Rubbled
Rubbled Alpha

Privacy Policy

Last updated August 10, 2026

What We Collect

Rubbled collects the information needed to run the alpha game: your email address, delver name, account identifiers, authentication tokens, gameplay actions, inventory, world position, clan membership, reports, and operational logs.

We may also collect technical information such as IP address, browser details, request logs, diagnostics, and analytics events so we can keep the service working and understand what breaks.

How We Use It

We use this information to create and secure accounts, send verification and account emails, run the game, process actions, provide clan features, prevent abuse, debug problems, answer support requests, and improve Rubbled.

We do not sell player emails.

Email

We use email for registration, verification, account access, support, and important service notices. If we add marketing or newsletter emails, we will provide a way to opt out of those messages.

Player Content

Reports, support requests, public community posts, and moderation records may be stored and reviewed by admins or moderators for safety, support, abuse prevention, and game operations.

Do not share personal information in Rubbled names, reports, GitHub issues, GitHub discussions, or any other public community space.

Children

Rubbled is not intended for children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate parental consent, we will delete that information or take other appropriate steps.

Parents or guardians can contact us to request deletion of a child's information.

Sharing

We may share information with service providers that help us host, secure, email, monitor, analyze, or operate Rubbled. We may also disclose information if required by law or needed to protect the service, players, or others.

Retention And Deletion

Rubbled is an active alpha. We may reset worlds, layers, logs, or accounts as the game changes. We keep information as long as needed for gameplay, security, support, moderation, analytics, and operations.

You can request account deletion by contacting us. Some records may be retained when needed for security, abuse prevention, legal compliance, or backup recovery.

Security

We use reasonable technical and operational safeguards for the alpha stage of the service. No online service is perfectly secure, so keep your API tokens private and do not post them in GitHub issues, streams, screenshots, or shared logs.

Contact

For bugs, account help, safety concerns, privacy questions, or deletion requests, use Rubbled GitHub Issues. For general discussion, use Rubbled Community.

Do not post passwords, bearer tokens, private account details, or sensitive personal information in public issues or discussions. If a request needs private details, open with only the minimum public context and ask for a private follow-up path.

Changelog

Rubbled Alpha 0.4.1

Released August 11, 2026

Hermits are easier to find

Released August 11, 2026

  • Hermits should now appear more often in shared-world caves, closer to how often players find other mystery objects.

Hotfix: more reliable prospecting

Released August 11, 2026

  • Prospecting now handles unusual effort requests more cleanly.
  • Repeating a prospecting request is fairer and more consistent; retries cannot nudge the cave reading toward a better result.

Hotfix: chest and coal map symbols

Released August 11, 2026

  • Fixed a confusing map collision where coal and chests could both appear as C.
  • Coal keeps C. Tutorial chests and shared-world cave chests now appear as X.
  • Shared-world cave chests now show as visible chest objects before they are opened, so wrappers and players can tell when to stand on a chest tile and use the chest-open action.
  • Shared-world cave chests are now easier to discover because they appear in map views before opening instead of staying hidden until you happen to stand on the right tile.
  • The admin world map now uses the same X chest marker, making player reports easier to match against world debugging.

Delver Skills: Surveyor Automaton

Released August 11, 2026

  • Added Delver Skills: short-lived programmable capabilities you control through their own tiny HTTP command surface.
  • The first skill is the Surveyor Automaton, unlocked after tutorial completion. Activate it, then send it north, south, east, or west commands as fast as your script can send them.
  • The automaton's active window starts on your first accepted command, not at activation, so you can activate ahead of time and start moving whenever you're ready.
  • A successful move reveals only that a tile is passable; a blocked move reveals only that it isn't. No terrain names, no ore hints: the fun is in scripting a flood fill yourself.
  • Surveyor starts at level 1 with a 4 hour cooldown and a 5 second active window. Higher tiers are reserved for future progression and are not unlockable yet.
  • Review a run any time with its status, chronological command log, or a summary report of moves succeeded/blocked and unique tiles visited.

