Temporal gear

Temporal gear
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Items

Temporal gears are acquired as loot for killing some creatures, as a rare drop from panning , or can be purchased from specific traders . They are used to craft some devices and as an energy source. They can reset the player's spawn point and repair translocators .

Obtaining

Looting

Temporal gears can be looted from slain:

• Drifters , Shivers and Bowtorn : high level variants of these enemies, deep underground, will have a better chance of dropping this item than those on the surface.
• Immobilized eidolon

They can also be looted from chests in the Resonance Archives .

Purchasing

You can purchase temporal gears from Treasure Hunter traders for an average price of 5 rusty gears . When they offer this item for sale, they have only one unit each time.

You can also purchase Treasure maps from Treasure Hunter traders . Alchemist buried treasure has a guaranteed Temporal gear while Machinist, Royal and Wealth buried treasure have a less than 1% spawn chance. This for an approximate 4.3% chance total.

Panning

Very rarely, you can get a temporal gear when panning bony soil. The chance to get one is 0.1% or 1 in 1000.

It is even more rare to get one when panning gravel at 0.05% or 1 in 2000.

Repairing

Temporal gears are used to repair broken translocators found in ruins . Each damaged translocator requires 2 metal parts and 3 temporal gears to be repaired. Note: If your character's class is Clockmaker, you will only need 2 temporal gears and 2 metal parts.

Crafting

Temporal gears are used to craft:

• Tuning spear
• Resonator

Energy source

Temporal gears are used as an energy source for:

• Rift ward
• Night vision mask
• Terminus teleporter

Spawn points

When a player starts a game or joins a server, they appear at the spawn point of the world. Any time a player is killed they will be sent back to respawn at their original location until they acquire a temporal gear. Using this item allows a player to choose any location as their spawn point. Each player in a game must acquire their own temporal gear, and resetting the spawn for one player does not affect any other player's spawn point. A player may override their set spawn location at any time by using an additional temporal gear.

Resetting

1. Place the temporal gear in an empty slot in your hotbar.
2. With the temporal gear in your active hand, aim at the block on the ground you choose as your new spawn point.
3. Hold right mouse button to use the item. As this happens, your screen will shake quite dramatically.
4. When the gear is consumed, the shaking will stop, and your spawn point is reset.

Temporal gear tutorial video

Thanks to Ashantin for creating this video and sharing with the VS Community (Geronimo!)

Lore

Spoilers ahead!
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Item description:
Shivering, yet somehow sturdy. Seems to endlessly turn a constant level of inertia, even when resisted.

Just like the rusty gears or the metal parts , the temporal gears cannot be crafted by smelting or forging metal, and they are sometimes used as an energy source for Jonas' inventions (terminus teleporter, rift ward, night vision mask). So it is safe to assume that they were also created by inventor Jonas Falx.

Jonas Falx is a very important character in the game's story. Several Lore Books mention his name, but most important of all is the five-part narrative entitled Reflection .