SteamWorld Dig 2

What does randomization do to this game?

Every reward in the game becomes a location, and the tool upgrades, blueprints, artifacts and cogs are shuffled into the item pool. Shops sell items from the multiworld for in-game money, so digging and selling ore still matter.

What is the goal?

Defeat Rosie. The Reactor door requires the Device items. By default that means all 4, or 3 with Generators Required set to Vanilla.

What items and locations get randomized?

The possible location checks include the following:

• Cog containers (77)
• Artifacts (42)
• Upgrade podiums (10)
• Generators (4)
• The workbench's upgrade slots (42)
• Trader Carson's wares (7) and Clifford's blueprint (1)
• The Cartographer's rewards (8)
• The Yonker brothers' blueprints (3)

These are optional:

• Teleporters (25)
• The Trials and their Proof of Completion (1)
• Orb containers:
  • Health (23)
  • Light (34)
  • Mixed (23)
  • Super (5)
• Secret Areas (85)
• Mini Secrets (35)

The items that are randomized are:

• Hook Shot
• Sprint Hydraulics
• Tool upgrades
  • Pickaxe
  • Backpack
  • Lamp
  • Armor
  • Water Tank
  • Pressure Bomb
  • Jackhammer
  • Jet Engine
• Cog mod blueprints
  • Grenade Launcher
  • Long-Range Grappler
  • Ignition Axe
  • Ultra Composite Armor
  • Ramjet Vigor
  • ThreeForce Grenade
  • Deathplosions
  • Thrillseeker's Tale
  • Blood Quest
  • Gaze of Odin
  • Criss-Cross Combustion
  • Core Diversity
  • Pocket of Freyr
  • More-Hoarder's Map
  • Sharpened Edge
  • Aquatic Regenesis
  • Sigillum Caelum et Infernum
    • Opens the Trials when Include Trials is on
• The four Devices
  • Doom
  • Devastation
  • Disaster
  • Destruction
• The 43 artifacts
• Upgrade Cogs (up to 84)

What other changes are made to the game?

• The opening cutscene is skipped
• Items you receive wait until you've fallen into the Temple, so nothing can skip the earthquake
• The Reactor door waits for the required Device items
  • Breaking a generator is a location and no longer opens the door
• Vectron is skipped
  • A bomb through the teleporter room's ceiling opens the way to the Jet Engine podium
• Quests can no longer lock you out
  • Fen's quests are side quests
• El Machino's welcome speech always plays when walking into the trigger on the left
• Rosie's Storage opens once its quest is done (in case you skipped Rosie's first interaction)
• Ignition Axe damage against the Priest Boss (guarding the Ignition Axe podium) is normalized

What does another world's item look like in SteamWorld Dig 2?

Cog containers look the same as usual, and an artifact's spot holds what looks like an Upgrade Cog. A banner tells you what you found in these and on podiums once you take it. Shop slots show the Archipelago logo with the item and who it's for unless Show Shop Items is off.

What if I get stuck?

You might find yourself stuck in a cave after using a podium, and Self-Destruct sends you back to the podium. Instead, return to the main menu and reload the save, which will send you back to the entrance.