Fracture Field news & patch notes

First of all, wow. Fracture Field hit 3,600 concurrent players on launch day and I'm completely blown away. As a solo developer, seeing that number was surreal. Thank you to everyone who picked up the game, left a review, and jumped into the quarry on day one.

I've been reading all of your feedback closely, and this first patch addresses some of the balancing concerns many of you raised, particularly starting around Iron progression pacing. This is a game built for a longer play time experience, but that doesn't mean the journey shouldn't feel rewarding along the way.

Here's what's changed:

• General Improvements

  • Added the ability to place bombs by right-clicking (RMB)

  • Added a toggle to hide achievement popups in settings

  • For rare corrupt save data cases, add save backup and add a popup to inform the player how to contact for help in restoring the data

  • Added a warning about the Quarry Foreman having Core Fragment upgrade costs

• Balancing

  • Softened the damage falloff when your pierce is well below a layer's hardness, so walls like Iron should be easier to get through

• Bug Fixes

  • Drone Hub would not re-enable or reset certain drone settings to the default values after a Reality Shatter (prior to owning the Persistent Hub upgrade)

  • Health scaling for Obsidian+ had an unintentional large jump

  • On wide screens or wide windowed mode the outside black pillars could flicker - attempt to fix this issue

  • Currencies could remain non-zero after World Fracture or Reality Shatter if a drone's hit reward landed in the same instant as the prestige button press

Fracture Field Is Finally Available!

I'm a solo developer, and for the past year Fracture Field has been my obsession. What began as a simple mining incremental idea became something bigger than I ever planned. Fracture Field now has hundreds of upgrades, an entire drone fleet system, and multiple prestige layers.

I'm beyond excited to say that it's finally released!

What is Fracture Field?

Fracture Field is an incremental quarry mining game where you go from smacking a single rock to architecting a massive industrial empire.

The core loop is simple: swing your mining tool with a rhythmic, timed mechanic where every hit actually feels impactful. Shatter through layers of stone, clay, sandstone, and many deeper layers. Unearth veins of precious metals and brilliant gems. Reinvest everything into getting more powerful. Repeat forever.

Launch Discount — 35% Off for Two Weeks

To celebrate launch, Fracture Field is 35% off for the first 14 days. If you've had this on your wishlist, now is the best time to grab it!

Thank You

Building Fracture Field as a solo developer has been one of the most challenging and rewarding things I've ever done. I poured everything I had into making this the kind of incremental game I'd want to play myself with deep systems, satisfying mechanics, and enough content to keep you mining for a long time.

Thank you to everyone who wishlisted, followed the development, and believed in this project. Seeing this go live is a surreal feeling.

Let's break some rocks!

- Type-Ten

I'm incredibly excited to finally share that Fracture Field will officially launch on April 20th!

This is my first solo game development title on Steam. It has been a long journey, and seeing the game grow from an idea into something thousands of players are excited about has been surreal for me. Speaking of which…

Over 20,000 of you have wishlisted the game!

That number is insane to me, I can't believe it. Whether you’ve been following since the early days or just recently discovered the game, your support has made a huge difference and helped push this project forward.

Thank You!

Getting to this point wouldn’t have been possible without all of you! Your feedback, excitement, and support have been invaluable. I'm counting down the days and can’t wait for you to finally have your hands on the full game.

If you haven’t yet, make sure to wishlist the game so you get notified the moment it goes live!

See you on April 20th!

Thank you to everyone who has played the Fracture Field Demo so far. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and it makes me so excited for the future of the game! With Next Fest around the corner Fracture Field is receiving an update to expand the available content in the Demo. Players will now be able to get a taste of the prestige system and preview the Drone Hub feature. See the full list of changes below.

- Demo Changes

  - Players can now prestige two times in World Fracture

  - The Drone Hub is now available for preview, but Drone Core earnings is disabled in the demo

  - The 5th rock layer, Iron, is now available

- Small Improvements

  - The World Fracture popup will now open when purchasing the World Fracture Sandstone upgrade for the first time

  - When Auto-Hit is enabled, drones will be woken up just by hovering your mouse over them

  - You can now disable the floating currency text in the header

- Bug Fixes

  - The percent symbol was not showing in some computer locales

Thank you to everyone who has tried out the demo! I have received overwhelmingly positive feedback so far and I have thoroughly enjoyed watching all the YouTube videos. Throughout watching those videos I have noticed small things that can be improved and decided to put out a small patch for the demo.

If you have enjoyed the demo please add a review. I read every review and take the feedback into consideration for future updates. It also helps very much with visibility and I would greatly appreciate it!!

General Improvements

• CTRL + Click to max purchase an upgrade

• Crit upgrades will now be hidden until clay is unlocked (crits aren't effective on stone due to one shotting them so early on)

• The rock layer acuity upgrade now has a max level of 4 since it doesn't add much impact once you can one shot the layer. World Fracture (prestige) will remove the max level limit with the Core Extraction upgrade.

Tip Improvements

• Added an indication that there's another tip pending

• Added a tip that bombs can use the X key to place

• Added a tip that explains the keys in the corner of various UI elements are hotkeys

• Added a tip for upgrading your tool for the first time

Bug Fixes

• First rock hit of each session was not triggering the sound effect

• When placing bombs the red ring was sometimes remaining on screen

• Resource generation was not always showing the text animation in the currency header

• The upgrade tooltip will now hide when moving the cursor outside of the upgrade (previously it would continue showing if you moved your mouse onto the tooltip itself)