Developer posts and news about this game.
New Features Modular ship loadout — your ship is now a hull grid you fit parts into. Cutting heads mount in the nose; tanks, radiators and modules fill the body. Every part costs cells you could have carried ore in. Service depot rig screen — pull up to the fuel pad and rebuild t
New Features Added a Pixel Upscale graphics option, available from both the title screen and in-game settings. Improvements Greatly reduced GPU shader work underground. Fully opaque fog now prevents hidden world layers from rendering. Precomputed fog lighting and wall bleed repla
## Improvements - On first launch the game now detects your hardware and picks graphics settings to match, instead of starting everything at maximum. Older machines get a lower render scale, simpler effects and a frame cap. Anything you choose yourself is kept permanently. - The
Graphical optimization hotfix and graphical settings options.
## New Features **The planet persists between trips** - Tunnels you dig stay dug — the world remembers your excavation across trips - Each run pins a single world layout instead of regenerating one - Shipping reseeds ore rather than rebuilding the world around you **Trips replace
New Features New TECH tab in the Ship Upgrades shop — salvaged technology (Planet Map, Overheat Vent, Shield, Prospector's Eye and their branch upgrades) now lives on its own tab, which unlocks once you sell your first salvage data back at base. Improvements The Ship Upgrades sho
New Features Three new underground creatures — Scorch Beetle, Tunnel Grub, and Lava Worm now inhabit the planet's depths, each with their own behaviors and animations Faction radio objectives — dual mission objective windows for Corp and Engine factions now appear in the HUD Ship
New Features Pre-baked worlds — 5 hand-structured map layouts with randomized ore and salvage placement for more varied runs Fog of war — raycast-blocked line of sight with smooth shadowed edges Faction system UI — live mission tracker, end-of-day faction summary, and faction sta
New Features Mountains between rock chunks now contain dense copper and silver deposits — a rich surface ore source unlocked once you have the afterburner Improvements Shop upgrade tree now displays as a visual branching layout, making progression paths clearer Refined shop upgra
New Features Mineral Vault — ore mined each day is automatically smelted into ingots that carry over between days End-of-day panel — shows your Ingot Vault, Smelting Queue, and available Facility Upgrades after each day Facility Upgrades can now be purchased with ingots from the
Update v0.1.20260402 New Features - Deep Risers — vertical tunnels now connect each inter-chunk gap down through the lava zone, reachable after breaking the chunk bottom with Overheat Vent - Veilstone — a new high-value hidden ore seeded exclusively in deep risers; completely inv