If it's another language then it is probably Czech (ie Czech Republic, where KSH is based), which uses accents (like á, é etc). It may explain why some of the symbols look really similar but have slight modifications.
I think it's a good theory with the accents, buy there aren't any single letter words with accents in czech and then it woudn't make sense that the same symbols would be accents in other words.
@@Zer0sLegion I'm Czech. And there are interesting things .. like the green L and orange L suffix, which is there 4 times. That's quite Czech-like, lot of words share suffixes. On the other hand there are double orange L .. and double letters are very rare in Czech. There is also very specific pattern toward the end .. red green orange TLL .. 3rd word from end .. and then very similar at the end .. with just a few "accents". I can't think of any such combination. Also typical Czech would have lot more accents. Still I wouldn't rule it out completely ..
One correction: The monolith and stereolith can be welded up VERY slowly. If you take a look at some videos where ppl test it for armor, they also test wether it can be welded up or not.
@@Zer0sLegion Yeah, in the video I've seen someone needed 10 minutes with 8 or so welders to even bring it up a few percent. It was from a guy called Kaulutu, iirc.
I have someone in my faction that always uses a few of them on their moon base as part of the logo. they usually just leave a welder on it and leave it working while everyone is busy with their own stuff. it always feels like an age passes and even several days depends on how often someone is playing near it so it welds.
I get the fealing you need the monolith to translate the stereolith it is after all a pun. For instance you might have to remove every letter that is on the monolith from the stereolith to get a coherent result. Hell it might go through an enigma cipher based on the monolith text.
I only found them because I wanted the achievement. They're easy to miss because they only spawn on the planet starts(the three that Zero mentioned). They don't show up if you do a solar system start.
Maybe keen could add a story element that sends you to deep space co-ordinates to find character elements that enable people to translate it. OH... you're only doing letters... what about numbers ? What if its co-ordinates ?!!
Fun fact, the Stereolith can be found in deep space, as well. It appears in grids as Platform 9871 (if I remember right). It's set as a station, so you can build a seat on it, switch it to 'ship', remove the seat, and you can grab it with mag plate or landing gear and move it into a hangar/cargo hold then fly around with it. It's very hard and rare to find.
Maybe there is 2 of them ? Perhaps that is the missing piece of the puzzle? I mean, the fact that the stereolith is an obvious wordplay on monolith shouldn't eliminate the possibilty that it might very well mean something, like I don't know , that there is 2 of them ?
Yeah, the stereolith has been a PITA for years lol What really sucks, is the characters on the edge might even be a language styled after something like cruciform or a pictographic (or pictogram based, if you prefer) language. Since it's in small , irregular groupings, it might also be a combination of formats where single/double characters may be a full word by themselves modified by contextual usage (think of languages like Japanese, Korean, or Chinese) Hell, it might even be as simple as reversing/inverting the image (or parsing it to be viewed from a multi/combination lens - there are arguably "intelligent" arachnids [Saberoids] in lore after-all).
What I find remarkable is the fact that the 1st white letter with the purple dot looks like a flipped version of the orange L, they look basically the same if you flip them around
The symbols on the "Stereolith" themselves appear to be partial and fragmented. I think the key to it lies elsewhere, and the name is the hint: Maybe the text needs to be combined with that on the "Monolith," or viewed through something else, like that trick in which a picture of random clutter turns into numerical code when viewed through evenly spaced bars. Or maybe, the symbols were split apart and displaced as if they were viewed through a stereogram, and the original text needs to be reconstructed from two sets of fragments.
That's kind of what I was thinking. Especially due to the names having mono and stereo. I know the mono signal tends to just be the left audio channel from stereo signals in a lot of older vcr's and tv's.
I have a suspicion that, if the stereolith truly isn't encoded English, it might be encoded Russian. Background: Clue #1 - While "Monolith" is a word, "Stereolith" is not. Stereolithing, however, is a method of 3d printing, around since the 80s, for creating prototypes. Clue #2 - There is a file in the SE files called "testFont" in a folder than concerns itself with, apparently, creating custom fonts for the game to use. This file is written in Russian. Russian is also a language that uses marks above certain letters. Russian fits. I am still looking through files, specifically the monolith and stereolith files for the moment. I'll see if I find any more clues.
anyways, it seems like some add for something, english translation goes as follows: We have the best hosting THEM, minimal ping, good server build, adequate players and admins, server platform costs Linux, 32 slots for amenities, 1000 fps, stable online players, superban and banlist are present, PsyhoStats server player statistics, there is a TeamSpeak3 server for communication and questions, server IP can be entered without a port, it costs FastHTTP - fast download, 24/7 round-the-clock work, HLTV presence on the server, and that's not all !!!
@@goblinslayer310 No, it is russian. I copied the text into google translator and it said "russian". Plus, there are files that are named for their language, and there are two non-latin scripts there: japanese and russian. It's not japanese. Aka, it's russian. The Czech use the latin script, not cyrillic.
I think it translates to "All hail Lord Clang" in gibberish...you can only see it when you put a piston and a rotor on the same grid and hope nothing goes wrong!!
I remember discovering the monolith and stereolith for the first time by accident whilst going through the entity list trying to solve my lag problems. They, oddly enough, didn't pique my curiosity in the slightest because they seemed to be an immediate dead end. SE never struck me as the type of game to have anything more to the lore than slight references, so I figured that neither of these extraterrestrial platforms would give me anything if I put effort into them. Seems I was mostly right. The only thing I didn't know about previously was that the monolith confirmed some sort of alien race, but that was my initial guess anyways. As for my interpretation of the text, it seems some race either colonized or evolved on mars, and then abandoned the planet later for unknown reasons. Beyond that, I don't think Keen currently has any plans to expand upon or add more lore to this game, especially a story, since they've prioritized adding blocks and game mechanics.
Keen have said in the past that the game has lore but they haven't really had any avenues to explore it. Most of what we know comes from loading screens and scenarios.
The names of the blocks might be significant too - you used "monoalphabetic substitution" to solve the monolith engraving. So the stereolith could use a method associated with "stereo". Perhaps someone with more knowledge could shed light on that.
