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dire sluice
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tf

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oh well

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Name Meaning: "Tigrex" is a blend of "tiger" and "Tyrannosaurus rex" β€” a good hint at its wild, primal nature.

First Appearance: Debuted in Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (PSP, 2007).

Habitat: Found in cold mountainous areas like the Frozen Seaway and Tundra, but also appears in deserts and forests.

Behavior: It’s an aggressive brute wyvern that constantly charges its prey. It relies more on brute strength and speed than elemental abilities.

Personality: Unlike some monsters with more mystical or ecological themes, Tigrex is just a raw force of nature β€” a beast that attacks anything that moves.

Roar: Its roar is so strong it can physically knock hunters back β€” often a lead-in to a brutal combo.

pliant ruin
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good to see this chat is making good use of the image perms

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y'all are totally gonna lose them again πŸ’”

analog robin
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Sorry

split mortar
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Yeah can we not meme with them

dire sluice
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yappin

cosmic minnow
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Zesty dragon

cosmic zenith
pliant ruin
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I shall pick two once again. Surely it will nto be useless again.

cosmic zenith
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I'd say you were a bit unlucky again

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But not useless

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Bonescrappers: scrappers/inventors (extinct?)

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This time I won't reroll, though

tall lily
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if we slay many stronger gods like Providence and ravager (Kinda) why don't their corpses form corruptions like the crimson, corruption , and hallow from when yharim killed gods?

cosmic zenith
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Those are formed by corpses of several Gods rotting over decades

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It's also not out of question that, depending on where you killed them, DoG might've swooped in later to collect the essence

tall lily
pliant ruin
cosmic zenith
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🀐

ionic harness
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Aido

whole fjord
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who was dog's mommy and daddy and how he get tho sentinals

lethal mirage
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i think he was just made by noxus

visual kiln
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hiiiiii

paper prism
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is it ever stated anywhere what Calamitas actually is? like is she just a demon or something different

gritty kraken
manic coral
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yes

paper prism
visual kiln
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ploo

limpid saddle
# whole fjord who was dog's mommy and daddy and how he get tho sentinals

What star said, he was probably made by Noxus, & at the minimum, is definetly commanded by them, the Distortion bosses arent his sentinels anymore though they're just unrelated entities, Signus is an external affairs officer for the Distortion who loves to fuck people over with bad deals, Storm Weaver is a creature that managed to sever itself from the Distortion hivemind & terrorizes the skies, & Ceaseless Void is a portal to the Distortion with a bunch of protective charms on it

whole fjord
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:< idk who noxus or thge distortion

limpid saddle
pulsar ocean
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Noxus is chill

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Probably very misunderstood

long bloom
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and noxus might be added as an optional superboss after yharim

split mortar
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Not guaranteed because the devs can just
Get bored and not wanna anymore

long bloom
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yeah i said noxus isn't guaranteed

split mortar
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I was explaining why noxus isnt guaranteed

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To them

long bloom
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that would make more sense

scenic olive
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Are illmeris water salty

limpid saddle
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i could be misremembering though

spring helm
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Something like that

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It’s a big export for them since they were under a desert

split mortar
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It was between salt and fresh iirc
Brackish?

split mortar
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So daybroken could be primordial light related?

young socket
hoary cape
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πŸ’€

pulsar ocean
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its for the enemies

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acting like enemies cant read

cosmic zenith
split mortar
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@pliant ruin

wheat walrus
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thing about the habitat, tigrex doesn't have a set habitat and it's a nomad

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it only goes to cold climate areas because there's Popos in there and Tigrex is a fan πŸ”₯

spring helm
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Whenever I think of the Ilmeran tribes pre-unification I think of the 12 tribes of Israel

Absolutely no relation except for them being tribes, but that’s just where my mind goes to

wheat walrus
mighty zenith
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if gardevoir could create a black hole that works like a black hole
there wouldn't be anyone to document it

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because everyone would be dead

limpid saddle
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thus some ranger watching through a pair of binoculars could probably observe the phenomena

mighty zenith
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im ngl if this was something gardevoirs did often

limpid saddle
mighty zenith
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the world would be a fucking wasteland

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theres a lot of gardevoirs in the pokemon world

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and a lot of trainers that own gardevoirs

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that would be put in danger and therefore make the gardevoir summon a black hole that kills everything in an area

limpid saddle
mighty zenith
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thats just fucking stupid lol

young socket
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if the black hole was big enough to destroy stuff, it would destroy the earth
if it wasnt big enough to destroy stuff it would barely be visible and would be nothing of note as something to "protect their trainer" since itd just be useless

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either way it cant be an actual black hole

dusk laurel
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yeah

mighty zenith
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yeah the point is that its meant to be a really powerful attack according to the dex

young socket
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also btw the dex HAS been wrong before anyways

mighty zenith
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but also the pokedex is really weird because its not clear if its written by the professors or the trainers

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or even fucking rotom

young socket
mighty zenith
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yep

dusk laurel
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pokedex entries when it says a pokemon is hotter than the fucking sun

young socket
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drifloon did nothing wrong

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πŸ«—

mighty zenith
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drifloon has more proof of being a kidnapper than hypno

limpid saddle
mighty zenith
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#notallhypnos

scarlet axle
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I think Gardevoir making a black hole can be easily understood as the magical pop culture idea of a black hole and trying to argue about the physics about it is reading way into something thats not that complicated

mighty zenith
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y'know

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like item tooltips!

limpid saddle
dusk laurel
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no

mighty zenith
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probably is

limpid saddle
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I mean for fucks sake Ash alone has survived being grilled by his charizard dozens of times

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Theres clearly SOMETHING weird about pokemon universe humans

mighty zenith
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something something plot armor

young socket
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dear god using gags as powerscaling

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πŸ’” πŸ’” πŸ’” πŸ’” πŸ«— πŸ«— πŸ«— πŸ«— πŸ«— πŸ«— πŸ«—

