deep-dive-discussion

[gleaming laurel]

EDD this week is whooping me

[thorny otter]

Which stage

[gleaming laurel]

Failed three times last night on 2

[iron dew]

Idk how but me with friends just speedrun this edd in 30min

[dull scarab]

Funny thing (kinda), my system decided to protest during 1st stage of EDD and led the game to hanging. Luckily i realised what was the issue and restarted the game and it even let me rejoin the EDD! ...Under the map, due to lagspike. Had to apologise to the team for being 1+ km away when they needed Scout's light...
Good thing they made it through, and the next stage i was with them properly. Gave all the light they needed, killed Bramble, 3/3 stages done!

[thorny otter]

Everyone keeps telling me that regenerative bugs is basically nothing, but it clearly isn't

I hate this damn warning

Let me guess, there were oppressors you couldnt kill that kept knocking you around in the uplink and that's a part of what killed you

[gleaming laurel]

Honestly I think I was just having a bad night because tried again today and we chewed through it.

I did switch to an AOE build instead of a direct damage build and my three other teammates basically carried it in the dreadnought phase

[dull scarab]

Stalker + Regen = annoying problem until you manage to kill it

Had 2 during uplink, and 1 before that. Ugh.

[vapid lily]

Only good thing about regen stalkers is that the regen effect lets you see em coming

[still geode]

Regen bugs is awful imo

For most enemies it doesnt really matter you shoot them and they die

But then there are breeders that fly behind a wall, menaces that flee and hide, grabbers that fly away, patrol bots that hide, opressors that nobody shoots for a bit due to their armor, etc and it adds multiple enemies worth of extra health before you know it

And oh god the shellbacks

[tepid hamlet]

The menaces that just decide to hide for 3 minutes straight are so annoying

[vapid lily]

any bug that has the ability to escape/the instinct to avoid close-quarters is immediately 100x more dangerous

because the travel time to go back to killing you will immediately add up to healing

[tidal verge]

so, like

i forget. does egg hunt, 4 eggs, in deep dive, follow the normal 4 eggs rule of one swarm

lmao wtf

deep dive secondary deep scans

what is this even for

what am i scanning for, mission control?

[spiral lance]

You scan 2 crystals so the next team only has to scan 3 and find the geode

[tidal verge]

first deep dive complete on this new save file!

i will Never do an elite one, because i am bad at video games

but anyways

awesome

mint assault and electro minelets

neat

unfortunately mint assault is for my driller, who ive already GOTTEN a cooler one: dark descent

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[manic horizon]

Da hell are even these missions
Escort and liquid

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[fleet dagger]

bro that EDD was a walk in the park

[primal valley]

that was my first successful EDD and my second ever EDD

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[vivid path]

Anyone up for a quick edd before the new one drops?

I'm starting it in 10 mins

[frozen tapir]

for the regen enemies that pop out and run away immediately after, take cryo (grenade / driller / whatever)
it can't run away if it's frozen 🧠
stalkers are actually one of the many reasons i'm a fanboy of cryo driller, you just freeze them before they manage to do anything

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[drifting tinsel]

i need like 5 minutes... i forgot to downpatch my dd info fetcher and it's giving me season 6 objectives oops
thanks for patience

Let's dance!
Weekly Deep Dives information for 2026 January 22 to 2026 January 29 (Week 331)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1769684400:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Fungus Bogs | Code Name: Gangrenous Drift
Stage 1: 250 Morkite + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Shield Disruption
Stage 2: 7 Aquarqs + 2 Eggs | No Mutator
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Low Gravity Lethal Enemies

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Rocky Summit
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover
Stage 2: 250 Morkite + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Volatile Guts Lethal Enemies
Stage 3: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Resonance Crystals | Exploder Infestation

Normal Deep Dive
Codename: Gangrenous Drift
Biome: Fungus Bogs
Stage 1: 250 Morkite + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Shield Disruption
Stage 2: 7 Aquarqs + 2 Eggs
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Lethal Enemies | Low Gravity

Elite Deep Dive
Codename: Rocky Summit
Biome: Crystalline Caverns
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover
Stage 2: 250 Morkite + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Lethal Enemies | Volatile Guts
Stage 3: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Resonance Crystals | Exploder Infestation

[dark geode]

kinda done with this duck and cover shit

[spiral lance]

January has had 3 duck and covers

[sturdy widget]

Truly the year of the duck

[jagged pelican]

atleast the fowl is in stage 1

[ancient pewter]

Oh boy, exploder salvage

Aoe shard it is

[drifting tinsel]

Remembered that these are the last dives of the season, so let's look at s5's Deep Dive stats :]

• Most frequently recurring primary objectives were 🏅 On-Site Refining (54), 🥈 4 Eggs (52), and 🥉 tied between 200 Morkite and 6 Eggs (48)! Rarest primary objective goes to 5 Resonance Scans + Drillevator (10).
• Most common secondaries go to 🏅 Morkite Well (83), 🥈 150 Morkite (78), and 🥉 2 Eggs (75). Rarest secondary objective was 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s.
• Most common warnings were 🏅 Duck and Cover (67) (no surprise), 🥈 Parasites (30), and 🥉 Swarmageddon (29). Rarest warning was Rival Presence (14).
• Most common anomalies were 🏅 Rich Atmosphere (28), 🥈 Low Gravity (18), and 🥉 Volatile Guts (16). Rarest anomaly was Blood Sugar (11).
• The biome we saw the most was Dense Biozone (22), and the biome we saw the least was Salt Pits (12).

man i love it when the #1 warning is more than twice as frequent as the one in second place

[undone jasper]

Rarest being Rival Presence makes me happy

Sniper Turret in every ceiling I look is now missing

A Quality of Life improvement

Litteraly becouse I don't die

[burnt sandal]

coolest biome in last place smh

[drifting tinsel]

pouncey 🤝 vio 🤝 ence
salt pits enjoyers starving

[burnt sandal]

there's nothing better for exploration enjoyers than 400 morkite salt pits

[topaz oxide]

Salt pits is the best

[ancient pewter]

Salt pits gang

Really funny to see so many d&c

[uneven stream]

How many 2 mini mules secondary were there 👀

[drifting tinsel]

54, sorry i forgor 💀

[primal valley]

new set of dives have good maps

[vapid lily]

Salt Pits is a good biome
There having been 67 Duck and Covers…

🥀

I’m tired of ducking and covering, Mission Control!!!
THAT’S TOO DAMN BAD, MINER!!!

[iron dew]

Im just waiting for dd or edd with ghost bulk

[median coral]

EDD, point extraction, black box, duck and cover, just taking too fuckin' long = the fabric of nightmares.

[subtle iris]

For the two egg secondary, does one spawn a swarm?

[vapid lily]

Afaik yah
One egg is a swarm another’s just a mob of bugs

[cerulean harness]

man blood sugar and ebonite outbreak are very cool but they almost never got into rotation

[vapid lily]

Yeah it’s unfortunate

Blood Sugar is neat though I’m not fond of its gimmick but ebonite outbreak is a neat warning that you never see

But noooo
Another 10 billion acid spitters to the Hoxxes underground…

The melting of new boots and spewing of disgusting mush will continue until morale improves

[remote echo]

blood sugar on drillevator is very fun lol, I remember we had this combo in EDD few months ago

I thought its really hard mutator when I played on like haz 2-3 because no bugs but now its very fun to me

[ancient pewter]

Rocky Summit though, what is this? Are we in a mine or on a mountain smh

[bleak umbra]

DUDE

WHATS WITH THESE MUTATORS

at least no dreadnoughts, drilldozer/vater, or sabo

[mortal niche]

this week's elite deep dive sounds a bit painful lol

Least there's no dreads so... crowd control seems to be the name of the game at least

[mortal niche]

I feel like blood sugar's only an active detriment when you have some shit like low o2

then it's absolute pain

I still remember my first blood sugar mission being exactly that

[vapid lily]

EDD was a cakewalk until the last stage which was vile for no good reason

brood nexuses tucked away, poorly timed swarms, oppressor on uplink, multiple shellbacks
not fun

[spiral lance]

I had 4 cave leeches on the last stages of the EDD

[bleak tartan]

I prefer this EDD over the last one

You can at least finish this one quick and there aren't Stalkers

[wise sandal]

I swear there's more cave leeches in random levels than there are in the cave leech warnings

[mortal niche]

the first stage was honestly the hardest

then again, a bet-C and duck-and-cover makes anything painful

[spiral lance]

Why did they spawn bet c in like the best natural cover in the cave

[mortal niche]

3 infectors outside the pod is also just mean lol

[spiral lance]

She spawned in a little pocket with the perfect amount of natural cover for me

[mortal niche]

it was extra painful because for some reason

our gunner's shield got glitched for the first stage

and couldn't be deployed

...it got reverted next stage though

[bleak tartan]

Sounds like you had a bad time with yours

[mortal niche]

honestly the other two stages went alot smoother

lethal enemies and exploder infestation still sucks but I'll take it any day over duck and cover

[compact crypt]

six seven duck and covers in S5 is insane.

[drifting tinsel]

it's so funny though

[tiny marten]

we got griefed from a driller at last stage of edd

he drilled black box downwards and c4 the area, made an uneven exposed terrain mid event

exploders were coming from 360 degrees

2/4 ppl were playing shockwave and no IW

and im not that great or a player, ggs xd

[vapid lily]

Biting my tongue clean off about it if I’m honest

[full sky]

there are griefers on DRG?

I have yet to have a negative multiplayer experience besides coming across people that are clueless but good meaning

[burnt sandal]

there are, just like in any other multiplayer game

they're fairly rare though

[zenith ember]

some things never change huh

like a self absorbed driller that bunkers without asking the team

[knotty jetty]

I wish Armor Break upgrades were to deal +20% DMG vs enemy shield.

[late hound]

Someone on Deepdive elite?

