Core Keeper’s next update, The Desert of Beginnings, introduces karting and bug hunting

Core Keeper is a mining sandbox adventure for one to eight players, with a cute pixel art style. Alone or as part of a group, you venture into an ancient underground cavern, where you must mine, fight, and craft to survive.

As you play more of Core Keeper, you’ll build a base, come face to face with monsters, be able to farm, and pretty much everything else you’d expect from a mining sandbox title. However, with that being said, the next Core Keeper update looks to add even more activities for you and your friends to take part in!

The next update, called The Desert of Beginnings, will arrive on November 10 for free following the game’s early access release in March this year. What will the update include, you ask?

Well, the update introduces a new biome called Desert of Beginnings, a new subbiome called Molten Quarry, as well as several new enemies, weapons, music, and base building options. Two big new features that are being introduced as well are karting and bug hunting.

Karting is exactly what it sounds like. Players will be able to discover a brand new ore called Galaxite and from there they can start crafting karts. As a result, players can roam new biomes at will.

To help explore the new biomes and all they have to offer, bug hunting will be added to the game. Players can grab a bug net and then go out to find and capture bugs in the dirt to build their own collection. This sounds very Animal Crossing, if you ask me, and I like the sound of it.

Two new bosses will also be added to the game along with new weapons, gear, and tools; There will be Igneous the Molten Mass and Ra-Akar the Sand Titan for you and your friends to go head to head with. In addition to all this new content, improvements have been made to Core Keeper’s quality of life and Steam Achievements have been added to the game.

As for what Pugstorm’s COO and Lead Animator has to say, Sven Thole shares: “The Desert of Beginnings is by far our biggest update for Core Keeper yet and the one we’re most excited for as players. discover. We’ve been listening very closely to what players are enjoying the most about the game, along with what else they’d like to see included, and we think we’ve come a long way to deliver on that with this update. We love the new gaming opportunities that go-karts bring and can’t wait to see how the community reacts.”

Core Keeper’s current Halloween event, Creepy Costume Party, will end on November 5. Just five days later, you’ll be able to jump into Core Keeper’s The Desert of Beginnings update and explore all the new content there is to find.

Have you been playing Core Keeper or are you thinking of getting it? Let me know, as I’m currently quite tempted to try it myself.