Sorry this post comes a few days late -- we got caught up rewatching our favorite movie, Crouching Miner, Hidden Dragon. Also I had influenza.

Anyway, the Lunar Festival is coming back for 2024! We've freshened up this seasonal event to ring in the Year of the Dragon, and we're bringing you a fresh crop of collectibles, delightful decorations and fun hats.

This year’s Lunar Festival begins on Thursday, February 1st at 13:00 CET, and it runs until Thursday, February 15th at 13:00 CET.

Here’s what’s in store!



First thing’s first: the cool new hat. We’re welcoming the Year of the Dragon with this dashing new headgear, which features a movable jaw, wiggly whiskers and googly eyes to distract your foes. It’s called Enter the Dragon, because your head enters it when you put it on. Smart, right? Complete the hat’s seasonal assignment, and it’s yours to keep.


If you slept through 2023 and 2022 (Years of the Rabbit and Tiger, respectively), you’ve still got the chance to snag the hats from those previous Lunar Festivals. As always, we’re bringing them back as rewards for the Last Year’s Blessings assignment! Get it done, and you’ll be a couple hats richer.


We’ve received word that a reckless Longbeard courier has lost countless Lunar Festival Dragons in the depths of Hoxxes. These golden statues are of tremendous symbolic value, so we’re contracting you to retrieve them. Dig up and deposit a dragon during a mission, and your whole team will earn a Double Mission Performance Point Bonus!


Of course, it wouldn’t be a proper Lunar Festival if the Space Rig didn’t look the part. When the event starts, you’ll find the Rig dressed to the nines with festive banners, glowing paper lanterns, ripe persimmons and traditional charms galore. We’ve also stocked the Rig with a generous amount of firecrackers. Please don’t use them while other dwarves are sleeping.

The festival begins this Thursday at 13:00 CET. Hope to see you there!

With Love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

We hope your new year is off to a delightful start. We also hope that one of your 2024 resolutions was "consume more infographics," because that's exactly what we're here to share!

2023 was a terrific year for Deep Rock Galactic, and for the crew at Ghost Ship Games too. We decided to recap the year (as usual) by digging deep in the data mines, and pulling up the most exciting, interesting, exciting, and silly statistics we could find, to understand Deep Rock Galactic by the numbers.

If you've ever wondered about:

• The leading cause of death for dwarves on Hoxxes
  
• Where Deep Rock Galactic sits on the list of best-reviewed games on Steam
  
• How many times the average dwarf passes out drunk at the Abyss Bar per year

We've got all that below, plus bucketfuls of more fun facts and data! Give it a look.

Hope everybody's doing well, and thanks for such a fun year!
We're looking forward to 2024, and the big bold horizon beyond. :)

Rock and Stone!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

Great news: we fixed the hat!

To celebrate our nomination for the Steam Awards last month, we announced a sweet new hat: the Jagged Bugbasher! It was supposed to come out shortly after the initial blog post, but something about the hat made the whole game crash for anyone running older Ryzen CPUs.

After a bit of tinkering, we got the hat working now. We're not really sure why, or how, but it works.
So now you can grab it!

Pictured: An ancient helmet imbued with a strange and powerful aura. Legends say it contains the power to tear apart the very fabric of the world. Or at least to overheat a few CPUs.

All you've got to do is log in to Deep Rock Galactic before January 29th at 13:00 CET to claim it. It's not available for consoles quite yet, but we expect to have it out with the next patch, likely in the coming week.

Great! That's all sorted. Now to take a biiiiig sip of coffee, and check to see who won the 'Labor of Love' award!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

Patch Notes: S04.13 (build 94396 - 04/01/2024)

Hello Miners,

We have Identified our pre-xmas crash to be related to older gen Ryzen CPU’s. We have attempted some fixes, but adding additional logging, just in case the fixes do not work.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

--- PATCH NOTES ---
- Attempt at fixes crash for older gen Ryzen CPU’s
- Added additional logging

Changes from S04.12:
- Fixed a Steam Socket issue that caused networking not network in some rare cases.

