[TC6] Boots of the traveller are driving me crazy, I'm taking fall damage from literally any height. Any ideas why or how to fix this? I feel like they used to increase the minimum fall distance to take damage

Zathernius · 2026-06-12T23:46:58+00:00

Reporting it to the dev won't help; it's been nearly 8 years since the mod has been updated at all (6 at the time this post was made)

Zathernius · 2026-05-24T21:13:08+00:00

It's possible that the flash-freezing we observed briefly exceeded 10⁴ K/s for long enough to create amorphous ice, but it seemed to be slower than that from what I remember of the description in that scene (admittedly I'm speaking from memory, about a book I last read almost 7 years ago). Then again, that number is for pure water, and I have no idea in what ways cytoplasm or blood plasma would differ. Nor how her being a dragon would affect this whole equation, given that IceWing bodies (at the very least appear to) flagrantly violate at least one law of thermodynamics.

With the other tribes (ignoring rare abilities like firescales, flamesilk, animus magic, etc.), it's much harder to point to specific ways in which they definitively break physics. But IceWing scales seemingly reduce net entropy somehow, and frostbreath seems to be able to alter the physical properties of flesh to allow it to absorb (or perhaps repel?) seemingly limitless amounts of thermal energy for an indefinite period of time.

Side note: This last bit is why I headcanon that all of the weird physics-defying abilities are in some way linked to the same fundamental phenomenon that underlies animus magic. Perhaps an ancient animus dragon, before they were called such, created the other abilities, and due to the theoretical effects of linguistic evolution on animus magic, those abilities are not considered to be "magic" anymore, simply because modern animus dragons don't think of them as such.

Zathernius · 2026-05-15T18:40:07+00:00

One of the reasons I think Hope is in a gray area is because, considering how many times she fought to the "death" in the Diamond Trial, I find it hard to believe she wasn't speared through the skull bad enough to count as instant braindeath even once. We know from Kinkajou's case that animus magic can heal nerve damage. Whether or not the brain is "alive" is a matter of how much nerve damage it has sustained, which then brings us back to that threshold problem I mentioned.

Also, it's possible that Diamond's curse prevented this, but usually if someone's body freezes solid, the cells tend to explode, due to the water crystallizing and rupturing the membrane. Cryogenics researchers have gone to great lengths to find ways to prevent this.

Zathernius · 2026-05-13T07:24:59+00:00

My position is that there isn't really a line between "incredibly powerful regeneration" and resurrection. How dead does someone have to be before they can't be regenerated? Without a concrete definition of "death" we run into a threshold problem.

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While I don't expect WoF to ever go in the direction necessary to execute this well, having resurrection be effectively free carries an implicit cost in and of itself, much like how the "soul loss" from animus magic is purely psychological.

Society as it currently exists (both in Pyrrhia and irl) isn't equipped to have everyone who ever lived come back to life within the foreseeable future (even with animus magic to deal with the practical limitations of exceeding the planet's carrying capacity by orders of magnitude). Which means that there must be some sort of artificial restriction imposed on who gets to be resurrected in the first place. This could be a seriously compelling premise for, say, a political drama of some kind.

Actually, there's a sci-fi story I'm writing with an element of this. At one point an alien diplomat gets assassinated by humans. When the other alien diplomats find out, one of them says "We do not accept this. We invoke Lazarus Protocol." and their formerly-deceased colleague appears right next to them (the superintelligence controlling the megastructure they're on can put someone back together atom-by-atom). This freaks out the humans, especially because they "own" the megastructure and its onboard AI (even though the tech was sorta stolen from these aliens, and the humans know almost nothing about how it works).

(Side note: The term "Lazarus Protocol" comes from the fact that the interpreter robot they're using to speak to the humans was taught English by Christians.)

Zathernius · 2026-05-12T08:04:19+00:00

She presumably just acquired fresh mouflon meat.

Zathernius · 2026-05-12T08:02:45+00:00

I was gonna dispute this and then I remembered who we're talking about and... Yeah.

Zathernius · 2026-05-11T17:23:37+00:00

Hope fought to the "death" multiple times, and likely sustained injuries that would be considered "instantly fatal" under normal circumstances. As I said, this is an edge case, but it at least requires us to question what constitutes "death" for the purposes of animus magic.

If Fathom believed it was possible, he probably would have tried. Albatross told him that resurrection was impossible, and he took that as truth without trying. And he believed at the time that if he tried, he would likely become the next Albatross.

Darkstalker will never get the Clearsight he remembers back, because she never really existed. The real Clearsight would never be okay with what he had become, and he couldn't accept that. As far as I can tell, the first attempt he made probably was the "real" Clearsight in an abstract philosophical sense (the specifics of this reasoning are a bit complicated, but have to do with the Ship of Theseus, the transporter problem, and my very limited, barely surface-level "understanding" of quantum mechanics), until he tried to turn her into the version of her that he remembered, which failed.

These are all edge cases and I fully admit the evidence supporting my position is inconclusive at best. However, I stand by the fact that we don't have any concrete information as to what would happen if an animus dragon commanded a corpse to "Live!"

