Shimmer

See also: Liquids

Shimmer is a liquid obtainable from the Bottomless Shimmer Bucket. It can spawn naturally underground in Aether cave biomes in any seed

It has a variety of effects on different items and npcs, triggered through contact


 * if you get submerged in it, you will fall through blocks until there is a space for you to occupy This is called shimmer phase. Any animations on your character or mounts freeze in this state.
 * putting any item that has a crafting tree will disassemble it into its components
 * Placing any coins into the pool deletes it, no matter how many you put in. DO NOT PUT MONEY IN THE SHIMMER.
 * placing a Wall of Flesh emblem into it changes the emblem, cycling from warrior, ranger, sorcerer, summoner, then warrior again
 * Debuff immunity accessories used to craft the Ankh Charm turn into other accessories for the charm, likely cycling the way emblems do
 * Grappling hooks end when they touch shimmer, not grabbing and not having to retract
 * Any new item created from shimmer will not have a modifier, even cycling items like the emblems. So, you can delete a modifier in this way
 * Ancient items such as Ancient Gold Helmet change to their standard form, and the standard form changes to the ancient form. Only tested on loot drop ancient items
 * pouring it onto NPCs and certain enemies will transform them into a shimmering variant
 * There are no unique fishing drops
 * Most projectiles bounce off the surface of the liquid
 * Upon placing a certain amount of shimmer in an area, the place will get dimmer and stars will appear in the background (like with using the aether monolith). The music that plays (according to the game) is 'Aether'.
 * Shimmer-unique items listed below cannot be returned to their original forms, so tread carefully. In particular, Rod of Discord turning into Rod of Harmony could be disadvantageous, as Rod of Harmony cannot damage the player to trigger low health effects.

Downgrading
Shimmer can downgrade various tiered items thrown into it, like ores and gems. When the lowest version of something is thrown into the shimmer, it turns into a stone block, and stone blocks turn into dirt blocks.

With ores, shimmer downgrades by tier, with 1.2 variants at each tier coming after the original variants. Copper is the lowest ore in the chain, luminite is presumably still the highest.

Gems thrown into shimmer downgrade from Diamond down to Amethyst.