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Stop gnawing my cables! Annoying creature...

pipebomb upon ye

oh i drew a thumbnail for a video and forgor to show yall

[id: a yellow slugcat is slouched over, hold a spear in one hand and their head in the other as they look to be in pain. the shaded citadel region art as well as well as many lines of As are in the background. end id]

the video

i am normal with the media i like. i am very normal about them yes i am normal. i am awesomely normal. i am norma

weeping god and its last follower

Help guys I'm stuck in outskirts!

bites you bites you bites you i need dlc... original

Reblog to rotate the person you reblogged from 90°

dropped a piece of toast into the toaster and i grabbed a knife to dig it out before deafening sirens went off in my head last second and now im standing here shaken by the fact that i Almost Did That

heard yall like long rivulet. heres a messy doodle of them

[id: a messily sketched and colored doodle of a long, blue slugcat with pink fins and big eyes looking up. end id]

also, a couple of messy doodles of Ranger too

[id: two messily sketched and colored doodles of the same red-ish brown slugcat with a rope around his waist. the first doodle is a fullbody of him standing there while holding a spear with rope tied to it with his right hand, and the second doodle is a headshot of him looking angry at something off-screen. end id]

fucking love when I'm on a call with someone and they start to do a little errand or go somewhere else and they say "and you're coming with me" like. absolutely I am let's go on an adventure I've been spirited away

thinking about drawing but also dont want to draw

How Big are Iterators?

One thing Rain World does very well is portraying a sense of scale when it comes to iterators. They're massive superstructures large enough to have entire cities built on their roofs, and their processes are literally so powerful that they alter the natural environment around them.

I think in-game they're kind of meant to be unknowably huge, especially since the player character is literally a small animal who can't possibly fathom an iterator's entire extent. Despite this, I decided to try and figure out exactly how big they are.

Just a warning, this post is a bit long. I really fell down a rabbit hole here.

In-Game Clues

Five Pebbles and Looks to the Moon are the only iterators that the player can explore, but they're so huge that it's impossible to see exactly how big they are from so close. The only glimpse we get is from atop the big tree in Outer Expanse, where Five Pebbles' superstructure can be seen in the distance.

He's so big that his entire can doesn't even fit on the screen.

(Ditto, minus the clouds)

With nothing else close by to compare him to, it's almost impossible to tell exactly how big he is from this image.

However, we can see the entirety of other iterator cans in the distance from atop The Wall.

Here's what they look like not obscured by clouds:

The Speculation Zone

I made some assumptions about iterators to make my calculations easier.

An iterator's can (the large rectangular section) is 2 times as wide as it is tall.

Their legs are 1/2 the height of their can.

Their can is half obscured by a relatively uniform cloud layer.

These assumptions might not be entirely accurate, but they make the math easier.

Cloud Layer Height

At first I was tempted to try and estimate iterator height based on the cloud layer surrounding them, but I made the mistake of assuming the cloud layer is made up of rain-bearing nimbostratus clouds (which can reach up to 5km in height). This would make them literally taller than Mt. Everest. Iterators are big, but I don't think they're that big. I think it's safer to assume that the cloud layer is made up of low-lying stratus clouds that form a thick fog.

The way iterator rain functions could be an entirely different discussion, but I personally think it's caused by a sudden expulsion of large quantities of hot water vapor which very quickly condenses into rain clouds. A topic for another time, maybe. The takeaway is that I think the weather created by iterators doesn't have a clear analogue to real life weather, and it's misguided to assume that they function the same way.

Skyscraper Height

One thing that iterators have that can be compared to real life, however, is cities.

The largest buildings in these cities can be seen at a distance.

This in-game iterator sprite is 122 pixels tall, and the tallest building visible is 20 pixels tall. This means the top of this iterator's can is 5.6 times as tall as the tallest building on its roof.

We can compare these skyscrapers to the largest buildings on Earth. This requires some additional assumptions:

While the civilization that built the iterators is likely able to create skyscrapers much taller than the ones humans have created, I'm going to assume that the ones visible here are comparable in size.

I'm also going to assume that these skyscrapers are residential buildings, built to fit a high population density on top of an iterator. The tallest buildings on Earth tend to have very tall antenna spires which add to their overall height but are not inhabitable. Residential skyscrapers tend to be significantly shorter, so I'm going to use them as a comparison rather than the tallest skyscrapers on Earth in general.

According to Wikipedia, the current tallest residential skyscrapers range from about 300 meters to 475 meters tall. I'm going to assume the one in-game is 400 meters tall, as a nice even number.

5.6(400m) = 2240m

This would make an iterator's height, from ground level to the top of their can, about 2240 meters (2.24 kilometers, 1.4 miles).

Here's a diagram comparing that to the heights of some of the tallest free-standing manmade structures:

And here's a size comparison between a typical iterator can and Mount Everest:

Smaller than a mountain, but still huge.

Conclusions

Based on these estimates, I think typical iterator cans are about 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) in height.

This would make iterators significantly taller than anything created by humans, but I personally think an advanced society like the one that created the iterators would have no problem creating a structure this tall. (They canonically created thousands of iterators, after all.)

This estimate is also much shorter than my misguided original calculation, which made them taller than an entire mountain. While I do think iterators are meant to be unfathomably huge, I don't think there would be enough material on the planet to feasibly create thousands of identical mountain-sized superstructures. The player is also able to ascend from the ground to the top of Five Pebbles in just a few cycles (if they're quick), and I think it's much more feasible for an animal like a slugcat to be able to ascend a height of ~2km in a couple of days than to climb up an entire mountain. But again, this is pure speculation.

I made a ton of assumptions and rounded a bunch of numbers, so I could be completely wrong. There's probably other ways you could try to estimate an iterator's height that I haven't explored here. Let me know what you think; I love hearing about other people's ideas and theories.

Thank you for reading!

really cool and fun thing you can do: secret pronouns that are for you to refer to yourself with and no one else. i am an it/its user but exclusively when referring to myself, no one else is allowed to do dat 🫶

Reblog if it's OK for other artists to draw your OCs

Sometimes I get too timid to send asks to ask. I want to see how many people are ok with artists drawing their OCs!

ok naur bc i ordered my rivulet plush to be delivered to my mum's house and it's a little too complicated for them to call the boi "rivulet" so i tell them his name is "wet mouse"

and guess what happens next when it arrived

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Rain Deer ride

Did this for an art challenge

been listening to the crane wives recently

songs (left to right):

Tongues and Teeth

The Moon Will Sing

How to Rest

Canary in a Coal Mine

+ artwork without the song lyrics

they call me the looker the way i look [reached the daily like limit]

wanted to draw long Rivulet for funsies but it turned into an impromptu design 4 them lol

[id: a long, blue slugcat with pink fins and big eyes stands there and stares off into the distance. end id]

to any nonbinary people reading this, never forget:

you can collect SOUL by striking enemies. once enough SOUL is collected, you can hold B to focus SOUL and regain health.

does this to you

bites you

piggyback ride ^_^

[id: a red-ish brown slugcat is giving a light green slugcat with a colony of green, blue, and purple mushrooms on his tail a piggyback ride. end id]

figured i'd draw this guy in mspaint since i have it open rn lol

[id: a red-ish brown slugcat with a rope around his waist stands there while holding a spear in his right hand. end id]

Sorry

i am very eepy

i pulled an all nigher lol. imma sleep now gn

[id: a light green slugcat is sleeping while lying on his back. end id]

hey, don't cry. beeg stretch.

[id: a light green slugcat with a colony of blue, green, and purple mushrooms on his lower back and tail stretches like a cat. end id]