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this is justthat one dragon ball joke of that one character "exploding the moon"

dusk laurel
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ash doesnt even age iirc

mighty zenith
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idk i dont do powerscaling i just hate people that shit on a series because of arbitrary comparisons of strength between fiction

limpid saddle
young socket
limpid saddle
dusk laurel
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cant have people dying πŸ₯€

limpid saddle
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cant even consider the hypothetical for comedic purposes alright i see you lore chat πŸ₯€

mighty zenith
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pooperscaling

dusk laurel
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agreeable

young socket
limpid saddle
mighty zenith
young socket
hoary cape
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You should

dusk laurel
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epic embed fail

hoary berry
split mortar
hoary cape
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Good

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I released them

split mortar
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Whyd you let a child out their house unmonitored

hoary cape
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Funny

manic coral
split mortar
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Tbf it is from vanilla

manic coral
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ok so is a lot of stuff from cal lore

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plus, it's not an explicit reference. it's not dev or donor content.

reef wigeon
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I think Pucci with MiH reaches universal by restarting the universe with gravity on a universal scale.

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I mean on a realistic scale, if they would be plausible in real life LMAO

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Completely ignoring the exo prisms

ionic harness
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Aido

reef wigeon
wheat walrus
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it literally

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wouldn't

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😭

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js realized it sounds like I'm objecting and not the joke I was going for πŸ’”

lunar thorn
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Is magic in lore nerfed on BloodMoons b/c the mana stars in the sky "shrink away?"

wheat walrus
cloud ibex
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what

wheat walrus
mighty zenith
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the best to you,

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from k mart radio

wheat walrus
lunar thorn
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Are those 15 pixels chicken-jocky?

wheat walrus
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no

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it's far more

lunar thorn
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I was gonna say Steve but idk

wheat walrus
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erm this is a terraria server

lunar thorn
wheat walrus
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what's the core topic of this channel

lunar thorn
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Just sent a gif of the topic

wheat walrus
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what is meant to be discussed here

lunar thorn
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I asked a lore question but no one answered

wheat walrus
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yep

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lore !

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now, what is the terraria equivalent of steve from minecraft?

lunar thorn
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The guide

wheat walrus
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no

mighty zenith
split mortar
wheat walrus
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it's the terrarian

wheat walrus
split mortar
wheat walrus
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listen to him

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he's right

wheat walrus
split mortar
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I dont even see that

mighty zenith
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lmao

wheat walrus
split mortar
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Its just nothingness

wheat walrus
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here's the thing when zoomed to 800% on pc

split mortar
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Lmao

wheat walrus
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best 158 bytes to have ever been used

mighty zenith
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pattern recognition

split mortar
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This strikes fear into all lorers who were alive back then

dusk laurel
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terror

lethal mirage
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im too neww

split mortar
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It was like half the reason image perms got nuked for a while iirc

lethal mirage
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there didnt used to be perms

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what did yall do

split mortar
lethal mirage
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toooo silly

split mortar
visual kiln
split mortar
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Were you there for the xeroc tax though

lethal mirage
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ok grandma

visual kiln
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grrrr

visual kiln
lethal mirage
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nuh uh

dusk laurel
split mortar
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:3

wheat walrus
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brainrot activator

cloud ibex
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lore discussion

wheat walrus
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calamitas is the evil terrarian

cloud ibex
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hold up maybe he's cooking

mighty zenith
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omni is the evil calamitas

split mortar
split mortar
mighty zenith
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evilgun

visual kiln
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@lethal mirage i will add u to the secret society someday my apprentice

dusk laurel
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πŸ™

lethal mirage
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πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ

visual kiln
wheat walrus
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heh

lethal mirage
dusk laurel
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you'll learn one day

visual kiln
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learning begins now

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post the image

wheat walrus
lethal mirage
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what..

visual kiln
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true

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check omni dms

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U will survive probably

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:3

cloud ibex
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lore discussion for real this time

wheat walrus
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anyways yea

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start loreing

pulsar ocean
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we live in a society

mighty zenith
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a lore society

pearl folio
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I gotta agree he has a shrimp too

brazen coral
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πŸ‘οΈ πŸ‘οΈ

foggy stream
foggy stream
cloud ibex
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No but it you say anything like that again I’m breaking your kneecaps

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Don’t be weird

foggy stream
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ok

cloud ibex
brazen coral
foggy stream
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so draedon is not g... he is draedoning it

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completely dif thing

dusk laurel
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what

split mortar
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If yharim not fren why fren shaped

dusk laurel
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thats because you have ulcerative colitis

raw totem
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is the lore doc still accurate or do i have to look somewhere else for something better

dusk laurel
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the doc contains the lore inside the mod

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so it shouldnt be inaccurate

raw totem
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yeah but i didn't know if it's outdated or not the message is from 2023 so i think osme stuff has changed since then

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but idk

wheat walrus
cloud ibex
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when the original message was posted doesn't really matter, when the doc was last updated is what's important

raw totem
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oh okay cool

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makes sense

cloud ibex
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does say it's for version 2.0.2 though

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so it may be a bit behind idk

wheat walrus
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if you click the thing it says 2.0.4

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:p

cloud ibex
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thanks discord

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i think

wheat walrus
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yes pisscord

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granted

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most other stuff doesn't have updating embeds usually that I remember

dusk laurel
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it says 2.0.2 on the first paragraph too

cloud ibex
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i suppose that's true

dusk laurel
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for some reason

wheat walrus
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nonetheless, it has all the ingame lore all the way up to bountiful harvest update

dusk laurel
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yerp

wheat walrus
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which I'm pretty sure is the last update of any form that added anything lore to the game

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so

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yea

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it's up to date

foggy stream
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because it is

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and universe is in a multiverse so there are other universes next to that universe and in that universe this happens

wheat walrus
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dont jinx our img perms

foggy stream
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(i had a stroke typing this)

foggy stream
split mortar
wheat walrus
cloud ibex
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i think melon is right but also i agree don't

foggy stream
cloud ibex
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gun

foggy stream
pliant ruin
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i should send some of you to hell

cloud ibex
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i'll allow it

split mortar
split mortar
visual kiln
cloud ibex
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Evolved Dark

pliant ruin
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tjose who know...

