map parts containing Obsidian walls. Currently affected saves are cleaned up which could improve save and load times for those affected.

Welcome to the first-ever Core Keeper Weekly Community Wrap-Up! We share a lot of cool stuff about Core Keeper over on Twitter and Discord, but were aware that not everybody who plays the game is active in those spaces. Thats why weve decided to do a weekly community wrap-up here on Steam from now on to share the highlights from these channels with you. Heres what weve shared this week!

Our Cherry Blossom Event is Over!

Springtime in the Underground

Cherry Blossom Fan Art

Behind-the-Scenes Glass!

Discord Sticker Competition

Community Screenshots

Were delighted to announce that Core Keeper is taking part in the London Games Festival Steam event, hosted by our publisher, Fireshine Games! London is one of the most diverse spaces for games and interactive entertainment in the UK, and the London Games Festival is one of the biggest celebrations of video games of the year. Our publisher, Fireshine Games, is proud to be hosting the London Games Festival Steam Event this year, which is running from today until the 9th of April. Starting smack bang in the middle of this festival on April 3rd and running until the day after the London Games Festival on April 10th, were pleased to be offering a whopping 20% discount on Core Keeper! This week-long sale is a great opportunity to get Core Keeper at its lowest price before the price change we announced in our recent roadmap post goes live (this is scheduled for shortly after the launch of the Animal Update). There are so many incredible games being developed in or published by studios in London, and we are very happy to be part of this exciting festival, celebrating the successes of our industry peers! We hope you take advantage of the Core Keeper discount and enjoy starting your very own adventure in our vast, underground indie game!

Has it really been over a year since our last Easter seasonal event? Time really flies when youre exploring the underground! Were very eggcited (well be using this pun every year, get used to it) to announce the date of this years Easter Seasonal event, which will go live on Wednesday April 5th and run all the way until Sunday April 16th. Since The Great Egg Hunt was our very first seasonal event, things are going to be a little bit different this year. This is the first time weve revisited an event like this, and the entire team felt like there was a little space to expand the original, so you can expect a few eggstra (sorry) pieces of equipment and decorative items for this year.
While we may not always have the scope to add new content for each of our seasonal events, we really wanted to build on last years Easter content for even more egg-hunting fun. We hope these additions will bring the Easter event up to par with what youve seen in some of our other seasonal events. It was amazing to see such a positive response from the community around the first Easter seasonal event, and we thought wed take this opportunity to showcase some of the cool stuff you created last year!

Egg Hunt Guide by JadePG - Crafted (spoiler warning!)

Egg Pixel Art on the Core Keeper Map by Malugazs #1 SIMP on Discord (amazing name)

Easter-Themed Map Pixel Art by Epik on Discord

Egg Base by Mayyo on Discord

Get ready for spring, as Core Keepers Cherry Blossom Event is now live! This mini-event sees the addition of trees inspired by the Shidarezakura Weeping Cherry and Yoshino Cherry to the game, along with pink and white Cherry Flowers, and a brand-new achievement for you to uncover. The Cherry Blossom mini-event will run from today until the 31st of March. Will you try your hand at creating a minimalist base? Maybe youre working on a beautiful garden? No matter what biome youre building in, itll look a whole lot nicer with a Cherry Tree or two. Dont believe us? Heres something we whipped up right by The Core!
We hope you enjoy decorating your world with Cherry Trees and that youre also looking forward to our upcoming Easter Seasonal Event! Well be sharing more information on the dates for that in a Steam post tomorrow, so keep an eye out! Were always keen to see your screenshots and videos, and youre welcome to share them with us over on the official Core Keeper Discord server. Make sure youre keeping up with us on Twitter and over in the Steam Discussions too for more news, information, and announcements.

NEW CONTENT

New items:

• Added the White Cherry Blossom, which can now be found randomly spawning in the world.
• Introduced the White Cherry Tree, which can be crafted by combining White Cherry Blossoms.
• Added the Pink Cherry Blossom, which can now be found randomly spawning in the world.
• Introduced the Pink Cherry Tree, which can be crafted by combining Pink Cherry Blossoms.

New Achievements:

• Added a new achievement for players to unlock.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Balancing:

• Adjusted the spawn rate of Love Letters during Valentine's Day to improve game balance.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug with the background write thread and other threads using the incorrect thread priority.
• Fixed an issue with missing text when the Cheat Death talent is triggered.

Other:

• Improved stability by preventing bosses from being affected by slippery movement effects, such as those caused by the Bubble Gun.

As we make our way into spring, flowers are blooming all over the world, but the Yoshino cherry blossoms that bloom this time of year in Japan have always held a special place in our hearts. We wanted to share our love for Cherry Blossoms and show our appreciation for our growing Japanese community with our very own Cherry Blossom mini-event in Core Keeper running from the 22nd until the 31st of March. Its a small token of our love, and we hope it makes your games a little bit brighter this spring. Its no secret by now that the Pugstorm team shares a love of Japanese culture, youll even spot references to some of our favourite pieces of Japanese media in Core Keeper. Well, we thought the launch of our Cherry Blossom mini-event would be the perfect opportunity to share some more information about our experiences with Japanese culture and how they have influenced the game. Our chairman, David Wallsten studied and worked in Japan and has fond memories of taking part in the custom of Hanami () AKA "flower viewing". He enjoyed the social element of Hanami, and recalls meeting with lots of different groups of friends for picnics underneath the cherry trees every year.
CEO, Fredrik Prntare has visited Japan several times over the years, soaking up the culture in places like Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka. On his many visits he has met with Japanese creatives and attended artificial intelligence conferences, immersing himself in a culture of innovation. While Fredrik is a big fan of exploring the city and enjoying the delicious cuisine on offer (he's a big fan of ramen and udon!), his favourite thing about Japan is the amazing people he's met on his journeys. If you've spotted any Legend of Zelda references in Core Keeper, you can bet Fredrik had a hand in them! He's a huge fan of the franchise and has even hinted that we can expect more of these references in future, so keep an eye out! Alongside Fredrik's Zelda references, you'll come across some nods to Japanese media such as Made in Abyss, Studio Ghibli movies, and more. We hope youre looking forward to Core Keepers Cherry Blossom mini event perhaps youll get some friends together and take part in a Hanami of your own? In the meantime, dont forget to follow us on Twitter or join the discussions on the official Core Keeper Discord!

This time last year, Core Keeper launched in Early Access happy birthday to us! It goes without saying (but were gonna say it anyway) that we wouldnt be where we are now without our awesome community, and we wanted to celebrate and show our thanks by adding some birthday-themed goodies to the game.

Light the candles, grab yourself a slice of cake, and let's party! Our Anniversary Update is live and running until the 20th of March.

NEW FEATURES

Gameplay:

• The Seasonal Merchant has a new skin and new items to sell for the new season. The skin will change back after the season ends but the items can still be bought.
• Anniversary Cake: Topped with Glow Tulip glaze. When eaten, it emits a strong glow around the player and also gives a permanent health increase. Sold by the Seasonal Merchant.
• Four festive birthday hats sold by the Seasonal Merchant.
• New Happy Birthday music sheet. Sold by the Seasonal Merchant.
• Terraria Journey's Beginning music sheet. Drops from the King Slime boss.
• New hidden achievement.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Graphics:

• Updated the Flower Crown sprites to better fit all hairstyles.

BUG FIXES

• Corrected sorting order of stone platforms in front of the Core.
• Fixed an issue where Ore Boulder shadows would sometimes flicker.
• Fixed Hive Larva Fish not being able to be fished in regular water in the Clay Caves biome.

OTHER

• Changed Twisted Agate sprite to not be mistaken for a seed.
• Changed input backend on Linux to avoid issues when running the game with Steam Input enabled for some controllers.

Its been a very exciting month with the launch of our Quality of Love Update. This was the first time we released something that was part seasonal event and part content update, and we were very pleased to see such a positive response from the Core Keeper community. With all-new seasonal content, the addition of our brand-new music and instruments mechanic, and changes to our rendering pipeline for improvements to lighting and shadows, we think this was the perfect way to kick off the new yearand were just getting started! Theres so much we want to shout about on the horizon for 2023, and weve got plenty to share, but we think the best place to start is with the reveal of our brand-new roadmap! Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the roadmap image.

Anniversary Event

Cherry Blossom Festival

Easter Seasonal Event

Animal Update (Name TBC)

Crystal Biome (Name TBC)

Core Keeper Pricing Information

An Exciting Year Ahead!

BUG FIXES

• Fixed dedicated server not working in docker containers.
• Fixed network connection not closing properly on exit.
• Fixed broken graphics for mortar projectiles.
• Improved Firefly death effect.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Quality of Life:

• Improved loading of lights when moving through the world: If a light is not ready to render (waiting in the shadow update queue), an economic alternative will be used until it is. This significantly reduces popping when loading many lights at the edges of the screen.
• Improved the light optimization system: In previous versions of the game, lights would selectively turn off when there were too many in a small area. Now, a very economic alternative way of rendering lights is used instead and the Light Quality graphics setting determines how many real lights are allowed. When setting Light Quality to Low, almost all lights are replaced with the economic alternative which can lead to a significant performance boost.

Art and Animation

• Modified the tone mapping used in the game, resulting in better colors for pixels with very intense lighting.
• Tweaked the bloom threshold value, resulting in overall less hazy visuals when bloom is enabled.
• Improved ceiling hole/light edges.
• Updated hairstyle #6 and #8, cleaned up stray pixels.
• Improved Firefly visuals (less flickering)
• Updated Flower Crown to display the players full hairstyle.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed missing emissiveness on Lava Chests.
• Updated the Japanese translation for the Chefs Jacket.
• Fix sorting order issues of the different character parts.
• Fixed Root shadows to look correct during Christmas and Valentine seasons.
• Fixed a bug where equipment such as the King Slime Crown that has a glow would not emit light when placed on the Mannequin.
• Fixed a bug where not all recipes would show up when using the ingredient filters in the Cook Book.
• Fixed Caveling Scholars not healing.
• Fixed performance regression when there are lots of nearby objects.
• Fixed a bug where crafting 10 times more items by holding ctrl would be reverted when crafting was done for objects that by default gave more than one item per craft.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where some automation configurations cause a crash on host.

BUG FIXES

• Lit Floor tiles no longer block other emissive light sources like Glow Tulips.
• Light colors are now correctly converted to linear space when gathering light data.
• Increased connection timeout to avoid treating long frame times as a timeout for the host.
• Removed the limit on the number of objects spawned per frame.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed getting random loot in boss chests due to uninitialized memory.
• Fixed achievements not unlocking.

It's time to jump right into another exciting update, Explorers! Our Quality of Love update is now live. Part seasonal event, part content update, you'll be uncovering magical new Valentine's features as well as a whole host of additions that will remain in-game after the event has ended. Speaking of our Valentine's seasonal event, this will run from today until February 28th, but don't worry! From this update onwards, all of our seasonal events can be accessed at any time through the game's Gameplay Settings menu. Please note that the addition of the seasons option in the games Gameplay Settings menu will replace the previous mechanic of having to set the season under the games Launch Options in Steam.

Major Visual Improvements to Core Keeper

Indie Musical Magic

Valentine's Content and Cosmetic Upgrades

NEW FEATURES

Main Features:

• Valentine Letters can be found dropped on the ground throughout the world. Pick them up and check out what the Seasonal Merchant has to offer for them! Any letters left on the ground after the season ends will disappear and any picked-up letters will be kept. The letters will continuously appear randomly in the world throughout the season.
• The Seasonal Merchant now has a new skin and new items to sell for the new season. The skin will change back after the season ends but the items can still be bought.
• Valentine Crafting Table. Acquired from the Seasonal Merchant.
• Valentines Chest. Acquired from the Seasonal Merchant.
• Valentines Gift. Acquired from the Seasonal Merchant.
• 9 new decorations and furniture.
• 3 new valuables.
• New consumables: - Distilled Love. - Box of Chocolates.
• New equipment and weapons: - Cupid Bow. - Cupid Tunic. - Valentine Necklace. - Valentine Ring.
• The iris of the Core has a heart shape during the Valentines seasonal event.

New Items:

• Magic Mirror. Can be crafted at the Carpenters Table and allows the player to change the appearance and the name of their character.
• Mannequin. Can be crafted at the Carpenters Table and allows the player to showcase equipment.
• Equipment presets. Three tabs have been added to the character window allowing players to quickly swap between different equipment setups.
• Music Workbench. Can be crafted at the Tin Workbench and allows the player to craft the following:
• Harp, Flute, and Cello instruments. These can be used to play notes manually. Predefined songs can also be auto-played by standing nearby a Music Sheet Stand that contains a Music Sheet.
• Music Sheet Stand.
• Several Music Sheets.
• Loom. Can be crafted at the Carpenters Table and allows the player to craft different sets of clothes. These are intended to allow more customisation using the vanity slots in the Dresser but can be equipped directly as well: - Wedding dress. - Suit. - Archeology clothes. - Cooking clothes.

New Mechanics:

• The Ocarina has been changed into an instrument instead of a valuable and it can now also be commonly found in digging spots found in the Azeos' Wilderness Biome. The drop chance of the Dry Butterfly from digging spots has been reduced to compensate for this.
• Workbenches now have the option to select earlier tier Workbenches in their UI to allow crafting items from those Workbenches.
• Objects can now be rotated before placing them down instead of doing it through interaction after they have been placed down. The long-term plan is to support rotation of more objects in the game and this change is a first step towards that. The current objects that are affected by this change are: Drill, Robot Arm, Conveyor Belt, Galaxite Turret, Stone Turret, Delay Circuit, and Logic Circuit.
• Quick trash. Added a key binding that allows players to quickly move items to the trash can. Any item already in the trash can will be destroyed. The default key binding on the keyboard is the Delete key but this can be changed in the controls menu under the Trash selected item binding.
• Toggle UI keybinding. Added a keybinding (Ctrl+U) that allows players to toggle the in-game UI on or off. This is the same as changing the Show in-game UI setting found under the UI Settings.
• Added an option under Gameplay Settings to activate specific seasons or turn them off completely. This can only be changed while in the title menu and not while playing in a world. To avoid confusion, it is no longer possible to set a season through the launch options in Steam. Changing the date on the computer still works to activate specific seasons but its recommended to use this new option.
• Caveling Miners will sometimes lie down and sleep. They also have some new emotes they do while idling and while in combat.
• Caveling Hunters now need to reload their gun before shooting, giving players more time to avoid their shots.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Balancing:

• Adjusted overall enemy damage so that enemies, especially in the beginning of the game, deal a bit less damage.
• Slightly reduced health and damage dealt by Infected Cavelings.
• Reduced damage dealt by Mold Tentacles.
• Reduced damage dealt by Bubble Crabs.
• The condition which gives a chance to catch higher rarity fish now uses the correct chance for each fish. Previously, the chance was equal for all fish when this condition triggered, including for the Starlight Nautilus. Increased the chance of catching Starlight Nautilus to compensate for this change.
• Reduced cost of Keys crafted at the Key Casting Table. Keys now also have a small chance to drop from all types of Slime enemies, the Miner Cavelings, and from fishing.
• Locked Chests have a small chance to be caught when fishing.
• Reduced the health of Omoroth and the tentacles that spawn during the boss fight.
• Changed so the small racing track scenery only appears once in the world.
• Turrets now put enemies into combat. This makes them more useful for mob farms and also more consistent with how Spike Traps work.

