Minor Update - Major Fun!

Staring Biome?

• wilderness so i could start DRILLING ASAP
  
• The Passage, to see what you'd come up with for early-game enemies in that zone. Maybe a Slime that looks like the crossview of an animal/plant cell?
  
• The beach, and I wonder if it exists some icy or crystal-like or space starry biome, I would love to start there too hahah
  
• The Super Mario Bros live action movie. Living overgrown fungus that is trying to help me. It opens up paths for me and collapses them behind me so I don't get attacked outside my local areas, and it makes bridges for me so I never get stuck.
  

Regular Base vs Halloween Base

Minor Update Exploration by Jade PG CRAFTED

Kaela Kovalskia Plays Core Keeper

• Fixed an issue where some scenes, most notably the Core scene, could regenerate in classic worlds.
  

• Fixed an issue that prevented mods from adding objects to the game.
  

Gameplay:

• Added 3 new minion tomes.
  
• It’s now possible to resize the affected area of shovels, water cans, hoes, and of the Roofing Gadget.
  
• Crafting stations can now pick up materials from chests within a 10-tile radius (chests no longer need to be directly next to the crafting station).
  
• Mural doors (Melody, Worship, and Mold Doors) can now be destroyed.
  
• Signs can now display text visually within the world, and players can toggle between visibility modes.
  
• New Aquarium and Terrarium objects added for base decoration.
  
• New loot chest for Malugaz added.
  
• New Coral and Galaxite Doors added.
  
• Workbenches are now salvageable.
  
• There are now dungeons leading up to the fight against Azeos the Sky Titan, Omoroth the Sea Titan and Ra-Akar the Sand Titan.
  
• Shift clicking items within the player inventory now moves them to the first available hotbar slot.
  
• It’s now possible to equip gear and items directly from the hotbar.
  
• Poison/Slippery Slime enemies now have neutral behavior and are no longer initially hostile.
  
• The Proficient Jewelry Workbench now has the option to select the Jewelry Workbench in its UI to allow for crafting earlier tiered items.
  
• The Distillery Table now has the option to select the Alchemist’s Table in its UI to allow for crafting earlier tiered items.
  
• Added boss damage bonus to character stat window.
  

Other:

• Wood Bridges are now hand-crafted items instead of being crafted in the Basic Workbench.
  
• A message is now displayed to communicate when enemy difficulty is scaled after a new player joins the session.
  
• The bottom wood root that gets attached to the Core when grown was moved one tile. It is now possible to plant it once again after it is broken.
  
• The cursor now stays centred at the same world position when zooming in or out on the in-game map.
  
• A simplified aim cursor now replaces the arrow when aiming with ranged weapons.
  
• Added square and cross-shaped patterns for naturally-spawning explosive walls.
  
• Minimap now shows nearby markers.
  
• Creative UI is now enabled by default in Creative mode.
  
• Added visual and sound effects when using permanent maximum health items for the first time to provide clear feedback when they are used.
  
• Increased randomness of unique dungeon placement for different world seeds. For example, the Glurch arena should no longer always appear south-west of The Core.
  
• The map biome title now updates quicker when moving between biomes that have already been encountered.
  
• Fixed a few text and translation issues.
  

Graphics:

• Wood Doors, Wood Fences, Wood Fence Gates and Robot Arms are now paintable.
  
• It is now possible to rotate Mannequins.
  
• Added visual cue for when minions are about to despawn.
  
• Updated minion count icon.
  
• Buckets now glow when carrying lava, sea water, or crystal water.
  
• Updated Azeos the Sky Titan’s visuals.
  

Game Balance:

• Rune Song sword rework:
  
• Buffed: heal on hit from 3 to 10;
  
• Added: 5% chance to gain a short 50% attack speed bonus;
  
• A secondary use attack that creates a trail that does damage, with 25% chance to stun;
  
• Removed: hp increase and chance to oneshot weak enemies.
  
• Fishing bait recipes have been updated to include critters.
  
• Adjusted spawn rate of Caveling Toilets in the Forgotten Ruins.
  
• Slightly adjusted damage caused by Orbital Turrets in the Shimmering Frontier.
  
• Slightly tweaked the amount of roots that naturally spawn in the world.
  
