NEW

- Character is open: after floor 250 your character levels up as you break ores and play, and you can strengthen its attack stats and your Crystal's defense stats with Elementium.

- Added equipment: hammers, helmets, armor, gloves, boots, capes, rings and necklaces come in six rarities from Common to Unique, and each item's stats are rolled the moment you get it.

- Set bonus: wearing every piece of a set raises that set's positive stats by 10%.

- Added the Shop page to the General window: buy from 12 items that change every day with Elementium, sell your spare equipment, and refresh the stock right away with diamonds if you like.

- Added the Smith (floor 350): upgrade your equipment up to +10 with Upgrade Stones; stones drop when you defeat a boss or complete the Abyss, and at the Trader you can turn 10 stones into one of the next tier.

- The Arena is open (floor 300): attack other players' Crystals 5 times a day to earn Arena rating; the matches you defend also change your rating.

- The Arena shows a fixed list of five opponents; you can refresh it twice a day for free and with diamonds after that.

- A battle result screen now opens after each attack: the damage you dealt, your hits, critical hits and dodged hits, and both sides' new rating.

- Added Match History: see your last 10 matches, both attacks and defenses, with the opponent's name and the rating change.

- Arena seasons: ratings reset at the end of every month, the top three players earn a permanent medal and first place also earns the Season Champion title; your medals are shown in the Character window.

- Season rewards: at the end of each season the top 10 players earn diamonds: 1,000 for first place, 750 for second, 500 for third, 250 for 4th and 5th, and 100 for 6th to 10th.

- The Arena window now shows your rank in the current season, and hovering the info icon next to it lists the season rewards rank by rank.

- Added the Mixed Chest to the Store: for 100 diamonds it can drop equipment of any type and any rarity.

- Resource packs are renewed: the Miner's, Foreman's and Tycoon's Packs now also give Abyss Keys.

- Added x25 and x100 floor jump steps to the Elevator.

- New setting: auto floor and auto heat resistance purchase can now stay on after Awakening and Ascension.

IMPROVEMENTS

- The Awakening and Ascension windows now list what resets and what is kept under headings.

- Resource pack contents are now written as full numbers instead of abbreviations.

- Rarity names are fixed: the lowest tier is now shown as Common and the second tier as Uncommon.

- A locked button's notification badge is now hidden together with the button.

- The game now warns you when the save cannot be written to disk or the disk is full.

BALANCE

- All title bonuses are increased by 20%.

- Unlock floors are rearranged: the Lucky Wheel opens at floor 80, the Trader at 150, the Gold Crystal at 200 and Workers at 450.

- Worker slots now open at floors 450, 650, 850, 1,100 and 1,400.

- Enchantment slots open much earlier: floors 500, 800, 1,300, 2,000, 3,000, 4,500, 7,000 and 10,000.

- The two Ascension upgrades now give +10% per level, and the levels add up.

- The hourly free gold is now based on the ore gold of the deepest floor you reached in this Awakening.

- The key amounts and prices of the resource packs are rearranged; the cards show the pack's real discount.

FIXES

- Fixed the hourly free gold showing 0 for click-focused players.

- Fixed the save possibly getting corrupted by a sudden shutdown or power loss.

- Fixed unsupported characters and formatting codes in player names breaking the text.

- Fixed rare ore icons not appearing in texts.

- Fixed the game showing an error when your Steam account appears offline; it now shows the offline message.

Happy digging!

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NEW

- Elements now unlock one by one: each element joins the mine at its own floor, and the element you unlocked most recently shows up the most.

- The ores you break now pile up in your Inventory, so you can see how many of each element you have collected.

- Added a new currency, Elementium: at the Trader you can turn your elements and Ore Stone into Elementium.

- Character and Arena are on the way: their buttons appear after floor 250 and they will open very soon, so you can start saving Elementium now.

- Added the Guide: open it with the book button to see elements, rare ores, bosses and abysses as collections; the ones you have not discovered yet stay as black silhouettes, and hovering over a discovered one shows its details.

- Added an Arena tab to the leaderboard; the rankings will show up there once the Arena opens.

- New notification badges: task and achievement rewards waiting to be claimed, plus newly unlocked pickaxes, pages, task and worker slots, trade offers, titles, regions and skills are now marked on their buttons.

IMPROVEMENTS

- Tasks with a reward ready now stay at the top of the task list.

- Auto-fill for enchantments now only places enchantments that actually do something on that item.

- Windows opened from another window no longer end up behind it.

- Windows now settle into place on first open without their rows jumping around.

- In the Dungeon and the Abyss the Daily Missions button and panel are hidden, while the Skill Tree button now stays available there too.

- The Settings window now closes on its own when a promo code gives a reward, a save is loaded or progress is reset.

- The FPS limit options and the MAX label now appear in your chosen language.

- The game uses fewer resources and the download size is smaller.

BALANCE

- The Click Damage From DPS enchantment now only turns the DPS of the pickaxe or pet it is equipped on into click damage; the ones equipped on armor no longer have an effect, so we recommend checking the enchantments on your armor.

- The Lucky Spin Ore Stone reward was set to 5,000.

FIXES

- Fixed rare progress loss when quitting the game, loading a save or resetting progress.

- Fixed the item not arriving when a Steam purchase confirmation was delayed.

- Diamond purchases and wheel spins made right as the connection drops are no longer lost; the reward is given on your next login.

- Fixed an achievement reward rarely not arriving when claimed.

- Fixed bonuses not updating when Premium expires.

- Fixed task timers, skill cooldowns and reward badges rarely freezing.

- Fixed depth tasks not progressing after an Awakening.

- Fixed Time Skip miscalculating earnings and leaving out worker income.

- Fixed heat resistance auto-buy buying more than needed.

- Fixed damage, critical, gold and heat values not updating right after an Ascension upgrade.

- Fixed the Ore Explorer achievement also counting special ores.

- Fixed the hit effect playing on clicks that did not register.

- Fixed the floor selection field not letting you clear it and type again.

- Fixed the Infinity Gold multiplier showing under the wrong name in the effect panel.

- Fixed some date and duration displays.

Happy digging!