Core Keeper Gameplay Secrets

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Guide will teach you the basic mechanics of the game, explain the HUD, and show you a short walkthrough to help you start your adventure!

We’ll be focusing mostly on the single-player game to get started, but we’ll also take a quick look at the multiplayer as well.

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

But soon that narrow tunnel is lit with torches, side chambers have been found and dim light spills in from all sides, and I'm scampering back and forth through those passages like they're just another cheery, familiar road leading back home.

While it doesn’t reinvent the wheels of its genre, Pugstorm’s Core Keeper emerges confidently out of early access and I’m looking forward to revisiting it over and over again in the coming years.

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As soon as you find enough fiber (which you’ll only find in wooden crates for now), make yourself a bed. Taking a quick nap will top off your health bar, so you can conserve your food before running back out to fight slimes.

Scarlet tools Step up mining and digging damage, while the Scarlet Hoe has a 3x3 tile area, currently the best.

Salvage and Core Keeper Gameplay Repair Station is used throughout progress to repair durability loss on all gear. Or scrap it for materials.

It all shapes up into a very inviting experience that teases dense design layers down the road. Even in early access, these feel like the raw materials of a multiplayer survival sim that will draw an enduring audience. I can’t wait to see how it keeps growing.

These three statues represent the first three bosses that you'll have to take on: Glurch, Ghorm, and Malugaz. Before we worry about them, though, we'll want to start cleaning up the immediate area.

And there's nothing that makes me feel more at home in a game than fishing, farming, and cooking, and they're all great in Core Keeper. Fishing works almost like a rhythm game, with each fish struggling to its own "beat.

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