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Core Keeper – Ver. 1.3.0.1 (Riders of the Underground)

• Release date: September 21st 2026
• Patch notes:

Gameplay

• New sub-biome: Moss – Found in the Forgotten Ruins biome.
• New cattle: Orex – Found in the Moss sub-biome.
• All cattle can now be turned into mounts by using the following new items on them:
  • Saddle
  • Racing Saddle
• Minions now persist indefinitely instead of expiring.
  • Introduced 2 new talents to the Summoning skill tree to reflect this behavior, which replaced 2 previous talents.
  • The player can now also decide when to despawn minions.
• Introduced the ability to spawn the max amount of minions all at once, based on the available max amount of minions the character can spawn at the moment of the action.
• The cooldown for spawning minions has been removed.
• Added a craftable Training Dummy.
• Introduced 2 new enemies:
  • Wingling
  • Searpent
• Introduced 3 new weapons:
  • Corrosion Staff
  • Blizzard Staff
  • Sniper Rifle
• A new weapon type for the Warlock play style: Scepters. There are currently 7 Scepters available, including a Legendary variant.
• Introduced 3 new pets:
  • Hoppet
  • Azeos Jr.
  • Something lazy that can be found in The Desert of Beginnings
• Introduced 10 new armor pieces.
• Introduced 15 new rings.
• Introduced 15 new necklaces.
• Introduced a new type of off-hand item: Hookshots. There are currently 2 available, including:
  • Hookshot
  • Gilded Hookshot
• Introduced new loot chests for the following bosses:
  • Azeos the Sky Titan
  • Omoroth the Sea Titan
  • Ra-Akar the Sand Titan

  Introduced 4 new achievements.

• Boats, minecarts, and go-karts no longer transfer to the player’s grave on death.
  • If the player dies while seated in a boat, minecart, or go-kart, the vehicle is now dropped and transferred to the player’s inventory.
• Introduced a handbrake button to go-karts, which reduces speed and increases inertia.
• Increased turning and reduced inertia across all go-karts.
• Reduced activation time for Waypoints and Portals.
• Introduced the ability to compare gear.
• It is now possible to customize the cursor and crosshair indicators in the Options menu, from a variety of available options.
• Added a key bind to cycle through loadouts.
• It’s now possible to resize the affected area of all paint brushes up to 5×5.
• Reconnecting after a disconnect now restores the character’s health from the disconnected client’s last state, even if health changed on the server.
• Some giant objects that couldn’t be obtained in the past are now breakable and placeable.
• Cattle, minecarts, boats and chairs now require line of sight to use.

Game Balance

• The following already existing armor pieces’ stats were adjusted:
  • Moldweb Breastplate
  • Slime Helm
  • Slime Armor
  • Scholar’s Hood
  • Scholar’s Cloak
  • Caveling Chest
  • Assassin Hood
  • Assassin Cloak
  • Tassel Earrings
  • Tassel Top
  • Gemstone Garment
  • Gemstone Harem Pants
  • Sulfossil Helmet
  • Sulfossil Cuirass
  • Sulfossil Boots
• Updated the drop sources for the following armor sets:
  • Moldweb armor: Now also drops from Large Mold Vessels.
  • Gemstone armor: Now also drops from Sun Crystals and Large Sun Crystals.
• Reduced smelting time for higher tier ores.
• Reduced the crafting costs for boats, go-karts, Portals and the Railway Forge.
• The amount of Rails received when crafting has been increased from 5 to 10.
• Fewer plants need to be harvested to earn Gardening skill points early on.
• Increased the gear drop rates for the following bosses:
  • Ghorm the Devourer
  • The Hive Mother
  • Ivy the Poisonous Mass
  • Omoroth the Sea Titan
  • Morpha the Aquatic Mass
  • Ra-Akar the Sand Titan
  • Igneous the Molten Mass
  • Druidra the Wild Titan
  • Crydra the Ice Titan
  • Pyrdra the Fire Titan
  • Core Commander
  • Oblidra the Void Lord
  • S.A.H.A.B.A.R.
• Melee, Ranged, and Magic skill gains now scale with attack speed.
• Reduced the total experience required for maxing the Melee, Ranged, and Magic skill trees. Adjusted the experience curves so skill points are earned faster at early levels.
• Reduced the critical hit chance of the “Weakness detection” talent from the Ranged skill tree to 50%.
• The talents on the Magic skill tree have been rearranged.
• Increased Magic Barrier scaling on gear, it should now be roughly twice as strong at full upgrade level.
• Mana regeneration is no longer stopped for a short period after casting. It now continues at 50% effectiveness whilst actively attacking with magic and for 1 second after your last active cast.
• The “Mana recharge” talent from the Magic skill tree, the Arcane Symbiote pet and the Arcane Monk armor’s set bonus (that reduced mana regeneration delay) now increase mana regeneration percentage while casting instead.
• Reduced the amount of mana regeneration gained form the “Arcane transfusion” magic talent.
• Reduced the amount of magic damage gained from the “The best offense” magic skill tree talent and the “Lily Pad Shorts”.
• Removed magic skill “Firmly grounded” (Magic barrier regeneration delay reduced by 5–25%).
  • Magic barrier regeneration’s delay baseline has been reduced by 25%.
  • Added new magic skill “Mental Defense” (20–100% of additional max mana added as magic barrier).
• The “Mana channeling” talent from the Magic skill tree has been reworked to recover mana cost on critical hit.
• The “Mana Blast” talent from the Explosions skill tree has been reworked to reduce mana cost for a short duration after detonating an explosive.
• Reduced the “increased mana regeneration” set bonus effect from the Pajama set.
• Rebalanced minion base damage to align with the new Scepters’ minion damage bonuses.
• Increased the amount of Tin Ore found in the Clay Caves biome.
• Reduced the difficulty of Spearman Cavelings and Skirmisher Cavelings.
• Reduced the number of Tentacles that could spawn in the Sunken Sea and the damage they could cause.
• Reduced the crafting cost of the Soul Seeker.
• Significantly reduced the resummon cooldown for all Titan bosses.

Graphics

• The following pets now can be hatched in different colors:
  • Arcane Symbiote
  • Electro-Pet
• Some ranged weapons’ secondary actions now use an aim pose.
• Updated the graphics of the tire marks left by go-karts when driving.

Audio

• Added long distance ambient audio that triggers randomly for the following bosses:
  • Azeos the Sky Titan
  • Atlantean Worm
  • Urschleim
• Introduced new soundtracks for the following boss fights:
  • Ivy the Poisonous Mass
  • Morpha the Aquatic Mass
  • Igneous the Molten Mass

Miscellaneous

• Made several improvements to map markers placed by players:
  • Added 4 new map marker icons and changed the style of the existing ones.
  • You can now set a custom text to be shown when hovering over a marker.
  • Each icon now has 10 color variants for you to choose from.
• Updated puzzle scenes to prevent bypassing them with Pressure Plates.
• The Ancient Hologram Pod now includes all its craftable items in Creative worlds.
• Added key binding options for vehicle turning and breaking.
• The default key binding for vehicle honking has been changed for controllers.
• Made the difference between buffing and attacking pet types clearer through their tooltips.
• Mushrooms are now mushy and wobbly when walked over, like plants.
• Walls and floors no longer indicate being unable to be painted when the player tries to paint it with the same Paint Brush color.
• Added the ability to see the currently selected slot when the inventory is open, even if the slot isn’t part of the hotbar.
• Updated the color of various button descriptions.
• Updated the colors of the text in the Shortcuts window for better clarity.
• Organized some items in a few Creative UI sub-categories.
• Locked Solarite Chests now have a chance of dropping a Large Potion Pouch instead of a Potion Pouch.
• Titan Breath can now be crafted by right clicking any of the materials on the hotbar.
• Improved the descriptions for all Figurines and some boss summoning items.
• Improved the readability in the Shortcuts window.
• Fixed a few texts and translations throughout the game.

Performance

• Worm type enemies now cause less network load and are not as prone to start jittering if the network updates cannot keep up with their movement.
• Fixed a lag spike when entering S.A.H.A.B.A.R.’s arena.
• Tileset textures are now unloaded from memory when they are not being displayed on screen.

Bug Fixes

• Void Cavelings can no longer attack through walls.
• It is no longer possible to place things directly through walls.
• Melee attacks against invulnerable players no longer grant skill progress.
• Lowered Electricity Generators will no longer end up below bridge tiles.
• Removed extra unintended pixels from some font characters, such as @ in the Latin font.
• Vehicles now turn equally with keyboard and controller.
• Removed duplicate “Apply Burning” effect from the Embertail pet.
• Chat text no longer shows on top of other UI.
• Giant shells encountered in some world scenes now correctly wobble when hit.
• Adjusted the spacing of gamepad hints in the map UI to prevent overlapping.
• Locked Chests no longer flicker for a second after being opened.
• It is no longer possible to place things on the walls that an Electrical Door or Electrical Drop Gate are connected to.
• Other player’s fishing lines no longer flicker when you move around.
• Fixed an issue where clicking between inventory slots in a chest or action bar while holding an item would drop it into the world.
• Fixed an issue where dungeon rooms could spawn outside the radius dedicated to the dungeon, potentially overwriting other nearby scenes.
• Fixed an issue where Hydras did not play their initial animation when emerging from the ground.
• Fixed an issue where some enemies would ignore the player’s attack from long range.
• Fixed an issue that caused minions to be unable to attack Cocoons.
• Fixed an issue that caused the light from the Advanced Automation Table to linger for a few seconds after it had been destroyed.
• Fixed an issue where some enemies could be damaged with radiation while they should be immune.
• Fixed an issue where items could disappear if they were placed in a chest at the same time as it was destroyed.
• Fixed an issue where Azeos’ music started playing again after it had been defeated.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the cages of caged cattle to slightly change color when placed on the hotbar.
• Fixed an issue where Lowered Electricity Generator, Enemy Proximity Sensor and Explorer Proximity Sensor would reflect onto adjacent Glass Floor tiles.
• Fixed an issue where shadows would not update correctly when light quality was set to low.
• Fixed an issue where the key binding to toggle the shortcut window was not shown.
• Fixed the light color from Paper Lanterns not always matching the object color.
• Fixed the interaction outline flickering when standing inside a Portal, which could prevent it from being used.
• Fixed the placement cursor sometimes sliding in from off-screen after teleporting instead of appearing at the correct position immediately.
• Fixed the mouse cursor briefly flashing its default look when switching from an area-of-effect weapon to a ranged weapon.
• Fixed inconsistent sorting results when inventory contains a full stack.
• Fixed god mode in Creative worlds not being able to destroy the Locked Desert Prince Chest, Locked Desert Queen Chest, Locked Desert King Chest, and some other objects.
• Fixed several situations where the visual cursor would not be perfectly aligned with where clicks were registered.
• [Switch 1, Switch 2] Fixed an issue that caused unique dungeons and locations to be spawned in the wrong biomes.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Pugstorm (Steam)

Core Keeper – Ver. 1.2.0.3 (Void & Voltage)

• Release date: February 25th 2026
• Patch notes (highlights):

This update brings the following to the game:

• Introducing a brand new biome to explore – Breaker’s Reach – along with new enemy types and the colossal new robo-boss S.A.H.A.B.A.R, the Void & Voltage Update expands the world of Core Keeper with explosive action, automation-themed equipment and destructive new weaponry.
• Take the fight to the Void with the blazing new Flamethrower and powerful Minigun, while setting off on your path to creating the Advanced Automation Table, a crafting bench that introduces multiple new tools to streamline life in the underground.
• Enhance your farm with the Robot Farm Arm and Seed Extractor Machine, grab loot with the Item Collector, and engineer fully automated systems with the Conveyor Belt Splitter, Shredder, Incinerator, Critter Catcher and much, much more, in a massive new update coming for free to all Core Keeper players.

