pretty much everyone whos played rain world before just simply ignored pipeyard completely, you kinda have to go out of your way to find it, if you're new, you'll probably be exploring a lot and find it, but those who know already know where to go might not explore a lot

I used Pipeyard to cut from Sky Islands to Shoreline once and I don't think I've ever seriously been there again except in one 5 minute expedition.

@@valarmis I used it to avoid garbage wastes as spearmaster

Ok I'm dumb, what's pipeyard?

@@didntmeantokillemtwasaaccident My first experience in Rain World has been the past few weeks, playing with two friends. We found Pipeyard on our 2nd play session.

MAH FUCKEN PANCAKES

*vine boom sound effect*

... This is an apt description of Saint's ability

@@johnathanegbert9277 cringe

​@@johnathanegbert9277 nah get away from my pancakes

agreed! *Gives saint a big hug*

Before he pops ya

We need a mod where you can hug iterater

@@wanderingvagrant1551 your tail already hugs five pebbles after you spend some time near him, but i dont hink you can do that with moon

i wonder if the fluff is actually fluffy or if it is slimy, bc well, it is still a slug cat

Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in-between, I present the ceo of being cool. Here you go, my liege, you dropped this 👑

Im pretty sure its less effective than holding them though

Wait is that why after storing one lantern and holding one makes me last so long outside?? The more you know I guess

​@@dinoaurus1 I'm pretty sure that's correct, but I still don't understand why having the lantern literally _inside_ you is *less* effective than holding one out in the snow and wind

​@@dinoaurus1from my experience it grants more heat

The Sofanthiel

Goodnight Gamer.

train lizord moment

The living hell of the meme slugcat

E n v

I went looking for this comment immediately right as I heard that!! My jaw dropped as soon as he said it

we don't know what other echos experience from their perspective, it could be something like this for all we know

​@@the_phantom_cat7912it kinda sounds like they are stuck in place to me

For those who want to be directly told what Saint is: An echo is chained to the thing that was the reason they were an echo. The farm arrays echo loved sitting and looking out across farm arrays way too much in their life, so they were doomed to continue to do so as an echo. This is a common trend, while we don't know why *every* echo is an echo, the ones we do all are sitting in their place of obsession. So what about Saint? We we know the thing they are obsessed with is max Karma. We know this because the void shows you the thing you want most, before you ascend or turn into an echo depending on if you wanted that thing too much. Saint wanted max karma too much, and now is doomed to be chained to max karma. But what does that actually mean? The echo that likes farm arrays can just look at farm arrays, obviously. But Saint? They are stuck infinitely getting and spreading max karma. Why can they move though? Well who said Echos can't move? Its just that sitting in your favorite spot and watching farm arrays doesn't leave much room for moving. Another echo is the egotistical one. Its stuck by where Ancient's memories of them were stored, thinking about his life forever. Saint however moves around so they can ascend other creatures and themselves get max karma. What about all the super weird shit in the campaign like depths and the iterator dialogue and stuff? Well the answer is none of the campaign is ***real***. Saint experiences it forever, sure, but its not playing out *in real life*. You can extend this reasoning and say that every echo is walking around doing something from their perspective, but that theory gets weird quick. So yea Saint is an echo, and echoes are trapped *forever*, which explains the iterator dialogue in the Rubicon. And again, neither moon nor FP actually said those things, its just what they *would* say.

@@cooly1234 or not

​@@cooly1234 Saint improves their karma, ascends other creatures, most notably - iterators, goes to the depths, ascends a void worm, which causes them to lose all karma and return from the depths and repeat the cycle. Saint is not trapped in this cycle, but repeats it by choice - that's what makes them a saint.

​@@MadCodex So, they're partially an Echo, as they are "trapped", but it is voluntary on their part, making them not quite an Echo? Reminds me of a saying/quote "you can't know if you're obsessed unless you try to stop", and Saint doesn't want to try to stop.

