The NPC didn't have a name tag. When Elias clicked on him, a single dialogue box appeared: "You shouldn't have unzipped this, Elias."
"Strange," he muttered, tossing a bucket of the black dirt into the starter harvester. hydroneer-build-10472375-rar
Elias’s gamer instincts took over. He stopped following the standard progression and began building a massive, vertical pipe system aimed straight down at the bedrock. As he placed each pipe, the game’s environment began to glitch. The sky above his dig site turned a bruised purple, and the nearby river began to flow upward. The NPC didn't have a name tag
Instead of a small iron ore or a tiny gold nugget, the machine coughed out something Elias had never seen: a . It was a pulsing, violet crystal that defied the game’s physics, floating a few inches off the ground. He stopped following the standard progression and began
By midnight, he reached the "Death Floor," the indestructible barrier at the bottom of the map. But in build-10472375, the barrier wasn't there. There was only a staircase made of iron scrap and brass.