[bleak umbra]

FIVE BROOD NEXUS’

COUNT THEM ALL

FUCKING FIVE

[inner umbra]

So...if it's gonna be my first deep dive since ever- how much should i expect to suck?

[tacit jungle]

eh sometimes you just get carried and get confused why everybody is complaining

also EDD feels kinda chill compared to haz5+

[dull scarab]

Yeah, if your team got you through this week's stage 1 (which can be done quite fast) - you have a great chance to complete stage 3 if you watch for exploders.

[inner umbra]

I haven't done the deep dive. I've done one years ago, never did one again.

[dull scarab]

Oh, wait, read again. Regular deep dive? Even easier, nothing worse than HAZ3.5.
UPD. Yes, fixed, it's 3, 3.5 and 3.5.

[mellow cradle]

the regular deep dive is only haz 3.5 at maximum

[buoyant tundra]

What’s a good engi build for an elite deep dive?

[spiral lance]

11111 executioner lok-1
23122 roll control breach cutter

[buoyant tundra]

Got any advice for aiming the lok? It feels like I never manage to hit the weak spots

[main oak]

What problem do you have with that?

[buoyant tundra]

Like it’s a bit inconsistent for me since it either goes to the weak point or doesent

And sometimes with dreds I don’t manage to get a clean shot at it’s weakpoint since it keeps turning or moving

Is there something I’m doing wrong?

[chilly wyvern]

I try to lock onto the dread and move into position/adjust aim after, if I position myself first it'll often move away while I'm still locking on

With other players it's really helpful to keep track on what player a dread is attacking and try to position it between yourself and that player to get a clean shot on the weakpoint

[spiral lance]

I only have problems hitting the hive guard’s weak spots because it moves and turns too much

Best you can do is either wait for it to stop turning or get up close (which you shouldn’t ever do)

Maybe if a teammate can slow it

[vapid lily]

Its fatass claws are perfectly shaped to block its weak points from the sides its so annoying
Yeah your best hope is wait for it to stop turning/moving
Getting up close is a bad idea, its basically guaranteed to bite you with evil dreadnought hitbox shenanigans

[spiral lance]

I love when it shoots fireballs at me 90 degrees off from where it’s looking

[buoyant tundra]

Alright I suppose good things come to those who wait… like flamethrowers.. and beer

[long pond]

Did a solo deep dive, first time with gunner! Was fun, although I got spooked real bad during the first stage because I almost didn't get to the drop pod thanks to that deep pit in the beginning. I had carefully fallen down it and didn't know how to get back that way, and the mule wasn't helping

Any of the other classes could have done it easily but I had 0 ziplines and didn't want to call a resupply (I could have, since I overmined nitra a lot)

[wheat edge]

Not if you're Engineer. I died to that pit

[honest plinth]

unexpected free supplies on stage 3, kek

never seen this before in DD

[rapid totem]

besides the big drop how are the caves this week

any hazards i should be aware of?

anything i might miss?

[honest plinth]

3 stage of EDD with some elevation diffrence, but there's rocket boots near the start

[primal valley]

stage 3 also has several brood nexuses and a barrager tucked away in a corner

[buoyant tundra]

Does anyone use mkii turrets in a deep dive?

[subtle iris]

I mean I am pretty green but I have the times I’ve done DDs with engi (I don’t think I have done an EDD with engi yet)

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[primal valley]

theres definitely people who use mkii turrets out there, it's just straight up worse than gemini

[mortal niche]

[ancient pewter]

So what?

[remote echo]

I'm using gemini so I can whip these baddies non stop

[subtle iris]

Oh man I really am green I thought for some reason the ii in Mkii meant two of them 🤦‍♂️😂

[primal valley]

so nothing
if you wanna win and have an easier time, go with gemini
nothing stops you from using turret mkii, but it simply sucks

[ancient pewter]

Why post about it then

[primal valley]

because it was asked here ^ and i answered?

[still geode]

so what?

[zenith ember]

damn you are still around ajfish

[ancient pewter]

So it was, my bad

[mortal niche]

It really doesn't

Sometimes I don't wanna just babysit two sentries or micromanage my ammo as hard

Sometimes I wanna just use my guns more

[mellow cradle]

so you can place down just one gemini turret, and enjoy more ammo without any noticable damage downsides

[primal valley]

being lazy is hardly a utility it gives when you can do that with gemini anyway and still have a second turret to double your turret dps on a whim

[still geode]

Then dont build it at all

[gaunt loom]

how is this week's EDD?

[mortal niche]

idk about you but calling it lazyness now encourages me to keep using it

God forbid I only wanna keep track of a single sentry when I'm in the middle of a swarm

Also why the hell are we arguing about engineer balance in deep dive channels

[pliant yoke]

Because playing Engi is a thing you can do in Deep dives

[primal valley]

first dive (eggs + morkite well) has a very hot drop with a barrager and 2 or 3 spitballers, after that it's some annoying terrain
second dive (morkite + i forgot) is easy with no hot drops and fairly simple terrain; final room is best done with scout and engi but you should have a scout and engi anyway
third dive (salvage + i forgot) has a tough main cave due to elevation changes. there are a couple brood nexuses, a barrager tucked away in a corner and a naedocyte breeder, but there are also jet boots near the start of the main cave

[gleaming garnet]

How you guys can finish that EDD is beyond me

[pliant smelt]

caves generations are just... eugh

[dull scarab]

Team that stays together and maybe can carry lower-skill player.

[gleaming garnet]

Staying together got us killed on stage 3 evac right after triangulation

[orchid flicker]

Oh yeah you were prime real estate for the exploders

I always run away from the drop pod in the first 40 seconds of waiting for the doors to open for that reason on Salvage

[zenith ember]

Its not that bad

Could have been an open area d&c

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[gleaming garnet]

Having a team that uses their abilities did the trick. I have so much to learn. Lmao

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[drifting tinsel]

idk if patch is out yet but anyways

Let's dance!
Weekly Deep Dives information for 2026 January 29 to 2026 February 05 (Week 332)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1770289200:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Ossuary Depths | Code Name: Brutal Lair
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + Liquid Morkite Well | Ebonite Outbreak
Stage 2: 250 Morkite + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 3: Dreadnought x2 (Hiveguard+Classic) + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Critical Weakness

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Glacial Strata | Code Name: Stony Lodge
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + Liquid Morkite Well | Ebonite Outbreak
Stage 2: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Resonance Crystals | Mactera Plague
Stage 3: 225 Morkite + 🏵️ Resinite Mass | Scrab Nesting Grounds

we finally got that resonance crystal emoji. rip

[main oak]

Have you gotta check the entire dive to verify it's correct, I wonder?

[untold tiger]

Seems so, given the biome.

Nvm, Nemo is right.

[main oak]

Oh, the biome, yeah, no way we get that without having to download an update

[drifting tinsel]

it worked the same during experimental. i guess it'd only be wrong if they added a surprise new biome or a surprise new mission

[main oak]

DD stage 1 is in Bough as of now

[burnt ice]

patch isn't here yet :(

[main oak]

I also wonder if it can be changed after the update is there

[drifting tinsel]

it can. it was rerolled at least twice to my knowledge at the start of S5

[main oak]

Neat

Deep Dive into the Bone Zone in an hour 🔥

[ancient pewter]

What is the stage 3 secondary if you do the edd now?

[drifting tinsel]

morkite well, actually

[ancient pewter]

Huh, ok. And the warning?

[drifting tinsel]

one second i can get the current console rotation lol

[main oak]

Oh yeah, that could work for now

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2026 January 29 to 2026 February 05 (Week 332)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1770289200:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Hollow Bough | Code Name: Brutal Lair
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Rival Presence
Stage 2: 250 Morkite + Black Box | Ebonite Outbreak
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard & Classic) + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Critical Weakness

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Salt Pits | Code Name: Stony Lodge
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Rival Presence
Stage 2: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Classic | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 3: 225 Morkite + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover

[ancient pewter]

DUCK AND COVER LMAO

[drifting tinsel]

they had to end the season on duck and cover 🥀 i'm going to cry

[ancient pewter]

I was worried getting scrabs would be rough in EDDs, but, next to d&c I'm not so sure

[drifting tinsel]

i'll update pins after season 6 drops... any minute now...

[main oak]

Aaaany second now

See? Bones!

[drifting tinsel]

dives rerolleed

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2026 January 29 to 2026 February 05 (Week 332)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1770289200:f>

STEAM:
DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Corrupt Barrens
Stage 1: 🏵️ 4 Resinite Masses + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + Black Box | No Mutator
Stage 3: 7 Aquarqs + 150 Morkite | Rich Atmosphere Parasites

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Ossuary Depths | Code Name: Tainted Well
Stage 1: 250 Morkite + 2 Resonance Crystals | Critical Weakness Mactera Plague
Stage 2: 10 Aquarqs + 150 Morkite | No Mutator
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Regenerative Bugs

CONSOLE:
DEEP DIVE
Region: Glacial Strata | Code Name: Corrupt Barrens
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Black Box | Duck and Cover
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + Black Box | No Mutator
Stage 3: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 150 Morkite | Rich Atmosphere Parasites

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Hollow Bough | Code Name: Tainted Well
Stage 1: Dreadnought x2 (Hiveguard & Twins) + 2 Resonance Crystals | Critical Weakness Mactera Plague
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + Twins | No Mutator
Stage 3: 10 Aquarqs + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs

sorry for poor dreadnought formatting i think i downpatched too hard

[ancient pewter]

Lots of morkite this edd

[zenith ember]

huh split generation

interesting

[burnt sandal]

happens due to the consoles going through a 2-week verification process but the new biome is on the menu for the dive

[drifting tinsel]

one more week of this and then we'll be back to the usual synced rotations :]
also i won't write plaintext rotations until then, these messages are chunky enough 😭 makes me feel like a spambot but legal

[zenith ember]

yeah all good, guess ill see the new biome via edd

[bleak tartan]

"Mission Control this is the third time you've showed Duck and Cover in class."