spare pier
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I literally told you that yesterday that's so funny

dusk laurel
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dementia gun

spare pier
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No

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I'm talking to Cheese

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I told Cheese about this yesterday

split mortar
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Ok so primordial light may just be
1 of four of busted fuckery???

spare pier
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Moon Lord and the Pillars are soooo funny

late veldt
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Primordial Light
Primordial Fright
Primordial Might
Primordial Sight

dusk laurel
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πŸ”₯

split mortar
pliant ruin
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primordial green

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primordial blue

split mortar
pliant ruin
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primordial purple

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βœ…

split mortar
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Ima shut up on what i think

pliant ruin
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just say it

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speak ur shit melon gun

rain thorn
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Primordial Blight

pliant ruin
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theorize and speculate and such

dusk laurel
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what

split mortar
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Nuh

dusk laurel
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good

late veldt
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bad

dusk laurel
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im putting this on your record

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melon gun

split mortar
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Whaur

dusk laurel
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spreader of evil

pliant ruin
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coward

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on lore discussion, dosen't even lore

spare pier
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Me being a dumbass has caught up I see

late veldt
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u p

pulsar ocean
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is le solar pillar connected to primordial light

split mortar
prime mauve
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(meld)

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wait

late veldt
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Yeah

prime mauve
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when do we get

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primordial flight

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(exo box)

split mortar
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Thats

Yeah exo bix

late veldt
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turn the game into touhou

prime mauve
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Primordial Night

split mortar
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Thats just

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Noxus or something

wheat walrus
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πŸ”΄

wheat walrus
deft vessel
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Omnious

cloud ibex
mighty zenith
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those who t

late veldt
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those who those

gentle ferry
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Do events in calamity canonically happen after a bosses death or is that purely a gameplay thing

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Like does polterghast defeat allow a stronger acid rain

split mortar
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A different thing will activate the acid rain t3 iirc
But aquatic scoog intimidates tier 2 away

robust osprey
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or just a really curious coincidence

split mortar
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Yeah post golem infection is being changed

limpid saddle
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Yeah it's gonna generate on world creation but only 'activate' in late hardmode right?

split mortar
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I dint think we know

gaunt sluice
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We need a bigger world size man

limpid saddle
split mortar
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I doubt ancient manipulator is from terraria

limpid saddle
split mortar
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While barely anything on the planet can fucking interact with PL

limpid saddle
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Im afraid I dont understand why you said that with no preamble

split mortar
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Preamble?

limpid saddle
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Feels like walking in on a conversation mid-way except theres only one person

limpid saddle
split mortar
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Its 11pm and i have the social skills of a chair

limpid saddle
split mortar
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Solar fragments are pl related cause daytime empress inflicts daybroken which is only from the daybreak weapon which is solar flare

spare pier
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Melon I think you're overestimating Primordial Light a bit too much

cloud ibex
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tbf i toss out some idle thoughts in here sometimes

spare pier
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Like, I know it's THE THING FROM THE SUN

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And also the thing used by The Strongest Character In The Universe

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But Primordial Light isn't a fucking Infinity Stone

languid badge
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the go go gadget cancer ray is unbeatable trust

limpid saddle
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Rebecca does have a point

spare pier
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Like, of course it's going to be an inherently powerful resource to draw from

limpid saddle
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It seems being able to wield it in any respects isnt necessarily all about 'you must be overwhemlingly powerful & have tons of crazy shit going on'

spare pier
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But using it isn't going to make you immediately capable of curbstomping 99% of the world

languid badge
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using the light from the sun does not make you the sun

spare pier
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Exactly

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Of course, that isn't to say Primordial Light isn't at a baseline an incredibly powerful thing, because it is

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But it's not the end-all of power for the Mod

split mortar
pliant ruin
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i like how everyone jumped to the conclusion that the other pillars must be equally as powerful as pl

dusk laurel
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nose

split mortar
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Cheese shut up and let us have our fun you meanie

pliant ruin
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i didn't imply anything

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i just said i think it's funny how that was the immediate conclsuon everyone had

split mortar
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Why is it funny

pliant ruin
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because literally everybody immediately agreed on it

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like actually everyone

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i mean it's reasonable enough but it's funny that the lore chat shares 1 braincell at times

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i'd rather it share 1 braincell at lore reveals like this than have none like usually does thohgh

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πŸ’”

sinful adder
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wait wait wait hold on

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primodial light = solar pillar = zeratros
Primordial vortex = vortex pillar = vertrasyl

dusk laurel
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i feel like vortex is more like gravity

sinful adder
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it is the one with lightning

dusk laurel
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also true

sinful adder
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vertrasyl is the dragon of storms

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nebula = magic = mana and astral but not exactly space = ???
stardust = summon = ???

jaunty marsh
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There’s a theory that he’s actually a dragon

sinful adder
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no, not fitting, DoG is not a dragon

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that's a stupid theory

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he doesn't have an auric soul

mighty zenith
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it doesnt make sense because draedon studied him and didnt come to that conclusion

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it also wouldnt make sense if he originates from the distortion

sinful adder
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yeah

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anyways

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storms resulted in an infinite power source via sea prisms, these gave rise to exo prisms which make the exo mechs make storms in the background, which resemble the vortex ones

pliant ruin
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man ive never heard of that theory in my life

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this is some deep lore iceberg stuff

pliant ruin
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that's actually kinda interesting

mighty zenith
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yharon pillar real...

light linden
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@spare pierquestion

pliant ruin
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stardust enemies split?

