Drill Core News

Greetings, Platform Managers!

The Drill Core Board of Directors would never order you to work outside your (limited) office hours. What we can do, however, is warmly suggest that you do good for the company and vote for Drill Core in the Steam Awards—specifically, the “Best Game You Suck At” category!

Let’s face it, the numbers don’t lie. Some of you may have "accidentally" blown up the Core, misplaced workers, or been outpaced by Arachnors. But isn’t that what makes the job... challenging? A growth opportunity, if you will. After all, what doesn’t kill you makes you richer, right?

So let’s celebrate it! Cast your vote today and secure your legacy as a hardworking Platform Manager!

🎖️ Vote for Drill Core in the Steam Awards!

Remember, your dedication to Drill Core reflects directly on your performance review. No pressure.

Best regards,
The Drill Core Board of Directors

Greetings, Platform Managers!

The Board of Directors of Drill Core Inc. are pleased to announce a new corporate partnership! We’ve joined our esteemed colleagues at SteamWorld Build to offer a brand new bundle of both games. This means you’ll be able to save 15% by purchasing Drill Core and SteamWorld Build as a Steam Bundle, allowing you to break ground on a new frontier whilst exploring your career opportunities as a Platform Manager.

We look forward to hearing about your experiences moonlighting from the team at SteamWorld Build, and are sure this will in no way impact your performance as a valued staff member of Drill Core Inc.!
Click here to purchase the bundle.

Best regards,
Drill Core Inc. Board of Directors

Greetings, Platform Managers!

We at Drill Core Inc. are appropriately excited to announce a corporate collaboration with our esteemed colleagues over at Wall World. This groundbreaking -ahem- new incentive means you’ll now be able to purchase both Drill Core and Wall World as a Steam bundle, allowing you to invest in your future career as a Platform Manager whilst also exploring the mysterious Wall World on your Robospider, all whilst saving 10% on their cost.

To ensure you, our exemplary staff members, are able to make the most of this bundle, we’re also launching a 20% discount on Drill Core and the Drill Core Soundtrack from today. These extra savings will also impact the bundle price!

We look forward to receiving your performance scores from the team at Wall World!
Click here to purchase the bundle.

Best regards,
Drill Core Inc. Board of Directors

Greetings, Platform Managers!

The Board of Directors is thrilled to announce that, since going public, Drill Core Inc. has officially crossed the 500,000 contract milestone in terraforming operations across the galaxy! This achievement is a testament to the diligence and commitment of each and every one of you, our industrious employees, and it brings us one step closer to our vision of a fully monetized galaxy.

However, despite our success, we still see room for improvement in contract completion rates. With the influx of resources you've secured through relentless terraforming, we’ve acquired a strategic partnership with none other than the Dwarves of planet Explosia. The HR department assures us that hiring them was as easy as throwing a gem into a mine—they simply can’t resist digging for precious minerals. (Of course, a minor policy adjustment was required: they will be permitted to consume... refreshments during shifts. Your understanding is appreciated).

The rugged physiques and... explosive tendencies of these new recruits inspired R&D to design a brand-new Platform tailored to their unique needs. For your convenience, we’ve included a brief overview of their protocols below.

New Mining Technique

The Dwarves, with their boundless strength and notable impatience, have rejected traditional drills. Instead, they bring a more direct approach to mining by donning explosion-absorbing suits and deploying a steady supply of TNT. Need a specific area mined? Simply send in a Dwarf, who—embracing their role as a living bomb—will use TNT to obliterate any target zone.



Despite the obvious effectiveness of this approach, the downsides are also clear - you’ll dig everything around the explosion area, sometimes bringing unwanted attention. Moreover, in their stubborn commitment to traditions, dwarves refuse using anything more advanced than TNT. Therefore some blocks might require several detonations to gather resources.

New Guarding Operations

Clad in more metal than most industrial containers, Dwarven guards are practically mistaken for boulders by most nighttime creatures (though some colleagues claim this has more to do with their blood-alcohol content). These guards are active at night, using heavy-duty jetpacks to rise from the mines and defend the platform with unmatched zeal.



New buildings

Instead of regular barracks, dwarves are using more sturdy ones with lower ceilings. But the functionality stays the same. What sets them apart is that they despise regular human factories, and instead will use free space to create Magma Refineries. Those buildings is a manifestation of how… hungry for minerals the dwarves are, since those facilities will process all rocks from blocks destroyed by dwarven bombs in attempt to extract just a little bit of resources from stones other races would deem as useless waste.


That concludes R&D’s memo for now. Rest assured, more updates are planned for next month, with exciting innovations on the way.

We expect all formalities to be finished by December, so by that time you can expect your new employees and platforms to arrive by that month. Do not forget to join corporate Discord so you don’t miss the opportunity to sign up for participation in early platform tests!

With this addition, we’ll continue shaping the galaxy one core at a time, while maintaining a profitable balance of supply and demand. After all, we wouldn’t want our rates to fall due to an overabundance of services, now would we? 😉

With a bright vision for Drill Core Inc.’s future,
The Drill Core Inc. Board of Directors

Greetings, Platform Managers!

HR has suggested that, given the scary (but still within legal limits) nature of your daily tasks, celebrating Halloween might help turn fear into fun. Let’s embrace the spooky season and boost morale with a few pumpkins and ghosts! 🎃👻

Features:

• Pumpkins are now placed around the platform. Feel free to enjoy them while maintaining peak efficiency.
  
• Bats will fly out of the caves as drilling begins. Rest assured, these creatures will not affect operations.
  
• Ghosts now float from the remains of 'departed' workers. A spooky yet motivational reminder to work hard.
  
• During core explosions, an evil pumpkin will appear in the cutscene—purely cosmetic, of course.
  

Please note: All changes are purely aesthetic to avoid any risk of damaging our valuable (and very expensive) work tools.

Spookily yours,
Drill Core Inc. R'n'D department

P.S. It has been reported that an evil pumpkin sometimes appears during core explosions. We understand the festive season may play tricks on your mind, but these sightings are (probably) just your imagination. Please stop submitting reports to HR.