[graceful rivet]

Can anyone tell me if I am having a bug on the current normal deep dive?

For me it shows I need 4 Resinite Masses, not 3

And I cannot find the 4th no matter where I go. I've drilled anywhere and everywhere I could

Okay, there is an actual 4th (In a very weird spot) but it's still odd we need 4 despite here saying we need 3.

[tawdry roost]

Thanks for identifying this! This is really good to know going into the DD

[drifting tinsel]

is it four? i swear i saw three when i loaded the dive 😭 i'm so sorry

[graceful rivet]

No worries, it's 4 yeah

Just be aware one of them is tucked into a corner that's very very easy to miss. Spent so much time here, never had that before.

[honest plinth]

wow, first DD and already new mission type

[long pond]

Just did the first stage of the regular deep dive with cave leech cluster... I only saw 2 on the ceilings. Feels lucky

I am doing it solo, does that also reduce them?

[main topaz]

stationary spawns are severely reduced playing solo

so are all enemy spawns

[vapid lily]

THE DUCK AND COVERS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROOOOOVES

Two rival presences doe

And an Ebonite Outbreak

[pliant shuttle]

Is this deep dive bugged or something? Last mission only had 6 aquarq

lol nvm finally found the last one, but it spawned exactly 7 and the last one was tucked away in a tiny corner with barely any dots

[long pond]

Stage 3 was by far the easiest to me this time. Bosco got me the the aquarqs fast and I got literally a third of the morkite from what the drop pod smashed through

Felt weirdly fast to me until I realized it was rich atmosphere

[pliant shuttle]

Yeah I've never had an aquarq that spawned exactly the required amount and then hid the last one lmao

[long pond]

I think I stumbled into that corner right away

But yeah it can be down to luck

Although honestly I should learn to use the compass more

[pliant shuttle]

I just did a duo but I kept checking the map thinking there was some tiny hidden cave since that happens a lot and nope

[stable yew]

thank you for this 🙏

[zenith ember]

iirc one of the dd or edd 1-2years ago had a cave that is completely separated from the main one, no tunnels

if you didnt had a driller have fun digging into that corridor for aquarqs

[pastel mortar]

anyone having any luck with stage 3 of the edd ? failed 3 times already it's so hard

[orchid flicker]

I managed it with a random Engi. I ran Scout with AI Stability Engine and Double Barrel and the boomerang, and my priority was keeping Engi alive so that they can deal damage

Driller with sludge blast is also viable for dealing with the BET-C

[pastel mortar]

damn, well played, I hope i'll be able to get that win soon as well

[orchid flicker]

What's the main factor for you failing?

[pastel mortar]

my first 2 lobbies weren't great (had a scout blame me for nothing ?) but the last one was really good i'm so sad we lost

[pastel mortar]

mainly Bet-C tbh, on the last run we tried to take care of the threats slowly one by one before attempting him but he was imply dealing too much damage, sometimes almost oneshotting people

[orchid flicker]

Rough, the terrain is pretty anti dwarf with all the potholes and stalactites blocking your vision

[pastel mortar]

and because of all the constant revives (cuz he had the tendency to spawn kill people) we ra, out of time and a swarm spawned

[pastel mortar]

yeah unfortunately, even worse when you had all of these new grabbers buried underground

[orchid flicker]

Engi got the BET-C down using breach cutter to shoot through the terrain

If it was me playing engi I'd shoot it from a distance with either the Lok1 or the Shard Diffractor

[pastel mortar]

on their own they're not that bad to spot, but during a swarm that's a whole other thing. Even as scout with heigthened senses i sometimes don't even have the time to grapple away

[orchid flicker]

Right

So you'd probably have to have a designated hold and have a deliberate plan to not run too much when a swarm hits

It was just the two of us for my instance so we never let the other out of our sight

[pastel mortar]

yeah we probably should have picked a better place to fight him instead of the main area

i need to be more aware of my surrounding and just space in general

[orchid flicker]

Driller with sludge pump might be necessary, either that or gunner with long duration shields

[orchid flicker]

Real

I'm guessing you still haven't succeeded yet?

[pastel mortar]

we had a driller with sludge as well as a soldier but for some reason he seemed pretty savy on his shield use even in dire situations

[pastel mortar]

nah didn't have the time to make a 4th try yet

[orchid flicker]

Ehh maybe you just didn't wake up with the right brain circuitry and you just gotta sleep on it and pray for good RNG

Win it first try tomorrow

[pastel mortar]

sure thing, i'll probably do some other assigments and let this one rest until tommorow

[orchid flicker]

Good luck miner

[pastel mortar]

or else i might go coo coo crazy if i keep failing stage 3 for 4 consecutives hours

[orchid flicker]

I wouldn't even want to do something I enjoyed for 4 consecutive hours

[solemn hollow]

i'm happy to help if schedules happen to line up

[spiral lance]

why does nemesis spawn in deep dives?

fucking stupid robot i cant kill as a solo cryo driller

[dull scarab]

Rare RNG stuff. Plus you have axes.

[dusky panther]

has anyone encounted the new biome in a deep dive yet?

[dusky panther]

and if so how did you deal with it

[mellow cradle]

it's on the elite deep dive

[mellow cradle]

look down
bring AoE capable of hitting airborne targets

(the only death I had on the EDD was when we were shooting a nemesis inside of a shield, and he used the dig attack, destroying the terrain below us, dropping me and one other person into 2 pijaws)

that was... something

[dusky panther]

EDD..?

[mellow cradle]

elite deep dive which I mentioned earlier

[dusky panther]

what are those?

[mellow cradle]

AoE capable of hitting airborne targets?

that's like, pgl, RC breach, heat & cold radiance, cryo grenades, hurricane, mortar rounds, BlH, BrH, minigun AV, drak AV

also the scrabs aren't that big of a deal

they aren't so fast to even attack you at a fast rate, they are just annoyances

[honest plinth]

3 detonators on 1 stage of DD, lel

[spiral lance]

I tried throwing axes and it took barely any damage

[primal valley]

how's this week's EDD?

[remote echo]

chill

[ancient pewter]

Yeah it's p nice

Stage 2 is kind of just a regular haz 5 10 aquarq PE, and that's basically the worst it gets

[mellow cradle]

I had this happen

but if you don't get a nemesis digging under you, it's rather chill

[oak pecan]

I have been away from DRG for a while and I wanted to get back into solo EDDs. Any surprises I should be aware of?

[mellow cradle]

the surprise is a whole new biome with new enemies

[oak pecan]

True, I was going to do a few practice missions to test out the new mission type and fight the new enemies before I went in

[subtle iris]

The nemesis on stage 3 was the toughest part for my group but we got through it (with a lot of deaths)

[primal valley]

for me it was the 20 pitjaws that seemed to follow me wherever i went, as well as the Hoxxes' entire Naedocyte Hatchling population chasing me

[subtle iris]

Are pitjaws like the ceiling grabbers where the map spawns with so many or can they spawn during swarms?

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[remote echo]

like ceiling grabbers

[dull scarab]

like flying leeches, ye

[orchid flicker]

I just ping the nemesis, drill away, and mind my own business while Bosco kills it for me

[spiral lance]

it was true solo :( but thanks for the tip

[inner umbra]

What is the difference between a DD and DDE? Aside it 'just gets harder'.

Nothing; really?

[iron dew]

DD is haz 3.5 and EDD is haz 5

[tepid hamlet]

Yeah same concept just a lot harder

[sour frigate]

The DD has two warnings and the EDD has 2 or 3.

https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/wiki/Deep_Dives#Difficulty

[inner umbra]

But end-game: Shoot and kill bugs is the same, aye?

[tepid hamlet]

Yes

[dull scarab]

And do your double objectives in respective biomes.

[snow estuary]

Can't find the last vein in the first deep dive room

surpriused they don't show up on the map

[snow estuary]

Found it in the end

Bulkie came out of the tunnel and shook it's explosive booty around to show me the way

[ember orchid]

I was doing this week's EDD and during the final mission, all the enemies suddenly disappeared. is that a known thing?

[inner umbra]

I just did the deep dive and didn't go down. I feel freaking great.

[spark vector]

I don’t know how the seed system in this game works. Is every instance of a week’s DD/EDD guaranteed to be identical to every other?

I know in normal missions I’ve done a mission, finished, gone back to the same mission and some things have been different

(Though DDs have a lot less things to be random, like no chests or events)

[snow estuary]

Yeah, there's some small differences between solo and group lobbies

Like less cave leeches

But otherwise it's mostly identical across runs

[glacial sentinel]

are deep dives always solo? there sitn any public hosts?

[mellow cradle]

they can be done in a team
you might not see any public lobbies, because it's tuesday, and you also can't join dives that are already in progress

[glacial sentinel]

oh ok ty!

[sour frigate]

The layout is fixed but what spawns can change.

[inner umbra]

I might of died alot, but i did it. I did a E. DD. I'm also feeling like Haz 4 is natural.

Shit. I'm getting good at the game...

[dull scarab]

Congrats, that's great! What class and OCs did you use?

[inner umbra]

Scout, Deepcore with the AI (Crits crittier) and Shotgun with compact shells

lemme re-check..

Deepcore with STabil Engine, and Shotgun with Stuffed Shells.

[vapid lily]

accidentally yoshi'd a poor cave angel in the DD 😭

I'm so sorry
the resinite carved a hole that wrecked my route and I was out of platforms

so I managed to wrangle an angel into flying me over but it bumped the lip and in my panic I thought I might fall so I power-attacked when it dropped me and I think that killed it

got me to stage 2, though
I'll complete this mission in your honor cave angel

[unkempt mulch]

just did my first deep dive, and I gotta say it was a lot of fun
not having to worry about secondaries was great, just the extra focus of it all
good team, good guys all around

[vapid lily]

man
was it just me feeling this or was the EDD 2nd stage like. really good
idk the cavegen was just perfection

most fun I've had on a PE in a long time and PE is already a mission type i'm fond of

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[dull scarab]

It was fine, i was glad to find 3 or 4 aquarks in one of the tunnels.
But we were stuck at 9/10 for a while, and then looked for remaining morkite. Overall though... Quite fine PE with some downsides. Not the best, just fine.

