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8Hastened Seasons

Rule: Season. Stage: Expertise.

Time runs two and a half times faster: a full day and night take eight minutes, each season two. Summer leaves you hungry, winter slows you down, spring and autumn are your windows. A Season Preserve shields you for two minutes, the Hourglass holds the clock for 90 seconds, and the Time Workshop only accepts recipes at dawn and dusk.

  • ×3the speed of time
  • 8 mina day and a night
  • 2 mina season

Sapling of the Four Seasons

Plant it on grass or dirt. It opens World 8 at dawn or at dusk.

  • Pressure Pearl
  • Abyssal Salt ×2
  • Pressure Pearl
  • Abyssal Salt ×2
  • Leviathan Core
  • Abyssal Salt ×2
  • Pressure Pearl
  • Abyssal Salt ×2
  • Pressure Pearl
Matrix WorkbenchSapling of the Four Seasons

Boss

Master of Seasons 4,086 health

It drops the Seasons Core.

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.

Seasonal Creature

Drag to turn it, scroll or pinch to zoom.

Seasonal Creature

Changes attacks with the season.

Health
180
Damage
21.5

Attacks

Spring Thaw
Leaves a patch 2.5 blocks wide for 5 s at its feet that inflicts Poison 2 s.
Summer Charge
Charges in a straight line through you, 100% damage and knocked aside, then 3 s of fire.
Leaf Fall
Marks the ground under you, and 1.2 s later it strikes there: 100% damage within 3 blocks. Step out of the circle, then Weakness 3 s.

Open its technical sheet

How to meet it: Master of Seasons

Altar bossThe arena altar
  1. 1Craft a Wreath of Seasons at the Time Workshop.
  2. 2Walk 160 blocks south of the Threshold to the arena.
  3. 3Hold the offering and use the altar on its dais: a three-second ritual summons the boss.
  4. 4Every fight, the first and the next ones, costs one offering.

Wreath of Seasons (Offering, Time Workshop)

  • 2Season Fragment
  • 6Temporal Sand
  • 1Season Preserve

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.

  • Combat

    Hastened Town

    Large, rare

    A walled city with corner towers, gates, avenues, houses and a guarded keep.

    A guarded loot room: spawners of the world's creatures around a rare chest (a vault chest in large ones), plus common chests.

  • Combat

    Aging Ruin

    Medium, common

    Broken walls, a colonnade, a fallen column, a standing arch and a vaulted cellar.

    A guarded loot room: spawners of the world's creatures around a rare chest (a vault chest in large ones), plus common chests.

  • Combat

    Giant Clock

    Large, rare

    A square clock tower with four faces, a pendulum and a belfry over a gear-paved court.

    A guarded loot room: spawners of the world's creatures around a rare chest (a vault chest in large ones), plus common chests.

  • Exploration

    Greenhouse of Seasons

    Medium, common

    A glass greenhouse with planters and a fountain.

    Two to four chests hidden around: under tables, behind bookshelves, in cellars, in dead ends. The first is rare in medium and large ones.

  • Exploration

    Frozen Garden

    Medium, common

    A shrine on a stepped platform, with a pavilion, an altar, a gate and stone lanterns.

    Two to four chests hidden around: under tables, behind bookshelves, in cellars, in dead ends. The first is rare in medium and large ones.

  • Exploration

    Ephemeral Camp

    Small, common

    A fire ring with log benches, tents, a cooking corner and a lookout post.

    Two to four chests hidden around: under tables, behind bookshelves, in cellars, in dead ends. The first is rare in medium and large ones.

  • Story

    Solar Observatory

    Medium

    A tower with a spiral stair and a different room on every floor.

    A reading nook with a lectern and candles around a rare chest holding a page of the Journal.

  • Story

    Library of Ages

    Large

    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.

  • People

    Dusk Market

    Large, rare

    Two rows of awninged stalls under lantern strings, a covered hall and an entrance arch.

    The people of the world live here and trade with you, beside a common chest.

