- The Future of Caverns: Lost Sky - 10 May 2024
Hello Everyone, Today we have an important update regarding the future of Caverns: Lost Sky. After much consideration, we have made the difficult decision to transition Caverns out of Early Access without a formal release. This decision was not made lightly. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we did not see the level of interest needed to sustain ongoing development. As much as we love Caverns: Lost Sky and the vision we had for it, real-life obligations have forced us to prioritize other responsibilities. We want to express our deepest gratitude to all of you who supported us along this journey. Your feedback and enthusiasm for our game meant the world to us, and we are truly grateful for your support. While we understand that this news may be disappointing, we believe it is important to be transparent with our community. Cavern's Lost Sky will remain on Steam in its current stat…
- UPDATE: Patch 0.1.10 - 25 May 2019
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- UPDATE: Patch 0.1.9 - 26 April 2019
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- UPDATE: Patch 0.1.8 - 31 March 2019
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- UPDATE: Patch 0.1.75 - 19 March 2019
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- UPDATE: Patch 0.1.7 - 8 March 2019
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- UPDATE: Patch 0.1.6 - 3 March 2019
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- UPDATE 0.1.4: Caverns Reloaded - 22 February 2019
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- UPDATE: Patch 0.1.3 - 16 February 2019
Hello Everyone, Patch 0.1.3 is finally here! This patch address several performance and game-play issues, and contains numerous improvements to enemy AI and combat mechanics. Included in Patch 0.1.3: The game now plays battle music when enemies have targeted Strato and are nearby Numerous threading tweaks behind the scenes resulting in large average FPS gains while chunks are loading Loading chunks now have an invisible boundary preventing the player from entering the chunk until it is loaded Enemy animation sequences now loop correctly when the same animation repeats consecutively Poneroid attack patterns have been tweaked so that they aim properly at Strato, and do not intersect each other. Some save corruption issues resulting in missing equipment when the game is saved and exited too quickly A crash on some systems within the options setting screen has been resolved Note: If you hav…
- UPDATE: Patch 0.1.2 - 9 February 2019
Hello Everyone, We have released Patch 0.1.2, containing much requested fixes and changes to the Options screen, including Mouse Inversion, Mouse Speed, Resolution settings and Particle System settings. This update also contains several performance tweaks, which should hopefully help smooth out or eliminate input lag due to stuttering. In addition, we fixed an issue related to the Inventory Screen which could cause the game to crash, as well as a bug which causes equipment durability to decrease incorrectly in some cases. Some equipment (eg. Armor) did not break upon reaching 0 durability. This no longer occurs, and these items can now be broken. The changes in Update 0.1.2 include: Added Mouse Y/X - Axis Inversion Setting Added Mouse Y/X - Axis Speed Setting Added Resolution Setting Added Particle Density Setting Added Particle Enable/Disable Setting For more details, see 0.1.2 Patch N…
- UPDATE: Patch 0.1.1 - 6 February 2019
Hello Everyone, First, we would like to welcome everyone to the Caverns: Lost Sky community, and to thank everyone for their interest in our first game! We have been slow to post in the past few days as we have been working hard to address the issues and suggestions we received following release. The first patch, which was released on Monday, fixed a large number of release issues. These fixes include: Fixed the ability to leave full screen mode Fixed several lock-on targeting issues when switching weapons Fixed losing your recently equipped weapon or tool on save Fixed a number of issues related to Poneroid attack patterns Fixed a crash when your third weapon was equipped and breaks while opening the inventory simultaneously and clicking on the (now destroyed) item Please see: 0.1.1 Patch Notes, in the Change Log forum, for the full list. In order to effectively communicate which fixes…
- Caverns Lost Sky Released! - 31 January 2019
Hello Everyone! Today we're happy to finally release Caverns: Lost Sky on Steam Early Access. In the coming weeks, we will be pushing frequent and regular updates to improve balancing of existing items, and to introduce several new enemies, so look forward to even more content soon! We are happy to finally share our work with other passionate gamers, and we look forward to a bright future! - Team Tetravoxel ( :
- Road Map - 29 January 2019
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- Release Date Announcement - 25 January 2019
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