General hints thread

[Hempuli]

Feel free to make a new thread if you're stuck, but you can ask for specific hints here as well!

Keep in mind that the game was built around the idea that you can pick your levels pretty freely; almost every area starts with slightly easier levels so it may even be a good idea to check out early levels in other areas before doing the final levels of an area.

[fenx]

Originally posted by 18111398:

Originally posted by 5ully_:

Anyone have a tip for Depth - 3 Crusher, i got to the flag but need a tip for the other solution

Obviously you need to get that WEEK out of the way.
1. To get rid of the WEEK you need to get something through the Skull corridor and push it up.
2. That "something" is not You. Try something else.
3. It is also not stuffing a load of texts through the corridor.
4. That SHIFT looks interesting. Maybe trying something that would move itself?
5. Texts can overlap.

Big hint: Make two Texts overlap, then make TEXT IS SHIFT so these two Texts would shift each other and move their way up.

So I get level is belt and ... I also can't find the way to depths-4. I restart it and push MOVE downwards, then nothing can be used. I doubt if I used the wrong is of three words on the right side.

[Kaynato]

Originally posted by fenx:

Originally posted by 18111398:

Obviously you need to get that WEEK out of the way.
1. To get rid of the WEEK you need to get something through the Skull corridor and push it up.
2. That "something" is not You. Try something else.
3. It is also not stuffing a load of texts through the corridor.
4. That SHIFT looks interesting. Maybe trying something that would move itself?
5. Texts can overlap.

Big hint: Make two Texts overlap, then make TEXT IS SHIFT so these two Texts would shift each other and move their way up.

So I get level is belt and ... I also can't find the way to depths-4. I restart it and push MOVE downwards, then nothing can be used. I doubt if I used the wrong is of three words on the right side.

You want to make LEVEL IS TEXT. The niche for you to disengage MOVE is there for good reason.

I'm having awful trouble with Mountain Extra-1 myself. Been stuck on it for a day and a half. My idea at this point involves de-aligning the baba pair by exploiting the level wall but I'm unable to Push two rocks to the left without making it impossible to go to the door. I've tried a lot of ways to get the rocks AND baba on the same platform as the door too, but... I really feel that's not possible.

MASSIVE SPOILERS BELOW DO NOT TOUCH IF YOU WANT TO HAVE THE THRILL OF DISCOVERY
META is hell. But somehow it's also... so enjoyable (swear to god my brain's fried now).

Having a lot of trouble getting to Meta-09. I can get 3 baba.

My level "outputs" are currently:
Booby Trap: Either flag or Baba (pretty sure this is how it's supposed to be)
Avalanche: Baba (I think I'm missing something for sure here).
Mutual Feelings: Baba + Flag (simultaneous) - likely "endpoint"

I think there is just something about avalanche I'm not getting - probably make two baba at the same time? But I have no clue how to dislodge the BABA in the top left. Is this entire method wrong?

[Zyxyz]

Even knowing exactly what the goal is with those hints, Depths-3 still has me stumped. I can get the BELTS safely out of the way and the MOVE moved, but the TEXT is left in or near the skulls in such a way that I can't bring it over to the LEVEL IS safely. It seems like there's some super-precise positioning with the BELT, IS, and SHIFT at the start that I haven't found, and I don't want to spend another hour or smth trying incorrect permutations and losing track of what I'm doing from having to undo so much of the level. Am I at the point where I just need to look up a walkthrough elsewhere and be done with it?

[artless]

Originally posted by Mãe Serpente:

Originally posted by Nozu3:

I'm wondering about something that you can collect and hope someone can answer me.
What are the bonis for that you can get?

No idea. But I've found only one, in the isolate level of the main map. Did you find others?

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Actually two. Build flag is bonus also wins you a bonus.

[Kaynato]

Ended up figuring out where I was on Meta but not Mountain. Funny how the "tricks" are so horizontal...