Could be that it's some polyalphabetic into monoalphabetic. I tried vigenere into substitution, but couldn't really get any clear results. It's really hard to find the key for vigenere, since there are so many character chain occurences and they don't really share a factor. That being said they could have used a different poly. Btw besides bruteforcing and finding throught math I also tried using the answer from monolith as a key for vigenere, as well as 'SE' and 'klang'/'clang'...
hey zer0. very good stuff, your channel really caught my attention with the hovercraft video and now i'll be searching for the volcano on mars with my hovercraft. If the stereolith requires a cypher to decode you could maybe look back at the scenarios. or maybe there's a second stereolith (as in stereo) and you need both to decode it
I think I translated a Czech word for the Stereolith, which was the word "sny" meaning "dreams" in english. The part I derived this from was the second line, second word. I figured this by comparing the fonts and seeing which ones closely resembled another, reasoning behind this is that they could be derived from one another, just in a different evolved language. In order for me to figure out what letters could be in it and what couldn't, I made a list of what letters appeared in the monolith's transcription, which were these: "ACDEGHILNOPRSTVWY" with the ones not present being "BFJKMQUZ" Considering that I do not speak/know Czech and got this from an intensive few hours using an AI translator and wikipedia, I could be completely wrong in this. I do not know really any words from the language nor could I effectively order them in a way that resembles the positons of the stereolith. I do, however, believe that it's intended to be read left to right, are likely not numbers (as any coordinates would be irrelevant using debug mode in the game to locate anything at all), and that Czech or a slavic equivalent is the language it's based on. I think it is literally just another substitution but using extra letters from the Czech alphabet. I also did learn that the language is very flexible in its word placement, meaning that it could technically be interpreted multiple ways depending on positioning.
We thank you, oh Monolith, for revealing the cunning plans of your enemies to us. May your light shine down on the souls of the brave soldiers who gave their lives in service to your will. Onward warriors of the Monolith, avenge your fallen brothers, blessed as they are in their eternal union with the Monolith.
The Mars volcano is based on Olypus mons aka the largest volcano in the entire solar system. Which I LOVE that keen decided to make that one of the major monuments you can notice.
Probably been discussed before, but, what is the characters are meant to be deciphered under a stereoscopic lens? Maybe the font can be overlayed over itself in such a way that parts of the letters reform to reform another. Would fit the idea of “another race up above”
Another option you didn't mention is that might be not a complete messge. I see in the texture there are large spaces, as if part of the sentence is omitted.
I knew these were in the game but I always figured it was just scribbles on the side. Be very interesting to see if the stereolith has an alien language
maybe... just maybe... "monolith" and "stereolith" makes a bit of a hint about the approach to translation. "mono"- could mean single letter code (one gliph hides one letter) and "stereo" - could mean bi-letter code (one gliph hides two letters or two gliphs hides one letter). just as an ssumption.
To decrypt the given cipher, it appears to be cipher is known as a Caesar cipher with a shift of 3 positions backward. Decrypted message: PLAN YOUR SCHEDULE FOR TOMORROW AND GET READY NOW Using a shift of three positions forward in the alphabet, each letter in the original message is shifted three positions to the right to get the decrypted message. no idea if this is correct or if it will get noticed but I gave it a shot
put the two Monoliths together, and see if they can be made sense of when mixing the text between them. look to see if there is any space inbetween one that the other can fill.
It has been a year this video came out. But here's a thought.. Are we not looking in the wrong place and are those not all letters.. but numbers? Creating GPS coordinates. (Or for SE.. Or northitude and longitude RL?)
Could you imagine turning those into Armour for your ships geez that would make your ship near indestructible and also make it impossible for hydro manning because it will take them 2-4 hours to get past it XD. Have you ever though about slamming ships into it to see how much damage it does to the monolith and Stereolith? it would be interesting to see the results.
The moon in SE is partially based on our moon. In the planet data files you can see some of the eastern mare that form the moon face. They added a lot of large craters, probably because the SE moon is smaller. I couldn't see Tycho at the spot it's supposed to be.
Yeah, there is a crater that looks like Tyco but it's not in the right place. Due to the fact we don't know which way is north in SE, it's also difficult to know what is the north and south of the moon.
I did find some characters that were consistent across the two. And since the monolith says, "A great race has lived on this planet Now they live in the stars" I was able to find three consistent characters, a, e, and n (a is the comma looking character, n is the L character, e is the L with the partially sticking out line that is in the front of the L That's all I found so far.
I have read 2001, loved the book and would recommend, but I know there are multiple sequels to it I have not read. The monolith translation may make sense, as there was an alien race that …. Turned into sentient radiation I think. The text could be a reference to another work by the same author named “Times Eye” where in the third book in the series, they had a Mars base that was bombed into a collapsing pocket dimension so that most likely is not relevant. Oh, that times eye series it also not very good and Arthur c Clark died before the series was finished to it ends at a weird cliff hanger.
I been reading the comments about the possible translation of the stereolith. what someone said might be correct it be "2 letters" overlaying each other hence "stereo" if that taken into account for each letter that double the length of every single word represented. Overlayed cyphers have been used before .
Perhaps you should try doing things the other way round, instead of trying to match up real world letters to the symbols maybe take the Monolith and extrapolate what advanced time would do to that langue then translate the Stereolith. Edit: my reasoning is because the message in the Monolith is about the beginning of a race and maybe that was their language at the time and then the Stereolith is about where that race ended up, heading to Earth.
Some of the characters on the stereolith, that seem seperate, are definitely singular. They just have multiple strokes. The characters on the monolith seem like there are minor differences in characters that translate to the same letter. So it may be handwritten.
yea im curious if its in czech or some other eastern european language though if they really made their own, thatd be neat. ive made a few fictional languages myself and its always fun
To my knowledge, there aren't any conjunctions with accent in czech or any eastern european language that I know of. So either it's their own language or the seemingly single letter word isn't sigle letter word (that is if we're talking about czech and similiar languages). Unfortunately, I couldn't find any sites with a substitution cipher for czech, and I just don't have the time to do it manually when I don't even know what to count as a letter.
@@Zer0sLegion my suggestion would be to find a cryptographer forum or subreddit and submit it with the info from both monoliths cryptographers do that stuff often professionally, they love a challenge
There's a technique to hide messages on sounds. Basically you want to make the right and left channels of the audio opposites, that way, when the audio is played on a mono speaker, you can't hear anything, but if you listen on stereo speakers it sounds just fine. As you know, at the end of the tutorial scenario, the monolith talks to you. Maybe there is something hidden on that audio, or maybe there is some sound on the monolith and stereolith that we just can't hear. Also it wouldn't be the first time a game uses that exact mechanic of having an inaudible sound with a hidden message.
is it just me or does that almost look like klingon? soo i did hebrew and split the top line and bottom line and got this וו ש החם הנסי א= א והו ה ניא י הים which translated by google to And the heat, the try, and the sea unsure if this brings it any closer but hey worth adding my 2 cents
It's a possibility some of the accent characters are another character that come before or after other characters. The only example I have off the top of my head is the gnommish script from Artemis Fowl, where the character for E ends up underneath previous characters instead of next to them. Though that is a direct 1 to 1 for english and english characters, as well, and this is likely a little more complex than that
Zer0, i have some important information: you can indeed get a projected monolith/ stereolith to 100% completion however, you are gonna need a lot of time to do it even using the super ship tools mod's welders. using the build info mod it shows you how long until complete, and I successfully repaired the monolith from 96% to 100 with super ship welders.
