# Core Keeper Core Keeper - 1.1.0 Major Update - Bags & Blasts - Product: Core Keeper (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/core-keeper) - Vendor: Pugstorm - Date: 2025-03-10 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1621690/view/536595207289833896 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/core-keeper/releases/2025-03-10-core-keeper-1.1.0-major-update-bags-blasts What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — New boss Nimruza, Queen of the Burrowed Sands, found in The Desert of Beginnings biome - **added** — New cicada enemies in Azeos Wilderness and Nimruza's dungeon - **added** — New Bomb Scarab enemy variation in Nimruza's dungeon - **added** — New Oasis sub-biome in The Desert of Beginnings biome - **added** — New cattle species Drohmble that produces Blasting Dung from crops - **added** — Over 35 new pieces of equipment including armor, accessories, and weapons - **added** — Four new bombs: Mouse Bomb, Blunder Bomb, Proximity Bomb, and Void Bomb - **added** — New Grenades consumable type: Grenade, Stun Grenade, Fire Grenade, Poison Grenade, and Charm Grenade - **added** — New Explosives skill tree with 8 skills - **added** — New Pouches inventory-management feature in four types: Ore and Block Pouch, Seed and Crop Pouch, Fish Pouch, and Valuable Pouch - **added** — New pet Arcane Symbiote - **added** — New multi-purpose weapon Corrupted Meteor Staff - **added** — New offhand weapon Minion Detonator - **added** — Four new armor sets: Desert Guardian, Lily Pad, Blast, and Tassel - **added** — New seed placement tool Garden Trowel - **added** — Content tab in World Info menu allowing players to opt-in to add new content to existing worlds - **added** — New hotbar swapping feature to switch between inventory rows - **added** — Quick stack to nearby chests button in inventory UI and shortcut - **added** — New inventory item locking feature to prevent items from being sorted and quick stacked - **added** — Two new workbenches: Laboratory Table and Pouch Workbench - **added** — Support for in-game Asian language input - **changed** — Mage and Warlock playstyles expanded with new features - **changed** — Minions now actively pursue and attack enemies - **changed** — World Info menu reworked to use tabbed layout instead of separate popup - **changed** — Floracadas are less aggressive towards players until damaged - **changed** — Worlds now compressed using Brotli instead of Gzip - **changed** — Lowered price of slime boss scanners - **changed** — Slightly increased loot drop for Nilipedes and Clay Burrowers - **changed** — Mouse scroll wheel can no longer be used to cycle through values in option menus - **changed** — Lowered volume of ambient sound effects for Seasonal Merchant and Rift Statue - **fixed** — Geode Wall Display now correctly uses unpainted look when placed - **fixed** — Rare lag spike caused by world autosave on low performance machines - **removed** — New biome-specific explosive wall variations - **removed** — Cicada Burrows can now be broken, picked up, and placed ##### Gameplay: - New boss: Nimruza, Queen of the Burrowed Sands. Found in The Desert of Beginnings biome. - New cicada enemies added in Azeos Wilderness and in Nimruza's dungeon. - New enemy variation of the Bomb Scarab. Found in Nimruza’s dungeon. - New sub-biome: Oasis. Found in The Desert of Beginnings biome. - New cattle: Drohmble. - Drohmbles roam in the Oasis and eat crops to produce Blasting Dung. - A total of over 35 new pieces of equipment, including armor, accessories, and weapons. - Added 4 new bombs: - Mouse Bomb; - Blunder Bomb; - Proximity Bomb; - Void Bomb. - Added new types of explosive throwable consumables: “Grenades”. - Grenade; - Stun Grenade; - Fire Grenade; - Poison Grenade; - Charm Grenade. - Added an “Explosives” skill tree with 8 new skills. - New inventory-management feature that can come in different sizes: Pouches. - Ore and Block Pouch; - Seed and Crop Pouch; - Fish Pouch; - Valuable Pouch. - Mage & Warlock playstyles have been expanded with new features as part of our ongoing improvements, with more to come in future updates. - New pet: Arcane Symbiote. - New multi-purpose weapon: Corrupted Meteor Staff - New offhand: Minion Detonator - Minions have been made more aggressive: they will now actively pursue and attack enemies. - New armor sets - Desert Guardian armor set - Lily Pad armor set - Blast armor set - Tassel armor set - New seed placement tool: Garden Trowel. - Added a Content tab to the World Info menu. In this menu, players can opt-in to add new content to their existing worlds created in 1.0 or later, even if doing so may overwrite already explored areas in these worlds. This can, for example, include new boss dungeons that appear in existing biomes. Worlds that don’t opt-in will not see any changes to already explored areas, but might miss out on some of the new content. - New hotbar swapping feature. The hotbar can be swapped to other rows in the inventory by clicking the new arrows to the left of the hotbar or using the shortcuts. - Quick stack to nearby chests has been added as a button to the player’s inventory UI. A shortcut can be used to quick stack items to all nearby chests while the UI is closed too. - New inventory item locking feature. Items in the player’s inventory can be locked using the new lock button in the player inventory UI. Locking an item will block it from being sorted and quick stacked. - New Workbenches: - Laboratory Table. Craftable in the Scarlet Workbench. - Pouch Workbench. Bought from the Bearded Merchant. - New biome-specific explosive wall variations. - 2 new paintable decorations: - Tapestry - Banner - 5 new achievements. - Floracadas are less aggressive towards players until they have been damaged. - It is now possible to break, pick up and place Cicada Burrows. " - Minion Detonator’s description is now rewritten to reflect how it actually works, by avoiding the word explosion to not confuse it with explosion-type damage. ##### Other: - Added support for in-game Asian language input. - Reworked the World Info menu to use a tabbed layout instead of having world generation parameters as a separate popup menu. The Create World menu also uses a similar layout. - Added in-game hints to new characters if they haven’t completed basic tasks like crafting a torch within a few minutes of starting the game. The hints are automatically skipped if the player completes them before they are prompted, or if they reach certain milestones like defeating the first boss. They can also be disabled in the Gameplay settings. - Lowered visual rarity of secondary scanners. - Added a fallback “missing” icon when an inventory slot contains an invalid item, for example due to a bug or from uninstalling a mod. Previously, the slot would appear empty but still behave like it contained an item. - Dedicated server files now include an ARGUMENTS.txt file which describes the available command line arguments in more detail. - Ad _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1621690/view/536595207289833896]_