Editing Amethyst

{{IB-Level
 |image      = Amethyst.png
 |id         = 119550490
 |creator    = Mist (host and publisher)
;Contributors
ivashka, NoobyPro, MinAY, BeClan, titoalper, roselyna, Echo, GamerKnight750, Uriun, 3DADronX, Snom, and Bedrock
 |verifier   = [[wPopoff]]
 |created    = [[Update 2.1]]
 |updated    = [[Update 2.2]]
 |difficulty = [[File:ExtremeDemon.png|x35px]]
 |stars      = 10
 |length     = 1m 42s (Long)
 |objects    = 147,448
 |copytype   = Free copy
 |downloads  = 4.3M+
 |likes      = 141K+
 |rating     = Featured
 |artist     = [https://waterflame.newgrounds.com Waterflame]
 |music      = [https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/233860 Ricochet Love]
 |musicid    = 233860
}}
'''Amethyst''' (formerly known as '''The Amethyst''') is a 2.1/2.2 Extreme Demon mega-collaboration level hosted by Mist, verified by [[wPopoff]] on 25 May 2025.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lfkzz1VCbA</ref> The level takes the theme of a crystal cave and uses a colour palette of blue, pink, red, and most notably, purple, which is the colour of an [[Wikipedia:Amethyst|amethyst]]. Its gameplay and visuals are inspired by [[The Golden]], featuring incredibly tight ship-traversal spaces, precise timing, and highly challenging wave sections with gravity and size-altering portals.

Amethyst was rated on 4 June 2025 and placed at #1 on the [[Geometry Dash Demonlist|Demonlist]], surpassing [[Tidal Wave]]. On 19 September 2025, [[Thinking Space II]] surpassed Amethyst and became the Top 1 Demon on the Demonlist.

==Description==
*'''0-10% (ivashka):''' Similarly to The Golden, Amethyst begins with a UFO section containing orbs, portals and tight timings. Hordes of crystals and rocky structures act as obstacles, forming the tight spaces that the player must pass through. Following this is a tricky ball section before another UFO part.
*'''10-21% (NoobyPro + MinAY):''' The song becomes tense, preparing for the drop as the player becomes a ship and must pass through tight areas with orbs, size changes and gravity portals. Following this is a cube section where the player must hit some orbs. Each time this happens, the player will briefly become dual. This part ends with a title card, signalling the drop.
*'''21-36% (BeClan + titoalper + Bedrock + roselyna):''' The player gets thrown into a fast wave section requiring tricky timing to pass through the tight gaps at a rapid speed, followed by a UFO section. Gravity and size portals scatter throughout, and the colour palette used here is primarily purple. A flash of light transitions the player to the next part, which features a colour palette of blue, pink, and purple, with gameplay consisting of another fast wave section that combines size and gravity changes with tight gaps that require precise timing.
*'''36-52% (Echo):''' The player becomes a ship and maintains the fast speed. This ship part features size and gravity changes, a few teleportation portals, and orbs, followed by a challenging section that requires the player to transition quickly between the wave and the cube. A dual-wave section and a ball section then follow this.
*'''52-68% (GamerKnight750 + Uriun):''' The gameplay slows down as the player must pass through a difficult robot part. The part after this is a tight UFO section with a very brief dual in between, followed by a spider part with the last input turning the player into a cube as they transition into a slow yet tight ship section containing gravity portals, size changes, some orbs to hit, and other orbs to avoid hitting. Afterwards is a UFO section with a dual segment in between, requiring only a few inputs before another ship section sharing a similar style of gameplay to the one earlier. At the end of this part, the player enters a cube portal, and a purple light emerges from it as it flies to the right, then emits a flash that covers the whole screen, acting as a transition to the next section.
*'''68-81% (ADrone):''' The final part is a fast wave section with varying portals scattered throughout, slowing down into a UFO section and slowing down even more before a ball and another UFO section. At the end, the screen flashes white, then displays the end screen.
*'''81-100% (Snom, End Screen):''' The end screen starts with the scenery of a purple crystal cave consisting of some waterfalls pouring down from the ceiling. The text here is made out of purple crystals. The level's title first appears and starts crediting the creators from here, beginning with the host (Mist), then the end art artist (Snom), before rocks fall from the ceiling, covering the screen, as a crack showing light appears and flashes. During this, the level's title appears again in front of a pink crystal, as the verifier, layout and optimisation creators are credited below, followed by the decorators. After this, the end art artist is credited once again before the credits disappear, leaving only the title and the pink crystal, as the level ends.