Quality of Life:

• Circuits can now be placed under other blocking objects and walls can be built on top of Circuits.
• Gokarts can now be moved by Conveyor Belts and they can also be placed on top of Conveyor Belts.
• Hitting objects now takes the mouse position / right joystick direction more into account to give more precise control when defining which object to hit around the player.
• Fences adapt towards adjacent walls now. This means there are no longer small gaps between fences and walls.
• Ores from boulders now spawn in a random position inside the boulder, so having multiple drills on the same boulder will not always yield ore from the same drill.
• Clicking the recipes in autocrafting objects such as the Furnace and Table Saw will automatically move the required materials to the input slots from the player inventory or any adjacent chest.
• Holding down the modifier key to pick up 10 of a stack (Ctrl) can now also be done when crafting to craft 10 times the amount of the item at once. This only works for stackable items. Clicking recipes in autocrafting objects such as the Cooking Pot and the Furnace can also be done to move 10 of the required materials to the input slots.
• Rails can now be built on top of Conveyor Belts. Note that Conveyor Belts do not affect Minecarts on Rails but this feature is intended to allow moving items through Rails.
• Any electronic object can now be built on top of Wires. Note that, in most cases, this will override the behavior of the Wire, such as when placing a Logic Circuit on top of a Wire.
• Added in-game UI navigation keybindings. This will mainly be useful for players using controllers to change the D-pad buttons to do something else than navigating in the UI, as the joystick can already be used for that.
• GoKarts and Boats can now be rotated before being placed down.
• The Robot Arm can now place objects into the Fishing Net Rack, Decorative Pot, and Planter Box.
• Golden Glow Tulips now emit gold light instead of blue.
• Gravestones take 3 hits to destroy to avoid destroying other players' gravestones as easily. The player's own gravestone is still destroyed in one hit like before.
• The Furnace, Smelter Kiln, Fury Forge, and Table Saw now only accept the resources they can process in their input slots.
• Creatures no longer try to damage objects that they cant break in a few hits.
• Hoes that cover multiple tiles will now prioritize hoeing other tiles such as Moss or Slime before hoeing any ground tiles.
• Enemies no longer block players from mining walls while holding a mining pick.
• Add a cap to how many Jelly Fishes can spawn in an area.
• Add a cap to how many Tentacles can spawn in an area.
• Add a cap to how many Fish Shoals can spawn in an area with sea water.
• Add a cap to how many Water Lilies spawn in an area.
• Add a cap to how many Water Kelps spawn in an area.

Art and Animation:

• Implemented a brand-new rendering pipeline. This should result in an upgrade in terms of lighting and GPU performance.
• Completely reworked indirect (bounce) lighting. Light now spreads further and takes surface color into account, resulting in softer, more saturated dynamic lighting.
• Added a new system for calculating advanced object shadows. This causes most objects and enemies to cast per-light shadows.
• Emissive surfaces can now generate light.
• Improved resolution upscaling, making the game appear sharper on window resolutions higher than 1920x1080.
• Split the graphics settings menu into two: Display and Graphics.
• Added a screen-space ambient occlusion effect and a Graphics setting for it (Low / Medium / High).
• Added an Object Shadows Graphics setting (Off / Simple / Advanced). Simple makes the shadows behave like they did before this update and Advanced uses the new system.
• Improved bloom and added a Display setting for it (Normal / Reduced / Off).
• Reworked the 16-bit color option: It is now called Color Output and allows you to change from the full 24-bit output to a limited 15-bit color palette. An additional option allows you to add dithering to this effect, which breaks up the color bands that appear. The 15-bit setting is intended to give the game a retro look and has no bearing on performance.
• Improved the shine effect on ore in walls.
• Improved graphics for the snare effects for Snare Plants.
• Improved animations for the Caveling Miners.
• Improved lighting from emissive plants such as Glow Tulips.
• Improved lighting from emissive objects such as Furnaces and Smelter Kilns.
• Added shadows for Fences and Roots.

Audio:

• Adjustment to Larva's hurt & death sound effects.
• Swords now have a unique swing & impact sound effects.
• Adjustment to Rune Song sound effects.
• Adjustment to Slime Sword sound effects.
• Adjustment to Throwing Daggers sound effects.

Other:

• Updated Unity to version 2021.3.14f1.
• Added moddable configuration files for loot tables.
• Added moddable configuration files for fishing loot and struggle behaviour.
• Added moddable configuration files for environment and mob spawns.
• Added moddable configuration files for changing friend or foe for factions.
• Added moddable texture for changing color grading.
• Improve initial loading time when joining a game.
• Equipment and consumables like the Glow Tulip that emit a blue glow now states blue glow in its stats instead of just glow.
• The Painters Table has been moved to the Carpenters Table.
• Credits auto scrolling can be paused by holding down the interact button.
• Crystal Lamp has a working collider now.
• Fixed so offhands can still be used while hovering any UI element with the mouse.
• Added Blue Glass Kalimba valuable that drops from Large Destructibles in the Ancient City Ruins in the Sunken Sea. This item was added as the reward for winning the "Creepy Caves" competition by our community member Woopsiee.
• Azeos now screeches when flying over the player as a shadow.
• Changed Larvaskin Rugs and Temple Decor Rugs to appear above Rug tiles.
• Delay time before fade in on world load to avoid having objects pop in.
• The souls tab is now unlocked when a player is nearby a Soul Orb without the need to talk to the Core first.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug where keyboard navigation in menus would be overridden by mouse selection when not moving or using the mouse.
• Fixed a bug where Shroomans would collide with seeds when charging.
• Fixed a bug where objects that have a random visual appearance based on their world position would not be so random but instead follow a pattern in some cases.
• Fixed a bug where no Slime bosses could be summoned if King Slime was already summoned anywhere in the world.
• Fixed an issue with the Kelp Tree showing duplicate sprites.
• Critters will no longer spawn inside The Core or the Boss Statues.
• Grass and Bushes no longer drop seeds sometimes.
• Roots of different types no longer grow into each other.
• Fixed a bug where the walls around the Hive Mother could be dug up using a Hoe in specific cases.
• Fixed an issue where Ra-Akar the Sand Titan would spawn even if the Thumper was removed.
• Fixed an issue where some merchants would always restock their items when restarting the game if some statues had been activated.
• Adjusted small icons for Glowing Tulip and Puffungi to be centered.
• Fixed a bug where projectiles would visually look like they were affected by ground effects such as mold or slime.
• Fixed a bug where roots could start to spread before the Root Plant was fully grown.
• Fixed a bug where Ghost Scholars were not immune to debuffs such as burning.
• Fixed a bug where Poison Traps would take damage and be destroyed from players having thorns damage.
• Fixed a bug where the set bonus from the Ivy equipment would give crit chance from any debuff applied and not just poison.
• Fixed a bug where Doors could not be placed adjacent to walls that contained any ore.
• Fixed an issue where light sources would stop following their object when fading out.

Love is in the airand in the underground. Were delighted to announce that were bringing you something very special this February in the form of our Quality of Love update! Part seasonal event, part update, you can expect lots of new content and fixes coming to Core Keeper, with some new additions remaining in game even after the Valentines seasonal event has ended! Whether youre a mushy romantic who wants to see pretty pink flowers in the underground or youre hankering for some fresh new features (musical instruments, anyone?) and visual improvements to the game, there are lots of reasons to get excited about this one.

When is Core Keepers Quality of Love Update Releasing?

What Can We Expect in the Quality of Love Update?

Major Changes to Lighting and Rendering

New Features and Content!

Core Keeper is currently in Early Access, and weve got an amazing community across Steam, Twitter, and Discord. We cannot thank you enough for your support as we work on developing the game. However, theres one area of our community that we wanted to show a little extra love to today, and thats our modding community! It takes a lot of skill, talent, and passion to work on modding a game that is relatively fresh in terms of its lifecycle, and we think its amazing that so many people have been getting excited about what they can do to mod Core Keeper while it's still in the early stages of development. Weve seen people chatting about mods across all our social media platforms, and we thought it was about time that we gave them a dedicated space to discuss their projects. With that in mind, we created a modding channel on the official Core Keeper Discord. Here, modders can chat to each other about what theyre working on, collaborate, and share tips, tricks, and even tutorials! Modding can look very different from game to game, but for Core Keeper, weve seen things like the implementation of creative-mode style features such as item spawning and the augmentation of skills all the way to the addition or alteration of in-game mechanics and features. Modders use a wide variety of tools and plugins that work with the games engine (Unity) when working on their projects, and the modding community has even been so kind as to provide a Getting Started With Modding wiki and a modding library resource! Youll find tool recommendations, advice on adding assets to Unity, and guidelines on modifying the games behaviour in the wiki, as well as a library of features that make modding Core Keeper easier in the modding library. As always, we advise you to make backups of any and all files that you choose to modify whenever youre doing something that could impact your data or the games code - just in case you need to reinstall for whatever reason. Weve seen some great stuff from the modding community so far, including mods that allow more precise tile placements when farming and building; a mod that gives the player XP when watering crops; and a mod that streamlines the fishing process by showing you the name of the fish on your line and automatically pulling it up for you. Were keen to see all the amazing ideas and creativity thats still to come from Core Keeper modders, and we hope that giving you a place to discuss these things lets you know that we, the developers, support the modding community and that we're exploring the possibility of making modding more feasible in the future.

Welcome to 2023! Were very excited to ring in the new year with such an amazing community, and we hope youre all looking forward to what this year will bring for Core Keeper. You can expect a new roadmap from us this year, with details on the Crystal Biome and beyond! Youll also be pleased to know that our seasonal events will be recurring throughout 2023, and we miiiight just add some new content to these if the opportunity presents itself. Though we cant say much at the moment, we can assure you that therell be plenty to look forward to over the coming months, so keep an eye out for news and updates in the Steam announcements as well as over on our Twitter and Discord channels. You can probably tell that were raring to go full steam ahead into the New Year, but we also think its important to take the time to look back and reflect on what a great year 2022 was for us. Here are our highlights!

Launching Core Keeper in Early Access in March:

Our First Seasonal Event at Easter:

Our First Major Update The Sunken Sea:

Cozy Caverns:

Terraria Crossover:

Our Halloween Seasonal Event:

Our Second Major Update The Desert of Beginnings:

Our Christmas Seasonal Event:

Merry Christmas from the Pugstorm and Fireshine Games teams! We hope youre all having a lovely time, Explorers whether you celebrate Christmas or are just enjoying a little break from school/work/responsibilities while everything relaxes over the holiday season. We cant believe how quickly 2022 has gone by. It feels like only yesterday that we launched Core Keeper in Early Access, and here we are with two major updates and a handful of smaller/seasonal ones under our belts. We couldnt have done it without your amazing feedback, and we are truly grateful for such a wonderful community. We sure hope youre enjoying the festive version of the underground in our Christmas Seasonal Event, which will be running all the way until the 5th of January. We know how busy things get over Christmas, which is why we want to remind you that you can experience our seasonal events at any time after theyve launched by either [olist]

Merry Christmas, Explorers! We hope youve all had an amazing year we know we have. Its getting to the time where we start winding down for some well-earned rest as we approach the end of 2022, and the Pugstorm team is looking forward to lots of festive fun over the Christmas period. CEO and Creative Director, Fredrik, will be heading up to Northern Sweden to celebrate Christmas with his parents and to go skiing! COO and Development Director, Sven, will be having a magical time meeting up with relatives in a cottage in the woods! Each member of his family will be going out and getting their own Christmas tree, and, of course, theres also Swedish fika and grilling sausages. Lead Artist and Art Director, Julian, is also going to meet relatives this year, but hes looking forward to shutting himself in and getting cosy with some video games and books. And Max, our Lead Programmer and Technical Director, hasnt quite finalised his plans yet, but spending time with family and friends (and enjoying lots of good food!) is definitely on the cards. Pugstorm has also been expanding a little in 2022, with new programmers and artists joining the team, and we even managed to take a team photo at our julbord (a traditional, Scandinavian Christmas feast!).
We hope youre enjoying the Core Keeper Christmas Seasonal event and that you all have a lovely holiday season. You should definitely keep an eye on our Twitter channel for lots of exciting Christmas activity throughout December.

Bug Fixes: - A fix has been implemented for the problem of plants appearing broken during growth.

Hotfix Patch - 0.5.1.1 - Fix character and world metadata files being reset when updating to 0.5.1 with incoming Steam Cloud changes. Hi Explorers, we understand that some of you have been having issues with characters disappearing after updating the game for the Christmas Seasonal Event. We wanted to let you know that weve just rolled out a hotfix that should prevent this from happening from now on.

If You've Been Affected By This Issue, Read Below...

Hi Explorers, we're always keen to hear your feedback when we're thinking about making changes to the way certain mechanics work in Core Keeper. Recently, we've been considering a small adjustment to the way Ancient Coins work in-game, and we wanted to know your thoughts. At the moment, you can sell several different items to the Merchants in Core Keeper in exchange for Ancient Coins. We are proposing an adjustment to this mechanic so that the only items you can sell to Merchants in exchange for Ancient Coins would be Valuables going forward. We believe this change would help to balance the in-game economy when it comes to Ancient Coins and that it would make the items marked as "Valuables" more impactful. We would like to know if this is something the community feels favourable toward or opposed to, and we'd also like to hear any feedback you might have on this proposal. You can let us know what you think by filling out this short, anonymous survey here. Please note that this survey is the only medium we will be using to collate data on community sentiment regarding this proposal, so if you want to share an opinion, please make sure to submit it using the form we linked to above. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us, and we look forward to hearing what you think!

