Romance is blooming in Core Keeper’s caverns with the launch of the ‘Quality of Love’ update, a major new update for the hit mining sandbox adventure game available to download today.
Feel the love in the air with a range of free seasonal Valentine’s content and permanent new features, including the addition of fully-playable musical instruments for the very first time, plus guest music tracks from indie titles Owlboy and Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!. Players will also spot brand-new character customization options and improvements to the game’s lighting and visuals.
NEW SEASONAL CONTENT: From today until February 28th, collect love letters and pick up a Valentine’s Crafting Table from the Seasonal Merchant to unlock a range of new Valentine’s items. Equip yourself with the Cupid Bow and charm your enemies to stop them from attacking or don a Cupid Tunic to buff your health and ranged attack speed. Give a Valentine Ring to that special explorer in your life, open Valentine’s presents to receive special surprises, and settle down for a romantic evening in with Valentine’s Candles, a Heart-Shaped Rug, and the Distilled Love health potion.
NEW PERMANENT CONTENT: Introduced permanently with today’s update, explorers can now express themselves with music by crafting and playing musical instruments. Choose from an ocarina, harp, flute and cello to compose your own music, or get together with friends online to form the world’s most underground orchestra. Players can also find and collect sheet music they can input into music stands, which will allow them to automatically play looping melodies – including fan-favorite tracks from indie hits Owlboy and Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!.
Other permanent new features include the Magic Mirror, which lets players customize their character at any time; a Loom Workbench that players can use to craft brand-new wearables like an Explorer’s Hat and Wedding Dress; additional character customization options, including never-seen-before hairstyles and clothing colors; plus the ability to equip your character with multiple equipment presets.
NEW VISUAL IMPROVEMENTS: Today’s update also brings improvements to the game’s lighting and shadows thanks to the introduction of a brand new rendering pipeline.
Raymarched shadows significantly overhaul the look of Core Keeper’s underground environments with far more realistic lighting effects, including improved shadow diffusion and shadows that react to simulated light paths to accurately represent objects in the game world. A rework of the game’s indirect lighting system also allows for emissive surfaces to generate light and increase light spread to deliver improved visual quality. Additional graphical options introduced in today’s update, including bloom and screen-space ambient occlusion, can also be toggled on and off in the game’s settings.
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux
