Can't reach Ash Twin Core

[Ardapel]

I've pretty much have done everything that I've needed to do to complete the game. All that's left now is formally ending it, by traveling to the Eye of the Universe. I've located the vessel but I need the Warp Core, which I know is on, or should I say, in the Ash Twin. I know how to get to the Ash Twin Core, you go to the broken tower representing the ash twin of the hourglass twins, you enter the black hole to the core as the Ember Twin is directly above you. Unfortunately, I've tried at least ten times to get to the black hole as it's clear of ash and the Ember Twin is directly above me, but the black hole doesn't appear before or even as I get pulled into the sand pillar leading to the Ember Twin. I've mainly tried rushing from under the bridge to the black hole but that doesn't work. Yesterday, I even tried waiting inside the broken tower and moving back and forth as the Ember Twin was above me, still didn't work. I once tried just standing on the warp and waiting for the Ember Twin, still didn't work. After I eventually gave up on that, I tried to cheat me way there having run out of ideas, and I used two different mods to get there including collision from TAICheats but once I got to the core, I got instantly teleported to the sand pillar again, and I also wanted to use OWSpawnPoints to teleport to it, I still can't even figure out how to access it, especially without any instruction. I don't know if this all is a bug or not but does anyone have any solutions.

[Ardapel]

It may also be worth mentioning that unlike a lot of videos I've seen, there are two cacti in the broken tower that are blocking part of the way to the warp

[sharktemplar]

Yeah the solution to the ash twin project entry puzzle is pretty janky to pull off and the info provided from ship logs about how to do it is rather unclear. I admittedly got too frustrated myself on my blind first playthrough and had to check a video of how it was done. I was remarkably close but it's annoying and a bit precise.

Stand in the little back corner of the warp pad room where the light is, wait for the sand stream to be directly overhead, then run in a straight line directly onto the center of the warp pad. You'll then be warped inside juuuust before the sand has a chance to suck you up and away from the warp pad.

You being teleported out of Ash Twin after using a mod likely sounds like a playerstuck failsafe, where if the player somehow gets trapped inside the Ash Twin but isn't on the usual platforms within and cannot get back up, I'd be willing to bet they placed an emergency teleport that warps the player out so they are not soft-locked for the rest of that loop.

[Ardapel]

Nevermind, I figured it out without cheats. You got to use your jetpack to move downwards to keep you anchored as the sand pillar pulls you up while you're walking to the warp

[sharktemplar]

Originally posted by Ardapel:

Nevermind, I figured it out without cheats. You got to use your jetpack to move downwards to keep you anchored as the sand pillar pulls you up while you're walking to the warp

That makes it EVEN easier yes, and is what I had to do on my first attempts too

[CrazyJayBe]

Also, the Little Scout will stick to anything

[Zolace]

What I do is I put the scout on the black hole pad, and stand in the doorway and just to the left of the cactus. Oddly, the scout doesn't get sucked up by the sand column. The moment the black hole sucks the scout through, I make a run for the hole. Works every time. That's without using the jetpack.

[4thQueen]

No need to use the jetpack, the info in the High Energy Lab is all you need. You have a few seconds AFTER the sandstream is directly overhead to still catch a ride on the warp.

[Mr Compassionate]

On my first playthrough I found out how to get in there by complete accident (as absurdly unlikely as that sounds) by just walking in at the correct time. My question is, how are you SUPPOSED to find out how to get in there?

[morbosfist]

There's a log telling you about how the teleport effect works.

[callmeTyler]

I wait under the bridge until at least half of the sand column has passed, then I just run in. Works flawlessly.

[Terra]

Originally posted by Mr Compassionate:

On my first playthrough I found out how to get in there by complete accident (as absurdly unlikely as that sounds) by just walking in at the correct time. My question is, how are you SUPPOSED to find out how to get in there?

There's an entry in the Black Hole Forge that tells you that the Twins count as one celestial body and that it would have to be oriented towards the middle of the two planetoids for it to work. Hence, when the sand is overhead.

For what it's worth, there WAS a roof on that core. It's broken during the game, but it did work in the Nomai's day.

[Baron]

Lawd almighty, people, don't break your brains. There's a perfectly good alcove in the back of the room you can run out of when the sandfall passes overhead. No tricks required.