Table of planets[edit]

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Name `code-name`	Tiles (X, Y)	Directions	Description	Explanation
Starting Planet `tiny-world`	(6024, -8976)	To get here, click the "Home" button in the lower right corner of the comic.	The planet is tiny, grassy, has a few trees and bushes and features several people. Initially the navigation is difficult because of low initial engine thrust and strong gravity of the Origin planet nearby affecting movement.	This is where the game starts. Pressing the "Home" button to go back to the starting planet shows the message, "Welcome back, pilot", which may be a reference to the greeting that plays when re-entering a Titan in the Titanfall video games.
Origin `origin`	(3096, -5904)	To get here, launch from Beret Guy saying "Wow!" on the Starting Planet.	The planet is fairly big, has vegetation, and features many people, landscape objects, items and upgrades. It has a shaft through the center. The planet is hard to leave without any upgrades unless one uses the shaft to gain more momentum by thrusting while moving through the middle of it. Many of the landmarks of the surface mark the directions to different planets.	The planet has a sign saying 'Welcome to Origin! You can never leave™'. The name may also refer to the fact that the planet lies almost at the center of the game world, or that it is the starting point for exploration as it provides many navigational hints.
Hollow Planet `hollow-shell`	(-13952, 1848)	To get here, launch from the St. Louis Arch on Origin.	The planet is just a shell with some gaps. On the outside, there are a few signs that mark the directions to different planets.
Round Planet `orb`	(-19154, -7288)	To get here, launch from the tower with an orb on it on Origin or the sign on the Hollow Planet.	The planet is moderately small with no vegetation and some architecture such as Stonehenge and the Great Wall of China. It also features a few people and items.
Uzumaki `uzumaki`	(-3904, -26904)	To get here, launch from Origin's spiral landmark, the sign on the Hollow Planet, or below the plane-towed banner on the Round Planet.	The planet is a large spiral overgrown with grass and some other vegetation. It has very weak gravity.	The shape of the planet is inspired by the manga Uzumaki by Junji Ito.
Guitar Ship `guitar-ship`	(-12000, -30000)	To get there, launch from Uzumaki, a little to the left of the caffeine molecule item.	The planet is shaped like a guitar seen in perspective looking from the bottom of the body, with a dome on the back side. Within the dome there's the Boston skyline.	This is a reference to the cover art of the album Boston by the like-named American rock band. It's one of many references to Boston in the game.
Spacetime Soccer Field `soccerfield`	(6048, 4048)	To get here, launch from Origin, from the pyramid with a soccer ball on top of it.	This is a tiny planet with a smooth surface and a distorted soccer field marked around it. The goals and goal area lines are on the opposite sides of the planet (let's say, to the east and west), distorted into curved trapezoids. The touch lines (side lines) are sections of hyperbolas with the vertices closest to the planet at the north and south poles, extending symmetrically to some distance from the planet. There is no goal line; in this geometry it should be the extended axis. What seems to be penalty lines, but drawn incorrectly to join the side lines instead of going back to the goal line, are sections of an ellipse. The halfway line appears twice, joining the four ends of hyperbolic side lines. The center circle appears as two separate halves stemming from the two copies of the halfway line.	The space soccer field utilizes the concept from 2705: Spacetime Soccer, but inversed: in the original comic the center point of the field was located in a gravity well, causing the ball to be pulled away from the goals; here the goals are located close to the center of the planet, so the ball naturally tries to fall towards them, probably making the game more interesting.
Saturn `saturn`	(2600, 14000)	To get here, launch from the pyramid with Saturn on it on Origin. If you see the Spacetime Soccer Field, you're too far left.	The planet resembles Saturn with its rings, however it is translucent: a soccer ball can bee seen inside. One of the ball's white hexagons is surfacing in the north pole area.	It is a reference to 2513: Saturn Hexagon
Andal `platform-planet`	(12048, 14048)	To get there launch from a monument on Origin, featuring a round shape with a small "T" on top.	This is a small partly rocky and partly grassy planet with a strange T-shaped tower.	A reference to Animorphs book series featuring fictional sapient species of Andalites. Two such (or similar) creatures can be found on the planet. In the original books, the planet the Andalites come from is unnamed.
Projection of Earth `earth-map`	(-15808, 22192)	To get there by follow the sign on the hollow planet or launch from the Earth map monument on Origin.	The planet is shaped like a huge distorted map of all land masses of Earth. The player's spaceship can fly where water would be, but it can't go over land. Some straights between islands are to narrow for the ship to pass, especially in the Southeast Asia area. Some mediterranean seas are also inaccessible.	Probably a reference to 977: Map Projections or, more generally, to the Randall's obsession about maps.
Voyager 1 `voyager-1`	(1606, -14282)	To get here, launch from the "Receiving transmission" communication device near the spiral landmark on Origin.	This is a recreation of the Voyager 1 space probe.
Voyager 2 `voyager-2`	(10682, -5172)	To get here, launch from the "Receiving transmission" communication device near the spider landmark on Origin.	This is a recreation of the Voyager 2 space probe.
SafetySat `safetysat`	(17024, 1024)	To get here, launch from the cell tower on Origin.	A cube satellite with an absurd set of assorted objects on board.	This is a reference to 1992: SafetySat.
Shuttle Skeleton `space-shuttle`	(-30200, 14576)	To get here, launch from the Shuttle Skeleton landmark on Origin or in the northwestern direction from Alaska on the Projection of Earth.	The planet looks like an outline of the space shuttle with a strange skeleton inside.	This is a reference to 2630: Shuttle Skeleton.
Giant Spider `spider`	(26982, -8714)	To get here, launch from the spider landmark on Origin.	The object is a giant spider floating in space with eight people standing on top of his legs.	Spiders is a recurring theme on xkcd.
Diffraction Spikes Star `diffraction`	(-19944, 11240)	To get here, launch from the back of the left "hand" of the Shuttle Skeleton or the north of Alaska.	The object is a star with very long spikes.	This is a reference to 2762: Diffraction Spikes.
Roche Lobe Earth `earth-roche` and `normal-moon`	(-9952, -3952)	To get there, launch from the like-shaped statue on Origin.	This is a small, distorted, drop-shaped Earth with oceans and continents of the northern hemisphere. There's the Moon close by. The distortion looks like if the Moon's tidal forces are pulling northern Atlantic Ocean really hard.
Dark Matter Planet `dark-matter`	(-2892, 2640)	To get here, launch from the goal on the half of the field with just one person on it on Spacetime Soccer Field.	This is a small, irregular planet with a black center (normal planets have white centers) and an inscription "DARK MATTER" inside, repeated three times.	Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter sought by astrophycists as a possible cause of behavior of galaxies, which cannot be explained by the current theory of gravity and observations. The anomalies would be explained if there was extra mass in the galaxies, which is not observed, but is theorized as dark matter presence. The dark matter is named this way not because it has some dark color, but because it supposedly does not interact (or interacts very weakly) with electromagnetic field, therefore does not emit light and can't be seen. This is also a reference to 2186: Dark Matter
Jurassic Park Planet `gravity-qwantz`	(20000, 11000)	To get here, launch from the dinosaur on Origin or from the Andalites on Andal.	It's a big planet with weak gravity, a lot of grass, and many dinosaur figures, some repeating a few times.	This is a reference to the 1993 Jurassic Park film and the related media franchise. It contains images of dinosaurs taken from the Dinosaurs web comic, which, similarly to xkcd, uses a random string of letters for its domain name: `quantz.com`. It also reflects Randal's avid interest in dinosaurs. This is an exact copy of the Dinosaur Planet from 2712: Gravity.
Comet 67P `67p`	(18048, -11152)	To get here, launch from the duck next to the 'Caution: long vertical drop' sign on Origin.	This is a small, potato-shaped body, modelled after the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet.	This is a reference to the 2004–2016 Rosetta spacecraft mission, which was the first to place a lander (Philae) on a comet core. The mission was also commemorated in 1446: Landing and the spacecraft are mentioned in 1402: Harpoons and 1740: Rosetta.
What If? Planet `gravity-earth`	(22000, 34000)	To get here, launch from the two people explaining where Boston is on Origin, the left of Stonehenge on the Round Planet, or the left rim of the Guitar Ship.	This is a huge, round planet with many bodies of water. The planet contains several scenes from what if? and 2712: Gravity. Megan and Cueball are floating inside a small space in the center of the planet.	This is an almost exact copy of the Earth planet from 2712: Gravity, however all text spoken by the characters has been removed, making puns difficult to grasp without referring to the original. Some scenes have been removed, some modified slightly.
Subway Planet `subway-planet` and `black-hole-3`	(-46000, -24000)	To can get there take off from the "secret glade" item next to the the bush where someone says "Shhh" on Origin.	This is a huge planet with a subway system connecting places named after U.S. cities, similar to the one from 1196: Subways. In the area where Boston should be according to that system, there is a giant round hole with rugged sides consisting of a lot of broken planks. There's a black hole inside, off the center, in the Washington, D.C. area. There are many people and features both on the surface and within subway tunnels.	This is a key planet to solve the puzzle in the game, and contains several out of many in-game references to Boston (in many meanings of the name) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which currently is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but was founded in 1861 in Boston. Obviously, it's also a reference to 1196: Subways
Boston Planet `mbta`	(-42000, 8000)	To get here, launch from the back of the Shuttle Skeleton.	This is a big, perfectly round planet with a subway system. It is invisible until the player finds uncloaking device switch. Initially, all underground tunnels are blocked by huge round rocks with the letter "T" at the entrances and smaller round rocks down the tunnels. To unblock the tunnels, player needs to find subway tokens scattered in the universe; they appear only after the Boston planet is uncloaked. Subway stations on the surface and inside are marked with Boston district names.	This is the other key planet to the game puzzle. It is apparently the round part ripped off the Subway Planet, but drawn not to scale. The tunnels inside the planet roughly correspond to the Boston part of the scheme in 1196: Subways, but with few additions (e.g. Union Sq, Mattapan). The codename comes from the abbreviation of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Crystal Sphere from `ring-1` to `ring-36`		To get here, launch from anywhere and keep avoiding planets until you hit it.	Most planets and celestial objects are inside of a thick enormous ring called Crystal Sphere. Both the interior and exterior edges of the Sphere are almost smooth, but have a few dents. There's a wide navigable crack leading out of the Sphere, which sides are rugged and riddled with broken planks, similarily to the Boston hole in the Subwau Planet. The gravity increases significantly as the spaceship goes through the crack, it gradually feels the pull from the parts of the sphere it has left. It is not possible to leave the Sphere without the hyperdrive, however having collected all the engine upgrades inside the Sphere one can barely reach the outer surface, but moving along is very difficult. Above the crack, there is an arch made up of the repeating words "The End", which is reminiscent of the "Don't leave the play area" message in 1608: Hoverboard that appeared when the player tried to get out of it.	The Crystal Sphere may be a reference to The Crystal Spheres, a short story by science fiction author David Brin, which suggests that each star with habitable planets in the universe is surrounded by a crystal sphere that can be broken only from the inside and is otherwise completely impenetrable. It may also be a reference to celestial spheres, an early concept trying to explain apparent movement of planets and stars.
Star Destroyer from `star-destroyer-a` to `star-destroyer-i`	(18192, -130000)	To get here, launch from the crack in the Crystal Sphere.	This is a gigantic starship; it could have barely fit within the Crystal Sphere. It is located out of the Sphere, right up from the crack, but it can't be reached without the Hyperdrive. It has many corridors and chambers inside, and a lot of people, objects and other features both inside and outside of it. The gravity of the Sphere is still strong around here, but the starship has its own center of gravity; the "down" direction generally points towards the ventral part of the starship, but not quite, making orientation somewhat difficult as the surfaces supposed to be level seem to tilt to the left near the stern and to the right near the bow of the starship. Below it, down a stream of torpedoes fired from a turred, there's a much smaller starhip.	This is a reference to Star Destroyers and the CR90 Corellian corvette, spaceships from the fictional Star Wars universe. The whole scene is copied from 1608: Hoverboard, with the only difference being that Darth Vader's dialogue was changed from referencing Steven Universe to The Murderbot Diaries.
Click and Drag Planet `clickdrag-nw`, `clickdrag-ne`, `clickdrag-sw`, and `clickdrag-se`	(-31808, 111808)	To get here, launch from the bow or stern of the Star Destroyer tangentially to the Crystal Sphere to orbit it and keep the stars in the background moving horizontally on the screen until you see a dot around the spaceship guiding you.	The planet is huge, larger than any other in the game world, but smaller than the Star Destroyer. It is located outside the Crystal Sphere roughly opposite the Star Destroyer. It is mostly round, with many landscape features and scenes partly copied from 1110: Click and Drag, but arrayed in a circular, instead of linear shape. What's missing in comparison to the Click and Drag comic, is a few of the scenes, some textual content like dialogues (leaving persons intact), the underground parts, upper parts of the very high objects, and objects high above the surface.

