r/outerwilds

So here i am at quantum moon's final puzzle, and i have no idea what to do; regardless, here's what i think is happening;

Much like 'Case of the Golden Idol' i think this is a word puzzle where everything needs to be in a specific order in order to solve it. The pictures are; Me, three eyes [the one who gave me the puzzle], identify, quantum moon, and Explain.

My best educated guess goes as follows; Both orange rocks can not be next to each other [ie on the top two slots or right beneath each other] either we're both explaining something or one of us is doing the explaining/identifying and the images depicting the quantum moon and the Eye of The Universe aren't next to each other either.

I'm assuming the rock goes top down and the slots on the right are a separate sentence/statement [if this assumption is wrong please tell me], and that Three eyes knows about the Eye of the Universe [since his mask is the thing i've been seeing upon my deaths and during the Ash twin project projection]

Again given the lack of a sentence or any statement from three eyes, this is just an educated guess

So i know i should explore more but i just finished the quantum tower in gigants deep and i realized. If i put the scout on my ship and then use it to take a photo. Could i land there?

Edit:uhh... so. It worked... but but i accidentally spoiled my self about the sixth location and something else by doing so and also accidentally flew outside of its atmosphere and git swallowed by the sun

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i was NOT expecting subnautica level bs when i got the game(dont ask whatn im doing with the ash twin projection stone there)

edit: i tried moving a bit and one of them shouted at me :( i woke up my mom

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every time i look at it, it will start to dissapear and i cant find any info on them. i have also seen some yellow ones

>!Ive figured out how to get to the cabin with the singer in Shrouded Woodlands, but i cant figure out how to sneak past or get rid of the crowd to get past the fireplace. I've searched the whole area in the glitch mode that happens when you leave the artifact's dome but cant seem to find anything.!<

It's easily been 2 hours of exploring, and I have gotten nowhere. I feel like I can't reach any place that looks important, and have no idea what direction I should go in. I tried talking to Gabbro to see if they would help, but nothing. I'm out of ideas, I think I will try burning myself with that green fire next loop. I just want any type of hint on where I could learn about their language or how their machines work.

This entire post is a thick spoiler for the base game and a thin spoiler for the DLC

I just finished the base game last week. It was fantastic, and afterwards my friend and I decided to play through the DLC parallel to each other, sharing in the discovery together.

After exploring the stranger for a while and finding a map/viewing room from the dam, I discovered that the ship was quickly moving outside the range of the sun's supernova.

Eureka! 🤓☝️

I noticed earlier that, while on the stranger, the loop didn't end with a bright and fiery death like it normally did. It just sort of ended, and my memories were sent back to the Ash Twin project for recycling.

So, if I wasn't dying to the sun's boom, the only thing holding me back was that pesky Nomai Statue that triggered every supernova.

Screw that, I thought, letting my buddy know that I was on to something that I believed to be absolutely foolproof. I told him to just trust me, and follow what I do for the next loop.

We nap for ~8 minutes. Head to the Ash Twin, teleport into the planet's core and abduct the warp core thats been holding us hostage. I didn't believe it mattered what we actually did with the core, but we took it with us to the stranger anyway. By now, my buddy has caught on. He's pretty smart. But neither of us expected to get to the stranger and be locked out from entering. I can smell the bullshit.

But its all good. We entered from the sun-facing side, which means there's an elevator here that can take us up to the viewing room from earlier. Perfect - once I'm there I double check that we are still set to be out of the supernova range. All thats left is to wait it out and see what happens.

I'm giggling and kicking my feet, I'm so excited. We're finally gonna end the loop! No more 22 minute restriction from exploring this gigantic place. What a clever way to change things up in the DLC.

Boom! The sun explodes, and I watch the radiation expands until it just sorta stops. I was sure that my plan had worked. And then, I stepped in the bullshit.

After a minute of nothing happening, just a stranger floating at the end of the universe, the screen fades to black and I read: "Now beyond the reach of the supernova. You find yourself the only inhabitant of an abandoned world. Surely something here must be edible?" And then: "🟨 : Wake up"

There were so many plants on that ship that I could have eaten. Clean water. Shelter. We could have had it all, but we got nothing. Not even an achievement.

My friend has given up on me, citing my plans as "stupid" and "dumb". I told my therapist about this yesterday and he spat on my face.

Anyway has anyone else tried this?

