Taking to Twitter, Core Keeper developer Pugstorm has announced that the sandbox survival title has surpassed 3 million players. In November last year, while the game was still in early access, it was announced that it had sold 2 million copies.

Start digging through the walls around you, aiming for any shiny stuff. This will get you some dirt and ore, so craft your furnace at the workbench. That allows you to melt the copper ore to upgrade your pickaxe and craft a sword to take care of some of the slimes you might see nearby.

Souls tab of a character after defeating all titan bosses. After powering up The Core, the player interacts to talk through a dialogue until they unlock their Souls tab and are imbued with the ability to drop The Great Wall.

Illustration of biome, resource, workbench and boss progression. This guide is a walk-through for the necessary order of crafting and biome progression and suggested order of defeating bosses. It might be useful for new players planning ahead, or those checking back for content they've missed.

For instance, I was a Gardener, which gave me a copper hoe and a watering can right off the bat. If I had known better, I probably would’ve preferred a wearable light source to complement my hand-held torch, but it is what it is. It all worked out.

Generally speaking, it's a good idea to place your base near the Core. The Core has a Waypoint which can teleport you to other areas, and crafting your own Waypoints and Portals is expensive.

Ghorm is a gigantic worm that goes around the center of the map in a circle; it won't stop to fight you until you can do enough damage to it. I recommend having Iron equipment along with a bow in order to hurt it in the small window where it passes by a part of its tunnel.

Proficient Jewelry Workbench For crafting more advanced necklaces and rings. Note: the Jewelry crafter talent, at the end of the crafting skill tree, allows players to make polished versions of craftable jewellery with up to double their regular buff stats.

Try to guess the video Core Keeper Gameplay game: In the input field, type a question that could be answered "yes" or "pelo". You can ask up to 20 questions before the game is over.

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.

yet. But if you’ve got a base-building group who’s down to divide and conquer, try it out. Just know that the fun will peter out, and it’s best not to try and exhaust every crumb of content before 1.0.

You’ll start by creating a character with one of several class specialties, though things will even out the more you play, so the choice doesn’t carry as much weight as it initially seems to.

I’m not convinced Core Keeper can match the quality and scope of its best-in-class inspirations, but it’s already worth a look in Early Access, and if the rest of the pieces fall into place leading up to the full launch, it’ll be fondly remembered. [Early Access Review]

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