Tables and Lists of Objects[edit]

Collectables[edit]

Plain list of collectables[edit]

This is a quick list for those who want to check if they found everything.

The You found... sections directly show the names that appear in the player's list of found items. Some upgrades are also items and appear on the list, in such cases the names are the bolded parts of messages.

Starting Planet
- You found...
  1. a rock with neat stripes
  2. a cool bug
  3. a pretty leaf
- Messages
  1. Wheeee!

Origin
- You found...
  1. a secret glade
  2. a holographic Charizard business card
  3. a 5G seagull
  4. a DVD of The Core (2003)
  5. a normal-looking leaf
  6. a marsh wren
  7. an orb wren
  8. a single grain of salt
  9. 11 squares packed into a larger square
  10. a tumbleweed
- Upgrades
  1. Nice flying! (Your tanks recharge faster now.)
- Messages
  1. You found a tiny meteorite!
  2. Welcome to liminal space
  3. The St. Louis arch is also known as the gateway to space.
  4. Be careful; this roller coaster can be disorienting!

Hollow Planet
- Upgrades
  1. You found a sixth Lagrange point! (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
  2. You found a glass of heavy water (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)

Round Planet
- You found...
  1. a swatch pop-out wristwatch
- Upgrades
  1. You found a sensible cheese platter (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now)
  2. [no message] (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)

Uzumaki
- You found...
  1. a golden radio tuned to 1.618 MHz
  2. a scroll lock key
  3. a primordial black hole
  4. a cool pair of shoes with flames on the side
  5. an ink cartridge
  6. a podcast episode
  7. a festive but somehow unnerving holiday card from Junji Ito
  8. a friendly bee
  9. a spiral-cut diamond
  10. a burrito
- Upgrades
  1. You found a tree-filled grove and a nice spot for quiet contemplation (Your thrusters are significantly more efficient now.)
  2. You found a single caffeine molecule! (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.)
- Messages
  1. Exit Only
  2. You're going the wrong way!

Guitar Ship
- You found...
  1. a guitar pick
- Tokens
  1. Orange line deactivated!

Spacetime Soccer Field
- Upgrades
  1. GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
  2. GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  3. You found the 3 million point line (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
  4. You found a sunspot! (Your launch speed has increased.)

Saturn
- You found...
  1. a really cool data point
- Upgrades
  1. You found a pair of platonic solids, not quite touching! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  2. You found a block of scandium! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)

Andal
- Upgrades
  1. You found two Andalites, one canonical! (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
  2. What a nice place for a ship to sit! (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.)
  3. You found a friend (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
  4. You found baby shoes (and baby)! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)

Projection of Earth
- You found...
  1. the Heart of the Ocean (The message adds: "It was drifting around in space.")
  2. a whale shark
  3. some microbial life
  4. some tin from the Pantai Remis mine
  5. a sparkling gem
  6. a piece of pumice (The message says: "You found a piece of pumice floating in space!")
- Upgrades
  1. You found the Principality of Sealand! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  2. You found a Rhode Island the size of an ant! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  3. You found an icosahedral d10 (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
- Tokens
  1. Red line deactivated!

Voyager 1
- Upgrades
  1. You found Voyager 1! Some of its great speed rubs off on you. (Your engine thrust has increased significantly.)

Voyager 2
- Upgrades
  1. You found Voyager 2! Some of its great speed rubs off on you. (Your engine thrust has increased significantly.)

SafetySat
- You found...
  1. a first of its kind
- Upgrades
  1. [no message] (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
  2. The more refined oil had a dinner engagement (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)

Shuttle Skeleton
- You found...
  1. a piece of space shuttle food
- Upgrades
  1. A little upgrade works wonders on fuel efficiency (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)

Giant Spider
- You found...
  1. a spider-silk scarf
- Upgrades
  1. You found a friendly jumping spider (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)

Diffraction Spikes Star
- You found...
  1. a hydrogen ion
  2. a piece of coronium (iron) (The message says; "You found a piece of coronium! Wait, no, iron.")

Roche Lobe Earth
- You found...
  1. a curious Humboldt squid
  2. a bathyscaphe (The message says: "You found a bathyscaphe at the Marianas Trench!")
  3. a wayward Roomba full of moondust
- Tokens
  1. Green line deactivated!

