Mercimek Games

Mad Miner 2

Mad Miner

Winter and People

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Hi, I'm Samet! I'm an indie game developer. Under the name Mercimek Games, I have been publishing PC games on Steam since 2022. I making games with players, not investors, so feel free to send me your positive or negative feedback.

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📣 Mad Miner 2 Cancelled	Mar 19, 2025
Thank you to the 452 players who have added Mad Miner 2 to their wishlist so far! I would like to announce that I am canceling the development of Mad Miner 2. I also need to take an indefinite break from game development. Thank you for supporting me and my games so far! Maybe we will meet again sometime in the future 🖐️

Mar 17, 2025

Greetings from another update of Mad Miner!

I realize that this update is not as big as the 1.4.1 update, but I still like to provide updates like this to show my support for the game.

Even though I know that Mad Miner is no longer being played by anyone, I love my game and I'm not forgetting it. After all, I want to remind you that my motto from the very beginning was “I making games with players, not investors”, so the fact that no one is playing Mad Miner is not something that really concerns me. My game is here and open to any player who wants to play it. I don't see my games as money, they are my works. Therefore, it doesn't upset me to fail. Maybe I won't be able to continue on this path and I won't have time to develop games, but I will still be here when I have time and I will keep updating my games for you to enjoy.

All right! Let me tell you what happened in this update:

With this update, the interior design of our starter shelter has changed a lot!
Wooden walls have been added.
Wooden floors have been added.
Iron lanterns have been replaced with wooden lanterns and their positions have been rearranged.
The positions of the crafting and material tables were moved upwards and wooden bridges were added underneath them. Also stairs that allow us to access them!
2 crop baskets will now accompany us so that we can plant seeds as soon as we get them from the ground!

Thank you for playing, browsing or adding Mad Miner to your wishlist!

Mar 14, 2025

I've tried a lot of designs for the Mercimek Games website, sometimes very cool and modern, sometimes completely retro. I think this final version is the one I like the most. It's sympathetic, characteristic and not too retro. This is the flavor I was looking for!

This section will also be where I'll be posting update notes, development notes or early news I want to announce about my games. I hope to make games that excite you enough to read these posts. Thank you for taking the time to check out my games and visit my website!

Nov 14, 2024

Hello Mad Miner players and fans! Thank you again and again for your interest in Mad Miner.

I realize this isn't a big update, but I wanted to remind you that I haven't forgotten my game I wanted to emphasize that this is an important update to show that I can still support Mad Miner.

So what has been added in this update?

Eggs! There are now 3 animal eggs that you can access with the builder mode. Using these eggs you can create: moles, golden moles or bats in the locations you want. I honestly don't know what this will do for you, but I wanted us Mad Miner players to have this possibility. You can actually squeeze them into the places you want in your mines or use them for your custom maps.

Which bugs have been fixed?

Fixed some visual bugs in the terrain editor.
Bats could hover when flying in water or oil, but this has now been fixed.
Enemies no longer spawn near our character when he first enters a mine (default mine or discovered mines). You are safe!
Fixed a sorting bug related to item mods.

Mar 27, 2024

Hello everyone from another big update of Mad Miner!

In this update, I focused on small details and made some visual and technical changes and added innovations.

Let's quickly examine what has been added and changed in this version:

Smokes added to the furnaces and crop machine.
Operating sound added to the engine and machines.
Added character coughing when approaching the engine.
Alternative new appearance added to the chests.
Climbing vines added.
Heart beating animation added when the heart bars reach their final stage.
Inventory performance improved.
The last selection of the quick access bar is now saved.
The drawings of all bars have been improved and their positions arranged.
Our ground floor in the mines we travel to has been increased from 16 to 8.
The 3rd stage of potatoes in the crop basket has been reduced.
Hook swing speed increased.
Engine smoke increased.
The bug where bats slept inside walls fixed.
Warning animation error of heart bars fixed.

Thank you for playing and continuing to play Mad Miner.

⛏️ Mad Miner - Mobile Update!	Mar 20, 2024
Mad Miner is out on mobile and it's free! You can access it from here.

Mar 12, 2024

Greetings from Mad Miner's 3rd major update!

