Progression

Overview

Progression is driven by cutscene blocks scattered through Naraka. The first interaction with a cutscene block asks the PlotManager to serve a scene from a small wired pool. A regular scene plays its dialogue and grants one rosary bead; a challenge scene teleports the player into the Challenge dimension instead and grants its bead only on success. Once all thirteen beads are collected, the next served scene becomes the ending route into the YHVH dimension. Beating YHVH flips the permanent god_killed save flag and unlocks the End Game achievement.

Everything below is read straight from main/plot/plot_manager.gd, main/main.gd, main/world/living_block/cutscene_block/cutscene_block.gd, and main/autoload/steamworks.gd.

Beads & the ending route

You need 13 rosary beads to reach the ending. Every time you interact (right-click) with a Cutscene Block and watch a new scene, you get one bead. Already-watched scenes give nothing, so the pool shrinks as you progress.

Bead order is randomized: the game picks an unfilled bead slot each time instead of giving them in sequence. Once all 13 beads are in, the next cutscene block you break serves the ending scene and drops you into the YHVH dimension for the final boss.

Lose the YHVH fight and you respawn in Naraka with all 13 beads still intact — you can try again as many times as you want. Win once and the ending route shuts off for that qualia; cutscene blocks start serving Void forever.

Main cutscene pool

Thirteen scenes make up the regular pool. Each one awards a bead the first time it is watched; bee also hands the player a glider item at the end of its video.

Challenge routes

Challenge cutscenes bypass the regular dialogue flow. Picking one starts a challenge in the CHALLENGE dimension and resets challenge_attempts_remaining to 2. Two player deaths still respawn inside the challenge; the third death ends the run and returns the player to Naraka with no bead. A successful exit triggers end_challenge(true), grants the bead, and unlocks the Challenge achievement.

Special flow

Five scenes sit outside the rotating pool and are wired to fixed PlotManager entry points.

The post-ending scene closes the route with three lines: "The path unto oblivion is unbarred." "When thou art ready…" "wilt thou not walk with me?"

Asset-only scenes

Four cutscene scenes exist in project files but are not referenced by the shipped main.tscn. They cannot be served through normal play.

• Website — Project scene present in the cutscene directory but not wired into the shipped runtime cutscene flow.
• River Rosary — Project-only cutscene scene with its own video and text assets, not wired into the shipped runtime cutscene flow.
• Rainbow Stream — Project-only cutscene scene with a bird text line, not wired into the shipped runtime cutscene flow.
• Neon Bird — Project-only neon-bird cutscene scene, not wired into the shipped runtime cutscene flow.

World flags

Qualia creation exposes three optional flags through the Experience tab. All default off. Only Divine is permanent: it silently enables the hidden progression_disabled flag on the save, which blocks achievements, discovery, and cutscene interaction for that qualia forever.

Debug mode

Ref.main.debug is a separate build-level flag, not a world option. main.gd exports it as true, but the shipped main.tscn overrides it to off. When debug is on, saves use res://debug_save_files/, the Creative browser stops filtering item.internal, and the inventory slot discovery gate is bypassed. It is the only path that exposes the debug-only catalog below to players.

Debug-only items

Internal blocks, placeholders, and test objects hidden by if item.internal and not Ref.main.debug in the Creative screen.

Starting discovery

A new qualia seeds DiscoveryManager.discovered_ids with 29 items from main.tscn default_discovery. Everything else has to be picked up or fused once to appear in the Creative browser and crafting screens.

Achievements 19

Steam achievements wired through Steamworks.set_achievement(). Divine and progression_disabled block all of them for the active qualia.

	Name	Trigger	Related
	First Fusion Perform APOTHEOSIS once.	Perform APOTHEOSIS once.	—
	Living Fusion Fuse into a living block result.	Fuse into a living block result.	—
	Rare Fusion Create a high-rank fusion result.	Create a high-rank fusion result.	—
	Glider Use a glider item for the first time.	Use a glider item for the first time.	glider glove
	Hookshot Use a rope / hookshot item for the first time.	Use a rope / hookshot item for the first time.	metal hook
	Plant Seed Plant a seed-like living block that can later be harvested.	Plant a seed-like living block that can later be harvested.	—
	Harvest Plant Harvest a living plant successfully.	Harvest a living plant successfully.	—
	Rename Entity Rename something with the rename pencil.	Rename something with the rename pencil.	rename pencil
	Ball Wand Use the ball wand.	Use the ball wand.	ball wand
	Faith Wand Use the faith wand.	Use the faith wand.	faith wand
	Bomb Use an explosive item.	Use an explosive item.	bomb
	Bubblebear Massacre Trigger the Bubblebear-specific massacre condition.	Trigger the Bubblebear-specific massacre condition.	Bubblebear
	Blasphemy Trigger the Blasphemy achievement condition.	Trigger the Blasphemy achievement condition.	Blasphemy
	Death Die at least once.	Die at least once.	—
	Cutscene Interact with a cutscene block for the first time.	Interact with a cutscene block for the first time.	—
	New World Create or start a new qualia.	Create or start a new qualia.	—
	End Game Finish the ending route successfully.	Finish the ending route successfully.	—
	Challenge Complete a challenge route successfully.	Complete a challenge route successfully.	—
	Hand Wand Use the hand wand.	Use the hand wand.	hand wand

Statistics

Four runtime counters reported to Steam. Like achievements, they stop recording when progression_disabled is set.