Holy smokes – we made the finals!

We’ve officially been nominated for the 2023 Steam Awards in the ‘Labor of Love’ category.


We’d like to say a big huge thank you to everyone who nominated us. But whether you nominated or not, we’d just like to say thanks for playing Deep Rock Galactic, and for making it such a fun and welcoming experience to share together. Nobody here at Ghost Ship Games ever imagined our silly space dwarf game would grow to where it is today.

It’s your enthusiasm and support that pushes us to keep working on Deep Rock Galactic; both by developing this game and expanding the DRG universe with other projects. We’ve still got a big huge pile of ideas for this game, so you can trust we'll updating it for a long time to come.


To celebrate our nomination, we've decided to give everyone a fancy hat! We'll release it early next year (more on that below)

Some years back, we released an exclusive hat during the Steam Awards, a cool viking helmet called the Bolted Marauder. People often ask whether we'd ever bring it back, and we've always said no.

But we never said we wouldn't release an even cooler version of it.

So, to celebrated DRG being nominated for the 2023 Steam Awards, we present to you: the Jagged Bugbasher.


You don’t need to vote for us to get this hat. In fact, we'll release it once voting is over, early next year. Why not release it now, you ask? We tried, we really did, but our build machines caught the Holiday flu, so we decided to let them rest up. Once we're all back and rested, we'll release the hat and celebrate the nomination (and hopefully, the Award).

On that note, if you do vote for us, we’ll be super happy. We’ll smile so big it wraps around our entire head. We’ll get up and do a little dance. We’ll hoot and holler “hoowee!” and high-five. Stuff like that.

Hope everybody’s enjoying the Yuletide 2023 event! Here at Ghost Ship Games we’ll be taking a break for the holidays, but we’ll be back in January. We’ve got loads more to share in 2024 and beyond. :)

Happy voting, and Rock and Stone!

With Love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew


Note: The Jagged Bugbasher will be released on all platforms, not just Steam. We'll get back to all of you with precise timing early next year.

Edit: A previous version of this post went live, saying the hat was out the same time as voting begun. That was a mistake, for some reason the update to this post were not published. We have updated it now, detailing that the hat will be released after New Year.

This hotfix rolls the current version back to Patch: S04.11 - See patch notes here.
We haven't been able to fix the crash we’ve been hunting for the last couple of days, so we decided to roll back to the last stable version.
Once we're back from the Holidays early next year, we'll fix this pesky crash.FINAL!
In the meantime, enjoy the Yuletide event! See you all in 2024, Miners.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed Unreal render crash

Ok, so third time wasn’t a charm - but we really really reaaalllly hope the fourth will be!
Thank you for your patience with our fix attempts - Y’all are pretty cool - hope you have an awesome holiday season!
Here’s to you and Hotfix.DRG_patch.Final23.Final23forRealz.Plzwork.kfdjfsfd.Prettyplzwithredsugarontop

And just like with yesterday's ~fixes~ we really recommend you "Verify integrity of game files" with this update.

You verify game files by right-clicking DRG in your Steam Library > Click "Properties..." > Click "Installed Files" > Click the button that says "Verify integrity of game files"


With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed Unreal render crash

Third time’s a charm. That is what they say, right? Right?
Hotfix.DRG_patch.Final23.Final23forRealz.Plzwork.

We recommend you "Verify integrity of game files" after it updates. Files can be sensitive to lots of updates, so better to be safe.

You verify game files by right clicking DRG in your Steam Library > Click "Properties..." > Click "Installed Files" > Click the button that says "Verify integrity of game files"

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed Unreal render crash

Yesterday's Hotfix didn’t fix. So we’re trying again with another Hotfix.DRG_patch.Final23.Final23forRealz.
Fingers crossed, this will actually fix the crash (and we won’t have to spend the holidays at the office).

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed Unreal render crash

DRG_patch.Final23.Final23forRealz.
Hotfix for an Unreal Render Crash we re-introduced yesterday.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed Unreal render crash