As you know, Mad Miner has been an enemy-free game since its release. I changed this decision with a poll I asked you all to take, and then I got to work to bring you the PVE update.

Here is the PVE update and the new features that come with it!

What Has Been Added?

Enemies wielding pistols or shotguns and spreading chaos. They also drop loot when you kill them.
Pistols and shotguns.
Gunsmith's table.
Bat meat and soup.
Damage increase upgrade.

What Has Changed?

The carrot drawing has been made a little more orange.
Wall shadows have been made more minimal.

What Has Been Fixed?

Fixed the color problems of the new colored indicators.
Fixed the problem of the engine (item) not working off-screen.
And some minor bugs have been fixed.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.2.3.2 Update!	Feb 26, 2024
Some bugs fixed.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.2.3 Update!	Feb 19, 2024
Some buttons in the menus have been organized and improved. Search box has been added to the load menu. Added tile_layer property for item modes. When 0 they can be placed at the back like columns, when 1 they can be placed at the front like normal items. You can join our Discord for item mods and template file.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.2.2 Update!	Feb 17, 2024
Mod system has been stabilized. Note: Mod items you built in past versions will be loaded as "?" boxes in the new version, you can break the "?" boxes and rebuild the same items.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.2.1.1 Update!	Feb 16, 2024
Our player EAF156thTFWAS, who is both a Mad Miner player and volunteered support for the Japanese translation, made the translation more stable and edited it with the latest version. A discord button has been added to the main menu to access mods.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.2.1 Update!	Feb 15, 2024
Added more recipe possibilities for item mods. Some items can now be placed in all crafting table slots. Fixed some bugs.

Feb 14, 2024

Mad Miner's Second Major Update is Live!

Now you can design your own visual items, add animations and set recipes to craft in the fight for survival!

With this version:

You will be able to add your own visual items to Mad Miner. You will not be able to give these custom items a function, but you will be able to use them for design purposes.
Fixed some game breaking bugs.

Thank you for playing Mad Miner or adding it to your wishlist.

You can watch the video below to make your own custom visual items. You can also download the draft item project from the link in the description of the video or from our Discord.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.1.9.31 Update!	Feb 13, 2024
Now walls merge with other walls. Walls have been darkened a bit more. Critical bugs fixed.

Feb 12, 2024

The stairs in Mad Miner used to have a very restricted construction style. Now you can build them wherever you want and rotate them!

We've also added 3 new stairs. These are:

Soil Staircase
Golden Staircase
Radiation Stone Staircase

Also with this version:

There have been some changes in the growing time of crops.

Carrot 120sec -> 120sec,
Potato 160sec -> 240sec,
Spinach 200 sec -> 360 sec,
Cabbage 240sec -> 480sec replaced.

The number of crops that the Cabbage yields when grown has been increased from only 1 to 2 depending on luck.
Fixed some critical bugs.

Jan 1, 2024

I admit that Mad Miner can be a bit difficult for new players. As advantageous as the easy shelter is, it might not be easy enough. For this reason, with a 3rd shelter option, you will be able to choose the count of your own chest items.

After entering the mine name, press play and you will see a new button there.

In this menu you can set the count you want and set easier or more challenging starts.

Dec 18, 2023

Added/Edited:

The large chest has joined us. You can now store 24 different items in a single chest.
Hunger, oxygen and thirst bars have been redrawn and are now better!

Bugs:

Unfortunately, in previous versions, you couldn't get the achievement you got when completed all the upgrades. Now you can get it.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.1.7 Update!	Dec 14, 2023
Item indicator has been replaced with a new design. Hunger, oxygen and thirst bars have changed. Screen shadow has been reduced. Fixed barrel bug.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.1.6 Update!	Dec 13, 2023
When blocks form under particles, they now leave a few pieces affected by physics.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.1.5 Update!	Dec 11, 2023
Resources are now automatically returned to your inventory when you leave the production tables.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.1.4 Update!	Dec 10, 2023
Death animation and interface have been edited. Added a new upgrade: Quick Collect. Thanks to this upgrade, you will be able to quickly collect furnaces and crop baskets by simply clicking E. In this way, you will avoid the slowness of collect and placing. Digging speed in the tutorial has been reduced to 2.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.1.3 Update!	Dec 9, 2023
Settings menu has been edited. Minor bugs fixed.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.1.2 Update!	Nov 28, 2023
The minecart now emits smoke when it moves. When the storage increase upgrade reaches its final level, a bag is added to the character (cosmetic). A few minor bugs have been fixed.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.1.1 Update!	Nov 27, 2023
Added the camera to slide down when the inventory is opened to prevent the information box from covering the character. Added item indicator to chests. If activated, the item in the 1st slot is displayed on the chest.