[dull scarab]

What do you like a lot about PE?

[spare sierra]

I was about to ask whens the next deep dive…

That answers my question

Hmm so it resets every Thursday neat

[trail pivot]

Anyone diving this morning?

Like try a depth deep dive

[trail pivot]

I forgot how to invite people from the server

[pliant smelt]

#lfg-steam ?

[trail pivot]

Yeah but where is the lobby code

[main oak]

Go to your Steam profile (and be online and not invisible), right-click on the green "Join game" button to the right

If by "code" you meant the Steam link

[radiant temple]

anyone to latam to do the deep dive?

[glacial sentinel]

host aborted 2/3 deep dive ☠️

[slow magnet]

host drilled straight to nemesis and got us all killed

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[main trench]

What is the edd for PlayStation right now?

[main oak]

The bottom ones: #deep-dive-discussion message

[manic horizon]

Haven't seen Nemesis in ages and here he is, on the last stage of the EDD

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
_ _

[drifting tinsel]

this is gonna sound crazy but dives havent refreshed yet

probably because dives were refreshed an hour into the usual weekly refresh time
i'll check a couple times over the next hour if they've updated

[manic horizon]

2:00 - " in 10 hours missions will be updated"
So 12:00
It's 14:00 lol

[drifting tinsel]

in-game terminal says 6 days 23hrs to next refresh. ok everyone we are going to have 2 weeks of the same deep dives ❤️ /j

[main oak]

Why would they be not at the standard time this week though

[drifting tinsel]

season 6 patch dropped 1hr after the usual refresh time (for this time of year, at least)
this kinda thing didn't happen during season 5 because daylight savings had taken effect, so update hour was equal to refresh hour

[main oak]

Yeah, I got the season release time offset, but still

[drifting tinsel]

my guess is that DDs are hard-coded to last exactly 7 days without admin intervention, and last week's update offset gsg's server by 1hr

[main oak]

Might as well do both snoozefests that are current Dives again in the meantime

[hollow cairn]

New dives are up

Why the fuck is it hollow bough again

[drifting tinsel]

Let's dance!
Weekly Deep Dives information for 2026 February 05 to 2026 February 12 (Week 333)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1770894000:f>

STEAM

DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Worthy Fear
Stage 1: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator
Stage 2: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Liquid Morkite Well | Swarmageddon
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard+Classic) + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Salt Pits | Code Name: Fragile Womb
Stage 1: On-Site Refining + 2 Resonance Crystals | Rival Presence
Stage 2: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Eggs | Low Gravity
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + Hiveguard | Low Oxygen

CONSOLE

DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Worthy Fear
Stage 1: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator
Stage 2: Escort Duty + 2 Resonance Crystals | Elite Threat
Stage 3: ** 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard+Classic) ** + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Hollow Bough | Code Name: Fragile Womb
Stage 1: 10 Aquarqs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon
Stage 2: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Eggs | Low Gravity
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + Hiveguard | Low Oxygen

[manic horizon]

To scratch your new pair of pants

[hollow cairn]

Dreadnaughts AGAIN

I’m going to throw myself off the space rig

And low 02 wonderful

[zenith ember]

"fragile womb"

[manic horizon]

Also why so many wells and refinery

[hollow cairn]

Low oxygen, my favorite modifer

[ancient pewter]

Where were the rivals on the first stage of the edd? Couldn't find them anywhere, not that I really looked beyond the mission objectives

[drifting tinsel]

i didnt see them either LMAO
seen it happen once before too, in a regular mining mission. the "rival presence" was a data deposit halfway down the cave. i thought maybe it was a solo thing

[safe leaf]

Trench warfare on this EDD

With presumably a hot drop into turret plagued cave

Mix of precision direct damage and area denial AoE (electrical/corrosive with fire slant ideally) seems preferable

Stage 1 bots or stage 3 low O2 don't seem inviting for cryo, but stage 3 hiveguard will give pure incendiaries a hard time

Mobility based AoE probably won't do well in low O2

Scout could run trifork volley for once

Driller a tri-DoT build probably

Gunner probably most normal builds be fine if they have enough stopping power

Engi I vision with campy build, shard and unstable stubby

...makes me wonder... how does EMD interface with hiveguard weakspots?

Satchels work awesome vs caretaker vents and (mostly in solo) vs hiveguard weakspots

EMD placed well melts caretaker vents...

[glacial sentinel]

is this the deep dive experience? this is the 3rd time ive tried this and averytime someone leaves at 1st stage, the rest at 2nd stage? I'd like to do these to the end to get to EDD's.. Ive wasted time here for two hours now and i might just stop doing DD's if this is what it is. I get that old players dont need cosmetics but some of us just started

[honest plinth]

In such moments I closed them in solo. I know it sounds dubious, but it's easier than it seems, especially considering you take significantly less damage and use all drop pods for urself

[glacial sentinel]

i died solo to the 3rd dreadnought :/

[zenith ember]

no, normal ppl finishes them

could be connection error

[glacial sentinel]

i guess..

[zenith ember]

i had to leave a dd because the sand shark grabbed me and bugged my camera

also very likely older players wont leave

because 1) the cosmetic cores take super long to finish 2) playing for the fun of it

you are prob just unlucky to get back to back quits

[mellow cradle]

long time players have generally only cosmetic or mineral cores to gain, adn those are stage 3 yeah

[pseudo ingot]

Did the Deep Dives change today?

[long pond]

yes

[hollow cairn]

Can they please fix Hiveguard Sentinels

The Hiveguard was in the most massive room I’ve ever seen and the Sentinels still spawned in outside tunnels so we had to sit there for 3 minutes waiting for them to dig to us

They had all the room in the world to not spawn outside the arena

[primal valley]

ffs, 2 hiveguards

hate them

[vapid lily]

"you are going to wait around for the phase change and you are going to LIKE IT"

[remote echo]

they spawned normally in my dive. took a fight in start location

[remote cave]

What are the mission rn,

[main oak]

You can, like, scroll up a bit

[potent tinsel]

I would recommend getting together a dedicated squad for serious stuff like DD’s. Joining/hosting are a bit too iffy for me but I do have a squad that is high level and up for it most of the time.

[pale spire]

Mediocre but if you want a real life hack use emd for omen, it shreds all nodes and kills drones. Just place them on a plat midway up

[mellow cradle]

#modded-gallery message

[zenith ember]

Thats wack

[raw shuttle]

anyone else just kinda scraping by int the EDD?

[dull scarab]

Steam EDD Stages 1 and 2 were smooth, especially 2.
Stage 3 though... Giant room, 3 Barrages (one in the bottom). And a Bramble. Prepare to clean the top floor right after landing.

[spark vector]

just did normal DD where the engineer d/c'd after stage 1, but we still clutched it out

lol at that room on stage 3 with like, literally 6 spitballers

[dull scarab]

Thanks for info, rock and stone!

[sullen tundra]

really? i genuenly dont think I have ever had more than one person leave a deep dive

but i think ive only done like 30 deep dives maybe

so idk

and most of the time people dc

or i assume they dc if they leave like third stage

[rain echo]

my game stuttered 3 times and all my teammates lost connection :C

i mean i can run it myself (im a driller lol) but it sucks that this happened

[orchid flicker]

Stage 3 of the EDD was a hot drop. I was playing driller and the scout disconnected as it was loading

There was a barrage at spawn so engi and gunner ran ahead into the main room. Gunner got surrounded and engi fell and got leeched

Host disconnected their game before we got the mission failure screen

Wait I forgot to include my own blunder. So I reflexively ran toward the barrage but couldn't kill it in time. I managed to immediately call a resupply before going down, so I consumed it upon popping Iron Will. I figured fuck it we ball and used the invulnerability of Iron Will to kamikaze bomb clusters of enemies and jump down to where engi was, though I should've prioritized gunner. The mission lasted an extra 60 seconds

[topaz oxide]

Oof driller running towards a barrage is just not a good idea

[orchid flicker]

My idea was to flank it

And also prevent it from targeting all of us by spreading out

[median tree]

The elite deep dive is basically impossible with most random lobbies in my experience

[zenith ember]

Thats overly exaggerated lol

Its not even half as bad as some from last season

[median tree]

I play on playstation so I probably get different servers than you but it takes a lot of attempts for me to complete the edd

[crisp tiger]

I have never played deep dives and never seen any gameplay
how are they different from normal missions?

[charred juniper]

#deep-dive-discussion message

[pliant nymph]

Damn huuli hoarder on stage 3 DD, was fighting the dreadnought when it decided to materialise.

[gilded cave]

Are the new resinite masses a possible DD secondary? havent seen them yet for the 2nd objective.

[grim pawn]

i think last week had one as a secondary, yes

no wait, that was as a primary

[candid ether]

what's deep dive? I still haven't done it.

[grim pawn]

#deep-dive-discussion message

basically 3 missions in a row, around hazard 3-4 (dd) or 4-5 (edd), you keep your health, ammo, and resources from each previous mission

[candid ether]

cool, thx

[orchid flicker]

Low oxygen hollow bough egg hunt with Hiveguard? Yeah you're gonna need voice chat to survive that

[median tree]

It's not that bad with resups

But still hard

[honest plinth]

what a start of edd
driller left after 1 death, engi buliding pipes when nemesis flying around and scout just leave, "cant win this sry"

[mortal niche]

FUCKING LEAF LOVERS-

[thorny salmon]

https://medal.tv/fr/games/deep-rock/clips/m4XlHZ6gwNlnCVmpO?invite=cr-MSxDQUUsNDcxMDk5ODIy

360 no scoped

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
_ _

[main oak]

What a fair enemy

[remote echo]

would be funny if resupply killed it

[little halo]

The deep dive tracker doesn't show any new secondary for S6, so safe to assume resinite secondary is not possible. https://github.com/vioxynteris/deepdives/blob/master/drg_mission_gen_gsg_endpoint_cli/src/cleaned_deep_dive.rs

[gilded cave]

I see, thank you!

