The Nugget Hotfix: excavator, claims and soil

Excavator after the tutorial

• The tutorial excavator keeps digging after the tutorial. Before, the bucket stopped at the surface as if it hit rock.
• Your camp area is now a free starter claim, with or without the tutorial. Every machine can dig there, including right next to the wash plant.
• When a machine can't dig or dump somewhere, the reason now shows at the bottom of the machine panel, for example "No claim here", "Ground blocked" or "Diesel empty".

Soil and piles

• Dumped soil reliably stays on the ground, also on existing piles, on road shoulders and on tracks inside your claim. Holes can be filled again.
• Spoil heaps look natural again: rounded piles instead of tall spikes, and every bucket makes the heap visibly bigger. Next to rocks and trees the soil settles beside them instead of stacking up.
• Soil now pours out of the bucket as a loose mass of clods and crumbs, with dust where it lands.
• Nuggets and hand-dug heaps no longer block dumping. Finds in the pile stay on top.
• Saves where soil hung invisibly in the air or piles were missing repair themselves on load.
• Excavators and loaded trucks run smoother, with fewer hitches while dumping.

New hints

• After the tutorial (or on day one without it) the game shows where to rent or buy more claims, with a waypoint to the Land & Mining Office in Redbank and a note about the loan.
• A second hint explains how to hitch your caravan and move your camp. Both stay in the manual afterwards.