Idle Cave Miner
Cold Hours Developer
Cold Hours Publisher
2023-12-07 Release
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
🎮 Full Controller Support
Very Positive
(778 reviews)
Version 1.10.0With 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!)
[ 2024-04-22 15:20:46 CET ] [ Original post ] Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Tap to mine gold, diamonds, and other resources in a completely destructible, interactive mine. Assemble your team of miners to try to reach as deep as possible, find the best combination using each miner's strengths and abilities as a starting point for your strategy. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.
IDLE CAVE MINER FEATURES: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!
MINIMAL SETUP- OS: Linux
- Processor: 1GHzMemory: 1 GB RAMStorage: 800 MB available space
- Memory: 1 GB RAMStorage: 800 MB available space
- Storage: 800 MB available space
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