The Rivals of Aether Workshop Iceberg Explained

Rivals Workshop has been around for over a year and a half now. In that time, the community's had quite a large number of strange occurences. Join me as I document my favorite findings in Workshop's history!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Surface
5:34 - Below Surface
14:51 - Iceberg Depths
23:25 - Deep Water
34:03 - The Abyss

[@Zetta330]

Is there any other obscure Workshop lore you know about? (minus the 18+ character we dont talk about that one)

[@mallowild]

the cheese wheel gimmick

[@sleepynuigurumiamalgamation]

To correct your statement. You could shorthop in the 1st workshop version without crashing the game. I remmber this detail. It was a odd sort of fun XD.

[@Twisted_Logic]

3

[@GmNdWtchr96]

Dinock's lore. /J

[@SCrafter1234]

Toon Link is a Kewtian

[@Darvoth]

The “don’t ask questions you aren’t prepared to handle the answers to” sound effect is a distorted version of a line from Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

[@EggoBoi]

Mrs puf say word that spogbop not know.

[@Darvoth]

@@EggoBoi I know she's the one who said it.

[@LaterXavier-TX]

I was going to comment the same thing. Despite the distortion, the inflection and tone sounds like the Battle for Bikini Bottom voiceline to me. Mrs. Puff says it to SpongeBob as she kind of twitches and the camera zooms in on her. It is unsettling considering the target audience for the game but pretty damn funny. I only knew about it because it gets referenced and joked about from time to time in the BfBB speedrun community. Glad other people picked up on it.

[@averagesky8549]

There needs to be a rivals iceberg in general, being a player since the alpha it'd be interesting to see if there's knowledge I don't know about

[@Zetta330]

Not gonna lie, I'd love to see something like that as well, though I don't have nearly the knowledge for it. The closest thing I know to it is Suitcase's items all referencing various Rivals events (with the character itself being the TAXIcord logo), so at the very least there's definitely a history to explore!

[@morgana_the_cat]

That Mario from smash bros gave me a headache after hearing "limit boosted arsene leven sword ko punch while the opponent is covered in ink"

[@britishdon4826]

Idk why but i was expecting to see Omega Tiger Woods on here somewhere, he was one of the funniest fighters i’ve seen from the workshop but he was suddenly removed, making him unplayable, and i don’t seem to see why he was removed

[@doxiedaddy7784]

He was removed because he was a MUGEN char made by The_None,and TN decided to take it down

[@doxiedaddy7784]

Update:He’s back now,check out the char called CV Wakamoto for a dl to him in the comments

[@GooberInternet]

I wonder if any other MUGEN characters will get ROA appearances.

[@Jsslade]

@@GooberInternet I'm hoping for Omega Tom Hanks tbh.

[@EggoBoi]

@@GooberInternet we already have Ronald so who knows

[@RushWheeler]

You should have added frisk's removed gimmick, which was to manipulate the red soul in a battle box. That one should be right under the highest level because it was shown in their trailer.

[@edgedrive_art]

That last entry was really,,, heart warming, and honestly kind of came at a great time for me, currently working on my portfolio page! ,,,in which I am including some of my Workshop work ;0

[@triplepinata27]

:D

[@miqwerty]

Love the idea that The Abyss in canon would think "Hmm yes, to challenge these warriors we will bring one, no... TWO Marios Pissing!"

[@ViviVinyaFP]

ROCKET LEAGUE CAR BEGONE CRUIS'N IS NOW THE RIVALS CAR GAME Also a little extra tidbit on Coolboyo - the Steve edit actually took Shy Guy's entire dair code, but with weird edits on some hitbox values that did nothing, and I'm pretty sure had the Carrot sprite in the files but didn't implement it for some reason? And on that one last note, Ms. Maribel actually helped me get through college, as her, Bucket Beach, and my video presentations on her counted as a personal game dev project! These lil projects really are meaningful, and don't you forget it!

[@MrSkerpentine]

Update: Thanks to the Super Smash Land project/trend, someone has made Mr. Slam from Twisted Metal 2 as a character, so now Twisted Metal is also Rivals Car Game :p

[@JetSetDman]

The “play as stages” glitch actually hasn’t been patched yet, I uninstalled Shrine of Void a few days ago and it popped up in my workshop characters list.

[@Play_Dash]

I didn't even know there was an attempt to make Red Knight in the past! I hope whoever tried to make him will be happy when our (Indies of Aether) Red Knight is finished.

[@Vallshen]

For the don’t ask questions one, I am REALLY sus at mojibake now, since I used to play moji and tamat a lot, until my PCs hard drive suddenly died, and now i don’t exactly play much rivals anymore, but yeah, moji’s weirdness was an off the wall theory of mine, but with that hidden payload..