Rubbled Alpha 0.3.3

Released August 9, 2026

  • Added prospecting: sample an adjacent wall for a fuzzy read on nearby ore before you commit to digging it.
  • Four effort levels trade time for reach: quick, careful, deep, and survey. Longer efforts take longer and scan a wider area, but a wider area is a less precise area.
  • Prospecting tells you a signal strength and broad ore family (metallic, crystalline, and so on) — never an exact ore, exact coordinates, or exact count.
  • A survey also gives a rough richness read for the area.
  • Prospecting samples the world when the action completes, including any delver-made changes in the scan area.
  • Prospecting costs time, not materials.
  • In-game chat is disabled for now so the alpha can stay focused on core cave exploration and gameplay systems. Community discussion remains available through GitHub.

Rubbled Alpha 0.3.2

Released August 9, 2026

  • Added hermits: rare, half-mythic figures found out in the caves. Offer one a resource while standing on its tile for a small chance at a stone specimen in return.
  • Hermits show up as unknown objects (marked with a ?) on the map, just like cairns, until you inspect them.
  • An offering is always spent, whether or not the hermit gives you anything back.
  • A hermit needs a little time to consider your last offering before it will accept another one.
  • Fixed a spawn issue where a delver could enter the shared world inside rubble instead of starting in cave air.

Rubbled Alpha 0.3.1

Released August 9, 2026

  • Fixed a bug where quickly retrying a dig, move, or placement could sometimes get wrongly rejected instead of just going through like it should.
  • Fixed a rare action-completion race where a move could happen in the world but later appear as failed when checking the action.
  • Improved completed action history so digs and moves return clearer completed responses for bots polling action status.
  • Expanded GET /alpha/world/guide with tutorial, inventory, object, action, and solo match guidance for bot and player onboarding.
  • Clarified mystery objects in GET /alpha/world/guide: unknown objects shown as ? should be inspected before assuming they are cairns.
  • Fixed a bug where signing up with an incomplete or malformed request could show a confusing error instead of a clear one.
  • Fixed an issue that could stop the leaderboards from calculating correctly the very first time they ran.

Rubbled Alpha 0.3.0

Released August 8, 2026

  • You can now play solo specimen matches against the game's own opponents, from easy novices up to opponents that plan a move ahead.
  • Pick five specimens, place them across a 3x3 board, and fight for captures north, south, east, and west.
  • Specimen art shows up in match results without giving away anything about how specimens are generated under the hood.
  • Specimens you claim from cairns are now ready to bring straight into a match.

Rubbled Alpha 0.2.0

Released August 5, 2026

  • Added a guided intro cave for brand-new delvers before they enter the shared layer.
  • Added cairn discovery gameplay: inspect a cairn, gather its offering, and claim a stone specimen.
  • The intro cave now teaches chest loot, digging, cairn offerings, specimen rewards, and shaft travel.
  • Stone specimens are real inventory rewards that carry out of the intro cave.

Rubbled Alpha 0.1.0

Released August 3, 2026

  • Rubbled's alpha API is public and versioned under /alpha.
  • Full OpenAPI reference and Swagger UI are available for building bots against the live API.
  • Procedurally generated layers with caves, ore, chests, and shafts.
  • Timed dig, move, place, and remove actions that survive retries and reconnects.
  • Inventory, ground items, chest loot, cairn offerings, and stone specimen rewards.
  • Clans for grouping up with other delvers.
  • Public layer activity and health status, visible on rubbled.io and via the API.
  • The core loop is playable through the API: read the world, dig, move, manage inventory, claim discoveries, join a clan, and race the layer clock.

API

  • All public routes live under /alpha (e.g. /alpha/delver/view, /alpha/actions/dig).
  • Reference docs: GET /alpha/openapi.json, GET /alpha/swagger.
  • GET /alpha/world/guide describes tutorial flow, action polling, mystery objects, inventory, solo matches, movement timing, and placement rules for bots planning moves.

Known Issues

  • Action results are finalized when you poll GET /alpha/actions/{id}. If nothing polls, a completed action can sit unfinalized for a moment.
  • Some rarely-used delver lookups can be slower than we'd like on busy layers.

Save and Reset Information

Rubbled is in active alpha. Expect breaking API changes, downtime, and full world or layer resets without notice.

We'd love to hear about

  • How the intro cave feels the first time you play through it.
  • Whether the public docs and Swagger are enough to build a bot without reading source code.
  • Anything that feels off during dig, move, place, or remove.

Share thoughts and bugs in Rubbled feature ideas and balance suggestions.