Leaderboards, the collection wall, and today's dig challenge!
21 September 2026
23 changes in this update
One More Exhibit
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Carefully dig up artifacts, outrun the boulder, and display your finds to attract visitors. Finders keepers, if you make it back
Leaderboards, a dig of the day, and what finds remain
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Finish a twelve piece collection and your final museum score is calculated and it now goes onto the leader board, the score is deliberately not a time. It's the visitors your museum drew divided by the rounds it took. Digging a piece out carefully costs you nothing and the only thing that costs is losing a round, because a lost round is one more round for the same twelve plinths. So the board rewards care and punishes failure, and doesn't factor in rushing. A brass board in the hall carries the top five, and pressing E opens the whole thing, the top fifty, and your own place wherever it falls.
There is now a dig of the day. One seed, the same twelve corridors for everyone, with its own board for that day. Ring the bell by the arch and it sets your museum aside exactly as it stands, then hands it back when you're done. So trying it costs you nothing you've already built. Your best run of the day is the one that counts, so you can go again as often as you like. And the day after, yesterday's board is a keypress away, because the rank you see when you finish is only provisional as the day keeps filling behind you.
The wall above the tunnel tells you what you're collecting. Twelve carved places beside the entrance, one for every piece the museum can hold, in the order you'll dig them up. Each one holds a carved symbol of its piece — cold until you've secured it, warm once you have, whether it's standing on its plinth or out in the tunnel with you as a tool. Four of them are marked, because four of them do something.
Smaller things I've improved: hold crouch in the air and you'll slide the moment you land. The fallen beam past a pit sits further back, so landing the jump and getting under it is a fair ask. The hole a rockfall drops through is set into the rock properly instead of hanging under it.
The all-time board has current has my daily dig score on it. I don't think it would take much to beat.
Added
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- A collection board beside the tunnel entrance, in view the moment you spawn: twelve carved places, one for every piece the museum can hold, in the order you will dig them up. Each holds a carved symbol of its piece, cold until that piece is secured and warm once it is - on its plinth or out with you as a tool, both count.
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- The four pieces that can be carried back down as tools carry a mark of their own, so you can see there is something more to them before you have found one.
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- Museum leaderboards on a brass board in the hall, opposite the bell. Press E to read the whole thing: the top fifty, and your own place wherever it falls, scrolled with the mouse wheel.
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- A finished museum now lands on a board. Your score is the visitors your museum drew divided by the rounds it took, so care pays and a lost round costs - it never rewards rushing.
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- Today's dig: one seed a day, so everybody walks the same twelve corridors that day, with its own board for the day.
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- Your best run of the day is the one that counts, so you can go again as often as you like.
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- Press Tab while reading the board to move between all time and today's dig.
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- Ring the bell and you are asked what you want, with what each choice costs: close the museum, or run today's dig. Hold the key rather than tapping it, and a museum is never closed without a second ask.
Improved
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- The first thing you dig up is the Seer's Eye, and once it is on its plinth you can carry it back down the tunnel from round two. It shows you where the next piece is buried.
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- Today's dig does not end your run. Your museum is set aside exactly as it stands and comes back when the dig is over, and you can walk back to the bell and return to it at any point between rounds.
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- While you are running today's dig the entrance says so, and the hall tells you your own museum is waiting for you.
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- The bell glows while it has something to offer, and a line in the hall says what it does the first few times you are near it. It can be rung in an empty hall now, so today's dig is there from your very first visit.
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- The board on the hall wall shows today's dig while you are running it, and the all-time board the rest of the time.
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- The end-of-round ledger tells you a piece is waiting on its plinth from the very first round, instead of two rounds later.
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- The end-of-run plaque leads with your museum score, says how it was worked out, and tells you when it is your best yet.
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- Getting knocked down by a pendulum, falling rock or a swinging rib costs you a second rather than a 1.25 seconds, so a mistake on the way home is less likely to end the run.
Known Issues
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- If you resume a saved museum that holds only the Rosewood Casket, your next dig turns up a second one. Start a new run to clear it.
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- A museum you started before this update will still finish, but it cannot be ranked. Currently the game has no way to know how long you had already been playing it. Start a new run for a place on the board.
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- A run played with cheats enabled is never ranked.
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- A finished run takes a few minutes to reach the board on the hall wall. The plaque at the end of your run shows your place straight away.
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- The boards are empty until somebody finishes a full twelve-piece museum.
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- Today's dig is one sitting. It keeps no progress of its own, so leaving part way through loses the dig - your museum is untouched either way.
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- A run begun before midnight and finished after it counts on the all-time board but not on either day's board.
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