Stabilised rift¶
A rift held open on purpose, as a steady supply of 
Rift Residue for your
Containment Halls.
Building one¶
- Place a
Rift Anchor with two blocks of air above it. - Use a
Rift Seed on it to open a stage 1 rift. Or place the anchor under a natural rift:
it takes over any rift whose footing is one or two blocks above it and at most one block to the
side. - Stand
Rift Stabilisers around it: - tested between 2 and 6 blocks out horizontally (counted like a square, so the diagonal corner at six out counts too), from 2 below to 4 above the anchor;
- tested each with a clear line from its emitter to the rift. Other stabilisers and the anchor do not block it; walls do. A stabiliser that cannot see the rift is simply not used, so it never takes a place from one that can;
- tested the anchor uses the nearest 6 that can see it. Any more stand idle and draw nothing.
- Power them.
tested Anomalite crystals don't block sight. They grow on the array's powered blocks near a hot rift, but they are mirror growth showing through, not real matter: a stabiliser under crystals still sees the rift. The crystals still drain its power, so an array left to crystallise can still fall short of three paying stabilisers.
tested Each stabiliser's emitter is a small compound of two cubes, each one's corners poking through the other's faces, spinning a third of a block over its cap. It is murky while idle and burns bright while the stabiliser beams at the rift, so a pillar that isn't paying stands out.
tested With at least 3 stabilisers powered and in sight, the rift is held. Stabilisers only draw power once enough of them can see it. Each costs 60 + 40 × stage FE/t: 100 at stage 1, 220 at stage 4.
tested Stabilisers emit 1 flux per 1,000 FE they spend, once a second, as a generator does: pure flux, no anomaly, so a held rift's field stays free of anomaly. Four at stage 4 (880 FE/t) put about 18 flux a second into the neighbourhood.
A held rift¶
- tested It grows a stage every 10 minutes up to stage 4, whatever the flux, and even inside a hall's field.
- tested It has no mites, no tears, no anomaly leak and no Veiled. It still burns and throws you on contact, but never through into the mirror, and its lightning only reaches 1.5 blocks.
- tested Decoherence Projectors ignore it; a Lance can still close it.
Residue¶
tested It makes residue at stage × paying stabilisers. At stage 4, four stabilisers make one every 4 minutes (a small surplus over one hall's 5) and six make one every 2.7. The anchor stores up to 64; take it from the anchor's screen, by hopper, or through a bound Tesseract in a hall. Full, the rift stays held but makes nothing until some is taken.
The anchor's screen¶
tested Use the anchor (without a seed in hand) to open it:
- the rift's stage, out of 4;
- how many stabilisers are paying, out of six, or how many more it needs;
- the rate in residue an hour, and a bar and countdown to the next one;
- the first reason any stabiliser in reach isn't helping (without power, can't see the rift, or spare beyond six); hover it for the rest when there's more than one;
- the residue slot. Residue can be taken out but not put back.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| No rift | Nothing stands on the anchor |
| Loose | Fewer than three stabilisers paying: not held, no residue |
| Held | Held, and making residue |
| Full | Held, but the residue slot is full |
When it fails¶
tested If fewer than three stabilisers are paying (power, a blocked line, a broken pillar) for 3 seconds, it becomes an ordinary rift again, at the stage it reached, hazards and all.