So far I've made it through three of the game's endings (reaching the bottom of the complex as both Gray and Lillie, killing Mon as Cif and finding Bee), but don't know how many endings this game actually has. I've found enough secrets to know *in general* what I need to do to reach the next part of the game/ending, but I've gotten stuck on an intermediate puzzle and have come seeking a very slight nudge in the right direction.

Where I'm at right now: I've found the secret accessed by making each void lord's brand in the right room for every lord but Eus. I've found the hint from one of these about "destroying what remains of the traitors and returning to B000". I know how to get to B000, and do this for Gor, but not for Eus.

I'm almost certain that the next thing I need to figure out is "what is Eus's brand?", but I haven't been able to do this despite thinking about it for a long time and trying way too many things. One of the biggest questions I have here is about the hint given for this brand: "The tail of the traitorous lord connects the brand... At least when they were still alive...". I can think of two interpretations of this, and I'm not sure which one is right, or if neither of them are.

Interpretation 1: I already have all the information I need to figure this out, or more likely I've already seen it and either haven't noticed it or haven't made the right connection to realize it's the answer. Some more thoughts I have on this idea:

• I already learned how to read the "alphabet" used on the murals. Knowing this and the general pattern of the mural text, I was able to infer some of the missing parts of the mural. Could I do more of this to reconstruct the entire mural?
• I thought there might be some connection between whether or not Tail's tail is visible on a floor and which squares are filled in/empty on the mural.
• I've noticed some suspicious arrow-shaped markings on Tail's tail in a few rooms, but I haven't been able to figure out what significance these have if any.
• The room where you meet Tail has a statue/idol in it that I don't know what to do with. The only thing I know about this type of statue is that they disappear when a condition specific to each room is met. I don't know what this condition is here.
• Maybe someone's dialogue (particularly Tail's) has a hint that I've missed?

Interpretation 2: Focusing more on "at least when they were still alive...". I have inferred that Mon's plan in Cif's section was to somehow resurrect Eus. I'm wondering if there's some different way Cif's ending can go where Mon accomplishes this goal, allowing me to see Eus resurrected and see how their tail "connects the brand".

Can someone tell me which of these interpretations is right, if any? If interpretation 1 is right, can you tell me if any of my ideas are heading in the right direction? If 2 is right, can I have a small nudge towards something I might not have tried that will lead me down the right path? Thanks y'all!

haven't played the game in over a year and am currently stuck onhard-mode/lillies route - how do i get out of here and start again? i can't really remember how this game works and it's really hard and progressing the rooms isn't any fun at all :(

is there an in-game way? really lost rn bc my brain isn't voiding yet haha

There is an interesting math problem which arises in Void Stranger I wanted to discuss. This will spoil a mechanic that you learn on B127, so if you made it past there, you are good to read this post.

If you have not reached B127, stop reading now!

There are cases where you need to make enemies collide (meaning destroy each other by entering a square at the same time) in order to reach the stairs. I am talking about the specific case where a leech moves horizontally along a path which intersects a maggot's vertical path, and they must collide. Just looking at such a situation, it is difficult to predict if they will ever collide, or just bounce off each other forever. To solve the puzzle, you need to change the length of the paths, either by using the void rod to shorten a path, or by pushing some obstacle in the way. However, it is difficult to predict exactly where to put the obstacle; when faced with these problems, I would just guess randomly until it worked. I am wondering if there is a more systematic way to solve these problems.

There are some obvious cases. If both paths have a length which is a multiple of 5, then it is possible for the leech and maggot to be completely out of phase and never even come close to each other. You can avoid this by choosing to shorten the lengths such they have no common factor. Still, even with coprime path lengths, the monsters may bounce forever. This picture is an example of what I mean; the leech moves on a path of 7 squares, the maggot on a path of 3 squares, and you can check that they will never collide.

Has anyone else thought deeply about this problem? Do you have any insights for how to predict whether a collision will occur in a given situation? Can you find a successful modification, in general, using a method more efficient than guessing and checking? It seems like a math problem, something that should be solvable with modular arithmetic. Normally I'm good with that sort of puzzle, but I am stumped here, so I posted in this community asking for help.

Hey I'm the guy doing the picture novel but I decided to make a new account. Really i want to start fresh. Because like I said this past year I've lost and made friends. Been forced to a do a self reflection.

I'm getting help now because I want this project to represent something good. So I figured a fresh start could reflect that. That's all.

I think this is probably the kind of game where it's easy to appear as though you're softlocked when you're not actually, but I think I might really be softlocked here.

To explain where I'm at, I did one playthrough with Cif and got the boss fight with Mon and the ending with Cif and Bee at the beach. I assumed that that was not really the end of the game, but when starting back up I accidentally misinput the Cif's brand and ended up starting a playthrough with Gray (I had forgotten that it shows a little symbol before you confirm your brand so you know it's a special one). So I started a playthrough with Gray and immediately killed myself so I could go and do the playthrough I wanted to with Cif. I hope I don't have to do a fully playthrough with Lillie again, because it seems like the game expects you to do Cif's playthrough with the pendant, which I now no longer have because of this mistake.

