Category:New Heights Update



"'Introducing... Miner's Haven New Heights! The most anticipated base building update is finally upon us, multi-level placing and hydraulic items (height expandable and retractable items), what more could you ask for?'" The New Heights Update is an upcoming major update to Miner's Haven, expected to be released 11/10/2019 (Sunday) if things are kept on schedule.

Background
This update is notable for being stuck in development hell for a year. Originally announced in 2018, development was repeatedly held back by commitments to other projects, such as Vesteria. Those commitments would ultimately result in the cancellation of the update, and the cancellation of Miner's Haven entirely.

However, in September 2019, Berezaa released Miner's Haven under the public domain, allowing anyone to build their own sandbox tycoon game under the condition that no robux is being made under the Miner's Haven name. Notably, TalonMidnight developed his own mod based on the unreleased New Heights Update (if you want to experience it, click here). Berezaa was impressed with Midnight's work on the mod, and eventually hired him to work on the main game by the Halloween Event 2019.

TalonMidnight is now bringing the update to the main game by the end of 2019, as shown in a Tweet.

New Heights

 * The Hydarulic line of items are introduced, which can be raised or lowered to multiple elevations
 * On PC/Mac, pressing [1] and [2] will alter elevation of hydraulic items
 * New conveyor types includes regular conveyors, centering conveyors, and ramps
 * New upgraders, such as the Hydraulic Duality Refiner and Hydraulic Teleporter
 * Multiple-floor factories are now possible via platform items!
 * Small Platform (Contraband), obtainable through The Masked Man
 * Large Platform (Reborn), obtainable past Life 250+.
 * Mega Platform (Advanced Reborn), obtainable past Life 1000+.

Items

 * Changes to items:
 * Rebirth items:
 * Morning Star:
 * Life requirement lowered to Life 500+ (from 1500+)
 * Rarity increased to 14 (from 5)
 * Now caps off at $1N (from $1NvD)
 * No longer evolves into Neutron Star
 * Black Dwarf now has a rarity of 12 (from 5)
 * Shop items:
 * Ore Tracker:
 * Now Rare (from Contraband)
 * Moved to the regular shop at a price tag of $750M each (from 3 Shards of Life each)
 * No longer Reborn or Sacrifice-proof
 * Undead Assistance is now fixed, and can now upgrade ores.
 * Teleporter Senders now negate all ore velocity before sending them to a Receiver.
 * Other items:
 * Santa's Chimney is now smaller in hitbox size.
 * New Items:
 * Red Giant (Reborn): A behemoth of an astral body obtainable past Life 1,000+ that upgrades ore by 70% with a cap of $1NvD. This star will evolve into Neutron Star.
 * It is easy to just think of this item as a full reskin/replacement of the Morning Star.
 * Blue Supergiant (Advanced Reborn): What a Red Giant is, except on steroids. Obtainable at life 10,000+ and caps off at $1NVG.
 * This has a multiplier cap 6 suffixes higher than the Neutron Star, which only has a cap of $1TVg.
 * Void Star (Evolved Reborn), evolved version of the Black Dwarf.
 * Tsar Bomba (Evolved Reborn), evolved from Big Bertha.
 * An evolution of Aether Refinery will come.
 * An evolution of The Fracture will come.

Other Changes

 * Layouts can now store a maximum of 275 items each (from 200)
 * The Layout UI was updated as well.
 * Adjustments to placement to try to fix the wobble bug.

Trivia

 * This update was originally slated for a late August 2018 release, but has since been pushed back due to Berezaa's father passing away, Locard unable to work on the project, and Berezaa's work with other people in a new fantasy RPG game, Vesteria.
 * The update is notable for being stuck in development hell for several months due to Berezaa and Locard's commitments to other projects. The update resumed development on October 29th, 2018, but the update remained in development hell.
 * This update was cancelled due to Berezaa having no time to work on Miners Haven, and Locard who left to work on personal projects. (https://twitter.com/berezaagames/status/1076594997347020800)