Dark Matter Planet
- Upgrades
  1. You found a delicate music box. (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)

Jurassic Park Planet
- You found...
  1. a tiny pteranodon
  2. a baby hedgehog
  3. a tattered knapsack containing about $194,00 in $20 bills
- Upgrades
  1. Today is a good day I think for space exploration (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  2. But what if gravity doesn't actually exist? (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.)

Comet 67P
- Upgrades
  1. Some people believe that when the Earth appears in the sky, it's a harbinger of doom. (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.)
  2. You found a broken smoke machine (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  3. Anyone for Scrabble later? (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  4. You found The Long Now Foundation's nickel paperweight containing an archive of every published Animorphs book! (Your launch speed has increased.)

What If? Planet
- You found...
  1. an eye in the sky
  2. a stick
  3. an asterisk (The message adds: "it doesn’t seem to refer to anything.")
  4. a sterile neutrino
  5. a secret leaf
  6. a pair of squirrel goggles
  7. a large hadron
  8. a smooth green snake
- Upgrades
  1. You found a sunken treasure (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
  2. The Yellowstone Super What? (Your launch speed has increased.)
  3. Nutritional Facts - Serving Size: 1 Cloud, Total Calories: 0 (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  4. You captured the flag! You decide to leave it there, but it's yours. (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  5. You found a steam calliope! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  6. You found a DNA base pair! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)

Subway Planet
- You found...
  1. a relativistic bowling ball
  2. a Cybiko® wireless handheld computer for teens (2000)
  3. a handful of quantum foam
  4. a normal-sized apple
- Upgrades
  1. You get the feeling you're not in Kansas anymore (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.)
  2. There is no parking in the white zone (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
  3. The next stop is Interplanetary Terminal G (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  4. You feel accomplished (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  5. You found a hot dog (Your launch speed has increased.)
  6. You found a bottle of Coke Absolute Zero! (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
  7. You found a beige electron! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  8. You found $30 in Yahoo! cash! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  9. You found a friendly cat! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  10. You found a brightly-lit billboard (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
- Messages
  1. Transfer here for Mornington Crescent
- Tokens
  1. MIT Cloaking Device deactivated! Boston detected. (Blue, red, green, and orange lines activated.)

Boston Planet
- You found...
  1. a strangely heavy subway token
- Tokens
  1. Blue line deactivated!
  2. Welcome to MIT! You acquired a hyperdrive!

Crystal Sphere
- You found...
  1. a necklace of element samples whose symbols spell out your name (The message adds: "(note: hopefully you are not named 'katherine' or 'Brandon')!")
  2. the platinum cylinder formerly used to define the kilogram
- Upgrades
  1. A significant boost to the engines for a curious pilot (Your engine thrust has increased significantly.)
  2. You found the gold crown Archimedes stole! (Your engine thrust has increased significantly.)
  3. You found a handful of the quantum foam that makes up the fabric of space! (Your tanks recharge much faster now.)

Crack in the Crystal Sphere
- Upgrades
  1. There is a way out (Your launch speed has increased.)
- Messages
  1. Right lane must turn right
  2. Left lane must turn left

Star Destroyer
- You found...
  1. an unread email (The message adds: "Better leave it unread.")
  2. a glass slipper with a glass foot in it
  3. a lymphocyte
  4. a forged resume
  5. a serif
  6. a Bursa of Fabricius
  7. a cluster of data points
  8. a premium subscription to food (The message has: "food.net")
  9. two goats and a new car
  10. an out-of-control trolley
  11. a helium-238 nucleus
  12. the Death Star plans
- Upgrades
  1. You found a perpetual motion fidget spinner! (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.)
  2. You found a vintage Juicero juicer! (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
- Messages
  1. Hmmm.

Click and Drag Planet
- You found...
  1. an ant the size of Rhode Island
  2. a pin with 17 angels dancing on it
- Upgrades
  1. The vehicle below gives you a boost (Your launch speed has increased.)
  2. We should turn back (Your engine gets a bit more powerful.)
  3. You found an expert at underwater ropes. (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
  4. You found a trisected angle! (Your launch speed has greatly increased.)

Open Space Outside the Crystal Sphere
- Upgrades
  1. It is very lonely out here (Your tanks recharge much faster now.)
  2. You found a needle in a haystack (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
  3. From here you can view the source of it all. (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)

Sortable table of collectables[edit]

Planet	Collectable items
Planet	You found...	Upgrades	Messages	Subway tokens
Starting Planet	a rock with neat stripes a cool bug a pretty leaf		Wheeee!
Origin	a secret glade a holographic Charizard business card a 5G seagull a DVD of The Core (2003) a normal-looking leaf a marsh wren an orb wren a single grain of salt 11 squares packed into a larger square a tumbleweed	Nice flying! (Your tanks recharge faster now.)	You found a tiny meteorite! Welcome to liminal space The St. Louis arch is also known as the gateway to space. Be careful; this roller coaster can be disorienting!
Hollow Planet		You found a sixth Lagrange point! (Your thrusters are more efficient now.) You found a glass of heavy water (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
Round Planet	a swatch pop-out wristwatch	You found a sensible cheese platter (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now) [no message] (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
Uzumaki	a golden radio tuned to 1.618 MHz a scroll lock key a primordial black hole a cool pair of shoes with flames on the side an ink cartridge a podcast episode a festive but somehow unnerving holiday card from Junji Ito a friendly bee a spiral-cut diamond a burrito	You found a tree-filled grove and a nice spot for quiet contemplation (Your thrusters are significantly more efficient now.) You found a single caffeine molecule! (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.)	Exit Only You're going the wrong way!
Guitar Ship	a guitar pick			Orange line deactivated!
Spacetime Soccer Field		GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! (Your thrusters are more efficient now.) GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You found the 3 million point line (Your thrusters are more efficient now.) You found a sunspot! (Your launch speed has increased.)
Saturn	a really cool data point	You found a pair of platonic solids, not quite touching! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You found a block of scandium! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
Andal		You found two Andalites, one canonical! (Your thrusters are more efficient now.) What a nice place for a ship to sit! (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.) You found a friend (Your thrusters are more efficient now.) You found baby shoes (and baby)! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
Projection of Earth	the Heart of the Ocean a whale shark some microbial life some tin from the Pantai Remis mine a sparkling gem a piece of pumice	You found the Principality of Sealand! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You found a Rhode Island the size of an ant! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You found an icosahedral d10 (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)		Red line deactivated!
Voyager 1		You found Voyager 1! Some of its great speed rubs off on you. (Your engine thrust has increased significantly.)
Voyager 2		You found Voyager 2! Some of its great speed rubs off on you. (Your engine thrust has increased significantly.)
SafetySat	a first of its kind	[no message] (Your thrusters are more efficient now.) The more refined oil had a dinner engagement (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
Shuttle Skeleton	a piece of space shuttle food	A little upgrade works wonders on fuel efficiency (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)
Giant Spider	a spider-silk scarf	You found a friendly jumping spider (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
Diffraction Spikes Star	a hydrogen ion a piece of coronium (iron)
Roche Lobe Earth	a curious Humboldt squid a bathyscaphe a wayward Roomba full of moondust			Green line deactivated!
Dark Matter Planet		You found a delicate music box. (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
Jurassic Park Planet	a tiny pteranodon a baby hedgehog a tattered knapsack containing about $194,00 in $20 bills	Today is a good day I think for space exploration (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) But what if gravity doesn't actually exist? (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.)
Comet 67P		Some people believe that when the Earth appears in the sky, it's a harbinger of doom. (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.) You found a broken smoke machine (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) Anyone for Scrabble later? (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You found The Long Now Foundation's nickel paperweight containing an archive of every published Animorphs book! (Your launch speed has increased.)
What If? Planet	an eye in the sky a stick an asterisk a sterile neutrino a secret leaf a pair of squirrel goggles a large hadron a smooth green snake	You found a sunken treasure (Your thrusters are more efficient now.) The Yellowstone Super What? (Your launch speed has increased.) Nutritional Facts - Serving Size: 1 Cloud, Total Calories: 0 (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You captured the flag! You decide to leave it there, but it's yours. (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You found a steam calliope! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You found a DNA base pair! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
Subway Planet	a relativistic bowling ball a Cybiko® wireless handheld computer for teens (2000) a handful of quantum foam a normal-sized apple	You get the feeling you're not in Kansas anymore (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.) There is no parking in the white zone (Your thrusters are more efficient now.) The next stop is Interplanetary Terminal G (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You feel accomplished (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You found a brightly-lit billboard (Your thrusters are more efficient now.) You found a hot dog (Your launch speed has increased.) You found a bottle of Coke Absolute Zero! (Your thrusters are more efficient now.) You found a beige electron! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You found $30 in Yahoo! cash! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) You found a friendly cat! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)	Transfer here for Mornington Crescent	MIT Cloaking Device deactivated! Boston detected. (Blue, red, green, and orange lines activated.)
Boston Planet	a strangely heavy subway token			Blue line deactivated! Welcome to MIT! You acquired a hyperdrive!
Crystal Sphere	a necklace of element samples whose symbols spell out your name the platinum cylinder formerly used to define the kilogram	A significant boost to the engines for a curious pilot (Your engine thrust has increased significantly.) You found the gold crown Archimedes stole! (Your engine thrust has increased significantly.) You found a handful of the quantum foam that makes up the fabric of space! (Your engine gets a little more powerful.)
Crack in the Crystal Sphere		There is a way out (Your launch speed has increased.)	Right lane must turn right Left lane must turn left
Star Destroyer	an unread email a glass slipper with a glass foot in it a lymphocyte a forged resume a serif a Bursa of Fabricius a cluster of data points a premium subscription to food two goats and a new car an out-of-control trolley a helium-238 nucleus the Death Star plans	You found a perpetual motion fidget spinner! (Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.) You found a vintage Juicero juicer! (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)	Hmmm.
Click and Drag Planet	an ant the size of Rhode Island a pin with 17 angels dancing on it	The vehicle below gives you a boost (Your launch speed has increased.) We should turn back (Your engine gets a bit more powerful.) You found an expert at underwater ropes. (Your thrusters are more efficient now.) You found a trisected angle! (Your launch speed has greatly increased.)
Open Space Outside the Crystal Sphere		It is very lonely out here (Your tanks recharge much faster now.) You found a needle in a haystack (Your engine gets a little more powerful.) From here you can view the source of it all. (Your thrusters are more efficient now.)

