The first dig moves to Rudy's lot, rebuilt with warm evening light and real shadows. After you find Biscuit, an old map leads to a second dig site: the Orchard, 55 new layers deep. Plus a Stats page, a wide view of the town and a new layer meter.
Update 1.4 gives Dig the Dog a new look and a second place to dig. The first dig now happens on Rudy's lot, rebuilt from scratch with warm evening light. And once you find Biscuit, the dig doesn't end there: his treasure holds a torn piece of an old map, and it points to the Orchard.
Rudy's lot: a new first dig site with Rudy's house, the street and the town around it
New light: evening sun and shadows on the ground, the pit walls and the blocks
The Orchard: a second dig site, 55 layers deep, with roots, mossy rock and gold
Old Bones' map: pick your next dig on the map on Rudy's table
Stats page, Climb up and a new layer meter
Your save carries over. If you already found Biscuit, Rudy shows you the map when you continue, and you go to the Orchard.
The backyard is gone. The first dig now happens on Rudy's lot in town, with his house, the street and the neighbours around it. Every model around the pit was placed and lit in Blender, then baked into the game, so the sun throws long shadows across the grass and down into the pit.
The blocks you dig are lit by the same sun. Blocks shade the ones around them, the pit walls show the rock layers you are digging through, and your rigs cast soft shadows as they walk.
The Orchard is the second dig site: an old apple orchard at the edge of town, with a farmhouse, a fruit stand and fields around it. Under it are 55 layers of its own rock.
New blocks: meadow grass, dark soil, mossy rock, stone and granite
Roots: they run down through several layers. Break the top of a root and the one below it has half its health left
Ores: iron near the top, gold deeper down, and rare crystals near the bottom
Story: Uncle Rudy has new things to say on the radio as you dig, and there is something waiting at the bottom
Your upgrades, rigs and skills come with you. The Orchard is tougher than the first dig, and it pays more.
Old Bones was Grandpa Walt's dog, and he could smell treasure through a mile of rock. His map was torn into pieces and buried. The first piece is in Biscuit's treasure, and every new site has another one at the bottom.
The map lies on Rudy's table next to the pit. Press Climb up and click it, or press Keep digging after a dig, and the camera flies down to it. Hover a site to see how deep it is and your best time there, and click it to start digging. You can go back to a site you already cleared to beat your time.
Stats page: the game menu (Esc) has a new Stats page with your play time, digs finished, blocks mined, clicks, money earned and spent, crits, chests and each site's best time
Climb up: a button in the sidebar lifts the camera for a wide view of the town while your rigs keep digging
Layer meter: the meter in the corner shows the site's rock layers as blocks, and where you are in them
The Orchard is the first of ten new dig sites. Here is the plan. It may change as we go, and your feedback shapes it.
Next: new sounds. New sounds for digging dirt and stone and for the rigs
Around Town (the rest of act 1): the Junkyard, where scrap heaps pay a little every time you hit them, and the Old Quarry, where TNT crates blast the blocks around them. Also a collection book of things to find on each site, and new skills for the new sites
Out of Town (act 2): sell the lots for Golden Bones and spend them in a new Kennel skill tree. Then dig the Beach (the tide fills your holes with wet sand), the Snowfield (ice that shatters) and the Old Woods (mushrooms that spread)
Underground (act 3):Hot Springs, the Old Mineshaft, Crystal Hollow and the Crater. Plus leaderboards for the fastest clear of each site, and a daily dig that is the same for everyone
Thanks for playing, and for all the feedback so far. Tell me what you think of the Orchard and the new look in the comments!
Rudy's Lot & the Orchard
1.4.0
4 October 2026
Areas
19 changes in this update
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Added
13 changes
Dig sites
The Orchard - a second dig site: 55 layers under an apple orchard, with its own grass, soil, mossy rock, gold and rare crystals
Roots - root blocks run down through several layers; break the top of a root and the one below it has half its health
Old Bones' map - Biscuit's treasure holds a torn corner of an old map, and each new site's treasure holds another piece
Site map - the map lies on Rudy's table; click it to pick where to dig next, see each site's layers and best time, and dig a cleared site again
Story - Uncle Rudy has new radio lines for the Orchard, and there is something at the bottom
Look
Rudy's lot - the first dig site is rebuilt: Rudy's house, the street, cars and trees around a cleared lot
Light - warm evening light baked in Blender, with shadows on the ground, on the pit walls and on the blocks
Shadows - blocks shade the blocks around them, and rigs and Biscuit cast soft shadows
Pit walls - the walls of the pit show the rock layers of the site you are digging
Interface
Climb up - a button in the sidebar takes the camera up for a wide view of the town while the rigs keep digging
Layer meter - the meter shows the site's rock layers as blocks, with the layer you are on
Stats page - the game menu has a Stats page: play time, digs, blocks, clicks, money, crits, chests and each site's best time
Achievements
Apple of My Eye - clear the Orchard
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Improved
4 changes
Ending
Biscuit - with Dig Buddy he digs with you and jumps into the treasure pit when the last block breaks; there is only ever one Biscuit
Treasure pit - the floor under the treasure no longer flickers
Sound
Rigs - rigs are quieter when you look at the town from above or at the map
Download
Size - the game files are smaller even with two dig sites: about 86 MB
remove
Removed
2 changes
Look
Backyard - the old backyard is replaced by Rudy's lot
Round number - the layer meter no longer shows the dig number (your digs are on the Stats page)
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