Level 411

## Level 411: "The Firesalt Mines"

### Description:

**Level 411** is a cave complex with a thick fog everywhere, the caves are made of stones that are always hot, the source of heat is unknown, it may be that it is under the stones, but they are unbreakable, so it is not possible to reach it.

The level in general is quite dark, but you will see orange glows in the middle of the darkness quite often, and these glows are veins of pure fire salt. They can vary in size from small to large, and on rare occasions you can find parts of the caves that are made entirely of fire salt, just don't forget your boots so you don't puncture your foot.

The M.E.G visits the level often to mine fire salt to use against entities, wanderers, or just for testing purposes. But you might be wondering, "Shouldn't fire salt explode with the impact of a pickaxe or a drill?", yes it should, but the level has an anomalous property that disables fire salt's explosive properties on it, this includes all their versions. This effect is called Explosion Inhibition.

There are two kinds of firesalt found here. The first one is the normal fire salt, with an orange glow and explosive properties, but there's also a yellow variation fire salt, that was called light salt by the M.E.G. The Light Salt is an alternate version of fire salt, it's glow is yellow instead of orange, and the glow itself is brighter, something strange though is that the light salt seems to have a permanent explosive inhibition, or it doesn't even have explosive properties in first place, the cause of it is still unknown.

### Sections:

While exploring the level, you may find some different locations that have some interesting (or not) thing in it, these are:

#### The Anomalous Mineshaft:

A mining station that has an isolation system, when entering it you will be alone, and the longer you stay, the more your sanity is drained. However, on the other hand, you can find a lot of mining tools and some of them use unknown materials that are either very sharp, or very hard, in some cases even unbreakable. These materials can only be find in the Mineshaft.

#### The Pillar Section:

A section of the cave that has stone pillars which are partially polished, work worthy of a newbie, the pillars have varied characteristics, you will rarely find one the same as the other because their dimensions are random, some even don't even touch on the ceiling or floor of the place. Apart from the curious appearance of the place, nothing different can be found, although it is speculated that fire salt veins are found more often here, but it's just guesswork.

#### The Cold Area:

An area where the temperature is lower, with an average of 20°C (68°F), may look good, but it is not, believe me. In this place, you can't find any veins of fire salt, let alone light salt, so you'll be in darkness comparable to Level 8's, so don't forget your flashlight. In this area the appearance of entities is considerably higher than in normal areas, which was to be expected, if this area didn't exist the level class could very well drop to 3.

### Colonies and Outposts:

#### M.E.G. Fire Extractors:

* Has 23 members
* Open for trades
* Always try to protect wanderers
* If you wanna join them, you have to join M.E.G first.

### Entities:

Entities are quite common at **Level 411**, and the most common are Smilers, Skin-Stealers, Deathmoths, Hounds, Dullers and Wretches. But some other entities can be found in rarer ocasions.

### Entrances and Exits:

#### Entrances:

* Touching an orange rock on Level 8 will bring you here.
* Sometimes when you leave the Manila Room you can get here, but it's extremely rare.
* Explode a Firesalt crystal on yourself may bring you here, but if it was by accident the chance is bigger.
* Explode 10 Firesalt crystal at a time on Level 8, Level -4, or Level -6 will also get you here.

#### Exits:

* Entering a metal door with some Firesalt veins on it will lead to Level 368.
* Stay still for more than 5 minutes on a Firesalt cave sends you to Level 12.
* Drawing a balloon on the rocks will take you to Level Fun =).