Talk:Dark Bramble

Easter Egg Findings by free-cam! I want to get there!
So, there's a secret in the Dark Bramble. In the "Recursion Node" is an Easter Egg. Firing the probe into the seed there shows a scene with dead humans around what looks like a rampaging seed. Using a combination of the Freecam Mod, EnableDebugMode (comes as standard with OWML),TaiCheat, and Spawn Points Menu, I have found it. So a bit of background. When you enter the Bramble, you're not put into a "pocket dimension" - an empty region of space not too far away is transformed into the Bramble Interior, and that is where you are. It is engulfed by a sphere of brown fog, which is in turn engulfed by a black orb. Please see this highly detailed and highly technical diagram. It's not to scale. Outside of the black orb is the room. At the time of recording, it was about 26.7km away from the node. Unfortunately, it is not enough to simply noclip outside of the DB Interior to get here. Upon moving too far away from the center of the room, you are transported to the outside of DB (this is normal behaviour - and is how you escape under normal circumstances).

Here's the crazy part. Upon leaving Dark Bramble, the photo-feed from the Scout continues (you can leave the Scout there). And upon moving far away from Dark Bramble and taking another photo, the texture quality nosedives - the room still exists and has to be LOD-choked like everything else does when you move far away, for performance reasons. The black orb (and the fog sphere, and the DB interior) disappears. The Room does not. It's still out there in space. It's too small, fast, and elusive to locate by shot-in-the-dark, and I don't have an Ash Twin of my own to haphazardly fire off probes in the hope that I will catch it by chance.

Also, the Scout does not physically appear in the Room. I don't know why.

Repro:
 * 1) Make sure you have the mods in paragraph 1 (along with OWML).
 * 2) Wake up.
 * 3) Press Tilde/Grave to activate Cheats. The game will whoosh to confirm this.
 * 4) Press G to suit up (without having to go to the ship). And press P for invulnerability. Just in case.
 * 5) Turn NUMLOCK on.
 * 6) Press Pause, select Teleport to..., and select Exit Only Dimension. This brings you to the node.
 * 7) Locate the seed and fire a Scout into it, just in case. Take a photo.
 * 8) Press / on your keypad (it has to be the keypad). This freezes time. Without it, the camera remains motionless while celestial bodies move.
 * 9) Press Del on your keypad (NOT the Del above the arrow keys as this is the "blow up the sun" button) to detach the camera.
 * 10) Take the camera through the Bramble wall and keep going until you see space.
 * 11) Turn around and pan the camera chaotically using WASD. This is to look for bright areas that are not static (like stars). If you see a bright area that moves, that's the Room. Pan the camera towards it. Holding Shift sprints the camera, Keypad-Enter moves it very quickly, and Keypad-Plus moves it very slowly.
 * 12) Conduct your investigations.
 * 13) While still in free-cam, press Escape, Teleport to, and select a destination that does not end in "Dimension" (these are all within Dark Bramble). Selecting Dark Bramble > SpawnPoint_DB will put you just outside Dark Bramble.
 * 14) Notice that the black orb has disappeared, but the room is still visible and is zooming off on what I assume is a solar-orbit trajectory.
 * 15) Record findings.
 * 16) (Bonus) Certain debug functions can only be toggled while affected by gravity, and moving to a different SOI while affected by noclip (N) causes unpredictable movement, and it cannot be disabled (if enabled beforehand) while in zero-G. By pressing the \ key, you can get data about your state. By pressing Alt+P, your jetpack supes up. With a combination of these two, while in Dark Bramble, hitting the wall in excess of 140 units-per-second (denoted by Player Speed) will clip you through the wall. It will also probably crush you dead unless you've also toggled Invulnerability (P) beforehand. It's your good ol' BLJ principle.

I have a Dropbox gallery of my photographed findings here.

(Also, can I be a wiki admin? I work reeaally hard. Thanks.) &mdash; Noxedwin (talk) 18:08, 5 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Great finds, thanks for recording a precise guide to reproduce it. As for admin privileges you should ask the current admin/owners directly, you're not getting their attention :here.
 * &mdash; Bookman (talk) 01:13, 6 May 2020 (UTC+1)


 * Ehh. I don't feel strongly enough about candidacy to actively go out and pester someone about it, but thanks for the heads-up. And thanks for reading. &mdash; Noxedwin (talk) 17:11, 6 May 2020 (UTC)