Nov 21, 2023

Hello everyone from Mad Miner's first major update!

Thank you for playing Mad Miner or adding it to your wishlist. This interest greatly influences my motivation to develop Mad Miner. It makes me very happy to see people interested in my game. I hope Mad Miner is a game that deserves your playing time.

Without further ado, I would like to explain step by step what awaits you in this big update.

If you're ready, sit back, fasten your seatbelts and hold on tight!

Major Updates:

Our mines are now accompanied by water! For this reason, a third vital factor comes into play and we start to feel thirsty. Thanks to water, we produce water pots, water our crops, fish and make our soils to muddy.
A total of 20 new buildings, 5 new buildings in each mine, are being added to our mines. These structures sometimes reward us, sometimes make us think, and sometimes just sit there. But it greatly increases our sense of discovery!
With the new inventory layout, we can access our items under categories. In this way, we stop getting lost among hundreds of items.
We will now be able to produce our items with a single click! You remember that we need to place three different materials to craft items on the crafting table. Instead of sending those materials to the production table one by one, they will be placed automatically when you click on the item you want to produce with the "right mouse button". This way you won't have to memorize the recipes!
From now on, your lives will come into play when you run out of any vital factor (thirsty, lack of oxygen or hunger). In this way, you will avoid dying suddenly, and if you want, you will be able to delay it further thanks to the "health increase" development.
Mad Miner's food is taking a radical change for the first time. While before you could not consume food other than canned foods, now you will be able to drink soups. For this reason, while soups will be your meals that you consume at an earlier time, canned foods will be a more difficult to produce and more filling meal option. In addition, the canning machine for canned food should produce empty cans; For soups, you must produce empty plates at the ingredient table.
I told you that a new character would join us. Gamblers now accompany us in the deserts. Thanks to this NPC, we will be able to spin a wheel with four different prizes at the same time in exchange for 1 shiny gold bar. The rewards he gives are not bad!

And I list the others in short bullet points:

Bat.
Seed Production Table.
Fishing Rods and Fisherman's Table.
Fish Soup and Canned Fish.
10 new soundtracks designed entirely for Mad Miner. These music were created by Nervio Music.
4 new building blocks available from the Patcher Box.
Soil, Mud, Empty Pot and Empty Flowerpot.
Potter's Table.
Wild crops.
Binoculars.
Wall Candle and Torch.
Traders following us.
Ability to swim in water and petroleum.
New clothes for our character.
Stone Ladder.
Wooden, stone and iron doors.
Rope Bridge.
4 new statues obtainable through mine ladders.
Change the intensity of shadows thanks to a new setting.
Smoke effect when item is placed.
Details added to the character when oxygen resistance and hunger resistance improvements are completed.

Minor features changed/added with this version:

The elevator drawing has changed.
The design of the information box showing the purchased items has been changed.
The color of the box showing item descriptions has changed.
The production of the oxygen machine and tube has changed.
Added fire sound to lanterns and torches.
Tutorial made a little more detailed.
Furnaces have been added to be returned to the inventory when broken.
The satiety rates of canned food have been increased.
The production of canned foods with special effects has been made easier.
Added diary to be open at startup.
Additional information showing in which mode the saved mines in the record loading menu are recorded.
The storage limit for pickaxes has been removed.
Dynamite destroys everything now.
Some floor designs have been redrawn.
The boxes of all interacted items have been redesign.

