King under the Mountain

Devlog

• August 2019 update
  September 12, 2019 by Rocket Jump Technology

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  Welcome to the (late) August update for King under the Mountain ! Apologies for the lateness of this, August was a crazily busy month personally, but I thought it still worth putting out a delayed dev update rather than nothing at all until the end of September. The good news is that tooltips for nearly everything in the game have now all been implemented (thousands of words in total!) and there'... Continue reading

  
• July 2019 Update
  August 02, 2019 by Rocket Jump Technology

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  Welcome to the monthly update! With Alpha 2 effectively out of the way (though as always there's some small bugs still to look into), the focus now is on Alpha 3, which means mod support! As a precursor to this though, I've been working on a tooltip system. I think this is going to really improve the new player experience by explaining how things work which is a bit of a sticking point without a t... Continue reading
• June 2019 Update - Alpha 2.2 Released
  July 02, 2019 by Rocket Jump Technology

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  An ever-so-slightly late update this month (oh no it's July already!), and we're celebrating that Alpha 2.2 has been released. The main feature in this version is that you can now discover giant mushrooms (they're rare, they prefer to hang out in the larger caverns that you can discover in the middle of the mountainous regions) and harvest them as an alternative to lumber/logs from trees. For now... Continue reading
• May 2019 Update - How modding works
  May 30, 2019 by Rocket Jump Technology

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  Welcome to the update! I had been hoping to show you giant mushrooms (which can be used as an alternate source of lumber) in this update, but it's still not quite ready, though I don't think it can be far away now. A giant mushroom in the current mod tools - but how big is it? Most of the work accomplished this month has been preparing the way for mod support, which is due to make up almost the en... Continue reading
• April 2019 Update
  April 30, 2019 by Rocket Jump Technology

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  Alpha 2 is upon us! The main feature is that the placeholder production of metal (which was simply and easily turning raw ore into metal ingots) has been replaced by a more in-depth production chain. Raw, mined metallic ore needs crushing down to remove the useless stone and get to the usable ore. This is then smelted at a bloomery furnace into a "bloom", following how iron was historically produc... Continue reading
• Alpha 2 Release!
  April 13, 2019 by Rocket Jump Technology

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  Thank you for your patience since the launch of King under the Mountain , I'm proud to announce that the next major update, Alpha 2, has been released! This includes the following features and bug fixes: Added settler and resource overview screens, no more hunting for lost dwarves! These new screens are designed to make it easier to locate your settlers and resources. Clicking on either of them w... Continue reading
• March 2019 Update - (Not) Reading from a script
  March 30, 2019 by Rocket Jump Technology

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  It's not released quite yet, but here's a sneak peek at the much-requested Settler Management screen/feature coming in Alpha 2 of King under the Mountain : Alpha 2 is on the horizon now, potentially including a resource management screen as well as this settler management one. It's taken a lot longer than I'd have liked to be able to go from Alpha 1 to 2 but there's some good news there - I've sec... Continue reading
• February 2019 Update - The road goes ever onwards
  February 27, 2019 by Rocket Jump Technology

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  February was a quieter month after the hectic buildup (and aftermath) of the Alpha 1 launch . The main part of development was fixing bugs that became apparent with the much bigger playerbase (nearly all fixed now) and re-organising the roadmap based on player feedback. By far the most common piece of feedback is that players are desperately missing a way to keep track of all their dwarves through... Continue reading
• January 2019 Update - Alpha 1 launch!
  January 29, 2019 by Rocket Jump Technology

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  Potentially even bigger news that the Kickstarter launch - King under the Mountain has just launched Alpha 1 as early access on Itch.io! The game is still extremely early in development (be sure to check out the roadmap ), so the game is only going to be on Itch.io at this stage. Later on it will transition to Steam, so don't worry, any Itch purchases will also include a Steam key when this happe... Continue reading