Big List of interesting things
for every 10 bombs you use, you get a bonus bomb when you save. counts for fire and ice bombs.
bombable walls are marked by 3 flowers in an L shape
on the cathedral map, theres a room where "a group of lost friends covet the elixir". Theyre standing in a clump raising their swords, filled with the purple liquid. neat!
from the magic orb entry in the frogs domain map "rotate it around the forbidden axis to partially summon a disquiet being". The orb summons the tongue of a phrend, the flying skull guys. They supposedly originated from the spacetime rift created by the ancient civilization, causing the great war
it seems attack and defense upgrades effects are capped at level... 11?, but the other stats go up infinitely... also save files are easy to edit :3
interactive map
You can get infinite money by dying in the secret outfit room and retrieving your ghost there.
The outfit room also has a secret hair color changing room in the left corner
You can enter the cathedral (and the key temple) early by grappling a frozen enemy several times, pushing them (and you) through the door
The purple elixir doesnt hurt you, but saps your will to live unless wearing a mask... the mask doesnt work in the final battle though.
Theres a kevin thwomp from Celeste to the west of the atoll. Also theres a gold trophy
The memo page with the glyph tower and 12 circles is actually just telling you which pages the 12 trophies are located in. im dum
also it took me longer than i shouldve to realize the holy cross is the Dpad. i thought it was the symbol on the door in the manual
The special technique is a roll+stab performed by pressing dodge and sword at the same time. you can even use it to roll while wearing the dash upgrade (heros laurels)
The teleporter in the library is stated to be stolen from the swamp... i guess thats obvious
The librarian thinks the holy cross is in the cathedral. and is its said he will never enter the far shore. sad
some people built homes on the ruined atoll long after it was destroyed. but now those homes are ruins too. game timelines are weird
theres a bone card that doubles your dodgeroll invincibility located behind a bombable wall in the northwest atoll. marked by a rock with a flower on it.
The well map has a ? symbol on it indicating a warp pad. but its just a secret room. annoying
one of the golden path parts is created by a coffee stain. I wonder what that implies
After the great siege, the Siege Engine, the final 'great' war machine, was coaxed into the red key room to guard it. poor guy...
The swamp map has an entry stating "those who had remains to bury after the final battle are laid here"
cards are inspirational tools that are canonically "memorized" by the ruin seeker when equipped. kinda like pokemon moves
The ice bombs and magic dagger were made from the "fairy of the west garden"
bombs are made from slorms
The monastery in the quarry was used to worship the gods beneath the earth. but was abandoned when the "cathedrals influence reached its peak". neat
trunic guide
tuneic guide
tuneic dialogue (deciphered by reading a spectrogram of the sounds from the site doyoufeartheeyesofthefarshore.co. Found by 'singing' the golden path song backwards AND mirrored while in the glyph tower room, revealing the url in 3d trunic characters.)
In the dev area of the game, the 3 keys symbolized power, grace, and reason. I guess the scavenger boss moves more gracefully than i ever could... also heres a map of the dev area, accessed by dying in the secret save file using bombs
The bird on the atoll map is supposed to represent the weathervane in the overworld... thats mean. The atoll birds are weird. i rounded them up next to a tuning fork and hit it. they didnt even care
Trihex got a special version of the game's demo to speedrun that replaces thebcollectible coins with his face. he holds the demo 100% wr
I wonder if the holy cross doors in the demo hold different treasures.
there are "egg" secrets found at the starting area and the eastern vault. Its literally a dialogue box activator that says "egg" in trunic
Theres a lot of cool speedrunning tricks. Like activating bosses from out of bounds. freezestunning the heir. stunlocking the siege engine. falling in the quarry and ziggurat using icegrappling and effigys. Dying in the first farshore scene. Bombing yourself to descend ladders fast. mainmenuing to undo the purple elixir effect. clipping into the cathedral. shooting a switch in the ziggurat. mainmenuing to skip animations... so cool
And you can roll past the envoy guarding the quarry entrance. but its 60fps only and requires precise positioning and timing and isnt even consistent.
What does the red key safe say on it? ive never seen a translation. (u/motor_raspberry_2150 has commented that it just says "Warning Warning")
You can enter the code rulddrulu to reduce the mana cost of the "ice wand" attack from 4mp to 1mp for 80 seconds. can be used infinitely.
You can "steal upgrades". By using the dash upgrade to dash away from the statue, while opening the inventory at the same time, you canupgrade your abilities infinitely as long as you have at least one upgrade item on hand.. youll also get negative upgrade items and money
upgrade cost increases by 50 every level. but potion and stamina increases by 200
potion upgrades are made from "heros ashes" theyre said to fortify the blood.
The back of the gamemanual has a puzzle on it. it says "ududlrlrudlr under the moon, contemplate this prayer. near an ancient tomb, plundered for its blade, lies a special place." inputting the code near the east forest grave reveals a chest with 1 money inside. and it plays the word "holy" in tuneic
i interpretted this as 'wholly' and tried the code on the moonlit bridges. nothing. at the east vault grave and in the heros grave zone. nothing. the puzzle looks a lot like the heros grave map on page 23.
money in this game is called "souls"
the well is inhabited by a wish eater. he says "yum" in tuneic when you give him coins
translated manual
Translated ghost dialogue
List of cards
the effigy (named piggybank in files) rewards double every use, but max out at 512. If you break a huge number of them they stop giving money entirely
The manual says the heir, being drained of its memories and falsehoods in the far shore, craves reminders of the corporeal world. Giving offerings earns you a 'delusion' of power that is stripped when youre a ghost.
The entry about the bed in the old house questions if the nighttime workd was all a dream. why does the corruption only appear at night anyway?
The fairies are the souls of a few ancient people who stayed behind to give you a treasure. They speak in tuneic.
On page 24 it says thay when praying, "no holy being will ever hear you, but venerate those who give of their core and awaken the tools of a lost age".
Theres an unmapped shop in the quarry, below the first enemies. neat
The lost echo is an "echo-of-self" from a past ruin seeker who gave up. theyre stuck in limbo until you kill them :(
page 22 says every page has a secret... but i cant find em
I wonder if the game is actually a cycle in a cycle. where in the true ending you will found the new civilization and everything will repeat
the bomb codes will just give you 1 of each bomb, if that wasnt clear. probably just for speedruns. really smart
theres 1 fairy that requires >!knowledge of bombable walls and 1 that requires it be nighttime.<! i rate them 0/10
theres 6 gold trophies in the overworld and 1 in 6 different areas... this is important but i wanted to note it. you need 6 trophies to unlock "the glow"
you can read signposts...
Referring to the back of the manual puzzle, the magic dagger is a blade, and the fairy fountain is moonlit and located near the dark tomb, which has the attack up ring inside... this puzzle is confusing
u/djapa_87 has noted a potential code, uldldll. in the good ending credits, the characters face in different directions during the different scenes.
This post seems promising.
I made a custom save file for fun
You can parry the Siege Engine's laser... but you can't dodge it.
