1. Murder Miners
  2. News

Murder Miners News

Murder Miners Gamenight! 11/06/20

Gamenight starts NOW!, join us for fun gametypes like Halloween Event Maps, Capture the Flag on Oblivion Space Wars and Murder Moles, Infection, and more! Join the host Double Bullet.

This is your last chance to play on the Halloween Event if you haven't already! Helmets and skins were temporary, but helmets will be added in later as a possible unlockable.

Or watch the Stream:

https://youtu.be/zsX_MUl_uhA

Gamenights are hosted every week so stay tuned for more gamenights. Giveaways are held once a month. Also don't forget to join the Murder Miners Discord and join us in voice chat and say hello!

Murder Miners Discord: discord.gg/T3QCYsU

Halloween Update 37.2 Released!

The second half is has finally made an arrival just in time for Halloween!
The 37.2 Update has some excellent features for everyone to enjoy! With a few added tricks for you to experience.

Make sure to attend our gamenight tonight, 10/31/20! There will be a spookactular time awaiting you!

Limited Time Halloween Changes:
◦ New Title and Background for the Main Menu!



◦ New Zombie Skins!
◦ Check out the new Halloween Purple and Orange skins by Finnyins!
◦ Minergun UI is changed to fit the tone of the new skins!
◦ Halloween Event Playlist, maps in this Playlist have Spooky Fog!
◦ 2 New Helmets, and Multiple UPGRADED Helmets!

Machine Gun Changes:
◦ Machine Gun now has a cooldown bar for the Alternate Fire mode. Try to use it wisely!
◦ Using Alt Fire will eat up 30 bullets leaving 10 remaining.
◦ Machine Gun has Decreased Spread, Increased Damage, and Headshot Damage

Added New Maps:
◦ 25 New Halloween Maps! Find them under the Halloween Event Maps when picking a new map!



◦ 2 New Ambiences!
◦ 3 New Skybox's, Halloween Themed!

512 Map Size:




◦ Time to conquer some miners in a larger battlefield!
◦ The 512x map size is 4x as big as the largest size in the game!

UI Additions/Changes:
◦ Chat Box and Lobby UI have gradient backgrounds for accessibility.



◦ Flags show up in your Radar!



◦ Minergun got a UI update! Fonts and Icons are easier on the eyes and cleaned up, if you're a believer check out the GOLD Minergun font!



◦ Slight UI and Font altercations to be easier on the eyes.

Quality of Life Additions:
◦ Vacum Block is finally differentiating itself from the crowd with its own unique texture.



◦ Fog Distance and Render Distance are seperate! Change them for preference or preformance.



◦ Offline mode for lobbys are now accessible!
◦ Player Stats are visible in options!
◦ Reduced file sizes and improved memory usage.
◦ Security Upgrades.

Bug Fixes:
◦ To help fix crashing faster a new Crash Reporting system has been added.
◦ Fixed Map Reloading Bug
◦ Fixed Super Sampling Issues
◦ Fixed Lighting Directions for terrain and entities

Here is a video from the Murder Miners Hub showcasing Updates 37.1 and 37.2:
https://youtu.be/eRNHpy1OrAU

To explain some of your questions on development for Murder Miners 1 and Murder Miners X:

The "Murder Miners Hub" are working on Murder Miners while JForce is very focused about working on Murder Miners X. Yes, these games are still being worked on, but now the Murder Miners Hub has taken the effort to update Murder Miners. Thank you everyone for sticking around and being part of this special community. We truly appreciate all of your love and support!

Make sure to join the Murder Miners Hub discord to play/chat with community and for the latest news on Murder Miners and Murder Miners X. Believe.
https://discord.gg/T3QCYsU

Update 37.1 Released!

You asked, we listened and we introduce you to Update 37.1! This update is for everyone introducing some new settings and options for those who like to tinker with their playstyle!

Make sure to attend our gamenight tonight, 10/04/20! A giveaway will be hosted this time around along with plenty of fun gametypes to enjoy along with testing the all new 512x, and 1024x map sizes!

Added 6 new options:
◦ View Model FoV Slider
◦ Bottomless Clip option
◦ Sniper Laser Toggler
◦ Experimental Screen Scaling!
◦ 2 New Render Distance Settings, short and SUPER far!
◦ 75% Movement Speed

New Server Types/Colors:
◦ Official Staff servers will be marked as Purple or Yellow to stand out from the crowd. Look out for the [Official] tag to make sure its the right lobby!
◦ Gamenight servers will show up as purple and will be at the top of your Search list. It will be labeled as "Gamenight - [Official]", you won't want to miss out on these crazy lobbies!
◦ Dedicated/Automated Servers! Although in testing, they will appear at the top of your Game Search in Yellow!

Added Video Tutorials:
◦ Get your game up and learn some of the core mechanics of murder miners!
◦ You can find this in the "How to Play" section.
CAPS LOCK:
◦ No need for an introduction, caps lock has come out the shadows to officially work in the game chat!

Other:
◦ 512x and 1024x Map Testing! Check out the new Gamenights in BETA for a chance to test them out!
◦ Game Helpers/Staff now have new chat colors
◦ Options Screen has organizational changes
◦ Teleporter and Spawn Zone positions and size limitations are limited to map size
◦ Map Reload, if you ever have issues loading in a map or you have graphical issues this feature will fix it right up
◦ 20 New Maps
◦ Bug Fixes

We've been cooking up some neat goodies for the future. Keep on believing and expect the unexpected.
Make sure to join the Murder Miners Hub discord to play/chat with community and for the latest news on Murder Miners and Murder Miners X. Believe.
https://discord.gg/T3QCYsU

To explain some of your questions on development for Murder Miners 1 and Murder Miners X:

The "Murder Miners Hub" are working on Murder Miners while JForce is very focused about working on Murder Miners X. Yes, these games are still being worked on, but now the Murder Miners Hub has taken the effort to update Murder Miners. Thank you everyone for sticking around and being part of this special community. We truly appreciate all of your love and support!

Murder Miners 8th Anniversary Gamenight! 9/10/20

Gamenight starts NOW!, We are doing a special Gamenight for the Murder Miners 8th Anniversary with the newly released Anniversary Update!
Join us to ask questions and have fun, the host is bigdaddy2.
We are mainly hosting Murder Miners maps from 2012.

Or watch the Stream:

https://youtu.be/woojU-LXB08

Gamenights are hosted every week so stay tuned for more gamenights. To enter into the giveaway you have to join the discord server and follow the instructions in the #announcements channel.

Murder Miners Discord: discord.gg/murderminershub

Murder Miners 8th Anniversary : 9/9 Update In-Game Event

Today is the 8th Anniversary of Murder Miners, the original Xbox 360 edition of the game was released on 9th September 2012.

To celebrate we are temporarily updating the game with re-made versions of the original textures including blocks, weapons and effects along with the original sounds, and also the new weapons in the original style.

We have also added 12 classic maps from older versions of the game to go along with the original textures.

We are doing a giveaway in the Murder Miners Hub Discord, check there for details (https://discord.gg/murderminershub OR https://discord.gg/f2ardab). There will also be a Game Night tomorrow to celebrate so keep a look out.

Another update is in the works, with lots of neat things, Stay tuned!