Idle Cave Miner news & patch notes

Changes:

• Updated the create and destroy costs for Abyssal Gems
• Reduced the cost of the Starting Floor Relic
• Relics now count towards game completion

Fixes:

• Fixed Japanese currency display

New Features:

• Added the abyssal hand, with 5 slots for abyssal gems
• Added 7 abyssal gems
• Added abyssal gem grading
• Added 3 abyssal upgrades
• Added a new relic

Changes:

• Forge timer is now monospaced (won't jump around anymore)
• Reduced costs on most relics
• Increased base chance for a special shot in the abyss (5% >> 10%)
• Increased max level of special shot upgrade (25 >> 30)
• Increased Appa's chance to double Ruin Essence (14% >> 15%)
• Added a new bundle for the abyss if you don't own bonus shards
• Updated Leon's skin cost (500 Gems >> 2500 Singularities of Ignition)
• Added currency parsing for 10 more countries

Fixes:

• Abyss now displays damage dealt by the shots
• Abyss now displays critical damage dealt
• Fixed a bug which caused quests to reroll when claiming the first one

Changes:

• Increased Orion's chance to double Refinement Essence (10% >> 12%)
• Increased Appa's chance to double Ruin Essence (12% >> 14%)
• Increased Nomed's chance to double Ignition Essence (12% >> 14%)

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue which would cause the coal world tutorial to keep appearing
• Fixed an issue that caused the coal world tutorial to block the screen on the Chinese version
• Fixed an issue that caused the coal world tutorial to display incorrectly on the Japanese version
• Disabled automatic cloud restore (Again...)

As of right now, Idle Cave Miner is Free to Play on Steam! Rewards for players who bought the game should also be fully rolled out, to receive them, either restart the game, or press the red 'restore purchases' button at the bottom of the in-game store. If, for some reason, you're unable to claim your rewards, please reach out to me as soon as possible, you can message me on Discord, or send me an email to [email protected] describing the issue. I look forward to seeing you all on the mines! ~Pedro

New Features:

• Added 1 new Essence (Essence of Time)
• Added 1 new Singularity (Singularity of Time)
• Special forges can now forge regular gems
• Regular birds now give you a small amount of Coal when tapped (2~3, works with multipliers)
• Weekly quests can now give you Singularities as a reward
• Floor travels now have a preview of the distributions

Changes:

• Added 1 more special forge
• Reduced max speed of special forges (600% >> 400%)
• Updated miner completion display
• Added 8 new skins
• Added 16 new transmutations
• Added 5 new stats
• Added 1 new tutorial (Coal Pits unlocked)
• Updated 1 tutorial (Floor 1000 cleared)
• Updated daily rewards (Replaced Gold)
• Added an extra travel floor 250 floors after the last one on every mine
• Reverted the cost of the Time Warps (100% increase from current costs)
• Increased the cost of Platinum Ore to match other recipes (8 >> 10 raw platinum)
• Increased the cost of Uranium Ore to match other recipes (16 >> 20 raw uranium)
• Updated Mythic gem base speed (90s >> 80s)
• Updated Legendary gem base speed (210s >> 220s)
• Reduced Anne's chance to find Gold bars (5% >> 4%)
• Reduced Grandelf's chance to find Mythic gems (1% >> 0.8%)
• Updated the Delete Game Data text to look more dangerous
• Mobile version settings no longer show up on the Steam version
• Report issue now opens a Google Forms (Due to Steam Deck incompatibility)

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue which would cause resets to keep you on the same world you reset in
• Fixed text scaling issue on transmutations
• Might have fixed an issue which would cause the progress bar to not sync
• Disabled automatic cloud restore (You win this time bug!)

Hello fellow miners, I would like to start by thanking each and every one of you for playing Idle Cave Miner, and for leaving both positive and negative feedback, this process is essential for me to keep improving the game. As you're probably aware, the game didn't have the best launch, not because of bugs, but because of a series of bad decisions from my part, and for that, I would like to profoundly apologize. The main critique was the fact that the game was paid, and still had MTX, which is a very fair argument. In hindsight, I should've released the game as Free to Play, and modify the shop to fit the ad restriction from Steam. At the time, I went for the easiest solution, which was to auto purchase the 'Skip Ads' purchase, and keep the game the same as the mobile version. In order to rectify my mistakes, Idle Cave Miner is becoming Free to Play on Steam. To the players who have already purchased the game on Steam, they will keep the skip ads purchase they received when buying the Steam version, but they will also receive the following:

• 5600 Premium Gems
• 50 Singularities of Time

The Skip Ads purchase is going to be modified on Steam, it will now double the amount of premium birds available, the default is now 5, and this purchase increases it to 10, as well as doubling offline rewards, and all the other boosts ads give on the mobile version. If you already own it, nothing changes, you still have 10 daily premium birds. The game will become F2P on Steam with version 1.10, which also brings new content and quality of life changes. It wasn't easy to read the negative comments made about the game, but they were necessary for me to understand what my mistakes were, and how to fix them. I can't say I won't do any more mistakes, but I care, and I'll try my best to keep learning, and to keep improving Idle Cave Miner, I'm blessed to be able to do what I love for a job, and I want to continue doing it, alongside the community that rose around the game. Thank you so much for playing, and see you on the mines... ~Pedro

Changes:

• Increased the speed growth per level of all forges (0.03 >> 0.06)
• Reduced the amount of levels to max a forge (100 >> 50)
• Reduced the total costs to max forges (about 50% cheaper)
• Reduced the costs of most Singularity of Ruin's transmutations
• Reduced the costs of all regular raw gem forge recipes (about 50% cheaper)
• Reduced the costs of most coal and raw ore forge recipes

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with Ratner's chance to triple raw gems
• Fixed an issue with Cooper's chance to triple raw ores

New Features:

• New passive for Grandelf (1% chance to find Mythic Gems when mining)
• New tier display when you reach max tier with a miner, and unlock all skins

Changes:

• Forges now play a SFX when being enabled
• Increased Ratner's chance to triple raw gems (6% >> 12%)
• Increased Cooper's chance to triple raw ores (6% >> 12%)

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue which would cause the popups to break (again)
• Fixed an issue which would cause the first offline forges claim to fail, leading to a temporarily broken forge
• Fixed an issue which would cause forges to not update if being enabled for the first time
• Fixed issues with localizations in German

New Features:

• Remade the forges
• Forges now have infinite storage
• Forges now have dynamic recipe selection
• Added Rich Presence
• Added an option to reset your save file

Changes:

• Replaced Bonus 25% Forge Speed purchase with Bonus 25% chance to double Coal
• Removed multiple upgrades that were not compatible with the new forges
• Updated forges UI
• Updated forge augment costs (Gems to max all forges unchanged)
• Updated most forge's recipes base speed
• Updated most forge's recipes resource cost
• Updated most alchemy recipes costs and outputs
• Updated transmutation amounts (1 and max >> 1, 10 and 100)
• Updated calculations for time warps
• Moved AFK mode to Mine Settings
• Generator Speed upgrades are now additive
• Generator Speed delay reduction increased (0.2% >> 1%)
• Generator Output is now calculated through (Power * Speed)
• Generator Speed and Power upgrades are now separated
• Generator Entries now display how many resources you have
• Added a default sort order for inventory items
• Account deletions are now automated
• Improved Abyss Tier description clarity
• Clarified that relics require 'The Caves' floor 500 to unlock
• Improved forges item display amounts
• Saves are slightly smarter in case of data corruption

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue which could cause the generator to delay the progress display
• Fixed an issue which would cause cloud save checks to happen on every login
• Fixed an issue that caused landscape mode UI to have a 16 pixel gap in the middle
• Fixed an issue which would cause birds to fly into hard to tap places
• Fixed an issue which would cause popups to break on very rare occasions
• Fixed multiple issues with the Japanese, Korean and Chinese localizations
• Fixed an issue which could double logins and break popups
• Possible fix for a false positive invalid email when the password is too big (over 32 chars)

Changes:

• Abyss: Special Tower shots now double shards mined.
• Morgan now has a chance to find Coal on any block he breaks (10% + 2% every tier)
• Updated Midas and Rick's special description to use icons instead of text
• Reduced Offline Rewards Relic Bonus (400% >> 200%)
• Reduced Anne's chance to find Gold Bars (6% >> 5%)
• Increased Cooper's chance to triple ores (5% >> 6%)
• Increased Ratner's chance to triple gems (5% >> 6%)
• Added 2 new skins (Bat Nomed & Winter Adoy)
• Added more unique fancy birds
• Miners texture size optimized (could reduce game size)

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with purchases price display
• Fixed an issue that caused the leaderboards to not open correctly
• Fixed multiple issues with the Japanese, Korean and Chinese localizations
• Fixed an issue which could cause the Abyss Generator to generate negative souls