Orebound
by Emberforge · 24 Oct, 2024
60 downloads
About the Game
Explore, Mine, Automate - the world is yours!
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. Explore the vast mountain ranges before you, or journey deep into the Earth to find the ultimate Dwarven prize – the Emberstone. Lost in the depths of time, the King has tasked you to scour the mountains to find its location. Using your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way. Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Dig Deep and Discover
Journey down into the Earth to discover precious metals and resources to create your very own Dwarven mining fortress! Use your newly found building blocks to upgrade your tools and craft runes to enhance your efficiency. The deeper you go, the rarer the materials but who knows what else you’ll find in the depths of the planet.
Automate Your Way
Use your salvage to create huge automated factories to bring you a constant stream of blocks. Construct Dwarven drill rigs to mine out the mammoth crystal veins, use belts to connect your machines and refine your ores! Reach the heights of automation technology and live out your Dwarven dreams.
Features
⛏️ Voxel: Explore massive procedurally generated voxel landscapes; dig far and wide to search for ores all over (and under) the ends of the Earth.
🔨 Craft: Craft a multitude of dwarven items to help you dig deep into the mountains!
🔧 Automate: Build machines to mine and craft items to help you reach your goals!
🌍 Open World: Vast procedurally generated landscapes for you to explore.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Auto saves are about a 10th of a second on new games, with all the of the various cut outs that get done into the voxel world by the new poi system in the advanced caves and thus have been reactivated.
We've also changed the prompt on the exit game (to citadel and to desktop) asking if you want to save, which will bring up the save game screen.
Thank you for your patience, and we are continuing on with work on the next patch, but more details to be released later.
and we have pushed an emergency patch to disable auto saves. We are looking into this solution now, as currently autosaves cause a large hitch when actually
saving the world. When this is completed we will push out a patch soon, and then get back to what we were working on before.
We apologise for this oversight and thank you for your continued support.
Greetings Fellow Dwarves,
We have released another patch following the crashes and issues raised by our fantastic community yesterday. We’ve spent the past day testing and working on a patch so most players should not experience this issue going forward. This also applies to the bug where some players could not connect belts to inputs.
If crashes or bugs do persist, however, please let us know so we can investigate it further!
As always, thank you for your continued support!
Greetings Fellow Dwarves,
Today, we are releasing a small patch following the release of our latest update: The Refined Interface Update. This patch is currently available on TheNextUpdate branch and will be released publicly soon.
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Fixed a bug that made it so really small belts are invisible
Fixed a bug where really small belts are even permissible under the specified minimum length
Fixed a bug with item bounds calculation that made it that items could flicker out of view in certain cases
Fixed Stairs of Deepseeker not being destroyed with the rest of the Deepseeker after being saved and loaded (Stairs already left should be destroyable, there might just be a lot of them in the same place so several need to be destroyed)
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As always, thank you for your continued support!
Greetings Fellow Dwarves!
Today, we have a small hotfix for you following our recent update: New Year, New Tools! This hotfix aims to fix certain issues that have been raised since the new update.
If you want to suggest content for upcoming updates or want to meet like-minded dwarves, join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/wFhbjd9zZ5
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Fix for faulty saves that don't properly load up their POIS
Fix for backpack reappearing in first person view when getting in and out of cannon
Additional protection against cannon breaking for client rotation after usage
Iron shovel description change
Equipable items now auto equip onto the hotbar and properly auto stack with proper notification
Fixed an issue with not being able to complete the TNT quest
Fixed an illusive bug where clients load a save while in a multiplayer game and issues occur afterwards as not being able to join or host a game or load a save properly
Fixed an issue where clients sometimes weren't able to pick items on belts
Plungers now require iron ingots, not iron ore
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As always, thank you for your continued support!
Greetings fellow dwarves,
We have a minor update for you today to address more bug fixes, and to spread a little festive cheer: The Festive Fixes! Explore the Citadel to see how the dwarves are celebrating the festive season.
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New
Added Christmas Decorations to the Citadel
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Bug Fixes
Fixed Splitter using experimental mesh
Fixed Stair Railings not lining up when using Rune Line mode
Removed static belt being left in World
New game now starts at 8am
Want to start a dwarvern clan to diggy hole or want inspiration for your next factory? Join like-minded dwarves over on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/rD6cXwgppk
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As always, thank you for your continued support!
Greetings fellow Dwarves!
We have a small update today for you, mostly prioritising more hotfixes needed after Anvil Update 3. This includes adding a box to machines to help with placement, and connection lines changes to show if two connectors are linked.