• Slightly tweaked the amount of Sledge Hammers that would spawn in the Metropolis area.
  
• Adjusted the prices of scanners and summoning items.
  
• Worm enemies now leave walls a bit slower.
  

Performance:

• Improved performance when initializing random number generators.
  
• Improved performance on boss systems.
  
• Reduced the number of empty entity archetypes that are created when the game loads. This improves performance when processing entities during runtime.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where the “Large Harvest” was not being applied properly.
  
• Fixed gray lines weirdly placed on top of Easter Egg Lamps.
  
• Fixed issue where some workbenches were showing the wrong rotation sprites.
  
• Fixed issue where some painted Wood Stools sprites were slightly misaligned.
  
• Fixed issue where the aggro range from Slime Bosses was a bit too small.
  
• The hint text when writing on signs is now correctly disabled when the sign contains any text.
  
• Fixed issue where minions would disappear before playing despawn animations.
  
• Directly interacting with placed levers or circuits should now properly update the state of these items on the server.
  
• Fixed & mitigated issues with colliders not getting enabled correctly around enemies after nearby spawns.
  
• Fixed several cases where dungeons would spawn too close together and partially overwrite each other.
  
• Fixed pedestals in a Temple scene in the Wilderness so that they're generated with the correct amount of items.
  
• The Crystal biome is now affected by the Ore Density world setting.
  
• Fixed pushback on parry not working.
  
• Chests that can float on water (Floating Titan’s Chest, Crydra Chest and Atlantean Worm Chest) are no longer misplaced for one frame when placed.
  
• Boss summoning items are no longer lost if they are broken the moment before the boss spawns.
  
• Minions should no longer be despawned as a result of other players spawning new minions.
  

Our Halloween Seasonal Event Is Upon Us

Speaking of Halloween

A Good Base Must Have...

• "All my daughters pets and plants in it. She runs the farm. I just hunt down the monsters."
  
  
• "An overly complicated wood farm"
  
  
• "100 boss chests which each categorized for their item types, weapon, armour, offhand items, food, fish, crops, valuables, decorations, blocks, pets, animal, ores, bars, rings...."
  
  
• ."..a good organiz.... OMG the cow escaped... Oh no... she is eating the crops... We must neutralize it"
  

Who Is the Core Keeper Mascot?

Witch Hut

Fairy

BIG Base

Halloween Approaches!

We Love Embertails

Creative Mode

Azeos' Shadow

Fluffy Embertail

Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Core Keeper

Performance:

• The main thread no longer needs to wait for a worker thread job before updating the player’s condition effect visuals.
  
• Reduced lag spikes by decreasing the number of objects getting disabled in a single frame.
  
• Several bosses are now updated on a worker thread instead of on the main thread.
  
• Prevent colliders from being recomputed unnecessarily when objects spawn or are destroyed.
  
• Moved several main thread jobs to worker threads.
  
• Improved performance when there are a very large number of projectiles on screen.
  
• Cache information for in-game text components to avoid unnecessary recomputations.
  
• Removed several particle effects when the Particle Quality option is set to Low.
  
• Removed animator components on some projectiles that do not need them.
  

Bug fixes:

• The Ivy set bonuses are now applied correctly on ranged attacks.
  
• Writing a lot of dashes on a sign no longer causes the game to crash.
  
• Beam weapons should more accurately damage moving enemies.
  
• There is no longer a delay between when a boss spawns and when its maximum health is rescaled to match the number of connected players.
  
• Melee pets and minions can now damage Urschleim’s head.
  
• Placing a chest on top of a cross circuit no longer causes the interaction highlight to alternate between the two objects.
  
• Gamepads no longer vibrate when other players are using drills nearby.
  
• Toggling quick-swap with a torch when changing the selected item should now correctly swap back the initial slots swapped.
  
• Fixed an issue where small islands would spawn inside Omoroth’s boss arena, which sometimes interfered with the waypoint or spawn rune.
  
• Bridges in some custom scenes no longer create obsidian when broken.
  
• Equipment presets should now be correctly set locally for other players.
  
• Tentacles should no longer die after spawning on placed bridges.
  
• Vending machines can now be accessed from the sides.
  
• Stone lanterns and torches now emit light when placed on tables and pedestals.
  