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like slimes?

split mortar
pliant ruin
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clearly this is the pillar of gluttony ...............

split mortar
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Stardust cells

sinful adder
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they are cells

mighty zenith
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why is it gluttonous

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just eat idiot

light linden
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we ever gonna get an explanation for as to how astral ore is refined?

pliant ruin
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is this going to be the new infected armor plating

dusk laurel
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place your bets

mighty zenith
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hey cheese how do lihzahrd power cells work

light linden
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aw

mighty zenith
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tell me right now or i will eat
chees

pliant ruin
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ok so the lihzahrds get a rock right

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they then use their evil lihzahrd shrink ray to shrink a entire nuclear factory

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and they put the nuclear factory inside of the rock

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that is where the power of the power cells come from

mighty zenith
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and steal the moon

pliant ruin
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no that's for later

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shhh no spoilers

mighty zenith
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wow thats so lore

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i love l

dusk laurel
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ore

mighty zenith
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πŸͺ¨

pliant ruin
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hi lore devs can i get a detailed explanation of the chemical components of infernal suevite. pelase

dusk laurel
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lore devs can you please elaborate why the aether looks like that

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i need to know why it generates like that

mighty zenith
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hi chatgpt can you give me detailed instructions how NOT to use brimstone magic

pliant ruin
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holy shit you gave me an idea

jovial stream
spare pier
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Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

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There are definitely things just as powerful

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Besides, the truth is that the only thing that matters is the baseline at which the power of something starts

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EoL is nowhere near as powerful as many Bosses, meanwhile Xeroc is Xeroc

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What power you are using doesn't matter, it's who's using it

lunar thorn
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Vanillin's true form when fighting Xeroc in lore

dusk laurel
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what...

lunar thorn
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OP

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Is EoL something like a elemental of the Hallow?

round lodge
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Where can I read ALL the calamity lore start to finish

lunar thorn
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One of these emaculate lore-smiths has a big lore document

round lodge
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Alright thanks I’ll look for it

lunar thorn
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πŸ‘ŒπŸ”₯

cloud ibex
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(pins

pliant ruin
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there's only 5 elementals and they correspond to the 4 main elements + nature

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brimmy (fire), anahita (water), sandy (earth), cloudy (air) and silva (nature)

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brimmy will b getting a real name like anahita and silva in the future

dusk laurel
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reb said that wasnt going to happen

spare pier
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Not exactly

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Just that I don't think she should get one

dusk laurel
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oh wait really

spare pier
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I mean, who knows, if the time comes and she gets one, that's that

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I don't want to make it seem like I alone can give the veredict that Brimmy will never have a name

lunar thorn
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Will giving Brimmy a name take away the mystery?

cloud ibex
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i agree with you

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for me it's not about the mystery, it's more that giving her a name humanizes her

spare pier
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Yeah

cloud ibex
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if she's supposed to be Fucked Up Evil Monstrous Being she feels more like one if she's not even given a proper name, just a title or a descriptor

lunar thorn
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Does Brimmy have a public new sprite that is planned?

dusk laurel
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"public" in quotes

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(the public image is super crunched)

lunar thorn
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What does crunched mean?

dusk laurel
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i'll show you the image so you can see what i mean

lunar thorn
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Oh, very nice. I was wanting to ask if she'll have clothes this time. Looks like she will. The cream-tan part looks like a wedding dress

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And a crown?

prime mauve
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My opinion is that a rename would be nice, to make it more distinct from the non boss elementals, but still not a humanizing name

gentle ferry
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What’s with Silva

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Yharim owned them?

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In the marketplace of ideas

cloud ibex
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yea he destroyed her with facts and logic and the power of incredible violence

pliant ruin
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yharim beat her to death except not because she's immortal

cosmic zenith
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Reject the False Idol! The envoy rests in stone for her treachery! Hail the Brimstone Heart, the true flame!

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The next spoilers I post will be so interesting....

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Can't wait for the Hadean Wilds saga

lunar thorn
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This is already pretty cool

cosmic zenith
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Thanks!

gentle ferry
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Also what are the mech bosses in cal

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Early draedon builds?

cosmic zenith
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Yes

spare pier
long sand
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who wins in a 1v1 yharim or gojo

cunning flare
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I looked on the pins, and nothing seemed to mention it, not even the official lore document, so I'll tentatively ask here despite it being a pretty basic question:

What's wulfram, and why is such advanced technology made out of such a terrible metal?

scenic olive
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Wulfrum

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is an alloy

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its not Terrible

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And certainly not really advanced

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Its easy to produce and build robots with wulfrum

sinful adder
cunning flare
sinful adder
cunning flare
sinful adder
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it isn't scifi

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I mean, I think

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I imagine it is magic being used like tech

cunning flare
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Eh, something can be both sci fi and fantasy simultaneously, that's what science fantasy is

sinful adder
#

yeah

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but my point is that it is complex, but not strong

cunning flare
#

I didn't say it was strong, just advanced

sinful adder
#

then... kind of?

#

I think it is probably advanced for terrarians

cunning flare
#

Well, advanced for early game terrarians. I imagine by the time you reach hardmode the kind of technology you have access to is probably far more advanced than wulfram.

sinful adder
#

yes, but only you have that. The terrarian surpases what most others can do pretty quickly. The start out as a more or less average person for that world

cunning flare
#

That is true I suppose

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But talk of what an average terrarian would have access to does get complicated by the fact that you never actually encounter anyone who is neither a boss nor part of your town. At least in vanilla, it's probably different in calamity.

sinful adder
# cunning flare But talk of what an average terrarian would have access to does get complicated ...

in vanilla, its weird. But in calamity...
that's because we're in the literal worst place in the world. Everyone is dead. The only worst place to be is the continent that is entirely volcanoes. Cities and kingdoms have scraped by the devestation of the crusade on other continents, but this one has completely fallen to ruin, save for a few adventurers and hermits who managed to stay out of the way

robust osprey
#

heartlands (the continent we play in) is literally infested by dead gods shit

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I doubt evils exist outside heartlands

sinful adder
#

The crusade was worldwide, which means that any gods that died outside the continent spread their essence around too

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There is apparently also a place called the "crystal city", and it is the same kind of crystals we find in the hallow. This presumably is the result of a powerful god that died a long time ago.

sinful adder
#

A lore writer said these things at some point months ago

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I can't remember when or who exactly

long bloom
#

a lore writer said recently that it was not worldwide

sinful adder
#

What

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When

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I could have sworn it spanned the entire world according to someone, or at least pretty close to it

hoary berry
sinful adder
#

That means exactly what I said it did

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Although the entire point of a hive mind is that it doesn't have a brain. It is an emergent phenomenon that exists despite no single physical object containing it

