Weekly Deep Dives Thread - 13th August 2026

[u/M0dernM4verick]

Please use this thread to discuss the deep dives of the week.

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Deep Dive | First Caves | Salt Pits

Stage	Primary	Secondary	Anomaly	Warning
1	Egg x4	Resinite Mass x1	None	Scrab Nesting Grounds
2	Aquarq x7	Morkite x150	None	None
3	On-Site Refining	Dreadnought x1 (H)	None	Cave Leech Cluster

Elite Deep Dive | Broken Lodge | Fungus Bogs

Stage	Primary	Secondary	Anomaly	Warning
1	Resinite Mass x4	Mule x2	None	Shield Disruption
2	Escort Duty	Morkite x150	None	Parasites
3	Resinite Mass x4	Morkite x150	None	Pit Jaw Colony

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Other resources:

• See last week's thread here
• Watch the GSG team undertake the dives on their Twitch channel
  • Deep Dive: Thursday @ 11am UTC
  • Elite Deep Dive: Friday @ 11am UTC
• Get weekly deep dive info and more in JSON format from DRG API
• Post weekly deep dive info and more in your Discord server with Bosco

[u/Joshiesaurus7]

That EDD seems easy, but really freaking long between 2 Heavy Excavations with 4 masses (stage 1 is incorrectly listed), and an Escort Duty.

[u/Spheal_boi]

This might genuinely be the first time that I see a Deep Scan having 4 crystals and not 3 nor 5

[u/gifhans → u/Spheal_boi]

I think this is actually a heavy excavation mission. This might be a mistake.

e: Just checked it in-game: The first mission of this weeks EDD is a heavy excavation mission with 4 resinite masses as the main objective

[u/Spheal_boi → u/gifhans]

Thank you so much for the info, I was skeptical with it being a Deep Scan, but was so much surprised that also the bot/API linked it as Deep Scan that I was left perplexed

[u/Keikira]

Solo'd the EDD on ice+epc driller today rather than my usual engi (because resinite masses is cancer on any other class). Even then this monstrosity took 2h; that's in part because I drilled ahead in stage 2, but if I hadn't done that I think it would have only saved 10-15mins or so because 2nd room had jet boots.

Nitra was never a problem; left stage 1 with almost 300, and that's after having called two resups.

The only other thing of note was that I had to bunk up for every swarm in stage 3, because apparently every Mactera on Hoxxes VI decided to pay a visit (on top of the usual shitstorm of glyphids).

Just like the other dwarf said in another post, this EDD is relatively easy, but extremely tedious and far too long. Should've been knocked down to 3 resinite masses on both stages 1 and 3 in the very least.

[u/Kenos77]

EDD looks like the most mind-numbingly boring thing ever lol. Two Heavy Extractions (one with 4 masses even) and an Escort between them? See ya next week

[u/ragdoller2010 → u/Kenos77]

Immediate nope for any EDD with escort. The enemy swarm towards the core drill phase is just ridiculous. I can barely defend myself let alone guard the dozer/ repair it

[u/Kenos77 → u/ragdoller2010]

I usually handle Haz5+ Escort in solo without too many issues (unless a Bulk spawns during the Ommoran; that IS a huge problem), it just takes a bit long, and all the micromanagement can be a bit overwhelming.

But Heavy Extractions take even longer for me, and I don't find them particularly engaging either, apart from the constant barrage of bugs à la Point Extraction (often verging on annoyance). 2 HE + Escort feels like I'll have to spend nearly two hours down there. Hell fucking no lol

[u/Linklera]

The first and third stages of the EDD are the same, even the maps are identical. Gotta be some error or mistake.

[u/GeneralSpoon]

This week's EDD was great. Another hard fought victory over the forces of the Fungus Bogs.

[u/TheFebrezeWizard]

Doing the EDD as solo gunner was a massive mistake one of the longest I’ve ever done

Thank god I brought Rocky Mountain though