BitCraft Online
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BitCraft Online

Join thousands of players in a true single-world MMORPG. Carve out a cozy nook, master a player-driven economy, or band together to transform the ancient wilderness into thriving cities. From humble beginnings to legend, your choices matter - because in BitCraft, your actions shape our world.

DEV: Clockwork Laboratories, Inc.PUB: Clockwork Laboratories, Inc.AppID 3454650
DEVELOPER POSTSevery ~6d·last 13d ago·31 recorded in 6 months

Is BitCraft Online still being updated? — the short answer, with the evidence.

91.3
Excellent

Elixir Rating

72.6% of 3,773 Steam reviews are positive, which after adjusting for sample size gives a reception score of 71.1. The developers have shipped 16 substantial updates in the past six months, adding 20.2.

reception 71.1·support +20.2·Excellent

Computed from Steam’s own review tally and observable developer activity — never from anyone’s opinion of the game. How this is calculated

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From Steam's own record

Current price

$7.99$15.99−50%

Development

Actively supported

Last heard from developers

13 days ago

Historical posting rhythm

every ~6 days

Substantial updates (6 mo)

16

Current silence

2× normal

The developers post roughly every 6 days and were last heard 13 days ago — within their normal range. 16 substantial updates recorded in the past six months, 4 classified as major. It is currently 50% below its usual price.

Last successful news check: Oct 1, 2026, 2:05 PM UTC. This is when we checked Steam, separate from when the developer last posted.

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Our coverage

5 dispatches written from this game’s announcements

patchSep 21, 2026

BitCraft Online Patches SpacetimeDB 1.12 to 2.10, Reworks Tree Respawn Logic

The September 21st patch for BitCraft Online centers on a major backend shift: the game's SpacetimeDB dependency has been upgraded from version 1.12 to 2.10. The developers note this is largely invisible to players today, but required rewriting significant portions of the game client to accommodate a change in how data is transmitted from STDB 2.0 onward. The upgrade is positioned as groundwork for future optimizations and new features.

Because of that client rewrite, the team is asking players to report anything behaving unexpectedly — particularly damage numbers, animations, or UI elements that seem unresponsive.

What changed

  • Bulk item conversion now resolves as a single action, addressing synchronization errors between client and server
  • T1 trees no longer have withered saplings and will always respawn locally after a set time
  • T2–T3 trees no longer respawn locally on their own; players must interact with the withered sapling to trigger a local respawn, or the global respawner handles it
  • Pie durations updated for several pies missed in a prior food pass
  • A panel has been added behind the title screen announcements for readability
  • Fixed double-respawn bug on T1–T3 trees when interacting with withered saplings
  • Fixed players occasionally attacking twice in a row
  • Fixed facial cosmetics in the Hexite Exchange try-on preview
  • Fixed wrong text color in traveler task UI under dark mode
  • Fixed lag spikes caused by item discovery code during large crafting operations
  • Fixed a warning spam tied to other players' hidden deployables

The developers also note they are investigating ways to let players replant depleted trees and to address specific areas where tree density had grown high enough to cause performance problems.

For players, the tree respawn changes represent the most tangible shift to daily resource gathering, rewarding those who actively tend saplings rather than waiting on automatic regrowth.

patchAug 7, 2026

BitCraft Online Overhauls Mining and Fishing in August Patch

BitCraft Online's August 2026 patch delivers a substantial rework of the Mining profession alongside continued changes to Fishing, touching everything from moment-to-moment resource gathering to long-term progression incentives.

What changed

Mining

  • Mining quarries for Tiers 1–3 are now in the world as stationary areas. Rocks cycle between normal and glittering states; glittering rocks yield better loot and experience.
  • A large quarry rock activates every 30–45 minutes. Fully mining it before the timer expires unlocks a superior node offering higher experience, a chance at braxite and rock chunk drops, and a temporary mining power buff.
  • Calcic ore added as a Tier 1 precious metal, acquired through prospecting. It can be used to craft a ring that increases cart speed, with more uses noted as forthcoming.
  • New mining ability "Heavy Swing" unlocks at level 5, granting +8 mining power for a moderate duration at a stamina cost — particularly useful for time- or hit-limited resources such as prospecting and quarries.
  • Magnetic rocks can now spawn as placeables when mining stone boulders. Collecting one enables a brief prospecting run with high experience and increased ore drops.
  • Sift collectors can be placed in water to gather river muck, which is processed at a mining workstation and yields sand with a chance at ore, precious metal nuggets, or other loot.
  • Geode cargos no longer drop from boulders or ore veins; instead, geodes pop off rocks as placeables that can be harvested for a gem and experience.

Fishing

  • A quest introducing trophy fishing has been added.
  • The largest trophy fish of each tier now grants a one-time knowledge unlock that provides stats — incentivizing collection across tiers.

