After 5 years in development and a year in early access, UnderMine has finally reached its official release! UnderMine 1.0 will launch Thursday August 6th for PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, and Windows Store. It will also be available for Xbox and PC Game Pass.

It’s hard to say how much this update means to us. It’s the culmination of an incredible amount of work, and to be honest, a date that felt like fantasy for a very long time. UnderMine development has not been the smoothest, but we’ve always done our best to shield the community from any drama behind the scenes. We would like to thank our community for being incredibly supportive during this early access period and we hope this update lives up to your expectations. We did our best to blow it out for the big day!

There were some features that were straight up required in this update, like performance improvements, but beyond that we tried to include a variety of things so that everyone could have something to be excited about. Alright, enough with the boring stuff. Let’s get into the meat of it.

THE Final Encounter

Have you defeated all five bosses and collected the five stone fragments? Are you prepared for your next challenge? The doorway in the hub’s terminal is now active and can be opened as long as the stones are collected. We won’t spoil whats on the other side. You’ll just have to find out for yourself.

A new Final Room

Since the very beginning of early access, the final room with Death’s Head has been temporary. Keen observers will notice that it’s the same tileset as Noori’s boss room. In fact, the summoning stone was a very last minute addition to give players a reason to replay the core loop. Since then we have improved how the summoning stone works, but now it’s time for the room to get its long overdue upgrade. Along with beautiful new art, Death’s Head has been upgraded to an introspective knight and renamed Death’s Hand. Hopefully this new room matches the satisfaction of a completed run.

The Crone Valeen and HExes

Valeen is unlocked the first time the player defeats Seer, World’s Heart and reaches the final room. When they respawn in the hub, she will appear and offer to “hex” the player. Hexes are very strong negative effects that can significantly change a run. They can also be stacked to mix and match effects. Hexes are entirely optional, so if you’re not into the challenge you can ignore them if you like. But you’re not going to get any bragging rights that way.

There are 8 hexes in all, all with very unique effects. We hope these spice up runs for dedicated veterans. Valeen can be found in the hub as well as the Othermine antechamber, so hexes can be used on any kind of run.

NEW ITems

We’ve added 20 new items in this update. The goal was to help support more builds and to promote new ways of playing the game. We put a heavy emphasis on armor builds, bomb builds, and we added a whole new cycle of relics with a constellation theme. Constellation relics are relics that activate under certain conditions and grant powerful buffs for a period of time.

These are just 8 of the 20 new items. Check back on launch day for the full list.

Journal Improvements

We received a lot of feedback around these next changes. Players were very interested to know their exact combat stats, and how they are calculated. You can now mouse over the peasant’s stats on the first page of the journal for a detailed breakdown of each. On controller you can do this by using the left control stick.

We’re also adding life time stats and run stats. There is a new tab in the journal that will display all kinds of statistics for your UnderMine and Othermine runs.

Finally, we added the artifacts the peasant acquires during their journey as part of their own tab. Each artifact has a detailed lore write-up, as well as some hints on what each is used for.

Fully Expanded Map

Sick of moving one or even two rooms over just to see what that item is on the other side of the floor? We hear yah! Now the expanded mini-map will display the entirety of the floor along with all the items in each room. This works just like the old expanded map, but is 200% more useful.

Hoodie’s Care Package

Admittedly fast travel was a bit niche, and almost always the wrong answer, unless you were farming some gold or looking for a particular schematic. That’s all changing though. Hoodie has realized his mistake and now leaves a small care package for you after you travel to another location. Inside are some relics. The number of which is based on how far you have traveled. It’s still not the optimal strategy, but taking a short cut is now a bit more viable.

Steam Trading Cards

After launch you will be able to earn UnderMine trading cards by playing UnderMine. Collecting a set unlocks custom profile backgrounds and UnderMine emotes that can be used across Steam.

Xbox One, Windows Store, and Game Pass

We’re very excited that UnderMine is making its console debut on the Xbox One. It will also be available on the Windows Store, and be included in Xbox and PC game pass on August 6th alongside the update!