• Patch notes:

Gameplay

• New Biome: Breaker’s Reach – Found in the far north.

• New Breaker’s Reach Void sub-biome.

• New Boss: S.A.H.A.B.A.R. – Found in the Breaker’s Reach biome.

• New Hydra: Oblidra the Void Lord – Found in the Breaker’s Reach biome.

• Added 3 robot enemies:
  • Geobot Miner
  • Geobot Patroller
  • Geobot Scourer

• Added 5 void enemies:

  • Void Caveling
  • Void Caveling Brute
  • Void Caveling Shaman
  • Void Larva Cocoon
  • Void Larva

• Added an Otherworldly Merchant found in the Breaker’s Reach. This merchant may sell some very important items!

• Added 6 Titan Shrines:

  • The Core will now guide players to Titan Shrines, which lead the way to the next step in the game’s progression. At these ancient structures, players can craft scanners and summoning items, and unlock a waypoint.

  • These Titan Shrines can be added to worlds created before the 1.2 update through a new Content Bundle, which can be found in the world settings screen.

• Added 3 new workbenches:

  • Advanced Automation Table. Crafted in the Octarine Workbench.
  • Metalcrafter’s Table. Bought from Otherworldly Merchant.
  • Relucite Smithing Table. Bought from Otherworldly Merchant.

• Added new Automated Systems & Electronics:

  • Conveyor Belt Splitter
  • Item Collector
  • Robot Farm Arm
  • Seed Extractor
  • Shredder
  • Incinerator
  • Fishing Net
  • Critter Catcher
  • Lowered Electricity Generator
  • Electrical Drop Gate
  • Explorer Proximity Sensor
  • Enemy Proximity Sensor
  • Kinematic Dynamo
  • T Circuit
  • L Circuit
  • I Circuit

• Robot Arms are now capable of filtering items.

• Added 2 new legendary weapons:

  • Credence of Ruin
  • Titan Breath

• Added 7 new weapons:

  • Flamethrower
  • Scrap Minigun
  • Stone Mortar
  • Volcano Mortar
  • Void Club
  • Blast Bundle
  • Oil Grenade

• Added 1 new Summoning Tome that allows summoning a mining minion.

• Added 6 new armor sets:

  • Dreamer Set
  • Inventor Set
  • Welder Set
  • Shadow Set
  • Pajama Set
  • Void-Fused Set

• Added 6 new accessories:

  • Magnet
  • Black Charm Necklace
  • Remote Boom Clicker
  • Helical Ring
  • Aether Ring
  • Minion Kindler

• Added 2 new vanity headgear:

  • Bandana
  • Scarf

• Added 2 new materials found in the Breaker’s Reach:

  • Relucite Ore
  • Corrupted Alloy

• Added 1 new item that permanently gives more max health.

• New mushroom variant: the Glowing Mushroom – Found in the Breaker’s Reach Void sub-biome.

• Added 3 new potions:

  • Mana Potion: refills your Mana by a small amount. Crafted in the Alchemy Table.
  • Greater Mana Potion: refills your Mana by a bigger amount. Crafted in the Laboratory Table.
  • Burn Resistance Potion: makes you immune to burning for a short while. Bought from Otherworldly Merchant.

• Added 17 new puzzle rooms that can be solved for rewards.

• Added 8 Echo-Maps that mark important locations in the world.

• Added more than 20 new pieces of decoration.

• Added 3 new valuables exclusive to the Breaker’s Reach.

• Added 3 new critters found in the Breaker’s Reach.

• Added 10 new figurines for the new enemies and bosses.

• Added 4 new achievements.

• The player’s item pickup-radius is now blocked by doors and walls.

• Both the player and automated systems now have a base chance for planting golden crops.

• The Glurch Eye, Ghorm’s Horn and Stolen Crystal Heart items can now be incinerated.

• Weapons classified as “beam weapons” should now display their aiming direction via a crosshair cursor. The affected weapons are:

  • Obliteration Ray
  • Stormbringer
  • Flamethrower
  • Titan Breath

• Minions and pets no longer target Crystal Snails.

Game Balance

• Enemy shields now also block explosion damage.
• Reduced damage and knockback from friendly explosions (weapons and grenades) for players, while remaining unchanged for opposing PvP teams.
• The Mana channeling talent now gives flat Mana instead of a percentage.
• Iron Workbench now costs Planks instead of Wood.
• Burn debuffs no longer always refresh on new applications, but only when they have more total damage than the current remaining burn debuff.
• Increased the amount of Scarab Wingcovers found in the Desert of Beginnings.
• Increased amount of Mechanical Parts sold by the Cloaked Merchant.
• Increased the health of the Floracada.
• Increased the drop chance of the Ninja armor set by 200%.
• All pieces of the Miner set now drop from all sources that dropped them individually before.
• Slightly decreased the Quill Rifle’s physical damage.
• Reduced the damage caused to tiles by the Scrapzooka (previously called Hand Mortar), in order to better match its intended progression tier.