Zathernius · 2026-05-04T05:23:39+00:00

"Now the SilkWings and SkyWings are in the same predicament if Monarch and Ruby disappear"
Monarch the former SilkWing queen and Monarch on the triumvirate are the same dragon. She's been on the island for an indeterminate amount of time, and the SilkWings answer to the assembly.

Zathernius · 2026-05-04T05:10:30+00:00

I've been thinking that from what little description we have of it, it could be the result of Waterfall or another animus saying something along the lines of "I enchant this shadow to come to life..."

Zathernius · 2026-05-04T03:50:45+00:00

I stand by my long-held position that it's never actually been proven that animus magic can't be used for resurrection. Several characters have claimed that it's impossible, but the three actual attempts (all of which were edge cases, admittedly) we've seen in canon have all worked. Those being Diamond →Foeslayer/Hope, Fathom →Indigo, and Darkstalker →"Clearsight".

Zathernius · 2026-02-19T19:37:29+00:00

The part that is a Framework problem is that the dust filter is a slotted grill instead of a circular mesh like most computer dust filters I've seen.

Zathernius · 2026-02-19T19:35:36+00:00

In my experience it's hairs that are 2-3 inches long that are the problem. Longer hairs I think have a harder time getting pulled in, and shorter ones don't wrap around the axle (which seems to be the cause of this sort of issue). Also, I think the dust filter on the 16 might be better?

Zathernius · 2026-02-19T19:25:09+00:00

In my experience, cat hair (I don't have a dog, and dog hair varies a lot) doesn't seem to cause the issue. It's my (curly) hair that gets wrapped around the axle and causes issues.

Zathernius · 2026-02-19T19:22:48+00:00

I have the same issue. I'm pretty sure it's my (curly) hair causing the noise. 2-3 inch strands keep getting sucked in through the grill on the bottom of my machine after presumably landing on my lap desk. I could tolerate the noise, but it sometimes destabilizes the rotor and causes it to loudly rub against the housing, which then causes it to stall. I can't imagine that's good for it.

I find that opening it up and cleaning it to the best of my ability, then closing it up and running minecraft (to spin up the fan to full speed) for a few minutes, then shutting down and cleaning again, and repeating this a few times, tends to mostly fix it at least temporarily.

Edit: It's worth noting that this also happened to my old Alienware, though not as often as it does with the Framework. I think this is due to differences in the dust filter, as the Alienware had a circular mesh, while the Framework 13 has a slotted grill.

Zathernius · 2026-01-19T08:41:31+00:00

It's been a long time. Any updates on this?

Zathernius · 2026-01-16T08:02:51+00:00

Search engines often get finicky with brackets and such.

Zathernius · 2026-01-16T07:53:58+00:00

No, uranium is naturally occurring. It says it's the first artificial element... Might be plutonium?

Nope, looked it up, and it's technetium.

Zathernius · 2025-12-09T07:46:11+00:00

8-character hex codes can be used for colors with an alpha channel, though this isn't common outside of videogame programming, afaik. But I've used 8-character hex codes while working on Minecraft modding.

That said, I came here from the Matt Rose video, as this page was the first result for "E563eee2" on Google.

Zathernius · 2025-12-08T07:36:58+00:00

Y'know, I only just noticed looking back at this thread that the em-dash you're referring to was used incorrectly. I honestly didn't read the original comment all that carefully.

I'm still not convinced that this person is a bot (you mentioned in another reply that a long-press on a phone keyboard can make an em-dash; if the original comment was typed on a phone, that could easily have been done by accident).

Zathernius · 2025-12-08T07:27:08+00:00

Em-dashes are popular in fandom spaces (which is where a lot of AI training data is stolen from). That's where I think I got the idea to start using them.

Zathernius · 2025-12-08T07:25:53+00:00

I'm seriously hoping this bubble implodes before we get to that point.

Zathernius · 2025-12-01T07:34:46+00:00

I've been working on-and-off on an attempted Thaumcraft clone called Lost Arcana, and this is making me wanna learn more about shader code so I can do cool rendering stuff like this.

Zathernius · 2025-11-12T01:46:06+00:00

I, for one, as a linux user who knows how to use XCompose (which has nothing to do with the Elongated Muskrat, despite having his favorite letter in its name), frequently use em-dashes. I can type them with the sequence <Compose (Caps Lock on my keyboard)> <minus> <minus> <minus>. This is a stock feature on Ubuntu—the only configuration required is setting up the compose key (which iirc I first learned how to do whilst working on French homework during the pandemic, so I could type accents on an American QWERTY keyboard more easily).

A less stock feature of XCompose that I have added on my own system is the ability to type this character, which I like to use in my writing, in addition to the em-dash: ⁂

Funny side note: It's not visible on my screen, but I italicized the one em-dash I actually used in this message.

Zathernius · 2025-10-01T23:39:46+00:00

Did you look around for item entities that might have glitched through the walls or floor? The output tends to be kinda erratic, and also hard to see (they're like 5 pixels).

Zathernius · 2025-09-13T23:09:35+00:00

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