What's on the surface of Deep Rock Galactic? A mini adventure 

If you liked this, I have a sequel where I dug straight down👇 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G0LvRL2TRao.html

That explosion in 4th minute was a bosco destroying himself after another player joined. It always happens

Now I wish deep rock keeps going for like 20 years and becomes one of the biggest titles with ever expanding content that takes us deeper to the core and closer to the surface

I reeeally hope they expand on the “lore” of the game. There is so much untapped potential.

Theory: The stars are actually glowing crystals, and the void is just a big distance from the walls of an even larger cave, that cave is just a small caves in a giant ravine on the surface of Hoxxes

Wouldn't it be funny if Karl was lost this whole time and it turns out that he was on the surface, and DRG simply didn't think that's where he would be?

Amazing. I'm going to send this to my dad who also plays. He's always wondered what's up there. You did the research so we didn't have to. We salute you! Rock and Stone!

Hope they add surface missions someday, dig down for the objective, then have to race back up for extraction. Maybe something that requires all deserves to activate/escort.

Amazing vid keep it up!

Technically speaking, each hazard level takes you deeper into Hoxxes. I believe you can fact-check this by looking at the depth meter inside the drop pod at the start. So if Haz 1 is the highest, that means the tutorial is pretty close to the surface. Realistically that’s as much as we’ll ever see.

The void is more reachable in salvage operation missions because there’s a much bigger hole above the drop pod at the end. Best way to reach it and have some fun is to do it in the Azure Weald, grab a cave angel and fly carefully in circles to the top and you’ll be able to fly around the map.

ive tried to reach the surface, and its fully possible on a point extraction or oil refining mission by riding the rocket and then grappling up its easier if you have hoverclock and fast reload on your grappling hook, as well as the grog that helps you mine stone, but in my experience ive found nothing up there

fun fact, the hole created by the abandoned droppod on salvage opperation does not have a roof. It's a hole straight through too the surface. With special powder the process of reaching the "starry void" is trivialized.

Ngl, this is a genuinly good video, the editing is very neat, and I'm impressed that you took on that task, and completed it.

damn, this went from ROCK AND STONE to basically bedrock

So that means all that "bedrock" is generated as you dig... Does it also mean you can "generate" rock if you try to dig from the outside of the map to the inside?

"My god, it's full of stars." -Rival Enemy

Where’s the achievement for getting to the top

You are a good Dwarf! The kind of player you hope to run into. May you never run out of Nitra! Rock&Stone 👍

I hopped up there as Scout on low gravity before the roof was added. Zip anywhere in the map in a few seconds but don't miss the landing grapple! Also that really hard granite material is around the entire play area. Dig far in any direction and you'll run into it. When I first found it, mining it would break off oddly square chunks.

This is the most dwarven thing I've ever seen, digging further than any dwarf has dug before. Rock and Stone, lads!

Scouts can easily blast themselves up and find that the out of bounds area is just an infinite void. I've been doing it in salvage missions and falling down after running out of shotgun ammo wont result in a downed status. But for some reason after the escape pod leaves and the points are tallied, you'll see that you've incurred a downed status.

nice dedication, the sand rain you saw is part of environment effects. as well as floating particles

I was far too invested in this lol. I once attempted this and quickly gave up. Never thought of it again. Bravo you two. Rock and Stone!

Solid effort, well done you two!

Quick li'l tip for once you get promoted: Get Berzerker for faster mining, together with maybe the power attack recharge beer or the Mountain beer that reduces the amount of hits terrain takes. Other than that, great video!

I remember doing something like this when I first started the game. Was in the tutorial level waiting for a friend to finish downloading. So me, as gunner, pickaxed my way up as far as I could before eventually sending myself to the shadow realm for doing so

Now we got to find out what's at the core, or how far you can tunnel sideways.

All the videos i found about the surface of the caves always have different ways to get to the top and even find different things when coming to the top and is always exciting and interesting to see what the processes and what would happen

3:55 it's just Bosco exploding when a new player joins

I used to climb on top of the minehead in aquark or liquid morkite missions and going for a ride. After a while, the minehead disappears and you fall.

I did this with a team about a year ago, we got our driller to detonate some C4's up there and make a little room. It was cozy. Things get even wackier when you dig as deep as you can btw, and activates "minecraft mode". You'll see what that means.

Imagine in the future seasons if we get to explore the surface

This is what happaned to Karl, he got to the top of Hoxxes and clipped, stuck forever in the walls

Rumor among dwarves is that if you dig far enough, Karl himself will reveal his godlike beard providing safe passage to the morkite realms

bro imagine there was an achievement for doing this, and that you would find a CRAZY surface, full of life and things to see

You are true legends, fellow miners, your journeys and discoveries won't go unnoticed and will serve DRG's science department well, your celebratory promotion awaits you at the space rig! Rock and stone!

