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Giant Astronaut is an object in a space suit, slowly floating away from the open roof of the Bright Moon Cottage. He produces a quiet trumpet noise, which gets louder as he approaches. Eventually, the astronaut will return to the roof, and then the cycle will repeat.
The landing event[]
On extremely rare occasions, the Astronaut may suddenly change its direction from its regular path and fly down into the yard, stopping at the right side of the bar, where it becomes linkable. Linking with the astronaut at any point, even modifying your position to touch him while he's in the air, will always link the player to the Black Space.
The Landing Event happens when rating marker of the background chart lands on any cell of the Upper Dynamic ( pink ) link zone ( see the picture provided ), or on any cell of the top row of the Dynamic ( black ) link zone, cells ( x=4~9; y=3~9 ) upon the Astronaut's spawn.
It means, that Landing Event happens rather commonly after the pink link leading to the Bright Moon Cottage on any B-type dream. The Landing Event is also possible after the black link, however it is much more a rare occasion. The easiest way to achieve the pink link repetition cycle is to encounter the Gray Man. Triggering him has a high chance of moving the chart's marker right onto the pink link zone ( the " chance " is based on the current marker's position ). The only condition left is to keep the pink link repetition until it sends the player to the Bright Moon Cottage.
It is notable, that although every pink link zone's cell is an activator for multiple rare events, the Landing Event cannot be guaranteed, even after the pink link; there will always be a chance of marker falling out of the pink link zone because of the Bright Moon Cottage scene loading event - it also has it's own influence value on the graph and in some cases may throw the marker out from the event activation cells of the graph. If this happens, the Astronaut will continue it's normal route and won't ever land in such dream afterwards.
Currently, the reliable way to cause guaranteed Landing Event is being searched for. All previous known ways included extreme timer influence applied to the Dynamic Links ( on Day 004 The Natural World has a timer influence applied to any dynamic link ) which makes it almost impossible to replicate. Certain timings may even be completely impossible to perform on certain devices / emulators, as the emulation speed differs from device to device. The current goal is to find a dream generation in which there's no timer influence applied to the dynamic links.
Trivia[]
- The earliest day you can spot the Astronaut and his landing event is Day 004. Due to the game's speed being different on different devices, most players are unable to repeat the certain chain of actions, which leads to the landing event.
- The Astronaut's trumpet noise uses the same audio as the trumpeters from Happy Town, slowed down to 0.25x speed.
- The Astronaut's helmet viewport seems to be a ceiling texture from the library room of the Bright Moon Cottage.
- The Astronaut appears only on B-type days, and only once per dream, so after revisiting the Bright Moon Cottage the astronaut will be missing. This is the main reason the landing event being so rare.
- For some reason, the astronaut's trombone sound is being muted when the player observes the astronaut when it is landed, however, if the player is on upper floors of the Bright Moon Cottage and the astronaut is not visible to the player, the landed astronaut will continue to produce its typical sound. It is very likely to be intended by the developers: such mechanic prevents the player from noticing the missing sound of the astronaut, thereby noticing the landing event.
Hacking information[]
Further hacking of the files within LSD itself (done by the hacking community) has found a few things:
- If you modify your position with the Software tools, this will also link you to the Black Space.
- The trombone and trumpet use the same audio file, with the trumpet simply being pitched down to give it the trombone-like sound.
Speculation[]
- The astronaut descending into the bar may symbolise astronauts' rare weekends, when they return from the space and finally able to have a rest.