#RW MODDING AND STUFF

[thevoidlands]

i should work on my comic maybe

[dragonpropaganda]

The Architecture of Rain World: Layers of History

A major theme in Rain World's world design that often goes overlooked is the theme of, as James Primate, the level designer, composer and writer calls it, "Layers of History." This is about how the places in the game feel lived-in, and as though they have been built over each other. Here's what he said on the matter as far back as 2014!

The best example of this is Subterranean, the final area of the base game and a climax of the theme. Subterranean is pretty cleanly slpit vertically, there's the modern subway built over the ancient ruins, which are themselves built over the primordial ruins of the depths. Piercing through these layers is Filtration System, a high tech intrusion that cuts through the ground and visibly drills through the ceiling of the depths.

Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets, the friendly local ghost, tells the player of the "bones of forgotten civilisations, heaped like so many sticks," highlighting this theme of layering as one of the first impressions the player gets of Subterranean. Barely minutes later, the player enters the room SB_H02, where the modern train lines crumble away into a cavern filled with older ruins, which themselves are invaded by the head machines seen prior in outskirts and farm arrays, some of which appear to have been installed destructively into the ruins, some breaking through floors.

These layers flow into each other, highlighting each other's decrepit state.

The filtration system, most likely the latest "layer," is always set apart from the spaces around it. At its top, the train tunnels give way to a vast chasm, where filtration system stands as a tower over the trains, while at the bottom in depths, it penetrates the ceiling of the temple, a destructive presence. (it's also a parallel to the way the leg does something similar in memory crypts, subterranean is full of callbacks like that!)

Filtration system is an interesting kind of transition, in that it is much later and more advanced than both of the areas it cuts between. This is a really interesting choice from James! It would be more "natural" to transition smoothly from the caves of upper subterranean to the depths, but by putting filtration system in between, the two are clearly demarcated as separate. The difference in era becomes palpable, the player has truly found something different and strange.

Depths itself is, obviously, the oldest layer not only of subterranean but of the game itself. The architecture of Depths has little to do with the rest of the game around it, it's a clear sign of the forgotten civilisations that our friend Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets showed us, there's not actually that much to say about it itself, it's mostly about how it interacts with the other layers of subterranean.

That said, Subterranean is far from the only case of the theme of layers of history. It's present as soon as the player starts the game!

The very first room of the game, SU_C04, is seemingly a cave. It is below the surface, the shapes of it are distinctly amorphous rather than geometric. (well. kind of, it doesn't do a very good job of hiding the tile grid with its 45 degree angles.)

But let's take a closer look, shall we?

See that ground? it's made of bricks. The entire cave area of outskirts is characterised by this, the "chaotic stone" masonry asset is mixed with brickwork, unlike the surface ruins which are mostly stone. This, seemingly, is an inversion of common sense! The caves are bricks and the buildings are stone. This is not, however, a strange and unique aspect but a recurring motif.

This occurs enough in the game for it to be clearly intentional, but why would materials such as bricks be used in otherwise natural looking terrain?

The answer lies in the "Layers of History" theme. This is in fact, something that happens in real life, and it's called a tell

To be specific, a tell is a kind of mound formed by settlements building over the ruins of previous iterations of themselves. Centuries of rubble and detritus form until a hill grows from the city. Cities such as Troy and Jericho are famous examples. The connections to the layers of history theme are pretty clear here, I think. Cities growing, then dying, then becoming the bedrock of the next city. The ground, then, is made of bricks, because the ground is the rubble of past buildings. The bones of forgotten civilisations, heaped like so many sticks!

[localceilingdevil]

just like. a ton of thumbnail drawings i made for all my iterators and their skin mods :]

[vynnyal]

Turns out Sunlit Trail isn't quite done just yet, so after all that they just send you to a dead end 😂

[prismsoup]

Forgot to share it here but I made a quick guide regarding how to place pipes / entrances properly if you ever plan on making custom levels for Rain World !

