Some time ago, I stumbled upon an ancient post by Nurykabe in which he provided a large selection of screenshots showcasing most of his tilesets and mentioned having unsuccessfully tried to make a KS level in the past: https://nifflas.lp1.nl/index.php?topic=1368.msg14691#msg14691

I was quite intrigued by the look of these screenshots, so I thought it was worth asking him if he still had that level and would be open to sharing it. In response, he uploaded a ZIP of a directory containing various things related to the game that he worked on: http://nurykabe.com/temp/holes.zip And he shared this video of a level he'd worked on: https://www.mediafire.com/file/48do0e5oe6azbqa/03+-+Knytt+Stories+-+cut01.mp4/file

There is a lot of interesting stuff in that ZIP. First of all, it appears that Nurykabe had actually attempted to make three separate levels. And every time he started a new one, he left the old screens in there. They're all far from completion, but with some basic edits (mostly to the starting coordinates and powerups), I made them somewhat playable. If anyone wants to go through them, here they are: https://knyttlevels.com/levels/Nurykabe%20-%20Holes%20Area%201.knytt.bin https://knyttlevels.com/levels/Nurykabe%20-%20Holes%20Area%202.knytt.bin https://knyttlevels.com/levels/Nurykabe%20-%20Holes%20Area%203.knytt.bin And here's a series of videos in which I traverse them: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPY6G2hmt_KpJwdllARCXg7YxjcG4St4f

However, none of the screenshots are from those levels. As it turns out, they're from example screens that were made to demonstrate the tilesets. But those screens are also in that ZIP. It appears that at some point during development, KS used a different level format with separate files for each screen. The example screens along with a few others are in that format. Thankfully, Gliperal managed to insert them into Map.bin files. They're here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/hrjmwlt57pnydxb/Nurykabe+recompiled.7z/file

By renaming them, putting them into appropriately named directories and adding empty World.ini files, I managed to make them usable. I also had to reconfigure their tilesets and gradients, since they're numbered differently in the game's own data. Some of them had weirdly misplaced tiles that also had to be deleted. And a few rely on tilesets or gradients that don't match up with the default ones, so I included those where necessary. My work can be found here (updated twice): https://www.mediafire.com/file/e2muehpkv8kju0b/Nurykabe+single+screens.7z/file And here's a summary of what these screens are:

Backup Screen 01-18: These are the example screens. A few use unreleased gradients and the last one has an unreleased tileset.

ec_Screen1-2: These are both identical, so I only covered the first one. It's a basic example screen for the Planetes 01 tileset. It was designed for an unfinished version of it, but still works with the complete one.

Screen vide: No idea what this was meant for. It only consists of a handful of tiles. It's so unfinished that it's impossible to determine what tilesets and gradients it was even made for, so I didn't cover it.

Screen: Showcases the Spacefiller tileset by Sergio Cornaga and a gradient that also seems to be from him. It appears that the screen itself was also his work, rather than Nurykabe's.

Screenb: Showcases a tileset and gradient Nifflas made for the spooky town in A Strange Dream. Probably his work. Would explain why it has functional collision.

Everything with a coordinate as a name: I didn't check them all, but those appear to be the screens of the level seen in my third video. I didn't cover them, both because it would be a huge pain to stitch them together and because the level should already be in the ZIP's Map.bin.

Since the ZIP has a few tilesets and gradients in there that were never released to the public, I've attached anything noteworthy.

Beyond that, there's some more interesting stuff. Such as various GIF animations that seem to have been made to accompany some of the tilesets. It's pretty strange to see those, since I don't think KS can work with them. Perhaps it was planned to at some point? Though it may be possible to convert them into COs. There are also PSDs of most of Nurykabe's tilesets and what appears to be early prototype screenshots of WaDF.

Nurykabe said that people are free to use anything in the ZIP. So if anyone wants to use the unreleased tilesets or gradients, make COs out of his GIFs, try finishing one of his levels or create something based on his example screens, feel free to do so. Worth noting however that from what I can tell, the example screens don't have much in the way of functional collision. If someone wants to directly incorporate any into a level, they may need to be reworked.

#6: The g in "glaciære" is again covered by the button.
#7: The y in "Library" is cut off.
#8: The k in "Ink" is covered by a button.

Xethiz's name is misspelled in this page of the guide.

Edit: As far as I'm concerned, the very last of the Eternal Annihilation phases has way too long of a time limit for what it asks of you. I can sometimes reach about the halfway point of the 18 seconds it tasks you with surviving, but rarely beyond that without the hologram. If the purpose of this part of the level is supposed to be falling action, then I think the rest works well, but this phase is far too difficult. I'm still at it at the time of this writing. I have to take a break right now because these trippy filters were starting to make me physically uncomfortable.

I appreciate the added Special Thanks credit in the opening screen, but you misspelled my name.

Also, I'm pretty sure there should be a comma before "traveller" in that line spoken by the guy in Scorian Hollows. And if you're American, then you misspelled "traveler."

On a final note, I think the Flowering Swamp could use a save point shortly before Coin #21. If you go there without the double jump, then you have to make the whole trip to that coin and back without a save point, and it's a bit long and dangerous. The save point density is usually a bit higher than this.

Edit: You sure you want to uppercase "Scrolls" here? I don't think you usually give artifacts this treatment. I noticed "gems" being lowercased, for instance.

Edit 2: Should probably be "to the Valley of Rust." Also, there should be a comma before "Juni."

Edit 3: Out of curiosity, is it possible to change the appearance of Juni's umbrella sprites? It sticks out a little how the umbrella icon is recolored, yet it still looks the same when Juni is carrying it.

I have a more recent copy than Sergio Cornaga's. Posted a link at the Nifflas Discord two days ago. But I just realized that I should probably share it somewhere else as well so that once future historians weep for all the things that were lost with the demise of Discord, they at least won't have to weep for this: https://www.mediafire.com/file/rzixwa019h2k20r/KnyttExperiment13.7z/file

Quote from: kilicool64 on April 07, 2024, 12:16:37

If you need help, here are the rough locations

Thanks a bunch! I managed to find them all except the purple key which had me scratching my head... Thankfully someone made a walkthrough for the original level which was able to point me in the right direction

After digging further - holy crap this level has more going on under the hood than I expected!!

Endings I found:

Spoiler: (click to show/hide)

'Ending' where juni dies to toast
The regular ending
The 10 gold creatures ending (Alternate Reality Machine)
The ending for getting all the keys (wrong machine)
The ending inside the OG machine (I found 2 symbols and brute-forced the 3rd, not sure if there's a machine I missed that would've told me it?)

I really wonder what other endings I might have missed now!

Already listed all the endings in this post: https://nifflas.lp1.nl/index.php?topic=7457.msg77089#msg77089

There are six (though I don't count that joke cutscene you listed). Like I wrote back then, I would strongly discourage even trying to get the last one (though I can explain how to get it if you're really up for it), but you're still missing another one. You should've already gotten a hint on how to find it, but if it flew past you,
And yes, you did overlook one of the symbols. It's their order that's a secret and has to be brute-forced. I'm surprised you managed to pull it off while also not knowing one of the symbols.

Played this at the weekend, what an absolutely stellar level! Music was great and I loved how a lot of the areas were fleshed out and expanded. The lore at the end was just wonderful! Found a fair few secrets but no keys so far, will have to keep exploring.

Great job everyone! 

The key locations are all similar to those in the original Machine. I don't think they're really meant to be among the level's bigger secrets.