5Lightless Deep
No light, and a noise gauge. Every light you place burns out after a minute: torches crumble to sticks, campfires and candles are snuffed, glowing blocks turn to Spent Glow. Only the Deep's own Faint Glow lasts, and a lit Solar Lantern carries twenty minutes of light with you. Sprinting adds 4 noise per second, walking 0.6; standing still removes 1.5, sneaking 3. Above 50, every creature within 28 blocks comes for you. Silence Balm wipes your noise.
- 60 sbefore a brought light burns out
- 50noise, and everything comes for you
- 20 minof light carried by the Solar Lantern
Black Lantern
Light it in complete darkness, with at least 4 Spent Glow within 2 blocks: its black flame opens World 5.
Storm Essence ×2
Celestial Crystal ×2- Storm Essence ×2
- Celestial Crystal ×2
Storm King Core- Celestial Crystal ×2
- Storm Essence ×2
- Celestial Crystal ×2
- Storm Essence ×2
Matrix WorkbenchBlack LanternCreatures
Who lives here
Pick a creature to watch it move and use its own attacks. The boss guards the core that opens the next world.
Drag to turn it, scroll or pinch to zoom.
Blind Prowler
Hunts by sound. Sneak.
- Health
- 86
- Damage
- 14.5
Attacks
- Blind Maul
- 2 quick blows at 3 blocks, 80% damage each.
- Echo Hunt
- Crouches, then leaps from 3 to 10 blocks away: 120% damage on contact.
- Lightless Howl
- Lets out a cry that reaches 10 blocks: Darkness 6 s.
How to meet it: Light Eater
Lair bossThe Lightless Pit- 1Walk 160 blocks south of the Threshold to its lair gate.
- 2Come within 10 blocks of the lair heart at the centre of the chamber.
- 3It wakes after a three-second tremor. Beat it and the treasure alcove opens: three chests of the world's best loot.
- 4The heart wakes again ten minutes later, for a second fight.
Lair Heart
Structures and their loot
Eleven structures generate across every world, each with its own purpose. Here is where to look, what waits inside, and what the chests can hold.
CombatProwler Nest
Medium, common
A crater with a lined bowl, eggs, bone ribs and burrows ending in dens.
A guarded loot room: spawners of the world's creatures around a rare chest (a vault chest in large ones), plus common chests.
CombatEcho Cemetery
Medium, common
A graveyard and mausoleum over a crypt of burial niches, sarcophagi and an ossuary.
A guarded loot room: spawners of the world's creatures around a rare chest (a vault chest in large ones), plus common chests.
CombatBlack Cathedral
Large, rare
A cathedral with nave, transept, buttresses, twin towers, a rose window and a guarded crypt.
A guarded loot room: spawners of the world's creatures around a rare chest (a vault chest in large ones), plus common chests.
ExplorationDark Tower
Medium, common
A tower with a spiral stair and a different room on every floor.
Two to four chests hidden around: under tables, behind bookshelves, in cellars, in dead ends. The first is rare in medium and large ones.
ExplorationBottomless Mine
Large, rare
A headframe with its wheel, a shaft with ladder, timbered galleries with rails and ore veins.
Two to four chests hidden around: under tables, behind bookshelves, in cellars, in dead ends. The first is rare in medium and large ones.
ExplorationLight Well
Medium, rare
A pavilion over a shaft with niches, down to a domed chamber with a pool and pillars.
Two to four chests hidden around: under tables, behind bookshelves, in cellars, in dead ends. The first is rare in medium and large ones.
StoryBlind Sanctuary
Medium
A shrine on a stepped platform, with a pavilion, an altar, a gate and stone lanterns.
A reading nook with a lectern and candles around a rare chest holding a page of the Journal.
StoryFresco Gallery
Medium
A two-level library with book walls, a mezzanine and reading tables.
A reading nook with a lectern and candles around a rare chest holding a page of the Journal.
