The Swift
The Swift is a fan-made Minecraft dimension inspired by the Sift: a serene, colourful place humming with song and drifting souls.
Sky and time
The sky is a clear turquoise. With Vibrant Visuals turned on, it also turns rose at dusk and violet at night. The Swift follows the same time of day as the Overworld. The haze on the horizon changes with it: peach at dawn (rose with Vibrant Visuals), mint by day, coral at dusk and violet at night, when it thins out. Three pastel curtains of aurora ripple around you. They have bright mint lower edges and rays that rise through cyan into pink and violet. By day only faint, pale rays remain, and they brighten at dusk.
The Swift’s time is measured in tides: Flow at dawn and dusk, Thrive by day and Endure by night, and each tide changes what the Swift’s souls do.
Landscape
Much of the Swift is rolling meadow at about the Overworld’s sea level, pink in Singer’s Meadow and sea-green in the Wild Meadows, broken by groves of tall white willows trailing long pale strands, the towering red swiftstone spires of Sifter Canyon, the bone-strewn dunes of Humbler Huskland and wide basins of ichor. Floating islands drift high overhead, trailing weeping willow strands, and in Sifter Canyon the caves open to the sky, leading down into the Ravines, a maze of sculk-lined caverns. See Biomes and Structures.
Atmosphere
Glowing motes and soul wisps float through the air. The Swift has its own music, and now and then soft chimes drift across the land. When you walk through a patch of Chimebells, they ring. Each biome shows its name on screen as you enter it.
Rules of the Swift
- No sleeping. “The Swift hums too loudly to rest here.” Beds don’t work and don’t set your spawn point, and respawn anchors do nothing.
- Dying sends you back to your spawn point in the Overworld.
- Monsters spawn where the light level is 7 or below, and anywhere in the Ravines.
- Note blocks and Singers can’t light a portal here. If your arrival gate goes dark, wake its four echo golems during Thrive: four awake echo golems by a gate relight it. See getting home.