#

Hey lore writers your lore is wrong

cunning flare
#

The zerg from Starcraft, the flood from Halo, and hiveminds in general from Stellaris all have central brains

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I would assume that the reason hiveminds are often written this way in fiction is because central brains have the potential to be actual interesting characters, something that would be very very difficult to accomplish with a decentralized hivemind

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This goes doubly so with games like terraria where central brains can act as bossfights

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Of course, while interesting characters in a decentralized hivemind would be difficult, it isn't necessarily impossible. Take the tyranids from 40k for example. The hivemind there, to my understanding, is a warp god that emerges as a natural result of the psychic activity of every tyranid. I don't know enough about 40k lore to confirm this, but whether or not it is like this isn't the point, because the simple fact that I could even propose the idea at all proves that it is possible to write an interesting character in a decentralized hivemind.

sinful adder
cunning flare
#

That being said, this does not mean that centralized hiveminds are bad writing. Far from it; a central brain could fit more closely with what the writer is going for

cunning flare
sinful adder
#

A hive mind is by definition decentralized. That is what makes it a hive mind

#

What

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No, then it's just a mind

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Also, portraying a hive mind correctly is very easy. It's called an ant colony or bee hive. That's where the idea comes from. There is no one giving the orders. The ant queen is not actually in charge of anything

cunning flare
#

Keep in mind that hiveminds don't exist in real life (no, ants and bees don't count; even with the swarm being more intelligent than individual components, the swarm as a whole is still not intelligent enough to achieve consciousness), so it is impossible to say what a real life hivemind would be like. In fact, there very likely isn't a one singular answer; it could be the case that both centralized hiveminds and decentralized hiveminds are possible simultaneously.

sinful adder
#

What

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Where did your idea that a hive mind has to be fully intelligent like a person come from?

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I do not believe that you actually know the meanings of the words you speak, or that you have assigned them meanings that don't match what other people believe them to mean

cunning flare
sinful adder
#

This is completely irrelevant and also false

cunning flare
#

Well, I've noticed that I'm starting to get into an argument that will go nowhere. In the interest of working on my problem of being too argumentative, I will end the argument here. Have a nice day.

sinful adder
#

Imagine saying "yeah, this thing that looks and and feels and tastes like an apple is an orange, I know it doesn't look like it but oranges aren't real so it's ok, it's fictional anyways"

#

Not talking to that bozo anymore:
There are two options for hive mind to make sense.
1: it is a bunch of tiny independent creatures that are just forming the shape of a larger creature
2: the player is bad at naming things and it is the exact opposite of a hive mind.

The lore entry is also wrong regardless of which of these are true

long bloom
#

no it's still a hive mind

sinful adder
#

By definition it is not a hive mind

long bloom
#

look at bottom

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the example is one with a central brain

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there's nothing in the definition that says it can't have a central brain

sinful adder
#

The bottom definition is entirely contradictory to the original definition of hive mind

#

Google can be wrong. It often is

long bloom
#

then what is the original definition, o exalted one?

outer cargo
long bloom
#

^

spare pier
#

A hive mind can have a central brain, yes, that's a widely used definition of the term in fiction

sinful adder
#

It can, sure, I suppose you can be correct that this is what the definition is now, but I feel it is also important to know that if this really is the new definition of the word, then all meaning it once had has been lost. All minds are hive minds now. Your brain controls the actions of the cells in your body, meaning that your cells are part of a hive mind

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Is a hive mind really just a mind?

spare pier
#

Words lose meaning every day, that's how language works

sinful adder
#

Rebecca, even if they're right, can you understand how this new definition may be completely useless now?

spare pier
#

Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

long bloom
#

no because it's not

spare pier
#

If you want to be pedantic and refer to your entire body as a hive mind, sure

sinful adder
#

Why even call it that then? There is no longer any distinction between a normal mind controlling a group of things, and a mind that emerges from a collection of smaller autonomous entities without any central control. There is not even any distinct word for the latter concept anymore.

long bloom
#

your "original definition" seems very narrow minded

no pun intended

sinful adder
#

I don't mind the meaning of words changing, but I do mind losing the ability to talk about a concept with any rigor to this process. I know I'm fighting a losing battle

#

Surely it was the original purpose of the word, the mind of a hive, no?

long bloom
#

if you can prove it, sure

sinful adder
#

Hives of insects don't have any single object containing their minds, instead a sort of mind emerges from the collective of all those insects

spare pier
#

A hive mind is a form of life where many brains are connected into one neural network

outer cargo
spare pier
#

πŸ‘

long bloom
#

that the rest serve

spare pier
#

But they aren't a hive mind, they simply act in a way that would give such an impression

cunning flare
# long bloom that the rest serve

This isn't actually true. Insect queens don't rule the hive, their only purpose is to reproduce. Bees have even been known to kill queens that get sick.

spare pier
#

Bees kill their Queen a lot

long bloom
#

you get my point

long bloom
spare pier
#

Ultimately a hive mind is defined not by how the neural connection works, but that there is one to begin with

sinful adder
long bloom
#

see previous comment

sinful adder
# long bloom you get my point

No actually, I think you don't get your own point. The original real world example of a hive mind is one where the apparent ruler actually has zero control or awareness, and the only kind of intelligence that exists is an emergent property

long bloom
#

and you know this how?

sinful adder
spare pier
#

Chill out a bit, please

#

This is getting too heated for my taste

sinful adder
#

I have learned biology.

cunning flare
# sinful adder I don't mind the meaning of words changing, but I do mind losing the ability to ...

Jumping in because I feel this is separate from the argument that I left, what distinguishes a centralized hivemind from a regular mind, at least in my eyes, is whether the drones are their own separate organisms. A skin cell on your hand is not an organism because it cannot function on its own without the rest of your body, nor does it have any way to survive on its own. A zergling within the zerg swarm, however, is, because even though it gets significantly dumber without centralized control, it is still a complete organism with its own mind and its own capability, however poor it may be, to survive on its own. This is why the zerg are a hivemind and you are not.

