The cold writes on you
Warmth, breath, stamina, pain, morale, and numbness all pressure each descent. A good tool can still leave you too tired to climb.
6 survival states
Dredwork Field Notice / Build 0.1
The Numb Digger
A grim excavation survival game where every descent trades warmth for debt, truth, and things that should have stayed under the ice.
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The Bore
Go down with tools. Come back with proof.
The Numb Digger is built around the quiet pressure of a run: choose a tool, read the ice, spend body heat, and decide how far you can go before the climb costs more than the find.
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Tool: ice chisel Climb cost: high
Game Texture
Survival, bureaucracy, and awful little choices.
A settlement with a ledger
Between digs you buy rope, patch injuries, pay debt, hire help, take contracts, and decide who gets the things you drag back.
contracts, crew, debtFinds that change the story
Coal buys another day. Bodies carry names. Historical relics and impossible objects pull factions toward you for different reasons.
resource, human, historical, impossibleNo patron is clean
The Bore Guild, Chapel, Heat Syndicate, Claimants, and Surveyors all want the bore made useful. Their favors cost more than money.
5 powers around the shaft
Camp Return
The camp is not safety. It is accounting.
Sell finds, buy fuel, treat injuries, settle debts, accept contracts, and listen for which faction has started saying your name like a tool they own.
Recovered Finds
Objects with prices. Objects with consequences.
historical
Frozen Letter
Ink preserved by cold. It was never sent.
impossible
Warm Flower
Sealed in ice, alive, and still warm.
impossible
Ringing Bell
You can hear it before you break the ice.
historical
Forbidden Map
Routes the Guild says do not exist.
Five Interested Parties
Every buyer wants a different version of the truth.
Your finds are not neutral. A body, a map, a fuel cache, a sealed letter: each one moves reputation, access, and suspicion around the camp.
Bore Guild
Quotas, permits, contracts, and the official right to underpay you.
Chapel
They pay for the preserved dead and call warmth a kind of violence.
Heat Syndicate
Fuel runners and tool dealers who know warmth is the only currency.
Family Claimants
Names, photographs, and specific bodies wanted from the ice.
Surveyor's Office
Maps, strata, relics, and records the camp pretends not to need.
NumbDigger.com
Coming soon.
The lamps are lit, the ledgers are open, and the bore is still taking names. Public build news, wishlist links, and release details will surface here.
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