Developer posts and news about this game.
Reworked energysystem to give a more clear overview of status of energy in the last 10 seconds and last 1 minute on average. New sciencehub building sprite, old placeholder replaced: Belts now properly connect into each other to form a path: Items on belts are still jumping when
Tier 1 and Tier 2 drills are now available in the demo. Tier 3 and beyond will be reserved for the full game. Additionally you can now progress to the Crust 2 layer in the demo.
More golden tile upgrades Many golden tiles at once possible now, more Core Essence production! New demo Technology available Anti RAS Laser, Doubles damage to RAS tendrils when mining them manually. New resource Core Essence Chunk, made in Core Essence Crusher from Core Essence:
Abilities are now triggered based on fuel spent New ability Golden Tile: There's also a bigger tile grid and a lot of rebalancing.
Your Feedback These are all changes based on your feedback! Keep it coming and thanks everyone for the feedback so far! Flow Restrictor building The Restrictor can look ahead on a belt path and allows you to set a max number of items allowed on that belt path at once. When placin
QoL You can now add or remove 5 or 10 items to the crafting quantity at once in the Crafting menu when pressing ctrl click or shift click. You can now use the scrollwheel up or down to add/subtract quantity in the Crafting menu. There is more guidance towards placing the first bu
An opening cinematic when starting a new game. Broadcasts that convey story elements (work in progress). New ground textures/biomes. Added an "Objectives" panel. Earlier Core Splitter Drill in tech tree, decoupled from earlier prerequisites The player can now Dash with Space or S
As of the 15th of February 2026 Core Splitter has entered it's first Playtest phase ːsteamhappyː Thanks to those who already started playing. The game is in a ready to play state with a subset of technologies/features locked behind a "demo locked" gate. It is very important to me
The Core Splitter Drill #Devlog 2 In the previous version of Core Splitter, there was no interactive component to the Core Splitter Drill. It was just casually drilling ang progressing. That needed to change. So I added the Underground Drill View. Here's an early prototype versio
From prototype to a full game #Devlog 1 I'm sure many of you saw the earliest version of Core Splitter, published back in October after it got some coverage from Orbital Potato and Glidercat (Thanks guys!). After a somewhat positive reception and despite a few "Factorio clone" co