The Rift Dimension has a fun puzzle equivalent for pretty much every area and mechanic on the Hub Island. Combat manifests in the form of Rift Mobs, all over the island, each with their own unique and fun attack that they use instead of just being another "fast mob = harder" enemy. Farming shows up in the form of, well, the Dreadfarm, with each plant having a simple but unique way to pick it, so that farming is no longer just "hold W and left click". Even Mining shows up on the Rift, with the funky lapis ore blocks that keep growing as you mine them in the Living Cave, and there's even an entire Slayer track. But what I've kept thinking about since I got to the Village Plaza was how, in place of the Forest and Graveyard, two of the first places a player ever goes on a public island, there's just a few floating platforms, an Enigma Soul, and a bunch of nothing. I wouldn't dare suggest content for the Mountaintop, since I'm sure the admins have their plans for that, but the ideas in this post should hopefully add some cool content seamlessly to the Rift to address the absence of these areas.
The Area
The Shattered Forest (name pending) is now one of two branching pathways from the Village Plaza (the other one being the living metal area), both requiring the Skyblock Citizen Timecharm (so you still have to do Soma's taxes). Traveling there will consume 2 minutes of Rift Time.
The area will consist of large mycelium platforms separated by small jumps and with height differences, so the area will still feel broken off without being literally nothing. The platforms will have giant mushrooms growing on them with quartz pillar stems and purple wool caps, with the caps being 4 to 6 blocks off the ground.
Mobs
Mushroom Gorgers are upside-down cave spiders that will spawn on the underside of the mushrooms. (Their nametag displays below them.) They take no damage, but having more Rift Damage will let you knock them farther. They are neutral; once you've hit one, it will start using its attack, where every 3 seconds, it will aim at your location, then 1 second later, it will shoot a string of webs at that location for -30 Rift Time on contact. If you knock a Mushroom Gorger off the edge of its "platform", it will continue to rise into the air for a few seconds, before exploding and dropping items.
Items
The following resources can be found here without crafting, just from mobs and blocks:
| Item Name (and Rarity) | How to Get It | Effects/Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Gray Stem (Common) | From properly chopping down the mushrooms in the Shattered Forest. A few of the quartz pillar blocks in each stem will be replaced with Acacia Wood. These change their positions slowly, sort of like the Living Metal Snakes. When you look at one of the wood blocks, it stops moving and can be broken by punching it. This will award the player with 1x Gray Stem. After one of the wood blocks is broken, wood noises will play for 1 second before spawning a new moving wood block. The blocks don't leave behind bedrock; instead, if 10 blocks in the same stem are broken, before generating a new one, the 10 missing blocks will regenerate. Any player that is in the way of a regenerating block will be knocked outward. | Crafting material |
| Void Spores (Uncommon) | From breaking the purple wool in the caps of the mushrooms. Breaking one of the wool blocks will release 3 balls of bright purple particles, that are like the Mote orbs but move slower. The wool block will then turn into purple stained glass for 20 seconds. Picking up one of the particle orbs will give you +5 Motes, and have a 10% chance to give you 1x Void Spores. | Crafting material |
| Aetherfly (Uncommon) | Mote orbs that spawn in the Shattered Forest have a 5% chance to be blue. Blue ones will move slightly faster and are sometimes too high to reach by standing on the ground. Picking up a blue orb will grant +3 Rift Time and 1x Aetherfly, but no motes. | Crafting material |
| Tough Webs (Common) | When a Mushroom Gorger floats up and explodes, it will always drop 1x Tough Webs. | Crafting material |
| Deathcap Talisman (Uncommon Accessory) | When a Mushroom Gorger is floating up, if you shoot it with a Berberis Blowgun, a ding noise will play, increased in pitch for every previous hit. When it explodes, if it has been hit 2 or more times, it will award each player with 20 Motes for each hit they've landed on it. If if has been hit 3 or more times, it has a 20% chance to drop 1x Deathcap Talisman. | Rift-Transferrable. In the Rift: +5 Rift Time, +1 Intelligence Outside of the Rift: +5 Farming Fortune, +1 Intelligence, +1 Crit Chance |
All of the above items can be right-clicked with to view recipes.
In addition to the above items, there is also an NPC and several crafting recipes.
Lumber Jill can be found standing next to a pile of sideways quartz pillars, similar to the piles in the Park and the Forest. (These can't be chopped.)
Next to Lumber Jill, a second NPC named Slumber Jack can be found sleeping in a bed. He doesn't have any items or important dialogue when you meet him.
