Level 1 now teaches the game on the board itself the first time you play it, instead of a page of rules up front. It shows how pairs work, how matches run out past the cave walls and back, and how matches wrap from the end of one row to the start of the next. The level is unchanged. Also fixed a crash that could happen when a notification, phone call, or screen recording interrupted the game while music was playing. The game's background music now plays alongside your other audio instead of pausing it, and stays quiet while you're already listening to music or a podcast. Sound effects are unchanged.

Small display adjustment

**What changed in Cavernum** Level 3 now introduces itself properly. Players were getting stuck there — and not because the level is hard. Level 3 is the first place where reaching for Swap or Add # actually helps, and nothing in the game said so. So a player who needed one read it as their own failure rather than as the level doing its job. There's now a short intro the first time you land there. It points at the two tools, explains what Add # actually does — it takes every number on the board, in order, and lays them down again after the last tile — and tells you the game has left extra hints on that level. Hints are free against your move count, incidentally. Looking isn't digging. The level itself is unchanged. Same board, same solutions, same everything. Only the explanation is new. **And the fixes** Finishing the final level used to crash the game. It now tells you more levels are on the way, which is true. A handful of smaller ones: numbers no longer snap back after an ad, the level's music no longer keeps playing over the next level or under an ad (it used to loop until you relaunched), swapping tiles no longer leaves the board half-finished, a failed purchase now says so instead of claiming success, and "NEW RECORD" no longer appears when the score couldn't actually be saved.

Bug Fixes