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Starting with a lonely Dwarf, endlessly mine to gather materials and use them to progress farther. Have more Dwarves join in, craft resources and upgrade literally everything! The mines of the idle Dwarves await you!

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Dwarf Weekend News #15

May 12

Hello everyone! It has been awhile for sure. I wanted to finish up the concepts and polish up the rewrite before I made another News announcement.

I do want to inform the community of somethings before we get started. We're 7 months in front of our Roadmap schedule. Our plan was to release The Surface Q4 of 2024. We didn't plan on working on it this early, but we're really ahead of ourselves. The rewrite was never planned until the community gave their feedback and suggestions, and of course the rewrite technically never set us back since we're still in front of schedule as per what the Roadmap shows. Most people have said that our 1.0 update is "a continuously delayed release", but that's beyond false. The Surface was put on a bit of hold until the rewrite, polish and the new mechanics/features were implemented and it's being worked on! As I mentioned, the rewrite was never planned until we received feedback and it's basically an entirely new game because of it.

I do want to show some examples of what to expect with the new mechanics. Today, I'll be showing you how Mining, Combat, Dwarven Book, Floors and Placeables will work. Whilst there's still more to do, I want to show some teasers to keep everybody informed. Please bear with us!

These examples are in testing mode to show you the newly made mechanics so expect the final result to be different.

Areas come to the Dwarf

This will remove any wasted time between Dwarves running around going to the next material/tile. The original idea was to make it seem like you're digging further, but it ended up not being executed well since it was all a huge time waster for the Dwarves and Player.

Dwarves don't walk to materials and they come to the Dwarf.

Areas cost materials, but are Infinite

Yes, areas will cost materials. Originally, I thought the concept of how the areas act now was okay, but it ended up removing a lot of the "idler" aspect to the game reducing that nice grind factor.

Areas will cost materials to unlock and if you do not have enough materials to unlock an area, it will restart back to the beginning and go from there until you have enough materials to unlock the next area.

Floors now cost materials

Current Build, Floors have a chance to unlock by resetting floors.

Floors will cost materials and you can choose which Floor type to spawn. Floor Type determines Dwarf Behavior since Dwarf Behaviors were completely removed.

Floor Combat/Loot and Enemies

Currently, enemies spawn near Dwarves with Combat Behavior assigned. Dwarves will have to move to enemies to be able to eliminate them. Like the mineable tiles, it could take awhile to walk to an enemy and end up wasting precious time before finally eliminating them.

Enemies will spawn in front of the Dwarf on a Combat floor type. Combat Floor type will have two behaviors: Attack and Loot. It's slower, but a Loot Floor Type will take loot from a Combat Floor overtime and you can set Dwarves to loot faster on a Loot Floor than on a Combat Floor.

New enemy drops have been set as well and as you see, all the loot information is all displayed under the Dwarf.

Dwarven Book

As you know the Dwarven Book was completely redone. It's all fully implemented and when you unlock new floors and other features you will unlock more upgrades in your Dwarven Book.

Now, how this works is when you purchase any of these Stat items, the timer will start to count down and when it reaches 0 it will increase the multiplier. This multiplier is global for all Dwarves and Floors, but it takes a good awhile for it to start actually helping, but you will notice changes as it does upgrade.

Transferring Dwarves

Dwarves Window, I removed the drop down for Floors and added buttons instead. It's easier to see your Floors and which one you have selected. The buttons for Dwarves are now based on Floor Type and Floor count.

Transferring Dwarves is different in the upcoming update. Currently, you had to spawn a Door after 1 floor reset. I changed it so now there's a Transfer Button in the Dwarves Window and the only requirement is to have more than 1 floor.

What's Next?

I don't have an ETA when this will be out. I'm still working on all the new features, mechanics and changing some things. It's a lot of grunt work. Once I'm finally comfortable with everything I'll start back on The Surface and get that going. Thank you for your patience, support, feedback and suggestions! I do hope you all enjoy the new teasers!

For interaction with Litty Game developers and our community please join our Discord[discord.com]. We're open to constructive criticism, feedback and suggestions for our games and we find it very important to hear our community out!

