The Unfinished

Reflections of home

Somebody started making this world and stopped halfway. Something inside it is finishing it its own way.

At a glance

Kind of world	Reflections of home
Serum in the arrival Box	2 ampoules
Native Serum stand-in	Unbaked Data
Quests	Yes: see your Traveler's Guide

Screenshot comingthe-unfinished-arrival

The Test Map: a flat green plane ruled in grid lines, a tree with purple and black checkerboard leaves, a sign reading sign.welcome.text, and a faceless villager staring at a wall

What happens when you arrive

The Box opens onto a flat green plane ruled in grid lines. The sign beside it says sign.welcome.text, and nothing else. The tree next to you has no leaves, just a purple and black checkerboard where they should be. Somebody started making this world and stopped halfway, and nobody came back.

South of the Box, a villager with no face stands staring at a wall. Talk to it. It is NPC_07, and it would very much like a name.

The rule: an unfinished world

The world is one long slab of ground hanging over the void, running south from the Box through four zones, each more broken than the last:

Zone	What it's like
The Test Map	The developer's flat grid, with sample houses full of empty frames. Safe.
The Half-Built Town	Half scaffolding, townsfolk with no faces walking into walls, a market where every barrel is labelled item.unknown.
The Seams	The ground comes apart in squares over nothing. Glowing cubes of unbaked data float above the path.
The Draft	The Autofill's territory, with its arena at the end. Your own home may be pasted here.
The Dev Room	Hidden in the void underneath the Draft.

Glitches you will meet

Glitch	What it does	How to deal with it
The void	Fall off the slab and you are dropped back at the start of the zone you were in. No death, just lost ground.	Watch the gaps in the Seams.
Fake floors and walls	Some blocks look like floor or wall but have no hitbox. You walk (or fall) right through.	A Hitbox Lens marks them with green specks.
Untextured water	Water that is only a picture.	Same: the lens shows it.
The Loop	A tunnel that puts anyone walking it forwards back at its start.	Walk it backwards, or just keep trying: the sixth attempt gets through.
The shed	It's bigger on the inside. Its door leads down into a hall in the void.	Explore it: the hall's chest is a good one.
The Autofill	Something inside the world finishing it its own way, by copying and pasting. Its stitched blocks bite: 1 damage a second while you stand on them.	Sneak across them and they leave you alone.

The music is one eight-second elevator loop, played clean on the Test Map, skipping in the town, backwards in the Seams and on top of itself in the Draft. Sounds that nobody made are a dry voice reading the sound's name aloud.

Your quest: The Unfinished

The world is shared. Frames filled, names given and the boss defeated count for everyone, so a later visitor is never stuck behind something someone else already did.

Step	Zone	What to do
1	Test Map	Talk to the villager standing with its face to a wall south of the Box.
2	Test Map	Talk to it again and give it a name. A text box opens; type anything up to the length it shows. It gets a face.
3	Test Map	Fill 3 grey placeholder frames in the Test Map's houses with real blocks.
4	Town	Head south to the Half-Built Town. NPC_07 waits in the plaza.
5	Town	Name 3 of the townsfolk. Talk to the ones walking into walls.
6	Town	Fill 6 of the town's frames before the Autofill gets there from the south.
7	Seams	Follow the path into the Seams and read 4 of the Developer's notes.
8	Draft	Something waits in the arena at the end of the Draft. Break it to open the hatch.
9	Dev Room	Climb down the shaft under the arena and read the note on the desk.
10	Dev Room	Decide what happens to the world.

The names you give are the world's, not yours: they show over each person's head, on the town's signs and in what they say, for everyone who visits. The world's signs are written for whoever is reading them, so expect to see your own username and the name of your save on them.

Placeholder frames

An empty frame is a dashed outline where a block should be. Right-click it with any full block to put that block in (it uses the block up). When every frame of a building is filled, the building snaps into the house it was meant to be. Frames can't be broken.

Screenshot comingthe-unfinished-frames

A half-built house of dashed placeholder frames, one being filled with a block, the scaffolding of the town behind

The Autofill's front

The first time anyone reaches the town, the Autofill wakes and its front starts to creep north from the Draft, one block every 8 seconds while anyone is in the world. Every building it passes that nobody has finished, it fills its own way: mirrored, seamless, stitched with its own biting blocks. It stops at the north edge of the town, so the Test Map is always safe. Finish the southern houses first.

The first time you walk into the Draft, the Autofill may also paste a mirrored copy of what you built around your Box at home into one of its three plots, stitched down the middle. (Only blocks people placed are copied, never chests or their contents. Without a home Box it pastes a stitched house instead.)

Creatures

Nothing hostile appears on the Test Map, near the Box or in the Dev Room, and all of them are gone for good once the world is finished.

Creature	Where	What to know
T-Poser	The town (only behind the Autofill's front) and the Seams.	Frozen in a T-pose. It never moves while anyone is looking at it; look away and it slides toward you, arms out.
MISSING_MODEL	The Seams and the Draft.	Nothing to see but a floating name tag and a shadow on the ground, coming closer.
Duplicate	The Draft.	The Autofill's copy of an ordinary animal or mob: stretched or squashed, mirrored, making another creature's noises. And it hunts.
The Stitched	The Draft's arena.	The boss. See below.