@@MadCodex I guess it's like a Buddha; someone who has escaped from a cycle ("samsara" in the case of Buddhism), but may choose to remain within it in order to help others escape. Particularly in Mahayana Buddhism, which emphasises "the wish and resolve to liberate all other sentient beings from saṃsāra" as necessary for becoming a Buddha. Certainly fits with the cycle in-game being one of gaining and then purging karma.

htwo

Help, i found it out and this green fluffy cat is trying to blow me up with its mind

Oh trust me we figured out Saint’s lore Saying hi from the void sea btw

@@astrylleaf htwo interpretation not confirmed by devs

This is just my interpretation. Saint gains the power to ascend other beings, even Iterators, pulling them out of the infinite loop and giving them their final cycle. When Saint is supposed to ascend, the Leviathan tries to ascend him, but Saint ascends the Leviathan and takes his role as the 'Ascender". However, since he is now the "Ascender" he has no one to ascend himself, so he has to live every cycle while ascending others, and he aims mainly for Iterators. At the end where it show the Iterator towers, but a lot less, implying Saint has lived many cycles and has successfully ascended most of the iterators. Saint is literally a mortal Grim Reaper, killing even immortals but never truly dying himself

💀

Have you grown fur to adapt to the cold environment

@@Catwithaknife69 alomst, it’s getting there (JK JK)

@@RUNANDGUN_ can you fly yet

@@icewolf4640 surprisingly no, one day I shall

They already did sofanthiels on stream

slurry

slurry

Mcslurry

@@mothgirl326 slurry >:(

So much Slug In Tub potential

@@calinacho7704 slug in tub is basically just “kys” in rain world

​@@straight-up479 1. get shelter failure 2. Swim in flooded shelter 3. Slug in tub

Make one of them “find a stowaway” considering he already fucking did

I just love that slugcats are implied to have evolved a thick layer of fluff and fat and therefore are even sillier

Saint's variant of slugcats are honestly just my favourite because they're just so much more huggable, being literally evolved to retain as much warmth as possible would make them very soft and squishy The money I would give to make slugcats real...

they 👏 only 👏 ascended 👏 pebbles 👏 and 👏 moon 👏

@@jessiesowterAnd because of that, they woke back up exactly where they started

NOOO not NSh and SRS they too cool to die

​@@leolen8029 what

⁠@@jessiesowter What about the collapsed superstructures shown in the ending cutscene as the camera pans down to Saint? Isn’t it implied that Saint was the one who ascended those iterators before eventually reaching FP and LttM..? Idk, maybe they naturally collapsed over time but I have a hard time believing that when Moon is in an.. uh.. “okay” condition considering her circumstances.

The music cue is perfect 😙👌

same

I need to look this up at some point.

Very rare. I've beaten all scugs but hunter (and I guess monk), and still haven't seen one.

@@mbcodes18 they’re not exactly rare, they’re more common than you think. they aren’t always actively hunting, and you need to stand under them for about five seconds for them to ambush you.

@@1th_to_comment. have you looked it up

Barnacle.

wait whys that one more canon

@@eriklarsen6790 because it would be weird for Survivor and Monk to be the only scugs who ascend, they get unique ending art like all the downpour scugs do when they finish their quests.

no ending is canon, though

​@@znoopsy all endings are canon

@@znoopsy Wrong. Rivulet ended up living with Moon, Hunter Delivered the slag keys and then his cycles ran out some time later, Gourmand unlocked the exit to the big tree, Spearmaster pissed Pebbles off and then went home, etcetera. You can see the results of these endings in the stories and world of future characters, so we know they happened.

Saint canonically ascends Moon and Pebbles, as that is their purpose.

I think they already did You can look at their vods channel

ruler of everything

Yeah, with how many people in the chat were saying "ascend Five Pebbles" you'd think they'd go and do it, but no, apparently not.