Graphics

• The Electrical Door is now paintable.
• Added a new loading animation that is displayed before the logos when the game starts.
• Weapons of the same type will now be displayed with the same sprite size more consistently when dropped or placed inside a pedestal.
• Updated the visuals for some boss attack indicators.
• Updated the graphics for the Grimy Bookshelf and the Large Grimy Bookshelf.
• Updated the graphics for Ancient Feathers, Sea Shells and Scarab Wingcovers when found on the ground.

Audio

• Added two new tracks in the Dirt biome: “Mysteries Uncovered” and “Light From Above”.
• The Shrooman enemy now has another anticipation sound effect that might play when it’s preparing to attack.
• Updated sound effects for various items and UI interactions.

Miscellaneous

• You can now select multiple items at once when trashing items.
• Azeos the Sky Titan Scanner once again requires Ancient Feathers to be crafted.
• The Table Saw has been moved to the Tin Workbench.
• Moved the Lit Floor to Carpenter’s Table.
• Added 5 Contributor Items. These are items to celebrate the contributions someone made to the game or the community.
• The Electrical UI now features a blinking lightning icon and an improved tooltip.
• Added lots of new scenes to already existing biomes.
• Added a new scene for the Shimmering Merchant in the Shimmering Frontier biome.
• The Amber Boulder scene is now guaranteed to spawn once per world. This only applies to newly created worlds.
• Recolored older void effects to align with the new void effects.
• The Bait Workbench has been renamed to Fishing Workbench.
• Updated the graphics and the names of Baits (the ones that can be crafted in the Fishing Workbench) to Lures.
• The name that appeared above Nimruza’s weak spot during the fight will now be translated correctly into all languages.
• Improved text and translations across multiple languages.

Performance

• Fixed an issue that caused some sprites to be loaded into memory twice.
• Player equipment textures are now completely unloaded when not in use.
• [PlayStation 4, Xbox, Switch] Reduced load times when starting the game.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a long-standing issue where toggling/destroying electricity sources could cause one tick of zero electricity in connected components, even if connected to a second active source.
• Rune Song’s and Crystal Shard Club’s secondary use ability now scales correctly with melee damage and skills.
• Explosion damage to tiles no longer scales with increased explosion damage effects.
• The Nimruza Figurine can no longer be placed in the Materializer.
• Fixed an issue where scrolling with a controller stick behaved incorrectly at high framerates.
• Map markers on the minimap no longer have the wrong icon for one frame after using a scanner.
• Painted Wood Fences now appear with the correct colors on the map.
• Electrical structures are now attempted to be sent to the client every server tick, reducing visual inconsistencies when powering on or off.
• Resolved a bug where Delay Circuits failed to update if they were powered by an Electricity Stick and lost their secondary signal of 2 from another source.
• Resolved an issue where the Caveling Gardener’s attack pattern did not behave as intended.
• Using a hoe on Wires beneath Conveyor Belts now correctly removes the Conveyor Belt before removing the Wires.
• Crystal Snails no longer destroy drills when moving.
• Fixed an issue that caused Crystal Snails to not be damaged by drills.
• Fixed an issue that caused Bed sleep interactions to not always trigger as intended.
• Fixed an issue that caused drills to damage walkable tiles (e.g. Rails, Conveyor Belts).
• Fixed an issue that caused outlines to be displayed incorrectly during multiplayer sessions.
• Fixed an issue that caused minions not to immediately follow a command when told to move to the same location without moving the cursor.
• Fixed an issue that caused critters in Terrariums to face the wrong direction.
• Fixed an issue where squashing critters could cause critters in Terrariums to not display correctly.
• Fixed an issue that caused a black square to appear around Ground Slime when it was placed on Glass Bridges.
• Fixed an issue that caused Galaxite Turrets to take longer than intended to be destroyed.
• Fixed an issue that caused minions to attempt to attack bosses while they were immune to damage.
• Fixed several issues that caused some characters to not appear correctly in the game in various languages.
• Boats no longer block object placement on nearby ground.
• Adjusted the Quill Rifle’s projectiles’ lifetime.
• Boulders in the Crystal Meteor scene are no longer invisible. For real this time!

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Pugstorm PR (01/12/2025)

Core Keeper – Ver. ???

• Release date: February 5th 2026
• Patch notes:

No patch notes available. This update brings the following to the game:

• address reported performance issues on Nintendo Switch 2
  • Players should now be seeing notable performance improvements in Core Keeper Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, though it should be noted that fps may vary, particularly in large, built-out worlds.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Pugstorm (Bluesky)

Core Keeper – Ver. ???

• Release date: ???
• Patch notes:

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where only the first new character created in a session had their appearance randomized by default.
• It is no longer possible to avoid paying the full crafting cost for parchment recipes by holding some required items in the mouse slot when the crafting animation finishes.
• Fixed an issue where unmined ore might disappear when loading a world, especially in areas close to dungeons and other structures.
• Boulders in the Crystal Meteor scene are no longer invisible.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Pugstorm (Steam)

Core Keeper – Ver. 1.1.2.8

• Release date: November 27th 2025
• Patch notes:

Miscellaneous

• Upgraded Unity engine from version 2022.3.62f2 to 6000.0.58f2.
• Upgraded Unity Addressables package from version 1.22.3 to 2.7.3.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Floracadas would not drop any loot.
• Fixed a potential crash caused by memory being deallocated prematurely when preparing to save the world.
• Fixed a race condition that could cause memory to be accessed after it had been deallocated.
• Upgraded Unity engine from version 6000.0.58f2 to 6000.0.59f2. This fixes a bug in the engine that could cause the game to crash from particle system memory becoming corrupted.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Pugstorm (Steam) / Pugstorm (Steam) / Pugstorm (Steam)

Core Keeper – Ver. 1.1.2.5

• Release date: October 29th 2025
• Patch notes:

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Pugstorm (Steam)

Core Keeper – Ver. 1.1.2.3

• Release date: September 9th 2025
• Patch notes:

Miscellaneous:

• Fixed an issue that prevented some mods from loading correctly on non-Steam PC platforms.

