Battle Changes
Battles are now turn-based instead of being a button-mash simulator. You can now fight multiple monsters back to back with each giving different rewards (money, minerals, chests). Equips work more like Super Miners and are granted from Battle Chests which you can find in the world, in battles, or by purchasing in the shop. You can now have multiple of the same equip and can scrap them to get Weapon scrap which you can use to upgrade your slots or the equips themselves. There are also two new battle consumables: one that heals you by 20% during a fight, and one that lets you draw cards from your discard. Several battle relics have been adjusted to work with the new system.

Gem Forge changes
You can now dedicate workload to gems and they will automatically craft. The higher the workload the less time it takes for them to craft. Gems are now used for upgrades instead of equips. Gem Upgrades increase your health, max energy, energy regen, max cards in hand, and card draw per turn for battles.

Extended Titan
Titan has now been extended to its final depth of 750km and now has a trading post. There have also been significant balance adjustments to the price scaling and strength of the existing drills. You may find that you are able to skip a few tiers if you have been saving for a long time.

Scientists changes
The scientists now have a new scrollable UI. You can now view all your active scientists in a single window organized by progress, with completed excavations at the top, followed by inactive scientists and ongoing excavations. There is also a new relic scrap system, which can be used to trade for additional relics. Relics can be scrapped from the inventory window, or when discarding them at the end of an excavation. In addition to those changes, resurrecting scientists will now also grant you the excavation reward!


Other Changes

• The illuminating crown now shows the description for excavations as well.
  
• New cave consumables.
  
  • One that sends out a fleet of drones all over the cave for half the fuel cost.
    
  • One that reveals the whole cave.
• You can now click on super miners in the world.
  
• The ufo hitbox is no longer difficult to click on PC and now the UFO will actually spawn on mobile.
  
• Magnetic drones will no longer pull items into hazards unless the items were in a hazard to begin with.
  
• The Healing Drone is now an absolute tank, even faster, and heals more.
  
• The time until depth now has a real time estimate that goes based off of your rate of acquiring timelapse (With further improvements coming in another update).
  
• Tooltips for minerals in the crafting window now have some text telling you to click them to lock them.
  
• Fixed a bug where basic chest were giving less money than they were supposed to with higher level Mining Speed Potion buffs.
  
• Adjusted a few quests to grant ethereal and battle chests as rewards.
  
• Mineral deposits now have a nice glow to them when hovered.
  
• Added a special quote that says how red names are obtained when a red name miner is double clicked.
  
• The shop is now organized into categories to make it easier to navigate.
  
• The Ethereal chest in the shop now has an info button that says how likely you are to get different drops.
  
• Added new shortcuts for the Super Miner window (M) and Chest collector (X).
  
• There should no longer be invisible mineral deposits on Titan.
  
• Buffed the earlier levels of the chest compressor. Nerfed the later levels a little bit.
  
• Premium miners now have a new message explaining how to unlock your own.
  
• The tooltip in the buff lab now displays the right amount of missing energy when your buff lab is higher than level 1.

Earlier this week we had some issues with the Christmas event, but it should now be live on all platforms! Candy Canes now drop from Chests, caves, and Monsters and they can be redeemed for chests in the event window. Basic chests also now spawn twice as fast during the event!

We hope you enjoy!

We also want to let you know that we're in the process of adding Steam trading cards, backgrounds, and emoticons which should be up sometime next week

Enjoy a free Ethereal Chest with this code: XBX9V5E4D071E

Redeem in-game by going to the garage, selecting “Use Tickets”, then “Redeem”.

Hey everyone! Hope your summer was (or still is) fantastic. We meant to roll this update out a bit sooner, but better late than never, right? Dive in!

Ticket changes
* Tickets are more common from scientist excavations.
* Tickets can now appear in trades and caves.

