Core Keeper is a mining sandbox adventure where players mine relics and resources to build a base, craft equipment, defeat giant monsters, and survive.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.
Explorers, get ready to dig into some explosive new content with the launch of Core Keeper’s first major post-1.0 update, Bags & Blasts, arriving as a free content update on all platforms on Monday, March 10th.
Available to all Core Keeper players on console and PC, the Bags & Blasts update introduces a brand-new area to explore, an explosive new skill tree to max out, game-changing quality-of-life improvements and one of Core Keeper’s biggest boss fights yet: Nimruza, Queen of the Burrowed Sands.
Discover the sun-drenched sands of the Oasis, a brand-new sub-biome located within The Desert of Beginnings that’s home to the adorable Drohmble, a camel-like creature that wanders these bountiful plains. Be sure to ranch these adorable creatures to uncover a valuable (but stinky) resource useful for crafting new mid-late game weaponry.
Prepare for a monumental fight against Nimruza, Queen of the Burrowed Sands, a gigantic super cicada who makes for a royal challenge in one of Core Keeper’s biggest boss fights yet. Discover the new Explosives skill tree, complete with 8 new skills, plus the addition of brand-new bomb types, including the powerful vacuum-creating Void Bomb and the multi-blast Blunder Bomb, and the explosive new grenades weapon type.
Highly-requested by the Core Keeper community, the introduction of Pouches also provides efficient new ways to organise items without taking up an explorer’s valuable inventory space. These handy new items allow players to carry resources such as ore, seeds, fish, and valuables in separate, dedicated spaces, making inventory management easier while on long expeditions away from your base.
Core Keeper: Bags & Blasts Update – Key Features:
Developer Pugstorm and publisher Fireshine Games also revealed that over 4 million players having already dug into Core Keeper.
- Oasis Sub-Biome – Discover the scorching sands of the Oasis, a brand-new sub-biome located within the Desert of Beginnings, complete with new resources, vegetation and the camel-like Drohmble.
- Explosives Skill Tree & Grenade Weapon Type – With 8 new skills to master, the new Explosives skill tree provides a brand-new way to play Core Keeper via the new grenades weapon type.
- New Bomb Types – Blast through cavern walls or defeat Core Keeper’s toughest enemies with brand-new bomb types to discover, including the powerful vacuum-creating Void Bomb and the multi-blast Blunder Bomb.
- Inventory Overhaul – With the introduction of pouches, these handy new accessories provide efficient new ways to manage your inventory, with separate dedicated places to store resources and free up valuable inventory space. The new hotbar swapping feature also allows players to choose which inventory row appears in their hotbar, allowing quicker access to essential equipment, while quick stacking lets players easily sort items into nearby chests.
- Supersized Boss Fight – Take on Nimruza, Queen of the Burrowed Sands, in this colossal fight against a supersized insect. Tackle Nimruza alone or buddy up with friends online in one of Core Keeper’s biggest boss fights yet.
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 for Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam).
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