Painting Changes Guide?

[Walkin Tornado]

I have been trying to document the various painting changes and what might trigger them. So far ive compiled a small list, if anyone has noticed some other form or insights on how to get certain rarer ones, feel free to comment.

1. Normal closed door, no wobbles: Default daytime
2. Normal closed door, wobbly: Still safe but the day is ending soon/ Painting will enter next form
3. Door slightly ajar, darkness beyond: Safe, but first step into the haunting, sun is still setting
4. Door ajar, one or two wives peeking from beyond: Still safe (?) but close to the hauntings
5. Door open, woman on the floor in the darkness: Not safe anymore, going outside might get you attacked, possibly by the diseased couple, other scares that dont hurt you like the head in the sky or flying women above the house possible
6. Woman monster standing in the darkness with multiple arms: Not safe, actively getting hunted by the invisible monster
7. Spooky man ghoul face: most dangerous state, in danger constantly

The above ones feel like a default progression if you neglect farm duties and allow the danger to increase. Onwards are some special states that i have observed, not 100% sure how i got em, but i made some educated guesses on what i did that day.

--- Open door, red viscera beyond: Taking a lot of damage in one day and surviving (???)
--- Upside down painting: on this day all i did was place barrels and try to jump onto the house
--- Painting is dark except for one flickering light on one of the hallways: leaving the TV on for long periods of time or just standing in the darkness with just the flashlight for a long time
--- Dark tree in the middle: The first time i got this one i was greeted with a pile of To Do papers and a Scarecrow in the Bedroom, ive observed it for as long as Garrett could stay awake, and it never turned into the ghost. I think this one is protective, it would've been a haunting night but intense farming and To Do list work is protecting you. Ive tested multiple days, tree appears when..... you cut a lot of trees haha, it also heralds the appearance of the Wendigo if you venture outside
--- Door moves farther away: this was the day i climbed the watchtower.
--- Realistic woman ghoul with torn jaw and white eyes: scripted final night when youre hunted by the diseased couple after visiting the shed

[Decapitare]

Dark tree (with no notebook pile or indoor scarecrow) was some loud, heavy footsteps and a horned/antlered shadow creature for me.

[Walkin Tornado]

That is so cool, i havent seen any horned antler creature at all during my playthroughs.

[ArcaBunny]

I had a decapitated ram head floating in the middle of the painting once, turned around and there was a creepy guy in the bathroom...

[ArcaBunny]

I just tried a new save doing nothing at all, just picked up the to-do list and wasted day 1

The painting went from normal to door slightly ajar to 2 people looking out to what looks like a woman leaning against one of the archways

This was accompanied by the sound of loud, ragged breathing right behind me.

I do not like this T_T

[Talfos]

On Day 2 or 3, i got a painting with the door closed and a hand crawling out of the floor. Rather spooky.

[Yggdrasil Burnes]

I'm honestly not sure what most of the warnings mean. I know that there's one where a tall Babadook looking mfer is real up close in the hallway, and that something was definitely inside the house with me, but... well, I never actually saw anything. I just heard the string quartet telling me to probably go upstairs and hide. The Tree in the hallway was usually quiet, the Hand Breaching didn't seem to be a threat either. The Two Faces in the door were unsettling, but that night was quiet too. I did get a Goat Head, but if it is an omen of the shadowy Wendigo looking creature I've heard of, I didn't see it. Besides those, there was the painting of a woman's face in place of the door on day 2 for me, I think that one was narrative based. On the "last night" of the demo, a seemingly blind man's face is in frame instead. Both faces scream and have predictably spooky faces, pale cracking skin. Maybe the faces are supposed to warn of active, legitimate threats like the Diseased Couple that stalks you at the end of the Demo. Maybe they are purely tied to narrative moments.

[Walkin Tornado]

The diseased couple? Whats that?

[ArcaBunny]

Originally posted by Walkin Tornado:

The diseased couple? Whats that?

the diseased couple is the title of the 2nd chapter of the demo; the chapter starts after you buy the gun and you encounter the diseased couple on the final night of the demo as part of the finale sequence

[Ethan_Bot]

Originally posted by Walkin Tornado:

That is so cool, i havent seen any horned antler creature at all during my playthroughs.

I got this one on the days I was working on the 12 logs job! Garrett wouldn't go to sleep, so I was just wandering around the house and saw the kitty outside. I went out to give it a quick pet to try to maybe get it to come onto the porch. I walked back to the front porch and into the doorway and when I turned around there was dark shadow with antlers bolting towards me and I shut the door in its face. It wasn't there when I opened the door a little while later.

