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Lilliput

Strange physics

You are three times your size. Mind where you step.

At a glance
Kind of worldStrange physics
Serum in the arrival Box2 ampoules
Native Serum stand-inLilliput Saffron
QuestsNone
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The player, three times normal size, standing over a tiny brick village with orange-roofed houses no taller than their knee

What happens when you arrive

You step out of the Box at your normal size. Then, a few steps away, you grow: over three seconds the world sinks around you until the trees come up to your chest. You are three times your height. Below you, among the flowers, are people a few inches tall living in brick villages the size of a garden bed. Tiny voices drift up from somewhere near your feet: "Sneak, and you will not crush anything."

The rule: you are a giant

What changes How much
Size Three times as tall.
Speed About 1.6 times as fast on foot.
Jump About 1.4 times as high.
Step You walk straight up 2-block steps without jumping.
Reach Twice as far.
Fall damage You can fall three times as far before it hurts.
Attack Your fists and weapons hit twice as hard.

Within 4 blocks of the arrival Box you are always your normal size, so you can squeeze back in and close the door. In a cave or under a roof you only grow as far as there is room, so you never suffocate.

Mind your feet

Walking (not sneaking) over these flattens them:

  • Lilliputian houses: Lilliput Brick and Lilliput Roof Tiles
  • Flowers, crops, flower pots and candles

Breaking any of them by hand counts too. Hold sneak to walk without crushing anything.

The Lilliputians

Alone, a Lilliputian is harmless: it has 2 hearts and does half a heart of damage at most. A crowd is another matter. If you crush or break a house, or hurt a Lilliputian, every Lilliputian within 16 blocks swarms you for 30 seconds. One of them is a pinprick. Forty of them are not.

Every Lilliputian carries a pinch of Lilliput Saffron and drops it if it dies.

Ordinary monsters (zombies, skeletons, creepers and the rest) spawn here at night as usual, and to you they are now small, around your ankles. Farm animals graze the plains.

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A swarm of tiny Lilliputians pouring out of a village toward the player after a house was stepped on

The villages

Villages are small, about 23 blocks across, built from Lilliput Brick with orange tile roofs around a tall hall in the middle. The hall chest always holds 2 to 4 Lilliput Saffron, plus a few of: bread, gold nuggets, wheat seeds, and sometimes a Phase Salt Crystal.

Getting to that chest without stepping on anything is the puzzle. Sneak in, mind the roofs, and remember your long reach: you may be able to open the chest without stepping inside.

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The village's tall hall from above, its chest just visible inside the doorway

What to bring home

Find Where Why it's worth it
Lilliput Saffron Village hall chests (2 to 4), and one from any Lilliputian. The world's Serum ingredient (see below).
Lilliput Brick, Lilliput Roof Tiles The village houses. They drop themselves. Bright red brick and orange tiles for building.
Phase Salt Crystal Sometimes in the hall chest. A Serum lab ingredient you otherwise fetch from the Nether.

Serum and getting home

  • The arrival Box's cache holds 2 Serum Ampoules.
  • Native stand-in: Lilliput Saffron. It goes into the Synthesizer in place of Somnium Powder.
  • To leave, walk back to the Box: you shrink back to normal size as you get close, step in and shut the door.

Tips

  • Sneak through villages. It is slower, but it costs you nothing.
  • Use your doubled reach to keep your feet clear of the roofs while you loot.
  • A peaceful raid on the hall chest gets you 2 to 4 saffron. Killing Lilliputians gets one each and brings the swarm.
  • Your safe fall height is three times normal, so you can hop off small cliffs freely.

Birds

Birds you can photograph for your bird log here. Open one to turn it round, watch it move and hear its call.

Everything this world adds

2 blocks and items (click to open)

Lilliput Brick
Lilliput Roof Tiles

The traveler's tape

Every arrival Box has a chest by its door holding a cassette: the last traveler reading their journal of this world aloud. This is what they say. It gives a lot away.

Read the journal (spoilers)

I came out of the Box and the Box was tiny, and so was everything else: I am three times my height here, and the trees come up to my chest. There are people, a few inches tall, living in brick villages the size of a garden bed, and the first one I found I had already walked through. Every step flattens flowers, crops and houses unless I creep along sneaking, and the Lilliputians come out in swarms after whoever did it; one of them is a pinprick, forty of them are not. They grow saffron, and each village keeps its store in the chest of the tall hall at its centre: it goes into the Synthesizer in place of Somnium Powder. The Box keeps me at my own size while I stand near it, so I could still squeeze in, sit down, and close the door with the Serum still in me.