October 6, 2026

Retro Miners get a new pickaxe ladder and a forge, the ocean gets a lot more to find, and ATMs and gangs change a little.

Retro Miner

Pickaxes are bought now: The job no longer hands you one. Buy a Rookie or Promising Pickaxe from the Mine Merchant. They're inventory items, so you keep them when you die.
Reforging: Take a pickaxe to the Blacksmith to reforge it.
Bubu's Forge: A new smith beside the Mine Merchant sells better pickaxes and drills, and upgrades each one to the next tier for cash and your own ingots, titanium, glacite and gems.
Levels help you mine: Your Retro Miner level now makes your swings faster and your ore hauls bigger, so tools add to it.
Mining gemstones: Their descriptions now say where they fit. They go in Power accessories on the mining jobs, not in guns or knives.

Better pay: Everything you find sells for more.
Five new wrecks and a new chest: The Derailed Freight, the Drowned Convoy, the Downed Dropship, the Container Graveyard and the Fallen Span are on the seabed, plus the Drowned Carriages in the western bay. The Supply Crate is a new chest to find.
More to dig up: Loose chests turn up more often, and there are more rocks on the seabed, including across the western bay.
Treasure charts: A Message in a Bottle now gives you a private chart to a guarded strongbox near a wreck. Your sonar pings tell you how far away it is and which way to swim. You can hold one chart at a time, and it washes away after a while.
Dark Water and the Abyss: Four harder areas of the ocean, marked on arrival. Expect tougher sea creatures and bigger rewards.
Tougher sea creatures: Elite sea creatures now turn up, and deeper water means more health.
Guns and fire underwater: Bullets lose their punch as they travel through water, and fire goes out on anything fully submerged.
Skill checks: Stay close to the find while you answer a skill check, or it counts as a miss.

Selling first: Every NPC shop now lists what it buys before what it sells.
You have N: Offers show how many of an item you already own.
Combined prices: When something costs cash plus materials or an item, the shop lists each cost on its own line and shows what you have against what you need.
Roomier shops: NPC shops open larger so the item and its price both fit on screen.
Clearer descriptions: Item descriptions now say where an item drops, who crafts it and what it does.
Broker: The Hub Broker has moved a little further up the street.

Member slots: Extra slots now cost more, climbing steeply as your gang grows.
Slower XP: Weekly, contract and raid XP come in slower, and the later gang levels need more XP. No gang loses a level.

Withdrawal fee: ATMs outside the bank district charge a small fee on withdrawals. It changes from ATM to ATM, and the menu shows it before you confirm. Deposits are free, and so is the bank.

Smoother pets: Pets walk and animate more smoothly, and their stride now matches their size.
City Worker: Seven more fire hydrants around the map are now repair tasks.
Trashman and Retro Miner: Trash piles show up only for Trashmen, and ore only for the jobs that mine it.

Floor banners: Each sewer floor now announces itself when you arrive, and warns you if the floor is clearly above your level.

Noclip in your base: Members of an owned base can noclip inside it while building. Not while in combat or wanted.

Fixed poison headcrab bites killing you outright. They leave you on 1 HP again.
Fixed clicking your own name on the scoreboard or in chat opening an empty profile.
Fixed crate and quest items failing to arrive when your inventory is full. They go to your stash now.
Fixed picking up items through tiny gaps in walls.
Fixed a rare issue with Deep Sea Diver codex progress.
Fixed a missing Elo for new chess players.
Menus for Hollow, the Election Clerk, the lean barrel and a few others now close when you walk away, and printer racks need a clear view.
Fixed a few issues with buying and selling bases, and with taxes after a mayor's term ends.
Fixed new arrivals in the spawn district not getting protection until they moved.
Smoother frames in busy areas, and a lighter load on the club's lights.