I noticed how in some of the letters there are these dots that sometimes appear and sometimes not. It reminds me a lot about Hebrew and how placment of dots and lines above,below and to the side of letters can change the sound they make. as an example. putting a dot on one side of the letter ש can make the diffrence between a "S/ɬ" sound and a "sh/ʃ" sound. it could also be that rather than the letters change sound, they can change the "strength" or "softness" of a sound. for instance, in Hebrew putting a dot inside the letter פ can either make it a "p" sound or a "f" sound. it could also be that there are letters that are diffrent at the end of a word kinda like capital letters at the start of a word
"na této planetě žila velká rasa, nyní žijí ve hvězdách" that is a really rough translation of the English version into Czech, it is not an exact match obviously, but I think i see some similarities in accents and word lengths, I could be way off, but it was a good idea to look at another regions language since English is not the only possibility. I am sure there is a way to say it that has more meaning and isnt a literal translation.
One thing kinda worth mentioning is that there is a scenario which ends with you going to a monolith or sterolith (I forget which) and being consumed/teleported by it. I doubt there is anything to be gleaned from the scenario but it may be worth looking into with admin stuff to look at all grids.
devs are czech, but the game does not contain any czech languge support or czech references whatsoever. It's like they've abandoned their own language so I highly doubt it will be related to czech. Btw I am from Czech republic. Nice video and good job tho
Czech is the only clue I have, even if the game doesn't support it, doesn't mean the stereolith isn't using it as a base. I will take what you've said into consideration though, it's definitely worth keeping in mind.
I have no proof but I believe the text has reference to Miner Wars, which was Keen’s release prior to SE it had “mysterious alien mysteries” as part of its desc. As far as I know it’s been defunct and I think they released the source code back in like 2013
@@Zer0sLegion *smh* I was so busy fighting npc's that I didnt really give much thought to the writing. When I did see the one on Mars I was busy running away from Reavers.
So mono(lith) suggests that there is one and stereo(lith) suggests there is two. The monolith contains one code. Does the stereolith maybe use two texts on top of each other and they cancel each other out where they lay on top of each other?
I think the name sterolith might be a hint? sterolithography is a thing and is sorta like resin 3d printing. However the process involves light. You pointed out that the sun never touches the sterolith. Maybe blast away some of the crater walls so the sun can touch the object, maybe touch the text and see if that does anything.
In the campagin, (first journey or whatever it's called) on mission 2, in the cave system thing where you activate the projecter. It showed the sterolith
So, I've seen this alphabet they use on the stereolythe before in another game. It was translatable too. I don't have the alphabet registered anymore as I didn't need it after translation of the text I had. I'll try to find it online, but I can't promise anything. The giveaway was the first letter of the third word on the second line. I can only guide you on memory. And I don't remember much. -The slash followed by a tinier curved slash is a single letter. (The one I was referring to as the giveaway) -The dots are part of the letters and are different letters from the ones without dots. If you have anything that bugs you in the text, I'll try to help as best I can. Good luck on your side. I'll try to find in on mine.
The part that confuses me the most is the 3 repetitions of similar "words" (T,LL [2nd word] TLL [7th] •TLL [9th])... I don't know if there is anything that uses 3 characters and can have that many variations. The first word also looks a bit like the last one, until the last character, that one is rotated 180°. Also the sentences aren't structured the same, the first one uses medium length words (1 to 6 characters) with smooth transitions and natural return to average. The second one uses either short - medium or long - ultra long words (1 to 3 and 6 to 8 characters) and has sharp transitions (~7 characters right before 1). This is possible in english, but to me it feels odd, unnatural...
Yeah, hence why it's more difficult to decode. I tried decoding just the short words with the similar characters and there's no combination of characters that fit.
@@Zer0sLegion Maybe looking through various languages dictionaries for 3 letter words and finding a pattern of AXX BXX CXX would help? (A,B,C,X - any letter; X - same as other Xs) Better have a program to do it tho
If the lunar one was the first one to appear in the game, maybe that one is just for show and there is not written there, and after that they decided to create a mistery on the second one. But it is a IF.
There were both added at the same time I'm pretty sure. It's also the Stereolith (meaning 2) and doesn't have an achievement associated with it. From that, i'd assume it's the one you're supposed to find second.
And what if the second one is the continuation of the first, since it means "2"? Maybe it's the finishing sentence, and soeey for the bad english up there 🤣
its litterally just a 2001 refference theres other refferences to 2001 if you look sensors look vagueley like hal9000s eye and funnily enough sensors can be used to OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS
I haven't read all the comments, so I don't know if it has been suggested. But what if the Stereolith's writing isn't made up of letters, but rather numbers? Also, I would like to suggest that there may be other messages scattered throughout the officially released maps, in out of the way places. These could be created using blocks, and hidden inside planets or asterids, or maybe they are in plain sight and just need to be found. Also, the devs could have used voxels to carve messages in planet surfaces. Not large enough that they can be read from space, but maybe large enough that you'd have to be high enough up to see a specific amount of surface area. I have no idea, but if they wanted to hide messages, then they can't keep using monoliths, as they rely on graphical resources for the lettering which can just be datamined and then potentially figured out. But using construction resources that by themselves are already something we would pass off as too common to mean anything? Yeah, there's all sorts of creative ways to hide messages that way. Another thought occured to me. If they have hidden other types of messages in official maps, there's no guarantee that the clues we think they may give really mean anything. For all we know, it may be like in National Treasure, where the idea was suggsted that there was no treasure, just an endless string of clues leading to more clues, leading to even more clues. While that might not seem rewarding to those who follow them, it would encourage constant exploration, seeking whatever something points us to. I'm just rambling at this point. I can't play the game at the moment as my gaming machine is having issues, so I thought I'd just throw this out there... Have a great day/night, wherever you are.
@@Zer0sLegion Very good. Someone will figure it out eventually, I'm sure... Assuming that there really IS something to figure out. It could just be a joke on Keen's part. To see how many hoops we'll jump through trying. It's a perfect social experiment. All human beings are driven, even if only at a rudamentary level, to look for answers. And as long as they don't admit to it being just gibberish with no meaning at all, we'llm keep trying to find the answer.
Space Engineers has announced the "Automatons Public Beta Release Stream" and by looking at the shared image on their website, I think we will have full block air vents now. We can also see the large grid AI Task block, and blocks on which you can see "rear panel" and "F-", maybe for "Front panel". Orientation could be important in AI blocks placement, like the remote control block or cockpits.
The dots and comma shapes look very similar to accent marks in Hebrew, or similarly YIDDish, considering the name of the font is YiTTerbiam 2, there might be a connection between the two, and perhaps that's the language it translates too? Idk just a thought 🤔
one thing I noticed is that on stereolith the text looks like... fragmented, as if there were other letters there, but they have erased over time or something like that not sure if this will solve it, but maybe?
One thing for sure, the one that stands in the way to decipher the sterolith is the lack of community interest in finding out what it says. Or more space engineers term. The one that stands in our way is clang.