  • Secret

    Time Tomb

    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.

  • People

    Ephemeral Caravan

    Medium, rare

    Covered wagons drawn up around a fire, with a stall and a hitching rail.

    The people of the world live here and trade with you, beside a common chest.

What the chests can hold

Common chest

3 to 5 stacks

  • Season Preserve
  • Season Jam
  • Pumpkin Pie
  • Iron Nugget
  • Torch
  • Arrow
  • Iron Ingot

Rare chest

often an enchanted book

  • Temporal Sand
  • Season Fragment
  • Gold Ingot
  • Emerald
  • Enchanted Book
  • Bottle o' Enchanting
  • Golden Carrot
  • Honey Bottle

Vault chest

rare items too, and a 30% chance of one piece of the world's gear, 8% of an enchanted golden apple

  • Diamond
  • Golden Apple
  • Clock
  • Hourglass
  • Scythe of Seasons

Everything in this world

Every item and block, how to make or find it, and what the world asks of you.

Items

  • Temporal Sand

    Rare

    Base of World 8 gear.

    Found on Hourglass Elder, Dusk Shade, Hour Keeper

  • Season Fragment

    Epic

    The Seismic Stake.

    Found on Seasonal Creature, Child of Minutes, Season Ore

  • Hourglass

    Epic

    Slows the world cycle.

    Effect
    Lasts 90 s
    Effect
    Cooldown 5 min
    • Temporal Sand ×6
    • Glass ×2
    • Season Fragment
    Time WorkshopHourglass
  • Season Preserve ×3

    Common

    Protects from the current season.

    Effect
    The season holds for 2 min
    • Season Fragment
    • Glass Bottle ×3
    Time WorkshopSeason Preserve ×3
  • Scythe of Seasons

    Epic
    Attack damage
    28
    Attack speed
    1.6
    Durability
    1,740
    • Temporal Sand ×8
    • Stick
    Time WorkshopScythe of Seasons
  • Seasons Core

    Legendary

    Opens the way into World 9.

    Found on Master of Seasons

  • Sapling of the Four Seasons

    Epic

    Plant it on grass or dirt. It opens World 8 at dawn or at dusk.

    • Pressure Pearl
    • Abyssal Salt ×2
    • Pressure Pearl
    • Abyssal Salt ×2
    • Leviathan Core
    • Abyssal Salt ×2
    • Pressure Pearl
    • Abyssal Salt ×2
    • Pressure Pearl
    Matrix WorkbenchSapling of the Four Seasons
  • Hidden Doll 8

    Six notches are carved under its base. Nest the ten dolls in order...

  • Wreath of Seasons

    Epic

    Held at the arena altar, it wakes the Master of Seasons.

    • Season Fragment ×2
    • Temporal Sand ×6
    • Season Preserve
    Time WorkshopWreath of Seasons
  • Season Jam ×2

    Common

    Protection from the season for 3 minutes.

    Food
    6 (3 shanks)
    Saturation
    9.6
    Effect
    Lasts 3 min
    • Sweet Berries ×4
    • Temporal Sand
    Time WorkshopSeason Jam ×2
  • Master of Seasons Trophy

    Epic

    A painted doll of the boss, won in its trial.

  • Seasonal Helmet

    Epic
    Armor
    5
    Toughness
    3
    Knockback resistance
    16 %
    Max health
    +2
    Durability
    748
    • Temporal Sand ×5
    Time WorkshopSeasonal Helmet
  • Seasonal Chestplate

    Epic
    Armor
    10
    Toughness
    3
    Knockback resistance
    16 %
    Max health
    +6
    Durability
    1,088
    • Temporal Sand ×8
    Time WorkshopSeasonal Chestplate
  • Seasonal Leggings

    Epic
    Armor
    7
    Toughness
    3
    Knockback resistance
    16 %
    Max health
    +5
    Durability
    1,020
    • Temporal Sand ×7
    Time WorkshopSeasonal Leggings
  • Seasonal Boots

    Epic
    Armor
    4
    Toughness
    3
    Knockback resistance
    16 %
    Max health
    +2
    Durability
    884
    • Temporal Sand ×4
    Time WorkshopSeasonal Boots

Blocks

  • World Soil 8

    The soil of World 8.