This is why I believe that extending the definition of a hivemind to include centralized hiveminds does not destroy the ability to effectively talk about hiveminds.

long bloom
#

yes

sinful adder
# cunning flare Jumping in because I feel this is separate from the argument that I left, what d...

Your cells can actually survive without you sometimes, but the lines here are very ambiguous. An ant cannot survive for very long without it's colony, but it acts autonomously. I do agree that the zerg example makes sense but it should be considered more like an in between state where individual members act like parts of a hive mind but there is a specific entity that has a larger portion of control.

spare pier
#

Hi Fluffy

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I may sleep now

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Good night

cunning flare
#

Hi

stoic lark
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Bye berecca

sinful adder
#

The concept of a hive mind though is generally meant to refer to a situation where many unintelligent entities can act together as a more intelligent whole, and where there can be some level of central control but the individual units should contain some degree of autonomy

stoic lark
#

Anyway uh be polite while you debate tiny pointless details of semantics thanks guys

sinful adder
#

Understood

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Not sure if I posted this already

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Anyways, like I said earlier, you may be correct that the definition of hive mind has changed into what you said it is, but I think that would be a very unfortunate development in language that ends up entirely destroying the meaning that the word originally had

cunning flare
#

Not necessarily. If you want to talk about decentralized hiveminds, you can just say "decentralized hiveminds". We were able to do so in this conversation just fine.

sinful adder
outer cargo
#

The original meaning is not destroyed, it's just that the word has adopted another meaning on top of it

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Hive mind refers to both of those

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Many words have picked up new definitions over time while still retaining their original definition

sinful adder
#

See my issue with that is the new definition is contradictory to the original one, so "hive mind" is actually no different than "mind"

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You don't know which one you mean anymore

long bloom
#

it's not contradictory though

sinful adder
#

A mind cannot be both centralized and decentralized

long bloom
#

yes it can

sinful adder
#

These are opposite, incompatible things

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How?

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It can be somewhere in between, but it can't be solely both

long bloom
#

idk i'm just saying shit bc i'm bored

sinful adder
#

Oh ok (angry)

split mortar
long bloom
#

couldn't find the screenshot

outer cargo
split mortar
long bloom
#

do we know what the dungeon cult is about

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i have an idea that might work but idk enough about them

split mortar
#

Oh and they were fine with yharim using their place as a super fucked up prison

long bloom
#

i was thinking it would be cool if they summoned the pillars from the distortion

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bc what else are they

split mortar
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They are the dragon cult

long bloom
#

i meant the pillars

split mortar
#

They helped moonlord

long bloom
#

what else are the pillars if not from the distortion

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i thought the pillars were from cultist

split mortar
#

Helped ml fight the dragons according to a dev statement

long bloom
#

i remember the lore being that cultist summoned the pillars as a last stand to keep ml sealed

split mortar
#

Thats vanilla or old lore

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Or a false memory

long bloom
#

no it was true at some point

split mortar
#

Not new lore

long bloom
#

ig not

split mortar
#

And in vanilla the pillars are part of the seal on moonlord

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iirc

dusk laurel
#

me when i spread misinformation πŸ’”

deft vessel
#

^

pulsar ocean
#

did he

split mortar
#

Yes

dusk laurel
#

his goal was to kill all if the gods after all

#

itd be weird if he just rested on his laurels on one continent

atomic blaze
#

Hey something that I wanted to ask and see if anyone has answers for it is that it finally clicked to me why Draedons theme/motif (specifically the abandoned labs) sounded so familiar and it was that his motif correct me if I'm wrong is the guitar solo for Feral Amalgamation (1:42) and that makes me wonder is there really any explanation for this in the lore? Why do seemingly two entirely separate beings from completely different backgrounds share the same motif? You think there could be some form of connection between them idk this is probably a very crack pot take but considering how important the music is to the mod it kinda made me think

split mortar
#

The only connection is that draedon worked for yharim and yharim caused the polterghast incident afaik

topaz shard
#

how many bosses could get added in theory?

dusk laurel
#

3

split mortar
topaz shard
#

zamn πŸ˜”

#

i feel like there should be more bosses between dog, yharon and the two endgame ones

split mortar
#

Boss bloat is not good

topaz shard
#

but it is fun

split mortar
#

Not for many

topaz shard
#

we have a crab

split mortar
#

They wanna add more non boss content

untold oracle
#

That would be great!!

split mortar
topaz shard
#

ooh maybe invasions and events near endgame

split mortar
#

For post ml

untold oracle
#

Terraria mfs when they only see bosses and ignore everything else

topaz shard
#

something to do other than prepare after dog, then yharon, then the next and so on

untold oracle
#

There’s distortion

split mortar
#

Yeah dog will unlock more for the distortion

untold oracle
#

So exploration will be a thing

split mortar
#

^

topaz shard
#

the yharims army invasion isnt gonna happen cuz they were all wiped out right?

untold oracle
#

Pretty much it’s all disbanded now

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Also why would yharim raid your place

split mortar
#

I hear an event of sorts may have something like that
They disbanded not wiped out

#

Yharim wants you to get stronger

untold oracle
#

"It’s for character development"

split mortar
#

@cheese

topaz shard
#

maybe like, suits of auric armour that act as a miniboss/invasion where you fight a small group of souped up enemies at a time per wave?

split mortar
#

They would die in auric

topaz shard
#

i would die in auric

split mortar
#

It has the tendancy to
Explode things

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On touch

topaz shard
#

deep lore

untold oracle
#

Not a lot of people are attuned to dragons nowadays

split mortar
#

Considering the auric dragons are dead

untold oracle
#

And the terrarian pretty much invented mock auric

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Since

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Not a lot of people had access to Yharon soul fragments before

topaz shard
#

is the auric ore generated post yharon its own poo

split mortar
#

??

