Vulcanic Heights

Note: This page is about Dream Game.

Vulcanic Heights is one of the seven surface dreams in Dream Game. It is a large, cylindrical volcano with multiple rocks sticking out of the side which conveniently are flattened, creating a parkour course to reach the various doors littered about its sides.

There are Arrow Spitters sprinkled throughout the parkour section of this dream, which are linked to the pressure plate in front of them, which blends in with the platform. If you touch the pressure plate, they will shoot an arrow out, which will fling you far away and deal moderate damage. The Arrow Spitters can be netted with any net and will give you a bunny. This dream is known especially for the four depth dreams that are linked to it, the Xigeris Fire, the cauldron, and the Pumpkin Gate.

Overall, this dream is a rather hit-or-miss in terms of usefulness. All four of the depth dreams linked to here (being Owl, BallRoom, Coming Storm and Herakleia Depths) are much, much smaller than every other dream in the game, and feature usually only one purpose. The Owl dream's original purpose is to award the Surefire Slingshot temporarily (which has now since been removed), the BallRoom dream's purpose is to obtain more ammo for the Surefire Slingshot, the Coming Storm dream... well, this dream's purpose is still unknown. It's very likely that this dream is an exception for usefulness, but that requires further information, and the Herakleia Depths' purpose is to buy overpowered weapons. It also features the Pumpkin Gate, which is necessary for the Shiny Net.

Depth Dream Orb Locations
The Owl dream depth orb is in the uppermost depth dream orb, inside of the tower with the Xigeris Fire on the top, the BallRoom dream depth orb is in a crevice at an intersection in the parkour, next to the sledgehammer, the Coming Storm dream is hidden in the walls of the small lake inside, and the Herakleia Depths dream depth orb is on the far-left end of the blue acid lake under the inside part of the mountain which can be entered through a hole in the side of the mountain, shown in order from top to bottom.



Mysterious Sledgehammer
There is a very large sledgehammer to the left of the BallRoom dream depth orb, held down by three stone bars. Interacting with the sledgehammer shows a Hint that Nashatra can't take it out. It's unknown what the purpose of the sledgehammer is, or if it has one, but it is very interesting, nonetheless. It's actually more like a club hammer than a sledgehammer.



Xigeris Fire
Atop the stone pillar, located at the top of Vulcanic Heights itself, is a strange sort of shrine which holds an orange block with a fire particle. The shrine is probably inspired by teleporters in the game Yume 2kki. Interacting with it causes Nashatra to say, "Brings back memories." However, touching the fire will teleport you to the Dream game memory world, which is the 2015 version of the game. One of the dreams in this memory world is the old version of Graveyard Sea, which is a red void containing the barriers of Graveyard Sea and a portal to the sublevel containing Xigeris himself, Tidal Locking. Entering the dream will prompt a Hint saying, "Today I found an old hat...", a hint as to how to beat Xigeris for the 5 badge. It is possible to hear whispering hinting at putting the fire out for Stealth Pilot, but there is not any video recording of this as of current.



Pumpkin Gate
The Pumpkin Gate is a large structure located on the cliffside village inside of the mountain, which can be accessed by flinging yourself off of a surface with the broom at a good angle, or through entering one of the doors on the upper layer of the surface of Vulcanic Heights, one that is parallel in altitude to the cliffside village, and pie hiking and parkouring your way across the sides. I'd recommend going to the right side for this.

To activate the Pumpkin Gate, you must light the 2 pumpkins in the gate itself. You can do this with either with Cloud Coffees and/or Spicy Flavored Water sodas, and interact with the two pumpkins while both are in your inventory. This process will consume these items but activate the gate once both pumpkins are lit up, indicated by a victory sound. Clicking on the lit gate will reveal numbers for the letters on the left of the gate. These tell you that you must then also have collected 13 hats, and 37 cans and/or wrappers with A Shudra's Task, signified by the "H" and the "C/W" respectively, to proceed with the ritual. What matters for cans and wrappers is how many wrappers and cans you have total. Please note this is counting how many empty wrappers and cans you have picked up with your net, not how many you have in your inventory, and that clicking on the cash register at Eunoia's shops in Ten-Mou and Fissure Outpost will sell all of them! Once all of these requirements are fulfilled, you can interact with the gate itself and you will obtain the Shiny Net (provided if you have the A Shudra's Task first).



Cauldron
To the right of Pumpkin Gate on the cliffside village lies a large black empty cauldron. It's serves as a method of creating larger version of already existing creatures, so far being able to turn:


 * a Bunny into a Big Bunny,
 * a Ol' Thunder into a Medium Ol' Thunder,
 * a White Horse into a Medium White Horse,
 * a Wind Berry into a Medium Wind Berry,
 * and a Royal Turtle into a Medium Royal Turtle.

This is done by first dropping 8 full soda cans, with the exception of PowerTool Drink, into the cauldron which then fills it with a thin transparent layer according to the soda's color. Once full, you simply then drop with creature you wish to enlarge into the cauldron.

You are also able to create your own drinkable potions if you use an empty Cloud Mug on a full cauldron, it will grant increased maximum health if a full cauldron is made of Healing Potions or/and Slateskin Potions from Dying Mall or from crates.



Nightmare Variant
Sometimes, Vulcanic Heights will be loaded with an eerie red ambience.

This ambience may be connected to the backstory of this dream. The story has appeared in earlier versions of Dream Game and in screenshots. The story is based on Greek mythology. The story describes an anti-Medusa, awakening in her pit of statues, wanting to return to her earlier life, before Athena punished her for her affair and turned her ugly. "Anti-Medusa" or "redeemed Medusa" might mean that this is Medusa after being defeated by Perseus, and she is no longer evil. Possibly, the volcano in this dream is her pit of statues in the story. Also, in the story, the redeemed Medusa wakes up at dawn, similar to this atmosphere. This interpretation of the story might be incorrect, and the story might not be canon.