[tiny marten]

did everyone engage 3-4 bulks in last mission of this week's edd?

[main oak]

Based on my prior experience, they very much could

Yet to do the EDD myself though

[remote echo]

only one

[tiny marten]

i got 3 or 4

[charred juniper]

iirc a single resinite is a valid possible secondary, at least last I knew

[little halo]

Can't believe i forgot the patch note

@charred juniper @gilded cave i guess resinite secondary is possible

[gilded cave]

Sweet

Thnx mate.

[drifting tinsel]

i promise it's there lol

[cerulean harness]

does the new secondary spawn a wave tho?

[low pebble]

i dont know, but i'd speculate it would. resinite is like eggs--some of them have a wave attached, on top of whatever waves are on a timer.

done plenty of double waves for fun while playing fast resinite missions

single line off topic--v pretty pfp vioxynteris. love it.

back on topic, im hoping to see a resinite secondary on point extraction, for a silly double wave + all the lil pressure waves while using something that explodes lots of bugs

assuming it works as i think it does

[worthy dock]

Those waves only trigger when you hit the button right? Seems decently easy to just leave to the end

[remote echo]

well you cant really progress in some missions without secondary done

[worthy dock]

Oh really? I just assumed they'd let you do them independently as long as you get both done

[little halo]

tks for pointing that out, and lol the commit notes

[vapid lily]

you can technically, it's just that some mission types will call/start extraction the moment the sequence begins

like with salvage op

they force you to do the secondary in the DD first, otherwise you can technically just do the uplink and the fuel recharging

deep scan is also like that, afaik the drillevator can't be started/doesn't come down until the secondary is done because you're trapped in the geode until you call the pod

I think it might be the same with the Drilldozer but I'm not certain since the mission only wraps up when you've tied the heartstone down, not once the omorran is destroyed

[vagrant quarry]

how difficult is elite deep dive, i can barely manage hazard 4

[tiny marten]

i think edd difficulties are 4.5/5/5.5 respectively

[vagrant quarry]

https://tenor.com/view/my-mom-is-kinda-homeless-ishowspeed-speeding-please-speed-i-need-this-ishowspeed-trying-not-to-laugh-gif-16620227105127147208

[tiny marten]

they also have 2-3 warnings each time so around 1 warning each mission

[vagrant quarry]

yeah i dont think im getting the cores

[main oak]

You'll get the hang of it

[tiny marten]

you can always try and clear only a few of the stages, doesn't always have to be all 3 of them, you still get rewards for each one

[zenith ember]

Also just try, no harm attempting it

Worst case its a learning experience

[orchid flicker]

"I'm making the mother of all omelets, Jack! Can't fret over every egg!"
-a very wise man

[rustic citrus]

Something I'm kinda curious: would the community enjoy/support EDD tournaments for DRG?
Has GSG/Coffeestain tried those? (I'm not super into the whole community hence why I'm asking... and I fear a search here won't gib me the answers)

[burnt sandal]

Has GSG/Coffeestain tried those?
no, because it's kind of pointless in a game without anticheats and with mod support.

[rustic citrus]

That is actually a good point

[worthy dock]

oh, right.

[dull scarab]

The team can carry you sometimes. Just do what you can, and get you and your mates through 2 stages, preferably through all 3. If it didn't work, try with other team.

[swift snow]

Do deep dives count towards daily challenges?

[topaz oxide]

Nupe

[swift snow]

dang.

[gaunt loom]

You probably need better builds with more CC, dps, aoe. Slowing enemies down with sludge, or fearing them on gunner, etc, that makes a huge difference in survivability. Getting swarmed with scout's deepcore vs getting swarmed with gunner's mortar rounds and fear is a night and day difference in survivability.

[eternal flame]

Two cases of disbanding an EDD over a minor inconvenience, how fun. (not me, a seperate host)

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
_ _

[quasi heath]

Nanomachines son

[quasi heath]

yeah i hate when it happens

we got to stage 2 in our EDD but we got our asses handed to us by BET-C

and disbanded after

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
_ _

[flint widget]

Nice elite dive this week.

But by Karl the fuel link spawn was awful.

[spare sierra]

I am glad that ive done this deep dive with a team despite my connection

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
_ _

[drifting tinsel]

please don't let this week's dives be 1hr late again... 🥲

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
_ _

[drifting tinsel]

new dives are actually live on time this week!
not seeing S6 live for xbox yet so i'll need another minute for console rotations too

[manic horizon]

No way

It's time to suffer again
A true staple of the universe

[drifting tinsel]

Let's dance!
Weekly Deep Dives information for 2026 February 12 to 2026 February 19 (Week 334)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1771498800:f>

STEAM

DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Carnivorous Goods
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + 🏵️ Resinite Mass | Blood Sugar Haunted Cave
Stage 2: On-Site Refining + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies
Stage 3: 🏵️ 3 Resinite Masses + 2 Resonance Crystals | No Mutator

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Cold Summit
Stage 1: 7 Aquarqs + 2 Eggs | No Mutator
Stage 2: 250 Morkite + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Shield Disruption
Stage 3: 🏵️ 4 Resinite Masses + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies

CONSOLE

DEEP DIVE
Region: Glacial Strata | Code Name: Carnivorous Goods
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + Liquid Morkite Well | Blood Sugar Haunted Cave
Stage 2: 7 Aquarqs + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies
Stage 3: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | No Mutator

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Cold Summit
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + 150 Morkite | No Mutator
Stage 2: Dreadnought x2 (Twins & Classic) + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Shield Disruption
Stage 3: 5 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 150 Morkite | Lethal Enemies

[manic horizon]

No dreadnoughts

[drifting tinsel]

console rotation will likely be obsolete by the end of the day so the pins + pinned spreadsheet will be updated with just steam rotations only

[manic horizon]

I think driller for normal DD and gunner for EDD are my picks

[blazing yew]

Haunted cave with blood sugar in the DD? Shield disruption in the EDD? Mission control's in a baaaad mood 💀

[ancient pewter]

Gonna be interesting to see how eggs spawn in a resinite cave

[latent trellis]

DD's stage 2 is crazy

the wells are so high up

While EDD aqua is so small

[main oak]

Can anyone on consoles check if the Dive composition has changed?

[rain pebble]

Checking

Season 6 dropped but deep dive is still called carnivorous goods. Looks like azure weald instead of glacial strata though

Haunted cave blood sugar still stage one

[main oak]

So it's updated

[blazing cairn]

I messed up so bad on my first deep dive

brought default loadout with no perks because I switched my damn loadout preset

[wheat siren]

why is the second stage of the DD so vertical

[pure ravine]

Is there no way to avoid getting mineral matrix cores from dds

Im at nearly 200 and theres no use all option

[burnt sandal]

leaving before finishing the 3rd stage

[topaz oxide]

Okay DD and EDD you can stop spamming resinite objective now

[burnt sandal]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-more-gif-21856591

[drifting tinsel]

i hope this season spams resinite deep dives as much as s5 gave us deep scan

deep scan being the #1 most frequent DD secondary for half the season was so funny

[willow quartz]

i randomly disconnected right before stage 3 end and youre telling me i have to restart all of it 😭

all that on my first deep dive

i have like no motivation anymore

[dusk venture]

Get back to the mines broseph

[willow quartz]

youre right 🫡

[dusk venture]

Do your best dwarf I believe in you

[willow quartz]

anyone who can help me

[vapid lily]

I'd be willing to play a DD tbh

[willow quartz]

that would be cool

[honest plinth]

DD or EDD?

[willow quartz]

DD

my first one

[honest plinth]

well, if u host now - i would join

[willow quartz]

come to lfg steam

[exotic palm]

Is there an issue with the Elite DD? This morning I tried it, and it disconnected me after the first floor. I waited 9 hrs, played now, and the same issue happened. No reconnection option. Did the normal DD fine :/

[honest plinth]

4 drillers team for DD this week - best choice

[vapid lily]

yeah the cave gen is not kind

had to watch driller fall like 30 feet and go splat on the cave floor on the way to extract

[honest plinth]

shortcut in nutshell

[vapid lily]

just lost an hour-long edd on the last stage to molly 🥲

she parked herself in front of me, sandwiched me between her and a platform

right as a bunch of bugs descended on me with lethal enemies on haz 5.5
so I. expldoed

[honest plinth]

fiendish technology

[main oak]

She just wanted hugs

[summer storm]

guys did deep dive changed?
yesterday my third stage was 2 dreadnaughts and 2 alien eggs (non-elite)

i just logged in and now my progress from this week is reset (i still get to keep the overclocks and cores i got from yesterday tho, so thats weird).
does this mean i can get them again?

[main oak]

Well, it's not 2 dreadnoughts anymore

[summer storm]

was that last week's mission or soemthing? did i bug out?

[safe leaf]

No dreads, shield disruption, lethal enemies

Oh goody the common grunts and slashers are going to show why they are the strongest enemy types in the game
I already can picture just how alarmingly high failure rate on EDD is going to be on Stage 3 extraction anytime the team doesn't follow Driller making a shortcut to the drop pod

[main oak]

They reset on Thursdays, same happened yesterday

[summer storm]

what u mean?
yesterday it was 2 dreadnaughts?

[main oak]

And it changed to #deep-dive-discussion message at 13:00 CET

I suppose you did it right before the reset or something

So yes, now you have fresh new Dives until next Thursday, with new rewards, all working as intended

[summer storm]

that was weird.
im pretty sure i did it after the reset.
the edd missions were correct (this week's pin).
after that i did the normal dd, which has wrong missions (2 dreadnaughts).
i was able to get this week's rewards. (which should indicate that it was this week's dd, cuz i got last week's rewards too).
but just now i logged in and apparently i can get the dd rewards again.

