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Most of the fun stuff in Clockwork Phase is unavailable to you until you reach the temporal tier. To get started, you first need to acquire an item that holds a significant amount of memories. The majority of these are received as a random drop from mobs (each kill is about a 1% chance drop). Once you snag one of these items, you can use it as a clockwork component, adding a memory value to the resulting clockwork item.With a memory web active around your tool, there is a small, passive chance of extracting time sand from the world as you effect the timelines around you. For the pickaxe, axe and shovel, this chance is rolled whenever you break a block that the tool is effective against. In the case of sword, it occurs whenever something is slain by the sword. The chance of obtaining time sand is increased with higher memory values. It also takes into account the user's memory, so having a higher xp level is beneficial.With time sand in your tool, you can now manipulate the time around you to change the tool into a far more powerful "temporal" form (hit 'R' or your chosen keybind). This takes advantage of the weak spots of the materials over time to give you a massive boost to block breaking speed. More importantly, you can right click on valid blocks with the temporal tool (see below), infusing the material with time sand and creating temporal metal. This is the main metal that will be required for the time magic items.Temporal Clockwork Pickaxe - Right click on most ores.Temporal Clockwork Axe - Right click on most trees.Temporal Clockwork Shovel - Right click on gravel, sand, grass or dirt.Temporal Clockwork Sword - Murder something.After a while, you will naturally want a more effective way of extracting time sand. Enter the fork extractors, which use a catalyst to destroy a timeline and collect the resulting time sand. After crafting a fork extractor, they can also be thrown on the celestial compass to re-purpose them. Place an extractor down in the world and insert the corresponding catalyst (which will take damage with use). The GUI will give you a hint on how the extractor generates time sand. Some timeline cancellations are more noticeable than others, the less noticeable being considered "passive."Passive extractions:Light - Time sand from being in a bright area.Water - Time sand from being surrounded by water.Air - Time sand from being at a high height.Lunar - Time sand from night.Active extractions:Life - Time sand from nearby natural spawn (will cancel said spawn).Earth - Time sand from nearby sapling to tree growth (will cancel the growth).Fire - Time sand from a nearby burning entity.Death - Time sand from a nearby death (will cancel the death and fully heal the entity).Time naturally flows from areas of high activity to low activity (time flies when your having fun after all). Contraptions made with temporal cores follow a similar system, with the active cores feeding the sedate ones. Using this, you can create a buffer to store time sand and inject it into other items, known as a "time well." Also necessary is the "time tuner;" used to connect two blocks so that they share time sand (following the active to sedate block rule). Right click the time well with the time tuner, then right click the fork extractor. Once the fork extractor reaches a certain amount of time sand, it will flow into the time well. The lower slot of the time well can then inject time sand into a valid item, while the top does the opposite.Now that you have enough time sand, you can begin using it more consistently. Pocket watches are essential tools for a chronomancer. Place a pocket watch in a crafting table with a valid module to give it new capabilities. Hold the pocket watch and hit 'R' to open the GUI (or the keybind). Inactive modules will appear grayed out and can be activated by clicking them. Each module gives a passive effect as long as the pocket watch is in your inventory. However, these effects do nothing unless you have a time sand supplying item in your inventory. All hourglasses and the time well (if it's in your inventory), will automatically supply their time sand to anything that requires it.