All Objects with Explanations[edit]

Features and Items
Planet	Type	Location	Description / Message	Explanation
Starting Planet	Message	Above starting position	Wheeee!	Probably reflects the excitation of a new visitor to this XKCD comic, seeing a promising game.
	Item	Above ground left of the starting position	a rock with neat stripes
	Item	In the grass right of the starting position	a cool bug	A reference to 'Cool Bug Epoch' from 2240: Timeline of the Universe
	Item	Up a tree	a pretty leaf
	People	On the opposite of the starting position	Beret Guy pointing his arm up and exclaiming WOW!	This is a reference to the title text of 1117: My Sky, and it could also be a reference to 502: Dark Flow.
Origin	Landscape	Close to the Starting Planet	A sign saying: Welcome to Origin! You can never leave™	The sign names the planet, and also indicates that it is not possible to leave it by just launching off the surface during early gameplay, when the player has not collected any upgrades. May be a reference to the song by The Eagles: "Hotel California".
	Message	Right of the welcome sign, above the rollercoaster	Be careful; this roller coaster can be disorienting!	A hint for the hidden shaft going through the planet; one of the entries is right below here.
	Landscape	On the right side of the rollercoaster	A sign saying: Caution: Long vertical drop	Another hint for the hidden shaft.
	Landscape	To the right of the rollercoaster	A spider-shaped monument	Marks the direction to the Giant Spider planet
	Landscape	To the right of the spider monument	A radio telescope with its antenna pointed straight up. Receiving transmission.	Marks the direction to Voyager 2. The message is an additional hint as radio telescopes are often used to communicate with distant space probes, including receiving probes' measurements and other scientific data, like photos.
	People	Right next to the cell tower	Cueball and White Hat talking. Cueball: I bet the voyager spacecraft could teach you a thing or two about speed. Of course, you'd have to catch up to them first...	Voyager spacecraft are not among the speed record holding space probes as of 2023, however they are the first in history to reach Solar System's escape velocity. They have also executed two gravity assist maneuvers each, so they are good examples on how to increase speed in this way, presumably allowing them to "teach" another spacecraft how to increase speed. Cueball's metaphor goes on to having to meet (catch up with) someone in order to learn something from him. The Voyagers are currently the farthest man-made objects in space; however in the game world they are quite close to the Origin planet. This is also a hint regarding the upgrades located near both Voyager spacecraft, which add more thrust to the player's ship than regular thrust upgrades.
	Landscape	To the right from the radio telescope located near the spider monument	A cell tower with 5G antennas. On top of it a strange object is mounted.	The strange object is a downscaled image of cube satellite from 1992: SafetySat. Normally nobody puts cube satellites on top of fixed towers. This landmark shows the direction to the SafetySat "planet".
	Item	Next to the top of the cell tower	a 5G seagull	5G is a modern emerging standard for cellular networks promising really high download speeds and much higher network capacity (i.e. the number of active devices in an area). Probably a reference to 1656: It Begins
	Landscape	To the right from the cell tower	A tyrannosaurus	Marks the direction to the Jurassic Park planet.
	Landscape	Right next to the tyrannosaurus	A St. Louis Arch shaped hole in the ground
	Landscape	To the left of the three pyramids	A monument shaped like a sphere with a "T" on top	This is a miniature of the Andal planet and marks the direction to it.
	Landscape	The leftmost of three pyramids	A pyramid with a soccer ball on top	Marks the direction to the Spacetime Soccer Field.
	People	The middle pyramid	Ponytail sitting on top of a pyramid, Megan standing at the base of it. Ponytail: If you want a better spaceship, you need to visit another planet. Megan: But if I want to visit another planet, I need a better spaceship!	An in-game reference to the fact that the player's ship initially has too little thrust to launch right off the surface of the Origin planet and needs an upgrade to become a "better" spaceship able to visit other planets. On the other hand, all engine upgrades are located off Origin, creating the apparently unsolvable chicken-and-egg problem – unless the player follows other hints and finds a way to escape Origin anyway.
	Landscape	The rightmost of three pyramids	A pyramid with Saturn on top of it	Marks the direction to Saturn.
	People	Next to the pyramid with Saturn on top	Cueball and White Hat talking. Cueball: I can't believe the Air and Space Museum's new exhibit has a real black hole! White Hat: Is that... safe? Cueball: It's OK, they've got a protective case around it.	Normally, it would not be possible to have a real black hole as a museum exhibit.^{[citation needed]} Also, there's a misunderstanding between White Hat and Cueball. White Hat asks if it is safe for the public to keep a black hole in a museum. Cueball thinks White Hat is concerned about safety of the black hole itself, and responds that it is protected from unscrupulous visitors by putting it in a special case. This is an in-game hint regarding the Subway Planet and the black hole present in its tunnels. It's also a reference to the real-world Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
	Landscape	To the right from the pyramids	A monument shaped like Earth's land masses	Marks the direction to the Projection of Earth.
	People	Right next to the Projection of Earth monument	Hairy: Even if you did find a crack in the crystal sphere, there's no way you'd be able to escape its gravitational pull. You'd need some kind of a hyperdrive for that.	An in-game reference to the Crystal Sphere, the navigable crack through it and the hint regarding the hyperdrive.
	Landscape	On the left side of the St. Louis Arch	A monument of a strange spaceship	This is a reference to 2630: Shuttle Skeleton and marks the direction to the Shuttle Skeleton planet.
	Landscape	Opposite the rollercoaster	A large arch	This is a reference to the Gateway Arch located in St. Louis, Missouri. Marks the other end of the shaft going through the planet core.
	Message	A sign next to St. Louis Arch's right leg	The St. Louis arch is also known as the gateway to space.	The creator of the Arch, Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, reportedly said that the arch symbolizes "the gateway to the West" understood as the American frontier and the expansion of American colonies into the western parts of the continent. In-game, the Arch marks one of the "gateways" into the larger space of the game, namely the exits of the inner shaft, which allows the player to leave Origin by performing the Oberth maneuver (see below for further explanation).
	Upgrade	High above the St. Louis Arch	Nice flying! Your tanks recharge faster now.	Congratulations for getting your orbital mechanics right and skillfully executing Oberth maneuver (see below).
	People	Right next to the St. Louis Arch	Ponytail with a group of three kids looking like Hairy, Megan and Cueball. Ponytail: The St. Louis Arch is also known as the gateway to space.	Ponytail acting as a guide repeats (or reads) to the kids the slogan written on the sign next to the Arch. See above for the explanation of the slogan.
	Landscape	To the right of the St. Louis Arch	A monument with a pear-shaped structure connected to a small sphere	It's a miniature of the Roche Lobe Earth, marking a direction to it.
	Landscape	To the right of the St. Louis Arch	A small structure and a tower with a strange-looking orb on top	Marks the direction to the Round Planet.
	Item	Close to the top of the orb tower.	an orb wren	Wrens are a common family of birds. Their bodies are rather stocky with short wings, sometimes resembling an orb, especially when perched with ruffled feathers such as when enduring cold weather. There's no species actually called an "orb wren".
	Item	Hidden at the base of the orb tower.	11 squares packed into a larger square	A reference to 2740: Square Packing.
	People	To the right of the orb tower	Hairbun and another person. Hairbun: Boston? That's in North America, on the Subway planet. It's straight up from the secret glade, you can't miss it.	This is an in-game reference and a hint on how to find Boston and the Subway Planet
	Item	Hidden in a grassy area to the right of the orb tower	a tumbleweed	Tumbleweed is an above-ground part of some species of plants in a form of a round, dense bush, which detaches as the plant dries in the summer season and is pushed by winds, rolling along the landscape.
	Item	Over a grassy area to the right of the orb tower	a marsh wren	Marsh wren is a species of North American songbird.
	People	To the right from the grassy area	A quintet of hairy and bearded or moustached people playing and singing: It's more than a feeling More than a feeling	This is a reference to the popular song More Than a Feeling by the Boston rock band. It is also an in-game reference and pun regarding multiple Bostons present.
	Message	Above ground to the right of the musical band	You found a tiny meteorite!	Meteorites are fragments of small celestial bodies that have fallen onto the surface of Earth, surviving a high-speed passage through the atmosphere. Some are really tiny, being a result of a fragmentation of a larger one caused by the forces exerted during atmospherical entry. This particular one has not quite reached the surface, and should be called a meteoroid or a meteor instead.
