Tides
The Swift’s days and nights run in three tides, Flow, Thrive and Endure, and each one changes what the Swift’s souls do.
The Swift keeps its own time, separate from the Overworld’s, and a full cycle of tides takes 20 minutes, as long as a Minecraft day. Flow comes at dawn, Thrive runs through the day, Flow returns at dusk and Endure lasts all night. Outside the Swift, nothing changes.
| Tide | When | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| Flow | Dawn and dusk, 1 minute 40 seconds each | The Swift is calm. Dormant echo golems sleep until Thrive. |
| Thrive | The day, 8 minutes 20 seconds | Drained Soul Blocks placed in the Swift recharge, and one used now keeps its charge. Dormant echo golems can be woken, and awake ones send out their soul pulse twice as often. |
| Endure | The night, 8 minutes 20 seconds | Echo golems stop pulsing, and dormant ones sleep. Half the monsters that spawn are soul corrupted. Slabbers doze. |
Knowing the tide
When you arrive in the Swift, a message tells you the tide. Whenever it turns, its name appears on screen with a sound. The sky shows it too: clear turquoise during Thrive, warm peach and rose during Flow, and deep violet with stars and full aurora during Endure.
Soul corrupted monsters
During Endure, half the monsters that spawn in the Swift are soul corrupted. They burn with blue soul fire and are tougher than usual: they have 4 extra hearts, and their melee attacks deal 1½ hearts more. Each one has a trait:
- Burning: its hits set you on fire.
- Freezing: its hits slow you down and frost the edges of your vision.
- Swiftness: it moves much faster.
The corruption fades as soon as the tide turns. Bosses, monsters that live in structures and monsters from spawn eggs are never corrupted.