[main oak]

I'm confused

[summer storm]

something bugged out apparently

[main oak]

Either way, enjoy your rewards "again", because why not

[zenith ember]

Oops, all resinite

Lethal enemies with 6 waves tho 👀

[stoic root]

I got low oxygen on the third stage of an Elite Deep Dive solo. Looking for any tips on it as Engineer.

I got through the Deep Dive fine then that stopped me in my tracks.

[tepid hamlet]

Elite deep dive is in another realm in terms of difficulty, basically haz 3 vs haz 5

[bold prairie]

This week's dive is so long

The caves are complex as hell

[remote echo]

true, took me like 50 minutes

[honest plinth]

gunner way safer, yeah

2 bulk detonators with a wave was a suprise, anyway

[pseudo ingot]

Legit had a leaf lover say i wasn't ready for EDD and kicked me, then I beat it next match with a different, real dwarven team.

If they're in this server, you stink like Ossium.

[little halo]

He was trying to teach you a lesson.
Don't let other people decide your capabilities.

[pseudo ingot]

Well why not just take a sec, rest a bit and maybe play some dice on the rig before going back in, eh? Resting perks and whatnot? Besides, a majority of the fails i sustained on EDD this week were from teams not being prepared to handle the mess that is Floor 2.

I dont see kicking someone as "teaching someone a lesson" because it moreso emphasizes a bad side of the playerbase that doesn't care to help you or themselves.

If I fail, I check with the team to see if new setups will take on challenges better, not say "ur bad kid" and boot em

Realistically im not Offended but it felt very out-of-place and I wanted to just vent a bit

-# im not gonna say I was the god of the team because I sucked at being mindful of my HP and keeping with my team

Also i was tryna test builds

So

This also backfired massively

...actually that's probably why I was kicked. My low performance with WIP Mortar and Plasma Missile builds instead of my go-to Gunner Leadstorm build which is far more developed

Regardless of AAAAALL that, Level 2 of this EDD is painful.

Shield Disruption hasn't shown up in my assignments in a bit, so i forget how painful it is

[manic horizon]

The third stage of EDD is literally "he made a statement so confusing even his gang is thinking with him"
Like why df is is so gigantic and complex

[woeful grove]

I dunno why but this elite deep dive week iz the hardest I ever play like every stage always give me e1 very early Bulk and then 1 more after that around like 5-10 min

[woeful grove]

Question ask do Stingtail + Legal (stage 3) attack always 1 shot you or the health + for your dwarf can tank to two hit ?

and do every Dig site always like 4 swarm ? or my game just bug I found the Dig site 1 swarm then I dig it out 1 more and then I start to put the thing on the rocks and smash 2 of them 1 more swarm and then after let it fly to the sky 1 more

[burnt sandal]

If you mean heavy excavation : these missions have timed swarms just like mining expedition and resinite masses can spawn swarms in the same manners as egg missions. If you're not careful with your timing, you can pile up a double swarm

[burnt sandal]

as for stingtail, their grab attack deals 17 damage in haz 5 - 4 players (18 in haz 5.5), not even enough to break your shield
their melee attacks hit much harder though, at 40.8 (43.2 in haz 5.5), but still far from being enough for a oneshot if you're full health.

it is enough to down you if you just got back up and didn't heal, though

[dark geode]

i would describe this week EDD as "hell nah"

[latent trellis]

I did EDD faster than DD

Random teammates

[primal valley]

this weeks EDD... i dont even remember it

oh now i do

i got helped massively by a cryo driller who made bunkies and minelayer

[pseudo ingot]

I love how Bunkers are now Bunkies in this community

It works

Also like, if it weren't for a driller educating me on Bunkies, Deep Dive Salvage Uplinks would've been far harder

Or jusr

[woeful grove]

ah that why

[woeful grove]

it do 1 shot me after it full combo

maybe I was missing like 5% hp or something

[tepid hamlet]

that's still way below a 1 shot

probably a slasher or something was right there too, or fall damage

[timber brook]

me 4 deaths

everyone else

a dozen minimum

i had to clutch a complete revive set becaues everyone decided to man mode a tunnel in stage 2 with all the glyphid hives

somehow they did not see the giant damn barrage infectors

Not a single thank you

Asshole Greenbeards

[main oak]

Applies here as well

[broken quiver]

Haunted cave + blood sugar what the f

[broken quiver]

That deep dive was a pain

[sharp cradle]

Final stage of EDD cave gen was a beautiful oddity, but I haven't had this much fun in a while

[worthy dock]

blood sugar is the one with hp drain right?

craaap

I guess the second stage doesn't look too bad

[broken quiver]

It absolutely is because the cave has a lot of verticality, so if you're not a driller it's a pain in the ass

[worthy dock]

oh damn

[broken quiver]

I would argue it's even worse than the first. Third task is easy tho compared to the rest

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[bleak tartan]

My game crashed on the last stage of the DD 🥲

[native bronze]

deep dive elite

[bronze walrus]

Hi there guys, I'm planning on getting the game in the next few days, but I won't be able to have internet access after downloading it for a very long while, is it true that the weekly core hunts and deep dives are completely unavailable without online play ?, if yes then does this mean I won't ever be able to get overclocks?

[vestal sapphire]

You can get them from promotions and forge masteries, itll just be a bit slower without the bonus 6 per week

2 per class promotion, 1 per 10 items forged

[shut silo]

What a week to try my first solo deep dive lol
What the hell is that second mission - took me forever to lay those pipes (as scout)

[pseudo ingot]

Do you still get XP from replaying DDs?

[cyan abyss]

anyone wanna join me in a deep dive

?

[safe leaf]

This EDD is insane
3 gunners with 2 stun hurricanes, 1 NTP and 3 coilguns fail on stage 3

The smallest stuff is the most dangerous but almost every stage contains a bulk detonator

[still geode]

surely you can just throw leadbursters at the bulks

[topaz oxide]

Okay what how

[timber brook]

Sorry for the late reply, do you still need help for a deep dive?

[cyan abyss]

i got it done but i might want to do the super deep dive

[pastel loom]

Any tips for the normal deep dive?
The dual hazards are killing me

[cyan abyss]

NITRA AND GRAPPLING HOOKS

A TON OF IT

[pastel loom]

Ah gotcha
I was trying as Engi

[cyan abyss]

can i join?

[pastel loom]

Now I'm at office lol
Will try when I get home

[cyan abyss]

alright

[timber brook]

Okay I back

yuo still up fo the edd?

Sorry didn't hear the ping for some reason

[timber brook]

Tomorrow I guess.

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[dull scarab]

Try to go a full team, with both Driller and Scout.
It's better to distract The Thing when you have more people.
2nd stage has high wells, but you might be fine without Driller, just prepare to dig through a couple of walls (or use platforms).

[main oak]

The only actual danger of the entire EDD is stage's 3 cave gen, from which I, a fast mining drills driller, almost got an aneurysm

[cyan abyss]

im sorry i fell asleep

[prime shore]

This is the exact reason my team got wiped lmao

[timber brook]

Still up for edd?

Post the room and the id and ping me. Please.

[vapid lily]

Stuck as engie so I was wandering around like a lost puppy, it was the worst LMAO

Couldn’t be bothered to re-attempt it was clocking in at around an hour

[stuck brook]

Holy hell that second level of the EDD was truly something

[cyan abyss]

sure

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[cyan abyss]

how do i do this?

ah figured it out

@timber brook

[safe leaf]

Bulk each stage 1 and 2: disposed no problem

Bulk stage 3:
First appears in cave slightly above us, gets somewhat close but popped with leadbursters; Bronze 1 and Bronze 2 gunners nearby die in their shield, I dash away and survive

Second appears after we got ambushed by a large IW-burning ambient wave while split off, digging from top through ceiling and disallowing two of us to revive the third until following mactera swarm got killed, served more as distraction and blocker than anything

Third bulk: as we were done with all objectives, swarm approaches, and the bulk appears in cave below us and digs straight under both of my comrades downing them, I evade the bulk only for grunts/slashers all around the place to bleed my HP until a Stingtail grabs and finishes me off

Total we did 1960 kills, had 28 downs and 16 revives thorough the missions and took us 1 hour 18 minutes

[topaz oxide]

Wow and not winning that

[eternal flame]

The EDD is no joke

Literally got within one resinite mass of victory

probaaaably could have been a little less strict with resupplies

we consistently had enough for like 6

i count that as a win in my book

[safe leaf]

Biggest mess I've seen for months

Really the worst thing is constant HP drain because disruption then lethal modifiers

Shield stacking and fear spamming kept us barely alive (or able to revive each other) until surprise dig

Bulks are the boogeybugs and did the finishing hits but really, by far the worst is small common fodder

It's why SD and LE are so dangerous, the already dangerous chaff gets way more deadly

[eternal flame]

our gunner left at the second mission

so it was me(driller) and a scout+engi

[main oak]

The only reason I got downed near the end (we still made it out alive) was because we just wanted to get out faster and hit the extraction during a Resinite-triggered swarm

We didn't even have a gunner, are we sure we were playing the same EDD LUL

Like, we had one bulk at stage 3, but sludge+nukes+BoM just went brrrr on it and whatever bugs were around

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[manic horizon]

Ahh hell here we go again

[drifting tinsel]

Let's dance!
Weekly Deep Dives information for 2026 February 19 to 2026 February 26 (Week 335)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1772103600:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Pure Shelter
Stage 1: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard & Classic) + Liquid Morkite Well | Rival Presence
Stage 2: 7 Aquarqs + Hiveguard | Parasites
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Critical Weakness

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Imperfect Pearl
Stage 1: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator
Stage 2: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Black Box | Scrab Nesting Grounds
Stage 3: 200 Morkite + Black Box | Pit Jaw Colony

Normal Deep Dive
Codename: Pure Shelter
Biome: Sandblasted Corridors
Stage 1: Hiveguard & Classic + Liquid Morkite Well | Rival Presence
Stage 2: 7 Aquarqs + Hiveguard | Parasites
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Critical Weakness

Elite Deep Dive
Codename: Imperfect Pearl
Biome: Crystalline Caverns
Stage 1: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Liquid Morkite Well
Stage 2: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Black Box | Scrab Nesting Grounds
Stage 3: 200 Morkite + Black Box | Pit Jaw Colony

[latent trellis]

looks easy

[ancient pewter]

Yeah this seems straightforward

[somber cobalt]

not that bad only 3 things to be worried about
-hiveguard first and second mission on normal deep dive
-no morkite on normal deep dive do not take dark morkite beer
-the 2 new modifiers both on the end of the elite

[onyx ocean]

finished last week's just now (was in it solo but had to pause to do smth) and I have to say that first leg with the haunted bulk was just terrifying as a solo scout. At least i could grapple, but it kept me on my toes. I had to get real creative with how i did my pipelines on the 2nd leg lol.

