Hi Prospectors,

Our 1.0.6 Unstable Update brings fresh Blocks, improvements to Survival Mode and new ways to finesse your Tech build.  

Firstly, we’ve spent some time creating new Blocks to fill a few gaps we identified in the Corporation Block pools. Our goal is to provide a more rounded offering for each Corporation, covering ranged, impact, and drone Blocks. It also gave us a chance to share some of our…wilder ideas (looking at you, Star Flail).

We’ve also heard that many of you want more ways to build into a particular Tech damage type. Our new crate‑reward flow added to the end of large encounters means you’ll now be able to choose the weapon‑type crate that best suits your Tech.

Beyond this, we’ve made several quality‑of‑life improvements to Survival Mode, with a strong focus on stability. We believe we’ve fixed those run‑ending crashes, though they can be tricky to track down, so please bear with us.

Finally, after this release we’re planning to re-focus on the longer‑term vision for the game and some larger pieces of new content. This will mean updates will be a little less frequent.  Of course, we’ll still make bug fixes where needed, but our main attention will shift toward something bigger and brand new that we cannot wait to share with you.

Let’s dive into the details…

• GSO

  • Spider GPMG

    • A ballistic weapon with 360 degree firing arc

  • Sliver

    • A impact weapon that fires a sharp metal blade out which returns back, damaging everything in its path

  • Performance Suspension

    • A wheel mount that boosts stats

  • Triple Damage Mount

    • A version of the damage mount with more APs for three times the destruction

• GeoCorp 

  • Triple Bolt Driver

    • A spread firing version of the bolt driver

  • Seismic Charge Launcher

    • Fires seismic charges that do impact damage in a large area

  • Dynamic Differential

    • A wheel mount that empowers any Grip attached

• Hawkeye 

  • D-52 Bomber

    • Calls in a bomber aircraft that leaves a wake of devastation

  • Thunderbolt Ballistic Assist

    • High speed strafing runs from allied aircraft crisscross the battlefield

  • Bot Cutter

    • A super sharp blade that cuts through Legion like butter

  • Sprinkler Autogun

    • This autogun fires in a spray of bullets across a 180 degree arc

• BetterFuture 

  • Star Flail

    • A giant ball attached to your Tech by an unbreakable energy tether

  • EMP Carbine

    • A ballistic weapon with an electro-stun charge in each bullet

  • Stun Repulsor

    • This energy ram does incredible knockback and stuns enemies, allowing you to slide right by

‎Shape your run with the rewards offered from seeking out and beating Challenges.

New in this version - completing locations on the map (called out with the ‘?’ icon on your screen edge) now provide a reward drop pod instead of random rewards. Trigger the location by driving up onto the landing pad and defeat the big enemy or swarm of enemies to call down a special drop that will allow you to pick the reward crate that best suits your needs.

Choose from:

• Ballistic

• Impact

• Energy

• Drone

• Precision

• Explosive

• Or, if you are feeling lucky, a Wild Card crate.

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• Created some new waves with new formations and enemy types

• Added a run timer to the HUD.

• Improved boss health bars so you can track the health of multiple bosses 

• Updated the HUD colours to give Survive its own visual identity. 

• More map Locations, big and small

• Changed end-of-run message so it doesn’t always say you failed

• Initial Tech wheels no longer show up for other Corporations in crates

• Rerolls now take the rerolled Block into account when determining rarity of rerolled Blocks.

• Added an arrow showing your Tech’s facing to the minimap

• Improved edge of screen arrows so they avoid overlapping the minimap

• Hide more of the UI when using the “View Tech” tab on the end-of-run screen

• Allow zooming in a bit closer to big Techs

• Fixed upgraded versions of weapons not counting towards contracts like “Drill Baby Drill”

• Fixed temporary powerups not always being dropped when you destroy the structure holding them (which made them uncollectable)

• Fixed enemy buff circle not always being removed when you destroy the corresponding tower

• Fixed temporary powerups expiring whilst in build mode

• Fixed inconsistent blocked angles on the Thunderpop Cannon

• Fixed the Piston Ram and Roadblock Ram not doing any damage despite their descriptions saying they do

• Fixed not being able to upgrade the Plough

• Small fix to collision of the basic Hawkeye cab, which was occupying a bit more space than it looked like

Hi Prospectors, 

We suspect this is an update many of you have been waiting for - Block Banning and Block Recycling have now been added to the game! We’ll go into more detail below on how each system works, but the headline is that together, they give you two powerful new tools to help refine and optimise your builds.

Thank you again for all your feedback and bug reports. Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been able to fix a good number of issues. If we haven’t quite reached the ones at the top of your list yet, don’t worry, 1.0.6 is already in the works with plenty more improvements on the way.

Without further ado, let's get in to the detail:

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Unwanted Blocks can now be recycled from the Drop Pod build menu. Recycled Blocks provide rerolls based on the Block’s characteristics and rarity. Structure Blocks provide only a fraction of a reroll, requiring multiple to be recycled, while a Legendary Block provides many when recycled.