New Content

New Features

• Seasonal Merchant. Put a Calendar in a comfortable room and he will come and visit you. The Calendar can be crafted in the Carpenters Table.
• Little Helperlings. Feed them cooked food and they will craft you presents! Acquired from the Seasonal Merchant by trading Cookies & Milk.
• Christmas variants for enemies:
• - Slime Blobs have become Snowhead Slimes.
• - Red Slime Blobs have become Carrot Slimes.
• - Shroomans have become Santa Shroomans.
• - Caveling Miners have become Gingerbreadlings.
• - Caveling Shamans have become Starwand Shamans.
• - Caveling Brutes have become Bakery Brutes.

New items

• Christmas Workbench, craft decorations and furniture to bring Christmas into your home. Acquired from the Seasonal Merchant by trading Cookies & Milk. 17 new decorations and furniture.
• 17 new decorations and furniture.
• New consumables:
• - Hot Chocolate.
• - Hot Punch.
• - Winter Cookies.
• - Fruit Bread
• - Winter Dinner.
• New equipment and weapons:
• - Snowball.
• - Snowman Hat
• - Festive Hat.
• - Gingerbreadman Head.
• - Gingerbread Hood.
• - Gingerbread Top.
• - Gingerbread Pants.
• New figurines (the following figurines have a chance to drop in addition to the normal figurines from the enemies, meaning that the normal versions are not replaced during the Christmas event. The new figurines can also drop from Luxury Winter Presents):
• - Snowhead Slime Figurine.
• - Carrot Slime Figurine.
• - Santa Shrooman Figurine.
• - Gingerbreadling Figurine.
• - Starwand Shaman Figurine.
• - Bakery Brute Figurine.
• 5 new valuables.
• Fireworks to celebrate New Year's Eve (or any other occasion) Comes in several colors and theres a big one too! Can be crafted at the Christmas Workbench or acquired from Luxury Winter Presents.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Quality-of-Life

• Merchants can now teleport into a room even when any player is nearby or in that room. Note that a Merchant wont teleport while someone is currently very close to or interacting with the Merchant at its current location.
• The light on electricity wires now visually reaches one tile less while still powering electricity buildings at the same distance. This makes it clearer since everything connected to a lit wire will be powered.

Art and animation:

• Increased the visibility of particles from healing, poisoned or other similar effects
• Added particle effects when walking on Slippery Ground Slime.
• Players now snore when sleeping.

Audio:

• Added honking sound effects for each type of Go-Kart.
• New unique damage & destroy sound effects for grass, clay, stone, hive and turf walls.
• The slime footstep sound effect now plays when walking on all types of Ground Slime.

Balancing:

• Increased the drop chance of Oracle Card "Brilliance" from Ancient Crates and it can now also drop from the Large Ancient Crates.
• Increased the duration of immunity buffs from cooked Blister Head, Yellow Blister Head and Rot Fish to be five minutes.
• Increased the duration of the movement speed increase from cooked Spirit Veil to be two minutes.
• Reduced amount of Fireflies that spawn in the Desert of Beginnings biome.

Other:

• Pressure Plates are now placed on the same height as Circuits, meaning that they will appear beneath flooring and rugs.
• Fixed typos in some item & condition descriptions.
• Polished colors that some golden crops give when cooked as food.
• Healing from sleeping in bed heals a percentage of player hp every second instead of a set amount.
• Removed map colors for hoed & watered Dirt Ground.
• Added a buff icon for immune to burning.
• Remove encryption from character save files.
• Can start the game with a specific seasonal event enabled by running the game with the -season argument.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where Ore Boulders could spawn inside Obsidian Walls in the Desert Biome.
• Fixed a bug where the players own map marker would just be white instead of their corresponding color.
• Bomb Scarabs and Lava Butterflies no longer fly through walls placed on bridges.
• Players can no longer sometimes traverse through bridges with fences while riding a boat.
• Fixed a bug where items in max stack sizes could not be picked up in the inventory UI while holding the same item in the mouse.
• Fixed a bug where players could get cooking skill and additional food from the Cooking Pot without actually taking out the food from the Cooking Pot while holding the same food in the mouse. This would only occur if the total amount of the held food or the food in the Cooking Pot would be at max stack size.
• Fixed a bug where the output of buildings like Cooking Pots and Furnaces could be hot swapped with ingredients or ores causing unintended behavior.
• Fixed a bug where roots could grow on Sand Ground but not on Grass Ground.
• Fixed floating wall/floor cracks in suboptimal network conditions.
• Fixed incorrect button prompt for reflections setting in Video Settings.
• Fixed large scenes like the racing track spawning incorrectly in some cases.
• Fixed Electricity Sticks being able to power buildings. It should only affect Logic Circuits.
• Fixed some cases of path finding acting up when seeing the player through gaps in smaller colliders like roots and fences.
• Fixed a bug where hitting larger objects such as tables would sometimes instead damage the floor, Rugs, or other similar objects beneath it instead.
• Fixed a bug where Root Plants would stop growing after being completely blocked and unblocked again.
• Fixed electricity wires lighting up when placed on top of Ancient Electricity tiles.

As we get further and further into winter time, the days are getting colder and the nights are getting longer. Honestly, it just looks like an excuse to wrap up warm, grab yourself a mug of hot chocolate, and indulge in a marathon session of Core Keeper. We hope youll be rejoicing with us today as we launch our Christmas Seasonal Event!

What is the Core Keeper Christmas Seasonal Event?

How Long will the Core Keeper Christmas Seasonal Event Run for?

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and you know what that means its nearly time for another Core Keeper seasonal event. The Pugstorm and Fireshine teams are feeling extra jolly right now, so it feels like the perfect time to announce the date for our Christmas plans The Core Keeper Christmas seasonal event will go live on Tuesday the 13th of December 2022 and run up until January 5th 2023. Thats just over three weeks of festive fun coming your way. While we think its super fun to experience seasonal events in real-time, you might be pleased to know that we recently changed the way seasonal events work to account for busy Explorers. From the moment they launch, seasonal events will run based on the time and date of your PC. This means that if you cant play Core Keeper during the time period that an event is running, you can always change the date/time on your PC and access the in-game content that way. Huzzah!

What to Expect in the Core Keeper Christmas Seasonal Event

Nominations have just opened for The Steam Awards 2022, and wed love your support! Were exceptionally proud of Core Keepers multiplayer functionality and we hope we can count on your vote for the Better with Friends category this year.

Nominate Core Keeper for the Better with Friends award using the button above or at the link here.

Wed like to say a big hello to all our Chinese, Korean, and Japanese-speaking Explorers and welcome you to the Core Keeper Discord! This is the very first time weve added non-English spaces to our Discord, and were working with a very talented team of community managers to help us facilitate this. While were very excited to be able to offer spaces such as these, this is brand-new territory for our social team, so your feedback will be very valuable in helping us tailor these spaces to the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese communities.

How to Access Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Spaces on our Discord

Gameplay Changes

Balancing

• Increased the healing from the Oracle Deck.
• Increased the drop chance of Larva Meat and Clay Moss and reduced the drop chance of Slime from Big Larvae.

Other

• The Larva Butterfly enemy now spawns from Ground Magma Slime.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed potential invalid memory access in enemy chase logic.
• Fixed potential invalid memory access in enemy chase logic.
• Fixed potential invalid memory access in Scholar healing logic.
• Fixed potential invalid memory access when a player is hit by projectiles. Fixed invalid memory access when sending Cartography Table map data over the network, which was potentially leading to map corruption.
• Fixed a bug where items on Tables and Pedestals would sometimes be lit when they shouldnt be.
• Fixed a bug where the Cookbook UI would look broken and not be usable for some characters.
• Fixed an issue where the Giant Mushroom and Amber Larva would not appear in the Cookbook while using any ingredient type filter.
• Fixed some mobs trying to attack through walls.
• Fixed a bug where effects applied to nearby allies, such as the damage increase from the Crystal Meteor Chunk, would not be removed after unequipping the item if the character also had a talent giving a similar buff (such as The Smell of Food talent).
• The Bug Net no longer damages objects or enemies when swinging it.
• Fixed a bug where the Merchant would be invisible after teleporting to their room. Fixed a bug where the Leafhopper critter would not spawn anywhere. It now spawns in Azeos Wilderness as intended.
• Fixed bug with Fury Forge accepting items other than Galaxite Ore.
• Fixed bug with Caveling Assassins spawning raiding parties with the incorrect Caveling type.

Deep in the underground, far beyond The Core, lies a mysterious biome. Its sandy plains are home to a myriad of strange creatures, plant life, minerals, and artefacts just waiting to be discovered. Welcome to The Desert of Beginnings! We are very excited to announce that Core Keepers second major content update is now live for you to enjoy, and were pleased to reveal that this is also the biggest content update weve created for the game so far. [previewyoutube=t3DSMZaAA2w;full][/previewyoutube] After battling the mighty Omoroth, youll be ready to move on from The Sunken Sea biome and head on over to The Desert of Beginnings. Will you get straight to searching for Galaxite to level up your tools and equipment, or will you focus on building a base to protect yourself from this biomes many enemies? Keep an eye out for Caveling Assassins and Lava Butterflies as you traverse the desert, and make sure youre well prepared before you decide to take on Ra-Akar the Sand Titan! Within this scorching desert, youll also find the superheated Molten Quarry. Be warned, this sub-biome is not for the faint of heart, as it's full of Lava Slime and fiery enemies that will attack unsuspecting Explorers on sight. Thats not all youll have to watch out for in the Molten Quarry, however, as this is also the home of Igneous the Molten Mass.
While The Desert of Beginnings wont be without its challenges, this update also boasts plenty of rewards and exciting new content for plucky Explorers. Race around the desert in three brand-new land-based vehicles, or meet up with your friends for an off-road adventure or a little go-kart racing! Youll also spot 12 new critters on your adventures, and now youll even be able to catch them with the new Bug Netbecause who doesnt want a pocket full of Fireflies? Weve also added community-requested quality-of-life improvements including the ability to fish from boats and minecarts, Steam achievements, and the option to add custom Latin-based languages to the game. Oh, and did we mention that several (previously unmoveable) large world objects will now be mineable so that you can move them around the world as you see fit?
Combing the desert will also be extra immersive for Core Keeper players using CORSAIR hardware thanks to our brand-new integration. Weve fixed it so that any iCUE-compatible CORSAIR products (such as keyboards, headphones, and mice) will react to in-game events with exciting light displays. All of this will be coupled with a magical new Desert soundtrack, plus unique soundtracks for boss fights, from the talented Jonathan Geer. Its been an absolute joy to work on this update, and were extremely proud to have been able to bring you both a mini-update in Cozy Caverns and a new Halloween seasonal event while weve been developing The Desert of Beginnings. If youre interested in taking a look at everything weve added with this update, check out the patch notes here. Otherwise, well leave uncovering the updates mysteries to you! We hope you have fun exploring The Desert of Beginnings, and we hope you get a kick out of spotting all the little additions weve made to our existing biomes too. When youre ready to take a little break, you can always catch up with your fellow Explorers over on the Core Keeper Discord or see what were up to over on Twitter.

NEW FEATURES

Main Features

• New biome: Desert of Beginnings.
• New sub-biome in the Desert: Molten Quarry.

New NPCs

• Ra-Akar the Sand Titan (titan boss).
• Igneous the Molten Mass (side boss).
• 6 new enemies.
• New Caveling Spearman and Skirmisher that spawn in the Clay Caves along with new scenery objects related to these new enemies. They can also spawn from Clay Moss. Players who have already explored the whole of the Clay Caves biome may need to play in a new world to access all the new decorative objects related to these Cavelings.
• 12 new critters that will be unique to the different biomes.

New Mechanics

• Go-Karts. Traverse the desert at high speed or race against each other! Some old race tracks built a long time ago can also be found in the world.
• It is now possible to fish from Boats and Minecarts.
• Added a Cross Circuit that separates horizontal and vertical wires. Useful to allow crossing wires without connecting the electricity.
• Levers now emit electricity when turned on without needing electricity from a Generator. The electricity from a Lever reaches half the distance of a Generator.

New Items

• Galaxite ore.
• Galaxite Workbench with new tools, crafting, and base building options.
• 40+ new weapons and equipment.
• New decorative objects.
• 10 new fish, including a legendary one!
• New valuables.
• Legendary Mining Pick.
• A Bug Net can be crafted in the Tin Workbench that allows the player to catch small beetles, larvae, fireflies, and other critters. After a bug has been caught, it can be placed into the world and remain in the world indefinitely. The Bug Net has replaced the Tin Hoe in the Tin Workbench. The Tin Hoe now drops from crates, chests, and other sources in the Dirt and Clay biomes instead.
• Dynamite Pack: explodes when connected to electricity.
• Pressure Plate: emits electricity when stepped on by a player and reaches the same distance as Levers.
• Galaxite Trap: crafted in the Galaxite Workbench. It is similar to Spike Traps but shoots flames, burns the enemies, and deals more damage!
• Galaxite Turret: crafted in Galaxite Workbench. Shoots projectiles when there are enemies in front of it and its connected to electricity.

New Music

• New music tracks for the Desert of Beginnings and Molten Quarry biomes.
• New unique music tracks for each boss. The slime bosses use the same boss music track as before.

Additional Content

• Many new unique locations.
• Added Clay Moss that appears in the Clay Caves. Clay Moss can also drop from Big Larva.
• Locked chests will randomly be found in the world while digging walls. The chests can be unlocked with their corresponding key and will contain some rewards. The keys can be found in various chests and containers in the world or crafted at the Key Crafting Table made in the Scarlet Workbench.
• There are several different types of chests and keys including the Copper chest and key, found in the Dirt biome and Clay Caves; the Iron chest and key, found in the Forgotten Ruins; the Scarlet chest and key, found in Azeos Wilderness; the Octarine chest and key, found in the Sunken Sea; and the Galaxite chest and key, found in the Desert of Beginnings.