If you ever try doing this again, play scout on a mission with low gravity you can simply use your grapling hook to go up the dig a hole call a resupply and get out with the grapling hook. Its very simple and fast

Can Confirm. One time I rode the Minehead up just to see what would happen, and I saw all those stars.

So hoxxes IV is a hollow planet and its surface is a starry void So it is a combine of massive tectonic plaques in a roughly spheroid shape, coreless and atmosphereless that somehow is able to sustain varied lifeforms inside its enclosed caverns by sheer virtue of simply trapping the right gasses inside. Maybe the ceiling in the drop pod tunnel is actually a mechanism of the DP itself that allows dwarves to access the caves of Hoxxes without loosing atmo?

This reminds me of The Beginner's Guide, which is a game that plays around with the concept of exiting the level and seeing the whole map (among other things).

It would be a way easier, if you take mission with liquid morkite and build spiral pipeline all the way up. Pipeline destroys any obstacle above it a leave place for Dwarf and another layer of pipes.

I actually did it too in solo, it was on easy so bugs were no problem and heights too since I was on scout and so I mine it around 6 hours and make 2 holes, from drop and supply pods, second one was harder since it's much less in weight, and later I go to hell, it was actually much much lower that you expect, in fact I didn't reach the end at all cuz I was getting sick of this stone in which you cannot see even with light's so I just made a path between 2 drop holes in regular stone and mine some more down until giving up completely and finishing the mission, it was around 10 hours of "non stop fun" but I actually enjoyed it, Bosco keeps a great company, especially since you need to frequently remind him on keeping the lights on and killing bugs while you mine, hope everyone get the same experience someday (sorry for grammar mistakes and all, English not much of my native language but who cares, thanks for reading :])

I dug myself up there too with a friend, and you fall through the entire map until you land on the regular cave floor. We tested it with scouts grappling hook

Dang, I almost completely forget about this glitch. Me and a few buds did this very exact thing a year or so ago but none of us upload videos. The game itself uses a marching cubes algorithm or something like that to generate the map. This is quite evident just by the style of the game but brutally evident from seeing the void up there. This algorithm works by placing vertex points uniformly throughout the game world and then assigning them a value. Usually negative is rock and positive is air. Then you go through each collection of 8 vertices (8 corners on a cube) and figure out how to draw a surface that covers the rock and only renders the air side (side the player is on. This is why you can see throughout the whole world since ya know, normally, the player should never be on the rock side. There also is not any tool the Im aware of that allows the player has to interact with those points directly... only by hitting a rendered surface (mining) will it update neighbouring points and redraw the new surfaces. To explain why the void bug even occurs is quite simply, you went so far that the game literally ran outta vertex points to render more surfaces with. Not that you broke the game persay, just that for the game to run efficiently they can only have so many and realistically no one in their right minds would ever try to dig that high up and through all that "bedrock" haha... makes to of us I guess. If you read this much... Im impressed but I hope you learned something interesting at least. If you want to learn more about the marching cubes algorithm I highly recommend Sebastian Lagues Coding Adventure videos on the subject. In particular this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vTMEdHcKgM4.html

They should add a surface biome, everything is the same just, no roof. instead you get a cool view of stars and nebulas, and the rig/hub area in the distance. Imagine ordering a resupply pod and watching it come out of the rig/hub and it doing a lil spiral like the cutscene for going to hoxxes, before it lands.

Good work fellow dwarf! You did what no leaf lover could ever do. Drinks are on me boys!

One time, I had a salvage mission in the exclusion zone. The salvage drop pod generated pretty high and I was playing scout. I decided to climb to the top of the hole, because I noticed my flare gun couldn't seem to reach it. I didn't know why at the time, but I launched myself straight out of the map with the special powder on the boomstick.

I got to the top of the map once doing the 1 min rail achievement cuz one dude wanted to do a spiral instead of just making a giant loop

Yeah, I remember going up that far by riding the mine head in an extraction mission. The look of the stars was super otherworldly.

If you turned your flashlights off and let the flares die out, it would look like space.

You could’ve just used resupply pods to mine out the granite, grapple up, and call molly to use her as a ladder

I imagine the actual in lore surface of Hoxxes is like either the Moon or Venus

Easier way to do this: get scout with the Special Powder OC, the one that lets you jump with your shotgun. Mod for ammo and resold speed. Call a resupply to break the top layer. Point your gun down and hold the fire button.

potential 2 hour game would've been speedran if you had a scout running born ready and special powder

4:37 "Oooops! I slipped!"