Taken together, the changes give miners and anglers more structured goals and more varied daily routines within BitCraft's gathering systems.

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Recent Transmissions

30 entries in codex

Community AnnouncementsSep 24, 2026
Patch Notes 1.44 - Performance improvements & bug fixes!

Patch Notes 1.44We have rolled out a new build which aims to bring performance improvements which we have been working on, plus some fixes targeting issues we've heard since the most recent updates. Changes include:Memory Usage improvements…

Community AnnouncementsSep 21, 2026
Patch Notes Sep 21st - SpacetimeDB Update 2.10 and Bug Fixes

ChangedSTDB 1.12 -> 2.10 UpgradeThis is mostly changing things under the hood, with no player facing changes, which will allow up to take advantage of optimisations and new features in the futureWe did need to re-write a lot of the game cli…

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Community AnnouncementsSep 16, 2026
Scheduled Maintenance - STDB 2.10 Update

Scheduled MaintenanceHey everyone!Next week's update marks our first ad-hoc update, we are focusing on under-the-hood enhancements, such as updating to STDB 2.10 and implementing various technical fixes for BitCraft Online.As we have shifte…

Community AnnouncementsSep 11, 2026
Game Update Cadence Changes

Hello Everyone,Today we have an announcement regarding the cadence with which we ship updates to the game.We will be transitioning from the strict 2 week update cycle to a more ad hoc update cycle for the next month or two.This will give ou…

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Community AnnouncementsSep 3, 2026
Patch Notes - Foraging Profession Additions, Equous (II), Bugfixes

Added:Foraging Rework/AdditionsAdded giant berry bush events. A few giant withering berry bushes have been added to the world. Players can treat the berry bushes with the nearby water springs to make them harvestable. Harvestable Giant Berr…

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Community AnnouncementsSep 2, 2026
Scheduled Maintenance + Uncharted Regions Ending - Thursday, September 3rd, 2026

Scheduled Maintenance Delayed Till - Thursday September 3rd, 2026 Hello Everyone. Please note that BitCraft Online will be inaccessible during the upcoming scheduled maintenance, for the times below.We apologize for any inconvenience this m…

Community AnnouncementsAug 27, 2026
Patch Notes - Forestry Profession Overhaul, New Equous Mount, Level-up Stats!

Added:Forestry OverhaulAll trees now have a chance to drop stashes on the ground while harvesting them. These stashes instantly regenerate 30 stamina and provide a forestry buff. Additionally, the stashes can chain into other stashes which …

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Community AnnouncementsAug 27, 2026
Scheduled Maintenance - Thursday, August 27th, 2026

Scheduled Maintenance Delayed Till - Thursday August 27th, 2026 Hello Everyone. Please note that BitCraft Online will be inaccessible during the upcoming scheduled maintenance, for the times below.We apologise for any inconvenience this may…

Community AnnouncementsAug 21, 2026
Uncharted Regions Leaving Soon & How to Prepare!

The Uncharted Regions will be Leaving during the update downtime on September 3rd!Everything which is currently in the Uncharted Regions will become inaccessible from the start of the update downtime on Sept 3rd.The Uncharted Islands Region…

Community AnnouncementsAug 14, 2026
Update on disconnections and server stability

Update on disconnections and server stability We have been investigating specific disconnection and server stability events over the last few months. I want to give a summary of what we did, what we have found so far, and what is still outs…

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Community AnnouncementsAug 6, 2026
Patch Notes - Mining Profession Overhaul, Fishing Updates, BugFixes and More!

Added:Mining Profession OverhaulAdded mining quarry for Tier 1-3 (more will be added in future updates). Mining quarries are a stationary area in the world. Quarries have rocks that cycle between being normal and glittering. Mine the glitte…

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Community AnnouncementsJul 28, 2026
24th-27th - Hot Fix

Hello everyone,Since Friday, we have been pushing out fixes. The fixes that have been pushed out so far are as follows:FixedFixed all players who had incorrectly migrated equipment state which was blocking equipping into some slots,,Fixed a…

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Community AnnouncementsJul 24, 2026
Patch Notes - Fishing Profession Rework, Updated Traveler Task & More!

Profession Rework - FishingReworked all of this existing activities to bring them in line with our updated profession strategyAdded several new tiered activities which span passive, idle, low and high intensity gameplay:Bait Fishing (unlock…

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Community AnnouncementsJul 23, 2026
Patch Notes - Fishing Profession Rework, Update to the Task System and more!

