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Hi there. It's now memorial day, which means The Crystal Catacombs is out now!

You can find the add-on download on the discord in #showcase https://discord.gg/Pc9NTgqCDv or you can download the add-on from here! It should be available through the add-on manager in a while.

The map is on v0.6.3.

It features 42 levels, 15+ cutscenes, and a unique story.

Enjoy!


Trailer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJNDPCW4AUo

OMG!! Lets GO!

English: Good world, I thought it wouldn't come out
Russian: Хорошый мир, я думал что он не выйдет

I'm having a lot of fun with Crystal Catacombs. Really thoughtful design and unique gameplay elements.

HOW DO YOU DO THAT

how did i make this? 2 years of effort - about a year into planning, and another year into solid level design. when i say it took a long time i really mean it, each level has on average about 20 hours put into it i'd say

This is a nicely done worldmap! Very highly detailed levels, too!

I was totally astounded by this elaborate worldmap!
The plot is wonderful, and reminded me a bit of Sonic CD.
The sometimes very complex level design lead me to a few ragequits here and there, but hey, I still loved playing it!

I think this is the most beautiful worldmap i've seen so far, absolutely amazing!

In "Wallkicks Will Work", the Jumpy jumping on the Flying Snowball is funny! I might have expected one of them to fall through the other one, or kill it, or just stick to it and stop moving. But no, they move together nicely.

In "Cruel, Cold Waters", below the green switch, some water tiles are missing; it's almost possible to fall down and die.

In "Two Tricky Tasks", you can skip the wind tunnel puzzle at the end, by carrying blocks through the door and then up the rope. (Rather, throwing them up the rope.) I'm not sure if you're supposed to be able to carry things through doors, given that they fly through the level instead of instantly appearing with you. What's the intended behavior?

In case any other completionists can't find the 2nd secret area in "Permafrost", I couldn't either. (I did find the 1st secret area, to the left of the checkpoint, as well as the passage leading to the secret ending that unlocks "Defibrillation", below the checkpoint.) I had to peek in the level editor, and found that the secret area is misplaced. It's at the top of the passage leading to the secret ending. I guess you're supposed to hit it when you fall down into the passage, but you start a bit too low.

But you can still reach it anyway! I brought an Air Flower from a different level, and dropped down into the passage. I picked up the bomb next to the trampoline, and jumped on the trampoline using the Air Flower to get as high as possible, and then the bomb exploded and boosted me upward into the secret area.

This sounds like a bug because you're using the latest nightly, which changes the position from where tux spawns from spawn objects - this map was made for v0.6.3, please play it in that. thanks.

No, I'm already using 0.6.3.

I started speedrunning this. Before, I didn't notice that the Air Flower makes you run faster. My best times:

0:21.32 - The Journey Begins Again
0:23.83 - Climbing and Swinging
0:21.94 - A Hamlet Named Quartz
0:21.71 - A Parting through the Arctic Forest
0:27.41 - Fjord of Fortitude
0:22.84 - Bumpy High Mountain Skies (this one was a lot of fun)
0:21.40 - The Bountiful Summit
0:20.04 - The Battleground
0:25.93 - Defibrillation
0:27.52 - Wallkicks Will Work
0:33.80 - Beside the Cold Waters
1:30.31 - Cruel, Cold Waters
0:19.39 - Permafrost
0:56.59 - The Watchtower (at the end I used the Iceblock and Ghost Flame instead of the blue lantern)
0:36.08 - Diving into the Depths
0:45.20 - Entrance to the Catacombs (my time wasn't consistent, I guess because of the cutscene)
0:41.87 - The Supply Site
0:37.07 - Tux, the Illuminated Acrobat! (I threw a lantern on spikes to step on)
0:39.89 - Tux the Photomaniac
0:29.63 - Ventilation Adventure
0:39.07 - A Light in the Darkness
0:55.85 - The Mineshaft (not consistent)
0:37.39 - From Pyre to Pyre
0:34.58 - Disco of the Dead
0:29.24 - Between a Rock and a Hard Place
0:20.99 - Light and Magic (I took the lower exit, squeezing past the Wisps without using lanterns)
0:15.81 - The Gravity of the Situation
0:36.74 - Rising and Falling (it's possible but I didn't jump over the last few spikes; I waited for the water)
0:28.69 - The Pit of the Lost Souls
0:28.22 - The Injured Bridge
0:54.49 - Kicking Up a Fuss (reuse Iceblocks after breaking walls)
0:30.94 - Stepping Stones (tricky crouch-hop-glide under the platform at the end)
0:36.86 - Blind to the World
0:35.80 - Hanging by a Thread
0:23.41 - Two Tricky Tasks (jump on a Snail to skip the first task, and on a Haywire to skip the second task)
0:40.30 - Rusted and Decayed
0:47.99 - Countercurrent
0:20.59 - A Crushing Blow
0:32.17 - Purgatory
0:44.57 - The Light at the End of the Tunnel
1:04.01 - Stairway to Heaven
0:53.29 - The Meaning of Life (jump on two Snails up the right side of the level, pushing through thorns)