Star Citizen 3.7 brings caves to alpha players.

Star Citizen Alpha 3.7 adds caves for spelunking

Cloud Imperium Games has released its quarterly update of the alpha version of its Star Citizen science fiction game universe, adding caves where players can mine resources.

The Star Citizen Alpha 3.7 Into the Depths patch goes live today for all players who have signed up for the game, which has raised $236 million from 2.37 million fans via crowdfunding to date. Each quarter, as the game marches toward its launch, Cloud Imperium is releasing new features for test players.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.