If you don't have Discord, you can post your suggestions in the Suggestions Forum.

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Dwarves Mining Idle

Pointless grind?

45 minutes of gameplay and I still have literally nothing to do except click on the 2 dwarves when they get tired, none of the unlocks work, i cant reset? this feels pretty pointless

Salami

Apr 23 @ 7:25pm

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Dwarf News #14

Apr 22

Hello everybody! I wanted to update you on what's been going on since it has been awhile. Trust me, it's been... awhile! Now, last time I updated the community on what we were in the process of doing -- today will be the same but with a good relief of results.

The rewrite has been completed. Now, with the rewrite completed a lot has changed with the save file and I do hope you guys understand as we're in the process of leaping out of Early Access. YOU will still keep your materials and "Entity Points" (Renamed to Dwarf Points in the 1.0 update), but lose your world due to the new gameplay and mechanic changes. The world loss was already announced prior, but I'm reiterating through this bit of information so you will know everything.

Since the completion of the rewrite I can now focus on The Surface update, along with the new gameplay mechanics. Originally, what the rewrite did was remove ALL of the Perks, changed Perk Book, completely reworked the world generation, how the floors work, how Dwarves work and a lot more! Overall, I'm really hoping the new gameplay makes you all happier. The game will be less "PERK" based, cluttered with unnecessary point currency, less UI navigating and more in-tune with allowing you to idle without the need to figure out what's going on most of the time.

For returning or consistent players, you will need to learn the new mechanics but you will be able to purchase almost everything depending how many materials you have.

For interaction with Litty Game developers and our community please join our Discord[discord.com]. We're open to constructive criticism, feedback and suggestions for our games and we find it very important to hear our community out!

If you don't have Discord, you can post your suggestions in the Suggestions Forum.

Thank you for your time and I'll be seeing you soon!

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Dwarf Weekend News #13

Apr 7

I want to update everybody on our progress. We're still working hard on the major gameplay changes and upcoming 1.0 release of The Surface. While there are a large amount of changes to the code and within the process of that we're working on some artwork for The Surface in the meantime.

I have changed some of the major world generation code to work more performantly through its iterations. What this means is all the tiles you see in the game will no longer be global, but Floor specific. This will help with the code cycling through arrays more quickly. However, with this change all placeables will not have their materials returned back. There has been a lot of clean up to the save file. HOWEVER, you still get to keep your Materials, points, etc. of course.

I've also been working on multiplier formulas for the new Dwarven Book changes for Dwarf stats and such. Before, I felt like it was really bad and forced in the wrong ways.

I don't have anything major to share today other than a brief, honest update! There's still a lot more to get done.

For interaction with Litty Game developers and our community please join our Discord[discord.com]. We're open to constructive criticism, feedback and suggestions for our games and we find it very important to hear our community out!

If you don't have Discord, you can post your suggestions in the Suggestions Forum.

Thank you for your time and I'll be seeing you soon!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2220570/Dwarves_Mining_Idle/

Dwarves Mining Idle

Where is lava？

anyone knows?　thank you

ice

Apr 11 @ 10:03am

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Dwarves are stuck

I'm attaching some links to screen shots, My guys are at the end of floor 2. After a reset they stayed there. When I select doors i can't change either drop down menu to floor 2 but I can choose floor two in the book to see my dwarves and snap to them out in space. To get here, I finished floor 2 after floor 1 reset and before I reset I sent them back to floor 1 to get more dirt and stuff (probably a bad move but i'm learning). Despite reseting floor 2, floor 3 never appeared. So I had the dwarves redo...

Max

Dec 5, 2023 @ 5:54am

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Restart Game

Just got this game and accidental skip the tutorial so can you reset and restart Please..

Reto_Gamer_2021

Oct 3, 2023 @ 1:41am

General

Very Slow Grind - am I missing something?

This feels like a VERY slow grind early on. Am I missing something key to speed up the game? I'm in area 1-37 and don't see a lot of options to speed up the game. I tried dumping most of my entity points into Mining Speed, but that doesn't appear to do much...and I don't see an option to expand beyond the original 2 miners....