Core Keeper News

Get ready, Explorers, it’s time for Core Keeper’s second-ever Easter seasonal event — running from today until the 16th of April! Many of you will remember that The Great Egg Hunt was the first seasonal event that we ever revealed for Core Keeper, and we loved watching you uncover all the exciting seasonal content. Your community feedback inspired us to not only allow players to keep any Easter Eggs they found once the event ended, but it also played a part in our decision to enable players to toggle seasonal events in the Game Settings menu!

We like to think our seasonal events have only gotten bigger and better since the very first Great Egg Hunt, so when the time came to repeat our Easter event, we knew that we wanted to add some new content to bring it up to par with what you’ve come to expect from us.

While we might not always update recurring seasonal events with new content, we’re sure you’ll have an eggceptional time egg hunting in the new Chicken outfit or the Eggcellent equipment set! If that wasn’t fun enough, we’ve added a whole host of decorative items for Easter including the Easter Garland, Easter Meadow Table, Easter Egg Lamp, and more! Check out our patch notes here.



If this is your first time taking part in The Great Egg Hunt, then you’re in for a treat! Get hunting by digging your way through the Dirt Biome, combing the Clay Caves, fighting your way across the Forgotten Ruins, and ambling through Azeos’ Wilderness until you’ve got enough Easter Eggs to craft the mysterious Golden Egg. Don’t eggspect to find those Easter Eggs just lying on the floor though, Explorers – you’ll have to take a more aggressive approach when hunting them down. From here, it’s up to you to uncover the secrets of the shiny Golden Egg!

We can’t believe it’s been over a year since our very first seasonal event, and we hope you have a blast egg hunting while we’re hard at work on the Animal Update, Crystal Biome, and beyond! As always, we hope you’ll join the fun over on Discord or tag us in your seasonal screenshots on Twitter.

[h2]New Features: [/h2]

• The Seasonal Merchant now has a new festive skin and new seasonal items for sale. The skin will revert to its original appearance after the event ends, but the items will remain available.
  
• The Easter Crafting Table can be acquired from the Seasonal Merchant.
  
• The Large Golden Egg is now sold by the Seasonal Merchant.
  
• Certain tiles have started to bloom and now have flowers on them. These tiles will revert to their original appearance once the season ends.

[h2]New Items: [/h2]

• New decorative environment items can be crafted at the Easter Workbench, including:
  
• Easter Garland
  
• Easter Egg Lamp
  
• Daisy Flooring
  
• Easter Pillar
  
• Easter Egg Flower Pot
  
• Easter Meadow Table
  
• Easter Meadow Stool
  
• Easter Pedestal
  
• New vanity equipment sets can be crafted at the Easter Workbench, including Chicken equipment set and Eggcellent equipment set.

[h2]Graphics: [/h2]

• The Core Keeper main menu logo has been updated with a new, seasonal appearance.

[h2]Balancing: [/h2]

• The drop chance of Easter Eggs from enemies has been increased.
  
• Infected Cavelings and Mold Tentacles will no longer drop Gray Easter Eggs but only drop Green Easter Eggs.

[h2] Bug Fixes: [/h2]

• Fixed a bug where regenerating maps would create slightly larger saves on each start. Regeneration typically happens for map parts containing Obsidian walls. Currently affected saves are cleaned up which could improve save and load times for those affected.

Welcome to the first-ever Core Keeper Weekly Community Wrap-Up!

We share a lot of cool stuff about Core Keeper over on Twitter and Discord, but we’re aware that not everybody who plays the game is active in those spaces. That’s why we’ve decided to do a weekly community wrap-up here on Steam from now on to share the highlights from these channels with you. Here’s what we’ve shared this week!

[h2]Our Cherry Blossom Event is Over![/h2]

It’s been a pretty Cherry-Blossom heavy week for Core Keeper, but our Cherry Blossom mini-event has come to a close. Don’t forget that you can access all of our seasonal events at any time through the Gameplay Settings menu!