Bugs fixed with this version:

When put into Builder mode, unfinished upgrades were locked as if they were completed when you loaded your saved mine.
The game would open and close again when the language was changed.
Some buildings did not destroy the walls behind them. For this reason, the wall shadows were disappearing.
When tables that were not crafting or material tables were broken, they were returned to the inventory as production or material tables.
Ladders were not spawn in mining cities.
Rail line formations coincided with mining cities.
And many minor bugs have been fixed.

I hope you have an even better time with the V1.1 update. I will rest a little and follow your comments. Please let me know your feedback on our Discord server or by writing a review.

Also, I would like to thanks EAF156thTFWAS, who is a Mad Miner player and has rewritten the Japanese translation.

Have fun playing, lots of digging!

Aug 16, 2023

Hello everyone! I hope you have enjoyed or are enjoying playing Mad Miner. I had announced that I was working on the new major update for Mad Miner. So, how's it going? Let me tell you right away.

First and foremost, the "water" will be the essential element of this version. That's why I've incorporated water and its basic physics into Mad Miner.

You must have also noticed the fishing rod in the hands of our miner :)

With V1.1, you will encounter wild crops underground. This will allow you to both cook canned food and produce seeds with the "seed production table." Yes! We will now be able to produce our own seeds.

Apart from these features, there are also additions such as bats, categorization in the inventory interface, binoculars, and fixes for some formations. (I admit progress has been slow due to the very hot weather :D)

The V1.1 update will be quite enjoyable and a bit more detailed. There's still a lot more to add. So, don't forget to stay tuned.

Note: Mines are cool, escaping to the Mad Miner mines might be a good solution in this heat :P

Jul 13, 2023

I hope you enjoy playing Mad Miner. Because with the V1.1 update, some innovations that will double your enjoyment are under development to be included in the game.

If Mad Miner continues to receive the necessary attention; I will be adding new updates to the game to make it more advanced and more enjoyable.

One of the next big updates is V1.1!

Let's take a look at what this update promises:

A third survival challenge will be added thanks to a new resource.
Significant things will be achieved thanks to some new tables.
It will be getting harder to fill our stomach.
Cultivating crops will become a little more detailed.
Although our struggle for life is getting harder in general, dying will not be as easy and simple as it used to be.
A new animal will accompany us in our mines.
New structures will accompany the mines that we are currently able to go to.
A new NPC will join our mines.
Some NPCs will can now move around and roam in mines.
Polishing will be done to increase the player experience.

I hope this list has sparked your excitement and further increased your interest in Mad Miner.

I wish you good luck in the mines while I work on the update.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.07 Darkness Update!	Jul 9, 2023
The dark system has completely changed! Both more powerful and darker!

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.06 Update!	Jul 7, 2023
Design and UX improvements have been made to the inventory interface. Minecart's rotation bugs fixed. Fixed the walking animation bug that plays when the character gets on the minecart while running.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.05 Update!	Jul 5, 2023
Added Japanese language support. A few bugs fixed.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.04 Update!	Jul 2, 2023
Raw Gold, Raw Radiation Stone, Waxstone and Raw Copper > redrawn.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.03 Update!	Jul 1, 2023
Limit of resources that can be placed at once for oven machine and harvester from 12 to > 48 upgraded.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.02 Update!	Jun 30, 2023
Increased the maximum level of storage increase upgrade, from 3 to > 5.

⛏️ Mad Miner - V1.01 Update!	Jun 25, 2023
Added starter difficulty. Easy Shelter: Advanced furnace and 12 gold ingots are added to the shelter. Hard Shelter: Classic challenging Mad Miner start.

⛏️ Mad Miner is Out!	Jun 23, 2023
Rub your hands and hold pickaxe tightly! Mad Miner is accessible to everyone to dig deep into the mines!

❄️ Winter and People - 0.7.4.0 Update!	Dec 28, 2022
Hello everyone from a new update of Winter and People! I know Winter and People is too challenging for new players. That's why I increased the quest time to 60 minutes for all cities. Now you can gather resources to the fullest and clash with your enemies. I continue to develop it for you to have more fun and better times. Good games!

May 14, 2022

Hello everyone from a new update of Winter and People!

