Dome Keeper News

[h2]What’s Going On:[/h2]

Hey Keepers!

We’re super excited to finally announce our first official Mod Jam for Dome Keeper! From January 17-24, 2025 (new date will come, see "When:", we invite you to unleash your creativity and join us for a week of modding fun. Our dedicated Discord channels will be buzzing with community moderators, René, Jarvs, and other members of the development team, all ready to provide advice and support.



[h2]When: [/h2]

January 17-24, 2025
Update: Our community pointed out this overlaps with the popular Pirate Games Game Jam. After considering options, we decided to move the jam back some weeks, which also gives us more room to improve the EULA to be more mod friendly. New date will follow soon!

[h2]Where: [/h2]

Discord, Steamworks

[h2]How To Join the Fun: [/h2]

1. Join Our Discord: Connect with fellow Keepers, share ideas, and find inspiration.
   
2. Create Your Mod: Make any mod for Dome Keeper that you can dream up. Feel free to collaborate with others!
   
3. Upload Your Mod: Submit your mod to Steamworks by 23:00 CET on January 24th. Don’t forget to share it on Discord, (there will be a channel just for this) so everyone can see your amazing work.
   
4. Submit Your Mod for Award Consideration: If you’d like your mod to be reviewed for an award, in our Mod Jam Awards show, you can fill out the Google form to enter it for consideration.
   

[h2]Want to Take Part but Need a Team? [/h2]
[h3]Don’t worry we got you: [/h3]


If you want to join in but need a team to do so, you can use the Google form below to sign up to be placed in a team. Simply tell us what your contribution will be (art, writing, coding, sound) and we will pair you up with the other skillsets.

We will also have dedicated channels in our Discord server where your team can meet and discuss your plans privately.

Click HERE to be Put into a Team



[h2]Celebrate Your Creativity: [/h2]

We’ll be hosting a special black tie award show in the server events channel on January 31st to celebrate the best mods of the jam. Dress up, bring some sparkle, and join us for a fun and glamorous evening as we honour the creativity and talent within our community.



[h2]Simple Rules: [/h2]

• Check out the Dome Keeper mod policy before you start.
  
• Be creative and make something you’d love to see in the game.
  
• Work alone or with friends, it’s up to you!
  
• Submit your mods to Steamworks by the deadline.
  
• Complete the Google form to enter your mod for consideration in our Mod Jam Awards show.
  

[h2]Recap: [/h2]

• Discord: Join the conversation and get support from the community.
  
• Steamworks: Upload and showcase your mods.
  
• Google Form: Submit your mod to be featured in our award show.
  

We’re so excited to see what you come up with! Keep an eye on our social channels for more updates and announcements.

Happy modding, Keepers

[h2]🎄Festive Fun is Here, Keepers!🎄 [/h2]

The holiday season has arrived, and we couldn’t resist adding a touch of Christmas magic to Dome Keeper! That’s right, our Christmas content is BACK and better than ever.



[h3]✨ What’s Included? [/h3]

A Festive Tune-Up: The main title music has been given a wintery twist to set the mood.

Seasonal Skin: Unlock a special holiday skin for the Assessor!

Snowy Vibes: Enjoy the snowy landscapes above ground that are sure to give you all the cozy feels.

A Special Pet: Discover and unlock a brand-new companion to keep you company this season.

Don’t forget to enable seasonal content in the options menu to access all these goodies!




[h3]🎉 Community Nights – Join the Fun! [/h3]

We’re kicking off bi-weekly Community Nights in our Discord server to bring everyone together during this cozy—but sometimes challenging—time of year. Whether you’re looking to connect, share laughs, or just hang out, you’re warmly invited!

🗓️ When? Every other Thursday

📍 Where? Hang Out voice channel on Discord

💬 All are welcome—we’d love to see you there!
Join Our Discord


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[h3]🎁 Daily Deal – A Holiday Treat![/h3]

‘Tis the season for giving, and we’re giving you a stonking great discount on Dome Keeper! If we’ve been sitting on your wishlist for a while, now’s the perfect time to treat yourself, or a friend!

💥 Here’s What’s on Offer:

60% off the game – Jump in and start your dome-keeping adventure!

50% off the OST – Let those soothing tracks keep you company this winter.

30% off the Assessor Gear Pack – Gear up for a festive run.

30% off the Engineer Pack – Because every Keeper deserves to look stylish!

These deals only run through to December 12th, so grab ‘em whilst you can!