New shop items
* Building Materials & buffs
* Reduced Orange Fish respawn time
* Basic Drones turn around automatically on full inventory
* View hidden excavations

Scientist Changes
* Drag & drop Relics.
* Relics are now capped at 20 instead of 15 and additional slots can be purchased with tickets from the relic tab.
* Reworked the Scientists reward scaling formulas to smooth out the curve. Will make higher level scientists more worth keeping. Lower level scientists will be slightly weaker, higher levels will be much stronger. Smaller reward excavations will now be more time efficient (time spent on excavation relative to the reward amount.)
* Scythes are now capped at 80%
* Big cheese now has a decreased spawn chance if another scientist is currently on a big cheese mission. Big cheese is now capped at capacity instead of 2x to account for increased capacity from 5 extra relic slots which has the potential to increase your capacity by 3.25x.

New relics
* Onyx Oracle - Mineral deposit amount multiplier (15/20/25)%
* Ruby Resonator - Mineral deposit spawn multiplier (10/15/20)%
* Key of the Void - Increased Ethereal Chests spawn chance (5.5/7/8.5)% (capped at 85%)

Titan Changes
* +200km
* 12 new drill upgrades
* 1 new boss and 2 new monsters

Super Miner Changes
* Skill super miners can now be Shift clicked in the super miner UI to cast their skill.
* Goldalf minerals required per reward no longer scales down with level. Instead the mineral, money, and super mineral souls rewards scale with level. Building materials will no longer be granted as rewards if you have no structures to level up.
* Nerfed Thoth from 300% to 150% to account for increasing relic slots.
* Buffed Master Mined which is the legendary auto seller. Now has a secondary passive, it now automatically sells any minerals that breaks capacity by 2x. (This should help with getting too many minerals from different rewards and needing to sell)
* Chest Spawning Super Miners now have a spawn cap of 2200% across all Super Miners. (2 legendary level 10 orange fish) Anything over 2200% is instead converted to a reward multiplier on all chests. The vast majority of players should not be affected by this and there is still a benefit to having more than 2 legendary level 10 chest super miners.
* Buffed the Mineral Deposit super miners by adjusting how mineral deposits spawn. Previously the spawn rate capped the amount that could spawn to 1 every 30 seconds which was super lame. Multiple can now spawn per 30 second tick.


Other Changes
* Add slot button in the Super Miners UI now has a warning that it doesn't grant Super Miners
* Mineral deposits now scale with depth similar to all other rewards in the game.
* Blueprint ingredients now have little progress bars for each mineral.
* Weapons are now drag and droppable in the weapon stats menu in the underground. Allowing for you to reorganize them for battles.
* Fixed a bug where the “Master Mined” super miner could not be claimed if your slots were full.
* Minerals are now lockable with number characters for example "1T", "100B", etc.
* Drones now have the option to be sent back.
* Added the ability to extend a cave by 30 minutes for 1 ticket.
* Battle UI now only has 3 columns now instead of an empty 4th column
* Energy bar on HUD now displays properly when the reactor is unlocked.

The Christmas event is back and better than ever! From now until December 28th the mines will be Christmas themed!

* Basic chests are now Christmas presents and they have double the rewards
* Caves are Christmas themed and have the occasional Candy Cane reward.
* Some monsters will be Christmas monsters and occasionally drop a Candy Cane.
* Candy Canes can be used in the Christmas shop UI to purchase chests.

There also 4 new relics and 4 new achievements

Relics

* Fuel Extractor - Increase the speed that cave regenerate fuel
* Fuel Tank - Increase drones starting fuel
* Rocket Booster -Increase the drones movement speed
* Juicer - Increase Super Miner Speed


Achievements

* Super Mining - Find your first super miner
* A Mining Legacy - Find a legendary Super Miner
* An Ethereal Collection - Open 100 Ethereal Chests
* Bringing their A Game - Reach max level on a Super Miner

Hey everyone!

Are normal miners not cutting it for you anymore? Do you find yourself wanting something a little more grand? Well have no fear, Super Miners are here! Super Miners wander around your mines and perform many actions for you!

