#Cave-in at Heart Crystal Mines! (4315521)

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tired dove
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Grab a map at the pump station, then enter the mines to find bombs so you can reach the Fire Ruby! True Ending: Collect the remains (skulls) of all the miners who perished. TW: Flashing Lights

This is my second dungeon! I aimed for an aesthetic that doesn't feel like a "dungeon", but still has puzzles and challenges inside. I tried to tell a story with the scenery and setups in this dungeon, leaving the player to learn what may have happened in here. There's a mix of puzzles and faster paced action. It is a swordless dungeon, though there are no enemies at all.

There is a true ending for finding all 35 skulls, plus a full set of heart crystals (actually 17 because.... woops). Hopefully no softlocks, I spent hours soft-lockpicking! There is also a very well hidden tour of some of the contraptions that make the dungeon work, and afterwards it puts you right back so you can finish the dungeon. Good luck finding it 😄

Hope you give it a try and I would love to hear anyone's feedback on the dungeon!

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Cave-in at Heart Crystal Mines!

Grab a map at the pump station, then enter the mines to find bombs so you can reach the Fire Ruby! True Ending: Collect the remains (skulls) of all the miners who perished. TW: Flashing Lights

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Created: 2024-09-04 05:21
Updated: 2024-09-04 05:21

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Dungeon, Emberstone Quarry, Singleplayer, Swordless, Puzzle-Solving, Exploration, Early Access

Learuis
tired dove
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Oh, and the TW Flashing Lights is serious. there's a decently long section with them.

upper kernel
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from the thumbnail, this looks really cool

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I'll give it a try when I get home

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I was just thinking about making an emberstone quarry level lol

upper kernel
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what the hell man, i just started and the decoration is so absurdly impressive

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like come on now

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the map got stuck

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i think this is an issue with using pillars with walls

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side by side

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so gorgeous

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upper kernel
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ok so this is straight up the best level i have ever played, and it's not even close

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i feel like this is setting the bar for what top quality dungeons should strive for

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it's really unbelievable

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like, the room design is so absurdly good, the level is so unique, and everything is so well made

upper kernel
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it seems like its written "jank" in the middle

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@tired dove sorry for the ping

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am i boned because of bugs?

tired dove
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doh

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the minecart should not dump you off the edge when there's valid terrain 😦

upper kernel
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a shame

tired dove
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it doesnt say JANK, it says THANK YOU if you find a secret haha

upper kernel
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damn haha

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is there a way to beat this still?

tired dove
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ill make an adjustment so that shouldnt be able to ahppen.

upper kernel
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the level is still open

tired dove
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no, the minecart is supposed to be one way, no real way to skip riding it

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try

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holding a direction when you exit the cart?

upper kernel
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ive tried it thrice, holding and not holding directions

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doesn't really make a difference it seems

tired dove
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oh, hmm. you're not supposed to ride the cart back in that direction

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so you proably can still beat it

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restart from checkpoint but dont do that 😄

upper kernel
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so thats not the solution?

tired dove
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no, you're intended to ride that one down to get to the bottommost path and then go left

upper kernel
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im out of ideas then

tired dove
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ill add a split track

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you are supposed to take the tornado up, get the checkpoint, then ride the platforms around til you get to the switch. then you can shortcut back to where you left your minecart and ride to the top row.,

upper kernel
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ill try

tired dove
upper kernel
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actually, i already went through that

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im in the last part i think

tired dove
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did you get the bombs?

upper kernel
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getting to the beginning again

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yeah. I'm now trying to figure out how to return

tired dove
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only go forward

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no backtracking old paths

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once you get bombs, look for bombable stuff to progress

upper kernel
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yeah, i found some paths

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i had opened this part before but it didn't help me

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tired dove
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yeah you don't need to go back that way

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i should make it not possible

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after bombs, everything you need to do is just off the main hallway.

upper kernel
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i think i almost softlocked by going through the tornadoes in one of the lower rooms in the main hallway

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I did a retry though

tired dove
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ooh.... yeah that looks possible.

upper kernel
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i had already gone through the main hallway but i didn't find anything possible to do

tired dove
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after bombs, you're trying to get to the right-most mineshaft, back toward entrance

upper kernel
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yeah, thats why i tried the minecart on the bottom floor

tired dove
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||theres a hidden bomb wall near the final minecart||

upper kernel
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ah

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yeah i found it

tired dove
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maybe too hidden 😄

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upper kernel
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yeah, its a good puzzle, but since you're not trained for it, you don't expect it

tired dove
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i tried to put the dig spot there and you can see the cracks from the other side, but yeah its the only one thats invis

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(since you dug to explode earlier walls)

upper kernel
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wow, really cool sequence

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i wasn't expecting that

tired dove
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🙂

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i don't know what i had against stairs, i put whirlwinds in weird spots where stairs would have been just fine lol

upper kernel
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34/35 skulls

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still my favorite dungeon I ever played

tired dove
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wow! thanks so much for saying that! I'm glad you liked it!

