Changes:

• Lowered relic costs for 'Bird Coins', 'Offline Rewards', and 'Starting Floor'
• Gem sorting will now check if it's sorted before changing sort type
• When visiting a floor, you now get offline rewards from that floor
• Improved miners movement speed display
• Improved miners mining speed display

Fixes:

• Completion percentage no longer requires upgrades to be fully completed
• You're no longer able to grade a destroyed gem

Changes:

• Updated the create and destroy costs for Abyssal Gems
• Reduced the cost of the Starting Floor Relic
• Relics now count towards game completion

Fixes:

• Fixed Japanese currency display

New Features:

• [spoiler]Added the abyssal hand, with 5 slots for abyssal gems[/spoiler]
• [spoiler]Added 7 abyssal gems[/spoiler]
• [spoiler]Added abyssal gem grading[/spoiler]
• [spoiler]Added 3 abyssal upgrades[/spoiler]
• Added a new relic

Changes:

• Forge timer is now monospaced (won't jump around anymore)
• Reduced costs on most relics
• Increased base chance for a special shot in the abyss ([strike]5% [/strike]>> 10%)
• Increased max level of special shot upgrade ([strike]25[/strike] >> 30)
• Increased Appa's chance to double Ruin Essence ([strike]14%[/strike] >> 15%)
• Added a new bundle for the abyss if you don't own bonus shards
• Updated Leon's skin cost ([strike]500 Gems[/strike] >> 2500 Singularities of Ignition)
• Added currency parsing for 10 more countries

Fixes:

• Abyss now displays damage dealt by the shots
• Abyss now displays critical damage dealt
• Fixed a bug which caused quests to reroll when claiming the first one

Changes:

• Increased Orion's chance to double Refinement Essence ([strike]10%[/strike] >> 12%)
• Increased Appa's chance to double Ruin Essence ([strike]12%[/strike] >> 14%)
• Increased Nomed's chance to double Ignition Essence ([strike]12%[/strike] >> 14%)

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue which would cause the coal world tutorial to keep appearing
• Fixed an issue that caused the coal world tutorial to block the screen on the Chinese version
• Fixed an issue that caused the coal world tutorial to display incorrectly on the Japanese version

As of right now, Idle Cave Miner is Free to Play on Steam! Rewards for players who bought the game should also be fully rolled out, to receive them, either restart the game, or press the red 'restore purchases' button at the bottom of the in-game store. If, for some reason, you're unable to claim your rewards, please reach out to me as soon as possible, you can message me on Discord, or send me an email to pedro@coldhours.com describing the issue. I look forward to seeing you all on the mines! ~Pedro

With the release of this patch, the game also becomes Free to Play. The rewards should start rolling out soon, and should be claimed automatically. If there are any issues, please send me a message on Discord, or email me. With that said, here are the patch notes:

New Features:

• Added 1 new Essence ([spoiler]Essence of Time[/spoiler])
• Added 1 new Singularity ([spoiler]Singularity of Time[/spoiler])
• Special forges can now forge regular gems
• Regular birds now give you a small amount of Coal when tapped (2~3, works with multipliers)
• Weekly quests can now give you Singularities as a reward
• Floor travels now have a preview of the distributions

Changes:

• Added 1 more special forge
• Reduced max speed of special forges ([strike]600%[/strike] >> 400%)
• Updated miner completion display
• Added 8 new skins
• Added 16 new transmutations
• Added 5 new stats
• Added 1 new tutorial (Coal Pits unlocked)
• Updated 1 tutorial (Floor 1000 cleared)
• Updated daily rewards (Replaced Gold)
• Added an extra travel floor 250 floors after the last one on every mine
• Reverted the cost of the Time Warps (100% increase from current costs)
• Increased the cost of Platinum Ore to match other recipes ([strike]8[/strike] >> 10 raw platinum)
• Increased the cost of Uranium Ore to match other recipes ([strike]16[/strike] >> 20 raw uranium)
• Updated Mythic gem base speed ([strike]90s[/strike] >> 80s)
• Updated Legendary gem base speed ([strike]210s[/strike] >> 220s)
• Reduced Anne's chance to find Gold bars ([strike]5%[/strike] >> 4%)
• Reduced Grandelf's chance to find Mythic gems ([strike]1%[/strike] >> 0.8%)
• Updated the Delete Game Data text to look more dangerous
• Mobile version settings no longer show up on the Steam version
• Report issue now opens a Google Forms (Due to Steam Deck incompatibility)

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue which would cause resets to keep you on the same world you reset in
• Fixed text scaling issue on transmutations
• Might have fixed an issue which would cause the progress bar to not sync
• Disabled automatic cloud restore (You win this time bug!)

Hello fellow miners, I would like to start by thanking each and every one of you for playing Idle Cave Miner, and for leaving both positive and negative feedback, this process is essential for me to keep improving the game. As you're probably aware, the game didn't have the best launch, not because of bugs, but because of a series of bad decisions from my part, and for that, I would like to profoundly apologize. The main critique was the fact that the game was paid, and still had MTX, which is a very fair argument. In hindsight, I should've released the game as Free to Play, and modify the shop to fit the ad restriction from Steam. At the time, I went for the easiest solution, which was to auto purchase the 'Skip Ads' purchase, and keep the game the same as the mobile version. In order to rectify my mistakes, Idle Cave Miner is becoming Free to Play on Steam. To the players who have already purchased the game on Steam, they will keep the skip ads purchase they received when buying the Steam version, but they will also receive the following:

• 5600 Premium Gems
• 50 Singularities of Time

Changes:

• Increased the speed growth per level of all forges ([strike]0.03[/strike] >> 0.06)
• Reduced the amount of levels to max a forge ([strike]100[/strike] >> 50)
• Reduced the total costs to max forges (about 50% cheaper)
• Reduced the costs of most Singularity of Ruin's transmutations
• Reduced the costs of all regular raw gem forge recipes (about 50% cheaper)
• Reduced the costs of most coal and raw ore forge recipes

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with Ratner's chance to triple raw gems
• Fixed an issue with Cooper's chance to triple raw ores

New Features:

• New passive for Grandelf (1% chance to find Mythic Gems when mining)
• New tier display when you reach max tier with a miner, and unlock all skins

Changes:

• Forges now play a SFX when being enabled
• Increased Ratner's chance to triple raw gems ([strike]6%[/strike] >> 12%)
• Increased Cooper's chance to triple raw ores ([strike]6%[/strike] >> 12%)

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue which would cause the popups to break (again)
• Fixed an issue which would cause the first offline forges claim to fail, leading to a temporarily broken forge
• Fixed an issue which would cause forges to not update if being enabled for the first time
• Fixed issues with localizations in German

New Features:

• Remade the forges
• Forges now have infinite storage
• Forges now have dynamic recipe selection
• Added Rich Presence
• Added an option to reset your save file

Changes:

• Replaced Bonus 25% Forge Speed purchase with Bonus 25% chance to double Coal
• Removed multiple upgrades that were not compatible with the new forges
• Updated forges UI
• Updated forge augment costs (Gems to max all forges unchanged)
• Updated most forge's recipes base speed
• Updated most forge's recipes resource cost
• Updated most alchemy recipes costs and outputs
• Updated transmutation amounts ([strike]1 and max[/strike] >> 1, 10 and 100)
• Updated calculations for time warps
• Moved AFK mode to Mine Settings
• [spoiler] Generator Speed upgrades are now additive [/spoiler]
• [spoiler] Generator Speed delay reduction increased ([strike]0.2%[/strike] >> 1%)[/spoiler]
• [spoiler] Generator Output is now calculated through (Power * Speed)[/spoiler]
• [spoiler] Generator Speed and Power upgrades are now separated[/spoiler]
• [spoiler] Generator Entries now display how many resources you have[/spoiler]
• Added a default sort order for inventory items
• Account deletions are now automated
• Improved [spoiler] Abyss Tier description[/spoiler] clarity
• Clarified that relics require 'The Caves' floor 500 to unlock
• Improved forges item display amounts
• Saves are slightly smarter in case of data corruption

Fixes:

• [spoiler] Fixed an issue which could cause the generator to delay the progress display[/spoiler]
• Fixed an issue which would cause cloud save checks to happen on every login
• Fixed an issue that caused landscape mode UI to have a 16 pixel gap in the middle
• Fixed an issue which would cause birds to fly into hard to tap places
• Fixed an issue which would cause popups to break on very rare occasions
• Fixed multiple issues with the Japanese, Korean and Chinese localizations
• Fixed an issue which could double logins and break popups
• Possible fix for a false positive invalid email when the password is too big (over 32 chars)

Changes:

• [spoiler] Abyss: Special Tower shots now double shards mined. [/spoiler]
• Morgan now has a chance to find Coal on any block he breaks (10% + 2% every tier)
• Updated Midas and Rick's special description to use icons instead of text
• Reduced [spoiler]Offline Rewards Relic Bonus ([strike]400%[/strike] >> 200%)[/spoiler]
• Reduced Anne's chance to find Gold Bars ([strike]6%[/strike] >> 5%)
• Increased Cooper's chance to triple ores ([strike]5%[/strike] >> 6%)
• Increased Ratner's chance to triple gems ([strike]5%[/strike] >> 6%)
• Added 2 new skins (Bat Nomed & Winter Adoy)
• Added more unique fancy birds
• Miners texture size optimized (could reduce game size)

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with purchases price display
• Fixed an issue that caused the leaderboards to not open correctly
• Fixed multiple issues with the Japanese, Korean and Chinese localizations
• Fixed an issue which could cause [spoiler] the Abyss Generator to generate negative souls [/spoiler]

Smelt, Craft, and Refine Ores:

• Craft cool new Items to mine deeper than ever and find new rare ores and gems!
  
• Upgrade your forges to increase their speed and efficiency when smelting rare ores or refining beautiful gems!
  
• Use the items you crafted to permanently boost the stats of your team of miners!

Build your own team of Miners:

• Unlock cool and unique new miners to mine for you and help you progress deep within the mines!
  
• Upgrade your miners with items you crafted to take them to the next level of mining efficiency!
  
• Idle away as your miners work for you, giving you profits you've never seen before!

Multiple Mines:

• The mine upgrades with you, the further down you go, the more the mine shifts to accommodate new unique and fun environments!
  
• Unique mines to explore, each with their own resources for you to obtain, whether those are rare ores to be smelted or unique gems to be refined!
  
• Farm these mines to get resources to become stronger than ever and progress in the main mine, giving you access to new and interesting new ores and gems!

Endless upgrades:

• Upgrade everything about your favorite miners, building an increasingly strong team to progress further than you've gone before!
  
• Prestige to receive powerful rewards that allow you to go deeper than ever into the unknown depths of the mines!
  
• Gather permanent upgrades that remain with you when you prestige, allowing you to breeze through what was previously impossible!

Lots of missions and achievements:

• Complete fun achievements to unlock cool rewards!
  
• Participate in daily, weekly and monthly missions that give you increased rewards based on their difficulty level!
  
• Check your game's stats at any moment to view your overall progress and other fun statistics!

Other cool features:

• Cloud Saves!
  
• Online Leaderboards!
  
• Play Offline!

• OS: Linux
• Processor: 1GHzMemory: 1 GB RAMStorage: 800 MB available space
• Memory: 1 GB RAMStorage: 800 MB available space
• Storage: 800 MB available space