Graphics:

• Cattle Feeding Trays no longer clip into walls.

Performance:

• When a world is loaded, the game now despawns some mobs if there are more than 500 mobs in a 4×4 area. This scenario can typically only occur if mob farms have been left unattended for an extended period.

Bug Fixes:

• Robot Arms no longer leave invisible dropped items on the ground if they pick up items when the player is not nearby. This could previously cause severe performance problems if Robot Arms were left unattended for an extended period.
• Fixed an issue where the Atlantean Worm sometimes created an extra map marker that wouldn’t follow the boss.
• Pets can now appear on bridges.
• Pets should now teleport to the player after a few seconds if there is no viable path due to a closed door.
• Root plants no longer break with a single hit.

• Dedicated servers using direct connections can now be joined using the servers IP, Port and Password
• Dedicated servers now allow shorter game ids (15 characters)
• Dedicated servers now notifies player during start-up if any issues were encountered

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Pugstorm (Steam) / Pugstorm (Steam)

Core Keeper – Ver. 1.1.2.1

• Release date: May 27th 2025
• Patch notes:

Gameplay:

• Adjusted Electro-Pest’s hitbox to correctly reflect its size.

Miscellaneous:

• Fixed a few text and translation issues.

Graphics:

• Smoke from Furnaces, Campfires and Cooking Pots will no longer be visually in front of other objects.
• Adjusted the sprite of the grey coloured Drohmble Calf to correctly display an in-palette chest.
• Emissive parts of the Glass Smelter will no longer be rendered in front of other objects.

Performance:

• Improved performance of the sprite atlas packing, reducing the initial black screen while the game loads by several seconds.
• Some systems that are only needed for mods are now disabled when no mods are installed. This improves the game’s initial load time.
• Particle effects are now loaded in a more efficient manner at the start of the game.
• Initializing fonts no longer causes excessive memory allocations at the start of the game.
• Fixed a minor memory leak caused by plants.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue that could cause mouse input to get stuck.
• Plants now continue to grow when no players are nearby.
• Fixed an issue where the Earie’s Provoked Swarm talent and the Electro-Pet’s Territorial Fallout talent had been swapped. Pets already affected by this issue will also be automatically fixed when the save is loaded.
• The “Beam Me Up” achievement now also triggers when teleporting from a Waypoint to a Portal.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some ranged enemies to continue to walk towards their target even after entering their usual attack range.
• Fixed a bug that caused some Orbital Turrets to only shoot one single laser beam without deploying their shield.
• Fixed an issue that caused Core Sentries to be invisible.
• Fixed an issue that caused Core Sentries’ projectiles to deal lingering damage after hitting a wall.
• Removed the ability to spawn Nimruza, Queen of the Burrowed Sands by using a Nimruza Figurine in the Materializer.
• Fixed an issue that caused Core Commander and Nimruza’s end dialogue to appear after respawning.
• Fixed an issue that caused multiple copies of the Blast armor set pieces to drop from Locked Copper Chests.
• Fixed an issue that caused unlocked Iron Chests to be fished up in The Forgotten Ruins instead of Locked Iron Chests.
• Scrolling the UI settings menu screen in certain languages no longer results in settings being displayed outside the intended area.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some Pets and Minions to not be able to go through doors.
• Characters will now only be vulnerable after the screen fades back in when teleporting between Portals/Waypoints.
• Fixed an issue that caused critters to “float” above water or pits when the ground beneath them was broken.
• It is now possible to sleep when next to a Purple Slime or a Blue Slime.
• Dodos now correctly drop meat when killed.
• Health regeneration for non-boss enemies is now correctly interrupted when they take damage.
• Life on hit effects should now work correctly against bosses.
• Visual outline effects should now be correctly applied to enemies.
• Minions should now follow movement commands even if recently stopped from a previous command.
• Minions should no longer randomly stop when doing turns in their movement path.
• Damage caused by the hydra boss’ scream attack should now be correctly blocked by walls.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Pugstorm (Steam)

Core Keeper – Ver. 1.1.2

• Release date: May 14th 2025
• Patch notes:

Gameplay:

• New Pet: Earie
• New Decorative Items for Pets, craftable in the Loom:
  • Pet Bed
  • Naptree Nook
  • Woof Cabin
  • Perch Pole
• New Weapon: Noxious Meteor Staff
• New Offhand item: Scratched Stone
• Cattle Color Variations: Cattle now come with coats in different colors. Cattle babies will typically inherit the coat of one of their parents, but there is a chance they will “mutate” and have a random coat color.
• Breeding can now be toggled on/off for each individual cattle animal through a button in their information window.
• The primary use for Tomes that summon ranged or melee minions now commands the spawned minions to go to a certain location or focus on a specific target.
• It is now possible to use many tools while in Boats or Minecarts.
• Readjusted the speed and lifespan of the projectiles fired by the Core Commander’s orbs to match intended behavior.