Other

• Steam Achievements.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Improvements to Cooking and Ingredients

• Added ingredient category filters in the cookbook UI. The available filters are plant, fish, and meat, and selecting any of these will filter out the ingredients list to only contain ingredients of that category.
• Recipes can be clicked to automatically add the ingredients to the Cooking Pot from the player's inventory or from adjacent chests. If the player or adjacent chests do not have the ingredients to cook a recipe, then the recipe is grayed out.
• Food cooked with golden plants always becomes rare (or epic with the Master Chef talent). Previously, this was only the case for ~50% of the combinations at random when combining a golden plant with a regular ingredient, which caused confusion. Any current food that has already been cooked will keep its rarity even if it is not obtainable anymore.
• Golden plants and cooked food made of golden plants now show up in the cookbook.
• Cooked food made of only golden plants becomes slightly stronger than when combining a golden plant with a non-golden plant ingredient.
• The ingredients filter in the cookbook UI uses the small version of the item icons instead to fit in more icons that are visible in the scroll window.
• Added unique nouns and adjectives to cooked food made from golden plants and their icons have some golden colors to make them more distinguishable from the cooked food made from the regular version of the same plant.
• Golden Larva Meat has been renamed to Shiny Larva Meat to differentiate it from the golden plants that work a bit differently when cooked.
• A number after the recipe's title in the cookbook UI indicates the current amount of recipes known.

Balancing Improvements

• Made it much less grindy to gain skills at high skill levels for all skills. This change is applied retroactively, so players may notice that their skills have been increased when starting the game after this update, especially any high-level skills.
• Boss health no longer scales linearly with the number of players but, instead, increases by an amount that becomes smaller for every player joining. This means that boss health will remain the same in single player, but it will scale just slightly lower for 2 players (and much lower for 8 players) than it did previously. This change is intended to incentivize bringing your friends with you even if they dont bring as much to the table when it comes to defeating bosses -- if you just find a boss very difficult yourself, then bringing more friends will help!
• More trees will spawn throughout Azeos Wilderness and in Mold Dungeons.
• Increased damage of all explosives like Bombs and Hand Mortars.
• Increased drop chance of the Morpha Figurine and the Caveling Gardener Figurine.
• Adjusted how monster health scales with their level so higher-level monsters have a bit more health.
• Changed sell value of Rails, Electrical Wires, and Conveyor Belts to be 1 Ancient Coin.
• Slightly increased the amount of Sea Shells required for the Omoroth Scanner.
• Slightly reduced drop chance of most items from the Caveling Gardener and the Caveling Hunter.
• Slightly reduced drop chance of Caveling set pieces from the Caveling Miner and the Caveling Shaman.
• Made Shiny Larva Meat rare instead of epic and increased its drop rate from Big Larva. The buffs it gives are still the same.
• Reduced spawn chance of some unique locations found in the Sunken Sea.
• Slightly increased the cost of crafting Levers.
• Increased drop chance of Haunted Hive Mother Summoning Idol from Samhain Goodie Bags.

Text and Localisation

• Added another number to the build version format, which means that the version now is A.B.C.D-XXXX where A will be 0 until we are out of Early Access, B is incremented for major updates, C is incremented for minor updates, and D is incremented for unplanned patches and hotfixes. XXXX is an internal build identifier.
• Can add and change localization for Latin languages. The game folder contains a folder named localization with further instructions.
• Descriptions of Spike Traps and Drills now say damage instead of melee damage.
• Updated credits.

Controls

• Players' keybindings have, unfortunately, been reset due to fixing an issue in the keybindings system that caused any new keybindings to not work. We are sorry about the inconvenience this may cause for players who have to set up their own keybindings again.

Art and Animation

• Character facing-direction no longer flickers as much while moving and having the mouse positioned diagonally from the character.
• A weak glow has been added to Furnaces that contain finished bars but are not currently smelting any ores to indicate that there are finished bars in it available to take out.
• The visuals of different types of Bridges no longer adapt to each other when adjacent to one another.
• Enemies flash green when they heal.
• The Pumpkin Helmet's eyes and mouth now glow. This is a new feature that will be found on some of the new equipment as well where parts of equipment will glow in the dark.
• Some Octarine equipment now glows in the dark.
• Rune Song now glows in the dark.
• Phantom Spark now glows in the dark.

UI and Menus

• An icon appears above the character's head when something bites the hook while fishing.
• The souls UI visuals have been improved and prepared for future content.
• Added current world name to pause menu.
• Network-related options will no longer display in the pause menu when running in offline mode.
• Added key item text and an icon to items that are used as keys to unlock other objects.
• The currently grabbed item is no longer shown while in menus.
• Portal icons will now display on top of other icons.

AI and Behaviours

• Character will now complain of hunger less often.
• Enemies taking damage from sources like Spike Traps will now be considered in combat and wont heal for a short duration.
• Projectiles can no longer damage doors.
• Applied a fix where the Red Slime Figurine only drops from Red Slimes.
• Merchants can restock their items even while the player is standing nearby them or interacting with them.
• Stone Moss will now spawn in any Caveling settlement ruins in the Forgotten Ruins. This only applies to new settlements.
• The rotation of Boats not occupied by any player will remain the same after restarting the game.

Collision

• Ground insects can no longer traverse through fences.
• The Lever no longer blocks the player and can be walked through.

Accessibility

• Added an outline to the text of things that the character says to make it more readable.

Audio

• Adjustment to footstep sounds.
• Adjustment to sound effects for Malugaz the Corrupted Shaman.
• Adjustment to sound effects for Azeos the Sky Titan.
• Adjustment to sound effects for The Hive Mother.
• Added a more noticeable sound effect when something is on the fishing line.

Other

• Groups of Larva will sometimes appear out of clay walls to ambush Explorers in the Clay Biome.
• Tentacles of Omoroth will sometimes appear out of the water while traversing the Sunken Sea.
• The Oracle Cards can be combined into an Oracle Deck offhand for players who successfully find all of them along with the Binding String. The Oracle Cards are no longer tagged as valuables and have different rarities.
• 3 new Oracle Cards.
• Several larger objects in the world that were previously static can now be destroyed, picked up, and placed out elsewhere if the player has enough mining damage. This includes the Grave Tree, the Mold Tree, and the Kelp Tree as well as the large Ancient Ruin pieces found in the Dirt Biome, the Giant Cicadas (big dead insects), and the Ancient Gates found in the Ancient Cities in the Sunken Sea.

Optimisation

• Some performance improvements for low-end devices.

BUG FIXES

• Enemies no longer interrupt their ranged attack with a melee attack if they can perform both.
• Acid Larva no longer explode when running into Torches or similar objects.
• Players will no longer be able to leave the Boat while connecting to the world.
• Fixed a bug where enemy projectiles would sometimes spawn with an offset from the enemy not matching the current facing direction of the enemy.
• Fixed a bug where the talent On your Toes would always activate on taking damage and not just when dodging.
• Fixed a bug causing critters to no longer flee from nearby players.
• Added missing description for the burn damage in player stat window and corrected the burn damage text to read every other second instead of every third.
• Fixed it so the burning-over-time effect deals damage four times during a full duration as intended.
• Fixed a bug where the Drill would still play its looping sound after being destroyed.
• Corrected the internal level of Acid Larva, Ancient Golem, and Caveling Scholar to be correct this was previously lower than intended, meaning they dealt lower damage and had lower health than we initially planned.
• Corrected the internal level of Scholars Hood, Scholars Cloak, and Scholars Staff, which was previously too low, meaning they now have slightly stronger stats.
• Projectiles no longer go through doors.
• Fixed an issue where too few particles were emitted from The Core when activated.
• Fixed an issue where map markers could be toggled off while still being possible to place.
• Fixed an issue where the outline would not appear on Big Larva when interacting with them while wearing the Larva Suit.
• Fixed it so the Logic Circuit, Delay Circuit, and Levers can be placed where the player is standing.
• Fixed a bug where enemies could stop following the player for no good reason.
• Fixed an issue where glowing items put on Pedestals or Tables would no longer glow after moving back and forth from the item.
• Fixed projectiles being destroyed when falsely hitting other players.
• Fixed environment not being loaded when spectating other players after dying as a hardcore character.

You fought Glurch, battled Ghorm, took down The Hive Mother, and grounded Azeos. You even managed to subdue the mighty Omoroth its time to get ready to face Ra-Akar the Sand Titan in Core Keepers next major content update: The Desert of Beginnings coming November 10th 2022! [previewyoutube=j7YO-eCbh4U;full][/previewyoutube] Thats right, Explorers, it wont be long until youre exploring The Desert hunting for Galaxite and avoiding pesky enemies like the new Caveling Assassin, Bomb Scarab, Lava Butterflies, and more! Perhaps youll uncover the Molten Quarry and bump into Igneous the Molten Mass on foot or do so in the fancy new vehicle well be adding to the game? Well also be adding several new tracks to the Core Keeper soundtrack, written and composed by the talented Jonathan Geer, new to the Desert of Beginnings. We like to show our existing biomes and features a little bit of love when working on major updates too, which is why you can expect to see some improvements to the cooking mechanic and recipe book, the addition of 12 new critters to the game (unique to each biome), and two new Cavelings to watch out for in the Clay Caves: The Caveling Spearman and The Caveling Skirmisher! We spend a lot of time going through community feedback and listening to your requests, and we always bear these in mind throughout the development process. One community request weve seen time and time again is the ability to move larger static items. Were pleased to report that, with enough mining damage, players will now be able to mine and relocate items such as Mold Trees, Kelp Trees, Large Ancient Ruin Pieces, Giant Cicadas, and Ancient Gates. Your bases are about to look much more majestic! Theres so much to look forward to in Core Keepers next major content update, and we want to leave discovering it all to you, but we can tell you that well be adding Steam Achievements and support for players to add custom Latin languages to the game.

Core Keeper CORSAIR Integration

• Fixed so the correct amount of items are now consumed when crafting the Decorative Torch.
• Reverted robot arm/conveyor belt change so that they will be able to drop floating items into pits, water, and walls again.
• Fix limit for how many mobs are spawned.

NEW FEATURES

Main Features:

• Several enemies in the world have dressed up to a more spooky appearance and have a chance to drop a Halloween goodie bag when killed. The goodie bag will of course contain candy but may also sometimes contain equipment so that players themselves can dress up too. Players may also find Grumpkin Seeds and another more rare item in the goodie bags, but well leave this one a secret!

Halloween variants for enemies:

• Big Larvas have dressed up as vampires.
• Caveling Miners have dressed up as ghosts.
• Caveling Shamans have dressed up as pumpkings.
• Caveling Brutes have dressed up as Frankensteins.

New Items:

• New Grumpkin Seed that will grow into a Grumpkin when planted.

New candy:

• Chewy Cone Candy.
• Evil Eye Candy.
• Spooky Pop Candy

New equipment:

• Pumpkin Lantern
• Pumpkin Head
• Spooky Blanket Hood
• Spooky Blanket Cape
• Frankenbrute Head
• Dracularva Cape
• Samhain Curse Ring
• Samhain Offering Necklace

New figurines (the following figurines have a chance to drop in addition to the normal figurines from the enemies, i.e the normal versions are not replaced during the Halloween event):

• Big Dracularva Figurine
• Spookaveling Figurine
• Frankenbrute Figurine
• Pumpking Caveling Figurine

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

• Any new Amber Larvas and Giant Mushrooms that players acquire will only give the permanent health increase once. The health increase from previously acquired Amber Larvas and Giant Mushrooms will still stack as to avoid punishing players who have worked hard on farming these items. Players current max health will remain unchanged, this change is intended to improve how max health is gained in the game moving forward and not to affect already existing players max health. The old version of Amber Larvas and Giant Mushrooms are considered deprecated and thus they will for example no longer appear in the cook book but cooking anything with the new version will appear in the cook book. They will also no longer be obtainable when playing the game normally. They can still be obtained using mods. The new Amber Larvas and Giant Mushrooms will look the same and have the same name as the old ones but the permanent health buff gained from the new ones will have a notation of only being obtainable once.
• Shroomen have a low chance to drop a Giant Mushroom.
• Ghorm the Devourer has a low chance to drop an Amber Larva.

BUG FIXES

• The Easter version of Azeos will no longer change to the normal version if restarting the game in the middle of the fight.
• Fixed an issue where Chinese text for set pieces would not be rendered in the correct gray or white color when hovering equipment.
• Fixed an issue where hive veins render order would conflict with chrysalis and that hive veins would also be possible to hit when beneath rugs or floors etc.
• Fixed potential crash when crafting recipes.
• Fixed potential crash when placing gates.
• Fixed an issue where mining walls on bridges would sometimes prioritize objects around the wall instead.
• Fixed enemies teleporting into walls and water.

OTHER

• Seasonal events (currently Easter and Halloween) now start and end based on the date and time of the PC that the game is running on.
• The large version of object icons are used instead of the small one on pedestals and tables.
• Plants and equipment that have a glowing effect now also glow when put on a pedestal or table.
• Legendary beam is now shown for legendary objects placed on pedestals and tables.
• The game will keep its window size after restarting the game when using window mode: Windowed. Changing window mode back and forth to something else and Windowed will restore its default size which is set to be pixel-perfect.
• Added text to items that can be used while held such as scanners or parchments to make it more clear that they can be used and what they do when used.
• Improved text of buffs on food items to distinguish permanent buffs more from buffs with a duration.

Look out, Explorers, things have just gotten a whole lot creepier in Core Keeper! Thats right, the Core Keeper Halloween Seasonal Event is now live, and you can expect a whole host of fun costumes, candy, and goodies along with it. The Halloween Seasonal Event will run from 10:00am UTC on October 25th to 11:59pm UTC on November 8th thats two whole weeks of fiendish fun! However, we also want to let you know that weve made some slight changes to the way that our seasonal events work. Now, seasonal events will occur based on the time and date set on your PC. This means that, if you missed out on something seasonal because you were unable to play the game for whatever reason, you can always adjust the settings on your PC and experience the content as if you were playing in the release window! While things will become decidedly less spooky in the underground once the event is over, Explorers will be pleased to know that any costumes or goodies that you uncover during the Halloween Seasonal Event will remain in the game permanently. That means you can play dress up all year long if you want to.
We dont want to spoil the fun too much, so we wont go into detail about what to expect here in the announcement post. If you do want an extensive list of what you can look forward to during the event, we invite you to check out our patch notes here. It wouldnt be Halloween without a little mischief though, would it? Thats why weve purposely left one exciting secret out of the patch notes. We think itll be a real treat to watch you uncover this one all by yourselves! Dont forget to take plenty of spooky screenshots and share them with us over on Twitter and Discord. Have fun, and happy Halloween!

October is a great month, the leaves are changing, the smell of pumpkin spice lattes fills the air, and Halloween is right around the cornerwhich also means our very first Halloween seasonal event is coming up! We had our first-ever seasonal event back in March celebrating Easter, and it was met with lots of excitement from the Core Keeper community. Because of this, we knew we wanted to bring you even more with the next one, and we cant wait for you to see whats in store. After lots of work (and the odd horror movie for inspiration!), were pleased to be able to announce that

The Core Keeper Halloween Seasonal Event will be running from the 25th of October to the 8th of November.

