Yuletide is here! And as we promised, we have a very special surprise for you during this event.



You can earn all of this in the second Yuletide assignment, the Yuletide Elf Hunt. Yes, part of the surprise is more work. You’re welcome.

For good measure, and because there is so much content this time around, let’s do a rundown of everything you can experience during this jolly time of year.

• TWO (!) assignments, the Yearly Performance Bonus, and the Yuletide Elf Hunt.
  
• A hefty reward and cosmetic items (so many items) for completing each assignment. Completing the Yearly Performance Bonus earns you the Reindeer Games headwear. And completing the Yuletide Elf Hunt earns you the Yuletide Elf Suit + Headwear, Chillaxe pickaxe set, and the Yuletide Special Bosco framework.
  
• Double Season XP when you catch and deposit a Yuletide Elf during one of your missions. A fitting reward for keeping the caves of Hoxxes elf-free.
  
• Space Rig decorations to put you in the best of Yuletide moods. Including snow substitute, for friendly snowball fights.
  
• Presents may appear in the caves of Hoxxes. What do they contain? Only one way to find out.

Thank you for another wonderful year, Miners. We are so grateful for your support. We will be taking a bit of time off ourselves during the last week of the year but will be back again at the start of 2023. We initially did not plan on making a lot of the features listed above for this event. But once we started, we couldn’t help ourselves - again…

We hope you will enjoy the Yuletide event as much as we enjoyed making it. Merry Yuletide, Miners - and a happy New Year. You have worked hard all year and management is proud of your efforts.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

After a lot of convincing B.O.S.C.O. finally agreed to go to anger management therapy. He will not throw large gems and eggs through the map anymore. Additionally, the Huuli Hoarders should no longer scream your ears off from the afterlife and the crew has learned how to spell “catalyst”.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Added new pass for procedural setup to prevent issues when generating objects in caves
- Fixed a bug where plaguehearts deposited in the drop pod triggered tentacles to come out of Molly
- Fixed a bug with the Assignment Board not showing the correct mission icons
- Fixed Huuli Hoarder screaming after dying
- Fixed being able to carry objects and fly on the cave angels at the same time (The prompt to ride it should no longer show, if you are carrying an item)
- Fixed a bug with The Abyss headwear not showing any eyebrows
- Fixed some translated strings
- Fixed some spelling and grammatical errors
- Fixed the % number on the minigun ammo display not updating directly after resupplying, but only after firing the gun
- Fixed inconsistent comma separator when using mineral trade terminal
- Fixed the heat/ammo counter on the Cryo Cannon Milspec framework
- Fixed Party Hat - Year Two headwear changing hair color depending on skin color selection
- Fixed player characters rolling eyes when reloading
- Attempted to fix biotank stuck bug
- Fixed debris lights on Plague areas
- Improved small meteorite carving when falling through terrain multiple times
- Fixed plaguehearts having the wrong icon
- Fixed carving for facility data vault
- Fixed a bug when trying to shoot while using Hold to Sprint for clients
- Hot rock no longer shows up as a status effect (No red lighting icons on enemies)
- Added logic for the rock cracker pods to avoid refinery pipes
- Fixed Bosco ending up in a weird state when picking up pinged things before Bosco can get to them
- Fixed Bosco sometimes making large items fall out of the map
- Fixed bug where Deep Dives with Industrial Sabotage could be ended before completing both missions causing the Deep Dive to fail
- Controller Options: 1. Moved 'Swap Left/Right', 'Turn 180 Degrees', 'Previous Item', 'Open Chat' from Controller Bindings to Controller. 2. Turn 180 Degrees is now off by default

The next seasonal event is upon us! ‘Tis the season for celebration, presents, and work-related activities to earn said presents. Yuletide begins December 15th!

There is much to experience during this time of giving, so buckle up and hold on for deer life as we go through all of them.


It would not be Yuletide without festive hats. And in tune with the holiday spirit, you will get all hats from previous Xmas events. So you can spread some Yuletide while working on the jolly Yuletide Assignment only available during this most festive of seasons.

The company has been doing quite well, and Management wishes to recognize your exemplary effort and impressive performance in the best way possible: Paid overtime A special assignment unlocking a hefty Yuletide payout! Sleigh your way through all the missions, and you will also receive the unique Reindeer Games hat. Shine a light with a nose so bright and guide your team safely through the night*. Or safely through the caves of Hoxxes, to find something completely special.

*the red nose is decorative, does not actually light up


Management has ordered a special shipment of decorative Yuletide Elves for the festivities. But the same freighter that lost the Best Wurst Beer mugs also managed to lose this delivery on approach to the Space Rigs. So now the caves of Hoxxes are filled with Elves…
It is up to you to save Yuletide, Miners! If you come across one of these decorative Yuletide Elves on a mission, please pick it up and deposit it. Doing so will earn you double Season XP for the mission, as a recognition of your (s)elf-less dedication to the company.



Oh, and there will of course also be decorations. Lots of decorations.

AND we have a special Yuletide surprise for you, to be opened once the event starts.

Yuletide will run from December 15th until January 5th. Merry Workmas, Miners.

Rock and Stone!

With Love
The Ghost Ship Crew

Your prayers have been heard, you can stop running now.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Tweaked sounds for enemies out of sight
- Fixed Sludge Pump not destroying blisters on rockpox infected bugs
- Fixed plague bladder burst ducking
- Fixed See You in Hell perk UI bug
- Fixed "Ski Mask" wrong headwear name
- Fixed crash that could happen when a meteor landed in a refinery mission
- Fixed sentry gun “use” text not being localized
- Fixed player characters locked in running animation
- Fixed damage bonus on contagion transmitter not being triggered by goo cannon corrosive dot
- Fixed a bug that caused the Caretaker not to spawn in Industrial Sabotage Mission.

