Shrouded Woodlands

Outer Wilds guide · Third dream world location

The Shrouded Woodlands is a foggy forest region in the dream world accessed by sleeping at the campfire in the River Lowlands. You explore riverside paths and cabins to reach an underground music house occupied by owl-like inhabitants. To reach the secret Forbidden Archive located beneath this area, you must navigate through the music house once the inhabitants have disappeared, or bypass them.

Secrets

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Accessing the Forbidden Archive without dealing with the pursuers by waiting for the River Lowlands tower in the real world to collapse into the flood, which extinguishes the campfire, removes the inhabitants, and leaves the area empty for you to enter via another campfire's dream raft.A burned slide reel container and hidden viewing room located behind a secret passage in the underground Forbidden Archive.

Enemies

Owl-like Pursuer

Weak to Concealing your artifact lantern

Wanders the darkened woods and cabin; will stalk you, blow out your lantern to wake you up, or snap your neck if your lantern is dropped.

Tips

You can focus your artifact's light beam to trigger distant light sensors that activate bridges and boat docks.
Concealing your lantern hides your presence from the pursuers in the dark, but it also renders you completely unable to see where you are walking.
Watching the pursuers enter the lodge from across the river reveals the exact timing of their gathering before you attempt to infiltrate it.

Not listed for this area: items, shops and people.

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