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

By day the sky is a clear turquoise. At dusk it turns rose, and at night it fades to a deep violet full of stars. Three curtains of aurora ripple across the sky. They have bright mint lower edges and rays that rise into pink and violet. By day only faint, pale rays remain, and they brighten with the stars.

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.

Rules of the Swift

• No sleeping. “The Swift hums too brightly to sleep.” Beds don’t work and don’t set your spawn point, and respawn anchors explode when you use them, as in the Overworld.
• Dying sends you back to your spawn point in the Overworld.
• Monsters spawn in the dark, just like in the Overworld.
• 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.