- Idle Cave Miner 2 - Coming Soon! - 5 June 2025
Are you ready for this new chapter? I've been working on Idle Cave Miner for over 4 years now, it started as a hobby project that I worked on when I had some free time. I never expected much of it, but 4 years and 1.5 Million downloads later, it has become my full-time job, which still doesn't feel real to me. When I first made ICM, I had no idea how a game should flow, what made a good idle game, what elements players like, how to design progression, and many other things. These past years have been a big learning experience, and I now have the opportunity to put everything I learned into something new. Thank you for being with me on this journey, I couldn't ask for a better community! With that said, it's with great pleasure that I announce Idle Cave Miner 2, coming soon to Steam! Wishlist now to be notified when it releases: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3340830/Idle_Cave_Miner_…
- Version 1.11.2 - 26 August 2024
Changes: Lowered relic costs for 'Bird Coins', 'Offline Rewards', and 'Starting Floor' Gem sorting will now check if it's sorted before changing sort type When visiting a floor, you now get offline rewards from that floor Improved miners movement speed display Improved miners mining speed display Fixes: Completion percentage no longer requires upgrades to be fully completed You're no longer able to grade a destroyed gem
- Version 1.11.1 - 23 June 2024
Changes: Updated the create and destroy costs for Abyssal Gems Reduced the cost of the Starting Floor Relic Relics now count towards game completion Fixes: Fixed Japanese currency display
- Version 1.11.0 - 22 June 2024
New Features: Added the abyssal hand, with 5 slots for abyssal gems Added 7 abyssal gems Added abyssal gem grading Added 3 abyssal upgrades Added a new relic Changes: Forge timer is now monospaced (won't jump around anymore) Reduced costs on most relics Increased base chance for a special shot in the abyss (5% >> 10%) Increased max level of special shot upgrade (25 >> 30) Increased Appa's chance to double Ruin Essence (14% >> 15%) Added a new bundle for the abyss if you don't own bonus shards Updated Leon's skin cost (500 Gems >> 2500 Singularities of Ignition) Added currency parsing for 10 more countries Fixes: Abyss now displays damage dealt by the shots Abyss now displays critical damage dealt Fixed a bug which caused quests to reroll when claiming the first one
- Version 1.10.1 - 28 April 2024
Changes: Increased Orion's chance to double Refinement Essence (10% >> 12%) Increased Appa's chance to double Ruin Essence (12% >> 14%) Increased Nomed's chance to double Ignition Essence (12% >> 14%) Fixes: Fixed an issue which would cause the coal world tutorial to keep appearing Fixed an issue that caused the coal world tutorial to block the screen on the Chinese version Fixed an issue that caused the coal world tutorial to display incorrectly on the Japanese version Disabled automatic cloud restore (Again...)