>!I have been into the archives in Endless Canyon and Starlit Cove, but as far as i can see there is nothing to do in Shrouded Woodlands other than exit the area using the boat and light candles, and also i feel like i have looked everywhere but cannot find any hints for the area like the slide burning room reels for the canyon and cove.!<

I feel like I've found every hint on how to get there but I still cant get it, I know it has something to do with the jellyfish, ive found fledspars camp and the frozen jellyfish. I've found the bramble island but I can't unfreeze the jellyfish. I can see the jellyfish under the current but they never get high enough for me to interact with them, I've even tried flying into the lightning parts of the storm in hopes that it electrocutes me and that somehow makes me able to go through like the jellyfish. Am I missing something? If someone could give me a hint of where to go to find a hint I'm missing that would help a ton.

The ship log shows that I still have unexplored areas in the white hole station, sunless city, and hanging city, but I feel like I've searched every inch of the places and can't find anything new to discover so if the hint is in one of those areas I may need more specific instructions

>!I was recently reminescing about the lore of the game and how all started for our hearthian.!<

>!I understood that we are starting the game on the 9000+th time the sun goes supernova, where the 1st one is the one that powered on all the nomai structures and devices, and this one is the one where the gravitational cannon launches a probe that actually finds the eye, sending back the signal to activate the nomai statues and start the loop.!<

>!Now, what I don't get is:!<

>!1) if the 22 minutes before nova start at the bonfire, why does the museum statue only activate when we get back from Hornfels and not while we're still at the fire at the start of the cycle?!<

>!2) by what I understood, the statues link with a living being, record everything they experience, send the data to the main server on Ash Twin. When the nova triggers the loop, ATP sends the data in the past to the main server that updates the statues, that updates the brains of the linked creatures. If this is correct, how is the link with the creature mantained going back in time? I mean, after the first loop we experience the statue should be unlinked like the first time we saw it (i.e. with closed eyes), shouldn't it? I believe this is a trivial question that can just be answered with "weird nomai tech magic".!<

>!On this regard, from the not-looping-hearthians' point of view, do the eyes of the statue open when we wake up at the bonfire or it's like they were always open (can't remember if they give clues about this in the dialogues)?!<

>!3) when the statue activates why does it react with us and not with the first hearthian that passes by? I seem to remember that there was one near the statue the whole time but I may be wrong and maybe we are indeed the first that passes by.!<

>!Since every aspect of this game is so thoroughly detaild and well designed I believe there is a logical explaination for these doubts aswell.!<

She said she is interested, but she read online reviews from other people who got stuck playing the game on some puzzle and gave up on OW entirely. She is afraid she isnt smart enough, and it will turn into a waste of money.

I would like to encourage her if we meet again. Are there any tips/hints I can give her that are not spoilers?

Maybe I can tell her that on each planet she can start by checking out the north and south pole and checking out the equator? Is that a spoiler? Or do you guys think that would be fair?

Or maybe to just talk to everyone in the village, and she can talk to them again?

Could I tell her to just use the signalscope?

Or tell her on each planet there is one astronaut, they will tell you what to do?

Tell her to just check the Ship Log?

Since every loop is at the exact same time. What if there was a mod that saved what you did for every loop and then had a ghost perform those actions. Like a car racing game, but a copy for every loop.

After 100 loops you might have a swarm of hatchlings flying around the system. But also space is big so you might not see them much. Just thought it would be funny to see. Thats all. Have a good day everybody.

For many years, I've always thought "Outer Wilds wasn't for me". But I decided to sit down and lock in (and also getting help from my partner who LOVES the game), I finally finished the game. I'm glad I finally experienced it, it was a beautiful experience, and I get why people love this game so much now.

Also, the DLC! I thought it was even better than the base game, but that might've been because by then I was already 100% into the game. Also returning to the Fire when dying in the simulation is much less frustrating than restarting the loop. Regardless, I love the ending of the DLC, that last slideshow alongside the music, absolute cinema.

If you have someone in your life you really want to play Outer Wilds, but they are struggling to get into it for whatever reason, perhaps you could do what my partner did - help with directions, ask leading questions, suggest locations to go, etc. Anything that can help without completely spoiling the game.

We know that the noami died from the rupturing of the interloper's core. The explosion clearly had to be quite powerful to kill all the nomai almost instantly since it's explosion had to travel across nearly the entire solar system.

The question I have, how did this not like destroy any of the planets? Or cause any sort of like holes/damage? Explosions powerful enough to span the length of the solar system should also be powerful enough to destroy things right?

Note: I have the canon ending.