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.

As you might notice I am a big music & meme fan.

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Natural Resources

Azurite

Azure, like the color

Quitoxic Reeds

Mostly a made up name
qui-'toxic' references its outlandish appearance more than it actually being toxic (tummy ache material, though)

Radiating Ender

It originates from Endermen! (and is liked to the End in lore) Radiating Ender really does radiate - it is not radioactive, but it... tinkers with spacetime a bit.

Downstone

Downstone is named after Dawnstone, a metal prominent in all kinds of fandoms (german mpythology, pokemon, warhammer, dragon age, ...), but spun 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 dimension.

Paltaeria

Pale + Aerial (air-y)

Stratine

<I do not remember, actually>

Noxwood

"nox" is the Latin word for night (nox, nocis), hence night-wood

Locations

The Deeper Down

The dimension is literally "deeper down", so this is what the player references it as.
The Lightweavers that came before the player knew it as something else, but that's not something the player would know at the time of discovery.

Preservation Structures / Stone / Turrets / ...

The Player's creations

Spirit Sallow

The Spirit Sallow is a - yet as of writing - unimplemented tree comparable to a off-white glowing weeping willow (beautiful trees, I love them <3).
It's name references the Spirit Sallows from the Ori games by Moon Studios.

Neolith

An own creation both by the player, thus named as such.
"neo"="new" and "lith" being a common syllable for rocks.

Bidents

Tridents with two (bi) pokers!

Dike

Dike is a shield around the players, made by the same aura that is visible with Azurite Ore and other Azurite blocks, but much thicker.
Trinkets made from Azurite form a bubble of energy around the player and hold it there, like a soap bubble.
Regenerating this bubble takes a while, once popped, hence the regeneration being rather slow, once depleted.
Like a dam, it keeps problems away until it breaks.

Note: Dike like dam, not Dyke like lesbian. Though I am all for it. Free love, whooooo!

Other / Minor Things

{
  "block.spectrum.bottomless_bundle": "Bottomless Bundle", // In Pathfinder, the Bottomless Bag is a famous item fitting lots of stuff
  "block.spectrum.shimmel": "Shimmel", // derived from the german "Schimmel" (mold / mildew)
  "item.spectrum.blackest_lotus": "Blackest Lotus", // Botania compat item. Botania comes with the "Black Lotus" and the "Blacker Lotus", referencing a famous MTG card
  "item.spectrum.least_black_lotus": "Blackest Lotus", // Botania compat item. Botania comes with the "Black Lotus" and the "Blacker Lotus", referencing a famous MTG card

  // Fantasy RPG races, having physical abilities matching the pieces effects
  "item.spectrum.fetchling_helmet": "Fetchling Helmet",
  "item.spectrum.ferocious_chestplate": "Ferocious Chestplate",
  "item.spectrum.oread_boots": "Oread Boots",
  "item.spectrum.sylph_leggings": "Sylph Leggings",

  "item.spectrum.freigeist": "Freigeist", // German word for "freethinker"; "frei" also means "free", "geist" is "ghost" - referencing hardcore death
  "item.spectrum.le_fishe_au_chocolat": "Le Fishe au Chocolat",
  "item.spectrum.lucky_roll": "Lucky Roll", // It is a roll; Lucky Roll can also be a highroll in RPGs / digital games / ...
  "item.spectrum.myceylon": "Myceylon", // Ceylon Cinnamon
  "item.spectrum.neat_ring": "A Neat Ring", // is a mod by Vazkii
  "item.spectrum.neat_ring.tooltip": "§7§oIt's neat", // is a mod by Vazkii
  "item.spectrum.surstromming": "Surstromming", // Stinky fish dish
  "item.spectrum.seven_league_boots": "Seven-League Boots", // Based on boots from Hop-o'-My-Thumb, famous european folklore

  "block.spectrum.vantaclast": "Vantaclast", // Vantablack is considered the "blackest black" color
  "block.spectrum.daydreamer": "Daydreamer", // Generates Ink passively based on weather/daytime, so it dreams "ink" into existence by lying in the grass, watching the clouds
}