	Item	High above ground to the right of the musical band	a single grain of salt
	Landscape	Between the grassy area and the forest left of the welcome sign	A spiral-shaped monument	Marks the direction to the spiral Uzumaki planet.
	Landscape	Between the grassy area and the forest left of the welcome sign	A radio telescope with its antenna pointed straight up. Receiving transmission.	Marks the direction to the Voyager 1. See also the entry on Voyager 2 above.
	People	Next to the voyager 1 radio telescope.	Cueball and Megan. Megan: It's like my astronomy teacher always said: "Shoot for the Moon -- even if you miss, you might make a crack in the crystal sphere that imprisons us all in this universe."	This is an in-game reference to the crack in the crystal sphere of the universe. If you go straight up from them, you can find the crack pretty easily.
	Item	At the left edge of the forest to the left from the welcome sign	a holographic Charizard business card	This is a reference to a particular character from the Pokémon media franchise. Holographic business cards are a fairly novel form of business or personal presentation.
	Item	In the middle of the forest to the left from the welcome sign	a secret glade
	Item	Up the widest tree in the forest to the left from the welcome sign	a normal-looking leaf
	Message	In the exact middle of the planet	Welcome to liminal space
	People	In a chamber next to the planet's center	Megan with her hair floating around her head. Megan: The Oberth effect states that firing thrusters deeper in a gravity well adds more kinetic energy.	The Oberth effect is a physical phenomenon and orbital maneuver when a spacecraft fires its thrusters as close to the perycenter (the point on the orbit closest to the center of the orbited body) as possible, being deeper in the "gravity well", to gain more kinetic energy than if the same impulse (amount of propellant used and therefore speed difference) has been applied away from the center, in effect using its propellant more effectively. The kinetic energy is what allows a spacecraft to leave the proximity of the orbited body. A special case of such a maneuver may be accelerating in a theoretical shaft going through the core of the body, which is the case simulated in the game. Applying the principle according to Megan's hint the player is able to "swing" the spaceship a few times along the shaft, accelerating close to the center and allowing the "energy" to regenerate while away, and leave Origin in spite off low initial thrust. The fact that inside of a spherical body the gravity of the outer layers cancels out creates a local microgravity environment, causing Megan's hair to freely float around her head.
	Item	In a chamber next to the planet's center	a DVD of The Core (2003)	A DVD is a digital optical disc format used most commonly for distributing films, in his case the 2003 American science fiction disaster film. As the title suggest, it is inconveniently located at the core of the Origin planet.
Hollow Planet	People	In the hollow center of the planet.	Ponytail and White Hat floating in microgravity. White Hat's hat has come off his head. White Hat: It's weird how a hollow shell doesn't exert gravitational force on objects inside it. Ponytail: Oh, so that's why we don't feel a pull from the crystal sphere.	White Hat experiences a practical application of an unintuitive, and since "weird" in his words, shell theorem, as applied to gravity: that inside a hollow, spherical shell the forces of the gravity exerted by the shell cancel out for every object inside, regardless of its position within. Ponytail gets an epiphany, that it also applies to the gigantic Crystal Sphere surrounding the most part of the world she is in.
	Item + Upgrade	Close to the center of the planet.	a sixth lagrange point Your thrusters are more efficient now.	Lagrange points are places relative to two heavy bodies orbiting one another, where a third, much lighter body will stay in equilibrium with the large two, orbiting the common center of gravity with the same period and keeping a constant distance from both. There are only five Lagrange points. In theory, a small body located in the center of a hollowed-out massive body will stay put as well (see the previous explanation), creating the sixth Lagrange point; however a hollow massive body can't exist, it will collapse under its own gravity.
	Landscape	On the surface of the planet.	A sign with upwards-pointing arrow saying: Round Planet	Marks the direction to the Round Planet.
	Item + Upgrade	Over the surface to the right of the Round Planet sign	a glass of heavy water Your engine gets a bit more powerful.	Heavy water is a form of water that contains only deuterium (hydrogen-2) atoms in place of the much more common hydrogen-1 atoms. It is approximately 10% denser than the regular water, hence its name. Heavy water is not normally poured into glasses as for drinking.
	Landscape	On the surface of the planet to the right of the Round Planet sign	A sign with upwards-pointing arrow saying: EXIT	Marks the direction to the crack in the Crystal Sphere.
	Landscape	Next to the EXIT sign	A sign with upwards-pointing arrow saying: Uzumaki	Marks the direction to Uzumaki
	Landscape	Across a gap in the surface to the right of the Uzumaki sign	A sign with upwards-pointing arrow saying: Origin and Subway	Marks the direction to Origin and (not quite precisely) to the Subway Planet.
	Landscape	On the surface opposite the EXIT sign	A sign with upwards-pointing arrow saying: Earth (compromise projection)	Marks the direction to Projection of Earth.
Round Planet	People	On the middle part of the Great Wall	Cueball and Megan. Cueball: The Great Wall of China is the only human-made structure you can see space from.	This is a pun on the commonly voiced misconception that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object on Earth that can be seen from space (or the Earth's orbit at least).
	Item + Upgrade	To the right of the Great Wall over a field of boulders	a sensible cheese platter Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.	A cheese platter is a common dish served in restaurants as a starter or sometimes as a main dish, as well as a final course in a formal meal (following the sweet, or as an option instead of one) composed of a selection of cheeses served on a large platter. However, often it may just be a random collection of what's available (e.g. a hard cheese, a soft cheese, a blue cheese of either hard or soft variety, possibly a small serving of butter; and a selection of crackers that are either far too many or far too few for the other products). A "sensible" plate, i.e. well-composed by a competent chef, might be considered rare.
	Item	Within Stonehenge	a swatch pop-out wristwatch
	People	To the right of the Stonehenge	Hairbun walking on absurdly high stilts	People walking on stilts are a fairly common theme in xkcd. References include 482: Height, 1608: Hoverboard, 1663: Garden, 2603: Childhood Toys, 2669: Things You Should Not Do and possibly other comics.
	Landscape	Next to Hairbun on stilts	Three spaceships flying just above the surface. The leading one transmits a message: Rogue group, use your harpoons and tow cables! Go for the legs!	This is a quote from Star Wars episode V The Empire Strikes Back. In the original context the starships were attacking AT-AT four-legged armored vehicles, trying to immobilize them by entangling their legs. In the game, they are attacking Hairbun on stilts instead.
	Upgrade	Above the middle spaceship attacking Hairbun	Your engine gets a bit more powerful.	A regular engine upgrade.
	People	To the right of the three spaceships	A volleyball net. Cueball is jumping in the air to hit a volleyball on the right side of the net while Ponytail is juggling three bowling pins on the left side.
	Landscape	To the right of the volleyball field	An airplane towing a long, narrow banner with a message printed across, not along it: Does any one know how to get this thing to print in land scape mode?	A reference to 2757: Towed Message.
	People	To the right of the airplane towing a banner	Beret Guy climbing a cell tower with some fruit hanging off the antennas. Cueball is standing next to it.
	Landscape	To the right of the cell tower	Huge gallows with a large flag on a pole hanging on it. The pole of the flag is twisted into a shape partly resembling an infinity sign; the loose end of the pole pierces the flag. A relatively large Cueball figure stands next to it.
Uzumaki	Item + Upgrade	On the outside of the spiral	a single caffeine molecule Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.	Caffeine is a chemical substance present in many plants including coffee beans. Beverages containing it have a refreshing effect on people, reducing fatigue and increasing performance. It may be pun implying that after collecting this item, the spaceship is similarly "recharged" as a person after a cup of coffee, however a single molecule would not make a big difference.
	Message	The entrance to the spiral	Exit Only	In real world doors or gates are sometimes marked Exit Only to facilitate optimal movement of people or vehicles in an area or within a building, especially in an emergency. However, for such one-way passage to be useful, the structure must have some other entry points. The spiral has only one entry point.