untold oracle
#

Idr what its deal was

topaz shard
#

you heard me

untold oracle
#

People have a bunch of wacky headcanons for how auric appears

split mortar
topaz shard
#

so like, it spreads out and turns rock to fancy electric gold?

split mortar
topaz shard
#

there should def be a near endgame wave type event tho

dusk laurel
#

what would it be tho

split mortar
#

The acid rain t3 is like the only thing i can see being like that and afaik thats pre dog even after rework

untold oracle
dusk laurel
#

i think youre on to something

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also yeah the yharmy is probably gonna be a real event, but it wont be a wave type of event

untold oracle
#

Yhorm uses its boundless powers to summon evil Yhorm apparitions (Yharim sprites with worm AI)

dusk laurel
#

youll see when the undead gauntlet gets added

split mortar
#

Gonna be like fight 5 minibosses type deal iirc

untold oracle
#

What if there was purple providence

dusk laurel
#

providence but she drank too much cosmilite

untold oracle
#

Yeeea

split mortar
#

Providence but i snuck purple food dye on the soul of flames

untold oracle
#

Mark shenanigans

topaz shard
dusk laurel
#

thats not very interesting imo

#

we already have an entire area dedicated to vengeful souls

split mortar
#

and multiple bosses

dusk laurel
#

and a boss too

topaz shard
#

yeah but, ghost invasion

split mortar
split mortar
topaz shard
#

where are the skeleton jailors

split mortar
#

They are some of the enemies we fight in the dungeon

#

Some are prisoners some are the jailors and wardens

topaz shard
#

there isnt much distinction is all

#

soul warden miniboss clueless

split mortar
#

We will prob learn which ones are jailors and ones prisoners once the sso update comes out via the vanilla bestiary rewrite

topaz shard
#

my ass is dead

untold oracle
split mortar
#

Waiter waiter more weapon reworks

untold oracle
#

Wasn’t the original idea for it to be out in january or smth..

split mortar
#

I think so

dusk laurel
#

last year

split mortar
#

Did they make part 1 like twice as big as they intended to…

topaz shard
dusk laurel
split mortar
#

Yeah ik

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Im saying is part 1 like twice as big as the original plan back when they started

dusk laurel
#

something something

#

reworked abyss and underworld gen

topaz shard
#

wait is part one out yet

dusk laurel
#

no

split mortar
#

No

topaz shard
#

no

#

zamn!

split mortar
#

If it was we would have all lore ever

dusk laurel
#

part 1 is already going to be the largest calamity update in history

topaz shard
#

607 - Reworked The Underworld's generation. - Done βœ… LETSFUCKINGGOOOO

split mortar
#

They should fuse part 1 and part 2

dusk laurel
#

no

#

that would cause the 5th impact

topaz shard
#

minecraft cave and cliffs

dusk laurel
#

not really

untold oracle
#

I think it’s because people are afraid to actually touch the world generation development (probably hell so not blaming) so they just keep reworking items because it’s relatively simple to do and probably the area where most of them are skilled in

#

Although this has been discussed many times before so

topaz shard
#

The following recipes were removed:
Adhesive Bandage, Armor Polish, Band of Regeneration, Bezoar, Black Lens, Bug Net, Celestial Magnet, Desert Minecart, Feral Claws, Flare Gun, Frozen Turtle Shell, Guide Voodoo Doll, Ice Boomerang, Ice Machine, Lavaproof Fishing Hook, Leaf Wand, Lihzahrd Power Cell, Living Loom, Living Mahogany Wand, Living Wood Wand, Magic Quiver, Metal Detector, Rich Mahogany Leaf Wand, Shuriken, Sky Mill, Staff of Regrowth, Temple Key, Throwing Knife, and Vitamins. - Done βœ…
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO this update should be delayed for until fabsoluary

dusk laurel
#

what

topaz shard
#

it is more lore accurate for me to be able to craft a bandage

split mortar
#

Bandage prob has magic fuckery going on

topaz shard
#

it just makes you not bleed

rain thorn
#

Mind you a lot of these recipes weren't super necessary after 1.4.4 made them easier to get with shimmer

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At least for some of them

split mortar
#

And calamity adds them to many drop pools of enemies

topaz shard
#

i dont need empress of light bathwater, ill just farm for them, this is what they are doing to me

dusk laurel
#

i didnt really like the recipe qol much

untold oracle
split mortar
#

So they are easier and shimmerable

pulsar ocean
cloud ibex
#

from sky islands probably

untold oracle
topaz shard
#

gravity potions πŸ˜”

split mortar
#

Its not that hard to come across a few in a worlds set of sky islands

topaz shard
split mortar
#

Tod…

cloud ibex
#

it cannot be done

pulsar ocean
#

they are almost never at sky islands

topaz shard
split mortar
#

They havent unclogged god

topaz shard
#

todd gorch

split mortar
dusk laurel
#

whos to say that

topaz shard
dusk laurel
#

the redone sky gen wont guarantee a sky mill

split mortar
#

The nefarious fishing

hoary berry
untold oracle
#

Those who unclog
Tod: πŸ’€
God: 😨

split mortar
dusk laurel
#

mmm

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i put a mirror

#

now you get the ban

hoary berry
#

tod will never unclog god

topaz shard
split mortar
topaz shard
light linden
dusk laurel
#

strange user

split mortar
#

You are todd not tod

topaz shard
#

of all the gods round these parts, this guy was the easiest to unclog

topaz shard
split mortar
#

Still not tod

hoary berry
#

i’ve completely forgotten the lore related thing that i was planning to mention

split mortar
hoary berry
#

yes

split mortar
#

Aight

untold oracle
hoary berry
split mortar
#

I am not lea

#

You are lea

untold oracle
#

I’m not lea here smh

topaz shard
split mortar
#

@mods change deltaw to lea please

dusk laurel
#

istg if this is how we lose our perms again

split mortar
#

Todd is using stickers which afaik dont count for images

topaz shard
#

oh right

#

i caused this

split mortar
#

But yeah please do keep meme images down low
Image perms have already been nuked before

topaz shard
#

anyway

gritty kraken
#

We’re losing messages perm with this one

topaz shard
#

607 - Reworked The Underworld's generation. - Done βœ…
what is this gonna look like

dusk laurel
#

imo if you wanna talk about the changelogs

split mortar
#

Yeah

topaz shard
#

like, why does it cut off

dusk laurel
#

not really

topaz shard
#

boo

dusk laurel
#

its getting reworked so the gen isnt shit

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and therell be new buildings too