I have a feeling Zero already knows the answer. "Oh look, I'm going to feed these characters into an algorithm and it popped out a coherent sentence." When he already knew the font of the obscure text. This is an introductory hook to get all interested in a mystery he already knows the answer to, and is stringing us along for click bait and likes, as a good show runner does.it is probably what he suggested, a Chech version of the ytterbium II text with either the same exact message, or a continuation of the first one.
@@TH-camAccountName They both have 13,650 HP/integrity, and an artillery does 17,000 damage. Not exactly a huge amount. As for gridining them down and welding them up, it takes 1 day, 3 hours, 56 minutes, and 40 seconds to completely grind them down with a basic grinder on 1x grinding speed. It takes 2 dys, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 6 seconds to weld them up, on the other hand
Are the character on both sides of the Stereo (Meaning Two) the same? have you either Overlapped them to get one image? or even put them in a stereo-graph App (3D viewer)
Okay, so I was not able to do what nobody was able to do but I am pretty sure to know WHAT KIND OF MEANING we are looking for. After some analysis of your findings and some research and thinking here are my thoughts: The Text on the Stereolith is most likely less general, than on the monolith. The Stereolith is most likely refering to a special person, event or object. It's most likely a positive statement about said thing. Given the position of the Stereolith and what I said above, I think it might refer to the earth planet or the sun in some way. I think it has something to do with the "living IN the stars". It's either to be taken literally or it is a metaphor for going extinct. Since Mars is clearly unihabitable while earth is not either the martians came from earth and went to mars or they were native martians and destroyed their home. After all I'm pretty sure that the Stereolith is making a statement about earths beauty an maybe their plans with it, before the went "in the stars".
@@Zer0sLegion But if nobody tells you a name you are unlikely to guess it right. What's less unlikely is getting that persons position in society right. If it is indeed about a person I would guess: Humans would perceive that being as female. It is unlikely to be their Empress or Queen. So IF it is a person it is more likely something religeous (the person could be a High priestress, a personification of a god etc.). Or it refers to someone who is NOT part of their species or society because it just seems like the writing is about a thing the creators were not inherently familiar with. That why I think maybe don't look for a person but a celestial body.
Mono(single)Lith Stereo(dual)Lith "The difference between mono and stereo audio is that mono audio has just one channel, whereas stereo contains two channels. In addition, mono audio preserves all sound in a single channel, whereas stereo separates sound into two channels - left and right. They are typically represented by M & S, respectively" someone in comments already pointed out you can encounter very rarely another stereolith in space , it would be worth checking if it has other symbols on it , or has to do something with splitting channels
Easy way to solve this. Torture Keen's staff until they tell you what it means. Yeah, the quick and dirty solution might land you in jail but being psychologically tortured over years with this tease is sort of the same, so... I'm kidding of course.
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Can't wait for them to add the Surroundsoundolith
I nearly made that joke in the video.
Dolbyolith 😆
quadrophonicolith first :)
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Probably on the alien planet XD
If it's another language then it is probably Czech (ie Czech Republic, where KSH is based), which uses accents (like á, é etc). It may explain why some of the symbols look really similar but have slight modifications.
Yeah, that was my thought.
I think it's a good theory with the accents, buy there aren't any single letter words with accents in czech and then it woudn't make sense that the same symbols would be accents in other words.
@@Zer0sLegion Also the online solvers will ignore proper nouns, so if it says someone's name (like "Marek") it won't pick up on it.
@@Zer0sLegion I'm Czech. And there are interesting things .. like the green L and orange L suffix, which is there 4 times. That's quite Czech-like, lot of words share suffixes. On the other hand there are double orange L .. and double letters are very rare in Czech. There is also very specific pattern toward the end .. red green orange TLL .. 3rd word from end .. and then very similar at the end .. with just a few "accents". I can't think of any such combination. Also typical Czech would have lot more accents.
Still I wouldn't rule it out completely ..
Maybe even Hungarian, which has the symbols öőüű too
One correction: The monolith and stereolith can be welded up VERY slowly. If you take a look at some videos where ppl test it for armor, they also test wether it can be welded up or not.
Ok, it is very very slow then, I sat for a full 10 minutes trying to weld one up.
@@Zer0sLegion Yeah, in the video I've seen someone needed 10 minutes with 8 or so welders to even bring it up a few percent. It was from a guy called Kaulutu, iirc.
I have someone in my faction that always uses a few of them on their moon base as part of the logo. they usually just leave a welder on it and leave it working while everyone is busy with their own stuff. it always feels like an age passes and even several days depends on how often someone is playing near it so it welds.
@@jmw1500its bin a month how's the ship welding going
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I get the fealing you need the monolith to translate the stereolith it is after all a pun. For instance you might have to remove every letter that is on the monolith from the stereolith to get a coherent result. Hell it might go through an enigma cipher based on the monolith text.
It could be something like that, we just need a push in the right direction
been playing since 2013 and never knew there was a Monolith on Mars.
You learn something new every day!
I did find it when i whas leaving mars in space engineers and saw a black thingie sow i had to look and found it a cool spot to build a base around it
Is it in creative also
I never knew there was one on the moon
I only found them because I wanted the achievement. They're easy to miss because they only spawn on the planet starts(the three that Zero mentioned). They don't show up if you do a solar system start.
Maybe keen could add a story element that sends you to deep space co-ordinates to find character elements that enable people to translate it. OH... you're only doing letters... what about numbers ? What if its co-ordinates ?!!
Fun fact, the Stereolith can be found in deep space, as well. It appears in grids as Platform 9871 (if I remember right). It's set as a station, so you can build a seat on it, switch it to 'ship', remove the seat, and you can grab it with mag plate or landing gear and move it into a hangar/cargo hold then fly around with it. It's very hard and rare to find.
Platform 9871 is the Stereolith on the moon.
@@Zer0sLegion Yeah, I know. But twice I've found it free floating in deep space and have scooped it up to decorate my ship with.
@@AveryChristy Did you delete the moon?
@@TminusDoom Nope. it appears as an Encounter object. It's rare. I've only seen it pop up in my games twice.
Maybe there is 2 of them ?
Perhaps that is the missing piece of the puzzle?
I mean, the fact that the stereolith is an obvious wordplay on monolith shouldn't eliminate the possibilty that it might very well mean something, like I don't know , that there is 2 of them ?
you can weld the monolith back up. you just need a whole bunch of large welder blocks. and with 8 of them it will take about 3-4 hours. 🙂
It must take a hell of a long time, I sat for 10 minutes trying to weld one up.
You see a puzzle to solve... I see the ballistic cap for space engineer's strongest gravity weapon projectile.
Lololol, I had the same though!