	Item	Within the spiral	a festive but somehow unnerving holiday card from Junji Ito	Junji Ito is the author of Uzumaki, which inspired the spiral planet. He specializes in Japanese horror genre, therefore a postcard with his original artwork on it might be perceived as "unnerving".
	Item	Further within the spiral	a podcast episode	A podcast is a primarily a digital audio (now more commonly also a video) show or presentation similar to a radio program, but instead of being broadcast at a predetermined time, is made available for download and later review at leisure. Being digital data, a podcast is intangible, therefore finding a podcast episode just lying around is a bit absurd missing some recording medium. On the other hand a digital video found on the Origin planet is recorded on a DVD (see above).
	Item	Further within the spiral	a friendly bee
	Item	Further within the spiral	an ink cartridge	An ink cartridge is a container filled with ink, packaged for direct use in a device that dispenses the ink for drawing, writing, printing etc. It may refer to a cartridge for an old-fashioned fountain pen or an ink cartridge for a modern inkjet printer.
	Landscape	Further within the spiral	A free-roaming Roomba Roomba: WHIRRR	Roomba is a line of robotic vacuum cleaners popular in the hacker community. Roombas are a common theme on xkcd, but this is likely a direct reference to 1558: Vet.
	Message	Just above Roomba	You're going the wrong way!'	Probably a reference to the Exit Only message above.
	Item	Further within the spiral	a spiral-cut diamond	Raw diamonds are cut to form gems used in jewellery. To expose the natural beauty of the mineral, the cut has to create symmetrical flat surfaces (facets) at specific angles to each other so white light refracts and reflects within the finished gem, possibly multiple times, also dipersing on its way back to the viewer's eye, creating a brilliant look. Cutting a diamond in a spiral shape would be likely counter-productive and very difficult because of the material's brittleness. It is a self-reference to the spiral "planet" the item is located on.
	Item	Further within the spiral	a golden radio tuned to 1.618 MHz	A broadcast radio receiver (often called simply radio) is an electronic device for receiving and listening to radio programming and has to be tuned to a particular frequency to listen to the desired program. Frequency is measured in the unit of hertz or its multiplies, in this example in megahertz. 1.618 MHz is located in the part of HF (high frequency) range of the electromagnetic spectrum assigned (in the USA band plan) to broadcasting, however not aligned to actual station assignments; the closest assignment is 1.620 MHz (1620 kHz) for WDHP station in Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands. Due to inaccuracies involved with tuning and the 10 kHz channel spacing of American AM radio broadcasting, setting a real radio receiver to exactly 1618 kHz will allow listening to the mentioned station, as well as a few others which have nearby frequencies allocated, maybe with some distortion. This is a pun referring to the golden ratio, being an irrational number of approximately 1.618 and to the golden spiral.
	People	Further within the spiral	Beret Guy: I like spirals!
	Item	Further within the spiral	a burrito	Burrito is a Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine dish consisting of various ingredients tightly wrapped in a wheat tortilla. This is a rather nonsense joke; a possible connection to Uzumaki is that wrapping the tortilla creates a spiral cross section.
	Item	Further within the spiral	a cool pair of shoes with flames on the side
	Item	Further within the spiral	a scroll lock key	Scroll Lock is a key on IBM-compatible computer keyboards, often accompanied with a status light. It was originally intended for changing the function of arrow keys between moving the cursor around the screen (Scroll Lock off) and scrolling the contents of the screen (Scroll Lock on). Later, different systems and applications repurposed the key for other functions, such as pausing and resuming automatic scrolling of copious textual output, or for other obscure purposes such as debugging or the Magic SysRq key on Linux. As such, the key has almost fallen out of use in modern computing, prompting manufacturers of small computers such as laptops or small form factor keyboards to make it smaller, move it to a non-standard place in the keyboard layout or drop it altogether. Most laptops missing the Scroll Lock key on their keyboards implement some key combination which acts as if Scroll Lock was pressed, allowing advanced users to use the mentioned obscure functions anyway. Placing this item quite deep in the spiral is a pun referring to difficulty in finding a Scroll Lock key or the equivalent combination on some modern computers. A few xkcd comics refer to the key: 978: Citogenesis, 1465: xkcd Phone 2, 1854: Refresh Types and 2206: Mavis Beacon.
	Item	Further within the spiral	a primordial black hole
	Item + Upgrade	In the center of the spiral	a tree-filled grove and a nice spot for quiet contemplation Your thrusters are significantly more efficient now.
Guitar Ship	Item	Just over the dome on the back of the guitar	a guitar pick	A guitar pick is a small flat tool for playing a guitar.
Guitar Ship	Token	Close to guitar's neck	Orange line deactivated!
Spacetime Soccer Field	Upgrade	Within one of the goals	GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! Your thrusters are more efficient now.
	Upgrade	Within the other goal	GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! Your engine gets a bit more powerful.
	Item + Upgrade	On the surface of the planet between goals	a sunspot Your launch speed has increased.
	Item + Upgrade	At the center spot on one of the soccer field	the 3 million point line Your thrusters are more efficient now.
Saturn	Item	At the equator, below the rings	a really cool data point
	Item + Upgrade	At the south pole	a block of scandium Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	Item + Upgrade	At middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere	a pair of platonic solids, not quite touching Your engine gets a little more powerful.
Andal	Upgrade	At the top of the T-shaped tower	What a nice place for a ship to sit! Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.
	Landscape	To the right of the T-shaped tower	Two fantasy animals: one looks like a centaur, the other as a horse-headed centaur.
	Item + Upgrade	Over the animals	two Andalites, one canonical Your thrusters are more efficient now.
	Item + Upgrade	In the grass close to some hills	baby shoes (and baby) Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	People	In the grassy area between two hilly regions	Cueball and Megan facing each other Megan: The M.I.T. cloaking device only affects the electroweak and nuclear forces. Gravity is the odd one out, as usual.
	Item + Upgrade	Next to Megan	a friend Your thrusters are more efficient now.
Projection of Earth	Item + Upgrade	The North Sea	the Principality of Sealand Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	Item	Northern Atlantic Ocean	the Heart of the Ocean	The whole message says: You found the Heart of the Ocean! It was drifting around in space.
	Item + Upgrade	Next to Rhode Island	a Rhode Island the size of an ant Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	Token	Next to Boston, Massachusetts	Red line deactivated!
	Item	By the Alexander Island of Antarctica	some microbial life
	Item	Off the West African coastline	a whale shark
	Item	On the western coast of Myanmar near the Strait of Malacca	some tin from the pantai remis mine
	Item	Next to the Celebes Island of Indonesia	a sparkling gem
	Item + Upgrade	Off the southern Australian coast	an icosahedral d10 Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	Item	Near the Kamchatka peninsula in Eastern Russia	a piece of pumice	The whole message says: You found a piece of pumice floating in space!
Voyager 1	Item + Upgrade	Next to the dish antenna	Voyager 1 Some of its great speed rubs off on you. Your engine thrust has increased significantly.
Voyager 2	Item + Upgrade	Next to the dish antenna	Voyager 2 Some of its great speed rubs off on you. Your engine thrust has increased significantly.
SafetySat	Item	In front of laser pointers	a first of its kind
	Upgrade	Next to software-defined radio	Your thrusters are more efficient now.
	Upgrade	Next to crude oil tank	The more refined oil had a dinner engagement. Your launch speed has increased.
Shuttle Skeleton	Item	At the tip of the ship's bow	a piece of space shuttle food
Shuttle Skeleton	Upgrade	Next to the left-hand engine	A little upgrade works wonders on fuel efficiency. Your thrusters are more efficient now.
Giant Spider	Item	Next to the tip of the spider's abdomen	a spider-silk scarf
Giant Spider	Item + Upgrade	Next to the spider's mouth	a friendly jumping spider Your engine gets a little more powerful.
Diffraction Spikes Star	Item	At the tip of a long spike	a hydrogen ion
Diffraction Spikes Star	Item	At the tip of a short spike	a piece of coronium (iron)	The whole message says: You found a piece of coronium! Wait, no, iron.
Roche Lobe Earth	Item	Off the California coastline	a curious humboldt squid
	Item	Off the Japan coast	a bathyscaphe	The whole message says: You found a bathyscaphe at the Marianas Trench!
	Token	Near Boston	Green line deactivated!
	Item	On the far side of the Moon	a wayward Roomba full of moondust
