Resonance

Senses

Every crystal answers a note: one makes them grow, another breaks them.

At a glance

Kind of world	Senses
Serum in the arrival Box	2 ampoules
Native Serum stand-in	Chime Shard
Quests	None

Screenshot comingresonance-hills

Green hills seamed with pale singing crystal, a chime geode broken open in a hillside, soft fog in the distance

What happens when you arrive

The hills are humming. Pale crystal veins streak the hillsides around your Box, and geodes of it break the surface here and there. Every so often the land itself hums a note, and every crystal in earshot answers. Some notes make crystal grow. One note makes it shatter.

The rule: every crystal answers a note

Any note played near crystal counts: a note block, a Tuning Fork, or the world's own humming. Octave doesn't matter, only the pitch.

Note	Note block clicks	What it does	Range
F sharp	0, 12 or 24 (a fresh note block is already F sharp)	Budding Chime sprouts buds, and buds swell into clusters.	12 blocks
C	6 or 18	Shatters every Chime Bud, Chime Cluster, glass block and glass pane in range. What a note shatters is gone, with no drops.	8 blocks
Anything else		Nothing.

The hills hum on their own about every 40 seconds near each traveler (within 16 blocks of you). Three times in five it is an F sharp; twice in five it is a C. So a cluster that has just grown is in danger until you mine it.

Glass counts

A C shatters any glass and glass panes within 8 blocks, including your own windows and any glass you placed. Build with something else here.

Beyond that, it is gentle country under a soft fog: plains animals by day and the usual monsters at night.

Growing chime crystal

The crystal grows just like amethyst, only on command:

1. Find a chime geode. They are eight times as common as amethyst geodes and reach up into the hills, so most break the surface somewhere. Its inner layer is Budding Chime.
2. Play F sharp nearby: a note block, or your Tuning Fork. Each F sharp makes buds sprout and grow.
3. Mine the clusters at once, before the hills hum a C.

Screenshot comingresonance-cluster

A player holding a copper tuning fork beside a wall of Budding Chime sprouting glowing clusters

Block	Drops
Chime Cluster	4 Chime Shards with a pickaxe, 2 otherwise. Nothing if a note shatters it.
Chime Bud	Only itself, with Silk Touch.
Budding Chime	Nothing, even with Silk Touch. Leave it where it is.
Chime Crystal	Itself.

The Tuning Fork

A hand-held note block. Use it to strike its note where you stand. Sneak and use to tune it up a semitone (from the top F sharp it wraps back to the bottom). Its tooltip shows its pitch. It is made from copper alone, so you can make one from the hills' own ore on arrival.

CICICICI

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Tuning Fork (Crafting Table)

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Chime Crystal (Crafting Table)

Serum and getting home

• The arrival Box's cache holds 2 Serum Ampoules.
• Native stand-in: Chime Shard. It takes the place of Somnium Powder in the Synthesizer. A stranded traveler grows their way home: find a geode, sing it F sharp, and mine fast.

Tips

• A fresh note block is already an F sharp. Place one beside a geode and click it, and you have a crystal farm.
• Keep your Tuning Fork on F sharp. If you tune past it, count: six clicks up from F sharp is the C that ruins everything.
• Use a pickaxe on clusters: it doubles the shards.
• Don't build with glass here: the next C within 8 blocks takes it.

Birds

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

• Tuning Warbler: common
• Shatterloon: rare, dangerous

Everything this world adds

6 blocks and items (click to open)

Chime Crystal

Budding Chime

Chime Bud

Chime Cluster

Chime Shard

Tuning Fork

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)

The whole country sings. The hills are seamed with pale crystal, and when a note is struck nearby every crystal in earshot answers it. An F sharp, any octave, makes the budding stone sprout and the buds swell into clusters; a C, a tritone off, shatters every bud, cluster and windowpane around you, and what breaks that way leaves nothing behind. The land hums notes of its own every so often, so harvest a cluster as soon as it is grown, before the hills sing it apart. I made a tuning fork from a few copper ingots and it serves as well as any note block; the shards ground in the Synthesizer in place of Somnium Powder, and the Serum came out true. The weathered Box hums too, but in no key I know; with the Serum in me and the door shut, it takes me back to the hallway of doors.