#

the crags (azafure) are for a different update

topaz shard
#

where the roadmap at

split mortar
#

Theres a doc with all future planned content in spoiler chat its prob somehwere in there

dusk laurel
#

no

split mortar
#

O

dusk laurel
#

the roadmap is basically

topaz shard
#

give it to me

dusk laurel
#

sunken sea overhaul -> minor updates and patches -> brimstone crags overhaul -> minor updates and patches -> distortion -> ??? -> dragon's aerie -> noxus and xeroc (?)

topaz shard
long bloom
dusk laurel
#

yes

dusk laurel
long bloom
#

pog

dusk laurel
#

not that they wont

topaz shard
#

infernum abyss LETSFUCKINGGOOOO

dusk laurel
#

no

#

infernum abyss gen is shit ngl

long bloom
#

infernum abyss lowk doodoo

topaz shard
#

infernum abyss LETSFUCKINGGOOOO

long bloom
#

layer 2 just

#

doesn't exist

topaz shard
#

just keep the void and throw everything else away

#

in fact, make the void take up like all the height and just make the rest extend into the dungeon because it would be very funny

#

i think the void being an arena is pretty neat

long bloom
#

the only thing we need from infernum abyss

#

is the Squid Domeβ„’

topaz shard
#

yeah but deadass i wish the abyss was just more spaced out, less cluttered

dusk laurel
#

youre in luck

topaz shard
#

... am i?

untold oracle
#

Zeratros secret final boss

dusk laurel
#

without fucking with the dungeon

topaz shard
#

infernum void wide

dusk laurel
#

no thats a bad idea

topaz shard
#

dewit

split mortar
#

No its bad

topaz shard
#

actually just make the void big

untold oracle
#

Make the entire world abyss

#

Subnautica secret seed

topaz shard
#

that sounds funny

dusk laurel
#

new secret seed unlocked

topaz shard
#

lore accurate abyss

dusk laurel
#

no... ?

topaz shard
#

yes everything is meant to be massive

untold oracle
#

But you know what e-

topaz shard
#

if its a trench, why is it just a hole

#

trenches are long

untold oracle
#

It’s long in the z axis clueless

topaz shard
#

yes clueless

#

z axis abyss seed

long bloom
#

secret seed that makes the world 3d

#

i'm sure the engine can handle it

severe palm
#

Calamity should have its own secret seeds

#

Like all of hell being the crags

long bloom
#

what if there was a world that was all planetoids

#

that would be neat

severe palm
#

So calamity skyblock

#

I'd play that

long bloom
#

yeah with planetoids going all the way down to hell

#

and they'd be different biomes

severe palm
#

They should do that

#

Every biome and structure has its own pre generated planetoid

#

Calamity custom maps when

split mortar
long bloom
#

l

#

but understandable

thorn drift
#

Abyss shouldnt have background walls tbh

#

it should have a custom background that stretches far into the z axis

#

that'd look sick

prime mauve
#

Background walls mechanically are how it functions

#

but I agree

thorn drift
#

you could just hide them in the walls and floating islands no?

prime mauve
#

no

thorn drift
#

oh damn

light linden
#

the walls make it where there's constantly water in the abyss

split mortar
#

Make the acid sea walls produce the water smh

hoary cape
#

Make the blocks produce water obviously

mighty zenith
#

Make air produce water obviously

hoary cape
#

Make aureus produce water

long bloom
dusk laurel
#

astrum aquarius

long bloom
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so the abyss walls are kinda useless

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i agree there should be a background

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that would instantly make it like double as creepy

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ooo and what if you could see the primordial wyrm back there sometimes like eoc on the surface

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that would be peak

mighty zenith
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silva corpse

dusk laurel
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praying it happens

long bloom
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manifesting, even

prime mauve
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Like the jungle temple or dungeon

long bloom
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just make it the blocks instead clueless

prime mauve
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that will be bad

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accidentally walk too close to the abyss while mining? suffocate in air

late veldt
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but what if

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invisible walls

long bloom
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or hide the walls inside the tiles

split mortar
long bloom
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the sulphur sea walls spawn water

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that was my original point

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the water already goes into the abyss

split mortar
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Do they? I remember hearing people complaining they dont

long bloom
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i haven't checked since my last playthrough a year and a half ago so i hope they didn't change it

lunar thorn
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I'd be funny to get unsafe sulfurous walls to place in space above someone's house at the start of a run

long bloom
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they did change it

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fuck

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why would they remove that

split mortar
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Idk

lunar thorn
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Do they want people draining the abyss for loot?

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Early?

long bloom
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draining abyss kills you still

lunar thorn
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It can be done with sticky dynamite from a distance

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You just gotta want to put effort into it

long bloom
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touching air in the abyss kills you i mean

lunar thorn
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I know, you can still do it without being in the abyss

split mortar
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Abyss walls still spawn water

lunar thorn
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Ok, good

split mortar
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Its specificslly acid sea walls

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That dont

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Also you have to be post skeletron to get access ti the chests and by then theres a few ways to negate the drowning

lunar thorn
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Will the God of electricity be giving lore to player by speaking?

dusk laurel
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shes either dead or in hiding

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i personally doubt we'll ever encounter her

lunar thorn
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Ok, I thought she was being added as a new boss

cosmic zenith
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No new bosses will be added until Yharim, a few years from now

lunar thorn
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πŸ‘Œ

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I'll be fun seeing a spite around the player's size be so strong

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Is leviathan anahita's warrior/paladin, like braelor is to silva?

cloud ibex
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we don't really know

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she could be a real animal Anahita tamed or befriended or otherwise commands, she could be something Anahita created

split mortar