Gave me a good scare!

[Walkin Tornado]

Originally posted by Ethan_Bot:

Originally posted by Walkin Tornado:

That is so cool, i havent seen any horned antler creature at all during my playthroughs.

I got this one on the days I was working on the 12 logs job! Garrett wouldn't go to sleep, so I was just wandering around the house and saw the kitty outside. I went out to give it a quick pet to try to maybe get it to come onto the porch. I walked back to the front porch and into the doorway and when I turned around there was dark shadow with antlers bolting towards me and I shut the door in its face. It wasn't there when I opened the door a little while later.

Gave me a good scare!

Thank you so much for your addition. It seems to support my theory that cutting trees/logging makes the painting show the tree, and that heralds the appearance of the antler monsterif you venture outside after dark

[CovertSugarplum]

Originally posted by ArcaBunny:

I had a decapitated ram head floating in the middle of the painting once, turned around and there was a creepy guy in the bathroom...

The same thing happened to me. I was staring hard at the painting, figuring out what I was looking at, and then I turned around and then got startled.

[Ace]

I believe the wibbly wobbly painting represents your sanity dropping because there are pills you can't buy in the demo but are in the buy book.

The red viscera in the doorway one was an event for me with the red moonlight outside and the floating women above the house.

The four armed man in the painting, I agree, means you are being hunted by an invisible man, run away.

The lying woman on the floor at the front of the painting means one of a variety of events involving the dead wife trope.

Whilst doing a haunting play through I was able to get a tree to appear in the painting but I had done nothing, cut no trees down sorry. Also got the scarecrow man to appear in the kitchen without buying one, I got a splotch mark over the painting door when that happened.

Still baffled what the upside down doorways mean.

[MekaDovah]

Originally posted by Walkin Tornado:

Dark tree in the middle: The first time i got this one i was greeted with a pile of To Do papers and a Scarecrow in the Bedroom, ive observed it for as long as Garrett could stay awake, and it never turned into the ghost. I think this one is protective, it would've been a haunting night but intense farming and To Do list work is protecting you. Ive tested multiple days, tree appears when..... you cut a lot of trees haha, it also heralds the appearance of the Wendigo if you venture outside

When I got this one, nothing happened. No papers, no scarecrow, to do list empty. I hadn't cut any trees myself that day, but I did go around chopping up all the fallen logs which may also count.

I routinely go back inside at sundown no matter what. Aside from one very unusual sound when I was running a smidge late clearing out the old tomato patch, I saw nothing.

[Walkin Tornado]

Originally posted by MekaDovah:

Originally posted by Walkin Tornado:

Dark tree in the middle: The first time i got this one i was greeted with a pile of To Do papers and a Scarecrow in the Bedroom, ive observed it for as long as Garrett could stay awake, and it never turned into the ghost. I think this one is protective, it would've been a haunting night but intense farming and To Do list work is protecting you. Ive tested multiple days, tree appears when..... you cut a lot of trees haha, it also heralds the appearance of the Wendigo if you venture outside

When I got this one, nothing happened. No papers, no scarecrow, to do list empty. I hadn't cut any trees myself that day, but I did go around chopping up all the fallen logs which may also count.

I routinely go back inside at sundown no matter what. Aside from one very unusual sound when I was running a smidge late clearing out the old tomato patch, I saw nothing.

The wendigo can appear in your house as well, but its more likely outside, especially during the sundown. Ive been reading the save logs for my playthroughs and ive noticed a p big spike in haunting chance after sundown. Also the spooks seem to only trigger when your pov camera moves. So turn around like a bayblade outside at sundown after ingoring your to do list. Even better if you fainted the day before. This seems to be the optimal way to trigger spooks.

[MekaDovah]

Originally posted by Walkin Tornado:

The wendigo can appear in your house as well, but its more likely outside, especially during the sundown. Ive been reading the save logs for my playthroughs and ive noticed a p big spike in haunting chance after sundown. Also the spooks seem to only trigger when your pov camera moves. So turn around like a bayblade outside at sundown after ingoring your to do list. Even better if you fainted the day before. This seems to be the optimal way to trigger spooks.

I was wondering if they could get in the house. Spawning directly inside feels a bit like cheating, though. No real way to play with that except pre-empt it by staying on top of things. Was hoping for a little more cat and mouse, you know?