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Game Mechanic: Temporal Stability
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Temporal Stability
The world is in a constant state of flux.
The cyan gear between your health and hunger bar is your temporal stability meter. Staying in areas of low stability will drain your temporal stability, which is indicated by your gear turning counter-clockwise. If your temporal stability reaches zero, you will enter the rust world, where tough enemies are more likely to spawn and you will take constant damage. Certain areas, especially deep underground are temporally unstable. If your temporal stability is dropping when on the surface, you might want to find another place to settle down. Sometimes you will encounter temporal storms on the surface, which have the same effect as having low temporal stability. When a temporal storm is approaching, the chat box will let you know, so you have time to prepare.
Ways to increase your temporal stability:
- Enter a temporally stable area, which is indicated by your gear turning clockwise
- Killing drifters will recover small amounts of temporal stability
- Putting a temporal gear in your left hand, a knife in your main hand and holdingrightmouse will transfer temporal stability from the gear to you, but consumes the gear and some of your health.
Rifts
Rifts are portals to the rust world that appear at random on the surface, which spawn drifters and cause your temporal stability to drop greatly when up close. They disappear on their own after 1 or 2 ingame days. The amount of appearing rifts depend on the current global rift activity. Torch light currently deters rift apperances, in case you want to make your base more rift-proof.
The world is in a constant state of flux.
The cyan gear between your health and hunger bar is your temporal stability meter. Staying in areas of low stability will drain your temporal stability, which is indicated by your gear turning counter-clockwise. If your temporal stability reaches zero, you will enter the rust world, where tough enemies are more likely to spawn and you will take constant damage. Certain areas, especially deep underground are temporally unstable. If your temporal stability is dropping when on the surface, you might want to find another place to settle down. Sometimes you will encounter temporal storms on the surface, which have the same effect as having low temporal stability. When a temporal storm is approaching, the chat box will let you know, so you have time to prepare.
Ways to increase your temporal stability:
- Enter a temporally stable area, which is indicated by your gear turning clockwise
- Killing drifters will recover small amounts of temporal stability
- Putting a temporal gear in your left hand, a knife in your main hand and holding
Rifts
Rifts are portals to the rust world that appear at random on the surface, which spawn drifters and cause your temporal stability to drop greatly when up close. They disappear on their own after 1 or 2 ingame days. The amount of appearing rifts depend on the current global rift activity. Torch light currently deters rift apperances, in case you want to make your base more rift-proof.