[h3]🎅 Don’t Miss Raw Fury’s ‘Rawcember’! [/h3]

Our publisher, Raw Fury, is celebrating the holidays with their own unique brand of festive chaos in Rawcember. Keep an eye on their socials—there just might be some special Dome Keeper magic sprinkled in!

IT'S RAWCEMBER TIME B**** LET'S GO

Happy holidays, Keepers! Let’s make this season merry and bright together. 🌟

[h2]Hey Keepers,[/h2]
it's time for probably the last patch of this update. It is more on the maintenance side with small improvements and bugfixes. We found a big performance issue on the cables of the relic in relic hunt. With this patch, the framerate on low end systems can be up to twice as high if the cables are active.
Secondly we did a lot of improvements for the mod loader. Read more about the plans for modding here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1637320/partnerevents/edit/4471606502586583905


On a sidenote, work on multiplayer is progressing well. There will be a playtest early next year, but definitely not in january. We'll tell more as soon as we have some reliable dates to share :)

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
Here is what's new for v4.2.0:

game is now not exported in DEBUG mode
fixed and improved many things with modding and the ModLoader
improved performance significantly for the light and the relic cables
• squidley now gathers resources that are closest to the dome (transport drones always did so)
  
• rocketlauncher now will restock, if getting the restock supplement during combat
  
• updated loc, improved some assignment descriptions
  
• fixed issue when changing locale inside loadout
  
• fixed cellar gadgets overlapping after reload if stationless probe was used
  
• fixed assignment map being identical if restarted after losing run
  
• fixed condenser water colors for double storage
  
• fixed spire supplement making its upgrade tree messy
  
• shield invulnerability upon depletion does not trigger again if shield is overcharded during battle
  
• added shorten cycles upgrade to provocation mode
  
• cleaned leaderboards, updated bans
  
• fixed wrong collision layer in assessor sphere explosion
  
• improved moddability by replacing some uses of preload with load
  

Have fun :)

[h3]Hello Keepers,
[/h3]it's been a while since "A Keeper's Duty" hit, and as we lined out before, our current development focus is on multiplayer. It is progressing well, but we know it needs a lot of time. Refactoring a game from singleplayer to multiplayer is generally not recommended because it is a vast undertaking. Usually you plan and code for multiplayer from the start, or omit it completely. We'll do it anyway!

Since this will take time, we've been thinking a lot about if and how we can still do something interesting. The glorious answer is MODDING.

We want to push this a bit and help as much as we can to enable people to make cool mods. Mods are amazing because they can offer things that are outside of the design of "core Dome Keeper". They can do totally new things or expand what is there, be silly, hardcore challenging or simply fun.



[h3]Renewed shall be modding that was broken[/h3]
This year we ported Dome Keeper from Godot 3 to Godot 4. Godot is the engine we use. This was a big undertaking done for three reasons, being multiplayer, console ports and future proofing the project. With that switch, the way the game can be modded did change too, and thus most mods broke.
We hired Ste from our community to lead the effort of making modding work for Godot 4 for Dome keeper. He is a cornerstone of our community and a key person in the Godot modloader project (shoutout to Kana too the perfect fit to champion modding.

The result: modding is back, yay!


[h3]Leading the pack[/h3]
Already we have some great mods, some new and some ported. We made a cool trailer to showcase some of them - take a look at it below!

The stars of that show are of course the cool people making the mods. By the way, join our Discord if you want to make mods or know more about it. Everyone is helpful there and as devs we are happy to support where we can.

https://youtu.be/iJCV2MjXJYc
[h3]Mod Jam[/h3]
Dome Keeper originated in a 3 day game jam, Ludum Dare 48. What could be more fitting than making a jam for creating cool mods for Dome Keeper?!

With that in mind we are so excited to announce that we'll be doing an official Dome Keeper Mod Jam in January. The idea of this is to dedicate a few days to making new Dome Keeper mods, expand existing mods or simply port old mods. As devs we'll focus our attention during the event to support the modders - advice, solutions, patches and possibly even coding or art support.

Praise is good and all, but we'll also have some prizes for anyone that would like to submit their mod to be reviewed by the team. We'll be giving out awards too! We'll share more details about the mod jam soon, including dates and prizes, so please stay tuned (did i mention joining the discord?)


[h3]Mod Support[/h3]

One final thing to mention is that we have a new Dome Keeper Let's Play dropping on the Raw Fury YouTube channel here later today at 17:30CET. This one will be all about how to install and make the most of mods, along with showing some of the recent ones added to Dome Keeper. So if you've never tried using mods in Dome Keeper before but have always wanted to, then please check it out!

That's it for now!

[h3]Have fun :)[/h3]