What to Expect from the Core Keeper Halloween Seasonal Event

Dont Forget, The Desert of Beginnings is Coming Next Month!

Were very happy to inform you that were going to be guests on an upcoming Unity Technologies stream. Four members of our team Fredrik Prntare, Sven Thole, Max Halldn, and David Lindqvist will be joining the Unity Twitch hosts at 4pm CEST / 2pm UTC on the 12th of October to discuss all things Core Keeper, sharing insights into the development process as well as info on our next major update: The Desert of Beginnings. Weve been developing Core Keeper since 2019, but this is one of the very first times that the Pugstorm team will appear on live video to discuss the game its a pretty big deal for us camera-shy developers! Make sure you tune into the stream over on the official UnityTech Twitch channel to show us your support. You can also follow Unity on Twitter for updates on their Twitch streams and more.

Were looking for a little bit of feedback and were inviting as many community members as possible to let us know what they think about some potential changes to a Core Keeper mechanic thats been part of the game for a while now. As you know, Core Keeper is still in Early Access, and were working hard on balancing the game. Wed love to get your feedback on some proposed changes to a mechanic youll undoubtedly be familiar with. Were thinking about updating the way permanent health boosts from items such as the Amber Larva and Giant Mushroom work. Find out a little bit more about the reason for this and give us your feedback here! Were very grateful to have such an active and open community, and were always keen to hear what you have to say about the game. Thank you so much for the feedback youve given already, and we look forward to hearing what you think. If youd like to give your feedback on other elements of the game, you can do so in the Feedback Forums over on the official Core Keeper Discord server.

Were very excited to announce that the Core Keeper and Terraria crossover is now live! Will you be among the first explorers to locate the Summoning Idol and call forth King Slime?

How Do I Find the Summoning Idol?

NEW FEATURES

New NPCs

• King Slime Boss

New Items

• Crown summoning idol (low drop rate drops for Slime blobs and can be used to summon King Slime at any of the Giant Slime summoning runes)
• King Slime Crown
• Royal Gel
• King Slime Figurine
• King Slime Chest

Were delighted to announce that were teaming up with Re-Logic for some exciting crossover activity. Core Keeper and Terraria are both sandbox games with a focus on exploration and adventure, and weve been in discussion with Re-Logic for a little while now about ways that we could come together to celebrate both games with our respective communities.

Make Way for King Slime in Core Keeper

Domesticate a Caveling in Terraria

• *A warning will now be sent to players when the world hasn't been saved for 10 minutes.
• Improved robustness with Steam Cloud saves.
• Fixed a bug where paintings would break whenever an enemy hit anything nearby the painting.
• Fixed a bug where Spike Traps would damage objects hanging on walls.
• Objects hanging on walls no longer block the player from digging beneath them.
• Fixed a crash that happens when trying to place an object on a wall when there is already an object on the wall when using a controller.
• Fixed it so that all colour variations of the Rugs appear on the map. Note that, in order for this to update on the map, players must revisit their Rugs in the world.
• Fixed it so that most Caveling creatures only respawn from their corresponding Caveling Moss. Previously, some Cavelings still respawned in their corresponding biomes, which was intended to be removed, as the Moss is now the only intended way for respawns for most Cavelings. This affects the regular Caveling, the Caveling Shaman, the Caveling Brute, the Caveling Farmer, and the Caveling Hunter.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when interacting with a destroyed crafting building.
• Fixed a minor memory leak.

Exploring the underground is a thrilling experience, but every Explorer needs a safe haven to cook, craft, farm, repair, respawn in, and call their home. Base building has been a big part of Core Keeper since day one, and weve seen some incredibly creative bases from our community. Weve also had some great feedback from you, outlining exactly what youd like to see for the future of base building too, so we picked a handful of your most popular suggestions and got to working on a free mini-update called Cozy Caverns available now!

What is Cozy Caverns?

NEW FEATURES

New Mechanics

• Torches can now be placed on walls.
• Players can now sit on objects like the chairs, stools, the Caveling Throne and, of course, the Caveling Toilet!
• The Dresser, Wood Pedestal, and Rug are now paintable.

New Items

• New item: Painting, can be painted and is crafted at the Carpenters Table.
• New item: Wood Stool, can be painted and is crafted at the Carpenters Table.
• New item: Wood Table, can be painted and is crafted at the Carpenters Table.
• New item: Loose Flooring, can be painted and is crafted at the Carpenters Table.
• The Loose Flooring is a decorative ground item that looks like bricks or stone plates in different shapes and colours depending on the current painted colour.
• New item: Scarlet Door, can be crafted in the Scarlet Workbench.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Quality of Life

• Altered synchronisation of objects outside of the player's view to improve performance.

Art and Animation

• Made the bulb sprite of Lamps brighter when turned on.
• Changed the colour of the particles when using the Black Paint Brush.

BUG FIXES

NPCs

• Fixed an issue where Ancient Golems would occasionally cause crashes.

Mechanics

• Fixed an issue where players would not gain mining skill or gain buffs from hitting walls if the wall was destroyed in one hit.

User Interface & Controls

• Fixed the epic version of Smoothies to show the correct icon.
• Fixed an issue where boss health bars would not appear or would show the incorrect value sometimes.

Networking / Dedicated Servers

• Fixed potential out-of-range access for some invalid Game IDs.
• Fixed an issue where players wouldnt be able to connect with a certain character sometimes if the first connection attempt failed.
• Fixed a map-sharing error that occurs after the first map download was aborted.
• Fixed a map-sharing error that occurs when multiple players are uploading the map at the same time.
• Fixed a number of invalid memory-accesses causing crashes.

Saves

• When writing to a save file, the game will now wait for the save file to become available to write to instead of silently failing when the file is being accessed by another program.
• Fixed an issue where the game wouldnt always respect the players choice of using local or cloud files when a Steam Cloud conflict occurs.
• Fixed cloud files being removed when starting on a fresh installation and Steam Cloud sync isnt able to download files.

Others

• Fixed rare crash when two nearby Conveyor Belts are removed or desynced.
• Fixed an issue where Rails would render beneath Rugs.

We launched our first major update, The Sunken Sea, in June. While youve been uncovering the secrets of this ocean-based biome, weve been hard at work on our plans for the future of Core Keeper. Weve made no secret of the fact that our next major update would be The Desert Biome, but weve been keeping the details of this under our hatsuntil now! Were excited to announce that weve got a brand-new and updated Core Keeper roadmap for you to view below. Here, youll find details on The Desert Biome; or should we say, The Desert of Beginnings? Were also delighted to reveal that we have a mini update coming your way in September with some exciting new decorative features based on requests from the community. We wanted to give you lots to look forward to between now and The Desert of Beginnings, which is why you can expect a seasonal event in October celebrating all things spooky! And, following The Desert of Beginnings, weve got yet another seasonal event coming in December what better way to celebrate the holiday season? You can view the full roadmap below with a few more details on some of our upcoming activities. We cant wait to bring you lots of new content, and we hope youre as excited about the future of Core Keeper as we are! Oh, and dont forget, you can connect with your fellow Explorers and join the conversation over on our official Discord and Twitter channels.

Did you know that August is National Fishing Month? Were sure you Explorers have been doing lots of fishing since the arrival of The Sunken Sea Biome, and there are over 20 individual fish to catch in Core Keeper so far, plus lots of other fishable loot. We wanted to celebrate our fishing system, which wouldnt exist at all without our amazing community, so read on to find out how it all works.

Where Did Core Keepers Fishing Mini Game Come From?

How Does Fishing Work in Core Keeper?

There isnt a day that goes by where a member of the Pugstorm team, or a member of our publishers team, doesnt pop up on Discord with an amazing Core Keeper video they wanted to share. We love watching all of your creations across YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and beyond. Some are funny, some are helpful, some are dramatic, but all of them are awesome. We wish we could share every single one of your clips here on Steam, but then wed have no time to actually develop the game! So, with that in mind, weve rounded up a couple of our favourites to share with you today.

8bitDee Destroys Felica Days Things

Whats Happening?

Theyre Destroying our Light Sources

Do Some Killing

You Will Die You Stupid Pigeon

Bombs Away!

Gooey Tulip Salad

Did you know that we added six new enemies to the game as part of our first major content update, The Sunken Sea? And thats not including bosses! With so many new mobs joining the Core Keeper roster, we thought it was time to expand our Creature Compendium. You can read parts one and two first if you fancy it, for a detailed overview of the enemies you know and love, or you can start right here and find out about the

Bubble Crab

Tentacle

Blue Slime

Caveling Scholar

Core Sentry

Shrooman

It feels like it was only yesterday that we released The Sunken Sea Update! Time really flies, doesnt it, Explorers? With all the excitement of our first major content update, we jumped straight into working on the next one. While we cant share any details with you at the moment, we can say that weve had plenty to show off in our weekly meetings with our publisher. However, it cant be all work and no play for the Pugstorm team, which is why were going on vacation to give us a chance to rest, recuperate, and come back fresher than ever! In Sweden, its customary to take four weeks of vacation time in the summer, and were going to take full advantage of this now that were on track for our next major update. We want to say a big thank you for your ongoing support weve got such an amazing and positive community, and its because of you that we feel as though we can enjoy a little time off so that were feeling our best when working towards future updates. Weve got a great team supporting us at Fireshine, so youll still be seeing plenty of Core Keeper activity on Twitter and Discord while were away.

How Are We Spending Our Vacation?

BUG FIXES

NPCs

• Enemies no longer start to regenerate health when stunned.
• Enemies are no longer stuck in the stunned state after being stunned.
• Fixed an issue where The Hive Mother could be stunned.
• Fixed an issue with the boss health bars showing the wrong value on hard difficulty.
• Azeos and Omoroth no longer spawn from Ground Acid Slime or other similar environmental-damaging sources being placed in their spawn locations.

Items

• Fixed an issue where the Blow Pipe would give more range skill points than intended.
• Table Saws no longer can be placed on top of Electrical Wires (which was causing them to not function properly).

Menu / UI

• Fixed an issue where map sync would stop working, causing certain areas in the world to be black.
• Fixed an issue where the pause menu could not be opened after trying to exit the game while the game was still loading.

Lighting / Render

• Fixed a visual bug in the reflections of the Ground Slime (which caused it to jitter while moving).
• Fixed the lighting on the player teleport effect to appear correctly.
• Fixed the render order of the Robot Arm base to be displayed on top of bridges.

Networking / Dedicated Servers

• Fixed an issue where certain characters were unable to join a world.

Collision and Systems

• Fixed an issue where closed doors and gates would sometimes not block the player from moving through them.
• Fixed crash in automation system due to invalid access.

OTHER

• Ghorm now destroys any Ore Boulders in its path. Ore Boulders destroyed by Ghorm will not drop any ore.
• Reduced the amount of particles spawned by Sprinklers when particle quality in video settings is set to low.

Hey there Explorers, were pleased to affirm that, following our Sunken Sea Update, Core Keeper is now playable in English, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, and German. With the game now being available in so many languages, weve seen lots of new Explorers from lots of different territories join the official Core Keeper Discord server and say hello in the Core Keeper Steam Discussions. Were delighted that our social channels are places where multilingual discussions can take place, and were very committed to moderating discussions in all languages (where possible), so that we can keep these spaces safe and enjoyable for everyone. To that end, we are looking out for new moderators to join our existing mod team! If you read and write in both English and one (or more!) of the following languages and are interested in becoming a moderator, wed love to hear from you. The languages were currently looking for are Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, and German.

What do Moderators do?

How to Apply:

Were delighted to announce that, shortly after the launch of The Sunken Sea Update - our first major content update - Core Keeper hit 1,000,000 sales. This is a momentous occasion for us as developers and for our publisher, Fireshine Games. In fact, Core Keeper previously set the record for being Fireshine Games fastest-selling digital game of all time by selling 100,000 copies within its first two days of Early-Access launch. Were truly overwhelmed by the fantastic community response that Core Keeper has had, and were thrilled to have hit this milestone so early on in the games development. Launching in Early Access has given us a unique opportunity to involve the community in major game decisions and collaborate with them on improvements and optimisations. Thats why we want to express our gratitude to our amazing community now that weve hit 1,000,000 sales. From our vibrant Twitter followers to our colourful Discord members, the fine folk in the Steam Discussions, and all our other community members across the world, we wouldnt be where we are today without your support, enthusiasm, and feedback! We hope you have an amazing time exploring the Sunken Sea Biome. With every step on your Core Keeper journeys, youre one step closer to uncovering the secrets of The Core!

We cant believe its been two whole weeks since we released The Sunken Sea Update! Since then, weve seen lots and lots of amazing streams, videos, and pieces of art from our talented community, and we thought now would be a great time to share even more of our favourites with you. You might also remember that we shared some of your amazing Core Keeper content not long after our Early Access update. If youve not seen it already, we definitely recommend checking it out here. We thought wed start with a little bit of fanart again First up is this colourful cut-out of the The Core, by Eri Artistically Foolish.
Next, weve got this wonderful and adorable commission, created by the talented Jorunna.
Theres also this incredibly detailed piece from Lil Pink Teeth that we cant stop staring at!
Weve also spotted some great screenshots on our social media channels Including this beautiful glowing base from MrRedClown.
This very impressive museum from Mntyx3!
And this Rainbow Road homage from DoUbLeStAkKeD!
We also saw CraftingCrystal get ambushed by a gang of Cavelings! And watched TomFawkes and co learn how to cope with the darkness of the underground! The Yogscast kindly streamed part #17 of their Core Keeper journey and built a boat in the Sunken Sea Biome! [previewyoutube=-k3oszwiNSk;full][/previewyoutube] Schyushi also took the first steps on his Core Keeper adventure! [previewyoutube=haMNzw6Nrxs;full][/previewyoutube] Chinese streamer, Onityan, showed us an impressive Omoroth battle! [previewyoutube=HcyolpAxsao;full][/previewyoutube] And we got to see Thai streamer, Stag Flations, impressive base. [previewyoutube=PCv06-6Pr2Q;full][/previewyoutube] As always, were keeping an eye out for creations from our amazing community, so why not share them with us on the official Core Keeper Discord?

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Quality-of-life

• Player character is immune to damage while the game is loading to avoid unfair deaths.

Dedicated Servers

• Added support for direct connections to dedicated servers.
• Add missing hard mode setting for dedicated servers.

