Co-op is here! Join a friends museum

25 September 2026
14 changes in this update

Added

9 changes
  • A wall integrity gauge in the dig view: the wall's picture cracks, crumbles and trembles as it gets closer to giving, from Stable to Failing.

  • Play with a friend: when you start the game, choose a public game anyone can join, friends only, or a private game you invite someone into.

  • Voice chat, using your s&box voice setting (push-to-talk is V).

  • Your partner's lantern burns teal, so you can tell whose light is whose from the far end of a tunnel, and their name shows over their head when you're close or they're talking.

  • A friend who joins comes in their own clothes.

  • Take the hit for the runner: if the boulder catches you while your partner is carrying the piece home, it slows as if it had smashed through a beam.

  • A co-op leaderboard page on the museum's board for museums finished together.

  • The museum says when a friend joins or leaves, and welcomes you when you join someone else's.

  • A microphone mark shows while your voice is going out.

Improved

3 changes
  • If your partner leaves, the museum tells you, and anything they were holding goes back where it belongs.

  • Joining a friend's museum drops you straight in, without the introduction to a museum that isn't yours.

  • In a friend's museum, display cabinets, plinth enhancements and restorations are theirs to buy. Boosts are anyone's.

Fixed

1 change
  • Loose rock in the tunnel ceiling could hang in mid-air under the roof after a new tunnel was built.

Known Issues

1 change
  • A museum you finish after playing any round with a friend goes on the co-op board, not the solo one.