==Gameplay==
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==CBF controversy==
The first click in Amethyst, a 240FPS frame-perfect timing, was made by wPopoff to improperly align if the player is using the Click Between Frames (CBF) mod, making it nearly impossible. On 13 July 2025, wPopoff re-verified Amethyst to update the 'CBF Blocker' to be truly physically impossible, citing that he did not want achievements of Amethyst's difficulty to be 'overshadowed [by] a CBF victor'.<ref>https://twitter.com/WpopoffW/status/1944428909774221798</ref>

The CBF blocker received significant backlash from users on Twitter, including from top player [[Zoink]], who stated that the level was already challenging enough with the first CBF blocker and that this update was unnecessary.<ref>https://twitter.com/gdzoink/status/1944337089476079940</ref> Other users speculate that wPopoff re-verified the level out of spite after Zoink allegedly said the level was 'barely harder than Tidal Wave'. Zoink himself received criticism, with community members pointing out his own involvement with CBF blockers in other Extreme Demons, most notably [[Nullscapes#Click Between Frames blocker|Nullscapes]].<ref>https://twitter.com/b_dziu/status/1944436822076969102</ref>

Soon after wPopoff verified the update, and before Mist published the update, the Demonlist staff made a rule change allowing the removal of CBF blockers added in update verifications in list completions, likely in direct response to wPopoff's update verification of Amethyst with a full CBF blocker; Zoink later beat the level using CBF, becoming its first victor.

==First 10 victors==
{| class="wikitable"
 !Victor #
 !Player
 !Date Completed
 !Total Attempts
 !Furthest Fail
 !Video
 |-
 |'''Verifier'''
 |'''wPopoff'''
 |25 May 2025
 |>113,000
 |77%
 |[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lfkzz1VCbA YouTube]
 |-
 |1
 |[[Zoink]]
 |31 July 2025
 |45,717
 |80%
 |[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Sof3yGJ5Y YouTube]
|}

==Trivia==
*Amethyst was rated on 4 June 2025 and placed at #1 on the Demonlist the same day, dethroning Tidal Wave.
**This addition pushed The Paroxysm of Rage into the Extended List and LD50 into the Legacy List.
***It was coincidentally verified on the same day Thinking Space II was verified and Firework was beaten on mobile.
*Amethyst, along with [[Avernus]], are both highly inspired by The Golden.
**Amethyst, Avernus, and The Golden are also former Top 1 levels.
**Additionally, Amethyst is part of the player-made 'GRP trilogy', along with these two levels.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNmJEyDItc</ref>
*Amethyst was initially set to be verified by Beastular, but it was passed to [[Trick]], who, after achieving 61%, dropped the level due to initially quitting top Extreme Demons.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m22CqKOCPxc</ref> Ultimately, wPopoff became the next and final verifier, buffing the level.
*About half an hour after Amethyst was rated, it received enough player votes to downgrade it from Extreme Demon to Insane Demon. It was reverted to Extreme Demon an hour later.
*Amethyst contains roughly 143 60FPS frame perfects, 13 120FPS frame perfects, and 2 240FPS frame perfects.
**Amethyst is impossible to beat on 60FPS and 120FPS, as even the first click in the level requires an FPS higher than 120.
*Amethyst was in development for over five years.
*On 16 June 2025, Zoink began streaming progress on the level. In the version without the CBF blocker, he achieved 80% and 28-100%. On 1 August 2025, after 45,717 attempts and a furthest crash at 80% (98% if not counting the end screen), Zoink beat the level using CBF, becoming its first victor.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Sof3yGJ5Y</ref>
**Additionally, a few other people started playing it after its rating.
***The farthest record on the level belongs to SerVax, who, as of his last live-stream, achieved 32% and two runs of 36-100%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fMyt9YRP9s</ref>
*Amethyst and Thinking Space II were placed at #1 and #2 respectively on the [https://demonlist.org Global Demonlist] site on 25 May 2025.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/geometrydash/comments/1kvc8ji/amethyst_and_thinking_space_ii_have_been_placed/</ref>
**On 1 August 2025, Amethyst was moved below Thinking Space II, leading to a minor controversy.
***Since the fact above, Amethyst was dethroned after Thinking Space II was placed.
*Amethyst is the 41st former Top 1 in the game's history.

==References==
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[[Category:Demon List levels]]