Core Keeper News

The first Core Keeper event is a Golden Egg hunt

A new in-game Core Keeper event has kicked off, the first since the building game launched to much acclaim last month - and it's a seasonal Easter egg hunt. More specifically, it's about the quest to build a Golden Egg in the sandbox game, then display it and discover the mysterious secret behind it.

Indie game Core Keeper has proven a hit on Steam, reaching half a million players in just a couple of weeks, and the team at Pugstorm is currently working on the first major Core Keeper content update. However, the developer has a different surprise for players today - the first in-game event, which is available now.

With the Easter weekend coming up, it's a seasonal event too - "The Great Egg Hunt" as Pugstorm is calling it. This runs from now until April 19 and requires players to hunt down hidden eggs around the world, which can then be used to craft a large Golden Egg that can be permanently displayed within their base.

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Hot Fix Patch 0.3.7

- Fixed Farmer's Hat being invisible and making characters bald.

The Great Egg Hunt Seasonal Event!

We know how much you Explorers love to investigate every nook and cranny of the underground, and we’ve just launched an eggstra special seasonal event that’ll take you all over the map!

Introducing the Great Egg Hunt

Can you uncover the secret of the Golden Egg? From today, until the 19th of April, we’re inviting you to participate in a fun-filled week of egg hunting as part of Core Keeper’s first ever seasonal event. We’ve hidden a variety of eggs in all corners of the underground, and it’s up to you to find them.

Dig through the Dirt Biome, comb the Clay Caves, fight your way across the Forgotten Ruins, and amble through Azeos’ Wilderness until you’ve got enough eggs to craft the mysterious Golden Egg – a unique collectable that players can (permanently!) keep in their bases to show off their egg-hunting skills.

There’s more to the Golden Egg than meets the eye, however. As well as being a decorative item, legends tell of another secret use for the Golden Egg that’s been lost to the ages. Will you be able to uncover its alternative function and unlock any extra hidden bonuses as a result?

As we get closer to revealing more details about Core Keeper’s first major content update, we wanted to surprise players with our first ever in-game event. We’re still hard at work on the Sunken Sea Biome, and the Egg Hunt is just one of many new ideas we’ve had since the start of our journey earlier this year. We hope everyone enjoys the hunt to craft the Golden Egg!

Core Keeper - Patch Notes - 0.3.6

GAMEPLAY

[h2]General[/h2]

4 types of easter eggs can be found and gathered in the world for a reward when combined. These eggs will be removed after the egg hunt event but any rewards will be permanent.

[h2]Balancing Improvements[/h2]

Increased the damage of the burning effect from Malugaz equipment set bonus.
Slightly increased the amount of max health that Ghorm gains per player. The max health has not been changed in single-player mode.
The health of Azeos crystals no longer scales with the amount of players.

[h2]Quality-of-life[/h2]

Player health ratio now stays the same when max health changes.

[h2]BUG FIXES[/h2]

Digging up plants with a shovel or hoe now correctly has a chance to yield extra plants from the extra harvest chance.
Scarlet gear set bonus now correctly gives crit chance and not attack speed.
Fixed an issue where grass would sometimes spawn inside walls.
Fixed an issue where hitting while holding a broken weapon would still have the reach and attack speed of the broken weapon.
Fixed an issue where the Hologram Pod NPC could hold items if shift clicking an item to add it to the NPC inventory. Any current items held by the Hologram Pod can be received back by destroying/releasing any placed Hologram Pod.
Fixed an issue where talents and buffs that increase health regeneration effectiveness were not calculated correctly.
Fixed a visual issue where eyes were rendered incorrectly when using fishing rods.
Fixed a visual issue where peasant armour was not rendered when fishing.

[h2]Other[/h2]

Changed attack speed to show one decimal of precision.
Improved the descriptions of “The smell of food” and “Sharing is caring” talents to clarify that they apply to the player as well as their allies.

Sharing Your Amazing Core Keeper Content!

It’s been just under 4 weeks since Core Keeper launched in Early Access. Since then, the game has accrued over 1,000,000 hours watched on Twitch! We’ve had an amazing time watching your videos and checking out your screenshots, and we can’t believe how funny and talented a community we’ve got.

In fact, we wanted to highlight some of your awesome Core Keeper content. We wish we could share everything we’ve come across these past few weeks, but for now, we wanted to showcase a round up of some of our favourites.

First up, we wanted to share some of your amazing fan art!

Check out this “Clay Cave Beasts” artwork by Blasko:

And this awesome Glurch painting that Discord user KomnNom created in just 40 minutes:

We also LOVE this Voxel Diorama that JokeRat created, complete with glowing Core and adorable Slimes:

You’ve shared some gorgeous screenshots with us over on Discord too, including this lovely flower garden from zAlex:

And this adorable map of Hades4135 and Sanmizuki's base:

Carrying on the Pokémon theme, we just love this Clefairy map from Steevownage on Reddit:

We witnessed a little Caveling smack talk from Felicia Day and co on Twitch.

And watched Kang Gaming go head-to-head with Ghorm armed with plenty of bombs.

Jaz’s team had a questionable strategy, fighting Glurch with a burrito.

Whereas Z1 Gaming’s team put in a lot of prep work for this boss battle.

And finally, we thoroughly enjoyed hearing what CohhCarnage had to say about his time in the underground:

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We're always keeping an eye out for creations from our amazing community, and we'll be sharing more of your stuff soon. For now, the best places to share your content are the media and creative promo channels on our Discord!