what is the gear in the bottom middle of my screen?

[Cecil Bjelde]

not sure if i just missed some kind of explanation but im struggling to figure out what the point of the gear is the red bar is obviously health and the orange ish is food but i cant find anything abt the gear?

 

 

[labtop 215]

Press 'C' to open the character screen.  It has a list of equipment on your character if you need to know what gear you are wearing.  Press 'E' to open your inventory.

 

Edit:  Omg, I should have re-read the title.  Yea blue gear is your temporal stability indicator. 

Edited December 1, 2025 by labtop 215

[Bruno Willis]

Welcome to the forums. That cog is your temporal stability. If it's rolling towards the right, you are stable. If it's rolling to the left, you are getting less temporally stable.

Be careful when it turns to the left, it means either you are in an unstable surface block, you've gone too deep, or you're in the middle of a nasty temporal storm. Either way, as the teal glow gets lower on the cog you will start hearing strange sounds, getting visual glitches, and eventually spawning rust foes all around you. 

To increase your stability, either hold a temporal gear in your off hand and use a knife (I think implanting the new gear inside yourself...) or kill some rust foes, or get out of there. The last option is usually the best one, when possible.

Good luck out there in that broken world!

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums! @Bruno Willis already provided an excellent explanation, but if you ever need to look up the information in the game, it will be under the Guides section of the handbook, listed under the title Game Mechanic: Temporal Stability.