Welcome to Anvil update 4! Coming April 25th 2026
This week we release the biggest content update in Orebound’s history! With tons of new factory and automation gameplay, much needed combat improvements, UI reworks, numerous QOL changes and character customization!
We will be opening up the game to some testers immediately and will be opening the game to everyone on the next update branch likely tomorrow. If you're enjoying Orebound we'd really appreciate if you left a review to help us keep the game growing! We have listed the main awesome changes coming to the game below and will possibly add some others if we can in time for the 25th.
Factory and automation
As a core part of this update, we have expanded the depth of factory & automation gameplay within Orebound. Bringing in a full redesign of how steam power plays with new tiers of power generating machines and a host of 16 new items to manufacture in order to build them!
These 16 new items are made from a variety of components. Copper, iron and our newest material, steel! Ranging from simple to complex recipes, they are unlocked within the early-mid game and to accommodate them we have brought in a whole new tier of automation!
All of this content will of course massively expand the size and demand of your dwarven factories! So, alongside all this new content we have added numerous improvements to base building!
Splitters and Pipes can now be connected without having to replace the pipe or belt.
New factory content
New items:
Iron Rods
Large Iron Gears
Copper Fins
Copper Heat Pipe
Copper Heat Exchange Core
Pressure Regulator
Steam Regulator
Compact Coal Ingots
Steel Ingots
Steel Gears
Large Steel Gears
Steel Plates
Steel Rods
Steam Mixing Chamber
Pressure control Module
Thermal Management Unit
Ancient Gears which give a 1.5x boost to steam generation machines
We've introduced Ancient Gears to the game. Extremely old dwarven items with mysterious power that help to boost output to machines. You'll have to find these hidden in Ancient chests around the world. You can then add up to three to each machine in your factory. This is just for pumps and boilers for now but we wish to expand on this in the future and make it factory wide!
New Machines
T1 & T2 Water pumps and Boilers with new meshes
New T3 Tier of pumps and boilers
New T2 Belts
New T2 Vertical Belts
Automation changes
New automation tier between previous 3 & 4 which costs 25,000 gold
Automation 5 now costs 100,000 gold
Automation 6 now costs 500,000 gold
Automation 7 now costs 1,500,000 gold
Steam Requirement changes
T1 Steam boiler produces 80 steam and requires 40 water
T1 Water pump produces 40 water
T2 Steam Boiler produces 200 steam and requires 100 water
T2 Water pump produces 100 water
T3 Steam Boiler produces 500 steam and requires 250 water
T3 Water pump produces 250 water
Auto-drill now requires 20 steam
Auto-crusher now requires 20 steam
Auto-smelter now requires 40 steam
Constructor now requires 40 steam
Combinator now requires 80 steam
Gem polisher now requires 160 steam
Gem cutter now requires 160 steam
Character customisation
Create your own custom dwarf! Within the new character customiser you will be able to select your beard, hair, eyebrow, and tattoo types as well as pick a colour for all of them and your skin and eyes!
7 Beard types
4 moustache types
2 eyebrow variations
9 hair variations
3 tattoo types
All fully customisable in different combinations with a large pallet of colours which can also be used for player skin and eye colour.
Combat improvements
The Greenspawn have seen a full rework and expansion to their behaviour in combat. Your enemies will now flank around you, surrounding the player and taunting while they do so. Attack you based on a priority token system, strafe when they enter close combat, become stunned in response to certain attacks, and attack with a new variety of different animations!
All Enemies have had their damage, attack and movement speeds tweaked as well for the best possible combat experience
Combat content:
All enemies will now have various voicelines depending on actions for:
Spotting an enemy
Attacking an enemy
Flanking/taunting an enemy
Warning other Greenspawn about friendly attacks
Escalating to a fight with other Greenspawn
New animations for:
Orc boss combo and multi attack
Orc attacks
Ogre combo attack
UI
We have created a new user interface design for all machines in the game as well as the Toolstation! Merging the player inventory alongside a much nicer looking and informative UI. Within this UI for steam machines there is space to add the new ancient gears, which will x1.5 the output for either your water pumps of boilers! This has been done to achieve a more consistent and high quality feel throughout the game. We're going to keep on improving and standardising the UI across the game as we build it.
We're just finishing off some final additions that we might be able to add in time for the 25th. Thank you for your continued support! See you soon