Yeah, the stereolith has been a PITA for years lol
What really sucks, is the characters on the edge might even be a language styled after something like cruciform or a pictographic (or pictogram based, if you prefer) language. Since it's in small , irregular groupings, it might also be a combination of formats where single/double characters may be a full word by themselves modified by contextual usage (think of languages like Japanese, Korean, or Chinese)
Hell, it might even be as simple as reversing/inverting the image (or parsing it to be viewed from a multi/combination lens - there are arguably "intelligent" arachnids [Saberoids] in lore after-all).
What I find remarkable is the fact that the 1st white letter with the purple dot looks like a flipped version of the orange L, they look basically the same if you flip them around
But what if it's something like d and p? They look similar but are completely different
@@alejandrostrass2559 which could work with the Czech alphabet, the orange L could be "P" and the other character being "Ď"
The symbols on the "Stereolith" themselves appear to be partial and fragmented.
I think the key to it lies elsewhere, and the name is the hint: Maybe the text needs to be combined with that on the "Monolith," or viewed through something else, like that trick in which a picture of random clutter turns into numerical code when viewed through evenly spaced bars.
Or maybe, the symbols were split apart and displaced as if they were viewed through a stereogram, and the original text needs to be reconstructed from two sets of fragments.
That's kind of what I was thinking. Especially due to the names having mono and stereo. I know the mono signal tends to just be the left audio channel from stereo signals in a lot of older vcr's and tv's.
I have a suspicion that, if the stereolith truly isn't encoded English, it might be encoded Russian.
Background:
Clue #1 - While "Monolith" is a word, "Stereolith" is not. Stereolithing, however, is a method of 3d printing, around since the 80s, for creating prototypes.
Clue #2 - There is a file in the SE files called "testFont" in a folder than concerns itself with, apparently, creating custom fonts for the game to use. This file is written in Russian.
Russian is also a language that uses marks above certain letters. Russian fits.
I am still looking through files, specifically the monolith and stereolith files for the moment. I'll see if I find any more clues.
I am guessing you are meaning eastern european language, not russain, as they are czech.
oh heck, it actually is in cyrilic
anyways, it seems like some add for something, english translation goes as follows:
We have the best hosting THEM, minimal ping, good server build, adequate players and admins, server platform costs Linux, 32 slots for amenities, 1000 fps, stable online players, superban and banlist are present, PsyhoStats server player statistics, there is a TeamSpeak3 server for communication and questions, server IP can be entered without a port, it costs FastHTTP - fast download, 24/7 round-the-clock work, HLTV presence on the server, and that's not all !!!
@@goblinslayer310 No, it is russian. I copied the text into google translator and it said "russian". Plus, there are files that are named for their language, and there are two non-latin scripts there: japanese and russian. It's not japanese. Aka, it's russian.
The Czech use the latin script, not cyrillic.
Czech was my theory but I didn't get anywhere with it.
I think it translates to "All hail Lord Clang" in gibberish...you can only see it when you put a piston and a rotor on the same grid and hope nothing goes wrong!!
I remember discovering the monolith and stereolith for the first time by accident whilst going through the entity list trying to solve my lag problems. They, oddly enough, didn't pique my curiosity in the slightest because they seemed to be an immediate dead end. SE never struck me as the type of game to have anything more to the lore than slight references, so I figured that neither of these extraterrestrial platforms would give me anything if I put effort into them. Seems I was mostly right. The only thing I didn't know about previously was that the monolith confirmed some sort of alien race, but that was my initial guess anyways. As for my interpretation of the text, it seems some race either colonized or evolved on mars, and then abandoned the planet later for unknown reasons. Beyond that, I don't think Keen currently has any plans to expand upon or add more lore to this game, especially a story, since they've prioritized adding blocks and game mechanics.
Keen have said in the past that the game has lore but they haven't really had any avenues to explore it. Most of what we know comes from loading screens and scenarios.
I stumbled across it too this way.
The names of the blocks might be significant too - you used "monoalphabetic substitution" to solve the monolith engraving. So the stereolith could use a method associated with "stereo". Perhaps someone with more knowledge could shed light on that.
Maybe? I think it's just we don't know what the characters are
Could be that it's some polyalphabetic into monoalphabetic. I tried vigenere into substitution, but couldn't really get any clear results. It's really hard to find the key for vigenere, since there are so many character chain occurences and they don't really share a factor. That being said they could have used a different poly. Btw besides bruteforcing and finding throught math I also tried using the answer from monolith as a key for vigenere, as well as 'SE' and 'klang'/'clang'...
Maybe it's a music cypher?
Did you know this mystery and what do you think the solution is? Let me know!
Never saw such thing, thank u I guess
Wait. Why couldn’t you take the Ytterbium2 font from the game files and then type in the characters on the monolith to decipher?
@@WilliamFord972 it's not in the game files as far as I'm aware.
@@Zer0sLegion That’s wild. Have you tried to see if ChatGPT can solve it?
@@WilliamFord972 Yeah, it's not very helpful
hey zer0. very good stuff, your channel really caught my attention with the hovercraft video and now i'll be searching for the volcano on mars with my hovercraft. If the stereolith requires a cypher to decode you could maybe look back at the scenarios. or maybe there's a second stereolith (as in stereo) and you need both to decode it
The Monolith appears in a scenario but it doesn't really indicate how to solve the Stereolith.
I think I translated a Czech word for the Stereolith, which was the word "sny" meaning "dreams" in english. The part I derived this from was the second line, second word. I figured this by comparing the fonts and seeing which ones closely resembled another, reasoning behind this is that they could be derived from one another, just in a different evolved language.
In order for me to figure out what letters could be in it and what couldn't, I made a list of what letters appeared in the monolith's transcription, which were these: "ACDEGHILNOPRSTVWY" with the ones not present being "BFJKMQUZ"
Considering that I do not speak/know Czech and got this from an intensive few hours using an AI translator and wikipedia, I could be completely wrong in this. I do not know really any words from the language nor could I effectively order them in a way that resembles the positons of the stereolith. I do, however, believe that it's intended to be read left to right, are likely not numbers (as any coordinates would be irrelevant using debug mode in the game to locate anything at all), and that Czech or a slavic equivalent is the language it's based on.
I think it is literally just another substitution but using extra letters from the Czech alphabet. I also did learn that the language is very flexible in its word placement, meaning that it could technically be interpreted multiple ways depending on positioning.
We thank you, oh Monolith, for revealing the cunning plans of your enemies to us. May your light shine down on the souls of the brave soldiers who gave their lives in service to your will. Onward warriors of the Monolith, avenge your fallen brothers, blessed as they are in their eternal union with the Monolith.
Слава монолит, путь завершон человек.
Иди ко мне.
Oh man that zoom in on the computer screen with the ufo. Got me good 😆
that one clip in space oddysey has taught me one thing iirc.
if you throw a bone high enough it becomes a spaceship
The Mars volcano is based on Olypus mons aka the largest volcano in the entire solar system.
Which I LOVE that keen decided to make that one of the major monuments you can notice.
Probably been discussed before, but, what is the characters are meant to be deciphered under a stereoscopic lens?