Advancements with nudges & references

{
  "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" // Word with double meaning: you are literally breaking the ground, which is a groundbreaking event
  "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
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_shimmerstone.title": "More than meets the Eye", // a well-known English idiom meaning that a situation, person, or object has hidden qualities, complexities, or background details that are not immediately obvious.
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_star_fragment.title": "Starry Skies", // References the mod "Starry Skies" by Dafuqs (kek)
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_storm_stone.title": "Thunderstruck", // A song by AC/DC
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_wither_head_using_treasure_hunter.title": "A Withious Cycle", // Wordplay on "a vicious cycle", a self-reinforcing, negative feedback loop where one problem causes a consequence that makes the original problem worse
  "advancements.spectrum.craft_cmy_pedestal.title": "CMY ON", // Reference to a meme template with "RGB OFF / RGB ON"
  "advancements.spectrum.craft_colored_sapling.title": "Botanian Rhapsody", // Song "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
  "advancements.spectrum.create_huge_slime.title": "Huge Chungus", // the meme "Big Chungus"
  "advancements.spectrum.create_onyx_shard.title": "Back in Black", // Song by AD/DC
  "advancements.spectrum.grow_azurite_in_crystallarieum.title": "A Dream come Blue", // "A dream come true"
  "advancements.spectrum.create_spectral_shard.title": "Somewhere over the Rainbow", // Song by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
  "advancements.spectrum.dark_radiance_staff.title": "Whoa! This is Worthless", // The meme template "Whoa! This Is Worthless"
  "advancements.spectrum.eat_each_cookbook_heavy_meal.title": "The Gourmand", // A chubby Rainworld character
  "advancements.spectrum.enchant_seven_league_boots.title": "Hell for Leather", // An english saying
  "advancements.spectrum.equip_neat_ring.title": "Neat", // is a mod by Vazkii
  "advancements.spectrum.fill_knowledge_gem.title": "I dumped CHA instead", // RPG reference
  "advancements.spectrum.fill_knowledge_gem_for_real_this_time.title": "My INT-Mod is +6", // RPG reference
  "advancements.spectrum.fill_pigment_palette.title": "So much Room for Activities", // A meme
  "advancements.spectrum.find_excavation_site.title": "Very Boring", // wordplay on boring having two meanings
  "advancements.spectrum.get_tool_with_inertia_500_blocks_broken.title": "The fastest Pick in the West", // "the fastest draw in the west" meme
  "advancements.spectrum.grow_bismuth_in_crystallarieum.title": "A solid Improvement", // "solid" can be understoof in two ways here
  "advancements.spectrum.kill_a_mob_with_frenzy3.title": "Dark Passion Play", // Album by Nightwish
  "advancements.spectrum.kill_entity_with_jeopardant_and_half_a_heart.title": "Living on the Edge", // Song by Aerosmith
  "advancements.spectrum.manifest_memory.title": "Back Again", // Song by ArchieV / Archie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91wK-WFHAhQ)
  "advancements.spectrum.plant_ominous_sapling.title": "Let it grow, let it grow!", // Willemijn Verkaik - "Let it go!"
  "advancements.spectrum.pluck_blood_orchid_petal.title": "They fear me, they fear me not", // Based on the "she loves me, she loves me not" rhyme
  "advancements.spectrum.put_too_many_low_gravity_blocks_into_animal.title": "I must go, my planet needs me",
  "advancements.spectrum.reached_dd_floor.title": "Bedrock 2: Electric Boogaloo", // based on the "... 2: Electric Boogaloo" meme
  "advancements.spectrum.revive_dead_bush.title": "Revivify", // A Pathfinder healing spell (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/variant-magic-rules/rune-magic/script-list/revivify/)
  "advancements.spectrum.solve_wireless_redstone_preservation_ruin.title": "Remote Connected", // In Flames - Cloud Connected
  "advancements.spectrum.start_crafting_time_consuming_pedestal_recipe.title": "Being Paintient", // Being patient =/= paint
  "advancements.spectrum.tap_suspicious_brew.title": "Not a Cow's Udder Juice", // "Milk"
  "advancements.spectrum.use_perturbed_eye.title": "I like to move it, move it", // Song by Erick Morillo
  "advancements.spectrum.become_enlightened.title": "The Professional Catposter", // Based on an ARG on the Spectrum Discord, where lots of 'A' were involved. Hosted by Noaaaaaaaaaan
  "advancements.spectrum.failed_creating_empty_or_blacklisted_spawner.title": "This Ain't It, Chief", // based on a meme template
}