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Dead OilNews🚨 Big Update: Relics Overhaul, Survival Mode Expansion, and some Fixes!
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🚨 Big Update: Relics Overhaul, Survival Mode Expansion, and some Fixes!

Dead Oil · published 6 Jul 2025, 13:23 UTC

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Hey Scavengers,

We just dropped a big update packed with improvements, fixes, and all-new content to take your run to the next level. Here's what’s new:


🔧 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed flyer laser sight getting stuck

  • Fixed double-click bug when placing the first gadget

  • Fixed movement audio getting stuck

  • Fixed issue where you couldn’t pick up a beacon near other drills

  • Fixed dynamite cost not updating properly


🎥 Quality of Life

  • Added smooth animations when gaining / spending resources

  • Cleaner camera transitions during gameplay


💀 Survival Mode Expanded

  • Extended Survival Mode with 8 brutal new waves

  • More chaos, more enemies, more reasons to upgrade or die


🧬 Relic System Overhaul

The whole relic flow just got a juicy makeover:

  • Choose from 3 relics every time

  • Reroll relics with Oil or Scrap if you don’t like your luck

  • Added 11 new relics — and most of them stacks

  • Time to start crafting some wild builds


🧱 New Relics Include:

  • 💧 One-Time Oil Drop

  • 🧱 One-Time Iron Drop

  • 🛠 One-Time Scrap Drop

  • 🔫 Faster Fire Rate

  • 🛡 Armor Boost

  • 🚛 Faster Truck

  • ⛏ Skip Drilling

  • 🐛 Driller Movement Speed

  • 🛠 Faster Player Driller

  • 🚀 Rocket Launcher (New Weapon!)

  • ☢️ Nuke (New Weapon – be careful!)


Stack ‘em up, fire away, and drill deeper than ever.
This wasteland’s not gonna conquer itself.

Stay oiled,
— The Dead Oil Dev Team

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