DustFall Ruins — All Six Buried Layers and Their Cores

DustFall runs on six buried ruins, and the store page is consistent about the number: the description says you descend through six buried ruins, and the feature list repeats it as six layers and six core bosses. What the page does not publish is a single layer name, so the names and their material roster are not documented yet.

What is documented is the structure. Each of the six layers has its own terrain materials, environmental reactions, enemy ecosystem and core boss, and the only way into the next ruin is to reach the bottom of the current one and defeat its core.

Six Buried Ruins in Descent Order

The order is defined by depth rather than by a named chapter list, because the store page never labels the layers. Depth is nonetheless explicit, since the game is a descent and the scan follows you downward, so the sequence below is the documented count with the documented per-layer contents and no invented names.

Layer	Name	Documented per-layer content
Layer 1	Not documented yet	Its own terrain materials, reactions, enemy ecosystem and core boss
Layer 2	Not documented yet	Its own terrain materials, reactions, enemy ecosystem and core boss
Layer 3	Not documented yet	Its own terrain materials, reactions, enemy ecosystem and core boss
Layer 4	Not documented yet	Its own terrain materials, reactions, enemy ecosystem and core boss
Layer 5	Not documented yet	Its own terrain materials, reactions, enemy ecosystem and core boss
Layer 6	Not documented yet	Its own terrain materials, reactions, enemy ecosystem and core boss

The layer the game starts in is the shallowest, and the scan begins closing in from above the moment a descent starts, so depth and progression are the same axis rather than two separate systems.

What Changes Between Layers

The store page's claim is that every layer has its own terrain materials, environmental reactions, enemy ecosystem and core boss, which is a stronger statement than a theme change. It means the material behaviour documented on the terrain page is layer-specific, and the enemy ecosystem changes alongside it rather than only scaling in health.

That is why the layer you are in decides which payload is worth carrying. The payloads page covers the switch branch, which exists precisely because a build tuned for one ruin's material can be the wrong build for the next.

Because the store page only says the four per-layer properties exist, the specific materials, reactions and enemy types of any given layer are unstated. There is no published layer-by-layer breakdown to quote.

Clearing a Layer at Its Core

Progression is gated at the bottom. The store page says only by reaching the bottom of a layer and defeating its core can you fall into the next ruin, which makes the core boss a required gate rather than an optional challenge.

Nothing about the cores is otherwise documented. There are six of them by the feature list, they are described as core bosses rather than named bosses, and no health, phase count or arena detail is published. The gameplay page covers the loop that leads to each one, and the hunters page covers the pressure that follows you down while you dig.

Endings and Cataclysm Mode

Past the sixth ruin the store page lists three endings, plus Cataclysm Mode after the ending. It also frames the story question directly: the ruins and echoes buried in the strata tell of those who once searched for a place to live by digging downward, just as you do, and the deeper you go the harder it becomes to ignore whether there is really a home beneath the earth.

Those three endings are documented only as a count, with no names, conditions or branch structure published. Cataclysm Mode is described on the Cataclysm Mode page, and the achievements that sit across the whole run are listed on the achievements page, where the store page publishes 10 of the game's 29 names.