Bugfix (Multi-build system that came in our 0.7.3.0 update had a bug that allowed us to get multiple builds to build at once).
When you wanted to make a choice to build a new structure in the interface, it caused you to build the structure in your hand by mistake. You can no longer build the building when you hover over the building purchase section. You can first cancel the selected structure and then make a new selection.

We continue to develop it so that you have more fun and better times.

Good games!

Apr 28, 2022

Hello everyone from a new update of Winter and People!

Bugfix (The game would crashed if people in your people die and you choose one of the people who don't die or if you want to build a new house).

We learned about this bug thanks to our bug reporting channel in our Discord community. Thanks to our player who reported the bug!

We continue to develop it so that you have more fun and better times.

Good games!

Apr 27, 2022

Hello everyone from a new update of Winter and People!

In this update, we made some system, logical and visual fixes and additions.

To build a structure, you had to select it again each time. Now when you select a building, you can build it continuously until you stop building it.
The sounds of the towers were becoming more and more disturbing as their numbers increased. But in this version you can hear them whenever you want. You won't hear their loud noises unless you put your camera in close mode and get close to them.
The best way to tell when enemies are coming is to hear their footsteps. These crowded footsteps were repetitive. With a little tweaking, we were able to achieve a more realistic footstep sound.
We noticed that the enemies were coming very fast and got some feedback. That's why we've made some changes to the duration of enemy raids. They won't come as fast as before!
We know that many players have difficulty assigning their workers' occupations. In this version we have added an infobox that shows you how to assign workers to their jobs.
You may have noticed that when you click on a hut to assign a profession, it sometimes doesn't detect it. We have stabilized this system and you can assign professions to your people very easily.
You remember that when you click on a person's home and place of work, they say "my home" and "my work". We realized that it was very ugly and we completely redesigned it. From now on, his home or workplace will be self-revealing by flashing.
The menu background is now replaced with in-game visuals. You may encounter images of cities randomly.

And that's all.

We continue to develop it so that you have more fun and better times.

Good games!

Apr 20, 2022

Hello everyone from a new update of Winter and People!

In this update, we made some system and logical fixes.

You know that there is a bar that shows the strength of trees or iron and coal mines. This bar doesn't drop to a certain level, so we weren't able to find out how much durability the resource we collected had left. We have corrected this and brought it to a level where you can easily follow it instantly.
As in every game, you know that when you press the "Escape" key in Winter and People, a menu comes up. But we didn't want the game to stop when the menu came. After talking to our testers who tested the game, we thought this was necessary and now you can pause your game by pressing the "Escape" key. This way you can have time to take a break :)
We fixed some minor bugs.

And that's all.

We continue to develop it so that you have more fun and better times.

Good games!

Apr 15, 2022

Hello everyone from a new update of Winter and People!

As you know, Winter and People blends tower defense and city building mechanics. However, we did not think that the tower defense part was enough, so we added some changes and innovations.

Now, when you kill your enemies, you can loot their last coins in their pockets. In this way, killing your enemies earns you money and finances you to build new towers.
We know your enemies look tiny on your screen. So it was difficult to tell if they were damaged or not. Now your can see their soul burning. This increases the hit feeling of your turrets. Although not as much as DL2...
You know the sniper turrets. The tower type with the farthest range. That's why they shoot slower. But their damage was the same as the rifle turrets. They now deal 2x more damage. Now using them is really impressive!
You know you have to complete your missions. When you completed all your quests, it was impossible to understand if you didn't open the quest window. Now when all your quests are finished, you can hear a congratulatory voice even if you don't open the quest window. In this way, you do not need to constantly check.
Do you remember the bullets and arrows? One emerges from the rifleman's tower and the other from the sniper's tower. But it was almost impossible to spot them. Now they leave a smoke behind which makes them really cool!
Winter and People is a difficult game for beginners to understand. We know this, but we want the player to learn by living. We don't have a tutorial. But we help the player with the information on the interface. Now, if you are going to build for the first time, a helpful message box appears to welcome you. In this way, you can learn how to build or cancel.

And that's all.

We continue to develop it so that you have more fun and better times.

Good games!

❄️ Winter and People is Out!	Apr 12, 2022
Winter and People is now accessible to everyone. We hope Winter and People will be a game that you will have fun playing. Good game to everyone!

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