Missing tentacle spell

[Esoc]

I have over 400 hours in this game and have been playing it on and off since its early access release in 2019. I collected all the orbs early on, probably a month after release. However I noticed that in all of my time playing the tentacle spell has never once appeared for me in a run. Not in the shops, not in a random wand, and the orb still just drops an hp+. Apparently i never got to use it either since the spell and its variants arn't on the completion page. Has anyone else experienced something like this? I would hate to have to reset my data just for that spell to comeback.

[Doombringer]

make sure the persistent/flags directory of you save has a file:
card_unlocked_tentacle

It is a projectile, so it shows up on wands quite often.
The only reason I could think of for you not finding it is if it isn't unlocked...

That being said, I had to run 3 games where I went through all shops and the hourglass room of dozens of parallel worlds to get the last spell I needed (summon wall), but it doesn't show up on wands and has a low probability of showing up in shops...
Projectile spells are super common compared to (non-lvl10) other/utility ones.

[Esoc]

Originally posted by Doombringer:

make sure the persistent/flags directory of you save has a file:
card_unlocked_tentacle

It is a projectile, so it shows up on wands quite often.
The only reason I could think of for you not finding it is if it isn't unlocked...

That being said, I had to run 3 games where I went through all shops and the hourglass room of dozens of parallel worlds to get the last spell I needed (summon wall), but it doesn't show up on wands and has a low probability of showing up in shops...
Projectile spells are super common compared to (non-lvl10) other/utility ones.

I definitely should have it unlocked, since the orb give the hp+ instead of the spell and I have picked it up multiple times just to make sure I'm not going crazy. I imagine since I got it so early on when the game was still new and very buggy something just went wrong.

Anyway thanks man I just checked and the flags, both tentacle and tentacle timer are not there. Is there anyway I can fix that?

[Doombringer]

That flag unlocks both.
Get the orb in Frozen Vault again and see if it gives you the flag.
(can save & quit after picking it up to check)

The file is empty, so you could just make a blank file with that name and see if it works.
card_unlocked_tentacle
(Note that the unlock is different from the flag for the progress screen - unlock allows it to spawn in game though. The progress screen uses the action_<whatever> flags)

[Esoc]

Originally posted by Doombringer:

That flag unlocks both.
Get the orb in Frozen Vault again and see if it gives you the flag.
(can save & quit after picking it up to check)

The file is empty, so you could just make a blank file with that name and see if it works.
card_unlocked_tentacle
(Note that the unlock is different from the flag for the progress screen - unlock allows it to spawn in game though. The progress screen uses the action_<whatever> flags)

Thanks a lot man. I actually didn't know the files were blank so I wasted like half a day looking for a full save to get them from haha. It took a couple of runs but I have FINALLY found the tentacle spell.

[Doombringer]

Not all of the files are blank, but some are (tentacle unlock is one of them).
A lot (if not all) of the not blank ones file contents are "why are you looking here" lol