Progress towards a reroll is kept throughout your run, so you can now freely get rid of unwanted Structure Blocks and keep that progression towards a new reroll. To help you track your rerolls, you can now check your count and max on the build menu - making it far clearer to know when to recycle.. All these extra rerolls will be useful as part of the new banning system!

How to recycle in 3 easy steps:

1. Drag a Block from your Tech or Inventory into the jaws of the Recycler.

2. Observe the value of the Block as you hover over the Recycler.

3. Press and hold the Block in the Recycler to recycle it and receive the value immediately.

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For players who want an even more curated experience, we have added the ability to ban Blocks when they are offered from a crate, using the same resource that you use to reroll results. The prompt lives right next to the reroll button, and can be undone by clicking it off before a crate choice is selected.

Banned Blocks will no longer be a result that can be rolled for crate offerings for the remainder of the current run. The system also pays attention to what weapons you ban, giving you fewer Blocks that share a weapon tag with the banned Block. This starts as a very minor bias - banning a single weapon may have a negligible impact on any result, but that can really add up over the full course of a run. For example, this empowers you to put concentrated bans in place that effectively eliminate a particular weapon type. Of course, as you’ll be using the same resource for banning as you do for rerolling, we’ll be injecting more of that resource into the game to balance things out.

Ways to get MORE Rerolls:

• Block Recycling - see above!

• Character Skills and Max - the skill that provides Rerolls at the start of the run has been doubled, maxing out to 10 for a fully upgraded skill. The Max Rerolls characters can have been increased to 15 (from 10), except Mikela who starts with a max of 20.

• Increased enemy drops - more reroll drops per run.

• Reduced the Luck requirement for the “Good Luck” objective from 100 to 85.

• Reduced the unlock requirement for the Stun Weapon Mount from 100k to 20k.

• Fixed the contract to unlock Bastion Tracks so it now requires 85 total Grip rather than +50% Grip modifiers.

• Armoured bots now apply stronger push force, helping them shove other bots aside rather than being pushed around.

• Triarch Warden adjustments:

  • Added longer delays between actions to give you more openings to deal damage

  • Prevented it from walking into you during the laser phase

  • Reduced laser damage by 30%

  • Increased laser warm‑up time by roughly 20%, giving you more time to react before things get melty

• Renamed Ranger XXL Flak Gun to Ranger Shotgun, as it is a Ballistic weapon rather than an explosive.

• Resolved duplicate names: the GEO Corp “Quantum Aegis Core” is now called “Mammoth Density Generator”.

• Updated Rangefinder Core descriptions to clarify that it affects Ballistic and Energy weapons.

• Firestorm Core now increases the rate of fire for all weapons.

• Molotov Launchers can now be placed in all rotations when mounted on the side/front/back.

• Corporation Logo Blocks now increase the chance of receiving blocks from their associated corporation.

• Added the new Salvage Optimiser block.

  • 10% increased scrap

• Updated the Mammoth Density Generator (formerly GeoCorp Quantum Aegis Core):

  • Added the “Massive” tag

  • Increased health bonus from 20 to 40

  • Reduced boost strength by 5

• Updated stats for the GSO Stabiliser Wheel - it was previously identical to the Hawkeye Inline Raptor Wheel. It now has increased grip and improved turning speed.

• Added a new controller prompt at the start of runs.

• Added a gamepad option to disable forward/backward movement on the left stick.

• Improved several map icons for better legibility.

• The contract screen now shows which character is required to unlock each contract.

• Added the number of Boss Kills to the Survive mode end‑of‑run screen.

• End‑of‑run screens now show docked drones on your tech for better screenshot opportunities.

• Added our community playtesters to the credits.

• Increased the size of smaller text to improve readability on Steam Deck.

• Improved collision around the Triwarden’s legs to reduce cases of getting stuck.

• Removed Fullscreen from Vulkan graphics options due to severe issues on Steam Deck and PC.

• Stunned Legion bots no longer rotate to face the player.

• Fixed a frame‑rate degradation issue in Survive mode.

• Potential fix for a crash when upgrading weapons on the Triple Threat Corrupted Block.

• Fixed an issue preventing buffs from being picked up on the Dust Bowl planet.

• Fixed lingering shield VFX from Jean‑Pierre after his tech was destroyed.

• Clarified the text for the Easy Desert objective to indicate that base encounters must be completed in a single run.

• Respawning while flipped now correctly rights your tech.

• Fixed missing muzzle flash effects on some multi‑barrel weapons.

• JP’s wheel/booster penalty‑reduction skill now applies correctly to all relevant effects.

• Fixed extreme lighting issues in the front end when using Vulkan drivers.

• Fixed a crash/hang when driving out of the red dome during the Triwarden Boss fight.

• Fixed an issue where weapon stats and tags didn’t update correctly when moving weapons on/off Precision Mounts.

• Fixed a duplicate block issue in one of the BFT block packs.

• Fixed an issue where some skin menu buttons would randomly appear green.

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur during Survival Mode

• Fixed layout issues in the Graphics Settings menu