Profession Rework - FishingReworked all of this existing activities to bring them in line with our updated profession strategyAdded several new tiered activities which span passive, idle, low and high intensity gameplay:Baitfishing (unlocke…

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Community AnnouncementsJul 22, 2026
Scheduled Maintenance - Thursday, July 23rd, 2026

Scheduled Maintenance - Thursday, July 23rd, 2026Hello Everyone. Please note that BitCraft Online will be inaccessible during the upcoming scheduled maintenance, for the times below.We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and appr…

Community AnnouncementsJul 10, 2026
Hotfix July 10th - Beach Decorations in Shop and Deconstructable and more!,

Hotfix - Beach Decorations in Shop and Deconstructable and more!,We have updated the server and released a new client on Steam with the following fixes:Beach decorations should now show up in the store,Fix UI bug causing some unacquired kno…

Community AnnouncementsJul 9, 2026
Patch Notes July 9th - Shores of Summer!

Added:Summer Seasonal Content (available to get until Aug 20th, items obtained will persist after the event ends) Added a chance to dig up a map leading to an ice chest when digging sand of any tier (excluding beach sand), as well as while …

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Community AnnouncementsJul 8, 2026
Scheduled Maintenance - Thursday, July 9, 2026

Scheduled Maintenance Hello Everyone. Please note that BitCraft Online will be inaccessible during the upcoming scheduled maintenance, for the times below. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience and u…

Community AnnouncementsJun 26, 2026
BitCraft Online 50% OFF From June 25th - July 9th

The world of BitCraft Online is calling, and there's never been a better time to answer. From now until July 9th, 2026, you can get BitCraft Online for 50% OFF! Step into world of Starfell a sandbox world where your imagination is the only …

Community AnnouncementsJun 25, 2026
Patch Notes 25th Jun - New Gameplay Loops, New Cosmetics and Bug fixes.

Added:Added several new gameplay activities to the Uncharted IslandsSmithingCollect Pirate’s Weapons from the Pirate’s Footlockers found near ShipwrecksRepair the Pirate’s Weapons at the nearby Furnace, Geyser, Whetstone and AnvilOnce Repai…

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Community AnnouncementsJun 22, 2026
Scheduled Maintenance - Thursday, June 25th

Scheduled MaintenanceHello Everyone.Please note that BitCraft Online will be inaccessible during the upcoming maintenance, scheduled for the times below. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience and und…

Community AnnouncementsJun 11, 2026
Patch Notes - Temporary Regions & World Events

Added:Added a new Equipment Slot, the TrinketTrinkets are found solely in Uncharted Islands temporary region for now. In the future, more of these will be added to the core game’s contentTrinkets are not crafted by players and are found pri…

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Community AnnouncementsJun 8, 2026
Scheduled Maintenance Thursday, June 11th

Scheduled Maintenance Hello Everyone. Please note that BitCraft Online will be inaccessible during the upcoming maintenance, scheduled for the times below. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience and u…

Community AnnouncementsMay 28, 2026
Patch Notes - Expanded Taming, Optimization, QOL, and Bug Fixes.

Added:New Quest to unlock the Wagon III “Brico’s Plan B”Added Deployable appearance overrides. These are new cosmetics which can be stored in your vault which change the appearance of your deployables without changing their stats.Added Nubi…

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Community AnnouncementsMay 27, 2026
Bi-weekly Scheduled Maintenance May 28th

Scheduled MaintenanceHello Everyone.Please note that BitCraft Online will be inaccessible during the upcoming maintenance, scheduled for the times below. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience and und…

Community AnnouncementsMay 21, 2026
Patch Notes - HotFix 21 May

Patch Notes,Fixed an issue where your trapped/domesticated Sagi Bird would become unresponsive if another player's Sagi Bird was placed directly on top of it, forcing you to log in and out of the game to interact with the Sagi Bird.The "Tri…

Community AnnouncementsMay 14, 2026
Patch Notes - New Quests, Taming Update, QOL and Bug Fixes!

Added:New Taming ContentNew BuildingsTaming StationAnimal HutchAnimal TrappingAdded Sagi Bird Traps - Craftable at the taming station.Place traps and bait them with food to catch wild Sagi Birds. Food can be crafted at the taming station wi…

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Community AnnouncementsMay 8, 2026
BitCraft Online Is 30% Off Till The 18th Of May

The world of BitCraft Online is calling, and there's never been a better time to answer. From now until May 18, 2026, you can get BitCraft Online for 30% OFF! Step into world of Starfell a sandbox world where your imagination is the only li…

Community AnnouncementsApr 30, 2026
Patch Notes - New rings, quests, Bug fixes and cosmetics

Added:The ability to transfer Items and Cargo from one inventory to another without needing to pass through the player inventory "Cargo and items are transferred to the inventory window that was most recently focused; you can identify the a…

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Community AnnouncementsApr 17, 2026
Twitch Drop - April 17th to May 4th

A new Twitch Drop campaign has arrived, celebrating the arrival of spring with a fresh, seasonal theme!Be sure to tune into participating streamers between April 17th and May 4th to snag some sweet rewards.1 Hour Watch Time: 1 Beta Cubes3 H…