“Welcome to Pumo Software, a galaxy of gaming dreams and tales and also the home of the Pumo Mines videogame modding project for Descent II (MS-DOS Game from Parallax Software and Interplay)/D2X-XL (A modern sourceport of Descent for Windows/Linux/Mac) and other gaming and creative projects that involve Original Stories, Music and Art.”

Besides Pumo Mines and Descent related projects you’ll also find information & downloads about all of Pumo‘s/Pumo Software works that involve the fictional ‘Pumosoft universe’ and lore, like R.a.M. Land‘s music, 2D & 3D CG art, Original RPG Maker projects and tales and much more!

Pumo Mines is a project made by Rubén ‘Pumo’ A. (and friends) with the goal to develop a custom Mission/Mod made for the Descent II classic videogame by Parallax Software and Interplay Entertainment (exclusively for the D2X-XL source port).
Note it’s still a work in progress. (For more info about the Descent game series, follow this link: What is Descent? )

The aim of the project is to offer a high-quality singleplayer campaign and mod with high-resolution graphics, sounds, original high-quality music by R.a.M. Land, custom robots, new ships, weapons and much more, all supplemented by a brand new story that will develop on a new universe (known as the Pumosoft Universe) with new characters, situations and places.

This mission/campaign is divided in three chapters/episodes. Keep scrolling to find complete information about the mission and each of its episodes. Updates and news about the current progress of Pumo Mines and other projects are also available on the Pumo Software Official Blog. Download links can be found near the bottom of this web page.

- PUMO MINES EPISODES -

Episode 1: Mineral Valley – 8 levels + 1 secret Level (Complete episode)
Episode 2: Kartsal Motivation – 17 levels + 3 secret levels (WIP – 3 levels done)
Episode 3: Muchikuche – 7 levels (N/A)

All episodes are part of the same campaign and mod, they are NOT separate projects.
You can select your desired episode on the initial hub level. This function is powered by D2X-XL exclusive features.

THE STORY: Many years in the far future, on an Earth without humans and inhabited by a new species of alien beings known as the Yuyu race and in the apex of its technology era, a powerful Earth-based corporation known as the Pumin Mining Corporation has expanded throughout the galaxy, creating mining facilities and top-tech stations on several stellar systems, planets and its moons. Suddenly, after an internal political event in the far Yuilon planet, an outbreak of a computer virus infected many of the robotic assistant mechs used by the PMC, turning them hostile towards everyone and everything, creating chaos and misfortune in many of the mining outposts. The PMC decides to hire some top level mercerany and military pilots to deal with the robotic menace, while trying to discover what triggered the sudden virus spread. Disappeared personnel, weird radio transmissions, the rumour of an ancient interstellar empire emerging again, lots of action and more will be found throughout the exciting adventure of Pumo Mines, exclusively for D2X-XL.

- PUMO MINES FEATURES -

37 Levels (counting all episodes) – Current release (v1.1) features 12 Levels (11 + 1 Secret)
Custom Robots & Weapons
4 All new custom Ships – 3 on current release (v1.1)
Custom Music & Sounds
Custom Graphics & Textures
Totally new and original story based on a new universe

- DOWNLOAD PUMO MINES -

CURRENT RELEASE VERSION: v1.1
Features: 12 Levels (11 +1 secret) + 2 HUB/Transition levels
This includes the full Mineral Valley episode and the first 3 levels of Kartsal Motivation episode.

Download PUMO MINES v1.1

Download Mirrors

Pumo Mines comes in a packed .7z archive, you will need either 7-Zip or WinRAR to decompress and install it.
To install you will only need to unpack the entire contents (including its subfolder structure as it is !!) of the archive to your D2X-XL installation folder.
More detailed installation instructions comes in the included PDF manual inside the .7z file.

You will need both D2X-XL and the original Descent II v1.2 game data to be able to play Pumo Mines.

System Requirements:

2 GHz CPU
At least 2048MB RAM (perhaps more for future releases)
OpenGL Video Card with at least 1024MB VRAM
64-bit Windows for latest stable D2X-XL release
1.57 GB free space for Pumo Mines mission/mod
16:9 aspect ratio screen resolution (at least 1280×720 recommended)
Descent II v1.2 game data
Arne‘s updated and stable D2X-XL v1.18.74-ar8 or later
D2X-XL Hires Sound pack installed (get it from here)

Note: for faster level loading times it’s recommended to set your D2X-XL lighting setting to Standard.
Lightmaps are not mandatory and totally not recommended for Pumo Mines.

- GET DESCENT ][ AND D2X-XL -

You can download from Arne’s Github or directly from mirror links hosted here in Pumo Software.

D2X-XL v1.18.74-ar12 (for 64-bit Windows)

D2X-XL Hi-Res Sound Pack
_{Needed for Pumo Mines sound effects to work correctly
You may get weird sound artifacts if this pack is not installed !!}

D2X-XL recommended settings and player profile
_{Config files with optimized settings and custom player profile to be used with Pumo Mines (fully customizable)}

_{D2X-XL Game Data v1.18.64}
_{(Download the game data for use with the Linux version, not needed for the Windows one)}
_{^{Original D2X-XL Source Code @ Sourceforge}}
^{_{Original D2X-XL was developed by ‘Diedel’ Dietfrid Mali}}

Get better visuals for Pumo Mines and D2X-XL with ReShade and its custom preset designed for it.
With this preset you will get anti-aliasing, sharpness, vibrance, bloom, fake HDR and some other effects (just be sure to download and install most of ReShade shaders as it uses effects from different shader packages).

Download the ReShade Pumo Mines/D2X-XL Preset here

- PROJECT KCX-F2 -

= Episode 2.5 of Pumo Mines =

! For all Descent II versions !
(D2X-Redux, D2X-Rebirth, Chocolate Descent 2 & more)

Set between the Kartsal Motivation and Muchikuche episodes from Pumo Mines, this mission is a complete remaster made from scratch of a very old mission of mine from 1999, known as “KCX-F2”.
Based on those old amateur-ish levels I decided to build them from scratch with my current level-building skills and new stuff like original music, robots and even some more gameplay concepts.

The new version called “Project KCX-F2” was made to fill the gap of the playerbase that doesn’t want or can play D2X-XL and Pumo Mines, but nonetheless introducing everyone to Pumo Software’s original universe, lore and characters while making it compatible with all Descent 2 versions and sourceports.

THE STORY: Fourteen years have drifted by since the fires of the Pumo Mines: Kartsal Motivation conflict were extinguished. Following the collapse of the Hosako Hegemony, a fragile peace has settled over the stellar systems. The PMC thrives, yet the ghost of Hosako tyranny still haunts the dark corners of the frontier. Pilkara, the PMC’s Tech Development Overseer and wife of Rubeas, the CEO of the PMC, has gone off-grid.
Using blueprints and code fragments provided by her old friend Pamer, she has assembled a black-ops R&D team; They are attempting to stabilize the remains of the so called Toleriah Device technology through their secret endeavour, codenamed ‘PROJECT KCX-F2’.
The project suffered a containment breach as a dangerous radioneural wave saturated the facility were the team was working, making all the automated robots go haywire just like it happened during the Mineral Valley incident.
Enter MD Aries5, an outstanding pilot and who will take care of the situation by purging and containing the breach while also securing the KCX-F2 project.