Hydroneer News

Version 1.3 releases on July 15th 2020 (12pm US Pacific) with some game changing new features, as well as fixes, changes and balances!! I've been working constantly since the release to bring the largest ever update to Hydroneer. Full patch notes will be released on the day, but here's some highlights:

New blueprint crafting progression system
Progressively craft bigger and more expensive and useful items with the new crafting workbench! Purchasable from the new Bridgepour Harbour location.

D.A.V.I.D. Shard powered machine
Greatly improve the convenience of using the Goliath drill with the Dynamic Auto Voxel Inclusion Distributor (D.A.V.I.D.) - a shard powered machine which duplicates dirt.

Cloutium Resource
As well as balancing resource spawn rates, a super-rare ore is now in Hydroneer - Cloutium!

New Conveyor Items
The Conveyor system has had a total rework, as well as new corner belts, barriers, and directional arrows when placing down!

Quality of Life Improvements!
1.3 is packed full of quality of life improvements, optimisation, and bug fixes.

Lots, lots more!!
Find the full patch notes here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1106840/discussions/0/2650881941765437081/


You can follow the development of Hydroneer with my weekly YouTube highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/c/FoulballHangover

Save files will continue over from previous versions.

Thanks for all the support, I really hope you all enjoy 1.3,
Max :)

Version 1.3 releases on July 15th 2020 (12pm US Pacific) with some game changing new features, as well as fixes, changes and balances!! I've been working constantly since the release to bring the largest ever update to Hydroneer. Full patch notes will be released on the day, but here's some highlights:

New blueprint crafting progression system
Progressively craft bigger and more expensive and useful items with the new crafting workbench! Purchasable from the new Bridgepour Harbour location.

D.A.V.I.D. Shard powered machine
Greatly improve the convenience of using the Goliath drill with the Dynamic Auto Voxel Inclusion Distributor (D.A.V.I.D.) - a shard powered machine which duplicates dirt.

Cloutium Resource
As well as balancing resource spawn rates, a super-rare ore is now in Hydroneer - Cloutium!

New Conveyor Items
The Conveyor system has had a total rework, as well as new corner belts, barriers, and directional arrows when placing down!

Quality of Life Improvements!
1.3 is packed full of quality of life improvements, optimisation, and bug fixes.

Lots, lots more!!

You can follow the development of Hydroneer with my weekly YouTube highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/c/FoulballHangover

Save files will continue over from previous versions.

Thanks for all the support, I really hope you all enjoy 1.3,
Max :)

Hey, I'm Max - the solo developer & creator of Hydroneer!

I've got lots planned for the future of Hydroneer, bug fixes and optimisations as well as major updates.

In July/August will be the next major update to Hydroneer, with the new 'Engineering' system, which will give players more ways to progress the game, new ways of crafting, as well as hidden ore veins!

In October/November Hydroneer will see its next major update, which will expand the depths of the claims, and add in new challenges and features to the end game!

But Max, why is Hydroneer so cheap, does this mean you'll abandon it after launch?!
Nope! I priced Hydroneer at the lower end as I have relatively low business overheads, that means I do not need to take as much profit as larger game studios, since there is only my wage that needs to be covered. If the game is cheaper, more people can enjoy Hydroneer!

You can catch all of the development highlights on my weekly dev vlogs here:
https://www.youtube.com/c/foulballhangover

On May 8th Hydroneer will be released on Steam! I'm super excited to release Hydroneer into the world!!
A big thanks to all the Patreon supporters for funding Hydroneer as well as finding bugs and giving feedback.

We're currently working towards a new update to come out after Hydroneer's release, a version 1.1! More news on this to follow.

https://www.patreon.com/FoulballHangover


Feel free to sign up for a month to try out the game and cancel your pledge for the following months, you'll still get access to all updates for the month as well as your name in game and the end credits of Game Dev Weekly for eternity!

Hydroneer is in a very early development state, and will contain many bugs, some of which are game-breaking. The current version of the game is not reflective of the final release.