Maybe the font can be overlayed over itself in such a way that parts of the letters reform to reform another.
Would fit the idea of “another race up above”
My biggest complaint about this is the fact that neither of them show up on the Star System start, the objectively best single player start world.
It does says it's an empty solar system star
What if it was as simple as it being in reverse
Another option you didn't mention is that might be not a complete messge. I see in the texture there are large spaces, as if part of the sentence is omitted.
I think that's just so it lines up on the centre of the Stereolith. It needs a gap at the beginning and end in order to line up on the side of it.
I knew these were in the game but I always figured it was just scribbles on the side. Be very interesting to see if the stereolith has an alien language
Have you tried numbers. It might be a coordinate to something. That would explain the dots.
maybe... just maybe... "monolith" and "stereolith" makes a bit of a hint about the approach to translation. "mono"- could mean single letter code (one gliph hides one letter) and "stereo" - could mean bi-letter code (one gliph hides two letters or two gliphs hides one letter). just as an ssumption.
Maybe but I think the names are just supposed to be a joke.
To decrypt the given cipher, it appears to be cipher is known as a Caesar cipher with a shift of 3 positions backward.
Decrypted message:
PLAN YOUR SCHEDULE FOR TOMORROW AND GET READY NOW
Using a shift of three positions forward in the alphabet, each letter in the original message is shifted three positions to the right to get the decrypted message.
no idea if this is correct or if it will get noticed but I gave it a shot
put the two Monoliths together, and see if they can be made sense of when mixing the text between them. look to see if there is any space inbetween one that the other can fill.
It has been a year this video came out. But here's a thought.. Are we not looking in the wrong place and are those not all letters.. but numbers?
Creating GPS coordinates. (Or for SE.. Or northitude and longitude RL?)
You'll find out very soon 😈
I'll be watching.. 😶🌫
Could you imagine turning those into Armour for your ships geez that would make your ship near indestructible and also make it impossible for hydro manning because it will take them 2-4 hours to get past it XD. Have you ever though about slamming ships into it to see how much damage it does to the monolith and Stereolith? it would be interesting to see the results.
Due to the way physics works in SE, if two blocks enter the same space, they are destroyed, so it's not as useful for ramming as you'd expect.
The moon in SE is partially based on our moon. In the planet data files you can see some of the eastern mare that form the moon face. They added a lot of large craters, probably because the SE moon is smaller. I couldn't see Tycho at the spot it's supposed to be.
Yeah, there is a crater that looks like Tyco but it's not in the right place. Due to the fact we don't know which way is north in SE, it's also difficult to know what is the north and south of the moon.
I did find some characters that were consistent across the two. And since the monolith says,
"A great race has lived on this planet
Now they live in the stars"
I was able to find three consistent characters, a, e, and n (a is the comma looking character, n is the L character, e is the L with the partially sticking out line that is in the front of the L
That's all I found so far.
I have read 2001, loved the book and would recommend, but I know there are multiple sequels to it I have not read. The monolith translation may make sense, as there was an alien race that …. Turned into sentient radiation I think. The text could be a reference to another work by the same author named “Times Eye” where in the third book in the series, they had a Mars base that was bombed into a collapsing pocket dimension so that most likely is not relevant. Oh, that times eye series it also not very good and Arthur c Clark died before the series was finished to it ends at a weird cliff hanger.
imagine being a developer and trying to keep the secret for all these years
I been reading the comments about the possible translation of the stereolith. what someone said might be correct it be "2 letters" overlaying each other hence "stereo" if that taken into account for each letter that double the length of every single word represented. Overlayed cyphers have been used before .
The translation probably says something like, "This isn't the achievement monolith."
Lol, i'm surprised their isn't a Stereolith Achievement
Perhaps you should try doing things the other way round, instead of trying to match up real world letters to the symbols maybe take the Monolith and extrapolate what advanced time would do to that langue then translate the Stereolith.
Edit: my reasoning is because the message in the Monolith is about the beginning of a race and maybe that was their language at the time and then the Stereolith is about where that race ended up, heading to Earth.
Some of the characters on the stereolith, that seem seperate, are definitely singular. They just have multiple strokes. The characters on the monolith seem like there are minor differences in characters that translate to the same letter. So it may be handwritten.
yea im curious if its in czech or some other eastern european language
though if they really made their own, thatd be neat. ive made a few fictional languages myself and its always fun
My theory is that it could be czech but I wouldn't even know where to start decoding that
We could try Klingon or Huttese. Hell, it could be Dothraki
To my knowledge, there aren't any conjunctions with accent in czech or any eastern european language that I know of. So either it's their own language or the seemingly single letter word isn't sigle letter word (that is if we're talking about czech and similiar languages).
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any sites with a substitution cipher for czech, and I just don't have the time to do it manually when I don't even know what to count as a letter.
@@Zer0sLegion my suggestion would be to find a cryptographer forum or subreddit and submit it with the info from both monoliths
cryptographers do that stuff often professionally, they love a challenge
There's a technique to hide messages on sounds. Basically you want to make the right and left channels of the audio opposites, that way, when the audio is played on a mono speaker, you can't hear anything, but if you listen on stereo speakers it sounds just fine. As you know, at the end of the tutorial scenario, the monolith talks to you. Maybe there is something hidden on that audio, or maybe there is some sound on the monolith and stereolith that we just can't hear. Also it wouldn't be the first time a game uses that exact mechanic of having an inaudible sound with a hidden message.
I don't think it's something that hidden but I have looked and not found anything.
is it just me or does that almost look like klingon?
soo i did hebrew and split the top line and bottom line and got this וו ש החם הנסי א= א והו ה ניא י הים which translated by google to
And the heat, the try, and the sea
unsure if this brings it any closer but hey worth adding my 2 cents
It's a possibility some of the accent characters are another character that come before or after other characters. The only example I have off the top of my head is the gnommish script from Artemis Fowl, where the character for E ends up underneath previous characters instead of next to them. Though that is a direct 1 to 1 for english and english characters, as well, and this is likely a little more complex than that
i wish they would put the monolith and stereolith on the star system maps as i spend more of my play time on that.
I normally add them before I start. I normally move the planets so it I would have to anyway.
$2 it is a link to a Rick Roll.
That would be very funny😅
Just imagine if that almost-a-decade-old secret just contains a funny joke.
It just says "bottom text"
I have one of these monoliths in the engine room of my ship
Zer0, i have some important information: you can indeed get a projected monolith/ stereolith to 100% completion however, you are gonna need a lot of time to do it even using the super ship tools mod's welders. using the build info mod it shows you how long until complete, and I successfully repaired the monolith from 96% to 100 with super ship welders.
I noticed how in some of the letters there are these dots that sometimes appear and sometimes not.