• Mining (mineral) - Increases miner speed at its depth by a %
  
• Mining (isotope) - Increases the number of isotopes mined on its depth by a %
  
• Buff - Every X minerals it mines it grants a buff.
  
• Drilling- Jumps on your drill and increases the mining speed by a %
  
• Seller - Automatically sells x amount of the selected mineral every second.
  
• Egg - Passively gains experience and levels up for free, increasing its scrap amount. (gaining you more super miner souls)
  
• Chest - Increases chest spawns on its current depth and 2 depths above and below.
  
• Deposit - Increases mineral deposit spawn chance by X and cap by Y.
  
• Booster - Increases the effect of the super miners it bumps into.
  
• Reward - grants a random reward every X minerals.

Super Miners come from Ethereal chests. Ethereal chests can spawn very rarely, be compressed from gold chests, or purchased in the shop. Each super miner can be leveled up with Super Miner souls increasing their abilities. You can gain souls from scraping super miners, from Ethereal chests, from scientist excavations, and possibly other features in the future.

Chest Compressor

The chest compressor has been reworked.

It has been moved from the second world down to the first world at 700km. The conversion rates are much more favorable now, but there is now a time to convert chests. There are 2 new structure upgrades to facilitate these changes. One for time to compress and one for the number of chests required to compress from one to the other.

Other changes

- Doubled the frame rate.
- New Cave Tutorial.
- Reactor moved down to W2-100km
- Reviving Scientist no longer scales cost based on rarity.
- Some pop ups will now show above other popups without closing the previous popup.
- Replaced confirmation popups and text input popups with a newer nicer looking popup.
- All sorts of weird performance improvements.
- Added a survey which grants some tickets
- Probably other stuff I'm forgetting.


Let us know what you think!

Hey everyone!

We're still working hard to get mobile out, but we've got a small update for you all!

-Reduced the death rates for higher rarity scientists.
-Scientist Experience gain and scaling rewards now also scale with scientist rarity.
-You can now exit battles
-Added Discord integration
-Added Finnish translations

Also here's a code for a Raining Chest Buff! Make sure to scroll through the mines to look for chests!

J57QE4C4AAF6B

To use it click on the garage in game then click “Use tickets” and then “Redeem” and enter this code.

Hey everyone!

Today we’re launching an update that adds many visual and audio improvements to the game. Along with some scientist changes.

Scientist changes:
- Books of Success are now multiplicative instead of subtractive and have a maximum effect at 75%.
- Endless Scientist Duration Potions have been replaced with Endless Scientist Experience Potions.
- Scientists now level up approximately twice as fast.
- Scaling scientist rewards have been buffed.
- Scientists now have a maximum level of 100.

Visual improvements:
- Opening a chest now has a small animation.
- Characters in the game now blink.
- Different level miners on earth now have unique animations for finding chests.
- Drill icons no longer show their level.

Added sound effects for:
- Caves collapsing
- Caves appearing
- Opening chests
- Upgrading weapons
- Crafting a drill
- Crafting a structure
- Drones returning
- Hiring miners
- Trading
- Defeating a boss
- Completing a quest
- Sacrificing to the core
- Taking off to a new world
- Clicking mineral piles

Other changes:
- Added Vietnamese and Hungarian languages.

Cave changes

-The drones have been rebalanced to be stronger with early levels, but each level up is now a smaller upgrade.
-Early cave duration has been extended.
-The max building materials you can get from a single cave reward has been reduced to 10.
-Aerial drones now provide a vision of 3 nodes, up from 2.
-The Aerial and Magnetic drones have had their fuel storage reduced to make it easier to send them out, but they’ve also had their fuel consumption reduced some to keep their max distance similar to what it was before.
-Healing drones fuel consumption was reduced.
-Healing drones now heal 8 a tick, up from 5.