BUG FIXES

Mechanics

• Fixed an issue with Acid Larva not having increased damage in hard mode.
• Fixed the duration of the melee damage and attack speed buffs from cooked Pinegrapples to be 5 minutes as intended.
• Fixed an issue where portals far away from any player would not continue to activate.
• Fixed an issue where players could teleport to portals that were not yet activated.
• Fixed an issue where electronic circuits being turned off/on would sometimes affect nearby other circuits.
• Fixed an issue where players could leave their boat while connecting to the world.

Items

• Fixed spelling issues on some items.
• Fixed an issue with the Polished Scarlet Chunk Necklace disappearing when crafted.
• Fixed an issue with the talent that makes Anvil items less expensive not working correctly.

Loot

• Bubble Crab no longer drops the Tentacle Trophy.
• The chest found in the Forlorn Metropolis sewers scene now contains loot.
• Added 6 missing valuables to the Sunken Sea biome.

Networking / Dedicated Servers

• Fixed an issue where players could get connection errors with internet servers while running another server on the local network.

In celebration of World Music Day yesterday, we uploaded the latest version of the Core Keeper soundtrack to our YouTube channel. This includes all the existing music from our Early Access launch, all the new tracks composed for the Sunken Sea Biome, and new music for the Dirt Biome, The Forgotten Ruins, The Clay Caves, Azeos Wilderness, and The Mold Dungeon. Listen to the most up-to-date version of the OST below [previewyoutube=x1w1f7r53GQ;full][/previewyoutube] Weve been working with talented video-game composer, Jonathan Geer who has previously worked on titles such as Owl Boy, Neon Chrome, and Undead Horde to create a unique and enchanting soundtrack for Core Keeper. Our Early Access launch boasted 13 original songs, and this has expanded even more with The Sunken Sea update, giving you 21 individual tracks to enjoy as you explore the underground. You can find a full list of these tracks at the bottom of this post.

An Interview with Jonathan Geer

Core Keeper Tracklist:

• Fixed Merchant inventory being able to be picked up by Robot Arms.
• Fixed an issue causing some worlds to crash on startup.
• Fixed an issue where empty loot would sometimes float around showing only its shadow.

Were delighted to announce that our first major update, The Sunken Sea Biome, has just launched! We hope youll join us in celebrating this exciting milestone following our Early Access launch in March. After defeating our first three bosses, you'll be able to lower the mysterious wall that separates you and The Sunken Sea Biome, and we cant wait to watch you uncover all the secrets this ocean-based biome has hidden away.

What Can You Expect from the Sunken Sea Biome?

NEW FEATURES

Main Features

• New biome: Sunken Sea.
• New sub-biome in the Sunken Sea: Forlorn Metropolis.

New NPCs

• Omoroth the Sea Titan (titan boss).
• Morpha the Aquatic Mass (side boss).
• 5 New enemies: Bubble Crab, Slippery Slime Blob, Tentacle, Caveling Scholar, Core Sentry.
• New Fishing Merchant found in Azeos' Wilderness.
• New mushroom-like enemy that spawns in the Dirt Biome and from Fungal Growth (Fungal Growth will only generate in worlds created after the update).

New Mechanics

• Octarine workbench with new tools, crafting, and base building options.
• Boats.
• Portals that can be crafted and placed in the world to teleport between.
• New Jewelry workbench allowing players to craft new jewelry.
• A Table Saw can be crafted at the Electronics Table that allows players to cut wood into planks.
• Added a Fishing Merchant Idol to Azeos' loot drops that allows the Fishing Merchant to move into the player's base.
• Sprinklers that can be crafted at the Automation Table.
• Vanity slots. A Dresser can be crafted at the Carpenter Bench in which players can change what equipment is visually shown on their character.
• Bait Workbench for crafting baits.
• Map markers that can be placed on the map.
• Players can now eat food, drink potions, place objects, and fight while in a minecart or a boat.
• Added Fungal Growth that appears in the Dirt Biome. Fungal Growth allows Mushrooms to grow and Mushroom enemies to appear. Fungal Growth can also drop from Slime Blobs and the new Mushroom Enemy. Please note that Fungal Growth will be available as a drop from Slime Blobs in all worlds, however it will only spawn in the Dirt Biome and it will only allow Mushroom Enemies to appear in worlds generated after the Sunken Sea Update.
• Added different types of Caveling Moss that appear in the Stone, Nature, and Ancient City Ruins biomes (appears in newly explored areas). Similar to Ground Slime and Chrysalis, this new Caveling Moss will spawn different types of Cavelings. The moss can also drop from Cavelings.

New Items

• Octarine Ore.
• 10 new weapons.
• 7 new offhands.
• 20 rings and necklaces.
• 24 new armour pieces.
• 20+ new decorative objects.
• 3 new plants.
• 2 new types of food.
• 5 new fishes.
• New valuables.
• New legendary ranged weapon.
• Baits that can be held in the off-hand slot while fishing for different bonuses.
• New fishing equipment set that can be gained from fishing in the different biomes.
• Added a Wood Bow that can drop in Dirt Biome, an Iron Bow that can be crafted at the Iron Anvil, and a new Octarine Bow.

Additional Content

• New unique locations in the Sunken Sea Biome.
• A new Dash Feather has replaced the Hand Mortar in Azeos' loot table.
• The Iron Chunk Necklace sold by one of the Merchants has been replaced with a mysterious slate device that becomes available after activating The Core.

Additional Localisation

• New supported languages: Japanese, German, and Korean.

Menu and Settings

• Added a particles quality setting.
• The low light quality setting also disables shadows on several objects to slightly improve performance.
• The language of the game will default to the language set in Steam instead of the device language. This will cause the current selected language to change for any players that have a different language set in Steam on first start up of the game with this patch.
• When the game loads, select the third option down. On this new screen, the top option cycles through languages.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Balancing Improvements

• Bosses are now guaranteed to always drop at least one piece of equipment or weapon.
• The Cartography Table and Distillery Table costs planks instead of wood.
• Increased chance for chests to appear in Mold sub-biome and increased the rewards from those chests. This only applies to newly generated sub-biomes.
• Damage caused by players' titan soul powers such as the thunder beams now scales with player damage.
• Doubled the amount of ores in Ore Boulders making them last for twice as long.
• Increased chance for higher rarity fishes to bite.
• Increased damage of all range weapons a bit.
• Slight increase of Slingshot attack speed and Slingshot now has uncommon rarity.
• Increased the burning damage from Fireball Staff.
• Burning effects tick a bit more frequently but last for a slightly shorter duration.
• Soul Orbs' despawn time has been halved, allowing titans to respawn quicker.
• Halved the attack speed gained from Fast and Furious talent.
• Increased range damage gained from the Well-trained Aim talent.
• Increased the health ratio at which Ghorm enrages and starts attacking the player.
• The Boss Idol Merchant now has 3 of each Boss Summoning Idols in stock. This amount will update the next time the Merchants restock their items after starting the game with this patch.
• Respawn immunity starts fading out when any action is attempted.
• Merchants no longer drop all their inventory on death.
• Roots grow one piece at a time, but more often.
• The Big Larvas from the Hive Mother eggs can now destroy hive walls when chasing the player.

Quality-of-Life

• Increased the hit radius of projectiles shot by the player, making it a bit easier to hit enemies with ranged weapons.
• Merchants will follow the player when the player holds the item they like such as Slime Oil and Mysterious Idol.
• Increased the range of electricity from generators.
• Increased inventory size of Large Chests to have twice the amount of Small Chests' size.
• Improved logic that moves the player out of blocking objects and walls so the player can no longer push themselves through to the other side of a wall by using a door for example.
• Fixed so titans can respawn while players are at their spawn location.
• Soul Orbs no longer require the player to be nearby to disappear, this allows titans to respawn when the player is far away from the spawn location.
• Increased max zoom out of map.
• Quick swapping a ring (shift click) will prioritize swapping with a ring that isn't the same ring.
• Added a border to the chat input field.
• Increased density of unique locations and areas of interest that spawn in the Dirt Biome. This only applies to newly generated areas.
• Adjusted amount of wood gained from the roots in Azeos' Wilderness to match regular roots.
• Gravestones can be placed in water.

Art and Animation

• Reduced animation overhead of objects that are not actively animated to slightly improve performance.
• Adjusted position of the stun effect for several enemies.
• Healing effect no longer shows on the player if already at full health.

Audio

• New music for the Sunken Sea biome and new music for all existing biomes.
• The Core continues the speech a bit quicker after scanning the world.
• Changed music to play more continuously.

Accessibility

• Improved readability of the amount of materials required when crafting.

Dedicated Servers

• Log common client commands on Dedicated Servers.
• Forward arguments to Dedicated Server launch scripts.

BUG FIXES

NPCs

• Infected Cavelings no longer play regular Caveling animation when knocked back.
• Fixed Merchant inventory not refreshing if the player is far away.

Mechanics

• Fixed an issue where crafting an item could be done without consuming materials from a nearby chest if the materials were taken out by a robot arm at the same time.
• Fixed an issue where hitting an object larger than 1 tile would sometimes instead hit any object beneath it such as rugs or bridges.

Items

• Ore Boulders no longer give less total amount of ores before depleting when drilling with more than one drill.
• Fixed a bug where the duration would sometimes show the wrong amount of minutes on food when having some points in the Long Lasting Food talent.
• Players no longer lose durability on equipment when dodging attacks.
• Fixed an issue where plants would sometimes not be visible when having a very large farm of plants.
• Fixed an issue where negative stats on equipment would not get the correct reinforced value addition such as the movement speed affection from the Slime Sword and Larva Equipment.
• Fixed a bug where the Breaking Barriers talent would give too much armor. Also increased the amount of armor the talent gives to be more balanced after the bug fix.
• Fixed a bug where Sushi would not have the correct colors when dropped or placed on a pedestal.
• Invalid items can no longer be placed in Furnaces and Smelter Kilns.
• Electrical Wire is no longer placeable on other electrical components.
• Fixed a bug where ground objects like floors, rugs, rails, etc. would not drop when destroyed with Bombs.

User Interface & Controls

• Fixed an issue where chat text would sometimes overlap crafting UI in a weird looking way.
• Fixed an issue where players could still interact with menus behind pop ups.
• Fixed an issue where binding movement keys on keyboard to other keys would still allow movement with wasd-keys.
• Fixed an issue where the hover window of Cookbook ingredients and food would not be positioned at the bottom right corner of the screen.
• Fixed common Linux issue where scroll wheels with low sensitivity were not working properly.

Networking / Dedicated Servers

• Fixed previous server join time not showing local time.
• Fixed Windows Dedicated Server launch script not exiting gracefully, leading to up to 30 seconds of progress being lost.
• Fixed parse error in previous server list for some regions.
• Fixed Cartography Table being able to block normal game traffic, increasing ping.

Others

• Fixed visual artefact causing walls to light up a bit sometimes when being mined.
• Fixed a bug where players would not get the effect from a set bonus when wearing more than the amount of pieces needed for the set bonus.
• Fix some large destructibles in the Dirt Biome to show correct sprites.
• Fixed a bug where Electrical Wires would not be destroyed by Bombs.
• Fixed an issue where the acid from Hive Mother's projectile would not spawn on torches and other similar objects.
• Generated Thorn Roots correctly drops regular Wood instead of Thorn Wood when being destroyed by world generation.
• Fixed an issue where Thorn Wood would not drop the correct amount of Wood.
• Fixed Cartography Table not reading saved map data properly.
• Fixed an issue with Copper Ore Boulders sometimes spawning inside areas like labyrinths in the Forgotten Ruins. Already spawned Copper Ore Boulders will still remain.
• Fixed an issue with Mold Tentacles playing the slime slow-down particle effect when they shouldnt.
• Automation structures (Conveyor Belt, Robot Arm, etc.) now work as expected at an infinite range.
• Electricity now works as expected at an infinite range.
• A difficulty option for worlds has been added with the options "normal" and "hard". This option can be selected when creating a new world. The hard option makes monsters and bosses deal more damage, have more health, and bosses will also drop more items.

From launching dedicated servers all the way to sharing our Sunken Sea update roadmap, May was an exciting month for Core Keeper. Well, hold on to your helms, Explorers, because June is gearing up to be just as exciting. Youll be pleased to know that Core Keeper is featuring in 2x gaming showcases this month, and theyre not far off!

IGNs Summer of Gaming

PC Gamers PC Gaming Show

Are you a brand-new Explorer about to make your first expedition into the underground? We cant wait for you to uncover the secrets of this long-forgotten world. Getting started in Core Keeper is exciting, and many Explorers want to dive in head-first. We know that some of you like to prepare a little beforehand, though, so we got in touch with some of the more seasoned Explorers on our Discord and asked them what advice theyd give to new players starting out.

Character Creation

Resources

Exploring the Underground

Combat

The sun is peeking in through the Nature Biome and the Heart Berries are starting to bloom. Spring has sprung, and we wanted to celebrate. Thats why, at the start of April, we invited you to take part in our Spring Challenge and show us just how creative you could be with the plant life in Core Keeper! We had some amazing submissions across both Twitter and Discord, and after narrowing down the entries to our favourites, we opened them up to the community for voting. This left us with two winning entries, and the creators of which were awarded the title of Master Gardener! Please join us in wishing KlaytonCalix and skittlesness (from Twitter) and Scriborb (from Discord) a big congratulations on winning the Spring Challenge. KlaytonCalix and skittlesness worked together to create an adorable Glow-Tulip Squirtle garden, and Scriborb used Glow Tulips to construct a giant mural of The Core.
By KlaytonCalix and skittleness
By Scriborb Alongside our winning entries, we had plenty of incredible submissions, and wed like to share a selection of these with you here today.
By SepulturXX
By tuxii
By majesty and Keysha
By ItsYaBoiAustin
By @NatibotWasTaken We had so many great entries for this challenge, and we hope everyone who entered had fun taking part! What kind of challenges would you like to see us run next for Core Keeper? Let us know in the comments or over on the Discord.

• Fixed an issue causing Easter Eggs to disappear when starting the game.
• Fixed the "text " issue to correctly say that additional items were gained when crafting.
• Fixed an issue with previously broken fishing rods so that they can be used, as they no longer have durability and cannot be broken.

You may recognise some of these patch notes from an update we made to the experimental branch of Core Keeper on Wednesday the 27th of April. These are now also live on the main branch of the game, along with some new additional patches, which we have highlighted in bold for you.