• Passage fish is now correctly affected by the Master Chef skill.
  
• Snow Ground can no longer be crafted with a Christmas Workbench.
  
• Ore and walls are no longer generated underneath the Great Wall.
  
• Fixed so that you can buy +10 items with a gamepad.
  
• Text from the Core is no longer blocked by buildings.
  
• Players no longer enter beds or boats in creative god mode.
  
• Fixed chests not spawning in Ancient Battle Arenas if there aren't any nearby players the moment it completes. Should also fix enemies being left-over after the event.
  
• Fixed issue where chests inventory was not locally correctly updated when interacted by robot arms.
  
• Beam weapons should no longer be visually usable while sitting.
  
• Fixed an issue where some ranged weapons did not get their charge-up attack when in pvp.
  
• Fixed several issues when pausing the game before it had fully loaded.
  

Other:

• Mods no longer fail to download when the game is run through the Steam Linux Runtime. Most notably, this means mods can now be downloaded on Steam Deck.
  
• Dedicated server logs now contain more helpful information if the GPU or graphics driver lacks support for required rendering features.
  
• Updated dedicated server README with correct information on how to set ip and port.
  
• Game no longer limits the number of catch-up ticks run on dedicated servers.
  
• Game allows the dedicated server to run the world initialization before the first player runs. This could speed up the first join in some cases.
  

Playfab Refactor

• Improved overall stability of crossplay session connect / leave.
  
• Added reconnect session attempts for crossplay sessions, when a player loses internet connectivity.
  
• Fixed login and main menu UI overlapping in certain edge cases, when connection fails.
  
• Fixed various issues where network error messages would be hidden too soon.
  
• Fixed an issue where the session would end when a player with an outdated game version joins a host with the newest version.
  
• Fixed an issue where the session would be closed for all players if another player loses internet connection to a Microsoft Store host.

Non-Steam platform specific fixes:

• Fixed GOG text input having issues on controller.
  
• Fixed Microsoft Store username and image not showing at startup.
  
• Fixed Microsoft Store unnecessary errors on achievement handling.
  

Exploring the Wilderness

Halloween Seasonal Event

Before & After Screenshots

Core Keeper - GamingBolt's Final Verdict

Building Challenge by Owlunae

Smithy by Tito Bandito

All Achievements in 74hrs!

• Fixed an issue where dedicated servers would reject all connections if a prefs.json file was present in the server's save file directory.
  

Game Balance: 

• Reduced the amount of crystals spawning during Azeos boss fight while 3 or more players are in the session.
  
• Adjusted spawn rates of mushrooms, destructibles, and locked chests.
  
• Reduce re-spawn of fireflies.
  

Bug Fixes 

• Button hints no longer show up on the loading screen.
  
• Plants should now continue to grow even when no players are nearby.
  
• Projectiles should no longer damage befriended factions.
  
• Fixed visual position glitch when destroying placed objects.
  
• Ghorm's death sound now plays consistently.
  
• “Seething Blade” now properly shows a healing number when triggered.
  
• “Tough Gang” now properly blocks damage even without magic barrier gear.
  
• Dodos now eat critters from the ground.
  
• The Blacksmith skill from the Crafting tree now accurately calculates the required number of ingredients for crafting items.
  
• Minions are now considered as allies by the Cooking skill tree's "Smell of Food" buff and the Crystal Meteor Chunk's offhand item buffs.
  
• Fixed Sledge Hammers not increasing your gardening skill.
  
• Quitting while sleeping no longer grants you a permanent healing buff.
  
• Stormbringer no longer levels up your range skill.
  
• Fixed issue where attacks would fail at very high attack speeds.
  
• Electrical doors visual should now match collision.
  
• Hunger bar should not get stuck to display full amount.
  
• Player gravestone map markers no longer disappear after reloading the world.
  
• “Well trained aim” should now properly increase ranged damage.
  
• Salvaging multiple objects now displays an accurate summary.
  
• Should no longer be able to knockback during invincible frames in pvp.

Other: 

• Added a ”Legacy fishing minigame” toggle in the gameplay settings that allows enabling the old fishing minigame.
  
• The arrows shown next to categories in the creative UI now scrolls the list.