Trade changes

-Level 1 trading post on earth now has a much shorter base cooldown.
-Leveling up the trading post no longer reduces duration.
-Each level of the trading posts increases the duration a trade is available, but also improves the quality of the trade.
-The trade reward is no longer tied to the value of the payment, resulting in much better trades.

Scientist changes

Timelapse, Mineral piles, and Money bags from scientists now scale with scientist level and depth. For these excavations their duration is now based on the value of the reward. This will result in early game and early level scientists having much shorter excavations, but lower rewards and higher level scientists having longer duration but higher value rewards. The higher level your scientist gets the better conversion rate for duration to reward.


-Relics have also had their rarities adjusted and should be more common in general besides some of the very rare ones which are unchanged.
-Key of gold has been buffed to grant 5% base, 6.5% at +, 8% at ++. With a cap of 80% increased chance.

Early game changes

-Added a tutorial for crafting the Trading post.
-Added a tutorial for crafting the manager.
-Smoothed out progression between the golem and the underground city.
-The game now starts with mineral deposits visible on the scroll bar (see metal detector changes for more information)

Gem forge changes

-Blue gems now cost 2 workload, up from 1.
-Green gems now cost 3 workload, up from 2.
-Purple gems now cost 4 workload, up from 3.
-Purple gems production time has been reduced from 24 hours to 16 hours.
-Yellow gems production time has been reduced from 72 hours to 48 hours.
-Purple gems now cost 25 reds and 25 blues. (20 reds and 35 blues previously)
-Yellow gems now cost 25 reds and 25 greens. (20 reds and 30 greens previously)
-Some weapon level costs have been re-adjusted to account for gem changes.

Metal detector changes

-The metal detector description now properly updates in the crafting menu to display what the next level does.
-Since the game starts with mineral deposits visible from the start, level 4 now only provides the ability to jump to chests using the spacebar. (this functionality is now described in the description).
-Level 5 of the metal detector now provides the ability to click anywhere on a level to open a chest.
-Level 6 has been added to the Metal detector and provides the ability to collect all natural chest spawns in the world and place them in the chest collector up to your storage capacity.

Other changes

-Undiscovered isotopes from bombardments now show a tooltip on where to get them and if clicked on open up the reactor crafting menu with that bombardment selected.
-Fixed a bug where changing reactor layouts would not properly delete fuel rods or reward items for consumed fuel rods.
-Fixed an issue where building materials and oil said they came from depths of 100k.
-reaching the max depth no longer breaks the game.
-Updated translations and added Thai

Hey everyone!

Today we're releasing the new world, Titan! However, we know that many of you are not there yet so we've added plenty of other new features to the game as well! Here's a full list of all the changes.

* New world Titan added to the game (only first 200km so far and no trading post yet).
* Added many new quests.
* Added new Quest UI
* Added a chest compressor structure that allows you to turn normal chests into golden chests.
* Chest spawn rate no longer increases after 1000km, but chest rewards have a multiplier added to them with each new depth.
* The Chest collector total storage has been reduced to reflect the changes to chests spawn rate. No one actually enjoys opening 400 chests.
* Changed battles rewards to scale based on income instead of being a fixed amount per monster.
* Added a healing drone that needs to be discovered in caves.
* When you start a battle your weapons are now off cooldown.
* Weapons cooldowns have been roughly doubled, but their damage has also been doubled.
* Added the ability to shift-click reactor components into the reactor grid.
* RTG Fuel rods now cost 2,500 Po3.
* Added new buffs to the buff lab.
* Adjusted some buff prices and buff durations in the buff lab.
* Added a few more stats to the stats panel.
* Unfound minerals now tell you roughly at what depth you can expect to find them.
* Implemented a new system to support even larger numbers up to 10^16777216.
* Fixed some of the text and images popping around on screen by a pixel.
* Add a full-screen button.
* Added a simple cave tutorial.
* Debug log and event log sizes increased.
* Added a save and quit button.