PeopleSilent Village
Large, rare
Houses around a fountain plaza, with paths, garden plots, lamps and a belfry.
The people of the world live here and trade with you, beside a common chest.
SecretArtisan's Shelter
Small
A kiosk over a spiral stair down to an antechamber; a mural wall hides the way to the pedestal room.
A puzzle or hidden passage leads to a vault chest with the world's hidden doll and a Journal page.
CombatHushed Circle
Medium, common
A ring of standing stones and lintels around a sunken altar where the guarded chest waits.
A guarded loot room: spawners of the world's creatures around a rare chest (a vault chest in large ones), plus common chests.
What the chests can hold
Common chest
3 to 5 stacks
Silence Balm
Mute Mushroom- Mushroom Stew
- Iron Nugget
- Torch
- Arrow
- Iron Ingot
Rare chest
often an enchanted book
Shadow Shard
Diamond Fragment- Gold Ingot
- Emerald
- Enchanted Book
- Bottle o' Enchanting
- Golden Carrot
- Glowstone Dust
Vault chest
rare items too, and a 30% chance of one piece of the world's gear
- Diamond
- Golden Apple
- Echo Shard
Solar Lantern
Sonar
Shadow Blade
Everything in this world
Every item and block, how to make or find it, and what the world asks of you.
Items
Shadow Shard
RareBase of World 5 gear.
Found on Blind Prowler, Glow Devourer, Shadow Mother
Diamond Fragment
Epic4 fragments make 1 diamond.
Found on Echo, Eyeless Watcher, Diamond Fragment Ore
Solar Lantern
Epic20 minutes of light.
- Effect
- Night Vision for 20 min
- Effect
- Cooldown 1 min
- Storm Essence ×4
Lantern
Gold Ingot ×2
Dark AltarSolar LanternSonar
RareReveals nearby creatures.
- Effect
- Reveals creatures within 32 blocks for 8 s
- Effect
- Cooldown 10 s
- Shadow Shard ×4
Amethyst Shard ×2
Dark AltarSonarSilence Balm ×3
CommonClears your noise.
- Effect
- Noise -100
- Shadow Shard
Honey Bottle
Dark AltarSilence Balm ×3Shadow Blade
Epic- Attack damage
- 16
- Attack speed
- 1.6
- Durability
- 1,200
- Shadow Shard ×8
Stick
Dark AltarShadow Blade
Light Eater Core
LegendaryOpens the way into World 6.
Found on Light Eater
Black Lantern
EpicLight it in complete darkness, with at least 4 Spent Glow within 2 blocks: its black flame opens World 5.
- Storm Essence ×2
- Celestial Crystal ×2
- Storm Essence ×2
- Celestial Crystal ×2
- Storm King Core
- Celestial Crystal ×2
- Storm Essence ×2
- Celestial Crystal ×2
- Storm Essence ×2
Matrix WorkbenchBlack Lantern
Hidden Doll 5
Five notches are carved under its base. Nest the ten dolls in order...
Mute Mushroom ×2
CommonNoise reduced for 5 minutes.
- Food
- 6 (3 shanks)
- Saturation
- 9.6
- Effect
- Silent for 5 min
Brown Mushroom ×2- Shadow Shard
Dark AltarMute Mushroom ×2
Light Eater Trophy
EpicA painted doll of the boss, won in its trial.
Lantern Shield
EpicBlocks like a shield. Each blocked blow flares: the attacker is blinded, thrown back and marked.
- Blocks
- 90 % of a hit
- Durability
- 560
Nocturnal Helmet
Epic- Armor
- 4
- Toughness
- 1.5
- Knockback resistance
- 10 %
- Max health
- +1
- Durability
- 550
- Shadow Shard ×5
Dark AltarNocturnal Helmet
Nocturnal Chestplate
Epic- Armor
- 8
- Toughness
- 1.5
- Knockback resistance
- 10 %
- Max health
- +2
- Durability
- 800
- Shadow Shard ×8
Dark AltarNocturnal Chestplate
Nocturnal Leggings
Epic- Armor
- 5
- Toughness
- 1.5
- Knockback resistance
- 10 %
- Max health
- +2
- Durability
- 750
- Shadow Shard ×7
Dark AltarNocturnal Leggings
Nocturnal Boots
Epic- Armor
- 3
- Toughness
- 1.5
- Knockback resistance
- 10 %
- Max health
- +1
- Durability
- 650
- Shadow Shard ×4
Dark AltarNocturnal Boots
Blocks
World Soil 5
The soil of World 5.