- Idle Cave Miner is now Free to Play! - 23 April 2024
As of right now, Idle Cave Miner is Free to Play on Steam! Rewards for players who bought the game should also be fully rolled out, to receive them, either restart the game, or press the red 'restore purchases' button at the bottom of the in-game store. If, for some reason, you're unable to claim your rewards, please reach out to me as soon as possible, you can message me on Discord, or send me an email to [email protected] describing the issue. I look forward to seeing you all on the mines! ~Pedro
- Version 1.10.0 - 22 April 2024
New Features: Added 1 new Essence (Essence of Time) Added 1 new Singularity (Singularity of Time) Special forges can now forge regular gems Regular birds now give you a small amount of Coal when tapped (2~3, works with multipliers) Weekly quests can now give you Singularities as a reward Floor travels now have a preview of the distributions Changes: Added 1 more special forge Reduced max speed of special forges (600% >> 400%) Updated miner completion display Added 8 new skins Added 16 new transmutations Added 5 new stats Added 1 new tutorial (Coal Pits unlocked) Updated 1 tutorial (Floor 1000 cleared) Updated daily rewards (Replaced Gold) Added an extra travel floor 250 floors after the last one on every mine Reverted the cost of the Time Warps (100% increase from current costs) Increased the cost of Platinum Ore to match other recipes (8 >> 10 raw platinum) Increased the cost of Uraniu…
- Idle Cave Miner is going Free to Play - 11 April 2024
Hello fellow miners, I would like to start by thanking each and every one of you for playing Idle Cave Miner, and for leaving both positive and negative feedback, this process is essential for me to keep improving the game. As you're probably aware, the game didn't have the best launch, not because of bugs, but because of a series of bad decisions from my part, and for that, I would like to profoundly apologize. The main critique was the fact that the game was paid, and still had MTX, which is a very fair argument. In hindsight, I should've released the game as Free to Play, and modify the shop to fit the ad restriction from Steam. At the time, I went for the easiest solution, which was to auto purchase the 'Skip Ads' purchase, and keep the game the same as the mobile version. In order to rectify my mistakes, Idle Cave Miner is becoming Free to Play on Steam. To the players who have alr…
- Version 1.9.2 - 1 March 2024
Changes: Increased the speed growth per level of all forges (0.03 >> 0.06) Reduced the amount of levels to max a forge (100 >> 50) Reduced the total costs to max forges (about 50% cheaper) Reduced the costs of most Singularity of Ruin's transmutations Reduced the costs of all regular raw gem forge recipes (about 50% cheaper) Reduced the costs of most coal and raw ore forge recipes Fixes: Fixed an issue with Ratner's chance to triple raw gems Fixed an issue with Cooper's chance to triple raw ores
- Version 1.9.1 - 28 February 2024
New Features: New passive for Grandelf (1% chance to find Mythic Gems when mining) New tier display when you reach max tier with a miner, and unlock all skins Changes: Forges now play a SFX when being enabled Increased Ratner's chance to triple raw gems (6% >> 12%) Increased Cooper's chance to triple raw ores (6% >> 12%) Fixes: Fixed an issue which would cause the popups to break (again) Fixed an issue which would cause the first offline forges claim to fail, leading to a temporarily broken forge Fixed an issue which would cause forges to not update if being enabled for the first time Fixed issues with localizations in German
- Version 1.9.0 - 25 February 2024
New Features: Remade the forges Forges now have infinite storage Forges now have dynamic recipe selection Added Rich Presence Added an option to reset your save file Changes: Replaced Bonus 25% Forge Speed purchase with Bonus 25% chance to double Coal Removed multiple upgrades that were not compatible with the new forges Updated forges UI Updated forge augment costs (Gems to max all forges unchanged) Updated most forge's recipes base speed Updated most forge's recipes resource cost Updated most alchemy recipes costs and outputs Updated transmutation amounts (1 and max >> 1, 10 and 100) Updated calculations for time warps Moved AFK mode to Mine Settings Generator Speed upgrades are now additive Generator Speed delay reduction increased (0.2% >> 1%) Generator Output is now calculated through (Power * Speed) Generator Speed and Power upgrades are now separated Generator Entries now display…
- Version 1.8.1 - 18 December 2023
Changes: Abyss: Special Tower shots now double shards mined. Morgan now has a chance to find Coal on any block he breaks (10% + 2% every tier) Updated Midas and Rick's special description to use icons instead of text Reduced Offline Rewards Relic Bonus (400% >> 200%) Reduced Anne's chance to find Gold Bars (6% >> 5%) Increased Cooper's chance to triple ores (5% >> 6%) Increased Ratner's chance to triple gems (5% >> 6%) Added 2 new skins (Bat Nomed & Winter Adoy) Added more unique fancy birds Miners texture size optimized (could reduce game size) Fixes: Fixed an issue with purchases price display Fixed an issue that caused the leaderboards to not open correctly Fixed multiple issues with the Japanese, Korean and Chinese localizations Fixed an issue which could cause the Abyss Generator to generate negative souls