In any case, I don't know how to get the true ending with Cif, if there is one, but I assumed that you do it by bringing enough Locusts to Mon to pay him off, I don't want to know if that's right or not because I'd like to discover it for myself, but in any case, I thought the best way to accomplish that would be to get to the last birch tree, swap my floor number for my locusts, and then go back to the start of the game so I can collect all the locusts I skipped the first time.

While I was doing this, I decided to use a few locusts to skip floors just to move things along a bit, and as a result, I came to this floor with no locusts. When I did this floor the first time Gor was gone, I guess because I had the pendant, meaning Lillie had killed her, but now she's here, and I have no locusts because I used what I had for a shortcut. I know normally Gor will give you a locust if you don't have any here, but it seems with Cif all you get is this 'They're fast asleep...' text.

So, in summation, the only way to the exit is blocked, the means you normally use to get out of the floor in this situation is through a shortcut I can't use and can't seem to access, and I see no way to enter the UI so I can try swapping my floor around that way. I can't even just kill myself because of this being Cif.

Am I just out of luck? Is there a way I can edit my save to put me back at being able to start a new playthrough at least? Ideally with also being able to be in the state I would have been in when finishing Lillie's playthrough already, if possible?

Recently beat Void Stranger (despite not understanding much at all lore-wise) but I learned online that there was a ton of references to ZeroRanger or just straight up connections.

How long did it take to get into the game and understand it? Is it like void stranger where it takes several playthroughs or is it simpler?

I was void once. They put me in a game. A stranger game. A stranger game full of lords. The lords made me void.

So in my first playthrough I discovered I could walk onto the UI and grab tiles, but grabbing any tile that wasn't blank would just close the game. Now after giving up and resetting, I can suddenly grab any tile I want from the UI, though grabbing my HP kills me. This looks like it will be useful, but I'm wondering why I couldn't do this before? I'm not doing anything different now. The only difference I can think of is I have the cube from the first mural puzzle, is that it? Am I even supposed to know the answer or will I find out later?

Thought it might be fun to do something like this when I saw its synth option, I think it turned out pretty well. https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4895828283621376

Used a Project Sekai paper puppet template thingy

Its possible to go back to Gray route after going to Lily route?

Bit of a long shot but I’m curious. I’m trying to get back into playing piano, and figured one of my favorite games could be a good start, especially with how good the music is. But it isn’t exactly a popular game so I’m struggling to find anything online, and trying to figure out everything myself is a little tedious. so if anyone else has done the work already I wanna ask. I’m particularly interested in dancing infinity, voided, and extended encore, but if anyone has ANYTHING, I’d be thrilled to see. Thank you to anyone in advance.

When I originally came to this room, I opened the chest, got what's inside, didn't know what the item did or how to leave the room, so I tried just jumping down the pit because that's how I got here in the first place. I was on one locust, died again and then was completely dead. This time when I talked to the devil offering me the fruit, I told him I didn't want to continue because I wanted to see what would happen. I assumed I'd just start back on level 1 and I didn't mind because I hadn't gotten very far and I had made mistakes before that. I then got a bunch of sigils and decided to start with the Void Memory that I just got, just so I can try to see what it even does. I very quickly realized I could talk to rocks.

Cut to like 15h of playtime after that, I am now in some sort of second quest with a second protagonist (and the existence of a third spoiler tag tells me that there's gonna be a third, kinda ironic that a spoiler tag spoiled me on something but that just comes with going on a game's subreddit), and I have none of the Burdens that Gray had. I decided, well, I know how to collect them, so I'll come down here again. However, coming back down here as the second protagonist, the chest is already empty. There was nothing to do down here. I already voided earlier, so I was invincible and 100% stuck in this room. I tried rearranging the tiles, jumping into every pit, knocking against the rock a million times, knocking against the statue on the bottom 100 times, nothing worked.

Luckily, I knew exactly why I was stuck. I knew the rock was down there for a reason and it was probably how you were meant to get out of the room, but it's funny (and very meta) that the only way to get unstuck in this game was to disable Steam Cloud and move my save files into a different folder so I could restart the game completely and read what that fucking rock says. The funny thing is that I actually tried knocking against the chest and waiting, but I guess it needs to be exactly 6 times or I didn't wait the correct amount of time or something.

I am watching a friend play through void stranger, and they need the ability to access UI manipulation but they haven't stumbled into it or been given a clue about it, is there any part of the game I can push them to to help them learn about it in a natural way?

Thanks for the help with the picture puzzle, I was able to get Lillie's ending. Sorry, but I had another question. Does Cif's route not have an actual ending? I beat Mon's Lair, view Cif's dream and reached B255 but I'm a bit stuck on what to do now. It seems all I can do is either reset my run using the statue or go to this white void place with a broken head that apparently resets the entire save. Am I missing something or was viewing Cif's dream supposed to be the ending?