Other:

• When hovering over an item, the game now highlights equipment slots that are compatible with that item.
• When hovering over an equipment slot, the game now highlights items in the player’s inventory that can be equipped in that slot.
• In the map UI, the cursor now snaps to nearby markers when using a gamepad, making interaction with them much easier.
• Added a gameplay setting to disable RGB effects on Corsair iCUE devices. This setting is only available if you have a peripheral that supports these features.
• The game now automatically restarts without mods if the game fails to load while at least one mod is enabled.
• Scanners for the hydra bosses have been moved from the Ancient Hologram Pod to the Hydra Altar.
• The explosive walls known as Poison Berry Wall and Molten Wall can now be crafted at the Laboratory Table.
• Pets now occasionally move around even when the player is stationary.
• The Lantern category has been added to the Creative Mode UI, which means Lanterns are now separate from the Offhand category.
• Loot chests that appear after defeating Core Commander and Nimruza now spawn closer to their final explosions for better timing.
• Fixed a few text and translation issues.

Graphics

• Improved the visual effect for void attacks from Core Commander and Nimruza.

Game balance:

• Hydra-summoning Wind Organs no longer cost gems; they now require area-appropriate ore bars.
• Hydra boss gem drops now scale with the number of players in the world, increasing with party size.
• Increased gem drops from Mimite enemies and Sun Crystal destructibles.
• All worlds created in version 1.1.2 or later are now guaranteed to have at least three Ancient Battle Arenas.
• The inventory size bonus from backpacks now scales with item level. Note that this does not affect pouches.
• Rebalanced the boss health regeneration to be more consistent. All bosses will now regenerate back to full health over time when not in combat. No bosses will instantly heal back to full health if the player strays from the combat area.
• Bosses that require a summoning item will now wait for their health to fully regenerate before they despawn if the player leaves the combat area.

Bug fixes:

• Major rework of the code for the in-game map. This fixes a range of long-standing issues, including misaligned pixels, inconsistent behavior for some markers, and the map sometimes jittering back and forth when the player moves through the world.
• Minions should no longer explode when the player changes loadouts while having the Desert Guardian set equipped.
• Disconnections while the player’s inventory changes should no longer cause items to be lost when reconnecting to the same server.
• The hovering text over Signs is now hidden when the in-game UI is disabled.
• Navigating to the “Add all” button in the content menu using a gamepad may no longer cause the game to freeze.
• Heal over time effects from sleeping should no longer be carried over to other worlds.
• Using Garden Trowels without seeds should no longer cause durability loss.
• The default cursor should now always be displayed when the inventory or map is open.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from using the gamepad’s directional buttons to navigate to the inventory hotbar.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Pugstorm (Steam)

Core Keeper – Ver. ??? (Bags & Blasts)

• Release date: March 10th 2025
• Patch notes (highlights):

• Oasis Sub-Biome – Discover the scorching sands of the Oasis, a brand-new sub-biome located within the Desert of Beginnings, complete with new resources, vegetation and the camel-like Drohmble.
• Explosives Skill Tree & Grenade Weapon Type – With 8 new skills to master, the new Explosives skill tree provides a brand-new way to play Core Keeper via the new grenades weapon type.
• New Bomb Types – Blast through cavern walls or defeat Core Keeper’s toughest enemies with brand-new bomb types to discover, including the powerful vacuum-creating Void Bomb and the multi-blast Blunder Bomb.
• Inventory Overhaul – With the introduction of pouches, these handy new accessories provide efficient new ways to manage your inventory, with separate dedicated places to store resources and free up valuable inventory space. The new hotbar swapping feature also allows players to choose which inventory row appears in their hotbar, allowing quicker access to essential equipment, while quick stacking lets players easily sort items into nearby chests.
• Supersized Boss Fight – Take on Nimruza, Queen of the Burrowed Sands, in this colossal fight against a supersized insect. Tackle Nimruza alone or buddy up with friends online in one of Core Keeper’s biggest boss fights yet.

• Patch notes:

Gameplay:

• New boss: Nimruza, Queen of the Burrowed Sands. Found in The Desert of Beginnings biome.
• New cicada enemies added in Azeos Wilderness and in Nimruza’s dungeon.
• New enemy variation of the Bomb Scarab. Found in Nimruza’s dungeon.
• New sub-biome: Oasis. Found in The Desert of Beginnings biome.
• New cattle: Drohmble.
• Drohmbles roam in the Oasis and eat crops to produce Blasting Dung.
• A total of over 35 new pieces of equipment, including armor, accessories, and weapons.
• Added 4 new bombs:
• Mouse Bomb;
• Blunder Bomb;
• Proximity Bomb;
• Void Bomb.
• Added new types of explosive throwable consumables: “Grenades”.
• Grenade;
• Stun Grenade;
• Fire Grenade;
• Poison Grenade;
• Charm Grenade.
• Added an “Explosives” skill tree with 8 new skills.
• New inventory-management feature that can come in different sizes: Pouches.
• Ore and Block Pouch;
• Seed and Crop Pouch;
• Fish Pouch;
• Valuable Pouch.
• Mage & Warlock playstyles have been expanded with new features as part of our ongoing improvements, with more to come in future updates.
• New pet: Arcane Symbiote.
• New multi-purpose weapon: Corrupted Meteor Staff
• New offhand: Minion Detonator
• Minions have been made more aggressive: they will now actively pursue and attack enemies.
• New armor sets
• Desert Guardian armor set
• Lily Pad armor set
• Blast armor set
• Tassel armor set
• New seed placement tool: Garden Trowel.
• Added a Content tab to the World Info menu. In this menu, players can opt-in to add new content to their existing worlds created in 1.0 or later, even if doing so may overwrite already explored areas in these worlds. This can, for example, include new boss dungeons that appear in existing biomes. Worlds that don’t opt-in will not see any changes to already explored areas, but might miss out on some of the new content.
• New hotbar swapping feature. The hotbar can be swapped to other rows in the inventory by clicking the new arrows to the left of the hotbar or using the shortcuts.
• Quick stack to nearby chests has been added as a button to the player’s inventory UI. A shortcut can be used to quick stack items to all nearby chests while the UI is closed too.
• New inventory item locking feature. Items in the player’s inventory can be locked using the new lock button in the player inventory UI. Locking an item will block it from being sorted and quick stacked.
• New Workbenches:
• Laboratory Table. Craftable in the Scarlet Workbench.
• Pouch Workbench. Bought from the Bearded Merchant.
• New biome-specific explosive wall variations.
• 2 new paintable decorations:
• Tapestry
• Banner
• 5 new achievements.
• Floracadas are less aggressive towards players until they have been damaged.
• It is now possible to break, pick up and place Cicada Burrows.
• Minion Detonator’s description is now rewritten to reflect how it actually works, by avoiding the word explosion to not confuse it with explosion-type damage.

