The Maze

Nights that move the walls, rooms and traps, Watchers, the sculk infection, compasses and the way out.

Day and night

The maze runs on its own clock, independent from the Overworld.

Phase	Default length	What happens
Day	12000 ticks (10 min)	Gates are open, Watchers are underground
Warning	last 30 seconds of the day	A bell rings in the Glade
Night	8000 ticks (6 min 40 s)	Gates close, walls move, Watchers emerge

Carry a clock anywhere in your inventory to see a countdown until the gates close or open in the action bar.

At the start of every night, wall segments in every sector slide one cell into a new position. Each sector follows a movement cycle of 8 nights: the walls move further for the first half and return along the same path in the second half.

The ground where walls have moved shows how long ago the last movement happened:

Nights since the wall moved	Ground
0	Packed mud and coarse dirt
1	Coarse dirt and rooted dirt
2	Rooted dirt and moss
3 or more	Fully overgrown with grass, ferns and bushes

From ring 3 outward, wide boulevards cross the sectors and never change.

Rooms

Rooms are placed inside the maze and never move.

Room	Description
Loot	Old library with bookshelves, chests and barrels
Spawner	Dark dungeon with a mob spawner and bones
Nether	Nether fortress corner with farmland and a brewing stand
Lava	Ruined portal with obsidian, basalt and eternal fire
Ore	Mine shaft with ores that grow back over time
Quarry	Excavation site with suspicious sand and gravel to brush
Pitfall	Moss carpet over a deadly 26 block drop onto dripstone
Shelter	Safe spot with an azalea hedge, a crafting table and a chest
Village	Small settlement. Villagers appear when a player comes close
Symbol	Temple with one rune and its number for the exit code
Exit	The exit terminal in front of the outer wall

Traps

Quiet corridors can contain spike traps, arrow traps and small corridor pits - 3 × 3 patches of moss over a hole. Traps become more common in the outer rings.

Watchers

Watchers are wardens that dig their way out of the ground at night and burrow back down at sunrise.

Property	Default
Health	120
Melee damage	12
Sonic boom	Disabled
Maximum per player	1 in rings 1 and 2, 2 from ring 3 outward
Maximum in the whole maze	12

Watchers only emerge in quiet corridors, never in rooms or the Glade.

Drops: a rune compass pointing to one of the symbol rooms, and with a 25 % chance an exit compass.

Sculk infection

A hit from a Watcher infects the player or raises the infection by one stage. Untreated, the infection advances by one stage every 5 minutes.

Stage	Effects
1	Darkness pulses and sculk particles
2	Adds Slowness I and Mining Fatigue
3	Adds Slowness II, Weakness, Hunger and damage every 4 seconds. No longer wears off

Damage stops at half a heart by default. The infection can be made lethal in the config.
Players at the last stage infect players standing within 2.5 blocks with a 5 % chance per second.
Only a golden apple cures the infection. Milk has no effect.

Compasses

Compass	Points to	How to get it
Glade compass	The Glade	Supply chests in the maze
Rune compass	One symbol room	Dropped by Watchers
Exit compass	The exit terminal	25 % chance from Watchers
Bunker compass	The entrance of the Old Bunker	Given when entering the Scorch for the first time

All compasses spin during a sandstorm while the player is under the open sky.

Escaping the maze

Find the 8 symbol rooms in rings 2 to 5. Each one shows a rune and a number.
The number tells you the position of that rune in the exit code.
Enter the runes in the right order at the exit terminal.
The exit gate in the outer wall opens for everyone and stays open.
Walk through the tunnel into the Scorch.