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Main Character
Rusty
The West’s fastest miner of Tumbleton.
The main protagonist of SteamWorld Dig
- Power Fist: He can upgrade himself with a powerful fist that can launch heat projectiles by charging it up and is the best weapon the player can find.
- Powerful Pick: His main weapon is his trusty pickaxe, that he can upgrade as the town of Tumbleton becomes more populated.
- The Quiet One: Fits this more than being a true Silent Protagonist, as he does speak twice in the game: During the intro cutscene, and during the cutscene before battling Voltbot. He keeps talking in the sequel, even if he's really weak at that point.
- Scarf of Asskicking: A red one, and he lives up to the asskicking part when he storms Vectron. NPCs in the second game even mention his scarf when talking about him.
- Searching for the Lost Relative: He went to Tumbleton because he received a letter from his uncle, Joe who gives him the mine he owned before he dies. The first thing Rusty does is to search for his uncle in the mines, only to learn he died.
- Silent Protagonist: He actually talks, it just that he barely does it.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Voltbot tries to convince Rusty to join them, he simply tells that the upgrades that Voltbot has Joe has been leaving behind to make him ready to be assimilated only made him strong enough to confront them.
- This Is a Drill: He can upgrade himself to change his hand into a drill, making mining more efficient. It can also be used for combat.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: Rusty can buy from Hank some dynamites to throw it at blocks of dirt to clear path or make monsters fly.
NPCs
Dorothy
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A citizen of Tumbleton and the daughter of the Hank MacCracnk. She buys you the ore and gems you find inside the caves. She returns back in SteamWorld Dig 2 as the playable character. For more information of her in the second game click here.
- Girlish Pigtails: She has two pigtails and she is a Fembot
- In-Series Nickname: Dot.
- Promoted to Playable: Was not playable in the first game, but is the focus of the sequel.
Hank MacCrank
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The father of Dorothy, he sells useful items that Rusty can use to help him mine and defend himself.
- We Used to Be Friends: He used to be friends with Joe but after the latter becoming more obsessed with the depths of his mine, Hank and Joe stopped being friends.
Biff Beacon
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The owner of a store in Tumbleton after Rusty begins to make the economy of the town flow. He sells upgraded versions of the tools Rusty will use during his mining activities- Lola
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The owner of a saloon that joe used to visit frequently, she also sells many goods for Rusty to use. Dandy Alexander
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An aristocrat who visits Tumblton after hearing the economy started to flow very well since Rusty’s arrival. Dandy sells the best upgrades for the tools and upgrades for the health, light and water meters.Villain
Voltbot
For much of the game, Voltbot's existence is never acknowledged until he is met in person. However, as the caves are explored further, his scattered technology is continuously seen (the Orbs and traces of electricity in his inventions), hinting at an unknown force deep below the soil.
Now, they want Rusty to be their heart and be united with them, but Rusty rejects them and fights back.
- The Assimilator: Seeks to lure steambots from the surface by using upgrades to tempt them further down, and then absorb their minds and the information within to grant itself the ability to overtake the surface.
- Big Bad: Of the first game, and of the series as a whole, due to his roles in Dig 2, Heist and Quest.
- Black Speech: Most characters talking merely have soft, processed grumbles or babbles. This makes the ear-splitting, bitcrushed roaring he emits when he speaks all the more jarring.
- Cyber Cyclops: Has one red eye from which he fires Eye Beams.
- Evil Is Deathly Cold: The areas he controls are described as and colored to look cold as ice.
- Flunky Boss: Will often deploy drones to defend himself.
- Mechanical Abomination: It is, putting its operation into human terms, a soul-stealing subterranean monstrosity that has long since outgrown its original purpose.
- Shielded Core Boss: Tends to take this form whenever fought as an opponent, since his central components are often either small or unable to defend themselves directly.
- Shock and Awe: In contrast to the other robots, he is powered by electricity rather than steam.
- Walking Spoiler: Has little to no foreshadowing before he appears.
- We Can Rule Together: Attempts to do this with Rusty. It doesn't work.
SPOILER
Uncle Joe
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The uncle of Rusty, he was the previous owner of the mines and explored too deep and reached Vectron. Ever since meeting Voltbot, he started to hate the Steambots and favor more the electric powers of Vectron. He is also the one who has been leaving the upgrades for Rusty to become more and more akin to Vectron and ready him for assimilation. He is part of the Vectron Hive Mind now.- Face–Heel Turn: The Bots that remember Joe all tell that he was a pleasant fellow, if a bit excentric. It was until he found the Vectron technology that he slowly became crazy and obsessed with it.