Smol hotfix.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Removed some unintended meteors

- Fixed a crash that happened quite often related to meteors (both big and smol)
- Fixed some particles that caused the game to freeze first time you (or anyone on your team) encountered them
- Fixed a bug that caused plaguehearts to be invisible for hosts and non-interactable for clients in cases where two S.M.O.L.s have plaguehearts in them.

We have another feature incoming for Season 03! So brace for impact.



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During any mission you play, there will be a chance for a meteor shower to perforate the caves of Hoxxes. Smaller Lithophage Meteorites will come hurtling down on you and your team, so make sure to stand clear of the impact zones. This new danger also provides a lucrative opportunity, as the meteors can contain Plaguehearts. Their size and density make it possible to break them down with your regular pickaxe. No need for special equipment.

Meteor showers will start raining down on Hoxxes with today’s patch - so get cracking, miners!

And thanks to everyone who has nominated DRG for ‘Labor of Love’ in this year's Steam Awards so far. Your support and encouragement make this labor easy to love - which is part of the reason we can't stop ourselves from letting new features creep into the game, like this meteor shower. Now, let’s all get back to work.

Rock and Stone!

With Love
The Ghost Ship Crew

Fine, you win - the S.M.O.L Meteor is back!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Meteor Showers are being observed all over Hoxxes, even in Lithopage areas! Make sure not to stand in their path when they drop and crack them to collect Plaguehearts to progress your Season Performance and keep Mission Control happy
- Fixed the impact axe giving damage when passing through triggers such as those of the Poison Spores Fungus (You can still kill multiple of these with one axe throw, but the axe will need to come reasonably close to the fungus)
- Fixed electric crystals not electrocuting you when pickaxed
- Adjusted electric crystal resistances so that they can be destroyed with one powerattack
- Made the Impact Axes deal similar damage to electric crystals as a normal pickaxe hit
- Reverted spawn space reduction on electric crystals from last patch
- Fixed Contagious being misspelled in the MC line

Nominations for the 2022 Steam Awards are open, and we would love it if you would vote for DRG in the ‘Labor of Love’ category.



Because DRG really is a labor of love for all of us here at Ghost Ship. We hope that all of you playing DRG feel that, and that definitely seems to be the case judging by the response from Season 03.

It’s been a little over two weeks since we launched Season 03, and it’s surpassed all our expectations. More of you have joined the ranks of DRG than ever before, with Season 03 setting the record for the highest number of concurrent players ever in the game. More than 46.000 of you were playing at the same time following the release of Season 03, with many hundreds of thousands of new miners joining since the Rockpox first arrived. Whether your beard is green, grey, or any color in between, we salute you. Thank you, Miners!

While all of you have been dealing with the Rockpox, we have been hard at work releasing patches and figuring out what comes next. And while we are not quite ready to talk about what the far future brings for DRG (The Rockpox is still fresh on arrival in the caves of Hoxxes), we will soon reveal the next Seasonal Event.

What will the next Seasonal Event be? Yule have to wait a bit to find out...

With Love
The Ghost Ship Crew

Patch containing various minor fixes and a fix for B.O.S.C.O. Egg/Arquaq Stealing tendencies - He should be safe to bring on missions again.


With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed the Subata 120 overclock “Explosive Reload” not affecting one of the hiveguard’s weak spots
- Fixed Huuli Hoarder not reacting to dwarves being nearby or attacking it
- Fixed Lithofoamer and Lithovac breaking hacking pod connection
- Fixed cosmetic tree not showing the name of the weapon for all skins
- Fixed unused strings for crowdin
- Added missing objective description for Industrial Sabotage
- Fixed Naedocyte Breeder scaling in size when shot with arrow
- Added tweaks on shouts, meteor timer and misc audio
- Added a longer indication for when a Caretaker Appendage will burrow and pop out of the ground
- Added collider on top of Cleansing Pod for pipelines
- Made sure that the player count is reset on reload of worlds
- Fixed the "Weapon Licence Assignments Completed" tab not counting correctly
- Fixed a bug that caused Worm pod remains to not be destroyed after 10 seconds
- Added missing names for Rival Tech and Lithophage enemies in the Bestiary
- Removed unnecessary comma from earned currency for the secondary objective
- Fixed meteor latejoin sound and drop issues
- Adjusted movement settings of Fester Fleas
- Reduced the space electric crystals take when trying to spawn other things in the cave
- Plagueheart now looks like a plagueheart on the terrain scanner
- Fixed Bosco consuming carryables in some cases

Scrip incoming! This patch brings the missing Plague Warning Challenges that only the most prestigious of miners may have noticed. Additionally, the Omen tower is now mortal once again and the keybinding changes from last patch have been reversed.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed pickaxe making noise and particles as if you had hit an enemy when outside of the melee attack range but inside of the mining range
- Added the 3 Plague Warning Challenges that were missing from the season
- Fixed Infinite Flamethrower ammo case
- Fixed banshee pulse effect not being shown for fire arrow, fixed banshee pulse on arrows in air
- Fixed S.S.G spelling and grammatical errors
- Fixed missing text in mission control speech in regards to fixed rock crackers
- Reverted changes to DefaultInput.Ini, hopefully fixing issues with Tab/Esc
- Fixed Loading Tips not showing
- Fixed Caretaker tentacles not always respecting objects and stabbing through things like supply pods
- Caretaker Tentacles will no longer stab into the gunner's shield but will shoot at it instead
- Fixed Omen Modular Exterminator not dying