Spent Glow
What a glowing block becomes once the Lightless Deep has drunk its light.
Dark Altar
Works only in complete darkness.
Obsidian- Celestial Crystal ×2
- Obsidian
- Storm Essence
- Storm Essence
- Obsidian
- Celestial Crystal ×2
- Obsidian
Matrix WorkbenchDark Altar
Umbral Stone
Umbral Moss
Faint Glow
Diamond Fragment Ore
Mined, it gives Diamond Fragment
Quests
- A Lasting LightCraft a Solar Lantern.
- Hear the DangerSpot 3 mobs with the sonar.
- The SignsLearn the signs of 5 different Silent Ones (talk to them).
- The Night LightEscort the keeper: defeat 6 Glow Devourers close to the Silent Ones.
- The Last FireRelight the village (+5) or steal its flame (-5).
- Pitch BlackDefeat a Shadow Mother.
Achievements
- Pitch DarknessOpen World 5.Progress
- A GlimmerCraft a Solar Lantern.Progress
- End of the FeastDefeat the Light Eater.Progress
- First GlintFind a diamond fragment.Exploration
- Groping AroundVisit the 10 structure types.Exploration
- Written in the DarkFind the 5 Journal pages.Exploration
- Total SilenceKill a Blind Prowler without being spotted.Combat
- FlamelessBeat the Eater without artificial light.Combat
- It Was YouGet lured by an Echo.Hidden, hidden until you earn it
- Shadow DollFind the hidden doll of the world.Hidden, hidden until you earn it
Dark Altar
Works only in complete darkness.
Built at the Matrix Workbench from
- Obsidian
- Celestial Crystal ×2
- Obsidian
- Storm Essence
- Storm Essence
- Obsidian
- Celestial Crystal ×2
- Obsidian
Matrix WorkbenchDark Altar- Storm Essence ×4
- Lantern
- Gold Ingot ×2
Dark AltarSolar Lantern- Shadow Shard ×4
- Amethyst Shard ×2
Dark AltarSonar- Shadow Shard
- Honey Bottle
Dark AltarSilence Balm ×3- Brown Mushroom ×2
- Shadow Shard
Dark AltarMute Mushroom ×2- Shadow Shard ×8
- Stick
Dark AltarShadow Blade- Shadow Shard ×5
Dark AltarNocturnal Helmet- Shadow Shard ×8
Dark AltarNocturnal Chestplate- Shadow Shard ×7
Dark AltarNocturnal Leggings- Shadow Shard ×4
Dark AltarNocturnal BootsWhat you'll carry
- Shadow ShardBase of World 5 gear.
- Diamond Fragment4 fragments make 1 diamond.
- Solar Lantern20 minutes of light.
- SonarReveals nearby creatures.
- Silence BalmClears your noise.
- Shadow Blade
- Light Eater TrophyA painted doll of the boss, won in its trial.
- Lantern ShieldBlocks like a shield. Each blocked blow flares: the attacker is blinded, thrown back and marked.
- Mute MushroomNoise reduced for 5 minutes.
Armour set 20 armour, 6 toughness, a 16-damage weapon at this tier.
Eleven structures
Combat
Prowler Nest, Echo Cemetery, Black Cathedral, Hushed Circle
Exploration and loot
Dark Tower, Bottomless Mine, Light Well
Story
Blind Sanctuary, Fresco Gallery
Utility
Silent Village
Secret
Artisan's Shelter