Other:

• Added support for in-game Asian language input.
• Reworked the World Info menu to use a tabbed layout instead of having world generation parameters as a separate popup menu. The Create World menu also uses a similar layout.
• Added in-game hints to new characters if they haven’t completed basic tasks like crafting a torch within a few minutes of starting the game. The hints are automatically skipped if the player completes them before they are prompted, or if they reach certain milestones like defeating the first boss. They can also be disabled in the Gameplay settings.
• Lowered visual rarity of secondary scanners.
• Added a fallback “missing” icon when an inventory slot contains an invalid item, for example due to a bug or from uninstalling a mod. Previously, the slot would appear empty but still behave like it contained an item.
• Dedicated server files now include an ARGUMENTS.txt file which describes the available command line arguments in more detail.
• Added a -hashedworldseed flag to allow dedicated servers to set the hashed seed directly instead of using a string seed that is then hashed.
• When a dedicated server generates a random seed, it now first generates a random-seed string, which is then hashed, instead of generating the hashed seed directly. This means dedicated server seeds now behave identically to the regular game client.
• Added scroll bars to scrollable pages in the main menu.
• All settings menus now automatically become scrollable if they contain too many options to fit in the available space.
• The mouse scroll wheel can no longer be used to cycle through values in option menus, since this interacted with scrolling menus in unintuitive ways.
• Restored the frame surrounding chat messages, which was unintentionally removed in 1.0.1.
• Fixed a few text and translation issues.

Graphics:

• Updated loot sprites for some backpacks with newer graphics.
• The Geode Wall Display now correctly uses its unpainted look when placed, instead of the purple variant.
• Updated certain buttons in the inventory to make them more distinct.

Audio:

• Lowered the volume of the ambient sound effects of the Seasonal Merchant and the Rift Statue.

Game Balance:

• Lowered the price of slime boss scanners.
• Slightly increased the loot drop for Nilipedes and Clay Burrowers.

Performance:

• Worlds are now compressed using Brotli instead of Gzip, which is significantly faster. The .gzip file extension is still used to avoid cloud sync issues.
• The list of available converter types is now computed when the game boots and reused, instead of being recomputed every time a world is loaded.
• The Join Game UI is now more responsive while preparing to establish the connection.
• Fixed a rare lag spike caused by the world autosave sometimes being forced to run on the main thread on low performance machines.
• Removed several cases where the main thread would wait for worker threads to finish the tile map update.

Bug Fixes:

• Terrariums no longer visually swap contained critters when they come into view.
• Fixed a frequently reported issue where mobs (most notably cattle) were loaded before non-moving objects, meaning they could escape from enclosures.
• Added xterm as an alternative to gnome-terminal in the dedicated server launch script for Linux. This fixes an issue where the dedicated server would fail to launch when using the Steam Linux Runtime.
• Fixed a bug that caused inconsistent spacing between objects when placing them while moving.
• Fixed an issue that caused mobs spawned during boss fights to incorrectly drop loot even though they were not supposed to.
• Fixed several custom scenes which contained invisible Abyss Trees.
• The ingredient filter in the Cooking Pot’s cookbook is no longer limited to 40 ingredients.
• The clickable area for ingredient filters in the Cooking Pot is now better aligned with the visible part of the icons.
• Fixed an issue that caused Azeos’ Easter variant color to unintentionally be carried over to regular Azeos.
• Added visible condition effects for Crystal Snails.
• Pets and minions now correctly target the Hydra’s ice crystals.
• Dropped items no longer combine with other items being picked up by different players.
• Fixed an issue with bouncing projectiles colliding with wall corners, which would cause them to pass through the walls.
• Bouncing projectiles now correctly bounce in PVP.
• Piercing projectiles now correctly pierce in PVP.
• The Hunger bar should no longer be displayed as empty when the Mana bar toggles on.
• The damage text popup should now more correctly show damage after absorption.
• The amount of ores dropped from the Crystal Snail is now more accurate to their lost health.
• Bomb tick sounds should no longer be played once the bomb is destroyed.
• Paint Brushes no longer attempt to paint objects with the same color.
• Fixed an issue with the player’s sprite that happened when using a shield while holding another shield of the same type.
• Fixed general misprediction issues for enemy attacks such as charging, that caused multiple damage numbers to appear.
• When placing objects, the chosen rotation should now be saved when swapping items.
• Fixed issue that locked a player’s movement when toggling guest mode for a user playing with a controller and holding an item.
• Fixed an issue that caused the incorrect text to be shown when the player spoke to the Core during a specific interaction.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Wooden Spike Traps to not show their spikes.
• Fixed an issue that caused Stone Fence Gates to incorrectly be placed in certain scenes instead of Wood Fence Gates. This will only affect newly generated scenes.
• Fixed an issue that caused watered Grass ground to be shown in the map as a different color than the normal Grass ground.
• Fishing is now interrupted when removing or swapping baits in the Off-hand slot.
• Previously, removing or swapping the bait at the final moments when fishing could cause the bait to not be consumed or non-bait offhand items to be consumed instead. The result of said action now is that no rewards are provided, and the bait isn’t consumed.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Pugstorm PR (06/03/2025) / Pugstorm (Steam)

