It’s been a minute, hope you’re all doing alright. There’s a few things to give updates on even though there haven’t been any new features or similar added.
Ethereal
If you’ve been actively playing Survival, you’ve probably noticed that some challenges have been either tweaked or added over time since they’re still going, there’s just not an incentive for most of them anymore:
As I’d written, you can still get your name put up on the signs in the Hall of Fame for the existing challenges. That being said, though, there’s one exception: Ethereal. If you have way too much time on your hands, you could go for this! Complete any 20 challenges from the current batch, and you can get a gradient title of your design for your efforts. One title was already awarded to the first victor, @OnlineBoi:
One more is for sure going to be made given that @Rafaelgamerplay_raf has completed enough challenges, and after that there’ll be up to two more as the last Ethereal titles of the batch. Once there’s a completely new wave of challenges (eventually, I hope), then Ethereal will be deprecated and a new title will be made for the new series of challenges. I’ll give at least one or two month’s advance notice before that happens.
Dungeon Rushing rule discussion
As of writing this the current reset has a map where the Dungeon is high enough up that Dungeon enemies are spawning before Dungeon Guardians are spawning, and it’s sparked discussions of what is/isn’t allowed to be used before Skeletron is defeated. There hasn’t really been set rules regarding this, some stuff has been said and passed around a couple times by word of mouth, but I don’t think there’s any official documentation on it anywhere and sometimes it’s been miscommunicated. So, some clarification based on past policies and an official rule now.
Before Skeletron is defeated in any given reset:
- Alchemy Table
, Bewitching Table 
, and Water Candle 
are allowed to be taken and used - If Dungeon enemies are spawning before Dungeon Guardians, then their drops are allowed to be taken and used (even if the world isn’t drunk)
- Golden Keys
are allowed to be kept, but Gold Chest loot is not allowed no matter how it is obtained (both unlocking chests as well as fishing pre - Skeletron, both are off limits) - Water Bolt
is not allowed - Any other useful items only obtained from the Dungeon or equivalent structures (e.g. Berserker’s Glove/Putrid Scent in the Crypt during the Halloween reset, some other item in the Dungeon during a custom world that wouldn’t generate normally) is not allowed
This will be covered and updated under section 10, rule 9 of the rules in the future.
Get fixed boi map
65% of the vote. That’s… uh, very long overdue. My bad. Anyways, mark your calendars, this’ll be running on March 21st, in about 2 and a half weeks from when this announcement goes live. Unless I forget, that’s very likely given how this first poll went.
2025-03-21T20:00:00Z→2025-03-28T20:00:00Z