[@doxiedaddy7784]

Mojibake and Tamat did a little trolling

[@gustavoaguiar4188]

15:40 I just hope that the Bird guy lore is just some dark, serious and somewhat edgy storyline. It would be funny to me.

[@renecup7260]

Another example of kirby ability mixing traits. This is just a pattern 100% fox: Gives moves clairen stun Speedrunner link: Gives moves the explosion effect Fox: Duplicates projectiles for less damage Lonin: Makes moves chargable Chef: Makes moves slide 100% accurate mk: Multiplies moves and gives them go aerial upon using Asdf guy: Give some projectiles piano hitboxes There are many more, but I don't have all day.

[@WilliamiteWilliamiteStudiosWWS]

I like lonin Also why him why not hikaru

[@Renlira19]

As flattered as i am to have been mentioned in the video. I cant take credit for that WIP collage, i believe that was Spam who made it.

[@Zetta330]

Whoops, good to know!

[@Twisted_Logic]

I remember taking part in that collage. Two characters I was working on were actually on it. Soldier, who eventually got reworked into Jane and is still in development hell, and Piranha Plant, who was someone else's character that I was coding in exchange for art for Soldier

[@friendthebarrel154]

YO WHAT THIS IS QUALITY CONTENT THIS MIGHT BE ONE OF MY FAVORITE ICEBERGS SO FAR

[@Renlira19]

Ah yes the infamous 6.99 Spam cant live that down to this day.

[@spamite3378]

Seriously I can't

[@archytas3115]

A few notes: - The grub in a fishbowl in the mystery collage was an early version of what would become Mojibake! I have some of the old animation files for them still, and do want to flesh out Heritor in the future... (If I get to it ^^;) - The jump bug had to do with a misdeclared variable in the example init files, so the effects cascaded for a few days while people over time updated their templates. - The Moji screen phrases are all references to various creepypasta stereotypes and spooky workshop events, features some fun ones like: "-1" - The default workshop description if the field is left blank "THE NEXT DISASTER WILL HAPPEN IN 0 SECONDS" - A reference to a screenshot of birdguy's taunt on the roblox hazards stage, where it's the text overlayed on a black background with birdguy staring at you. "swallowed != 0" - Kirby error that plagued the team until a simple if statement fixed the console spam "8 AWESOME ANGLE FLIPPERS" - Reference to Jack Black's sesame street episode (Secret of Note: All of Moji's custom sounds are edited clips from that segment. Dstrong is Jack Black's grunt backwards, and Moji's victory theme with "8" repeating are the easy to parse ones) "HYPER_REALISTIC_BLOOD_STRIP420.PNG" - Sonic.exe "YOU CANNOT WAKL YOU CANNOT R U N" - Initially, in the workshop docs instances of walk were misspelled "wakl"; R00's fstrong samples Sinistar's R U N C O W A R D - I patched QUESTIONS in for a Wednesday dev stream and asked Giik to try to win - the phrases and eyes happened but Moji did not win and no one noticed ^^; - Guest characters just kinda show up through portals - assuming that the guest characters are cannon to rivals, any and all guest characters can be transported to Aether though themed portals. - A funny bit with "Workshop is Cannon" is there are a few workshop characters that have gotten unofficial lore thumbs up from Dan, such as Hime.

[@archytas3115]

ALSO on note for Workshop is a Job Application - put completed characters and stages as completed projects. Completed projects are HUGE for portfolios!

[@emeraldskits4026]

I like how the existence of Kris in the game is more well known than an actual canon character.

[@peppermint_8]

23:25 “there’s no going back.” Me: rewinds video

[@Taktaagic]

This is the kind of stuff that I find awesome about Workshop. All of the little things and extras are so freakin cool

[@nintenjermi5325]

Thought it would be dark but that's pretty awesome and impressive but I didn't even know but damn that's actually something rn

[@Jsslade]

What was it tho?

[@Twisted_Logic]

I'm surprised there were actually a couple I didn't know

[@tjackknife6590]

I think the Don’t Ask Questions voice clip was pulled from SpongeBob Battle From Bikini Bottom

[@Jsslade]

it is

[@DefRevenge24601]

If Mario From Smash Bros can Buster Wolf someone when he comes out, I will go nuts

[@artman40]

Below Abyss - Fancharacters made to fit inside Rivals of Aether universe.

[@doxiedaddy7784]

Pomme,Sai chars,Guadua,Etc...

[@PhantomMashupCreator]

30:14 that line is ms. Puffs line from spongebob SquarePants Battle for bakini bottom on the game cube

[@Houndouur]

I requested coolboyo to make a rip of my character and they said yes then never did it.