Dark Matter Planet	Item + Upgrade	A little above the surface to the left of Ponytail	a delicate music box Your engine is a little more powerful now.
Jurassic Park Planet	People	On the surface	A person with a hat facing a couple dr John Hammond: Welcome... to Jurassic Park.
	Upgrade	To the right of the people close to a dinosaur's mouth	But what if gravity doesn't actually exist? Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.
	Upgrade	Further to the right between two dinosaurs	Today is a good day I think for space exploration. Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	Item	Still further to the right	a tiny pteranodon
	Item	Still further to the right, low above the grass	a baby hedgehog
	Item	Below surface down from the middle of empty grassy area between two dinosaurs to the left of the people	a tattered knapsack containing about $194,00 in $20 bills
Comet 67P	Landscape	On the surface opposite the large bulge	Remains of a crashed spacecraft
	Item + Upgrade	Just above the crashed spacecraft	The Long Now Foundation's archive of every Animorphs book You found The Long Now Foundation's nickel paperweight containing an archive of every published Animorphs book! Your launch speed has increased.'
	Landscape	To the left of the bulge	A small three-legged spacecraft. Spacecraft: BEEP BOOP
	Landscape	On the bulge	Cueball standing next to some apparatus
	Item + Upgrade	Next to the apparatus	a broken smoke machine Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	Upgrade	To the right of the bulge	Some people believe that when the Earth appears in the sky, it's a harbinger of doom. Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.
	Upgrade	Further to the right, next to a signpost	Anyone for Scrabble later? Your engine gets a little more powerful.
What If? Planet	Upgrade	On the flag flying from a flagpole	You captured the flag! You decide to leave it there, but it's yours. Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	People	To the right from the flagpole	A cave in the ground. Inside it there's Beret Guy and two rabbits.	This is a reference to an English-language expression rabbit hole which means a complex, bizarre or difficult situation, esp. such that one does not want to be involved in. The expression is itself a reference to Lewis Carrolls Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in which the protagonist follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole to find herself in the Wonderland. Here, Beret Guy literally enters a rabbit hole. In the original version from 2712: Gravity there was a text spoken by Beret Guy: "I don't know why people complain about going down rabbit holes. These lil guys are adorable!"
	Item + Upgrade	In the rabbit hole	a dna base pair Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	People	To the right from the rabbit hole	Two stones with sails attached, sliding on the ground towards Ponytail and Megan	This is an overly literal reference to the natural phenomenon of Sailing stones. In the original version, Ponytail was saying: "Ahh, the mysterious natural wonders of sailing stones"
	People	To the right from sailing stones	Black Hat aiming a bow at a satellite not far above the ground	Probably a reference to "Consequence archery" from 1920: Emoji Sports
	Item	Just above the satellite	an eye in the sky
	Landscape	To the right of the satellite	A lake with an eel swimming in it
	Item	In the grass near the eel-lake	a smooth green snake	The whole message says: You found a smooth green snake! It curls up in your hand and naps.
	Landscape	On the other side of a grassy area by the eel-lake	A small erupting volcano	In the original version, the volcano was making a DOOT! sound. It is a reference to the "Doot cone" of 1714: Volcano Types
	People	To the right of the volcano cone	White Hat and Cueball standing, another person charging them with a sword held above head. Cueball is holding a small object in his left hand, the arm stretched towards the attacker.
	People	To the right of the person with sword	Baby Hairbun running towards baby Megan. Megan is making a kicking move like in a soccer game, but there's no ball drawn.
	People	To the right of the girls playing	A person with a wide-rimmed hat driving a tractor. The ground strangely sticks to its wheels.	This scene and three following ones are references to What If? 2 Chapter 64: Lemon Drops and Gumdrops, where it rains candy. Lemon drops and gumdrops are made mostly of sugar and pectins to create thick, sticky texture. If such confectionery would fall on the ground in copious amounts such as during heavy rainfall, and partially dissolve in water bodies or ground water, it would make the surface sticky and gross,^{[citation needed]} affecting movement, such as the farmer's tractor having trouble going. Tractors used e.g. in agriculture may already have trouble going on really muddy soils, the addition of candy makes it worse.
	People	To the right of the tractor	Megan and Cueball standing on a shore of a shallow lake, Cueball is poking a stick into the water which strangely sticks to it.	A candyfall happening for a prolonged time would replace some water in lakes etc. and dissolve in them, turning them into a syrup.
	Landscape	Over the shallow lake of sticky water	A hummingbird flying	The only creature satisfied with the candyfall is the hummingbird which feeds on nectar, which is essentially syrup produced naturally within flowers. In the original version, the bird exclaims YESSSSSSS!
	People	To the right of the shallow lake	Cueball with his head apparently tilted back, being hit by something falling from above. PLINK Cueball: OW! PLINK Cueball: OW!	Seeing the candyfall, Cueball attempts to eat some of it, by just opening his mouth and letting the candy fall in. However, as anybody who tried a trick of throwing a piece of candy upwards and catching it in one's mouth knows, having the candy hit one's teeth is a rather painful experience.
	Item + Upgrade	At the bottom of the shallow lake	a sunken treasure Your thrusters are more efficient now.
	People	Further to the right from the shallow lake	A person (Hairy?) sitting on a large heap of bananas, Cueball standing aside.	In the original version Hairy says: "I'm Bananas Georg. Every year our company publishes global per capita banana consumption numbers, so to make the printing easier, I eat enough bananas of December 31st to make sure it's a round number."
	People	Next to Bananas Georg	Megan standing on a brim of a small valley, another person standing in the valley with a small animal by his feet. Megan: Hi, Ryan!
	Item	Just above Ryan	an asterisk	The whole message says: You found an asterisk. it doesn’t seem to refer to anything.
	People	To the right from the valley with Ryan	Cueball and Megan are standing in a dugout. Cueball holds a spade.	In the original version Cueball says: "Weird, I feel heavier."
	Upgrade	Next to Cueball with a spade	The Yellowstone Super What? Your launch speed has increased.
	Landscape	To the right from the dugout	A river, a waterfall and a lake below the falls. On the top of the waterfall Cueball faces two persons with police hats on. There's a fat hose labelled "Niagara water" leading from the waterfall into a building labelled "LHC". Someone in the building shouts: Hey!	The abbreviation "LHC" stands for the Large Hadron Collider. This scene is a reference to Niagara Straw.
	Item	Next to the LHC	a large hadron
Subway Planet	Landscape	Many places	'Warning! Air and Space Museum black hole ahead! Turn back while you still have enough engine thrust!	This warns the player about a black hole present inside the planet in the center of Washington, D.C. area. Once the player gets close and is pulled onto the surface of the black hole, it is not possible to launch off of it without the Hyperdrive. The only way to get unstuck is pressing the Home button. It's a reference to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
	Upgrade	At a large opening in the planet's surface	You get the feeling you're not in Kansas anymore. Your tanks recharge a bit faster now.
	People	On the right side of the large opening in the planet	Megan and Cueball standing on the edge. Cueball is leaning forward, looking down. Cueball: Where's Boston? Megan: I think M.I.T. kids took it.
	Item + Upgrade	In the entrance to a triple-wide tunnel leading down to NYC	a hot dog Your launch speed has increased.
	People	On the surface to the right of the tunnels leading to NYC	Cueball and Danish walking. Cueball: Why did those M.I.T. kids keep talking about Morgantown? Danish: They're just transit enthusiasts, I guess. Cueball: But Morgantown is tiny. It can't possibly have a subway, can it? Danish: Not exactly...
	People	On the surface above Santo Domingo	Hairy and White Hat. Hairy: A lot of people don't realize that North America only has one subway system; each city's metro is just one part of the network.
	Item + Upgrade	At the entrance to a tunnel leading to Santo Domingo / Monterrey area	a bottle of Coke Absolute Zero Your thrusters are more efficient now.
	People	On the surface to the right of the Mexico City	Ponytail: Welcome to the Subway Planet, home of all North America's metro systems!
	People	Further to the right	Ponytail and Cueball. Cueball is holding a four-wheeled suitcase. Ponytail: Boston? No, that's on the other side of the planet. Or used to be, anyway.
	People	Further to the right	Ponytail and Megan walking. Ponytail: My favorite thing about visiting Origin is all the pointing sculptures. They make it so easy to navigate!
