Overview
- Coffee Stain Studios revealed Core Values as Satisfactory’s first paid DLC and described it as a major expansion that adds new biomes, buildings, a storyline, and new creatures.
- The DLC moves core gameplay below the planet’s surface into caverns, introducing mapped areas with hard rock boundaries that limit horizontal build space.
- Core Values adds new tools and buildings designed to harvest subterranean resources and support compact, vertical factory layouts demanded by the caverns.
- Access to the new area will require reaching Tier 3 HUB research after building the space elevator, and players will be able to freely hop between the DLC area and the main map.
- Coffee Stain gave no release date and said the base game will keep receiving regular updates during DLC development while a separate Satisfactory board game from MOOD Publishing is planned to launch on Gamefound in 2026.