In the outskirts or the complex In the wastes or the drains In the citadel, even over the void Every end of the cycle is another begun

@@Kamisokei hell yes

you understand when you fall at his hand he's the triple affirmative (ah) triple affirmative (ah) he's the triple affirmative in the end

The eepy eeper

That is a LONG story. Look up Daszombies' video on the lore of Downpour for an excellent summary

In short (I promise that this is the short version, otherwise we'd be here all day), you play as a "Slugcat" in a world where everything comes back to life at the end of each day (cycle). Each different Slugcat has a different short-term goal and a different ability, though the overarching objective of all Slugcats is to break out of the endless cycle. In order to break the cycle, a creature must obtain "Karma" and "Ascend". This is the larger purpose of - (almost) - every Slugcat. Karma goes up when you survive a day, and goes down when you die. You also gain additional Karma, past the usual limit, by encountering and listening to "Echoes", which is the goal of the Saint Slugcat in this video. There is also heavy rain, which the game is named after, that falls at the end of each day. This puts the player on a time limit to gather enough food and reach a shelter before they die in the storm. I won't go into detail about the actual lore because I promised to keep this short.

Ancient civilisation lives in Buddhist cycles of death and rebirth. They get bored and want to find a way out of eternal living. At the bottom of the world they find a strange subtsance called void (the weird thing you swim down into at the end of the regular playthrough) which can apparently kill them permanenty (this they call ascending) and can also be used to create really impressive technologies. They build huge living machines (Five Pebbles and Moon are two of them) to find another way to get out of the cycle because using the void is risky. The machines need a billion water to cool them down, so they also put out a lot of vapour which then causes the rain world. The ancient people all get bored of waiting for the machines so they just the void anyway. The machines being sentient also get bored of living and want to find a way to die. Five Pebbles tried to kill himself but accidentaly gives himself turbocancer (the wierd huge blue spider like thing that eats you if you touch it) that's very slowly eating his parts up. In this proccess he uses too much water and his neighbour Moon is left without water so her machine collapses. The slugcats are either created and sent by the other machines to talk with Five Pebbles and help Moon or others are just random animals who ended up there and want to find a way out. Nobody knows what's happening in Monk's story though and anybody who says they do is lying to you.

@@pitdarkangel2961 Monk is trying to find his brother (I am lying to you)

Thanks for filling me in!

Because people are different and enjoy different things. If we were all the same everything would have 1 flavor.

That’s the intent, yeah, but some people like to know, they’re afraid of the unknown, that’s just human nature, I play with a wiki and a map and enjoy the game in my way, being an adventurer with knowledge a map and a plan, imagining the slugcat reading through a bestiary and looking at a map between every cycle and I still enjoy the game, though sure it’s rude to say it in there without knowing the specific way someone likes to experience the game

its the people who look at the wiki

I am someone who is usually hellbent on avoiding spoilers but rain world is the only game where i go out of my way to read the wiki and such before ive beaten the game. The game personally wouldnt have been fun for me if it felt like i was wandering around lost and dying a million times because i didnt know what to do. Theres absolutely nothing wrong of course, with wanting that, and wanting the experience of learning. But for rain world, its not for me. (Not refuting your point btw just wanted to add my two cents)

Hehe, I love ur STRAY pfp :D

Pfp checks out

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tell us if you survive ok

;)

Don't do this to yourself people...

​@@Foxett25 why not? Enot is the best one, definitely not a hellish death trap with a weird visual novel at the end!

​@@SUPREME_MACHINE_V2 (dating sim)

The king dark is an example.

same

No that wouldn't work because he explodes pancakes with mind

@@treehousegames7903 and you don’t do that?

No, but like... wait no never mind I was under the false assumption that a Canadian would need something to go with their maple syrup.

There's no "u" in peace

Pass-a-fist

@@jaash7981 lol good one friend

1. I assume you mean his music pearl? Nothing(but taking it makes him feel sad, so don't do it, got it?) 2. Pretty sure no additional new dialogue is added depending if you have reached Karma 10 or not, just whether it is your first, second, or third time visiting. (She does have a unique piece of dialog if you bring her Pebbles' music pearl though.) 3. We don't know. The path there collapsed some time before Rivulet's campaign, which happened before Saint. But don't worry, Slugcat Land will always exist in our hearts(inspirational speech). 4. You *can* ascend Pebbles and Moon. The 'empty' iterator can in Rubicon is meant for if you do, as they will appear there. You get unique dialog depending if you ascended only Pebbles, only Moon, or both. Hope this answers some questions.

So true

doesnt work

@@deadlyadder2330 sad

Sweeming