In Hammerting you establish a small dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara, level up your characters and industrialize with drills, robots, and lifts, delve deeper, fight enemies, and, of course, ensure there’s always enough ale on tap.

With a war raging on the surface, the dwarves pledge to delve deep and, as the master craftspeople they are, produce and supply whatever is needed. From humble beginnings, you start with a few, hurried dwarves who need to set up operations. Ultimately, your small clan of dwarves will be known throughout the Upper Realms for their skill, and the base will span kilometers.

The lush, vivid visuals make you go “Hot damn!”, and its dwarves yell “Damn, hot!” as they delve fervently into the mountain’s fiery depths. War rages on the surface. Only by supplying legendary items, crafted using the most blistering magma, can triumph be ensured.

Team17 and Warpzone Studios have launched the Automation Update for dwarven colony simulator Hammerting, which is currently in Early Access on Steam, Epic Game Store, and GOG.

The update streamlines several features in Hammerting and makes it more efficient to build the most prosperous mining colony in the Mountains of Mara; carts will now pick up and deliver items just like their dwarven counterparts; dwarves will automatically equip the best version of an item they have in their tool belt and will deposit unassigned carried items for future use; and vaults can now be built and used to store varying amounts of gold.

The update also introduces a win state to Hammerting, triggered by an in-game quest players will be challenged to prove their dwarven mining prowess by completing an exigent labour– upon completion players will still be able to continue their colony and remain nestled away in the mountains for as long as they choose. Several tweaks, bug fixes, and quality of life changes have also been included, check the Hammerting Automation Update are full patch notes here.

• Control the destiny of the dwarves: As the colony grows, active management of the dwarves, including their morale and work assignments, will be key to making them all rich like trolls!
• Design and create the ultimate base: Bore and upgrade a variety of rooms, from forges and arcane workshops to taverns and auxiliary functions and help the colony craft the ultimate base
• Empower your dwarves: Build and upgrade a variety of items through a deep levelling system
• Discover valuable materials to quarry: Venture into the bowels of the mountainside & face increasingly perilous situations.

Hammerting is available as Early Access through Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store.

Key Features:

• You may find yourself having to craft oodles of silver swords against an oncoming vampire army, or a single Legendary Diamond-Encrusted Gold Crown of Divine Ruling +3 for an Elf princess’s coronation.
• As your dwarves increase in skill and your base expands, build conveyor belts and elevators to free them from manual labor.
• Vastly different biomes with distinct looks, creatures, plants, locations and events.
• Explore huge maps, farm and harvest plants, attack or use indigenous creatures to your advantage.
• The dwarves are always going down, down, down to find the most powerful materials and the rarest treasures.
• Figuring out the fastest and safest route down - and up again - is a chief concern, but you’ll have plenty of unique dwarven mechanisms to help you do so.
• Features liquid and physics mechanics for brewing beer, tossing torches down shafts to light up the unknown, and much more.
• Dwarves are generated with a host of traits and one dwarf is never like another. The player must manage their strengths, weaknesses, and interactions.
• Dwarves have goals they are keen to fulfill, goals that may not always align with the player’s.
• Events in a dwarf’s life can give them new abilities and traits.
• Modding Support: Extend the game with art, scripts, or even low-level C++.
• Co-op that lets you manage your colony with friends.

Hammerting is in development for PC.