Community:Sketchu Spring
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Sketchu Spring is a PC Only world created by Sketchu. It's an expansive world with several locations and contains hidden secrets and lore regarding the setting. It was published in late 2018.
Locations
Sketchu Spring takes places primarily in a massive desert, the distance obscured by constant sandstorms.
Map
The contents below show the map in it's entirety with landmarks and all, if you wish to explore the world for yourself expand with caution.
The Spring
The spawn location for the map, a small village of mynok, a species of small people with oval-shaped heads larger than their body. Several avatars of mynoks can be found in the tallest building, with a variety of different outfits and appearances.
Right of spawn can be found a spawner that spawns flying seed-like vehicles that can be used to fly across the map. The purple Music Orb can typically be found underneath the wooden platform.
The Portal
The portal is a location within the Spring and can be found behind a large rock formation. The portal has a circular monument with a hole in it for portals, in front of it is a keypad with various symbols representing numbers. To the side there's a stone slab containing codes that lead to various locations, along with a cipher key that can be used to transcribe the codes onto the keypad.
Inputting codes onto the keypad successfully will open Portals to other VRChat worlds.
Statue Island
A secluded plataeu far south of spawn, the main feature being a chessboard with large interactable statues that act as the chess pieces. The green Music orb can be found here propped up on an elevated set of rocks. North of the area can be found a bridge that leads to one of several mirages in the world, a giant golem statue.
Mindaro's Shrine
Found in the dark sandstorms east of spawn. The area consists solely of the shrine, a small set of ruins with several pedestals corresponding to each one of Mindaro's Charms.
Mushroom Rocks
Found in the far northeast of spawn within a canyon is Mushroom Rocks, tall mushrooms dot the area, along with a small pond with a grassy area around it. The blue Music Orb can be found in the pond.
Imp Cliff
Far west of spawn is Imp Cliffs, taking place in the canyons of a large plataeu.
Skeleton Ruins
Found southwest of spawn within the dark sandstorm, a gigantic skeleton can be found here alongside a mural depicting Alabaster and Mindaro.
Mindaro's Respite
Features
Flying seeds
At several points in the map, spawners can be found that spawn seed-shaped devices that when sat in, can be controlled to fly across the map.
Fast travel
Fast travel points can be found across the map, when interacted with, it'll unlock a diamond behind spawn under the air balloon.
Music orbs
Across the map, several orbs that play music can be found across the map. At least one of these orbs must be brought to Mindaro's Shrine to complete the shrine, as hinted towards by the Skeleton Ruins mural.
Mindaro's Charms
Mindaro's Charms can be found across the desert, appearing as small multi-colored orbs with an object inside of them.
These charms can be taken back to Mindaro's Shrine and placed on the pedestals, where a portal will open to a secret area once all the charms have been collected. This can be difficult to do without a user in VR, as desktop users aren't able to respawn or interact with other interactables such as fast travel points while holding an object.
Mirages
Mirages can found across the desert, appearing as landmarks that vanish upon getting close to them.
Portal Codes
There are [#ofcodes] that can be found across the world.
The contents below may contain spoilers that could ruin the intended experience of the world, expand with caution.
| Code | Destination | How to Find |
|---|---|---|
| 2934x | Sketchu's Well | On the stone slab by the portal |
| 1892x | Sketchu's Forest | On the stone slab by the portal |
| 1546x | wip forest | On the stone slab by the portal |
| 9568x | Matcha Cafe | On the stone slab by the portal |
| 9381x | w | Unlocked by completing Mindaro's Shrine |
Trivia
- The purple Music Orb found at the Spring initially spawns on the wooden platform, however often rolls and falls underneath the wooden platform on world load.
- In the thumbnail, the land around the Spring appears to be grassy, this is a hint towards the secret quest in the map that leads to a trigger to turn the desert surrounding the spring into a grassland.
- Mindaro and Alabaster's gender and pronouns are intentionally vague, leaving them up for interpretation.[1]
- The name of the continent the world takes place in is called "West Corobi, " as seen in the secret "w" world unlocked by finding all the orbs in Sketchu Spring.[2]
References
- ↑ TrixxedHeart. “Sketchu Spring Bite Sized Q&A.” Medium, 18 Sept. 2024, http://medium.com/@trixxedheart/sketchu-spring-small-q-a-91c84fec5e44.
- ↑ Sketchu. W. VRChat, 18 Jan. 2018, updated 29 Sept. 2018. VRChat, https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_bbf8fdb1-f234-4e1a-87dc-4e0bdf59d1f3.