New
Machines now show a box around themselves to help with placing
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Changes
Light Controls UI now moves in increments of 20%
Connection lines and Input/Output arrows now show through other meshes
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Bug Fixes
Fixed Game Crash when loading a game where you were holding navigator and searching for a deposit
Changed Machine Box colour to White
Can now destroy buildings even when looking at connector
Want to start a dwarvern clan to diggy hole or want inspiration for your next factory? Join like-minded dwarves over on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/rD6cXwgppk
As always, thank you for your continued support!
Greetings fellow dwarves,
We have a small, but important update available today, following further bug fixes that needed implementing from Anvil Update 3.
Full Patch Notes:
Fixed a bug where the belts coming out of splitters would sometimes stop working after loading a save
Fixed a bug where the Auto Farms quests wouldn't autocomplete.
Pressing interact while in building UI now closes UI even when looking at non-interactable building
Reduced Deepseeker collision while placing
Disabled camera lock while in UI
Made Deepseeker easier to place
Fixed Airship NPC not moving / shovelling
Stone wall snap fixes
Fixed build hammer not returning to neutral when exiting build hammer menu to not build
Fixed Brewmaster quest not auto completing or being completable
Fixed new stone block pieces not having snap points
Fixed books in citadel
Fixed copper pots on belts
If you would like to meet other like-minded dwarves or suggest ideas for future updates, join our Discord: https://discord.gg/rD6cXwgppk
As always, thank you for your support!
Greetings fellow dwarves,
Following Anvil Update 3, we’ve made a few more hotfixes to help support the game and reduce the chances of encountering bugs. We have made fixes for the following:
Fixed Infinite loop when placing elevators inside each other
Can now switch build modes while climbing ladder
Added Extra UI to main menu
Buildings in the process of being placed are no longer saved
Flag and banner colours are now saved
Deepseeker now deletes quest marker when destroyed
Can now switch build modes while climbing ladder
Food now displays how long it's buff is applied for
Fixed Three brothers temples sometimes being spawned in the air
Any temples already spawned in the air will be regenerated back into their proper spots
Added new "The Keys" category into the kings questboard to help guide the player through setting up basic automation
Buffed the ore detection range of all navigators and improved deposit detection of navigator 2 & 3
Reduced the iron requirement of Belt Lifts
Fixed cleansing potion not having a recipe
Reduced resource requirements for a tridimensional compass & navigator level 3
Added copper pipes into the marketplace
Text improvements and changes to the Deepseeker quests
Numerous other item recipe balance improvements
If you want to stay in the know or form a clan with like-minded individuals, join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/rD6cXwgppk
As always, thank you for your support
Fellow Dwarves!
Tonight we are putting an update live to the "thenextupdate" branch of the game. We are testing something for older PC's machines.
Specifically people who are running under 6 cores. So 4 core machines primarily. These are normally CPU's around the 8+ year old mark. However we keep getting players telling us that these machines are struggling so we've tried some tweaks to support these over the last few days.
If you have one of these then we would really like if you check out this branch and see if it helps you. If not then please still check it out because we've changed some CPU configurations for this and would like to know if it effects anyone else. Theres also some other changes coming tonight mainly bug fixes. We have removed the need for a password so you just need to access "thenextupdate" branch in your Steam properties!
Fixed Infinite loop when placing elevators inside each other
Can now switch build modes while climbing ladder
Added Extra UI to main menu.
Lastly, over 2000 people played Orebound this weekend. Please please please drop us a review if you're enjoying the game as we really need your support to keep the game growing! If everything is ok with this next update then we will set it live for everyone this week. Probably tomorrow. Thank you all so much and we hope you're enjoying the Deepseeker! We are already working on another update we shall give you details on soon! Thanks Dwarves!
Greetings Fellow Dwarves,
Following our latest release yesterday, Anvil Update 3, we’ve released a small patch to fix most of the bugs from the latest update. We’re incredibly happy with how the new changes have been received, but we are always working hard to ensure all new content or changes are as optimised as possible.
Our full list of bug fixes:
Opening Temple door before talking to Deepseeker NPC no longer soft locks quest
Increased size of area where foliage is cleared beneath Airship landing point
Fixed issues with Deepseeker not being able to be placed in certain rotations
Fixed shovel being wrong on NPC dwarf on airship
Fixed take all button on blacksmith taking items that it shouldn't and emptying inventory
Guidelines on several lights and braziers have been moved up so they are visible when placing on buildings
Bolts will properly stick to skeleton of orc, boss orc and ogre
Added missing edge wood wall snaps to large wood wall
Fixed clients being able to duplicate buildings by spam clicking build quickly before the resources are used
We are always actively looking for suggestions and improvements to make the world of Orebound as exciting and engaging as possible. If you would like to meet more like-minded dwarves or suggest game features, please join our Discord:
Thank you for your continued support!
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Uploaded Jul 26, 2026
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• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
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