GAMEPLAY

General

• Dedicated servers are now available.
• The game is moving over to the new backend that we have been using on the experimental branch, as it has proven to work better overall.
• The repair system has been reverted back to using scrap parts as a result of working together with and gathering feedback from our community. The costs of scrap parts have been rebalanced so higher tier items cost more scrap parts. Scrap parts can be gained through salvaging again. The current materials gained from salvaging are still gained as well. The Bearded Merchant now also sells scrap parts instead of wood.
• A reinforcement mechanic has been added that allows players to extend the durability of their items as well as giving the item a small stat boost. Reinforcing an item costs some of the item's crafting materials.
• Added scrap parts that can drop from destructibles and some enemies.
• Higher tier hoes now cover a larger area. This works for both tilling and gathering plants in larger areas.
• Added a digging damage stat to shovels that impacts how many uses it takes to dig up ground. Health of ground has been rebalanced around the digging damage of shovels so that higher tier shovels are more effective against lower tier ground and lower tier shovels are less effective against higher tier ground.
• Added a Scarlet Hoe that can be crafted in the Scarlet Workbench.
• Added a Scarlet Shovel that can be crafted in the Scarlet Workbench.
• Moved the Scarlet Sword to be crafted in the Scarlet Anvil instead of the Scarlet Workbench.
• Large Watering Can now covers 2x2 tiles. More watering options coming later!
• Fishing rods no longer have durability.
• The chance to gain kelp from fishing has been reduced, and weve added resources such as ores, wood, fibre and scrap parts that can be gained from fishing.

Balancing Improvements

• Slightly increased damage of Rune Song.
• Increased the max health of bosses.
• Azeos enrages at a bit higher health percentage.

Quality-of-Life

• Other players can be made server admins from the pause menu.
• Players can be banned by admins from the pause menu.
• Added a button beside the Game ID for admins to regenerate the Game ID.
• Critters and fireflies will despawn in areas that have too many of them until a reasonable amount remain.
• Added a dropdown list in the "Join Game" menu that displays previously joined dedicated servers.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue with water visuals glitching sometimes.
• Fixed an issue where the second option in pop ups would sometimes not become highlighted when selected.
• Other players no longer play a take damage effect when their max health is reduced.
• Player health bar no longer blinks when other players max health is reduced.
• Fixed placement and digging being blocked by self for a small period after moving away.
• Fixed enemies becoming invisible sometimes instead of dying.
• Fixed Obsidian Walls popping up sometimes after digging a pit.
• Fixed double graves if exiting while dying.
• Fixed Recall Idol being able to consume the wrong item if switching equipped item right before teleport.
• Fix Minecart teleporting back to start if the player used it immediately after placing.

OTHER

• Decreased network bandwidth usage of Azeos beams.
• Added command line parameters for common dedicated server settings.

From the moment we announced that Core Keeper would have online multiplayer, the community was keen to know if theyd ever have the option to use dedicated servers. While we entered Early Access using player-hosted multiplayer, we were already looking into the logistics of facilitating this extremely popular community request. Then, on the 27th of April, we invited you to help us test dedicated servers and some new repair-mechanic features for Core Keeper on an experimental branch of the game. Your feedback and bug reports were incredibly helpful, and they allowed us to iron out lots of the finer issues when working on this new functionality. Because of your help, were now in a place where we can launch what we were testing on the experimental branch on the main branch of Core Keeper! From this moment onwards, players will have the option to operate their own dedicated servers for multiplayer worlds that can be accessed at any time without requiring a host to be in the game. If dedicated servers arent your thing, youll be pleased to know that in-game player-hosted multiplayer is still available at any time, and this now uses Steams networking back end when connecting players solving many of the networking issues users have been reporting. Weve also added a new admin functionality that will give players the option to kick people from their worlds across both dedicated servers and player-hosted games. If youd like to host your own dedicated server you can do so using Core Keepers own dedicated server hosting application, which will be available to run from the Tools menu in your Steam Library. If you helped us test dedicated servers on the experimental branch, you may remember that port forwarding was required, but this is no longer necessary.

Some Details on The Sunken Sea Update

Did you take part in The Great Egg Hunt, Core Keepers first-ever seasonal event? From the 13th to the 19th of April, we invited Explorers to scour the underground in search of hidden Easter Eggs that could be used to craft a mysterious Golden Egg. Well be taking a closer look at The Golden Egg in this post, so be wary of spoilers if youre still trying to figure out what it does! You hunted in the Dirt Biome, the Clay Caves, the Forgotten Ruins, and Azeos Wilderness, uncovering four different egg types unique to each area. You even shared your journeys with us on the Core Keeper Twitter and Discord, and we loved seeing where The Great Egg Hunt took each and every one of you.
Image courtesy of Discord user Niloofar#9970 Some of you spent your time collecting as many Easter Eggs as possible, and it seemed a shame that these should disappear. Wed planned on removing the smaller eggs from the game at the end of the event (leaving only The Golden Egg as a permanent feature), but after listening to your requests, we decided to let you keep your Easter Eggs as decorative items all year round!
Image courtesy of Discord user Mayyo#0486

GOLDEN EGG SPOILER ALERT:

• Fix Easter event still being enabled
• Fix admin and ban list for Dedicated Servers not persisting after restart
• Fix not being able to connect to Dedicated Server via Internet
• Fix correct sprites for reinforce icons

Weve got some exciting news, Explorers! Wed like to invite you to join us in testing dedicated servers for Core Keeper, as this is something the community has been asking for since we launched. Previously, one player was required to act as the world host when playing in multiplayer, meaning that the world would not be accessible unless the host was online. However, many of you expressed a desire for dedicated servers to host multiplayer worlds that players could access at any point, and we got to work on this almost right away. From now, youll be able to opt into testing multiplayer using dedicated servers in Core Keeper. This is something you will need to opt into, and we have instructions on how to do this below. Before you do this, however, wed strongly recommend backing up your save files. You can do this by following the file path below, making a copy of your save files, and saving them elsewhere on your PC (we recommend saving them to your desktop or Documents folder for now). Save File Location: C:\Users\<User>\AppData\LocalLow\Pugstorm\Core Keeper\Steam\<Your Steam ID>

How to Play Using Dedicated Servers:

Dedicated server testing will only be running for a period of roughly two weeks (end date TBC), so it is very important that you provide as much feedback as possible during this window.

How to Opt Out of Testing:

Your Feedback Matters!

Repair Mechanic, Reinforcements, and More

GAMEPLAY

General

• Dedicated servers are now available.
• The repair system has been reverted back to using scrap parts as a result of working together with and gathering feedback from our community. The costs of scrap parts have been rebalanced so higher tier items cost more scrap parts. Scrap parts can be gained through salvaging again. The current materials gained from salvaging are still gained as well. The Bearded Merchant now also sells scrap parts instead of wood.
• A reinforcement mechanic has been added that allows players to extend the durability of their items as well as giving the item a small stat boost. Reinforcing an item costs some of the item's crafting materials.
• Added scrap parts that can drop from destructibles and some enemies.
• Higher tier hoes now cover a larger area. This works for both tilling and gathering plants in larger areas.
• Added a digging damage stat to shovels that impacts how many uses it takes to dig up ground. Health of ground has been rebalanced around the digging damage of shovels so that higher tier shovels are more effective against lower tier ground and lower tier shovels are less effective against higher tier ground.
• Added a Scarlet Hoe that can be crafted in the Scarlet Workbench.
• Added a Scarlet Shovel that can be crafted in the Scarlet Workbench.
• Moved the Scarlet Sword to be crafted in the Scarlet Anvil instead of the Scarlet Workbench.
• Large Watering Can now covers 2x2 tiles. More watering options coming later!
• Fishing rods no longer have durability.
• The chance to gain kelp from fishing has been reduced, and weve added resources such as ores, wood, fibre and scrap parts that can be gained from fishing.

Balancing Improvements

• Slightly increased damage of Rune Song.
• Increased the max health of bosses.
• Azeos enrages at a bit higher health percentage.

Quality-of-Life

• Other players can be made server admins from the pause menu.
• Players can be banned by admins from the pause menu.
• Added a button beside the Game ID for admins to regenerate the Game ID.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue with water visuals glitching sometimes.
• Fixed an issue where the second option in pop ups would sometimes not become highlighted when selected.
• Other players no longer play a take damage effect when their max health is reduced.
• Player health bar no longer blinks when other players max health is reduced.
• Fixed placement and digging being blocked by self for a small period after moving away.
• Fixed enemies becoming invisible sometimes instead of dying.
• Fixed Obsidian Walls popping up sometimes after digging a pit.
• Fixed double graves if exiting while dying.
• Fixed Recall Idol being able to consume the wrong item if switching equipped item right before teleport.

OTHER

• Decreased network bandwidth usage of Azeos beams.

• Fix error due to invalid access sometimes when exiting the game
• Sync to Steam Cloud when exiting to Main Menu instead of just at application exit
• Fix Steam Cloud sync not removing files removed on other machines and not updating timestamps properly sometimes

Exploring the underground can be very rewarding. From uncovering ancient relics or long-forgotten secrets to discovering a massive vein of Scarlet Ore, there are lots of reasons youll want to comb through every inch of the map. Of course, the underground is not without its dangers. Youll definitely want to keep an eye out for the monsters weve mentioned so far in our Creature Compendium (part one and part two!), but there are also some bigger threats youll need to watch out for in the form of our many bosses! Read on for information that might just save your life when you find yourself up against

Glurch the Abominous Mass

About Glurch

Ghorm the Devourer

About Ghorm

The Hive Mother

About The Hive Mother:

The Great Egg Hunt is now officially over! We want to say a big thank you to everyone who took part. Its been very exciting getting to celebrate our first-ever seasonal event with you all, and we hope you had fun egg hunting across Core Keepers many biomes. Whether you came across an egg inside a destructible like a wooden crate or you found one after you defeated an enemy, there were four types of egg in total that you needed to craft The Golden Egg! Our initial plan was for the smaller Easter Eggs to disappear from the game at the end of the event, with only The Golden Egg remaining as a permanent item. However, we had lots of messages from the community expressing that they'd like to keep the small Easter Eggs as decorative items. So, while new Easter Eggs will not spawn after the event has ended, we've decided to let you keep any of the smaller eggs that you've already found! Of course, theres still the question of the mysterious, alternative use for The Golden Egg. We spotted lots of Explorers on Twitter and Discord who have uncovered its secrets - have you figured it out yet? Were still working very hard on the Sunken Sea Biome and ongoing patches/hotfixes for Core Keeper, and we cant wait to bring you even more content in the future. What kind of seasonal event would you like to see next? Let us know on the official Core Keeper Discord!

- Fixed Farmer's Hat being invisible and making characters bald.

We know how much you Explorers love to investigate every nook and cranny of the underground, and weve just launched an eggstra special seasonal event thatll take you all over the map!

Introducing the Great Egg Hunt

GAMEPLAY

General

• 4 types of easter eggs can be found and gathered in the world for a reward when combined. These eggs will be removed after the egg hunt event but any rewards will be permanent.

Balancing Improvements

• Increased the damage of the burning effect from Malugaz equipment set bonus.
• Slightly increased the amount of max health that Ghorm gains per player. The max health has not been changed in single-player mode.
• The health of Azeos crystals no longer scales with the amount of players.

Quality-of-life

• Player health ratio now stays the same when max health changes.

BUG FIXES

• Digging up plants with a shovel or hoe now correctly has a chance to yield extra plants from the extra harvest chance.
• Scarlet gear set bonus now correctly gives crit chance and not attack speed.
• Fixed an issue where grass would sometimes spawn inside walls.
• Fixed an issue where hitting while holding a broken weapon would still have the reach and attack speed of the broken weapon.
• Fixed an issue where the Hologram Pod NPC could hold items if shift clicking an item to add it to the NPC inventory. Any current items held by the Hologram Pod can be received back by destroying/releasing any placed Hologram Pod.
• Fixed an issue where talents and buffs that increase health regeneration effectiveness were not calculated correctly.
• Fixed a visual issue where eyes were rendered incorrectly when using fishing rods.
• Fixed a visual issue where peasant armour was not rendered when fishing.

Other

• Changed attack speed to show one decimal of precision.
• Improved the descriptions of The smell of food and Sharing is caring talents to clarify that they apply to the player as well as their allies.

Its been just under 4 weeks since Core Keeper launched in Early Access. Since then, the game has accrued over 1,000,000 hours watched on Twitch! Weve had an amazing time watching your videos and checking out your screenshots, and we cant believe how funny and talented a community weve got. In fact, we wanted to highlight some of your awesome Core Keeper content. We wish we could share everything weve come across these past few weeks, but for now, we wanted to showcase a round up of some of our favourites. First up, we wanted to share some of your amazing fan art! Check out this Clay Cave Beasts artwork by Blasko:
And this awesome Glurch painting that Discord user KomnNom created in just 40 minutes:
We also LOVE this Voxel Diorama that JokeRat created, complete with glowing Core and adorable Slimes:
Youve shared some gorgeous screenshots with us over on Discord too, including this lovely flower garden from zAlex:
And this adorable map of Hades4135 and Sanmizuki's base:
Carrying on the Pokmon theme, we just love this Clefairy map from Steevownage on Reddit:
We witnessed a little Caveling smack talk from Felicia Day and co on Twitch. And watched Kang Gaming go head-to-head with Ghorm armed with plenty of bombs. Jazs team had a questionable strategy, fighting Glurch with a burrito. Whereas Z1 Gamings team put in a lot of prep work for this boss battle. And finally, we thoroughly enjoyed hearing what CohhCarnage had to say about his time in the underground: [previewyoutube=SPR6mO1u_2I;full][/previewyoutube] We're always keeping an eye out for creations from our amazing community, and we'll be sharing more of your stuff soon. For now, the best places to share your content are the media and creative promo channels on our Discord!

- Reduced the cost of repairing items. Items will also no longer cost multiple types of materials to repair. - Changed the required repair materials for the Blow Pipe and the Hunter Armor set. - Fixed an issue where save files were duplicated.

- Fixed rendering issue for golden plant sprites. - Fixed incorrect materials gained by salvaging Mold Ring

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Gameplay

• Materials in chests adjacent to crafting buildings can now be accessed while crafting. A small chest icon beside the required material will indicate if the material is available in any adjacent chests.
• Repairing now requires some of the items crafting materials instead of scrap parts. The amount of materials required depends on the current durability of the item.
• Salvaging now gives some crafting materials back instead of scrap parts.
• Scrap parts have been changed into a valuable that sells for a small amount of coin. Scrap parts still have a chance to drop from wooden crates and slime piles.
• Items can now be placed on the caveling table.

