In Core Keeper, your avatar is dropped into a mysterious dark cavern. You find yourself in a room with a powered-down core, connected to three statues that seem to require gemstones to run. What now? Essentially, you dig your way out from the center to find food, supplies, and enemies to battle. It’s sort of like the graphics of Stardew Valley with the gameplay of Minecraft.

Food in Core Keeper has two main purposes – keeping you alive by restoring HP and reducing hunger and giving you helpful perks like Em excesso armor or the ability to glow.

Salvage and Repair Station: Allows you to repair and reinforce your equipment in exchange for Scrap Parts. It can also be used to break down existing tools, weapons, and armor to get Scrap Parts. It's best to craft a few cheap tools and destroy them so you can repair your good tools.

Wood Pickaxe helps mine the soft dirt biome walls more quickly. All walls can be slowly broken by punching continuously (except obsidian).

I recommend taking the "Miner" Background so you start with a Copper Pickaxe — you'll have to do a lot of digging at the beginning!

can support up to eight players in a single cave system at once with a pretty straightforward multiplayer system. Co-op is on-line only for now, but sharing your game ID is easy enough to invite visitors to drop by.

I usually don't like darkness in games. When prompted at the start of a horror game to adjust a slider until the logo can barely be seen, I move that damn slider as far to the right as it'll go.

Aside from the cosmetics, you'll also have to pick your "Background" which is an initial set of starting skills and equipment. None of these bonuses are truly exclusive and you can eventually earn everything from all of the other Backgrounds.

Portals can be crafted and placed in the world, enabling teleportation. Vanity slots allow players to change equipment appearance using a Dresser.

Increased chest rewards and a higher chance for rarer fish enhance the Core Keeper Gameplay looting experience. The update also improves mechanics, like increasing projectile hit radius and merchant interactions.

Fishing Merchant can be summoned to a room using the Pile of chum guaranteed drop. Or they can be found before that, in a house in the Wilderness. They sell fish and fishing accessories.

A new Jewelry workbench allows the crafting of unique jewelry items. Additionally, a Table Saw at the Electronics Table lets players cut wood into planks, enhancing crafting possibilities.

Eggs can be found as loot from crates. They are relatively rare, making them a special find when knocked out of dungeon boxes.

It’s also a good idea to take the time and fully clear out areas, so the light can actually reach all the dim corners and not get cut off by random chunks of wall.