YOU HAVE TO TELL ME THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING VS

[catcrazies]

(all in some sort of jest... i actually think this is really funny how this happened, even if i am immediately Fucked)

minding my own business exploring and eating bushes and then BOOM, goddamn full terrible majesty of a temporal storm rolls in, tanks my stability in five seconds, and leaves me curled up in a hole slowly dying of what the hell. this is my FIRST EVER STORM. i was given no warning. what the fuck

it is day FIVE

[catcrazies]

completely gone now by the way. massive fuckass rift right outside of my hidey-hole, but other than that...     did i somehow waltz straight into a rift without noticing...?

[Rainbow Fresh]

I am 99% certain you did, especially if the noticed the culprit being there and then disappearing. The first temporal storm, on default settings, is around 10-20-ish days in? You got an exact time when first joining the world. You will also get a further notification when it's about to hit. Also, even a strong temporal storm (which the first one cannot be iirc?) doesn't immediately drain your stability. Standing in a rift for about 30 seconds though does.

[catcrazies]

1 hour ago, Rainbow Fresh said:

I am 99% certain you did, especially if the noticed the culprit being there and then disappearing. The first temporal storm, on default settings, is around 10-20-ish days in? You got an exact time when first joining the world. You will also get a further notification when it's about to hit. Also, even a strong temporal storm (which the first one cannot be iirc?) doesn't immediately drain your stability. Standing in a rift for about 30 seconds though does.

i... i can confirm that that is Exactly what i did because i nearly just did it again. i

[CastIronFabric]

2 hours ago, catcrazies said:

 

minding my own business exploring and eating bushes and then BOOM, goddamn full terrible majesty of a temporal storm rolls in, tanks my stability in five seconds, and leaves me curled up in a hole slowly dying of what the hell. this is my FIRST EVER STORM. i was given no warning. what the fuck

it is day FIVE

I would suggest just turning it off 

/worldconfig temporalStability false

[catcrazies]

1 hour ago, CastIronFabric said:

I would suggest just turning it off 

/worldconfig temporalStability false

okay but consider: that was funny as hell

[CastIronFabric]

44 minutes ago, catcrazies said:

okay but consider: that was funny as hell

well to be honest I do not find it funny sorry.

I would though just turn it off

[LadyWYT]

5 hours ago, catcrazies said:

minding my own business exploring and eating bushes and then BOOM, goddamn full terrible majesty of a temporal storm rolls in, tanks my stability in five seconds, and leaves me curled up in a hole slowly dying of what the hell. this is my FIRST EVER STORM. i was given no warning. what the fuck

That's not a temporal storm. A temporal storm will always have a couple of warnings in the chat box before it actually arrives--the first occurs when the storm is eight in-game hours away--so you should have plenty of time to prepare. What's happened here is you've run out of temporal stability, very likely from standing too close to a temporal rift, and that will cause temporal storm effects to occur as well as drain your health. Look at the gear on your hotbar--it should normally be a teal/blue color, but it's gray, which means it's empty.

To restore temporal stability, you can hang out in a stable area, kill tougher monsters, or sacrifice a temporal gear and some health. To determine an area's stability, watch the gear on your hotbar. If it spins clockwise, the area is stable. If it spins counterclockwise, the area is unstable. If it's not spinning at all, the area is either neutral, or stable but your stability is at 100%, in which case the gear won't spin.

[catcrazies]

yeah, i am pretty sure by now that that was fully Not a storm, just my dumbass waltzing straight into a rift... TO BE FAIR, those things come out of goddamn nowhere and i SWEAR i have not had a single one spawn in a normal spot since, THEY ARE ALL ALWAYS ON TOP OF ME. like gee no wonder i got so scared XXp. either way, that was certainly a memorable experience...

[Aranyani]

On 6/7/2026 at 6:11 AM, CastIronFabric said:

I would suggest just turning it off 

/worldconfig temporalStability false

Or another option that keeps temporal stability as a mechanic but limits most of the drifter encounters to underground or during storms: rifts off

[Jose Alfredo Ramos]

This is unrelated to the topic, but when temporal instability increases or decreases, does it happen globally? I was in an area with Low Instability, and after about 10 days or more (I don't remember exactly how many), the first temporal storm had already passed. Now it says the instability has gone from Low to Medium. It's like that in the area where I was, and in almost every region I've explored so far.

[Rainbow Fresh]

On 6/19/2026 at 12:59 AM, Jose Alfredo Ramos said:

This is unrelated to the topic, but when temporal instability increases or decreases, does it happen globally? I was in an area with Low Instability, and after about 10 days or more (I don't remember exactly how many), the first temporal storm had already passed. Now it says the instability has gone from Low to Medium. It's like that in the area where I was, and in almost every region I've explored so far.