[@thebaku818]

gimme a link and ill figure something out

[@FungiWizard]

Did not expect to see Slimepuffen's Tomo skin in here. I actually had plans for a lot more stuff for both Callie and Slime for that event but I literally reskinned the Slime alt THAT MORNING before the event started. From 1am to 8am all I did was reskin Tomo and make the custom portraits for Slime's Callie and Tomo alts haha. Next time an event comes up like that I'll make sure there'll be a lot more flair for the player though, my characters wouldn't be as amazing as they are without the help of the community and the players in workshop

[@mrmoustache1479]

That might actually be the lightest iceberg i've seen, not a bad thing.

[@doxiedaddy7784]

Ye. If it was like MUGEN,this iceberg would be darker The darkest thing on this list is (probably) Coolboyo

[@FrTdude]

The abyss brought 24 sonics for what reason

[@doxiedaddy7784]

The abyss is a sonic fanboy confirmed

[@saihuang9066]

Aw... Why did Zetta quote vs Cheapies removed...

[@WilliamiteWilliamiteStudiosWWS]

I dunno Also Lynk is an umbreon? Your characters are cool

[@doxiedaddy7784]

Williamite williamite studios The Saiverse dosent connect with the Pokemon universe If it did,then Agent N would do his funni anomaly removing full-screen move

[@Slicetheidiot]

> dan doesn't want you to jump oh god it's knuckles can't jump in europe all over again

[@RadRobbie]

This a really cool video Just FYI though, the 100% Accurate trend isn't directly connected to TerminalMontage. Yes, Fox's design is heavily inspired by TM's version of Fox, and many things about him, like his controller sounds, are loosely inspired by his videos, but I would definitely consider him to be his own thing, especially when there are characters like Speedrunner Link and Mario that are clearly inspired by TM.

[@hammerdown2668]

**plastic chair scraping noises intensifies**

[@sunkfnf2406]

13:55 With Peppino Spaghetti from Pizza Tower having recently released as a mod for Rivals of Aether, I can safely say, this has definitely happened again, as his sprites were made by the creator of Pizza Tower, made specifically for the RoA mod.

[@FireMarioFan]

I cannot believe mario 1.3 would even be mentioned here holy shit

[@FlagpoleGlitch]

Wow, I love the Bamboo Lodge music!. Can you have a download link on it?

[@Zetta330]

Unfortunately I don't have a direct download for it, but if you download Bamboo Lodge and have a look in the files you should be able to find the OGG file

[@Jankenstein]

Giik also made a cool Atari 300 styled game called Creepy Castle, probably one of my favorite stories!

[@wafflemutt6281]

Damn I'm thinking about sketching up some move sets for original or obscure characters now. My persona included in a list.

[@Sweguin]

What are the names of some of the submissions fakejoker made? i want to check them out, stuff like this is interesting

[@doxiedaddy7784]

One of them is Kefka Protoboss,a boss stage that HAS A ATTACK THAT KILLS CHEAPIES WTF

[@thomasverslycken2563]

Fun fact about tamat that isn't in this iceberg, as far as i know from my journey to collect every single buddy as off when i'll be done with that, tamat was originally gonna be a boss, but time was to short for that. However there is a buddy that if combined with tamat his home stage, him being an opponent & the buddy being equipped, he turns into a boss with the aether version of the stage making it hard mode & a certain imput combination that is in the desc skipping the puzzle section & getting straight to fighting tamat

[@cloudshifter]

Oh I didn't know it was so strong as portfolio, I did make a skin and was thinking of making a full fledged new character.

[@lokman842]

quite the pleasant surprise

[@nathanmeersman9723]

what about the "rivals of ather 3d the true full complete leak"

[@onihaiena6152]

istg that corrupted voice saying "don't ask questions" must be Mr. Puff's line from Battle from Bikini Bottom

[@sukus]

I remember downloading Linus before he was listed as incompatible. He's just a poorly made sandbert clone, whose uspecial crashes the game. The dev made the attack refrence a nonexistant window, and is probably why hr was listed as compatible.

[@dald22]

damn I never knew workshop was so deep

[@Josuh]

I have now idea how i got this video into my recommended but it's a pretty darn good video

[@logaimathais]

"And French Sonic, who is French"

[@gettingdeletedlol]

Can someone hook me up to that Orcane skin used in the fakejoker180 segment? Can't seem to find it on the Workshop-

[@Zetta330]

Sure thing, it's Marine Orcane! steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2384502585

[@gettingdeletedlol]

@@Zetta330 Thank you!

[@aguy1527]

22:31 I am pretty sure that might be used when springtrap gets released if he isn’t already canceled if he is please tell me also what characters at 19:17 were canceled

[@KrispyKorpse]

So does the abyss not actually have anything to do with abyss endless or vs modes?