The Stitched, and the three endings (spoilers)

The Stitched is a creature the Autofill built from pieces of every mob it has seen: a cow's body on a spider's legs, a zombie's arms, a chicken where the head should be. Every third of its health it tears a few Duplicates off itself, and when it loses sight of you it "stitches" across the arena to a new spot. Its death breaks the seal on the hatch for everyone.

In the Dev Room you read the Developer's last note, and NPC_07 asks its question. The first player to answer chooses for the whole world, for good:

Ending	What happens
Finish it	The Autofill is shut off, every building snaps into its finished version, the stitched ground comes back and its creatures are gone. NPC_07 runs the town, and you get its save file, npc_07.sav.
Let the Autofill finish it	Every building it hadn't reached, it reaches now. Seamless, wrong and empty: the townsfolk are gone and NPC_07 is a nameless villager.
Leave it unfinished	The Autofill stops where it stands. Nothing else changes, and everyone keeps their name and face.

Everyone who gets this far gets the Dev Wand, whichever ending was chosen.

Screenshot comingthe-unfinished-stitched

The Stitched in the Draft's arena: a cow body on spider legs with zombie arms and a chicken head, Duplicates peeling off it

The developer's crates

Test chests are scattered through every zone. They are mostly placeholder junk (paper, stone, planks, bread, Placeholder Stone, Grid Floor), plus some real finds, and every crate has a 1 in 5 chance of a Serum Ampoule.

Crates in	Can hold
Test Map	Cobblestone, glass; Fly Toggle (40%).
Town	Bricks, iron ingots; Hitbox Lens (35%).
The hall under the shed	Books, emeralds; a Hitbox Lens (always) and a Fly Toggle (50%).
Seams	Unbaked Data, Noclip Pills, Spawn Egg ???, Wireframe Glass.
Draft	Missing Texture, Noclip Pills, Spawn Eggs ???, diamonds; Hitbox Lens (25%).
The market's barrels	Apples, carrots, leather, candles, the odd Spawn Egg ???.

Debug tools

Tool	What it does	Where it works
Fly Toggle	debug.fly = !debug.fly: creative-style flight on and off.	The Unfinished only. Leaving, dying or logging in elsewhere turns it off.
Noclip Pill	Ten seconds with no collision (spectator mode), then back to normal. It won't take you through the Autofill's seal before the Stitched falls.	The Unfinished only.
Hitbox Lens	Every creature within 48 blocks glows through walls for 10 seconds. Here it also shows the fake blocks.	Any world.
Spawn Egg ???	Hatches something random from another of the mod's worlds (never a boss), and tells you what it was supposed to be.	Any world.
Dev Wand	Copy and paste a box of blocks, up to 8 by 8 by 8.	Any world.
npc_07.sav	Use it on a block at home and NPC_07 loads there, with its name and face, to live at your base as a companion.	Anywhere but The Unfinished.

Using the Dev Wand: use it on a block to mark a corner (twice for a box). Sneak and use in the air to copy. Sneak and use on a block to paste, turned to face the way you face. Then wait 30 seconds before the next paste. It skips chests and anything else that holds items, liquids, unbreakable blocks and storage blocks (no pasting diamond blocks), and only fills air.

What to bring home

➜8

Placeholder Stone (Crafting Table)

➜4

Grid Floor (Crafting Table)

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➜8

Missing Texture (Crafting Table)

➜8

Wireframe Glass (Crafting Table)

Serum and getting home

• The arrival Box's cache holds 2 Serum Ampoules, and any crate may hold another (1 in 5).
• Native stand-in: Unbaked Data. It replaces Somnium Powder in the Synthesizer. Break the glowing Unbaked Data Cubes floating in the Seams for 1 or 2 each.

Tips

• Name NPC_07 something you're happy to see on signs for the rest of the world's life.
• Head to the southern end of town first: the Autofill fills those houses before the northern ones.
• Sneak across any stitched Autofill ground.
• Grab a Hitbox Lens before the Seams. The fake floors there drop you into the void.
• In the Loop, turn round and walk backwards.

Birds

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

• Placeholder Bird: common
• Autofill Crow: rare

Everything this world adds

21 blocks and items (click to open)

Missing Texture

Grid Floor

Placeholder Stone

Wireframe Glass

Unbaked Data Cube

Placeholder Frame

Grid Floor?

Placeholder Stone?

block.water.name

Autofill

Autofill Seal

Developer's Note

Dead Monitor

Cold Coffee

Unbaked Data

Dev Wand

Hitbox Lens

Fly Toggle

Noclip Pill

Spawn Egg ???

npc_07.sav

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 Box opened onto a flat green plane ruled in grid lines, with a sign beside it that said sign.welcome.text, and nothing else. The tree by the Box has no leaves, only a purple and black checkerboard where they should be. Somebody started making this place and stopped halfway, and nobody came back. There's a villager here with no face who asked me for a name. I panicked and said 'Greg'. He's so happy. He tells everyone. The world is falling apart around us and Greg doesn't care, because he's Greg. Further south the town is half scaffolding, and past it the ground comes apart in squares over nothing at all. Something down there is finishing the world its own way, copying and pasting, and where it has been everything is wrong. When you have seen enough, step back into the Box with the Serum still in you and shut the door.