Ascent tower · The Ashlands
The Ash Needle
The Ash Needle is a spiral climb of 104 platforms in The Ashlands, rising 980 m above its own ground to a summit 1277 m above sea level.
Measured
- Foot — x -1800, z -880
- Ground height — 289.3 m
- Band — The Ashlands
- Platforms — 104
- Rise above its ground — 980 m
- Average step — 9.4 m
- Summit above sea level — 1276.5 m
- Difficulty — 5 of 5
- Nearest named place — Emberwatch, 221 m away
- From Landfall — 2709 m west
The climb
104 platforms spiral up 980 m from the ground under the tower, an average of 9.4 m a step. The platform count is not decoration: it is chosen so that the average rise suits what the climb is meant to ask for, and the same arithmetic that places the mesh places the summit the server checks against — one formula, two consumers, so the server can never think the top is somewhere a body cannot stand.
Everything you have, including jumping into a Dash.
At the top
The summit stands 1276.5 m above sea level and 987 m above the ground you started on. A canopy waits there, and a parachute is handed over — which is the only thing this game gives you for reaching a high place.