Anvil Update 4

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