There is no indicator for area stability other than your gear spinning. What you are refering to is "Rift activity", as seen in the character menu. That is basically a global weather pattern that changes every so often and determines the amount of rifts (and monsters from those rifts) spawning all over the place.

[Jose Alfredo Ramos]

On 20/6/2026 at 4:07, Rainbow Fresh said:

No hay ningún indicador de estabilidad de la zona aparte del giro de tu engranaje. A lo que te refieres es a la "actividad de las grietas", que se muestra en el menú del personaje. Básicamente, se trata de un patrón climático global que cambia periódicamente y determina la cantidad de grietas (y monstruos que aparecen en ellas) que se generan por toda la zona.

Okay, so the indicator I should pay more attention to is the gear icon rather than what the Rift Stability meter is telling me.

[LadyWYT]

5 hours ago, Jose Alfredo Ramos said:

Okay, so the indicator I should pay more attention to is the gear icon rather than what the Rift Stability meter is telling me.

The gear icon is your stability meter, and what you should pay attention to in order to determine an area's stability and how long you can remain in an area before you need to consider leaving. If it's turning clockwise(to the right) then the area is stable and you can remain there as long as you'd like. If it's turning counterclockwise(to the left), the area is unstable and the gear will start turning from teal to grey as your stability drops. If the gear isn't moving, the area is either neutral and won't replenish or drain your stability, or the area is stable but you're already at full stability(in which case, the gear will be teal and display 100% when you mouse over it). The really bad effects don't really start to occur until you have around 25% stability remaining, so the meter can fall quite low before you need to head back to a stable area, sacrifice a temporal gear to restore stability, or otherwise do some monster hunting.

Rift activity is still important to pay attention to, since underground monster spawns are influenced by the current rift activity. If you intend to go exploring underground, it's best to wait for periods of calm or lower activity in order to have fewer monsters to deal with. However, if you want to hunt monsters underground, then you may want to wait for a period of higher activity instead. If you're already underground and not keen on fighting, you may want to keep an eye on the rift activity levels and leave when the activity increases.

[Jose Alfredo Ramos]

On 22/6/2026 at 16:15, LadyWYT said:

El icono del engranaje es tu medidor de estabilidad, y a lo que debes prestar atención para determinar la estabilidad de un área y cuánto tiempo puedes permanecer en ella antes de tener que considerar irte. Si gira en el sentido de las agujas del reloj (hacia la derecha), el área es estable y puedes quedarte allí todo el tiempo que quieras. Si gira en sentido contrario a las agujas del reloj (hacia la izquierda), el área es inestable y el engranaje comenzará a cambiar de color turquesa a gris a medida que tu estabilidad disminuya. Si el engranaje no se mueve, el área es neutral y no repondrá ni agotará tu estabilidad, o el área es estable pero ya tienes la estabilidad al máximo (en cuyo caso, el engranaje será turquesa y mostrará 100% cuando pases el ratón por encima). Los efectos realmente malos no comienzan a ocurrir hasta que te queda alrededor del 25% de estabilidad, por lo que el medidor puede bajar bastante antes de que tengas que regresar a un área estable, sacrificar un engranaje temporal para restaurar la estabilidad o, de otro modo, ir a cazar monstruos.

Sigue siendo importante prestar atención a la actividad de la grieta, ya que la aparición de monstruos subterráneos se ve influenciada por dicha actividad. Si planeas explorar bajo tierra, lo mejor es esperar a periodos de calma o baja actividad para encontrar menos monstruos. Sin embargo, si quieres cazar monstruos bajo tierra, es recomendable esperar a un periodo de mayor actividad. Si ya te encuentras bajo tierra y no te interesa luchar, puedes estar atento a los niveles de actividad de la grieta y marcharte cuando aumente.

Aaaaah, I understand. What I didn't know was that Temporal Gears restored my stability, nor that killing the creatures restores it as well. Or at least that's what I understand. Am I correct?

[LadyWYT]

1 hour ago, Jose Alfredo Ramos said:

What I didn't know was that Temporal Gears restored my stability, nor that killing the creatures restores it as well. Or at least that's what I understand. Am I correct?

Right. Be warned though, that if you're using a gear to restore stability, it's going to cost you a bit of health to do so. Depending on how low your stability is, you may need to sacrifice two gears total to bring your stability back to full. As for killing monsters, the tougher the monster, the more stability it will restore.

[Farmore]

First time I realized typing in chat during storms makes the text all glitchy.