[drifting tinsel]

it wouldve been so funny if there was a third hiveguard in the regular dive

[topaz oxide]

So much work in this EDD ugh

[primal valley]

this weeks DD is easy as pie

[latent trellis]

so true

I brought CT spowder

[topaz oxide]

600 kills no death

[main oak]

Fuck MC for that fuel cell placement on EDD

Overall, CN drillers were made for this one

||oops, bulk spawn on drillevator!||

[topaz oxide]

Lol I had mine inside a choke point

The fuel cell

And ofc we lost a greenbeard scout in stage 1 so yeah dark asf

[main oak]

We had ours land in a not too small/not too large ravine, half a meter away from proper ground

[sharp cradle]

Why does my dwarf take off his jet boots between stages? Is he stupid?

[rain pebble]

🤣

[mellow cradle]

clearly, they are only calibrated to a certain depth range per box

[main oak]

To be real, a good reason for the lore

[main oak]

Overall, really enjoyable EDD, to sum it up

[remote echo]

we didnt have it on drillevator but right in the beginning

[eternal flame]

Mission Control said so.

[safe leaf]

Beat previous EDD
FSD+necrosis driller
Only 2 downs, none last stage
"You want something done right, you gotta do it yourself"

[safe leaf]

At the moment I'd argue driller had it far better than gunner there

Driller is very effective terraformer while gunner has to conform to existing cave gen

I could freely take shortcuts or bring fights into bunkers

I had one fight in the open in stage 3 because terrain gen lagged out, but managed to prevail, it was low ceiling but fairly flat

[safe leaf]

My guess is Mk2s are too precious to lose and taken off and deposited in drop pod as per company policy, while Mk1s are so shoddy they'd blow your legs off if re-used on another stage; perhaps pressure differences could mess with those things further

Mk1 appearance all over Hoxxes and box being filled with trash hints they have been previously used; perhaps it's the last-chance usage for those things deemed waste material by other branches and companies, dunked all over Hoxxes as emergency miner supplies

[main oak]

Yeah, I'm just saying it was a clusterfuck even to drill through, especially on exfil

[main oak]

Mhm, and then they just send a four-pack of precious Mk2s even into a single-dwarf mission

[ancient pewter]

Ceaseless agony

play EDD
out of practice with engi
stage 1
use both revives right off the bat
IW too
mad scramble to get to red sugar in time
on edge for the rest of the mission
stage 2
use both revives right off the bat
IW too
mad scramble to get to red sugar in time
on edge for the rest of the mission
stage 3
you get the idea
stingtail throws me into the air then down a pit
IW
slasher stops me on my way out of the hole
literally have red sugar in melee range
die

[primal valley]

the pain never ends (i tested NTP on the EDD and it was one of the runs of all time)

[topaz oxide]

Lol I was kinda sleeping with minelayer since it was a bunch of holding objectives moreover saidalot brought an ice spear

[sick stratus]

https://tenor.com/view/deep-rock-galactic-elite-deep-dive-gif-13130917873134276174

[eternal flame]

On the topic of minelayer, what build would you recommend?

[topaz oxide]

31222

[eternal flame]

thanks mate!

[fair beacon]

what build did you use?

[ancient pewter]

Hyperalloy assembly and inferno

[fair beacon]

recent elite deep dive is too punishing for scout solo

hence why i switch to driller

[ancient pewter]

Oof, yeah, solo scout is a doozy on any hazard imo

(ok I guess not literally any hazard, but you know what I mean)

[fair beacon]

no i mean the entire stage have like ||black box||

meanwhile scout requires mobility to survive and there's not much option if you are required to stay in one spot as scout

[ancient pewter]

Oh, yeah for sure

[uneven stream]

Best bet is probably to take pheromone crossbow and cannisters and keep enemies attacking tougher enemies as much as possible

[civic marsh]

wait question btw, can you still get matrix cores after you do the first clear of the deep dive before the weekly reset?

nvm i looked it up

[timber brook]

Yes

[limber isle]

Do you think this weeks deep dives are hard?

[timber brook]

Not really no duck and cover or no shield disruption

[fair beacon]

no

it's the usual

[primal valley]

no

quite easy

[lone lodge]

what is the best way to get started learning deep dives?

[ancient pewter]

Besides just being stingy with your ammo and nitra, and recalling your turrets between stages if engi, they don't need any other skills than the rest of the game tbh

[fair beacon]

know which build is effective on all the deep dive stage
also have good team coordination

trust me you don't want to bring sticky fuel crispr and collette wave on something like industrial sabotage

[ancient pewter]

True

Unless you enjoy going in without seeing the missions beforehand, in which case Karl help you

[gray sleet]

Are deep dives down?

[bleak umbra]

This was

Without a doubt

The WORST EDD I’ve had

Holy shit

This was BRUTAL

[eternal flame]

I am getting conflicting emotions on the EDD..

[vapid lily]

I feel like any time there's an EDD in crystalline it's just incredibly evil

last week's EDD was crystalline and it was evil too

[eternal flame]

i hate crystalline

three hit terrain

stupid crystals

fun to destroy, but stupid

[pseudo ingot]

Alright, can someone describe this weeks EDD in 5 words or less?

[main oak]

Enjoyable, bring area denial + driller

[pseudo ingot]

I hope I get an OC worth a damn from it

[eternal flame]

four bulks

only on the second stage

2 on the previous

two on second

how fun

this EDD is ass

[pseudo ingot]

Man imma be completely honest, you can get through levels fast enough to avoid the Bulks

Ive had 3 spawn in one mission, but never all at once, so dealing with them wasn't hard

Now of it was Shield Disruption, then I'd understand

[uneven stream]

Cave leeches killed us in the first 2 minutes of the first mission, had no real issues other than that lol

[zenith ember]

Edd has some bulks, specifically in 2nd stage, fuel seems to like drilling down to a 1-way cave

3rd stage black box position is pretty bad

[ancient pewter]

On my second attempt, we had two bulks spawn during the black box in stage 2

[fair beacon]

on my first try in EDD i had 2 bulks and each spawned during defending box phase

second try is easier tho cuz the bulk only spawned once

idk sometimes EDD spawn can be too punishing or too mild

[remote echo]

I had only one bulk on 2nd stage right after we finished blackbox. dont remember seing one on other stages

we did black box right when we landed tho

[gentle creek]

Too much of a filthy casual to do EDD

Seems unnecessarily sweaty for a goofy game like this

[ancient pewter]

Reasonable

[primal valley]

easy

[orchid flicker]

bring the fucking lead bursters

[rain river]

?

[gusty sonnet]

what are modifiers for elite deep dive this week?

[fair beacon]

check pin

[gusty sonnet]

oh i didnt know that thanks

[remote echo]

bruh I always scrolled up

[main oak]

wait, what pin

[eternal flame]

Bulks aren't hard to deal with, they just really liked spawning at horrid times

[pseudo ingot]

See, i forgot that, because thats how most of my EDD runs ended like two weeks ago

Bulks at bad times

[eternal flame]

All bulks spawned at the fueling section for the droppod or black box

[high ivy]

edd with my friend ended in stage 3 because we both got jumped by pitjaws in two separate locations

very fair and balanced

[main oak]

It is though

Would you say the same if you both got leeched?

[topaz oxide]

Leech and pitjaw give you time to react and dodge with their sfx

[main oak]

Not to mention jaws are present in foreign biomes only with a warning

[topaz oxide]

For leech, all you need to do is keep running in a new room and when you hear leech, look up and shoot

For pitjaw, if you somehow bhop to their jaw range, and it did a growl, jump back immediately

[onyx ocean]

EDD solo scout is absolutely abyssmal because of the uplink location and the drop pod recovery mission in general

[onyx ocean]

nvm maybe i just got hella unlucky. I'm trying an attempt with gunner and i got 1/4 of the number of gglyphids + no praetorians or oppressors + a better uplink location.

bulk spawn as soon as black box starts :(

[still geode]

for gunner?
if you lack an easy way to kill it (leadbursters, vb) and it gets too close you can throw a shield into it

shields fear any enemies they land on & bypass fear immunity for enemies like dreads and bulks*

*excluding enemies like shellbacks that are immune to fear due to their method of movement just not being set up to support it

[onyx ocean]

it was moving pretty slow so i finished the black box by the time it arrived

[still geode]

ah nice

[onyx ocean]

however, for some reason i was absolutely swamped by at least 60 glyphids without exaggeration immediately and they decided that i-frame priviledges were revoked, resulting in me going from full health and shield to dead before i could even rev up my machine gun

[lethal kite]

I was running NTP auto cannon on gunner and honestly it felt underwhelming; any ideas why? Usually it feels pretty powerful but idk it took like 4 or 5 attempts and I still failed final stage (but I don’t care much about the cosmetic oc). It just felt harder than other EDDs I’ve done

[eternal flame]

What is this "leadburster placement" I always hear about?

[topaz oxide]

Solo?