  • Time Workshop

    Accepts recipes at dawn and dusk.

    • Abyssal Salt
    • Abyssal Salt
    • Abyssal Salt
    • Clock
    • Pressure Pearl
    • Clock
    • Abyssal Salt
    • Abyssal Salt
    • Abyssal Salt
    Matrix WorkbenchTime Workshop
  • Chrono Grass

  • Hourstone

  • Temporal Sand Block

  • Season Ore

    Mined, it gives Season Fragment

Quests

  • Four SeasonsLive through a full cycle: see the four seasons here.
  • Stop the InstantUse an hourglass.
  • A Life in a DayHelp an Ephemeral before nightfall: bring one 8 Temporal Sand by day.
  • The ArchivesFind 5 books of the library: search 5 shelves or lecterns of the Library of Ages.
  • The Hour SellerGive an Ephemeral its time back (+5) or buy it (-5).
  • Out of SeasonDefeat an Hour Keeper.

Achievements

  • Counted TimeOpen World 8.Progress
  • Suspended InstantUse an hourglass.Progress
  • End of SeasonDefeat the Master of Seasons.Progress
  • Every SeasonSee the 4 seasons.Exploration
  • Lost HoursVisit the 10 structure types.Exploration
  • Old PapersFind the 5 Journal pages.Exploration
  • Right on TimeDefeat an Hour Keeper.Combat
  • Four Times VictorHit the Master in every season.Combat
  • GrandpaWatch a Child of Minutes grow old.Hidden, hidden until you earn it
  • Faded DollFind the hidden doll of the world.Hidden, hidden until you earn it

Time Workshop

Time Workshop

Accepts recipes at dawn and dusk.

Time Workshop

Built at the Matrix Workbench from

  • Abyssal Salt
  • Abyssal Salt
  • Abyssal Salt
  • Clock
  • Pressure Pearl
  • Clock
  • Abyssal Salt
  • Abyssal Salt
  • Abyssal Salt
Matrix WorkbenchTime Workshop
  • Temporal Sand ×6
  • Glass ×2
  • Season Fragment
Time WorkshopHourglass
  • Season Fragment
  • Glass Bottle ×3
Time WorkshopSeason Preserve ×3
  • Sweet Berries ×4
  • Temporal Sand
Time WorkshopSeason Jam ×2
  • Season Fragment ×2
  • Temporal Sand ×6
  • Season Preserve
Time WorkshopWreath of Seasons
  • Temporal Sand ×8
  • Stick
Time WorkshopScythe of Seasons
  • Temporal Sand ×5
Time WorkshopSeasonal Helmet
  • Temporal Sand ×8
Time WorkshopSeasonal Chestplate
  • Temporal Sand ×7
Time WorkshopSeasonal Leggings
  • Temporal Sand ×4
Time WorkshopSeasonal Boots

What you'll carry

  • Temporal SandBase of World 8 gear.
  • Season FragmentThe Seismic Stake.
  • HourglassSlows the world cycle.
  • Season PreserveProtects from the current season.
  • Scythe of Seasons
  • Wreath of SeasonsHeld at the arena altar, it wakes the Master of Seasons.
  • Master of Seasons TrophyA painted doll of the boss, won in its trial.
  • Season JamProtection from the season for 3 minutes.

Seasonal HelmetSeasonal ChestplateSeasonal LeggingsSeasonal Boots

Armour set 26 armour, 12 toughness, a 28-damage weapon at this tier.

Eleven structures

Combat

Hastened Town, Aging Ruin, Giant Clock

Exploration and loot

Greenhouse of Seasons, Frozen Garden, Ephemeral Camp

Story

Solar Observatory, Library of Ages

Utility

Dusk Market, Ephemeral Caravan

Secret

Time Tomb