Dimensional Dungeon Cores Books in Order

Dimensional Dungeon Cores is the big crossover event for Jonathan Brooks’ shared universe. It picks up after the Station Cores series and pulls in threads from Dungeon Crafting, Dungeon World, and The Hapless Dungeon Fairy, then sends all of them into a war that spans dimensions.

The series opens with Milton Frederick, the former pro gamer who became a Station Core, finally leaving the planet where he crash landed. With his AI guide ALANNA and a crew of Proctans, he has turned a derelict space station into a defensible home and won a few key victories against a ruthless alien threat called the Heliothropes.

Those early wins come at a cost. The Heliothropes are still entrenched across multiple dimensions, using Stabilizing Anchors to lock down realities they intend to strip and conquer. Milton’s trans dimensional drive gives him a way to reach those places, but he cannot hold them alone. That is where the rest of the dungeon cores come in.

Through a portal to what his crew starts calling the Creator dimension, Milton links his station to Sandra, the crafting obsessed core from Dungeon Crafting. Later, other familiar cores like Fred from Dungeon World and Tacca from The Hapless Dungeon Fairy enter the fight. Each brings a different approach to dungeon design, from meticulous workshops to elemental territories and omen charged traps. Dimensional Dungeon Cores leans into the fun of asking how those styles would combine inside one massive structure.

Book by book, the stakes grow. Early outings focus on establishing Haven Station as a mobile base and proving that cross dimensional assaults on Heliothrope anchors are even possible. Later volumes deal with the moral and logistical fallout of protecting entire sectors of space, feeding billions, and coordinating cultures that were never meant to know about each other.

For long time readers, the appeal is obvious: favorite characters and settings interacting, sharing knowledge, and occasionally clashing as their priorities diverge. For new readers, the series still works as a science fiction dungeon epic about a handful of sentient structures trying to push back an overwhelming enemy. Either way, it delivers big battles, intricate defenses, and the sense of a universe that has been building toward this collision for a long time.