REVERSE DUALITY WORLDBUILDING NOTES 1
there might be more of these? idk
The Reverse Duality Au is set in an altered version of Minecraft! This means that most of Minecraft's rules apply, however, there are a few major differences. One of these is how portals to other dimensions work - or rather, how they don't.
Interdimensional travel does not exist in Reverse Duality!
Or rather, while the people of this world have memory of it being possible in the past, once a
showed up, all portals, aside from ones to pocket dimensions, seemed to stop working.
Did they ever even work in the first place?
let's just say that, at least in this world, you can't have a matryoshka doll of dimensions
What does this mean for a world based on both Minecraft itself and The Steve Saga, both of which are pretty well known for having travel to other dimensions be possible?
Let's start with the Minecraft aspect.
Without access to the nether and the end, the inhabitants of this world are cut off from several useful materials, including:
the means to make potions
the means to make end crystals
several useful building materials (some of which are more blast-resistant than easy-to-obtain materials of the overworld)
the means to make beacons
However! Due to the... nature of this world, there will be other ways to access these two dimensions once the need for some of these materials becomes clear. Specifically, by incorporating them into the overworld!
The nether is the easier of the two to access; at some point while mining, someone discovers that the bedrock at the bottom of the overworld is riddled with small holes, some just wide enough for a large person to fit through. When tunneling through the stone covering said holes, they discovered netherrack, and that they had tunneled directly into the nether.
The end, however, is a bit harder to reach, at least without suffocating. It ended up in orbit around the planet, somehow staying within earth's shadow at all times. Its islands are extremely difficult to see unless they happen to pass in front of a star and block out its light.
While the journey there is extremely difficult without teleportation or the technological advancements necessary for space flight, it's more possible to survive once you actually step foot on the islands, as the large amounts of chorus plants and fewer animal life forms allow for the islands to maintain their own thin atmosphere. It has not yet been discovered how the chorus plants are able to create oxygen or energy without contact with sunlight, but some theorize that they are able to feed off of some of the radiating energy of the teleporting creatures that live there. If this is true, it could also explain the properties of the fruit the plants bear.
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Now, what about the Steve Saga, the series that Reverse Duality is an AU of?
The Steve Saga seems to contain three main flavors of dimension in its world: full-scale dimensions (sometimes called realms) (examples: the steve realm, the spirit realm, the spiritless realm, that one dimension with the purple grass, the nightmare dimension), mirroring dimensions (dimensions that match another dimension and can interact with or view the activity of the dimension they're based on)(examples: where the overseer was trapped, the reverse dimension), and pocket dimensions (dimensions either small in scale or contained within another dimension)(examples: the great library, the end crystal/ore steves dimension, that one pocket that Elemental used to "train" Sabre and Rainbow, the black hole). The in-between and the time dimension are outliers to this, but most closely fit in the pocket dimension category.
For reasons not yet revealed in the comic, the realm Reverse Duality takes place in is somewhere that can only fit one full-scale dimension, and it is extremely difficult to escape this unless someone really knows what they're doing with teleportation and fully know what situation they are in, or are traveling between universes instead of dimensions. This means it is completely cut off from all other main dimensions (including afterlives :) ) However, pocket dimensions and mirroring dimensions for this main realm are still reachable, since pocket dimensions are contained within another dimension, and mirroring dimensions are less their own realm and more a reflection of another/a displacement from the main realm they connect to, so they still fit.