upper kernel
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||that hidden wall was the only thing that I would change. It alone made the playthrough much longer as I thought I had to do something else in the dungeon||

upper kernel
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its very humbling lol

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I was just about to make an emberstone quarry level but now I feel like I'm in a lower tier of maker or something haha

tired dove
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i'm going to address some of the confusing backtracking thats possible. i intended for you to always go forward

tired dove
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send me one of yours to play

upper kernel
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yeah, absolutely

upper kernel
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theres a problem with a contraption tho

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a game breaking one

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all you need to do is wait until the screen shakes before stepping out of the main switches in the hub rooms

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julian said he will maybe make a change that fixes it for me. I should probably come up with a solution myself tho

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it happens because of a 1 frame delay on the explosion spawners

tired dove
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ok! i'll give it a go 🙂

upper kernel
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I always forget to like the feedback threads lol

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here you go

tired dove
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running an event for a server I run, then will play it!

tired dove
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i rebuilt this whole section in a test dungeon to try to reproduce what happened to you, and it doesn't happen to me. takes me all the way back

tired dove
# upper kernel i think this is an issue with using pillars with walls

Going to upload tomorrow, incorporated some feedback from Victoonix and Haru.

  • removed that piillar so the map cant get stuck,
  • changed a few sections to have natural blocks that prevent you from backtracking when you shouldn't
  • stair-ified some tornadoes that had little purpose
  • added tornados to prevent wrong way minecart rides in the lava section
  • adjusted a few skull locations and hints
  • Added a safety tornado in case you get sent back during the ||escape sequence||
  • hid all checkpoints behind pillars you must pass for the ✨ aesthetics ✨
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thank you both 🙂

tired dove
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spotted a few more very edge case soft locks and fixed them 🙂 new version has been updated!

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would love if anyone who played before would try again and let me know what you think

signal timber
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oops I forgot to upload and post this one. I will post tthe video tonight >.<

signal timber
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there you go

tired dove
signal timber
# tired dove Thank you very much! This is a really helpful thing to do for people!

oh no problem. I love playing people's levels, and it doesn't take that much effort to break them out like this. I figure I should start sending them in the dungeon feedback for the creators to easily watch it, but also I list them so generically like that because I want them to be searchable so if anyone has issues completing a dungeon there will be at least one video of it being completed out there to figure things off of.

heady sleet
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@tired dove I think I got stuck here.. not really sure what I can do so I'm guessing it's a softlock somehow

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heck, need to compress the video

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it's a really cool dungeon though

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holy shit. I actually made it out 😂 I was able to use that spring at the start to make it over to the platform below, with the torch and locked door. I clipped between the fence and torch and just slid my way through

heady sleet
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lmao. I took the slow minecart into the lava

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kinda feel like the sword coin skulls represent all the people who died after the cave-in

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which is somehow cute and horrifying

heady sleet
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oh I literally could have read the description lol. how did I miss that?? anyway, really cool dungeon. I agree with what Vic said. top tier for sure

tired dove
# heady sleet

after solving the 3x button puzzle, you're meant to go through that bombed door in the pit, then push the blocks to create a path through the mud to the stairs

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then pull the chain, which changes the minecart track to go up

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but, you somehow ended up over there without the minecart, heh

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how did you get over to that side without taking the minecart there?

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oooh. you must have dragged an explosive box really far to break into that hole early

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i left a breakable block where i shouldn't have 🙂 fixing that!

heady sleet
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I was a little anxious going through it because it seemed like I was missing a lot of stuff. so I tried to get as much use out of the explosive crate as I could. when I saw the stairs up from that drop, I probably thought that meant it was a safe drop. but I didn't realize there wasn't actually a way back from it

tired dove
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WTB minecart spawner.

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thank you for playing it 🙂 i'm really proud of this one

heady sleet
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yeah I love that you made it feel dangerous and exciting without any enemies

tired dove
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🙂

tired dove
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shows off some of the mechanisms

heady sleet
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oh, yeah I did! it was neat

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I forgot to mention that. also loved these moments: ||when the cluster of crystal switches lit up and illuminated the room! and the escape sequence! that crazy minecart ride that used all those broken pieces of track I thought were useless! so super cool. I wondered if I could fall down after the Ruby by just holding a bomb up and standing on the weighted plate, but I didn't try it lol. glad I didn't because that ending part was cool too||

tired dove
heady sleet
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oh? it worked fine for me

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||is it on a "all sword coins collected" condition?||

tired dove
heady sleet
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ahh

tired dove
heady sleet
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oh my god

tired dove
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|| the ruby falls first onto the active conveyor, then hits a pressure plate that turns off the conveyor. then all the rest is contraptions to do the timing for the skull explosions ||

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|| if the time it takes to become "active" when you fall to a lower floor got shorter, I would imagine the ruby doesn't have time to stop the conveyor. but if it worked for you, maybe just a fluke ||