Balancing Improvements

• Added mining damage stat to the Orb lantern.
• Added melee damage, range damage and mining damage stats to the Caveling Hood, Caveling Chest and Caveling Pants respectively.
• Increased mining damage of the Ancient Pickaxe.
• Overall dodge chances given by equipment and food have been slightly reduced.
• Dodge chance is now capped at 90%.
• Cooked food is now worth the amount of ancient coins of its combined ingredients.
• The Blacksmith talent now also reduces repair costs of items and has been changed to reduce the cost by 5% instead of 6% per talent point.
• Ancient coin value of fishes has been adjusted.
• Hive Mother eggs now always spawn at least one big larva to help the other small larvas or acid larvas to dig out of any obstacles.
• Reduced sell value of several crafted items that were overpriced such as smelted bars.
• Reduced sell value of Crystal Skull Shard.
• Wood is no longer worth any ancient coins when being sold.
• Fireflies no longer spawn and group up in large amounts over time.

Quality-of-life

• Added quick stack and sort buttons to the chest inventory UI.
• Enemies can no longer spawn on top of the player or very close to the player.
• The hint given by the Core regarding the direction of where Azeos can be found has been changed to more clearly refer to the direction of Azeos Wilderness as the direction is intended for the biome and not the boss.
• Made it easier to swap items in pedestals and similar buildings that can only contain 1 item without having to manually take out the current item first.
• Added option to disable in-game UI.
• Volume is no longer reduced when opening the options menu.
• Allow joining via Steam friends list while in the game. Previously players had to go back to the title first to join another game.
• The color of ore boulders has been made easier to see on the map such as iron ore boulders on stone ground.
• Shortcut to sort player inventory now only works while inventory is open.

BUG FIXES

• Added a more stable solution to make sure Malugaz the Corrupted does not reset back to full health while fighting him in his throne room.
• Range attack speed buff from cooking Teal Palace fish now lasts for its intended 5 min.
• Fix issue where game would start behaving weird after client getting disconnected while interacting with any ingame UI.
• Fix bug where cooking pot would create broken food items if cooking more than 999 cooked foods.
• Fix bug where the big larvas in the Hive Mother fight would sometimes not try to hit blocking walls or objects.
• Fix pushback not affecting enemies as it should.
• Fix so starting the game via Steam join friend option actually joins the game on start.
• Hide Game ID when using controller text input in Steam Big Picture Mode.
• Set the correct icon for Larva Spike Club when dropped or placed on pedestal.
• Fixed an issue where items would sometimes be duplicated while exiting the game.

Other

• Added a new font for Thai that is easier to read. Thanks to the Thai community for sharing this with us!
• Save files are located under the Windows users AppData folder as well as in Steam Cloud.
• Great wall blocks can no longer be placed out.
• Fix so not all plants are animated and emitting particles when there are a lot of plants to improve performance.

Hello Explorers, we hope youre having an amazing time playing Core Keeper. Were delighted to announce that weve hit well over 300,000 downloads on Steam now, and we wanted to say a big thank you for your support! We love your enthusiasm for the game, and weve had plenty of questions about gameplay, features, languages, and the future of Core Keeper, so we thought wed give you some answers. Please note that these are subject to change as we get further and further into Early Access, but for now, please find the most up-to-date answers to some of your Core Keeper frequently asked questions below.

Core Keeper Frequently Asked Questions

Where do I submit bug reports / give feedback?

How do I start / join a multiplayer game?

What languages does Core Keeper support?

Is Core Keeper available on Mac/Linux?

Will Core Keeper be available on Epic Games or GOG?

Will Core Keeper be available on PlayStation/Xbox/Nintendo Switch in the future?

I am experiencing lag/performance issues, what do I do?

Will there be dedicated servers?

Will there be local multiplayer?

Who is creating the soundtrack, and will it be available on Spotify?

Will there be DLC?

Will there be ultra-wide support?

Can I dig down (along the Z axis)?

How do I get the Merchant to move into my base?

Whats next for Core Keeper?

Hello Explorers, we hope youre having a great time uncovering the secrets of The Core. We understand that some of you have been having networking issues that have been impacting things like ping-rate and multiplayer games. This is something that we are actively looking into, and we are currently trialling an experimental networking solution that we hope will address these issues. In fact, wed like to offer you the opportunity to take part in testing this. If you would like to opt into a beta that uses this new networking solution, then please follow the instructions below. You will be able to opt out of this beta at any time.

How to Join the Beta:

What an incredible milestone! Were thrilled to announce that were celebrating 500,000 Core Keeper downloads within the first two weeks of our Early Access launch. Core Keeper launched on the 8th of March 2022, and weve been welcoming thousands of new Explorers to the underground every day since. Your feedback and Steam reviews have been incredibly valuable to us, and this is continuously helping us to improve the gameplay experience.

Almost 2 Million Hours Watched on Twitch!

Officially Verified for Steam Deck

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

Balancing Improvements

• Ancient Pickaxe now has epic rarity with reworked stats and has a chance to drop from Azeos. The legendary version of it was intentionally overpowered and used as a dev tool.
• Tweaked the loot drop for Azeos to have the correct amount of loot and items.
• Lowered the amount of fish / fishing items needed to be catched to level up fishing skill, was previously too high.
• Fireflies now have a lower chance of respawning in an area that already has fireflies.
• Thunder beams spawned by Azeos now do more damage
• Fishing has been adjusted to be a bit easier, especially for early game fishes.
• Swapped places of the fishing talents Studied patterns (dodge chance) and Anglers advantage (fish starts closer to be reeled in).

Quality-of-life

• Soul powers can now be toggled on/off in the Souls UI as intended.

Audio

• Adjusted volume levels for sound effects for watering can.

BUG FIXES

• Obsidian walls no longer appear in the room with the green dolls chest when generating a new world.
• The Core will now always say the correct direction instead of .
• Fixed correct name and description for the The Caveling Hunter trophy.
• Range weapons no longer damage other players that are far away.
• When holding a broken item with the mouse it stays red.
• Fence gates no longer break when starting the game.
• Hitting shortly after dashing no longer keeps moving the player forward in the dash direction.
• Red fireflies now spawn in Azeos wilderness as intended.
• Fixed an issue where the client sometimes would see a critical hit but the server would not register a critical hit.
• Fixed an issue where enemies would sometimes be knocked back after dying.
• Fixed an issue where water would start looking weird at distances larger than 1.000.000 tiles away from the core.
• Plants and seeds that have been watered will no longer sometimes dry out after restarting the game.
• Fix issue where drills would cast shadows.
• Drills can no longer drill away the Great Wall.
• Corrected Carapace armor set bonus to say 24.3% instead of 243%.
• Fixed an issue where harvesting with a shovel would not give gardening skill points.
• Fixed an issue where gardening skill points were not gained from harvesting fully grown root plants.
• Fixed an issue where fireball staff would sometimes stop glowing.
• Movement speed no longer goes back to normal movement speed when slowed down a lot such as when affected by mold and starving at the same time.
• Players will no longer automatically get the fish when interrupted by a wall or ground tile being placed at the fishing spot during the mini game.
• Fast and furious talent can now correctly trigger while hitting without a weapon.
• Hover description of the buff gained from the Fast and furious talent no longer says .
• Malugaz the Corrupted should no longer reset while fighting him in his room.
• Game no longer crashes when using the Toxic Defender shield against Azeos thunder beams.
• The big mural door for some temple areas in the wilderness biome should no longer sometimes be offset from the actual entrance. This fix only applies to new instances of the area, old ones will remain the same.
• Fixed an issue where the players inventory UI would sometimes crash and not render properly.
• Player no longer gains cooking skill or extra cooked food by holding another item when trying to take out food from the cooking pot.
• Projectiles no longer gain any aura effects the player has such as the one from Encumbering presence talent.
• Changing language should no longer cause the biome title to get stuck visible on screen.
• Fixed some typos in item descriptions.
• Outline of Ivy Chest now appears correctly.
• Hover name and description now appears correctly for Ivys chest.
• Fixed an issue where rare and epic versions of the cooked fish food would have wrong colors.
• Buildings like the furnace and the cooking pot no longer craft more than what they have materials for when the player is far away.
• Fixed not being able to load the world because of some corrupted save file data.
• Fixed issue with soil sometimes looking like it is watered when it is not.
• Fixed an issue where indestructible objects such as trees, large ancient ruins and the large insect shells could be destroyed by drills and then picked up. May be re-added in future updates with proper functionality.
• We've heard and seen everyone's reports around multiplayer issues. We're looking into the issue and hope to have more information for everyone soon.

Hello Explorers! Were celebrating once again with a huge milestone for us. Every day thousands more Explorers are entering the world of Core Keeper and we are absolutely exhilarated to announce that we have now reached an astonishing 250,000 copies sold in our first week! We have had an overwhelmingly positive response from our community, and were extremely grateful to all of you who have become a part of our adventure! Thank you for all the feedback which we are listening to closely, and also some awesome all new ideas! Players can currently take advantage of a 10% discount when buying the game to celebrate our Early Access launch. If you havent picked up your copy yet, we recommend you do so soon, as this discounted price will come to an end tomorrow. Start your adventure today! Weve had an awesome time watching all of the wonderful content creators on YouTube and Twitch as well. We hope youll continue to share Core Keeper with your friends and communities as we improve and update the game throughout Early Access! Your Steam reviews have been important in helping other players decide whether to play Core Keeper, and we are very grateful to everyone who took the time to leave a review. Sharing your thoughts and feedback on the game in the form of a review is a great way to support us developers, and we definitely want to hear them! As always, well be sharing lots of news, info, and announcements in the official Core Keeper Discord, so make sure you join us there to meet your fellow Explorers. Once again, thank you for a mind-blowing 250,000 sales, and we hope you have fun uncovering the secrets of The Core!

Hot Fix Patch 0.3.1

• Game ID (both in pause menu and in join game menu) is now hidden by default and a button has been added next to it to toggle visibility of the Game ID.
• Streamer mode was removed (as game ID is now hidden by default).
• Game ID is now regenerated when exiting to main menu.

Were celebrating a big milestone today as we welcome a huge number of new Explorers to the underground. Since launching on Steam Early Access just two days ago, Core Keeper has already sold an incredible 100,000 copies, making it our publishers fastest-selling digital title of all time! We have been blown away by the communitys reaction to Core Keeper and were very excited for all of the players who have joined us on our adventure so far. This early success has cemented our plans for the future, and were listening very closely to player feedback so that we can continue to grow the game in the months ahead. This is just the start of Core Keepers journey, and were thrilled to have so many players taking that first step with us. Players can currently take advantage of a 10% discount when buying the game to celebrate our Early Access launch. If you havent picked up your copy yet, we recommend you do so soon, as this discounted price will come to an end on the 15th of March. Start your adventure today!
Weve been having a wonderful time watching you play Core Keeper on YouTube and Twitch, as well. There have been some amazing streams that have made us laugh and also provided us with valuable insights. We hope youll continue to share Core Keeper with your friends and communities as we improve and update the game throughout Early Access. Your Steam reviews have been important in helping other players decide whether to play Core Keeper, and we are very grateful to everyone who took the time to leave a review. Sharing your thoughts and feedback on the game in the form of a review is a great way to support us developers, and we definitely want to hear them! As always, well be sharing lots of news, info, and announcements in the official Core Keeper Discord, so make sure you join us there to meet your fellow Explorers. Once again, thank you for a mind-blowing 100,000 sales, and we hope you have fun uncovering the secrets of The Core!

The wait is over. After a year and a half of hard work, we are excited to release Core Keeper into Steam Early Access today! The community reaction to the Steam Next Fest Demo was incredible, and we are thrilled for this major next chapter. We are happy to welcome new and returning players into the world of Core Keeper and will be listening closely to the communitys feedback throughout Early Access as we continue to add exciting new content and features. To start (or continue) your underground adventure, pick up a copy of the game from our Steam store page. [previewyoutube=BIYcsYVxzPg;full][/previewyoutube]

Your Feedback Matters!

Exciting New Features

Whats Next for Core Keeper?

Its not long now until we hit Early Access, Explorers, and we wanted to give you a little run down of some of the updates weve made to the game based on your feedback from the Demo. While this is not a full list of Early-Access features, please find a list of patch notes below for a little insight into some of the things you can expect to see.

Core Keeper Early Access Patch Notes

Main Features

• New biome: Azeos Wilderness
• New biome: Mould Biome, located in Azeos Wilderness
• Lighting Optimisation

New NPCs

• Azeos the Sky Titan (boss)
• Ivy the Poisonous Mass (boss)
• Malugaz the Corrupted (boss)
• 5 new enemies

New Mechanics

• New items with shield mechanic: Equipable in off-hand
• New item with dash mechanic: Equipable in off-hand
• Automation table: Allows creation of conveyor belts, drills & robot arms
• Electronics table: Allows creation of generators, wires, circuits & more
• Fishing: 19 unique fish & many other loot drops
• Railway forge: Allows creation of rails & minecarts
• Cartography table: Allows players to share explored areas on their maps
• Cookbook available in cooking pot: Used for storing recipes

New Items

• More than 10 new weapons
• More than 20 new types of armour & gear
• New workbench tier: Scarlet workbench
• Distillery table: Allows creation of stronger potions
• Salvage & repair station: Used to maintain gear
• Monster figurine collectables: Can be used as decoration
• Oracle cards collectables
• New valuables
• Large water can

Additional Content

• New unique locations in the world
• Tier 3 & tier 4 talents available in the talent trees
• Activation of the Core

Gameplay Changes

Balancing Improvements

• Slow down effects now work on bosses
• Increased inventory size
• Increased health from sleeping
• Enemies drop loot when killed by secondary sources (e.g. killed by spike trap)
• Starting lantern now has a bit longer glow range
• Health potions now have a cooldown after drinking
• Removed durability from paint brushes

Quality-of-life

• Lighting Optimisation
• Titles for each biome
• Changing between weapons does not require pressing left mouse button again to attack
• Added a cursor to the centre of the map when using controller
• Gravestones can now be picked up by hitting with melee weapon

Art and Animation

• New icon for water can
• Changed position of item hover description
• Tweaked colours on the map
• Indicator that skills have unsigned talent points.
• New icon for wood bridge
• Tools only drain durability when used for their intended purpose, e.g. durability is no longer drained when hitting wooden crates
• Tools & gear now become unusable when reaching 0 durability instead of breaking
• Increased size of chests inventory space

Audio

• Sound effect when entering a new biome

Bug Fixes