Space · How it works
Descent into the Sun
From a ship in the Sun's orbit, a fall through the corona to its surface: the point of no return.
In the game
How to get it
Bring your ship into the Sun's orbit and stand aboard: the point of no return opens by itself, then stays in the pause menu (Descend into the Sun). Read its checklist, wear the solar suit, bring what the altar needs and press Descend.
What it is for
Reach the Sun's surface, where the solar matter and the last fight wait. Every player who goes down lands on the same field of firm crust, a few metres apart.
Why it exists
No rocket takes off from the Sun and no /spawn or /home leads away: only the fall of the Solar Colossus brings you back. The checklist tells you what to bring. Die there and you wake aboard your ship in the Sun's orbit: go down again, the Colossus waits by its altar. Once you have finished the game the Sun lets you go: the pause menu's Rise to your ship takes you back up.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
The checklist
- The ultimate solar suit, worn (required)
- A full set of armour
- A bow or a sword
- Food, eight or more
- A pickaxe, for the solar matter (required)
- One ingot of each body: the altar's offering (required)
- A raisonite ingot and two gold ingots: with four blocks of solar matter, the solar altar (required)
In survival the last three are required while no Colossus waits down there: the way down is one-way.
The fall
Fourteen seconds through the corona: flames rushing at you, loops of plasma, the white-hot surface. The white holds until the ground under you is ready.
On the progress path
SO3The SunMain path
- BeforeSO2 · Station in the Sun's orbit
- This stepSO3 · Descent into the Sun
- NextSO4 · Survive: lava, fire tornadoes, meteors