Translation Guide

There are quite a few word plays which origins aren't clear for people from different backgrounds / culture / fandoms. So here are a few notes where they are coming from which may serve as a hint. Also includes the word heritages of ores and such.

{
  "advancements.spectrum.break_cracked_dragonbone.title": "The Dragon lies Bleeding" // references a song with the same title by Hammerfall
"advancements.spectrum.break_decayed_bedrock.title": "Groundbreaking"
  "advancements.spectrum.build_spirit_instiller_structure.title": "The Will of the Wisps", // References the Ori game by the same name by Moon Studios
  "advancements.spectrum.carry_too_many_heavy_gravity_blocks.title": "Encumbrance? We ignored that", // Nudge to classical tabletop RPGs that have rules for encumbrance/carrying too much stuff, that are rarely respected
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_all_basic_pigments_besides_brown.title": "Brown is weird", // References a populat youtube video by the channel Tech Connections (linked in the guidebook)
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_all_shooting_star_variants.title": "Star Child", // A fairy tale by Oscar Wilde
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_grayscale_pigments.title": "Four shades of Gray", // The book "50 Shades of Grey" (don't read that, it's awful)
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_bismuth.title": "50 Shades of Everything", // The book "50 Shades of Grey" (don't read that, it's awful)
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_enough_hints.title": "Blue's Clues", // References the children's TV show with the same name
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_hover_block.title": "Unstoppable Force vs. Self", // Nudge to the thought experiment "unstoppable force vs. immovable object"
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_mermaids_gem.title": "What grows deep under the Sea?", // Reference to the intro of Spongebob Squarepants
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_paltaeria.title": "Watch it fly by", // Line from the song "In the End" by Linkin Park


paltaeria:  Pale + Aerial (air-y)
stratine
noxwood; the word "nox" is the Latin word for night (nox, nocis), hence night-wood
quitoxic; entirely made up, minus the 'toxic' referencing its outlandish appearance
Downstone is named after Dawnstone, a metal prominent in all kinds of fandoms (german pythology, pokemon, warhammer, dragon age, ...), but phrased as "down", since, well, it generates in the deeper down. De-mystifying what people see as a very rare stone by prepending it with something so generic as "stone" seemed funny and fitting for me for a kinda mythical blocks that is literally everywhere in the DD. 
}