Core Keeper – Ver. 1.0.1

• Release date: November 13th/14th 2024
• Patch notes:

Gameplay:

• Added 3 new minion tomes.
• It’s now possible to resize the affected area of shovels, water cans, hoes, and of the Roofing Gadget.
• Crafting stations can now pick up materials from chests within a 10-tile radius (chests no longer need to be directly next to the crafting station).
• Mural doors (Melody, Worship, and Mold Doors) can now be destroyed.
• Signs can now display text visually within the world, and players can toggle between visibility modes.
• New Aquarium and Terrarium objects added for base decoration.
• New loot chest for Malugaz added.
• New Coral and Galaxite Doors added.
• Workbenches are now salvageable.
• There are now dungeons leading up to the fight against Azeos the Sky Titan, Omoroth the Sea Titan and Ra-Akar the Sand Titan.
• Shift clicking items within the player inventory now moves them to the first available hotbar slot.
• It’s now possible to equip gear and items directly from the hotbar.
• Poison/Slippery Slime enemies now have neutral behavior and are no longer initially hostile.
• The Proficient Jewelry Workbench now has the option to select the Jewelry Workbench in its UI to allow for crafting earlier tiered items.
• The Distillery Table now has the option to select the Alchemist’s Table in its UI to allow for crafting earlier tiered items.
• Added boss damage bonus to character stat window.

Other:

• Wood Bridges are now hand-crafted items instead of being crafted in the Basic Workbench.
• A message is now displayed to communicate when enemy difficulty is scaled after a new player joins the session.
• The bottom wood root that gets attached to the Core when grown was moved one tile. It is now possible to plant it once again after it is broken.
• The cursor now stays centred at the same world position when zooming in or out on the in-game map.
• A simplified aim cursor now replaces the arrow when aiming with ranged weapons.
• Added square and cross-shaped patterns for naturally-spawning explosive walls.
• Minimap now shows nearby markers.
• Creative UI is now enabled by default in Creative mode.
• Added visual and sound effects when using permanent maximum health items for the first time to provide clear feedback when they are used.
• Increased randomness of unique dungeon placement for different world seeds. For example, the Glurch arena should no longer always appear south-west of The Core.
• The map biome title now updates quicker when moving between biomes that have already been encountered.
• Fixed a few text and translation issues.

Graphics:

• Wood Doors, Wood Fences, Wood Fence Gates and Robot Arms are now paintable.
• It is now possible to rotate Mannequins.
• Added visual cue for when minions are about to despawn.
• Updated minion count icon.
• Buckets now glow when carrying lava, sea water, or crystal water.
• Updated Azeos the Sky Titan’s visuals.

Game Balance:

• Rune Song sword rework:
• Buffed: heal on hit from 3 to 10;
• Added: 5% chance to gain a short 50% attack speed bonus;
• A secondary use attack that creates a trail that does damage, with 25% chance to stun;
• Removed: hp increase and chance to oneshot weak enemies.
• Fishing bait recipes have been updated to include critters.
• Adjusted spawn rate of Caveling Toilets in the Forgotten Ruins.
• Slightly adjusted damage caused by Orbital Turrets in the Shimmering Frontier.
• Slightly tweaked the amount of roots that naturally spawn in the world.
• Slightly tweaked the amount of Sledge Hammers that would spawn in the Metropolis area.
• Adjusted the prices of scanners and summoning items.
• Worm enemies now leave walls a bit slower.

Performance:

• Improved performance when initializing random number generators.
• Improved performance on boss systems.
• Reduced the number of empty entity archetypes that are created when the game loads. This improves performance when processing entities during runtime.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where the “Large Harvest” was not being applied properly.
• Fixed gray lines weirdly placed on top of Easter Egg Lamps.
• Fixed issue where some workbenches were showing the wrong rotation sprites.
• Fixed issue where some painted Wood Stools sprites were slightly misaligned.
• Fixed issue where the aggro range from Slime Bosses was a bit too small.
• The hint text when writing on signs is now correctly disabled when the sign contains any text.
• Fixed issue where minions would disappear before playing despawn animations.
• Directly interacting with placed levers or circuits should now properly update the state of these items on the server.
• Fixed & mitigated issues with colliders not getting enabled correctly around enemies after nearby spawns.
• Fixed several cases where dungeons would spawn too close together and partially overwrite each other.
• Fixed pedestals in a Temple scene in the Wilderness so that they’re generated with the correct amount of items.
• The Crystal biome is now affected by the Ore Density world setting.
• Fixed pushback on parry not working.
• Chests that can float on water (Floating Titan’s Chest, Crydra Chest and Atlantean Worm Chest) are no longer misplaced for one frame when placed.
• Boss summoning items are no longer lost if they are broken the moment before the boss spawns.
• Minions should no longer be despawned as a result of other players spawning new minions.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Fireshine Games (Steam)

How to download updates for Core Keeper for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2?

To download the updates for Core Keeper, you have three options:

• let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

• try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

OR

• select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.