Welcome to the v0.4.0 content update: Drones! You’re welcome to continue playing on your existing save, but this update contains some major balance changes and doesn’t introduce any new late-game content. The next content update will have new late-game content!

This update introduces the Drone Hub system, a major new feature that expands the drone system with specialized drone types, upgrades, and a new currency. Additionally, significant improvements have been made to rock mechanics, balance, and overall game performance. See the full changelog notes below.

• New Features
  • Drone Hub System
    • New Drone Hub popup with comprehensive drone management interface
    • 7 specialized drone types with unique abilities:
      • Hammer Drone: The basic single-target drone that you’re already used to
      • Boost Drone: Provides area buffs to nearby drones (power and efficiency auras)
      • Collector Drone: Automatically collects resources from rocks over time
      • Pierce Drone: Specialized in breaking through rock hardness
      • Sentry Drone: Stationary drone with extended range
      • Shatter Drone: Area damage specialist with blast radius
      • Supervisor Drone: Wakes up resting drones and increases movement and hit speed for a short duration
    • Drone Cores currency for purchasing and upgrading drones
    • Individual drone targeting modes
    • Hammer Drones are now limited to 20 max, use other drones to fill additional slots
  • World Fracture Enhancements
    • Core Saturation upgrade: Increases Core Fragment gain from Stone and Clay
    • Core Extraction upgrade: Chance to extract additional Core Fragments
    • The cost to unlock World Fracture has been increased to incentivize new players to earn more Core Fragments on their first reset
  • Quarry Foreman Improvements
    • New automation interval upgrades for all automated systems
    • Added enable/disable toggles for each individual upgrade
    • If a purchase cannot be made when the interval triggers it will wait until a purchase becomes available instead of resetting its interval
    • Why was this changed? This feature was providing too much value as a single one-time upgrade so it has now been broken down into a feature with upgrades in itself
• Gameplay Changes
  • Rock System Overhaul
    • Improved pierce versus hardness mechanics
    • Better damage overkill through rock layers
  • Drone System Improvements
    • Smarter target selection avoiding drone overcrowding
  • Cursor System
    • Separate default and pointer cursor
• Balance Changes
  • Rock health and hardness rebalanced for higher layers
  • Nerfed dust and primal rock resource upgrade effectiveness
  • Tweaked various upgrade costs and effects
• Performance Improvements
  • More efficient spark particle system
  • Optimized rock spawn timers
• General Improvements
  • Quarry Foreman upgrade automation will no longer play the upgrade sound
  • Game is now locked at 16:9 aspect ratio
  • Save data size reduced
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue being caused by different culture languages handling text differently
  • Fixed duplicate charge granting on bomb max charges upgrade
  • Corrected rock spawn timer behavior
  • Stone Sledgehammer was showing as Flint Pickaxe
  • Drones weren’t applying the Predictive Drones world fracture upgrade
  • When holding the cursor and moving outside the quarry area or over a clickable UI element, it will now continue hitting when you return to the quarry
  • Fixed upgrade level not showing level 1
  • Fixed bomb click-to-equip and drag functionality
  • Many other general/small bug fixes