all updates for Fracture Field

The Drone Hub Update 0.4.0 • 2025/08/20 August 20, 2025

Welcome to the v0.4.0 content update: Drones! You're welcome to continue playing on your existing save, but this update contains some major balance changes and doesn't introduce any new late-game content. The next content update will have new late-game content!

This update introduces the Drone Hub system, a major new feature that expands the drone system with specialized drone types, upgrades, and a new currency. Additionally, significant improvements have been made to rock mechanics, balance, and overall game performance. See the full changelog notes below.

• New Features
  • Drone Hub System
    • New Drone Hub popup with comprehensive drone management interface
    • 7 specialized drone types with unique abilities:
      • Hammer Drone: The basic single-target drone that you're already used to
      • Boost Drone: Provides area buffs to nearby drones (power and efficiency auras)
      • Collector Drone: Automatically collects resources from rocks over time
      • Pierce Drone: Specialized in breaking through rock hardness
      • Sentry Drone: Stationary drone with extended range
      • Shatter Drone: Area damage specialist with blast radius
      • Supervisor Drone: Wakes up resting drones and increases movement and hit speed for a short duration
    • Drone Cores currency for purchasing and upgrading drones
    • Individual drone targeting modes
    • Hammer Drones are now limited to 20 max, use other drones to fill additional slots
  • World Fracture Enhancements
    • Core Saturation upgrade: Increases Core Fragment gain from Stone and Clay
    • Core Extraction upgrade: Chance to extract additional Core Fragments
    • The cost to unlock World Fracture has been increased to incentivize new players to earn more Core Fragments on their first reset
  • Quarry Foreman Improvements
    • New automation interval upgrades for all automated systems
    • Added enable/disable toggles for each individual upgrade
    • If a purchase cannot be made when the interval triggers it will wait until a purchase becomes available instead of resetting its interval
    • Why was this changed? This feature was providing too much value as a single one-time upgrade so it has now been broken down into a feature with upgrades in itself
• Gameplay Changes
  • Rock System Overhaul
    • Improved pierce versus hardness mechanics
    • Better damage overkill through rock layers
  • Drone System Improvements
    • Smarter target selection avoiding drone overcrowding
  • Cursor System
    • Separate default and pointer cursor
• Balance Changes
  • Rock health and hardness rebalanced for higher layers
  • Nerfed dust and primal rock resource upgrade effectiveness
  • Tweaked various upgrade costs and effects
• Performance Improvements
  • More efficient spark particle system
  • Optimized rock spawn timers
• General Improvements
  • Quarry Foreman upgrade automation will no longer play the upgrade sound
  • Game is now locked at 16:9 aspect ratio
  • Save data size reduced
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue being caused by different culture languages handling text differently
  • Fixed duplicate charge granting on bomb max charges upgrade
  • Corrected rock spawn timer behavior
  • Stone Sledgehammer was showing as Flint Pickaxe
  • Drones weren't applying the Predictive Drones world fracture upgrade
  • When holding the cursor and moving outside the quarry area or over a clickable UI element, it will now continue hitting when you return to the quarry
  • Fixed upgrade level not showing level 1
  • Fixed bomb click-to-equip and drag functionality
  • Many other general/small bug fixes

Prestige, Tools, Rebalancing, and more! 0.3.0 • 2025/08/08 August 8, 2025

This is a huge content update! The first prestige layer, World Fracture, is here. The tool system is been implemented as well. Besides that, there's been a lot of balance changes and tweaks throughout the game. The visuals have been improved and a soundtrack has been added.

Thank you to everyone that has contributed feedback and suggestions, it's invaluable! Feel free to join the Discord for community interaction or to provide suggestions/feedback of your own!

• New Features
  • World Fracture System
    • Introducing a new prestige mechanic with World Fracture currency: Core Fragments
    • Multiple upgrades available for enhanced progression
  • Tool System
    • Purchase new tools to increase fracture, pierce, and manual hit range
    • Increased tool range also increases the range of waking up drones on click/hold click
  • Audio
    • Added the game's first soundtrack
  • Save System
    • Import and export save functionality for backup and sharing added to settings popup
• Gameplay Changes
  • Bomb System Improvements
    • Hold X key to preview bomb placement with visual targeting
    • Bomb radius display persists temporarily after placement
    • Added explosion animations when bombs detonate
    • Improved bomb and cursor interaction
  • Rock System Enhancements
    • Added dust yield display to quarry active rock stats
    • Improved rock spawning algorithm with dynamic spacing based on field density
    • Improved spawn performance
    • Refined how rock sound effects are played
  • Drone System Improvements
    • Smarter targeting system that prioritizes rocks without other drones
    • Drones now face the correct direction when moving
    • Auto-increment drone target layer when unlocking new rock layers
    • Fixed drone hit speed and movement speed upgrade application (they were not functioning at all before, oops!)
    • Drones are now awakened by the full radius of tool impacts
  • Quarry Foreman
    • Upgrade automation (unlocked via World Fracture)
  • Tip System
    • Tips will now be shown at various points in the game - sorry if you already knew about them!
• Balance Changes
  • Removed hardness upgrade from Clay rock layer
    • First upgrade now costs only 5
    • 25% hardness reduction per level
    • Added maximum level when hardness reaches ~5%
  • Bomb damage now has maximum level of x5 multiplier
  • Lowered starting cost for capacity upgrades
  • Additional extensive balancing pass on all upgrades
  • Upgrade system now supports dynamic max levels (eg rock layer capacity matching max quarry rocks)
• User Interface
  • Added badges to upgrade tabs showing upgrades are available
  • Tab key now cycles through rock upgrade tabs
  • Upgrade tooltips now display current level and max level
  • Main upgrade rows show next value increase
  • Added expand buttons for right panels
  • Resource gain popups are now batched for performance and less spam when deep into the game
• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected drone upgrade application for hit speed and movement speed
  • Resolved various minor bugs throughout the system