Lumber Jill sells a few items:
| Item Name (and Rarity) | Cost | Effects/Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bitter Axe (Uncommon Axe) | 10x Gray Stem, 10x Wilted Berberis, 10x Living Metal, 1,000 Motes | Chopping gray stems with this has a 10% chance to also drop 1x Bitter Bulb (listed in the next table). |
| Nutty Axe (Rare Axe) | 1x Bitter Axe, 20x Bitter Bulb, 10x Agaricus Cap, 10x Tough Webs, 2,000 Motes | Rift-Transferrable. In the Rift: +4 Rift Damage Extra +6 Rift Damage against Mushroom Gorgers. (They are knocked farther back.) Chopping gray stems with this has a 20% chance to also drop 1x Bitter Bulb. If a Bulb is dropped by this item, you also recover +1 Rift Time. Outside of the Rift: +50 Damage, +10 Farming Fortune, +10 Foraging Fortune Chopping a log with this item has a 10% chance to drop 1x Chestnut (listed in the next table). |
| yniT exA (Uncommon Accessory) | 1x yniT remmaH, 2x Nullified Metal, 3,000 Motes | +5 Rift Time If you have this equipped in the Rift, you gain +10 Foraging Wisdom outside of the Rift. |
| Quantum Bucketizer (Rare) | 20x Gray Stem, 3x Living Metal, 4,000 Motes | Crafting material. Rift-Transferrable. |
| Item Name (and Rarity) | Ingredients | Effects/Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bitter Bulb (Uncommon) | None (dropped using a Bitter or Nutty Axe) | Crafting material |
| Chestnut (Rare) | None (dropped using a Nutty Axe) | Crafting material |
| Tough Bow (Uncommon) | 1x Berberis Blowgun, 20x Gray Stem, 6x Tough Webs | Required to use the niloiV. Cannot shoot Deadgehog Spines or any other arrow item. (If you try, it just plays a wolf whining noise when you release the button.) |
| niloiV (Epic) | 20x Gray Stem, 20x Bitter Bulb, 4x Scribe Crux, 6x gnirtS | Right Click Ability: Shwooomp Fire a ball of blue note particles with a 0.5 block radius. The ball travels up to 16 blocks in a straight line. On impact, the ball evaporates and applies the same effects as a Blowgun arrow. Using this ability requires the Tough Bow to also be in your hotbar. Mana Cost: 4 |
| Deathcap Ring (Rare Accessory) | 2x Deathcap Talisman, 6x Enchanted Brown Mushroom, 6x Enchanted Red Mushroom | Rift-Transferrable. In the Rift: +10 Rift Time, +3 Intelligence If you would lose Rift Time in the Shattered Forest, you have a 10% chance to not. Outside of the Rift: +10 Farming Fortune, +3 Intelligence, +1 Crit Chance, +1 Crit Damage Reduces Poison and Wither damage by 10%. (Stacks multiplicatively with Vaccine Talisman.) |
| X-Large Storage (existing item) | 1x Large Storage, 64x Chestnut, 224x Enchanted Birch Wood | existing item, but can now be crafted without bits |
| Rift Mailbox (Epic) | 64x Chestnut, 64x Enchanted Obsidian, 16x Absolute Ender Pearl | Functional furniture, placeable on the private island. Serves as the Rift Transfer Chest (like the one in the Wilderness). (Allows you to pick up your items from the Rift directly at your island.) |
| Flying Necklace (Rare Necklace) | 6x Tough Webs, 4x Aetherfly, 2x Bottled Odonata | +10 Speed Sneak Ability: Odonata's Grace Allows you to double jump. Mana Cost: 60 Cooldown: 5s |
| Aspect of the Rift (Epic Wand) | 1x Aspect of the Leech, 32x Void Spores, 32x Living Metal Heart, 12x Cruxmotion | +15 Intelligence Right Click Ability: Normal Transmission Teleport 6 blocks backward. You lose 5 Speed for 6 seconds. Mana Cost: 75 (This item can be upgraded with the Transmission Tuner, the same as the AotL.) |
| Deathcap Artifact (Epic Accessory) | 2x Deathcap Ring, 2x Agaricus Cap Bunch, 16x Shy Crux, 64x Void Spores | Rift-Transferrable. In the Rift: +15 Rift Time, +5 Intelligence If you would lose Rift Time in the Shattered Forest, you have a 12% chance to not. Outside of the Rift: +15 Farming Fortune, +5 Intelligence, +3 Crit Chance, +3 Crit Damage Reduces Poison and Wither damage by 20%. (Stacks multiplicatively with Vaccine Talisman.) |
| Deathcap Relic (Legendary Accessory) | 1x Deathcap Artifact, 4x Digested Mushrooms, 2x Burning Eye, 20x Mite Gel | Rift-Transferrable. In the Rift: +20 Rift Time, +5 Intelligence If you would lose Rift Time in the Shattered Forest, you have a 15% chance to not. Outside of the Rift: +20 Farming Fortune, +10 Intelligence, +5 Crit Chance, +5 Crit Damage Reduces Poison and Wither damage by 20%. (Stacks multiplicatively with Vaccine Talisman.) +5 Defense on the Crimson Isle and in The End. |
| Enchanted Coffee Bucket (Epic) | 1x Enchanted Lava Bucket, 1x Quantum Bucketizer, 7x Decent Coffee | Rift-Transferrable. In the Rift: Right click on Slumber Jack with this item to wake him up. He will then go and chop the pile of stems next to him, revealing an Enigma Soul. After that, he will go back to sleep, and the pile will slowly regenerate. Outside of the Rift: Minion fuel with unlimited duration. The minion works 25% faster. It works 40% faster instead if you are in the Rift and outside of the Wizard Tower. (For a co-op profile, all of the island's owners must be in the Rift to apply this.) |
| Menger's Bucket (Epic) | 1x Plumber's Sponge, 1x Magical Water Bucket, 1x Quantum Bucketizer | On your private island: - Right click to place water. - Right click on water to absorb it and all of the surrounding water. Flavor text reads, "Ability: Sponges all the way down" |
| Full Wand (Mythic Wand) | 1x Hollow Wand, 64x Enchanted Packed Ice, 1x Quantum Bucketizer | +205 Intelligence Left/Right Click Ability: Flooded Spirit Left Click to cast a stack of , Right Click for ≈. Mana Cost: 100 Combine stacks in order to cast spells.
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