Core terms
Words that recur across menus, items, and progression.
| Term | Meaning | Related |
|---|---|---|
| Qualia — qualia world, my qualia, new qualia | The game's word for a world. The save menu says "my qualia", world creation says "new qualia", and Steam Workshop uploads are qualia too. One qualia is one save: a world and everything in it. Outside the game, qualia is a philosophy term for subjective conscious experience. | Progression, clonaqualia block, Qualia Link |
| Vermin — creatures, mobs | The game's word for every creature. The creative inventory has a Vermin tab, and the word covers everything from a Bubblebear to Yhvh. This wiki says vermin rather than mobs or entities to match the game. | Vermin index, Bubblebear, Archangel |
| Possessions — inventory | The inventory. The game menu labels the carried-item screen possessions, one of its ritual-styled labels alongside apotheosis, tome, and rosary. | Items, rename pencil, faith wand |
| Apotheosis — fusion, apotheosis fusion, apotheosize | The in-game name for fusion. Greek for deification, being raised to godhood. The word titles the fusion tab of the game menu. Fusion turns ingredient essences into new items and is the main way to earn tiamana. | Fusion utility, Progression |
| Tiamana — level resource, xp | The level-up resource. Apotheosis, cutscene completions, vermin kills, and plant harvests all award it. The HUD shows it in the tiamana bulb. A full bulb grants a level and a perk pick. The word has no obvious real-world source. | Stats & Perks, Alach, Progression |
| Cristella — cristella target, cristella enemy | A flag on five vermin that makes them take extra damage from matching tools. Baal, Blasphemy, Leviathan, Moccos, and Demiurge carry the flag. Cristella's bane and the divine drill carry the matching boost. | cristella's bane, divine drill, Baal, Blasphemy, Leviathan, Moccos, Demiurge |
Realms and routes
Dimension names, portal blocks, and the world flags the progression pages refer to.
| Term | Meaning | Related |
|---|---|---|
| Naraka — ordinary world, main world | The ordinary world. A new qualia starts in Naraka, and the janqualia block is the portal back into it from the other dimensions. In Indian religious vocabulary, naraka is the name of the hells. | Naraka biome, janqualia block, Dimensions |
| Svarga — svargaqualia, divine, creative realm | Sanskrit for the heavens, and the name on the svargaqualia block. The word appears nowhere else in the game. The block opens the Creative dimension: a flat plane of essence blocks where no vermin spawn. | svargaqualia block, Creative dimension, Divine flag |
| Pocket qualia — pocket dimension, clonaqualia, personal qualia | The Pocket dimension, which the game calls your personal qualia. The Qualia Link perk hands out a clonaqualia block, the portal into it. The name suggests a clone, but the dimension is its own small world: an ocean with an osmium pillar to stand on. It keeps its state between visits. | clonaqualia block, Qualia Link, Pocket dimension, Pocket biome |
| Firmament — shared worlds, workshop layer, dominion | Two things: a dimension and the Steam Workshop menu. The dimension is a grid of grass over a void that a Dominion drops you into on touch, and the janqualia block is the way back. The Firmament menus are the Steam Workshop screens: browse and download other players' qualia, upload your own, and check upload status and past uploads. | Firmament biome, Firmament dimension, Dominion, janqualia block |
| Temple — challenge structure, challenges | The game's name for every challenge scene and for two Naraka structures. Every challenge scene is named a temple in the game files, and so are two structures that generate in Naraka: the Wood Temple and the Temple (a cube temple internally). | Wood Temple, Temple, Challenges |
| YHVH — tetragrammaton, final route | The four-letter Hebrew name of God, used for a dimension, a biome, and the final boss. Baal, Leviathan, Ofanim, and Archangel come from the same Abrahamic sources. | Yhvh, Yhvh biome, YHVH dimension |
Naming patterns
Where the item, dimension, and vermin names come from.
| Term | Meaning | Related |
|---|---|---|
| -qualia — qualia suffix, portal item naming | The suffix on every portal block. Janqualia, svargaqualia, clonaqualia, vismruqualia, and yositaqualia blocks each open one dimension: Naraka, Creative, Pocket, Alma, and Lucy. Each is a placeable block that acts as a portal. | janqualia block, svargaqualia block, clonaqualia block, vismruqualia block, yositaqualia block |
| Greek and philosophical vocabulary — qualia, apotheosis | Two system names come from philosophy and Greek religion. Qualia is a philosophy-of-mind term, and apotheosis is Greek for deification. | Qualia, Apotheosis |
| Indic borrowings — sanskrit, naraka, svarga | Naraka (the hells) and svarga (the heavens) are Sanskrit. In the game they name the ordinary world and the flat Creative dimension, so the destinations do not match the source words. | Naraka, Svarga |
| Abrahamic and Semitic names — yhvh, baal, leviathan, ofanim | Boss and endgame names come from the Bible and the wider Northwest Semitic world. YHVH, Baal, Leviathan, Ofanim, and Archangel all belong to that family. | Yhvh, Baal, Leviathan, Ofanim |
| Science, geometry, and abstract forms — diatom, fractal, mandelbrot, tesseract | Biology and mathematics supply another set of names. Alach is a Diatom in the game files, Mandelbrot and Sponge are fractal living blocks, and the Thingy block is built on a tesseract. They share the catalog with rosaries and archangels. | Alach, Fractal blocks, Thingy |