Gold Mining Simulator News

Update 1.5.4 is LIVE and it brings:

• Light System Trailer
  
• Leaderboards Season 3
  
• Workers Experience
  
• Store Sales
  
• Retraining Workers - choice of specialization
  

https://youtu.be/fXSP7OB5uEQ

Dig the gold all day and all night with the brand new Light System Trailer. Auto-leveling mobile diesel trailer will let you extend and rotate its arm to light up your claim.
The extendable arm has 2 thresholds. The second threshold (>50%) is available when the trailer is in the deploy mode. The trailer can't be attached to the pickup in the deploy mode. It is possible to rotate the lights in any mode.


Ready your shovel and prepare for an adventure. Show your gold mining skills and compete in two leaderboard modes: Max Gold (the total amount of Gold dug), Season Gold (the best Gold per Season ration). There is a price to dig for: the unique Excavator skin.


Workers can now get more skilled with time! For each working day at your gold mine (counted on midnight), they gain +1% performance. When the worker reaches maximum performance for a particular Tier, the Upgrade option is unlocked, which allows upgrading the worker to the next Tier. The Upgrade itself doesn't increase the performance.


Once in every 1-3 days, a random part in each store will be on sale. The sales are independent for both stores (machines and equipment) and can happen on different days. Items are on sale only in physical stores (in other words: there will be no discounts on the laptop).
Discount range:
• Machine Store - 10-25%
• Equipment Store - 15-30%
Players will be informed about the sale via prompt (upper left) with information about items name and discount.

• Added Light System Trailer (described above).
  
• Leaderboards Season 3 started.
  
• Added Store Sales (described above).
  
• Added Worker's Experience (described above).
  
• Retraining Workers is no longer random. When selecting the Retrain option, a specializations list will appear. Each specialization has a different price - the more complex the machine, the higher the price. If the worker was on a higher Tier than the 1st one, he/she will lose the percentage of performance equal to one Tier.
  
• Added option to rent machines. The daily cost of renting is equal to the 1/25 of the machine's current price. To return the machine, the player must sell it.
  
• Added possibility to order drill services on random spots via Laptop.
  
• Added possibility to sleep for a particular number of hours.
  
• If not used, Batteries now lose durability during winter.
  
• Added maximum length value to hoses' UI icons.
  
• Icons of broken parts now also appear over broken parts, which lay on the ground.
  
• Reworked particle effects of campfire and machines smoke.
  
• Reordered some tutorial tasks.
  
• Removed the branch near the campfire at the Old Arnold claim.
  
• Fixes of achievements, which rely on statistics.
  
• Fixed gold nuggets bug, which prevented some of them from being picked during panning.
  
• Fixed Warehouse checkout bug on the laptop.
  
• Fixed Pickup Truck's reversing lights, which worked when the engine was off.
  
• Corrected valve's turning sound.
  
• UI fixes.
  
• Added unique Dump Truck skin to TOP10 Leaderboards players accounts.
  
• Updated Unity engine.
  
• Updated translations.
  
• Updated credits.
  

We'd like to again thank all beta testers, whose specific reports and clever suggestions allowed us to make this update even better. Another round for applause for community translators, who keep the game localized in your languages. You're awesome!


If you stumbled upon a bug in Gold Rush, please report it to us, by sending an e-mail to [email protected] or by starting a new thread on Steam discussions:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/451340/discussions/2/

Also, your reviews are extremely important to us. If you haven't done it yet, we'd be grateful if you could drop us a review on Gold Rush Steam page.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/451340/Gold_Rush_The_Game/

Dust off your excavators and kiss your family goodbye.
The next mining season starts on June 11.

For the top players, we have prepared a special vehicle skin:



Top Season 2 players will receive their reward once the next Update goes Live.
Let's recall the top mine bosses of Season 2:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/451340/announcements/detail/2891786390368891058

Update 1.5.3 Open Beta is here!
Try out new content before the release.

• Workers Experience
  
• Store Sales
  
• Retraining Workers - choice of specialization
  

Workers can now get more skilled with time! For each working day at your gold mine (counted on midnight), they gain +1% performance. When the worker reaches maximum performance for a particular Tier, the Upgrade option is unlocked, which allows upgrading the worker to the next Tier. The Upgrade itself doesn't increase the performance.


Once in every 1-3 days, a random part in each store will be on sale. The sales are independent for both stores (machines and equipment) and can happen on different days. Items are on sale only in physical stores (in other words: there will be no discounts on the laptop).
Discount range:

• Machine Store - 10-25%
  
• Equipment Store - 15-30%
  

Players will be informed about the sale via prompt (upper left) with information about items name and discount.

• Added Store Sales (described above).
  
• Added Worker's Experience (described above).
  
• Retraining Workers is no longer random. When selecting the Retrain option, a specializations list will appear. Each specialization has a different price - the more complex the machine, the higher the price. If the worker was on a higher Tier than the 1st one, he/she will lose the percentage of performance equal to one Tier.
  
• Updated DigTube videos.
  
• Reworked particle effects of campfire and machines smoke.
  
• If not used, Batteries now lose durability during winter.
  
• Added possibility to order drill services on random spots via Laptop.
  
• Icons of broken parts now also appear over broken parts, which lay on the ground.
  
• Fixes of achievements, which rely on statistics.
  

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1346397630


Open Beta branch is a voluntary option and it may not reflect the quality and content of actual Update 1.5.4.
Save files from Open Beta version won't be transferred to a live build.


To discuss topics related to Open Beta Update 1.5.4, please create a thread in Open Beta 1.5.4 forums:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/451340/discussions/13/


Your reviews are extremely important to us. If you haven't done it yet, we'd be grateful if you could leave a review on Gold Rush Steam page.

The second Season of Leaderboards has ended. Congratulations to all the mine bosses who participated. You've proven to have true grit and remarkable skill!

TOP 10 players in each category will be rewarded with a special vehicle skin in the next update.

EDIT: The unique Dump Truck vehicle skin will be added to winners' accounts once the Update 1.5.4 goes LIVE. There's more to it than the image holds, but you'll have to check it out for yourself!



Leaderboards Season 3
The next season is planned to be launched in the second week of June. The exact date will be announced at the beginning of June. Take some time to relax and plan your strategy for the next season.

Hello Miners!
We didn't really post about Diesel Brothers: Truck Building Simulator much, so in case you don't know, we at Code Horizon have just released a new game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/750050/Diesel_Brothers_Truck_Building_Simulator/

As a thank you for the continuous support you give us, -20% coupons will be distributed to Gold Rush owners.

Check out the Launch Trailer:
https://youtu.be/k3k-PZV4zU8

Diesel Brothers: Truck Building Simulator is a car tuning simulator based on Discovery TV Series. Run your own truck tuning workshop. Search for busted four-wheelers and transform them into legendary diesel-drinking monsters!

Enjoy the ride!