[@lrgogo1517]

The explanation of “Slimepuffen Tomo Skin” could use some QoL. Shouldn’t there be comparative footage of normal Tomo for people who’ve never heard of the fighter?

[@residentlando]

yeah i also have no idea who tomo is

[@slep163]

dang marisa didn't make it to the iceberg f

[@doxiedaddy7784]

Did you just call my man thwomp underpowered when I beat the Dracula boss with it

[@EquinoxDoodles]

Finally.

[@Eichro]

where's A Normal Stage

[@aleja7089]

5:04 is there a release of that one?

[@gamma_dc8289]

I always knew this was a sonic game in disguise

[@Halodium]

Having any Ronald is OP but one... GOLDEN RONALD!

[@tiredbup8888]

Good vid. keep up the good work!

[@zOOpygOOpert]

Kris goes by they/them btw

[@lrgogo1517]

It’s weird how these Iceberg videos have “Iceberg explained” in the title as if said iceberg existed prior to the video.

[@MAJR172]

Is there any word about the Mario From Smash mod. I hope it didnt get canned

[@rakugakireporter2164]

I see rivals of aether iceberg and see a furry, I should expect it, great content btw.

[@BloodhoundfromYT]

loved this why havent I watched this before

[@vazio4540]

2:49 sorry to being weird but kris goes by they/them in the ame

[@IxXGDplayerXxI]

24:51 time zones exist

[@spiderbatmano8101]

14:04 you forgot peppino spaghetti:(((((

[@mychannelisdiedbyyoutube9632]

what was that stage you showed in the fakejoker part

[@doo_1213]

26:08 >:)

[@Zetta330]

NO WAY

[@mobgabriel1767]

imagine 100% acurate frisk against all the cast in the abyss ksksksk

[@hithere7080]

2:50 them*

[@TheCubicalGuy]

Stages in character list got patched? I still have two active and haven't figured out how to get rid of them.

[@jellyenjoyer1690]

OMG I love your avatar!!

[@yoshifan7863]

I remember when someone made H*tler in Rivals of Aether Workshop. (He was of course, a punching bag for me)

[@doxiedaddy7784]

Bruh ROA is becoming MUGEN 2 Punchbags,Cheapies,and moar

[@chris-dy1dc]

33:33 where i download the air armanda character

[@tricksternaming33]

I really want to play as Mario From Smash Bros

[@tahataha4847]

I have an idea for a character the name of him is null and he is basically reaper

[@fireguard743]

Does anyone know the answer to the Ronald vs Hikaru fight? I just wanted to experiment with them, even went to Hikaru's code. But got no answer...

[@EggoBoi]

You can hold enter and it should let you through after 30 questions that are the same on

[@Cr0n0max]

I main Mario Pissing challenge me.

[@bdemar2k12]

Turpix jigglypuff is ruined by the fact that she ltierally kills every single character in the game with rest at 0%. You literally win if you choose her.

[@BeamOp]

19:30 someone know if soldier is cancelled or will release later?

[@QThe2DFishIsPeak9592]

How do I perform the Kirby glitch or has it been fixed?

[@Zetta330]

In a match with two or more workshop characters with compatibility, inhale one, taunt to drop the ability, and inhale the other, and that's all it takes!

[@SeanTG246]

everytime i saw mugman on this list i thought it would be about the user mugman not the actual cuphead echo i'm disappointed, fix it right now zetta >:(

[@Zetta330]

Pac Man 2 is there for a reason :]

[@ballisticboo7808]

@@Zetta330 I was like no way mugman's not on this list

[@ethanpritt542]

23:28

[@onememeyboi7149]

17:40 WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST LISTEN TO FJJDHDHRH

[@farcan9400]

Ayy 11/11 is my birthday

[@raheemaslam7363]

Hey what happened to Mario from smash bros Edit: ok so it’s still in development

[@benthasome]

Does anybody know what is this mushroom-like fighter on 9:46?

[@ProbablyBarney]

that's mycolich! very fun character

[@benthasome]

@@ProbablyBarney thank you bro, much appreciated

[@jeffcone268]

32:49

[@onemanalliance3995]

Kris goes by they/them

[@stopgont7360]

Wait... Gadua is a she?

[@GmNdWtchr96]

Always has been.

[@crep50]

How hard was it to not add yourself though Nah I’m joking, great video!

[@mcchomk]

real cringe of you to not talk about srperez' masterpiece

[@LunaMinuna]

Hey Zetta, Kris is non binary, they by they then

[@justarandomalt255]

I only need 5 characters 100%accurate fox/falco 100%accurate cloud Ronald McDonald Cosmic Ronald McDonald Gigachad

[@doxiedaddy7784]

>2 Cheapies >3 Meme Chars Ok normie

[@DragonHammer45]

f u r r y

[@JoseFranco-xl6pi]

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