It reminds me a lot about Hebrew and how placment of dots and lines above,below and to the side of letters can change the sound they make.
as an example.
putting a dot on one side of the letter ש can make the diffrence between a "S/ɬ" sound and a "sh/ʃ" sound.
it could also be that rather than the letters change sound, they can change the "strength" or "softness" of a sound.
for instance, in Hebrew putting a dot inside the letter פ can either make it a "p" sound or a "f" sound.
it could also be that there are letters that are diffrent at the end of a word kinda like capital letters at the start of a word
"na této planetě žila velká rasa, nyní žijí ve hvězdách" that is a really rough translation of the English version into Czech, it is not an exact match obviously, but I think i see some similarities in accents and word lengths, I could be way off, but it was a good idea to look at another regions language since English is not the only possibility. I am sure there is a way to say it that has more meaning and isnt a literal translation.
One thing kinda worth mentioning is that there is a scenario which ends with you going to a monolith or sterolith (I forget which) and being consumed/teleported by it. I doubt there is anything to be gleaned from the scenario but it may be worth looking into with admin stuff to look at all grids.
Yeah, there's nothing new there but I was saving that for the follow up video.
@@Zer0sLegion wasn't sure if keen hid some text logs or something somewhere
devs are czech, but the game does not contain any czech languge support or czech references whatsoever. It's like they've abandoned their own language so I highly doubt it will be related to czech.
Btw I am from Czech republic. Nice video and good job tho
Czech is the only clue I have, even if the game doesn't support it, doesn't mean the stereolith isn't using it as a base. I will take what you've said into consideration though, it's definitely worth keeping in mind.
I have no proof but I believe the text has reference to Miner Wars, which was Keen’s release prior to SE it had “mysterious alien mysteries” as part of its desc. As far as I know it’s been defunct and I think they released the source code back in like 2013
Just checked and there's no font I can find in the code. I would need someone who had played the game to let me know if their appear.
Wow ive seen them but never thought about solving the characters on the side.
Solving it was the first thing I thought of when I saw them!
@@Zer0sLegion *smh* I was so busy fighting npc's that I didnt really give much thought to the writing. When I did see the one on Mars I was busy running away from Reavers.
If the monolith is a single letter substitution, maybe the stereolith uses a 2 rail fence encryption combined with substitution?
Maybe!
So mono(lith) suggests that there is one and stereo(lith) suggests there is two.
The monolith contains one code.
Does the stereolith maybe use two texts on top of each other and they cancel each other out where they lay on top of each other?
I wonder is the font was generated twice or if there are two script, one over written on the other, making it hard to read
I think the names are just a joke, I wouldn't think too much into it.
I think the name sterolith might be a hint? sterolithography is a thing and is sorta like resin 3d printing. However the process involves light.
You pointed out that the sun never touches the sterolith. Maybe blast away some of the crater walls so the sun can touch the object, maybe touch the text and see if that does anything.
If it were that easy, I think people would have solved it alright 😅
In my current playthrough of SE, I'm bringing both Mono and stereo liths to Earth - Remotely, without leaving Earth. It's gonna take a while.
the characters could work the same way the japanese language works, hiragana katakana and kanji, so 1 character could be a whole word by itself
Maybe the symbles are words. Eye in cave, relax, hangout. Hangout, slide, relax, relax. Bend over, hat, look, slide, zipline, kiss, melon flavered relax, relax.... :D
I’ve seen that before and was super confused
Also in the Entity List, the Steriolith is called "Platform 9870" for some reason.
A buddy of mine will use these as kinetic gravity projectiles.
I bet the monolith was like "I wouldn't been deciphered if it wasn't for you meddling space Engineers!" Good vid though!
That would be funny🤣
In the campagin, (first journey or whatever it's called) on mission 2, in the cave system thing where you activate the projecter. It showed the sterolith
Yeah, I was saving that for a follow up video.
@@Zer0sLegion Alright
oh boy! alien mysteries beyond english comprehension! my favourite!
So, I've seen this alphabet they use on the stereolythe before in another game. It was translatable too. I don't have the alphabet registered anymore as I didn't need it after translation of the text I had. I'll try to find it online, but I can't promise anything. The giveaway was the first letter of the third word on the second line.
I can only guide you on memory. And I don't remember much.
-The slash followed by a tinier curved slash is a single letter. (The one I was referring to as the giveaway)
-The dots are part of the letters and are different letters from the ones without dots.
If you have anything that bugs you in the text, I'll try to help as best I can.
Good luck on your side. I'll try to find in on mine.
I'll give it another go with what you've said, let me know if you find anything.
The part that confuses me the most is the 3 repetitions of similar "words" (T,LL [2nd word] TLL [7th] •TLL [9th])... I don't know if there is anything that uses 3 characters and can have that many variations.
The first word also looks a bit like the last one, until the last character, that one is rotated 180°.
Also the sentences aren't structured the same, the first one uses medium length words (1 to 6 characters) with smooth transitions and natural return to average. The second one uses either short - medium or long - ultra long words (1 to 3 and 6 to 8 characters) and has sharp transitions (~7 characters right before 1). This is possible in english, but to me it feels odd, unnatural...
Yeah, hence why it's more difficult to decode. I tried decoding just the short words with the similar characters and there's no combination of characters that fit.
@@Zer0sLegion Maybe looking through various languages dictionaries for 3 letter words and finding a pattern of AXX BXX CXX would help? (A,B,C,X - any letter; X - same as other Xs)
Better have a program to do it tho
If the lunar one was the first one to appear in the game, maybe that one is just for show and there is not written there, and after that they decided to create a mistery on the second one. But it is a IF.
There were both added at the same time I'm pretty sure. It's also the Stereolith (meaning 2) and doesn't have an achievement associated with it. From that, i'd assume it's the one you're supposed to find second.
And what if the second one is the continuation of the first, since it means "2"? Maybe it's the finishing sentence, and soeey for the bad english up there 🤣
its litterally just a 2001 refference theres other refferences to 2001 if you look
sensors look vagueley like hal9000s eye and funnily enough sensors can be used to OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS
I haven't read all the comments, so I don't know if it has been suggested. But what if the Stereolith's writing isn't made up of letters, but rather numbers?
Also, I would like to suggest that there may be other messages scattered throughout the officially released maps, in out of the way places. These could be created using blocks, and hidden inside planets or asterids, or maybe they are in plain sight and just need to be found. Also, the devs could have used voxels to carve messages in planet surfaces. Not large enough that they can be read from space, but maybe large enough that you'd have to be high enough up to see a specific amount of surface area.
I have no idea, but if they wanted to hide messages, then they can't keep using monoliths, as they rely on graphical resources for the lettering which can just be datamined and then potentially figured out. But using construction resources that by themselves are already something we would pass off as too common to mean anything? Yeah, there's all sorts of creative ways to hide messages that way.