[lethal kite]

Nah in groups with randoms

[topaz oxide]

Then your teammate isn't doing something

[lethal kite]

Yeah I suppose, idk it just feels harder than other, I’m probably just bad

Might be a teammate thing but I could probably be playing better

[topaz oxide]

Too many greenbeards in EDD so there's no reason to be only one carrying

I was lucky to play with this youtuber and we power through the EDD with no deaths and we have 2 greenbeards with us but 1 just left in stage 1 after dying

[lethal kite]

To be fair I’m a green beard, I think I’m generally competent but I’ve only got like 100 hours

Gunner feels like the class that feels obligated to carry, since you have shields and generally great damage output (both single target and crowd)

[topaz oxide]

Yeah you can carry pretty good but without your teammates shooting as hard as you, you'd be running out of shield

I could join and leave multiple lobbies just to check if it's worth it to do EDD with them. So far I've been just completing it the first try

[golden granite]

Sometimes I feel like greenbeards leave when dying because they're scared of toxicity or something

[sour frigate]

My first and only EDD win was with two low levels and one much higher (I'm not low level but bad with it), and the higher level person left, I'm guessing from thinking we were too slow or not going to finish it.

[mellow cradle]

you don't get i frames in this game after getting hit, only after being revived, or during iron will

[lethal kite]

Do people just bunker for the black boxes in the EDD? I just tried with a group that seemed good and we just got completely destroyed on the second stage black box, we just couldn’t clear out all the macteras and stuff

[pliant yoke]

No, but varied crowd control helps.

Especially in case the bb is in an open area

[weary walrus]

The Macteras are the easy part. It's the Balrog Detonators that'll get ya

[dull scarab]

Aether, if you see this - i got network issue, and the game didn't reconnect me on restart. Good luck and thanks for EDD!

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
_ _

[pliant nymph]

631 hours in DRG and I have only been able to do successful solo EDD’s as gunner.

all the other classes get destroyed, I don’t think I have the reflexes to play the others.

[sage abyss]

Hi, Coming Back to the game. A Little Less Rust after 1 week of practice....

What are the Deep Dive Misions?

[main oak]

If you mean missions for this week's Dives, #deep-dive-discussion message

[sage abyss]

Tyvm!

Tomorrow we'll do our first Deep Dive of the Year xD

[daring sandal]

had the game since 2021 and finally completed an elite deep dive from start to finish. Handful of close calls

kinda embarrassing but they're brutally difficult and mentally exhausting

also noticed a lack of nitra unlike normal DD

[main oak]

In this EDD, of all things? Hm

[fair beacon]

black box

not that bad tbh

[daring sandal]

i was sorta carried because the other dudes did the objectives fairly fast, but i got the highest kill count (lol engi) so i guess it balanced out

ok lets get the mini mule- oh it's already done
ok lets find the deep scanne- oh you guys did it again

surprisingly a lot of close calls on stage 3 despite being a normie morkite mining

stage 1 was also a bit close due to two bulk detonators at the same time

[civic marsh]

I had two wipes on stage two cuz of the black box and an early bulk which screwed us over

You really need the gunner for this EDD

[thorny otter]

Tf

The boxes were easy this week

[civic marsh]

Idk we were just screwed from the bulk digging under us and having me to circle around the cave for 15 minutes to try and clutch it up
(it didn't help)

[thorny otter]

Tf

What class were you

[civic marsh]

Scout

[uneven stream]

Only death we had was getting grabbed by the 2 different cave leeches in the first mission as a duo

Killed the one that got my gf only to be grabbed by the other I didn't know about whilst heading for the revive

[wheat siren]

easiest deep dive in a bit

first half an hour deep dive for me

scout just breezed through it

[little rose]

jesus this elite is beating my ass

i tried scout, gunner and now engineer

but its too hard

[little halo]

I'd love for a chance to use this sentence out-of-context

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[honest plinth]

detonator on solo black box defense

what a fucking joke

[proud grail]

🤣

[proud grail]

ngl this is why I waste an active slot on heightened senses

don't need it most of the time, and makes nemmys even more of a pain to fight because of the heightened senses alarm going off constantly, but at least I'm more or less safe from leeches, pittys, and grabbers

[uneven stream]

I often run it but I'd swapped it out for faster revives

[honest plinth]

bullet hell surprisingly good deals with pitjaws

a little round around floor and all of this hiding troublemakers change location

[topaz oxide]

Good at making it harder to walk the same path again

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[vagrant thicket]

so helpful

[proud grail]

lol

[vagrant thicket]

?

it really is helpful, knowing what is in a deep dive is nice information to have

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[obtuse arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/cr1ti-ka-l-penguinz0-charlie-reddit-gold-excited-gif-18542260

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[drifting tinsel]

Let's dance!
Weekly Deep Dives information for 2026 February 26 to 2026 March 05 (Week 336)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1772708400:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Magma Core | Code Name: Secret Cell
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 🏵️ Resinite Mass | Pit Jaw Colony
Stage 2: Escort Duty + 2 Eggs | No Mutator
Stage 3: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 150 Morkite | Parasites

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Hollow Bough | Code Name: High Hate
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Mactera Plague
Stage 2: 250 Morkite + 🏵️ Resinite Mass | Pit Jaw Colony
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Twins & Hiveguard) + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs

Normal Deep Dive
Codename: Secret Cell
Biome: Magma Core
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Resinite Mass | Pit Jaw Colony
Stage 2: Escort Duty + 2 Eggs
Stage 3: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 150 Morkite | Parasites

Elite Deep Dive
Codename: High Hate
Biome: Hollow Bough
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Mactera Plague
Stage 2: 250 Morkite + Resinite Mass | Pit Jaw Colony
Stage 3: Dreadnought Twins & Hiveguard + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs

[ancient pewter]

Looks alright

Mactera drillevator... I don't think I've seen that before

EMD time maybe

[obtuse arrow]

is this msg automated? datamined?

[proud grail]

predictions were right chat, it's practically duck and cover 😭

for me anyway

first stage getting tons of macteras spawning and second stage had 2 tri jaws and 2 septics in one swarm

[main oak]

EDD reminded me why I hate 1) Hollow Bough and 2) Mining Expeditions

Not awful or tough or something, it just sucks

Good scout with cryo nades is useful on this one, for macteras and pitjaws and whatnot
saying this as a good scout who brought cryo nades

Expect some leeches in cave sections with the dread cocoons

Nitra is just enough to keep everyone stocked up if you actually pay attention and mine it

[latent trellis]

just done both

EDD stage 2 hardest

rest okay

[main oak]

Some guys made a program to decode the seed that's used for generating Dives and make these layout messages, so it's kinda neither? GitHub link should be somewhere

[latent trellis]

stage 1 mini mules are right next to each other

and close to 1 crystal too

[main oak]

Oh yeah, crystals weren't a problem to find overall

[latent trellis]

DD just

Let's just say I almost fell asleep

[topaz oxide]

Bring cryo bolt dawg

[fair beacon]

Today's edd isn't so bad
The last stage is a bit weird tho

[remote echo]

I didnt like the cave gen in stage 2

[fair beacon]

||bet c with pit jaws upon ye||

[remote echo]

we didnt have it lol

[fair beacon]

Bruh

[pastel loom]

I finished the DD 🎉
Stage 3 had a nemesis

[daring sandal]

am i the only one who doesn't look at deep dives because i like surprises

[remote echo]

unlucky

[fair beacon]

i think that's randomized

cuz i don't get them

on bet c i'm not sure cuz sometimes i had one consistently other time people don't have them

[primal valley]

adding onto this, you should have a bit of spare nitra if you play it smart and dont waste all your ammo or resupplies

seemingly most of the nitra was contained in the first mission

[main oak]

Eh, I'd say it was pretty evenly distributed

[bleak umbra]

These EDDs have been bullshit lately

[uneven stream]

holy snooze fest...

The EDD was a bit more entertaining but Hollow Bough is always a downvote from me... Stage 2 was horrific cave gen wise

[little halo]

https://github.com/vioxynteris/deepdives

[little halo]

I look at deep dives to see what's the worst modifier(s) that i have to prepare for. I don't have much time for DD/EDD rerun, i don't remember much once mission starts, and it's still fun with unknown terrain/special enemy.

[obtuse arrow]

yeah the EDD is brutal

tried it twice both times failed on stage two

pit jaws

betc

just absolutely fucking brutal

[proud grail]

nah me too

[uneven stream]

Same as us, both deaths were caused by one of us getting pit jaw'd, succeeded third time of asking

[obtuse arrow]

I have the ominous laugh pit jaw mod, so they didn't bother AS much

[daring sandal]

elite dives i get it, but normal dives almost never check

were we unlucky or is there less nitra overall on elite? despite conserving as much as possible

normal dive nitra it was overflowing

[remote echo]

1st stage was chill and you could get 4 resups from it. 2nd stage burns through resupplies tho because of guaranteed resinite swarm + 2-3 timer swarm. stage 3 is chill too

• nitra management in mining expedition can be rough

[timber sphinx]

Second stage was hilarious, our gunner got grabbed by three cave leeches in the same room

After the second leech grab I kinda just watched as a third one was gonna grab him before I shot it

[fierce tusk]

bro i got hit with a dreadnought instead of a swarm and the team scout started the fight with betc at the same time

[daring sandal]

strange goofy modded server

the drop pod was always open despite the mule not being fully extracted

and when it transitions to the next deep dive it bugs out and says "stage 0"

didn't record the time completed either

[little halo]

Well, it's easier than glitching yourself inside the drop pod

[daring sandal]

im not aware of the glitch

[little halo]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/548430/discussions/1/3801650561768444471/

Kind of a dic move if your team struggles to stay alive before extracting, but otherwise a fun mini challenge while waiting for Molly

[carmine hare]

I didnt encounter BETC in the EDD. Just starting stage 3 now

[fair beacon]

was there also pit jaw beside it?

[carmine hare]

Nope. Found BETC in stage 3

[fair beacon]

interesting

i found in stage 2

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ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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