[h2]Springtime in the Underground[/h2]

With the gorgeous new additions that came in our Cherry Blossom event, it sure felt like spring had finally sprung in the underground this week. Check out this lovely spring-time GIF we shared of Cherry Blossom trees blooming in Azeos’ Wilderness!



[h2]Cherry Blossom Fan Art[/h2]

The talented R-E (@arty_mc_artist) shared some beautiful Cherry-Blossom event-inspired fan art with us featuring a pink-haired Explorer. We absolutely loved this piece and our community did too!



[h2]Behind-the-Scenes Glass![/h2]

Our CEO, Fredrik Präntare, shared a little behind-the-scenes preview of something the Pugstorm team are working on…glass! And not just any glass, colourful glass! This is a work-in-progress shot from an in-development version of the game, so it is worth noting that nothing here is final nor official to Core Keeper. The Twitter community seemed pretty excited about this one though – what’s your favourite colour?



[h2]Discord Sticker Competition[/h2]

We’re currently running a Core Keeper Discord Sticker competition over on, you guessed it, Discord. We’ll be announcing 3x winners for this one. Each winner will receive 1x Core Keeper Steam key (to keep for themselves or to give to a friend!) and, of course, their stickers will be added to our Discord. We’ve had some great entries so far with the competition closing at 11:30am UTC on April 3rd 2023, so there’s still plenty of time to enter if you’re feeling artistic!

[h2]Community Screenshots[/h2]

We also had some awesome community screenshots shared with us on both Twitter and Discord, including…

This colourful creation from ponyponyex (@ponyponyex) on Twitter…



…and this impressive base from Grin over on our Discord!



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We’re delighted to announce that Core Keeper is taking part in the London Games Festival Steam event, hosted by our publisher, Fireshine Games!

London is one of the most diverse spaces for games and interactive entertainment in the UK, and the London Games Festival is one of the biggest celebrations of video games of the year. Our publisher, Fireshine Games, is proud to be hosting the London Games Festival Steam Event this year, which is running from today until the 9th of April.

Starting smack bang in the middle of this festival on April 3rd and running until the day after the London Games Festival on April 10th, we’re pleased to be offering a whopping 20% discount on Core Keeper!

This week-long sale is a great opportunity to get Core Keeper at its lowest price before the price change we announced in our recent roadmap post goes live (this is scheduled for shortly after the launch of the Animal Update).

There are so many incredible games being developed in or published by studios in London, and we are very happy to be part of this exciting festival, celebrating the successes of our industry peers! We hope you take advantage of the Core Keeper discount and enjoy starting your very own adventure in our vast, underground indie game!

Has it really been over a year since our last Easter seasonal event? Time really flies when you’re exploring the underground! We’re very eggcited (we’ll be using this pun every year, get used to it) to announce the date of this year’s Easter Seasonal event, which will go live on Wednesday April 5th and run all the way until Sunday April 16th.

Since The Great Egg Hunt was our very first seasonal event, things are going to be a little bit different this year. This is the first time we’ve revisited an event like this, and the entire team felt like there was a little space to expand the original, so you can expect a few eggstra (sorry) pieces of equipment and decorative items for this year.



While we may not always have the scope to add new content for each of our seasonal events, we really wanted to build on last year’s Easter content for even more egg-hunting fun. We hope these additions will bring the Easter event up to par with what you’ve seen in some of our other seasonal events. It was amazing to see such a positive response from the community around the first Easter seasonal event, and we thought we’d take this opportunity to showcase some of the cool stuff you created last year!

[h3]Egg Hunt Guide by JadePG - Crafted (spoiler warning!)[/h3]
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[h3]Egg Pixel Art on the Core Keeper Map by Malugaz’s #1 SIMP on Discord (amazing name)[/h3]


[h3]Easter-Themed Map Pixel Art by Epik on Discord[/h3]


[h3]Egg Base by Mayyo on Discord[/h3]


We’ll cool it with the egg puns now and crack (oops) on with development! We’re hard at work on the Animal Update, and we think you’ll just love what we’ve got in store. In the meantime, keep an eye out for our Easter update this time next week and, as always, don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and join the conversation on our Discord!