The True Ending (HEAVY SPOILERS)

[Maddzi]

Sup, Mages.

So, at last I managed to fulfill the initial goal collecting all 11 spheres, and when I beat the boss and got that Phylosopher's Stone, in the room with hands.. nothing happened. At all. The panel became inactive after I pressed "E", and no effect occured ever. I tried to dig out of there, glad I had all necessary means for that, and the panel at the sky altar is also inactive.

So thus is the question: since I already had my ♥♥♥ burnt to coals, and I probably won't try this run again anytime soon since this was my third attempt at this due to random bugs and crashes (and some 50-80 more attempts because no luck), could anybody PLEASE just tell me what is gonna happen if everything is done properly and with no bugs in the end, or just link a video?

Thank you in advance.

UPD: Tried this again, collected 11 orbs (I know of only 11 and wiki says there is also 11 of them), made a backup of my savegame, and tried using that in The Work after the boss. Same result, nothing happened. Loaded a backup, dug out and brought it upstairs to the altar. Resulted in NG+.

[MysticD'MeeM]

It's possible to collect more than 11 orbs. The "true" ending happens at 13, IIRC.

[Maddzi]

So wiki lies on it.. still, what happens then?

[MysticD'MeeM]

Originally posted by Maddzi:

So wiki lies on it.. still, what happens then?

Maybe it's not 13 then...
Regardless:
Effectively NG+ but everyone stops fighting (including you) - Aka, more love+

[Maddzi]

UPD: Tried this again, collected 11 orbs (I know of only 11 and wiki says there is also 11 of them), made a backup of my savegame, and tried using that in The Work after the boss. Same result, nothing happened. Loaded a backup, dug out and brought it upstairs to the altar. Resulted in NG+.

[MysticD'MeeM]

Originally posted by Maddzi:

UPD: Tried this again, collected 11 orbs (I know of only 11 and wiki says there is also 11 of them), made a backup of my savegame, and tried using that in The Work after the boss. Same result, nothing happened. Loaded a backup, dug out and brought it upstairs to the altar. Resulted in NG+.

NG+ Occurs if you have >5 and <13.
If only there were some place that looked exactly like the normal overworld, but unlooted. Then it'd have new holy mountains, new wands and most importantly 11 more orbs.
(Hint, hint)

[Maddzi]

could you specify where you find 12 and 13 orb? Excluding what wiki says. Because starting NG+ resets orbs you had before it.

[MysticD'MeeM]

Originally posted by Maddzi:

could you specify where you find 12 and 13 orb? Excluding what wiki says. Because starting NG+ resets orbs you had before it.

Have you considered the parallel worlds?
https://noita.gamepedia.com/Parallel_worlds
Specifically:

All orbs in Parallel Worlds glow red. These are 'corrupt orbs' -- they do what normal orbs do, except they will 'curse' the player when picked up. This will cause the player to take roughly sixty percent of their health in damage over time, so be careful. As of now, it seems the player cannot die from picking up cursed orbs. Additionally, you can block this health damage with Ambrosia.

Make sure to read the page carefully, there's a few odd traps (see: Holy mountains) that you might not expect.

[Maddzi]

UPD: did 13 spheres, still no effect. It looks like I have a global bug with it.

[bangerland]

I went full tryhard with that and also did the moon ritual on top of orbs.

When i used it on the altar above mountain it said "the world is restored and everyone feels happier" or sth like that.

I did not really comprehend the whole "world restored" and "everyone are happy" thing because the altar got annihilated by my essence of fire the very next moment (i was lucky to even be able to reach it before it exploded, lol) and everyone who was on the same screen with me got killed off by essence of water or other things, so i guess there is that.

I figured i might as well end my own misery and drowned myself in acid. Got game over credits, so i guess it worked out.

[katange]

I dont think there is an actual GOOD ending to this game yet. No matter how many orbs you collect, you still die when "completing the works" and the other options are NG+ or Peacefull World and the moon stuff. Would be nice if collecting, say 20 orbs, collecting all the essences and going to all locations in main world + one parallel E and one W would give you a different ending. Like make you go and face the GODS that the worms keep angering, so you could get your revenge on those pesky annoying gods... or something.

[Maddzi]

Originally posted by katange:

I dont think there is an actual GOOD ending to this game yet. No matter how many orbs you collect, you still die when "completing the works" and the other options are NG+ or Peacefull World and the moon stuff. Would be nice if collecting, say 20 orbs, collecting all the essences and going to all locations in main world + one parallel E and one W would give you a different ending. Like make you go and face the GODS that the worms keep angering, so you could get your revenge on those pesky annoying gods... or something.

You may survive after completing The Work if you are fast enough to get out from damaging field. That's quite useless though - the world will turn gold, but become useless, and I also had problems dying there lately - game refused to do lethal damage to me after that point.

[zrgrush]

I'm just gonna leave this here since I just completed the true ending without any essences and since there is no info anywhere I figured i might as well put my knowledge somewhere.

When you complete the work with 13 orbs ON THE SKY ALTAR, it says World restored and everyone is happy. the world IS NOT NG+, in fact a lot of things get removed, including the holy mountain, orb rooms, probably ??? rooms, the dark cave, most of the pyramid and probably a bunch of things. The mines, coal pits.. etc get restored to their former condition with chests and health ups, but without any wands or flasks or spells. All enemies come back to life, but none of them attack you or anything else normally, unless you attack them, then they fire back but only 1 times after getting hit. However, they will attack anything stained with berserkium. honestly, I dont think there is anything to do after getting the true ending.

[Chroma]

Idk if you guys figured it out yet but here is your answer: https://noita.gamepedia.com/New_Game_Plus
The true ending occurs at new game +28 when you collect 33 orbs and deliver the salt to the altar one last time.

[Tumalu]

You don't need to be in NG+28, the first NG+ is fine. Also probably don't respond to several month old threads, the ending stuff has changed multiple times since this thread was made XD