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And we're back after a busy month but some progress made, a new version out, and solid progress into the next few chunks.

I'm starting to fill out the Crust entries,  I've expanded the pioneer entries and have copious notes for some of the other catalogues:

Huldra Galactic Corporation "Rugged. For use in Adverse Conditions." - Weapons, devices, a dress pod order, achievements to unlock if not outright buy. This one's an homage to Deep Rock Galactic, which certainly captures the moments of levity and the twisting caverns.

Rim Federation Survivalists "What you need to get across a galaxy." - Looking to the Alien franchise for this one, alien isolation mostly, though a dash of Astroneer. A lot of one-time use Resources that let a delver modify and rewrite room entries, building small infrastructure in small ways as they go. Satellite scans with random room lookups to give an idea of what's ahead. need to build a massive index table anyway so could be engaging for those delvers who like to over-prepare.

XenoworX Manipulations - Body horror, Prey, and Monster Hunter. An EVO suit that increases in power as the deliver explores, new tags to make your deliver and their Resources more slimy and useful. Focused on Anxen mining?

Nihei Experimental Research & Developement - High risk, high reward, and an indulgence toward Blame!, so leaning on a lot of augments and dangerous, experimental weaponry (think cross out the next 3 rooms at the cost of +80 danger that should kill all but the most ready or foolhardy). also probably a dumping ground for other odd gameplay twists that I come up with. we shall see.

Glad I didn't fall completely out of passion over the last month; finding energy to write Crust has been hard. Got some steam now, so we'll go from there and run some new delvers through the expanded Subsurface to see if anything new jumps out.

Next Steps

• Edit of v0.07
• finish rough of Crust rooms, test arrangement, balance
• start sorting catalogues, laying out their bones so I can tweak as I write.