Feel free to share it in other places (as long as I'm credited properly) !

This guide uses visuals from the Community Level Editor but the behavior regarding pipes remains the same both for the original Official LEditor and for RWE+

[forveiin]

itching to play online (for once) and thinking of hosting a rain meadow server, just for ppl to hop in and out of. yea or nay?

[copepods]

thx for reblogging my poast btw. just wanted 2 let you know a lot of your moon drawings inspired this mod to expand on past!moon's regions and character a lot. tldr ur art so good it made me code a lot. also i think you have one morbillion followers so my nuotifications are going 2 die

omg?? ty!! thats amazing to hear!!!

[waterfrontcomplex]

redrew my slugcat designs as the arena/jolly co op icons

[eeveekitti]

finally got all the arena stuff i wanted working we win

[florathegnarpian]

BMFD Rain World Infection AU

SHORT BONUS CHAPTER (Post-Prologue, Pre-Chapter-I) - Thanks!

(random fun fact about the AU: Iterscugs aren't rodents like scugs are. They're actually canines. Yes this means you can call them Slugdogs.)

DS stood in his chamber, always checking if anyone entered the pipe. For a long time nothing had entered the can other than Ditzy, who laid next to him. The pipe entrance flashed, and Nightcat entered. They'd only taken a single bite out of the Bloodmoon Flower, leaving most of it left.

"Oh! You've come back!" DS greeted excitedly. Nightcat stayed silent as usual, but gave the remaining part of the Bloodmoon Flower to DS and Ditzy. The two of them didn't say anything as Nightcat gestured for them to eat it. "Well, you seem like you turned out fine," DS said as he took the flower, "I'll eat more of it than this little creature beside me though in case it does become bad." The iterscug and rot-infected slugcat relucantly ate the flower.

DS suddenly noticed something when he looked at Nightcat. "Wait, aren't you usually wary of anything like this?" he questioned, "Or I suppose you could've just suddenly changed." Ditzy randomly meowed persistently to him, as if trying to tell him something. "I'm sorry little creature, I don't have the ability to understand you," he responded. Ditzy pouted as he laid back down, and afterwards, Nightcat dashed off in a hurry.

"Hm. That's an odd time to be dashing off," DS remarked, "Or the rain could is supposed to come and I don't know." He quickly checked the timer before starting the rain as he noticed the timer being finished. "They'll live. There's a shelter outside the access shaft, even though I don't know why sheltering here isn't convenient to most," he said before laying down to rest just as Ditzy was. "They aren't planning something nor have done something to us anyway. Surely not."

[carnagesaw]

youre the only other morikaze lover i know besides me and a friend of mine im goinb to put him in a package and mail him to your hdoorstep

thank you so much ill take careof him and feed him data analysis and ska and jazz.

[iterator-xxxcanons]

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[astragatwo]

Back in business baby 💪 Feeling a lot better and I miss drawing for this blog.

I have a couple things in my queue already, both things I did on my own time and requests, but mostly stuff I did on my own time. Those will get posted over the next few days as I continue working on a couple other requests before I wipe my inbox to start fresh.

Requests are still closed but will reopen shortly after I wipe my inbox!

That's all! Thank you for sticking around. Jihoon might've completely run PM's reputation into the ground, but the characters and community aren't something I can leave behind :'3

[localceilingdevil]

spent this past week making skins for my local group. myths is real guys. she's real.

and flare too ig. LOOK AT THEM AHHH

HIS BIG GOOFY EYES MAKE ME LAUGH IM SORRY. I NEED TO REDRAW IT.

[birdkittenn]

ouughgh rain world. you agree

[prismsoup]

Art for my first code mod ever !!

It's meant to notify players when a new slugpup has spawned and places a little marker on the map !

You can find it here : COOL LINK I PROMISE

Plus some extra lil thing I made for the steam workshop page :