Underground Overhaul

Release Date: 11/2/2026

Version: 0.2.0-alpha

Development Stage: Alpha

📋 Overview

Update 0.2.0-alpha brings a major overhaul to underground exploration, resource gathering, and player progression.

With a significantly deeper world, redesigned cave generation, new geological materials, and expanded mining opportunities, the underground is becoming a much more diverse environment to explore. This update also introduces a permanent tool progression system, customizable pendants, expanded crafting, and redesigned interfaces to support the game's growing collection of features.

✨ Added

New Ores & Resources

• Added five ores: Coal, Copper, Iron, Gold, and Titanium.
• Ores generate in veins of varying sizes, with a higher likelihood of appearing near caves.

New Underground Materials

• Added four stone types: Limestone, Granite, Slate, and Basalt.
• Added Gravel, Clay, and Packed Dirt.
• Added Quartz as a new underground resource.

Cave Formations & Vegetation

• Added Stalactites and Stalagmites.
• Added Moss, Brown Mushrooms, Hanging Roots, and Cave Vines.

Expanded World Depth

• Extended the underground to Y = -100, significantly increasing available space for mining and exploration.
• Added Bedrock, an unbreakable block forming the world's bottom boundary to prevent players from falling into the void.

Tool Progression System

• Introduced permanent tools that are unlocked and upgraded individually rather than carried as inventory items.
• Tools are automatically selected based on the type of block being mined.
• Different blocks require specific tool types and minimum upgrade levels.
• Higher-tier tools provide faster mining speeds and access to increasingly difficult materials.
• Tool upgrades unlock additional pendant slots.
• Added a dedicated Tools menu for viewing tool progression, upgrade requirements, and equipped pendants.

Pendant System

• Introduced collectible pendants that can be equipped to tools for additional abilities.
• Tools support up to three pendant slots, unlocked through progression.
• Added the Haste Pendant, which increases tool speed.
• Pendants can be managed through the Tools menu.

New Crafting & Smelting Recipes

Added and updated the following recipes:

Building & Construction

• 4 Planks — 1 Log or 4 Hanging Roots
• 4 Bricks — 4 Clay + 1 Coal
• 4 Torches — 1 Plank + 1 Coal
• 4 Ladders — 2 Planks
• 1 Door — 3 Planks
• 4 Packed Dirt — 3 Dirt + 1 Gravel

Nature & Survival

• 1 Sapling — 4 Leaves
• 1 Leaf Bandage — 3 Leaves + 1 Hanging Root or 3 Leaves + 1 Cave Vine

Equipment

• 1 Haste Pendant — 2 Quartz + 2 Gold Ingots + 1 Limestone

Smelting

• 1 Copper Ingot — 2 Copper Ore + 1 Coal
• 1 Iron Ingot — 2 Iron Ore + 1 Coal
• 1 Gold Ingot — 2 Gold Ore + 1 Coal
• 1 Titanium Ingot — 2 Titanium Ore + 1 Coal

Block Identification

• Added a "What Am I Looking At?" panel that identifies the block currently under the player's cursor.
• The panel can be enabled or disabled in Settings.

World Map Controls

• Added a toggle to show or hide the player's location icon on the world map.

🔄 Changed

Underground World Generation

• Completely redesigned cave generation, replacing scattered air pockets with more natural cave systems.
• Introduced geological variation based on depth, replacing the previously uniform stone underground with multiple rock types and material distributions.
• Caves now feature more varied shapes, sizes, and formations.

Existing World Compatibility

• Previously generated chunks now receive additional underground terrain beneath their original boundaries to accommodate the expanded world depth.
• Existing terrain and player modifications are preserved.

Background Walls

• Updated background wall appearances to make them more visually distinct from foreground blocks.
• Added a visible boundary between foreground and background blocks, except where the background is the sky.

Camera Behavior

• The camera now stops scrolling downward when the player reaches the bottom of the world, preventing the empty void beneath the terrain from appearing on screen.

World Map Defaults

• Chunk Borders and Chunk Versions are now disabled by default for a cleaner initial map view.
• Both overlays can still be enabled manually.

⚡ Improved

Inventory, Crafting & Tools Interfaces

• Redesigned the Inventory and Crafting interfaces and introduced a matching Tools interface for a more consistent experience.
• Expanded the crafting interface to better accommodate the growing number of available recipes.
• Improved organization and navigation across the game's inventory, crafting, and progression systems.

World Map Rendering

• Improved world map visual quality to more accurately represent the actual blocks and colors found throughout the world.
• Underground geological materials, ores, terrain, and cave formations are now more clearly distinguishable on the map.