In Core Keeper, a mining sandbox adventure, players are drawn toward a mysterious relic.

You are an explorer who awakens in an ancient cavern of creatures, resources and trinkets. Mine relics and resources to build your base, craft new equipment, survive, and power up the Core.

Defeat giant monsters, discover hidden secrets, farm crops, cook new recipes and explore a procedurally generated underground world in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players.

Get behind the wheel, drift across desert sands and leave your friends in the dust in Core Keeper’s biggest Steam Early Access update yet, The Desert of Beginnings, launching Nov. 10.

Available as a free update, The Desert of Beginnings is the second major content update for Core Keeper following its launch into Early Access earlier this year.

Featuring the brand-new ‘Desert of Beginnings’ biome, new ‘Molten Quarry’ sub-biome, an array of exciting new content, including new enemies, weapons, music, base building options and a major new feature – karting – The Desert of Beginnings introduces more new content than ever before.

Discover the new Galaxite ore, build a Galaxite workbench and craft three variations of go-kart, a brand-new vehicle type that explorers can use to traverse the desert sands at high speeds. Dash across the desert to outrun your enemies, or meet up with friends and head out on an off-road adventure together.

While on your journey across the desert’s scorching dunes and ancient tombs, grab the brand-new Bug Net and go insect hunting, catching small beetles, larvas, fireflies and other friendly critters to display in your game world. With 12 new critters introduced in the update, be sure to explore each of Core Keeper’s biomes to find them all.

A range of new weapons, gear, tools and fish will also be available as players challenge themselves to defeat two new bosses: Igneous the Molten Mass and Ra-Akar the Sand Titan. Plus, several community-requested quality-of-life improvements will be introduced, including Steam Achievements; the ability to fish from boats and minecarts; clickable recipes to add ingredients to the cooking pot automatically; and the option to destroy, pick up and place a selection of larger world objects.

“The Desert of Beginnings is by far our biggest update for Core Keeper yet and the one we are most excited for players to discover,” said Sven Thole, COO and Lead Animator at Pugstorm. “We have been listening very closely to what players enjoy the most about the game, along with what else they would like to see included, and believe we have come a long way to delivering on that with this update. We really love the new gameplay opportunities the go-karts provide and cannot wait to see how the community reacts to it.”

Core Keeper’s Creepy Costume Party, a Halloween-themed seasonal event filled with spooktacular surprises and eerie excavation, is currently live in-game until Monday, Nov. 5, where players can unlock a range of rare Halloween outfits. An additional seasonal event is also planned for December.

Key Features:

• Mine resources - Explore a vast underground cave of endless resources. Mine resources, discover hidden crystals, fossils & trinkets and survive a procedurally generated underground world.
• Power up the Core - Build workbenches and generators to craft new equipment and technology, create your base, and power up your Core.
• Craft items & equipment - Customize your explorer and craft new items, armor and equipment to venture further into the cave.
• Grow crops - Plant seeds and nurture crops to grow food, or combine ingredients in the cooking pot to discover tasty new recipes with powerful buffs.
• Discover an ancient world - Explore living biomes and fight cavernous creatures in a simulated underground ecosystem.
• 1-8 player sandbox - Work together to fight, farm, craft and survive in a 1-8 player adventure.

Core Keeper is available now on PC via Steam Early Access.