Digger

The Digger is a vehicle cut from Half-Life 2 during the later stages of the game's development. It was to be used in Ravenholm.

Apparently a disused engineering vehicle, it can be found in the map " " of the playable Half-Life 2 Beta. Like the Jet Ski or the AirEx Truck, its textures were not finalized at that time. It is unknown if they were ever.

In that map, the player must use the Digger to proceed to the next area by destroying a creature made of three Advisors and a barrel in the middle, constantly laying Headcrabs in a cave recycled in the retail map " ". Those three Advisors are likely a placeholder for a Gonarch set on a Combine Big Momma Pod that was never finalized. The player must reach the Digger through an incomplete, blocky corridor carved into the rock, then he was to go down a long path with wooden posts installed regularly and barring the way, then killing the Gonarch with the vehicle's dented digging wheels. This task is however impossible to achieve, since if the player gets in the Digger by pressing the "Use" key, he cannot get out of it, nor operate it.