Dark Bramble

Outer Wilds guide · Exploring the dangerous space-folding thicket

Dark Bramble is a fragmented, foggy remnant of a planet containing non-Euclidean recursive pocket dimensions connected by glowing seed nodes. Navigating this area requires following acoustic signals or scout markers while avoiding the gargantuan blind predators that nest within its fog. Exploring its deepest nodes leads to the stranded third escape pod, the ancestral Nomai vessel, and the camp of the missing Hearthian astronaut Feldspar.

Items

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Warp Core: inside the Vessel's central console in the Vessel node

Secrets

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Feldspar's camp inside a hollow anglerfish skeleton, reachable by flying down the throat of the dead anglerfish nodeThe Nomai Grave and original Vessel location, located by tracking the distress beacon from Escape Pod 3 with the Signalscope and firing a Little Scout through the small seed

Enemies

Anglerfish

Weak to blind (reacts only to sound and thrusters)

monstrous blind predator that hunts by hearing ship thrusters and consumes your craft whole

Shops and people

Feldspar: offers dialogue, clues on how to reach the core of Giant's Deep, and an active campfire to rest or roast marshmallows

Tips

Enter red nodes by drifting completely without touching your thrusters, as existing momentum will carry you safely past clustering anglerfish until you are far enough away.
Fire your Little Scout through small bramble seeds to map out interior nodes and determine safe entry paths without risking your ship.
Use your Signalscope to track both the Harmonica frequency to find Feldspar and the Distress Beacon frequency to locate Escape Pod 3.

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