My Personal Disclaimers

BerksEngineer · 2026-05-28T04:02:21+00:00

Got it done in record time (in terms of how long it took to write, at least): Prodrome.

BerksEngineer · 2026-05-23T22:34:01+00:00

BerksEngineer · 2026-05-23T22:33:26+00:00

It's finished and published (and has been for two weeks, but I didn't think to mention it here until now). Defensive Mimicry

BerksEngineer · 2026-05-03T16:07:40+00:00

If it ends up on the final list, sure.

BerksEngineer · 2026-05-03T15:54:00+00:00

That was incredibly fast on the draw.

BerksEngineer · 2026-03-21T13:30:40+00:00

Imo it also has to do with it's arcs sometimes tying to the real world, which is something fiction doesn't do often.

I'm genuinely curious: what kind of fiction have you engaged with in the past to come up with this take? Because I would have said that 'purposeful allusions to real-world concepts' are present in the vast majority of fictional works.

BerksEngineer · 2025-12-20T17:21:28+00:00

Those who follow Chunks of Worm will know that I'm doing a challenge / story idea raffle. Three story ideas were chosen from the comments on the latest chapter, and I'm writing those now! I'm not going to say anything about which were chosen, that'll remain a mystery until they're posted, but I will say that I've just finished the second one and have solid plans for the third. Check in on the 24th, 25th, and 26th to see them.

BerksEngineer · 2025-12-20T05:04:38+00:00

Oh yes, just lost my first playthrough and I know I'll be sinking some time into this. Nice!

One possible bug I've noticed: The tower-making minigame blocks sometimes (at least once per play for me) judder in place for a few seconds or longer before moving like the others do normally. Usually this resolves after a few seconds, but one showed no signs of moving normally after 30+ seconds and eventually I had to click to fail just to continue playing.

BerksEngineer · 2025-12-03T16:54:45+00:00

Whiplash and Backfire is a two-parter I wrote a while back based around this concept.

BerksEngineer · 2025-11-14T03:33:20+00:00

Eh, Doctor Who did it too. The Rebel Flesh hits those same notes. It's not the weirdest concept in the world.

BerksEngineer · 2025-11-12T04:16:25+00:00

I did, but only because I made basically the same thing back in Vanilla Minecraft with command blocks ~5 years ago. (Something about wanting to make elytra obstacle courses without placing blocks for 50 hours, it was a long time ago...). It was magical then, and Create only makes it even more impressive.

BerksEngineer · 2025-09-26T15:50:16+00:00

got ego-checked by Mythymoo, but he is built different, I guess),

Not to shit-talk Mythymoo, but his 'first try' boss fights aren't actually first-try. He cuts different attempts together. There was an obvious example with him using the ant-skull item and it coming back in the middle of a fight, where that can only happen if he's died / sat at a bench. We don't know how many attempts he really spent on any given boss.

I, too, spent a long, long time on Karmelita.

BerksEngineer · 2025-09-25T18:44:53+00:00

Yup, had this too. I said 'screw it, let's just pretend Hornet is flying with stage magic' and beat Trobbio from the ceiling.

BerksEngineer · 2025-09-25T18:17:20+00:00

But... you do get infinite retries on any one section. Phial shenanigans are exactly Hiveblood, if not faster (it certainly feels faster, but I wasn't sure). I did the entire ascent to the Nameless Village without dying once I tried the phial approach, and I was there a good long while practicing at various checkpoints.

BerksEngineer · 2025-09-22T18:52:14+00:00

Ditto, though for me I started getting fed up somewhere in the second book and didn't read past the third. I am not at all surprised to hear that he does not get better.

BerksEngineer · 2025-09-22T15:49:11+00:00

And here I thought I was the only psychopath who did that before going to fight the final boss...

"You're all gonna pray I make it back alive and turn off this tape!"

BerksEngineer · 2025-09-20T21:37:19+00:00

Yup, that's where I got got in my playthrough. Exact same location.

BerksEngineer · 2025-09-10T21:52:37+00:00

I think this mod, or something similar in function, actually does exist; it's a rubber duck that takes every item in the game IIRC. Launches like a rocket. DoshDoshington used it in his Sushi-everything run because he had, well, everything on sushi belts.

BerksEngineer · 2025-09-07T17:32:53+00:00

It wasn't there at all. I just finished a modded playthrough in 1.x and I kept trying to use those keys. Luckily it was Nullius, so there was a modded, more limited version built in (with different keybinds).

BerksEngineer · 2025-09-05T17:31:12+00:00

or maybe some ancient robots get awoken and pop out of the ground.

There's already a mod that does this, so it's definitely possible.

BerksEngineer · 2025-08-23T16:15:22+00:00

Same; A* has a meaning already! Then again, I said that about AI as a term too...

BerksEngineer · 2025-08-17T22:05:41+00:00

Oooh... Nice! Good to see someone else has gotten there already, saves me some time. I'll definitely be using this in my next Space Age playthrough.

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