Zone 1

— Zone Select

## Zone 1: Archipelago

Zone 1 in-game.

**Zone 1** is the first Zone in Zonal Zaniness that a new player will encounter in the zone select. It was fully completed at April 14, 2022. It consists of 10 Columns, 3 Forts, and a Skyscraper. No requirements are needed to unlock this zone as it marks the beginning of a new player's journey and is unlocked from the start. Every difficulty up to  Extreme can be seen in the columns that reside here.

This zone used to have Column of Perfectly Aligned Parts as its  Medium difficulty column, but was eventually replaced by Column of Bizarre Simplicity. There used to be a hidden  Terrifying difficulty column, Column of Cowering in Fear in this zone but it was never finished. There also was a hidden  Catastrophic obby known as Isle of Peter Griffins, but it was eventually removed from the game due to being extremely hard. The  Low Insane fort of this zone, Fort of Flicking and Falling, has been replaced by Fort of Twisted Torsion.

This Zone had a temporary event subrealm, Fountain of Misery (April Fools 2022) but it ended around early May.

## Design

This zone takes place in the middle of the ocean along with various islands scattered around, most resided by columns. The emblem of this zone resembles the old lobby. The old lobby used to have a Roman-looking white structure instead of having a cabin. The structure can still be viewed in the winner's island to commemorate.

## Secrets

These are the secrets within the zone as of July 14, 2022.

* Soul Crushing
* Pillar
* Sus Room
* Z1CR
* Other

* FoTT
* CoAP
* CoOL

 Fort of Twisted Torsion
* Behind the huge hill in the lobby, there is a cave entrance with the sign "Enter at your own risk!". When you enter it, you are greeted with a simple obby that is netted and once you beat it you are now in the portal room.

 Column of Anemic Pandemonium
* Behind the skyscraper hill, there is another entrance in the sandy layer. There is a sign that says "Are you ready?" and you are to beat a decently hard obby. Once that's over, touch the white neon pole and you will be elevated to the portal room.

 Column of Outer Layers
* Around the edge of the main lobby island, you'll see a broken dock. Once you beat the hard obby, you will see CoOL's portal at the end of the dock.

* PoEI
* PoP

 Pillar of Extremely Infuriating
* Its portal is located in the Sus Room.

 Pillar of Pets
* In the lodge, you'll see a discolored part near the sleeping cat. Fall through it and you'll end up in the pillar's portal room.

Sus Room
* Behind the Starter Columns section, you'll see a black transparent part coming from a ledge in the sand. Touch it and you'll be sent to the Sus Room.

 Zone 1 Column Rush
* Behind the spawn, you'll see a small gap and a hole in the wall. Going inside the hole you will be greeted with a room. Do the two jumps and you will be in Z1CR's portal.

Other
* This secret is situated in the lodge. Go on the cylinders at the top near the chimney, and you'll see a stone with The Rock's decals on it.
* Go to where SoAT's portal is. Behind one of the bushes behind the portal, you'll see a small portal titled Homework.
* Behind the lodge, you'll see Sans' head in the corner of the shore.
* Behind the Dreadful Columns section, you'll see a small hole in the sand. There is a blank avatar that resides in this hole.

## Subrealm

* Fountain of Misery

Fountain of Misery
* The only subrealm in this zone and generally in the game as of now is Fountain of Misery, which the entrance used to be located near the cabin. It was a fountain, and when touched will lead to another place. The event had 2 columns, 1 fort, and 1 skyscraper and ended in May 3, 2022.

## Trivia

* Column of Utter Desolation was the first column to ever be added to the game.
* The zone 1 lobby had 3 revamps in total.
* This zone, despite being the first, has the most soul-crushing columns compared to every other zone.