All fun and games until they add the surface of hoxxes and the moment you leave the caves and step outside you get nuked by solar radiation

ah yes, I remenber the first time I got to space was with a special power scout on a low gravity mission, if you shoot yourself up, there seems to be a even weaker gravity, so by pouring all my shots I actually accelerated up hundreds of meters

I commend you brothers...many have thought of such a feat...yet so few have really tried. FOR KARL!

I recently managed te fell under the map by walking into drilldozers drill, looks about same from the other side.

u can expirience "surface" easy - being scout (optional), on low grav low depth mission, find jet boots and fly into escape pod shaft

Imagine... all it would take is a single detonator

cool video :) i had a similar experience where i played scout on low gravity. my shotgun had the knockback overclock and it launched me up the drop pop tunnel forever basically. i went so high that it de-spawned me from the game except i was still there. the game was then stuck forever and i couldn't be kicked :)

That’s a big win. You actually escaped the cave!

From a non player, this journey was exciting and interesting. Thank you for sharing.

I remember when me and my friend got the game this is what we did in our first hour of playing... But we gave up

Well Hoxxes doesn't have an atmosphere sooo... It makes sense in the world logic

Been playing for years, didnt know you could reach the surface

you could have gotten a lot of nitra, and ran scout with the knock back shotgun overclock, once at the top, call in a drop pod, go up it’s tunnel and continue from there

If you find a mission with low gravity the scout alone can make it up the shaft with just the grapple hook. I don’t know about getting up into the blocked ceiling tho.

DRG DEVS: you can't go to the surface of Hoxxes Thejuicyiguanna: How about i do it anyway? seriously the need to explore the surface some i'm really curious

I really want them to switch things up eventually and give a surface mission or even invade a “rival” company space station

my god... it's full of stars!

this is actually very easy to consistently do as scout. haz 1, get enough for 3 resupplies, grapple up and keep gaining height with special powder and then make a hole in the wall. (also use the born ready perk so with the grappling hook you can stay in the side of the wall until the shotgun reloads). call down a resupply in this hole and repeat the process until out of bounds.

on missions with platforms you can ride on top of the payload rocket

you shouldve drunk rocky mountain! my favorite beer it lets you mine stone or organic mat in a single swing! also thats for showing us! amazing vid!

I had the roof of the drop pod hole not be there like a year ago and used scout and special powder for a similar result

You can just take roketjump overclock on scouts shotgun and fly to space on rescue mission. There is a bug that shaft from abandoned drop pod has no bedrock, and you can fly thousands of meters above 0 lvl with shotgun. If you want to fly not directly vertical but sideways, on distance about 20000m from map center game will crash

i did the same thing but insted of drilling i choosed scout grappled my way up then call the mule and stand on it while its on the wall and do that again and again

Only time I reahed the granite layer with an engie was when I was completing the rollercoaster achievement. Abyssal weal wasn't the best biome to do that and the cave was rather small, but damit I was going to make it! An hour later I had this crazy pipe circling the cave several times and then going up the drop pod hole all the way up to the layer only to come down from the refinement rig hole. Even completed the mission, though it's hardly worth it at that point.

This is a lot easier than you think lol it takes scout with broomstick with the special powder. All you need to do is get to the top where the black is the call in a resupply then fly up the hole it made and now your flying through the abyss

you can ride the mine-head to the top. it's much faster.

"Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me! Believe in the Kamina who believes in you!" "Your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens!" 💫

Rock and stone brother, would not have know about this otherwise

I wonder if you can get to a positive altitude by starting on a shallower map

I remember when I first made it there, it was amazing

Really cool, thanks for answering that question haha. And thanks for the cookie

you're real dwarves! rock and stone brothers!

I can’t wait for the MMODRPG update and we get a fully exploitable hoxxes

try doing this on a liquid morkite mission. worst case scenario you have a pipe to grind up and down to/from that barrier where projectiles stop working

This would gave been faster if you used the special rock breaking drink

it was all in "le head"

it seems similar to minecraft's farlands, and how cs:go's animations break at a certain distance from the point of origin. something to do with floating point precision, I think?

Damn, was hoping you'd tunnel into the new beta :)

I’ve explored up there several times, I’ve even lead a full expedition to the surface once lol. Never found anything tjo

don't touch the ceiling, it holds the atmosphere inside. Hope you have some liquid bakelite if you'll proceed...

Betcha thats where Karl is hiding.

Good vid!

I guess that makes sense, because Hoxes might not have a surface atmosphere

You should have gotten a scout with the propellant overclock for boomstick to get up very fast, also exctraction (maybe didn't remember mission name but the one with broken mules) has the ceiling all the way up until there's nothing.