	People	On the surface next to San Francisco	Cueball and Megan standing on the opposite sides of a tunnel entrance. Cueball: If you're looking for someone to track down those M.I.T. kid, you could try asking CalTech. Megan: But we're in San Francisco; Isn't CalTech in Pasadena? Cueball: Yeah, it's down there somewhere.
	People	Between San Francisco and Vancouver	Ponytail jumping across a tunnel entrance. Ponytail: Vancouver!
	People	Vancouver	Cueball and Ponytail looking up. Cueball: Huh, I never noticed that crack in the crystal sphere before.
	People	Down in the tunnels in Montreal	Knit Cap: Bienvenue à Montréal!
	People	At the bottom of the large hole in the planet's surface	Blondie and Megan. Blondie: I hear M.I.T. kids were working on a cloaking device. Boston could be anywhere.
	Item	In a short dead-end tunnel near the right side of the hole	a Cybiko® wireless handheld computer for teens (2000)
	Item	In a short dead-end tunnel down in NYC	a handful of quantum foam
	Item + Upgrade	Down in the tunnels of New York City	a brightly-lit billboard Your thrusters are more efficient now.
	Item	Down in NYC	a normal-sized apple
	Item + Upgrade	In the tunnel leading from New York City to Washington, D.C.	a friendly cat Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	People	Down in Mexico	Cueball sitting on a ledge, Megan standing below, looking down Megan: You'd need some powerful thrusters to make it down there and back.
	People	Monterrey	Megan looking at her phone `xkcd.com/1196`
	Item + Upgrade	In a short dead-end tunnel near Miami	a beige electron Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	Item	In a short dead-end tunnel in Toronto	a relativistic bowling ball
	Item + Upgrade	Further down in Toronto	$30 in Yahoo You found $30 in Yahoo! cash! Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	Upgrade	Down in San Francisco	The next stop is Interplanetary Terminal G. Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	People	Down in Los Angeles	A rectangular chamber connected to a tunnel. Megan is standing at the entrance to it, Hairbun and Cueball are inside. Megan: Welcome to CalTech! Hairbun: The M.I.T. cloaking device control? It's in Morgantown, WV. Cueball: Figures.
	People	Left and down from the CalTech chamber	Science Girl standing in the tunnel. Science Girl: Stop! This line goes to D.C.! Ever since the Air and Space Museum put in the black hole exhibit, it's been difficult to return without enough engine thrust.	This is a more elaborate version of the warning plastered all over the inside of the planet. See the first entry on the Subway Planet above.
	Upgrade	In a tunnel between Los Angeles and Philadelphia	There is no parking in the white zone. Your thrusters are more efficient now.
	Upgrade	In a long straight dead-end tunnel near Philadelphia	You feel accomplished. Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	People	Down in Philadelphia	Cueball sitting on a slope. Cueball: Morgantown? You could get there via Philly and Baltimore, but that would take you near the Museum. Might be safer to take the red line from Atlanta.
	Message	In a tunnel in Washington, close to the black hole	Transfer here for Mornington Crescent
	Landscape	In the center of Washington, D.C.	The Air and Space Museum's black hole pictured as a dark circle with shiny rings around it. It is impossible to escape it without the Hyperdrive. If caught there, hit the Home button.	This object does not behave like a real black hole as anything getting close enough (below the Schwarzschild radius) will never emerge from it again. In the game, however, one can land on the surface of it and launch off it, provided that the engine thrust has been greatly increased by the Hyperdrive. The object behaves like a dense, spherical solid having a large mass and hence exerting significant gravitational force, more like a super-Earth.
	Landscape	In the tunnel leading from Washington to Morgantown	A sign with an arrow, saying WV	WV is a common abbreviation for the U.S. state of West Virginia in which Morgantown lies.
	People	In Morgantown	Cueball sitting at a subway station (a round chamber a bit wider than the tunnel) at a strange angle to the surface Cueball: Welcome to Morgantown!
	Token	In Morgantown	MIT Cloaking Device deactivated! Boston detected.
	Landscape	Along the tunnels from Morgantown up to the surface near Mexico	A grey line with a circle at Morgantown end and an arrow at the other end	This line appears only after the Cloaking Device is deactivated and points to the Boston planet.
	People	In the tunnel leading from Morgantown to Atlanta	Megan standing at a subway station at a strange angle to the surface Megan: Welcome to Morgantown!
	People	Further along the tunnel from Morgantown to Atlanta	Megan sitting Megan: I think I'm stuck. I can't even see the black hole from here!
	People	At the joint of the tunnels leading to Morgantown and Washington, D.C.	Cueball sitting on the edge, his elbow on his thigh, and his chin resting on his hand. Cueball : Where does that line go?
Boston Planet	People	Next to the entrance of the blue line, labelled "Wonderland"	Cueball: There's a token to open each T line. The blue line token is right here in Boston.
	Token	Over the blue line entrance	Blue line deactivated!
	People	On the other side of the entrance of the blue line	White Hat with his arms stretched facing Ponytail White Hat: Welcome to Wonderland!
	People	Next to the entrance of the red line, labelled "Braintree"	Cueball and Megan Cueball: Transfer here to Skinflower and Bonevine.	Braintree, Massachusetts is a real-world town in the Greater Boston area, where the MBTA subway red line terminal station is located. The funny-sounding name of the town has inspired Randall to create two fictional station names following the same pattern of animal organ + plant form: Skinflower and Bonevine. These names also appear on the map in 1196: Subways.
	People	Next to the entrance of the green line, labelled "Riverside"	Cueball: I can't believe the green line goes all the way to Los Angeles.
	People	Next to the other entrance of the green line, labelled "Boston College"	Megan and Ponytail talking. Megan: Boston is a lot of places. It's on the East Coast of North America, but it's also on the surface of the Earth. Ponytail: And on some playlists. Megan: And of course it's right here!
	People	Next to another entrance of the green line, labelled "Medford/Tufts"	Cueball: I can't believe the green line extension is finally open.
	People	Down the blue line tunnel	Cueball: The red line token? It's in Boston.	Cueball states the fact that there are many places named Boston or alluding to Boston in the game and the remaining subway tokens (besides the blue line one, which was needed to get into the blue line tunnel in order to read Cueball's hints) are located in or near such places. To find where the other tokens are, sort the table by the Type column and look up entries named "Token".
	People	Further down the blue line tunnel	Cueball: The green line token is in Boston, too.
	People	Still further down the blue line tunnel	Cueball: The orange line token is also in Boston.
	People	Near the intersection of the blue and orange lines tunnels	Cueball: There are a lot of Bostons in this universe.
	People	In the red line tunnel, down from Braintree.	Megan and Cueball walking. Cueball: You know, the locals actually pronounce it "Quinchy"	This is a reference to Quincy, Massachusetts, a city through which the Boston subway red line goes. Four stations are located within the city limits: North Quincy, Wollaston, Quincy Center and Quincy Adams. The word "quinchy" is a rather obscene slang expression, look it up in Urban Dictionary.
	People	In the red line tunnel, next to a place labelled "MIT".	Megan : The hyperdrive works pretty well, but use it carefully. Try not to fly into walls at full speed.
	Upgrade	In the red line tunnel, next to a place labelled "MIT".	Welcome to MIT! You acquired a hyperdrive!
	In the center of the planet	Item	a strangely heavy subway token	This item is only accessible before the Boston planet is uncloaked.
Crystal Sphere	Close to the interior edge to the left of the crack	Upgrade	A significant boost to the engines for a curious pilot. Your engine thrust has increased significantly.
	On the interior edge approx. a quarter of the full circle to the right of the crack	Item + Upgrade	the gold crown Archimedes stole Your engine thrust has increased significantly.
	On the interior edge almost opposite the crack	Item	a necklace of element samples whose symbols spell out your name	The full message says: You found a necklace of element samples whose symbols spell out your name (note: hopefully you are not named 'Katherine' or 'Brandon')!
	On the exterior edge approx. a quarter of the full circle to the left of the crack	Item	the platinum cylinder formerly used to define the kilogram
	Some distance off the exterior edge approx. a quarter of the full circle to the right of the crack	Item + Upgrade	a needle in a haystack Your engine gets a little more powerful.
	Inside the Crystal Sphere between Boston and Round planets	Upgrade	You found a handful of the quantum foam that makes up the fabric of space! Your engine gets a little more powerful.
Crack in the Crystal Sphere	On the left side of the entrance to the crack in the sphere	Message	Left lane must turn left
	On the right side of the entrance to the crack	Message	Right lane must turn right
	Inside the crack more than a halfway though it	Upgrade	There is a way out. Your launch speed has increased.


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