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The last automation helper, raids you can fight yourself, a Trade Post with upkeep, and shelves for your collection ⚙️ The Ancestral Engine 🔧 The last helper on the automation rack. Earn it by Ascending once, or by earning 6 challenge medals. Saves that already qualify get it wh
Auto-mine, Blessings past their max, fewer and bigger buttons, less text, and fixes for wrong info ⛏️ Auto-mine ⛏️ Auto-mine. A button under the ore vein (or the O key, rebindable in Settings > Keybindings) mines the vein for you 4 times a second. It is off by default and save
Dig past depth 20 into four biomes with Warden bosses. Earn five automation helpers, pick a Dig Omen each New Dig, and play in a fully redrawn hold. Big balance pass, 100+ fixes. This is our biggest update so far. It holds everything we have built since v0.1.8. The v0.1.9 patch n
🗺️ What's Next for Mithril & Mud We've shipped 8 patches since Early Access launch — over 60 bug fixes , expeditions, offline production, automation, a full soundtrack, and a mountain of balance tuning. That's all in the first three weeks — and we're not slowing down. Mithri
⛏️ Patch v0.1.8 — Balance Tuning & QoL This patch rebalances the depth bonus curve, adds quality-of-life features for mid-to-late game players, and improves UI discoverability across several panels. ⚖️ Balance 📊 Tiered Depth Bonuses — Depth production bonus now scales in tie
✨ New Features 🔄 Per-Slot Auto Deploy — Each expedition slot now has its own "Auto Deploy" checkbox, replacing the old global toggle. Mix and match which slots auto-redeploy and which you manage manually 👷 Manual Worker Reserve — Reserve workers specifically for expeditions wit
🐉 Hotfix v0.1.6.1 — Dragon Raid Fix Fixed a critical bug where Lithodore's dragon raid could trap players indefinitely. If your runic warriors can't kill the dragon within 5 minutes, Lithodore now flees — no more getting stuck. 🐛 Bug Fix 🐉 Dragon raid 5-minute timeout — Lithod
⛏️ Patch v0.1.6 — Offline Workers, Auto-Redeploy & Full Audit Your dwarves never sleep — and now the game knows it. This patch brings full-rate offline production, auto-redeploy expeditions, and squashes 28 bugs found during a complete codebase audit. ✨ New Features 💤 Persis
Hotfix v0.1.51 — Tutorial Rework, Hint Navigation, Bug Fixes 🎯 Tutorial Rework Replaced all tutorial arrows with gold pulse highlights directly on the target buttons — no more floating arrows pointing at nothing Tutorial now highlights the exact button you need to click: Better
✨ New Features - 📖 Guided Tutorial — New 8-step interactive walkthrough that guides new players through their first mine tap, hiring workers, upgrading, and building rooms - 🔓 Feature Unlock Popups — When you unlock a new system (expeditions, runestones, artifacts, trade, gems,
⚖️ Balance Changes Ancestral Knowledge Soft Cap Base AK now has diminishing returns past 15 points — half rate beyond that threshold. Still rewarding for long runs, but no longer trivially maxed in a handful of speed prestiges. Veteran Multiplier Capped The veteran prestige multi
Critical Hits Now Grant Bonus Ore Critical hits on the mine node were purely visual — they played the flash and sound but didn't actually give extra ore. Crits now deal 2x ore damage. They're also rarer now (about 1 in 40 clicks) to keep them feeling special. Critical Hit Visual
Hotfix v0.1.2 ⛏️ We're still here, still patching. Thank you for the reports — keep them coming. 🔧 Bug Fixes Crown Forge Mini-Game Freeze Fixed a game-breaking freeze in the Forge the Crown victory sequence. An internal animation loop wasn't being cleaned up between hammer strik
Mithril & Mud — Hotfix v0.1.1 ⛏️ March 11, 2026 Thanks to everyone who jumped into the mines on launch day! We've been reading your feedback and crushed a handful of bugs that were lurking in the deep. 🔧 Bug Fixes Depth Bonus Display The depth production bonus on the main sc