Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder News

Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder full release

Howdy, miners, diggers and prospectors! Now it's the time to truly dig deeper. First of all, a big thanks to all of you who supported us during the Early Access. Couldn't have done it without you.

New features and content

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[h2]The Eerie Ruins[/h2]

A mysterious mountain top featuring strange temples, statues and otherwordly devices. These mines will be more challenging and dangerous than the previous ones. The area will introduce a new enemy type, new puzzles and treasures. Check out this previously released video for more teasing:

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[h2]The Golem[/h2]

A new enemy type, the golem, is sleeping in the mines. A strong suggestion is to not disturb his sleep, and if you do, trust your fight or flight instinct.

[h2]3 new endings[/h2]

No spoilers here! It's part of the fun to figure them out, but you can join the discord server and ask in the spoiler discussion channel for help!

[h2]Other additions:[/h2]

Loads of new ore, gems and relics
17 new costumes
The final comic issue of Clayton: The Greed
Grappling hook mechanics to the Shovel
Shield mechanics to the Pan
80 new Clayton voice lines
Localization for multiple languages
A playable radio
Health potions
Sista Chompy
Gunslinger Chompy
Backpack upgrades 4-6
Achievements

Gameplay and visual changes

Adjusted voice line frequencies
Safes now spawn biome specific loots instead of gold
Made costumes unlockable
Errands refresh on completion and removal
Explosions now do different amounts of damage to players and enemies and scale with biomes
Workers glove particles
Added option to disable freemove
Implemented sophisticated Giant Clam AI that reacts to external stimuli
Improved Shovel homing
Added range to level 1 workers glove
Moved hip slots closer to chest
Player starts in an alternative spot when visiting a biome for the first time
Refurnished all levels
New wall and digging nodes
Implemented gem / relic counters
Smoother loading screens
Redid most vfx and refined textures
Redid panning mechanics
Redid fungi shrimp behaviour
Removed lipstick from Chompy
Added hints to loading screens

Bug fixes

Many

Join the discord!

Full release on 8th of September!

Howdy cave diggers!

On September 14th, 2021, we released Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder on Steam Early Access. We did it to test the game on a bigger audience and receive valuable feedback from our dedicated VR prospectors. Now it's finally time to release the full version of the game!

First things first, the price will go up at the full release so now it's a good time to purchase the game with the early access discount and invite your friends to join in.

And let's talk a bit about the biggest changes coming...

[h2]The fourth area, The Eerie Ruins[/h2]

Shovel

As seen in the video above, the biggest upgrade will be to the shovel. You'll get a grappling hook mechanic to it and oh boy, it's been an instant hit in our internal testing sessions. We hope you will enjoy it as much as we do!

Pan

Slotting the pan in the arm slots will now transform it into a shield! Quite handy against those plasma shrimp projectiles.

Using the gold pan is also now considerably easier and faster.

[h2]Endings[/h2]

Three new completely unique endings will be added. Not spoiling anything about those yet.

[h2]The Golem[/h2]

A new enemy type, the golem, is sleeping in the mines. A strong suggestion is to not disturb his sleep, and if you do, trust your fight or flight instinct.

Other changes include things like new cosmetics (now unlockable), achievements, chompy stuff and other small things. Of course a lot of bug fixing and performance work has been going on in the background.

Now fear not, this is not the end of the development. We have a bunch of content still planned and coming, but more about that later.

Join the Cave Digger discord!

The Valley Theme

Now that we've released all the additional vocal soundtrack songs by the awesome local indie artists, it's time to move to the gameplay soundtrack. Here's the first one!

[h2]The Valley Theme[/h2]

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Check out the full playlist of the vocal songs.

And of course, join our discord!

The final OST song premiere starting soon!

Watch the tenth music video from the original Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder soundtrack.

[h2]"Missä mun mustikat on" by Jukka Takalo & Frosty River[/h2]

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So, we've been asking many local indie artists to submit songs to be used in Cave Digger 2 and this is the last one! Jukka Takalo is a musician and a singer-songwriter from Oulu. We recommend to check his other music too.

Many of the songs will be included in one of the multiple endings in game. The first one is already in-game!

Listen to the previous songs:

Oh btw, CD2 is now also available on Oculus App Lab.

And of course, join our discord!

Peeking into the eerie ruins.

Howdy miners, diggers and prospectors of the New Frontier!

Our team has returned to the office after some much needed summer holidays and we're now working full steam towards the 1.0 update. We will be able to reveal the release date very soon, but while waiting for that, here's a sneak peek to what is coming:

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Also there's been weird happenings over the summer and many members of our discord channel have been investigating it... Join now to take part in the final mysteries.

discord.gg/cavedigger