Another thought occured to me. If they have hidden other types of messages in official maps, there's no guarantee that the clues we think they may give really mean anything. For all we know, it may be like in National Treasure, where the idea was suggsted that there was no treasure, just an endless string of clues leading to more clues, leading to even more clues. While that might not seem rewarding to those who follow them, it would encourage constant exploration, seeking whatever something points us to.
I'm just rambling at this point. I can't play the game at the moment as my gaming machine is having issues, so I thought I'd just throw this out there... Have a great day/night, wherever you are.
We had a decoder guy look at it and he said it definitely wasn't numbers.
@@Zer0sLegion Very good.
Someone will figure it out eventually, I'm sure... Assuming that there really IS something to figure out. It could just be a joke on Keen's part. To see how many hoops we'll jump through trying. It's a perfect social experiment. All human beings are driven, even if only at a rudamentary level, to look for answers. And as long as they don't admit to it being just gibberish with no meaning at all, we'llm keep trying to find the answer.
In Hebrew, that dot inside the character means sounds out as OOH, like the OO in boo
Space Engineers has announced the "Automatons Public Beta Release Stream" and by looking at the shared image on their website, I think we will have full block air vents now. We can also see the large grid AI Task block, and blocks on which you can see "rear panel" and "F-", maybe for "Front panel". Orientation could be important in AI blocks placement, like the remote control block or cockpits.
I'm making a video on that next
Full block air vents will be a very welcome addition.
This might be written in Czech, it uses a lot of accent dots and other shapes. It could also be any of the other central Slavic languages.
That was my theory but no luck yet!
The dots and comma shapes look very similar to accent marks in Hebrew, or similarly YIDDish, considering the name of the font is YiTTerbiam 2, there might be a connection between the two, and perhaps that's the language it translates too? Idk just a thought 🤔
What if it's numbers? GPS location maybe?
Maybe!
I wanna make a canon loaded with monoliths OMG
Man you could really mess with an online buddy by placing a bunch of these around there base
Haha, that would be funny.
one thing I noticed is that on stereolith the text looks like... fragmented, as if there were other letters there, but they have erased over time or something like that
not sure if this will solve it, but maybe?
I think it's just so it lines up at the centre of the Stereolith, the text is shorter so it's needs a gap at the beginning and end to line up.
Is the sterolith in Czech?
I did think that but I'd have no idea how to solve it if that were the case.
they're monuments to my glory
Very true!
Maybe the stereolith isn't a straight alphabetic substitution. Maybe it's syllabary substitution...which would make things harder
One thing for sure, the one that stands in the way to decipher the sterolith is the lack of community interest in finding out what it says. Or more space engineers term. The one that stands in our way is clang.
Hence why I made the video, to get more eyes on it
@@Zer0sLegion Yeah lets go and crack this hopefully
What’s harder solving fnaf or translating the monolith
Well, we translated the Monolith. Fnaf is just a guessing game.
@@Zer0sLegion bruh
@@Zer0sLegion theirs lore to fnaf
@@Zer0sLegion there’s lore to fnaf
I have a feeling Zero already knows the answer. "Oh look, I'm going to feed these characters into an algorithm and it popped out a coherent sentence." When he already knew the font of the obscure text. This is an introductory hook to get all interested in a mystery he already knows the answer to, and is stringing us along for click bait and likes, as a good show runner does.it is probably what he suggested, a Chech version of the ytterbium II text with either the same exact message, or a continuation of the first one.
I wish I knew the answer, I've been trying to figure it out for months.
might be Norwegian
It's likely czech if anything
gosh i totally forgot about the alphabet generator, i played around with that so long ago..
I don't think they would be as mean to make it polyalphabetic. I also wouldn't expect prime and factor encryption.
In going to say the stereolith is written in a Slavic language the constantly repeated LL reminds me a lot of йи in Slavic languages
You don't know obscure lore until you've played Noita.
You don't know obscure lore until you've played Call of Duty Zombies
As BuildInfo shows, you can in fact repair the monolith, it just takes an obscenely long time
Too long, I spent ages trying!
Wouldn't that make it the strongest armor, and/or projectile then?
@@TH-camAccountName They both have 13,650 HP/integrity, and an artillery does 17,000 damage. Not exactly a huge amount. As for gridining them down and welding them up, it takes 1 day, 3 hours, 56 minutes, and 40 seconds to completely grind them down with a basic grinder on 1x grinding speed. It takes 2 dys, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 6 seconds to weld them up, on the other hand
Are the character on both sides of the Stereo (Meaning Two) the same? have you either Overlapped them to get one image? or even put them in a stereo-graph App (3D viewer)
Yeah, they're the same
Okay, so I was not able to do what nobody was able to do but I am pretty sure to know WHAT KIND OF MEANING we are looking for.
After some analysis of your findings and some research and thinking here are my thoughts:
The Text on the Stereolith is most likely less general, than on the monolith.
The Stereolith is most likely refering to a special person, event or object.
It's most likely a positive statement about said thing.
Given the position of the Stereolith and what I said above, I think it might refer to the earth planet or the sun in some way.
I think it has something to do with the "living IN the stars". It's either to be taken literally or it is a metaphor for going extinct.
Since Mars is clearly unihabitable while earth is not either the martians came from earth and went to mars or they were native martians and destroyed their home.
After all I'm pretty sure that the Stereolith is making a statement about earths beauty an maybe their plans with it, before the went "in the stars".
I do think the Stereolith refers to a person based on the text but without knowing that persons name we'll struggle to translate it.
@@Zer0sLegion But if nobody tells you a name you are unlikely to guess it right. What's less unlikely is getting that persons position in society right.
If it is indeed about a person I would guess:
Humans would perceive that being as female.
It is unlikely to be their Empress or Queen.
So IF it is a person it is more likely something religeous (the person could be a High priestress, a personification of a god etc.).
Or it refers to someone who is NOT part of their species or society because it just seems like the writing is about a thing the creators were not inherently familiar with.
That why I think maybe don't look for a person but a celestial body.
Mono(single)Lith
Stereo(dual)Lith
"The difference between mono and stereo audio is that mono audio has just one channel, whereas stereo contains two channels. In addition, mono audio preserves all sound in a single channel, whereas stereo separates sound into two channels - left and right. They are typically represented by M & S, respectively"
someone in comments already pointed out you can encounter very rarely another stereolith in space , it would be worth checking if it has other symbols on it , or has to do something with splitting channels
There's only one Stereolith
Is the stereolith writing actually music? With the accents and such things like minor or flat etc?
Easy way to solve this. Torture Keen's staff until they tell you what it means. Yeah, the quick and dirty solution might land you in jail but being psychologically tortured over years with this tease is sort of the same, so... I'm kidding of course.
Brb, just gonna spam all of the Keen devs with pictures of terrible SE builds until someone tells me.
@@Zer0sLegion HAHAHA That is awesome!
It could be similar to how we used codes in WW2 where it's scrambled in another Language even, or just be in English and it's just scrambled too
Nothing as complicated, you'll find out soon!