[fenx]

Originally posted by Zyxyz:

Even knowing exactly what the goal is with those hints, Depths-3 still has me stumped. I can get the BELTS safely out of the way and the MOVE moved, but the TEXT is left in or near the skulls in such a way that I can't bring it over to the LEVEL IS safely. It seems like there's some super-precise positioning with the BELT, IS, and SHIFT at the start that I haven't found, and I don't want to spend another hour or smth trying incorrect permutations and losing track of what I'm doing from having to undo so much of the level. Am I at the point where I just need to look up a walkthrough elsewhere and be done with it?

Did you wait for a turn to separate skull and BELT after you make TEXT IS SHIFT? I think it is also a key step.

[Chabibi]

Originally posted by 18111398:

Originally posted by Chabibi:

I'm stuck on level island-1: Float.
...

Is this just bugged? Or am I missing something?

BABA IS FLOAT means that Baba is at a higher layer and can only touch things that are also Float. Flag is not Float so touching it would not work.
Hints:
1. The Win object in this level should be Float.
2. The only object that is Float is Baba.

OH!

I assumed Baba is float meant baba doesn't sink on water.

Given that wall is apparantly not floating, it would have been sensible for Baba not to interact with wall either. But that's just my take on it.

[Ouroboros]

I've finished the normal levels; I'm stuck on Depths-Extra 2 now. I have absolutely no clue about anything I can do here.

[Mnemosy]

Originally posted by Ouroboros:

I've finished the normal levels; I'm stuck on Depths-Extra 2 now. I have absolutely no clue about anything I can do here.

This one's not too bad, you've got 3 main things you can turn into other things. Just take turns turning Rock, Key, and Door into other stuff while making sure you don't accidentally turn all of them into the same thing. Hopefully that hint helps.

[Morialis]

In the level Fragile Existence Where you can make 'Level is Baba'

Is there a way to beat the level 'normally' and get one of those 'level win counters'? or do you get one when you complete the level without 'winning'? Trying to be a completionist and don't want to miss a level counting for completion, but I can't find a way to get a win on that level. One thing that seemed promising was making the walls both hot and melt, but that just barely doesn't seem to work

[18111398]

Originally posted by Kaynato:

Having a lot of trouble getting to Meta-09. I can get 3 baba.

My level "outputs" are currently:
Booby Trap: Either flag or Baba (pretty sure this is how it's supposed to be)

I am still stuck at Meta-03. Could you provide some hints?

[Morialis]

Originally posted by Morialis:

In the level Fragile Existence Where you can make 'Level is Baba'

Is there a way to beat the level 'normally' and get one of those 'level win counters'? or do you get one when you complete the level without 'winning'? Trying to be a completionist and don't want to miss a level counting for completion, but I can't find a way to get a win on that level. One thing that seemed promising was making the walls both hot and melt, but that just barely doesn't seem to work

I actually was able to find out how to do it after spending a bit of time on it, pretty clever one and for the record you do need to 'win' the level for it to count for completion:

I was on the right track, but you need to make 'level is hot' instead

[R@sιn]

Stuck on CHASM-EXTRA 7 for over an hour.

I guess I should make ROCK IS WORD, and transform the rock into a flag in the small room, then make NOT ROCK IS YOU to win.
However, to move NOT into the big room, I have to move the rock in, but I can't find a way to move it out.

Could anyone please help?

[harry.damm]

Originally posted by 18111398:

Originally posted by 5ully_:

Anyone have a tip for Depth - 3 Crusher, i got to the flag but need a tip for the other solution

Obviously you need to get that WEEK out of the way.
1. To get rid of the WEEK you need to get something through the Skull corridor and push it up.
2. That "something" is not You. Try something else.
3. It is also not stuffing a load of texts through the corridor.
4. That SHIFT looks interesting. Maybe trying something that would move itself?
5. Texts can overlap.

Big hint: Make two Texts overlap, then make TEXT IS SHIFT so these two Texts would shift each other and move their way up.

Even with your tips, I’m unable to make any of the texts overlap so that it would automatically push upwards. I’m ready for a spoiled solution at this point!

[Striped]

Anyone got any hints for Depths-Extra 1? It's the last level I have for the area, and I just can't seem to figure it out. No matter what I try, I just can't see or fathom a method of slowing Keke down, likely from breaking the rule "Skull is shift" somehow.